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  • The Club for Growth Action has spent about $5.5 million to try to push tea party insurgent Ted Cruz to victory. The Texas Conservatives Fund, which backs Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, has doled out $5.2 million to attack the tea party favorite. (Associated Press)

    Big bucks roll in for GOP Senate primary in Texas

    One of the most expensive and bitter intraparty political battles in Texas history is almost over, as Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and tea party insurgent Ted Cruz face off Tuesday in a GOP runoff election to make the ballot for the state's open Senate seat.


  • Muppets are NYC's new family-friendly ambassadors

    Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are Mayor Michael Bloomberg's newest allies in his mission to attract more visitors to New York City.


  • In this film publicity image released by Disney, Jason Segel is shown with muppet characters Kermit the Frog, left, and Miss Piggy, in a scene from "The Muppets." (AP Photo/Disney Enterprises, Andrew Macpherson)

    MOVIE REVIEW: 'The Muppets'

    We all love the Muppets. And after their latest cinematic outing, lots of people are going to love them even more.


  • ** FILE ** In this February 1988 photo Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, poses with one of his creations, Kermit the Frog. A touring exhibit, "Jim Henson's Fantastic World," opening Saturday, July 16, 2011, is making its last stop of a multi-year trip at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York where it will be on display into January. (AP Photo/file)

    Exhibit shows the man behind the Muppets

    It seems so familiar to us now — puppet characters on television that are so real, so expressive, so alive that we forget there's a human being doing the actual work behind the scenes. There's a reason that's so familiar, the organizers of an exhibit opening this weekend in New York say: Jim Henson.


  • Exhibit in NYC explores the man behind the Muppets

    It seems so familiar to us now _ puppet characters on television that are so real, so expressive, so alive that we forget there's a human being doing the actual work behind the scenes.


  • "Glee's" Chris Colfer won't be 21 until next month, but Time magazine has listed the Golden Globes winner as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Associated Press)

    Tuning In to TV

    It's time to honor the 2011 Time 100, the 100 most influential people in the world, named by Time magazine.


  • Cee Lo on Oprah, Charles Barkley

    Nothing like a mega-hit to keep you busy.


  • In this Nov. 24, 2010 photo, germs, represented as stuffed toys created by Drew Oliver, are shown in his Stamford, Conn. offices. The onetime Harvard Lampoon editor turned a sense of humor into a growing business of stuffed toy germs. Once found mostly in pediatricians' offices and the labs of off-kilter university professors, his cuddly stuffed germs has spawned a Facebook fan club and subculture of eager collectors. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

    Conn. company's stuffed germ toys catching on

    Jim Henson's Muppets made pigs and frogs endearing, and Walt Disney turned a common rodent into a cultural icon.


  • Actress Uma Thurman attends the Quentin Tarantino Friars Club Roast at the New York Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

    Tarantino roasted by Jackson at Friars Club

    Filmmaker Eli Roth brought shock and awe to the podium of a Friar's Club Roast of actor Quentin Tarantino on Wednesday night, saying it was a roaster's responsibility to be sick and distasteful.


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