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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc for $4 billion in a deal that would add characters such as Iron Man, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four to its entertainment empire.

LONDON (Reuters) – British television chat show host and radio disc jockey Simon Dee has died of bone cancer at the age of 74, his daughter told the BBC.

A hoax video purporting to show Michael Jackson hopping out of a coroner’s van alive was produced by a German television station as an experiment, the broadcaster told CNN Monday.

Pop star Chris Brown has admitted guilt and apologized for assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna in February, but he does not remember hitting the singer, he told CNN’s Larry King.

LONDON (Reuters) – British police are to re-examine the death of former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones after receiving new information.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Fox is teaming with Twitter to give repeats a 21st century twist.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Rachael Ray” and “The Tyra Banks Show” won the talk show categories at the Daytime Emmy Awards for the second consecutive year on Sunday, while the women of “The View” ended Ellen DeGeneres’ four-year reign as best talk show host.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – For all the attention heaped on Jon Hamm and the male cast of “Mad Men,” now in its third season on AMC, Elisabeth Moss is arguably the heart of the drama.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Had Paramount put a number on this summer’s successful “Star Trek” reboot it would have been XI, an instant indication of just how valuable the franchise has become.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – More stars. More nominated shows. More viewers?