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• Polanski's house arrest is a splendid captivity (AP)

  AP - Roman Polanski's life took a dramatic turn for the better Friday as he traded a Swiss jail for house arrest surrounded by family in his luxury Alpine chalet. - 9 hours ago

• Rare copy of Poe's first book sells for $662,000 (AP)

  AP - A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. - 9 hours ago

• Twisted Sister guitarist recovers from surgery (AP)

  AP - Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda is recuperating from emergency back surgery that forced him to miss the band's concert near Philadelphia. - 9 hours ago

• Colbert's mock anti-Canada feud spirals on the Web (AP)

  AP - Stephen Colbert has been called what his mock pundit character would deem a traitorous insult: Canadian. - 6 hours ago

• Brady picks winning door with 'Let's Make a Deal' (AP)

  AP - Wayne Brady is savoring a big year, with doors opening to him at Carnegie Hall, the White House and, in multiples, on "Let's Make a Deal." - 10 hours ago

• Film star Richard Todd dies at 90 (AP)

  AP - Richard Todd, who re-enacted his wartime exploits in the 1962 film "The Longest Day" and was Ian Fleming's choice to play James Bond, has died of cancer at age 90, his family said Friday. - 10 hours ago

• Elvis Costello enjoys TV role as "carnival barker" (Reuters)

  Reuters - Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. His latest project, the country- and folk-inflected "Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane," arrived June 9 on Hear Music. - 4 hours ago

• "Invictus" achieves its goal without digging deep (Reuters)

  Reuters - Nothing speaks so dramatically about Clint Eastwood's recent and remarkable burst of creativity as a director of awards-worthy films than the appearance of "Invictus," a historical drama that few if any filmmakers could have launched within the studio system. - 5 hours ago