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A Hollywood agency has reportedly dropped actress Susan Sarandon in the wake of a comment she made at a pro-Palestinian rally. Sarandon, who had been represented by the agency UTA since 2014, stated at the rally in New York City that Jewish people who are afraid in the wake of Hamas's attack on Israel are "getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim" in the United States. As of Tuesday, she is no longer being represented by UTA, a spokesperson for the agency said. The Oscar-winning actress's comment had greatly affected several staffers at UTA, according...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shakira is pregnant with her first child. The 35-year-old pop superstar posted on her website Wednesday that she and 25-year-old boyfriend Gerard Pique "are very happy awaiting the arrival of our first baby." Pique, who is from Barcelona, is a soccer player for FC Barcelona.

Wimbledon hopeful Simona Halep wants surgery to reduce the size of her breasts. Halep, 17, is seen as one of the tennis stars of the future after winning a host of junior titles and a place in the final of the junior French Open last year. But the 5-foot-5-inch Romanian tennis star said she thinks her 34DD bust is holding her back.

MODEST PROPOSAL: Sondra Fortunato says she was told to dress less sexily at Giants games. MAYBE she should have just carried a loaded firearm into Giants Stadium. Over 30 years, Sondra Fortunato has become the unofficial mascot of her favorite NFL team, delighting and annoying fans at Giants home games with her bodacious physique, rhinestone tiara and skimpy outfits that heat up the frigid stadium.

ORLANDO (AP) Hooters of America and a rival restaurant chain are arguing in federal court in Orlando over who has rights to the concept of using scantily clad women to sell food and beer. Hooters of America accuses Ker's WingHouse of Kissimmee of poaching the idea coined when it opened its first sports bar in Clearwater in 1983. A Hooters lawyer says their waitresses are their Ronald McDonald. But Crawford Ker says he based his chain on Knockers, a failing restaurant with an all-female staff in Largo that he took over after retiring from the NFL. A Ker lawyer says...

Vittorio Luzzati/National Portrait Gallery, London Hedy Lamarr, the movie star who is less well known as an inventor. n 1933, at age 19, she swam in the nude in the notorious Czech film "Ecstasy." Often called the most beautiful woman in the world, she married badly — to a domineering Austrian munitions manufacturer — and escaped by drugging the maid and climbing out a window. She made her way to Hollywood, where she starred in movies with Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart. Then there is the less known chapter of her life. In World War II, she...