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(AP) WASHINGTON – A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Thursday the U.S. does not see any willingness on Cuba’s part to seriously discuss the release of imprisoned American contactor Alan Gross, and urged Havana to send him home as a humanitarian gesture. State Department spokeswoman Neda Brown was responding to a senior Cuban diplomat’s comment Wednesday that her country was prepared to negotiate a solution in the case and was awaiting a U.S. response. Gross was working on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested in 2009 at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. He says he was only trying to provide Internet service to the island’s small Jewish community. Cuba says the multimillion-dollar programs are an effort by Washington to undermine the government, and has noted that Gross was carrying sophisticated communications equipment. Wife sees American jailed in Cuba, fears he’ll dieOfficial: Cuba ready to talk about Gross caseNY rabbi meets with jailed American in Cuba Gross was sentenced to 15 years, and has lost his final appeal, leaving him out of legal options. Previously, senior officials in Cuban President Raul Castro’s government have raised the case of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States, though they have not spelled out publicly that they are seeking an exchange for the 63-year-old Maryland man, who has been held for 2 and 부안출장샵 1/2 years....

(CBS) QUEENS, New York — As far as his parents knew, 15-year-old Will Neibergall was an average teen noodling around on his Mac. Sure, he was on Facebook and Twitter and texting and all the usual social media of today’s teens. And they knew he was musically-inclined, fiddling with digital music programs — enough so that he was in a special arts and science program at McClintock High School in Tempe, Arizona. But when Will told his folks he’d been invited to perform in New York City by the Museum of Modern Art PS1, well … “It blew us away,” said Will’s father, Dave Neibergall. “We had no idea.” Flash forward a few weeks, and there was Will — or “Glass Popcorn,” his Internet art alias — rapping on top of a black Cadillac Escalade amid draq queens, lady body builders and one very bootylicious backup dancer. Glass Popcorn, it turns out, has achieved a following in certain artsy corners of the Web. “His music is so mature for a kid his age,” said Marco Roso, an editor at DIS Magazine, which organized the lineup for the MoMA PS1 performance. DIS editors were aware of Glass Popcorn from his Internet projects but not sure he was really a teen-ager. “We thought he might be an Internet name, not really a person,” said another DIS editor, Nick Scholl. A web...

(CBS/AP) Who has the most Emmys won by an actor, male or female? Mary Tyler Moore? Johnny Chase? Bill Cosby? Bea Arthur? Nope. Cloris Leachman. Pictures: Emmy nominees 2011Pictures: Creative Arts Emmys She had a chance to top herself at last week’s Creative Arts Emmy ceremony, set to air this Saturday on ReelzChannel, for her guest-starring role on “Raising Hope.” Leachman plays the only occasionally lucid Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom, which also earned star Martha Plimpton a nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. The 85-year-old Leachman has won one Daytime and eight Primetime Emmy awards, but – spoiler alert – she lost out on her 10th trophy to “Glee” guest actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Still, Leachman’s Emmy record remains intact. “Well, I used to be tied with Sir Lawrence Olivier,” she said. “But he was kind enough to die, and then I was able to continue. So I thought that was very, very big of him especially since he’s English.” Leachman, 포커 하는 법 whose first credits date back to the late 1940s, is perhaps best known for her work on the `70s sitcom classic “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She said the Emmys have been cause for a friendly competition between her and her “MTM” costars, fellow multiple winners Moore and Ed Asner. “I remember Mary saying, `You have nine? I thought you had...

It’s the talk of Hollywood. The biggest one-night gig in the star-studded town is going to comedian and actor 장수출장업소 Eddie Murphy, who’s been named host of the 84th annual Academy Awards, in February. As CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens points out, Murphy seems to have done it all in a showbiz career spanning nearly 30 years, from “Saturday Night Live” to groundbreaking standup to A-list leading man. Now, as Oscars host, Murphy will be introduced to a whole a new generation. Eddie Murphy picked to host Oscars Entertainment Weekly’s Jessica Shaw says simply, “Getting Eddie Murphy is a homerun. He’s a comedy legend.” Pictures: Eddie Murphy In a written statement, Murphy says he’s “extremely honored to join the great list of past Academy Award hosts, from (Bob) Hope and (Johnny) Carson to (Billy) Crystal, (Steve) Martin and (Whoopi) Goldberg, among others.” What do you think? Is Murphy a good choice? Let us know in the comments are of this...