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The Monkees were the brainchild of television producers Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson, who decided to emulate the zany, madcap humour of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night for the small screen. In September 1965, they placed in ad in the show biz trade paper, Variety, for four "folk & rock...

Here's how some of your favourite artists came up with their stage names ABBA An acronym for the first names of the band members: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Anderson and Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad. AC/DC A band member saw AC/DC on a sewing machine. It stood for 'Alternating...

Percy McDonnell , Toronto Sun Time to repeal imprisonment for "disloyal" comments about monarch Toronto - Canada's republican movement is calling on the federal government to bring the National Defense Act into the twenty-first century by removing the penalty for members of the Armed Forces...

LONDON (AFP) - A senior journalist tapped into more than 600 messages on the mobile phones of aides to the royal family, some of them from Prince William. The evidence emerged just hours ahead of the expected sentencing of Clive Goodman, the royal editor of the weekly News of the World, and an...

Alberton RCMP are investigating an incident last Thursday night at the O'Leary rink that left a Sherwood parent with a broken nose and 10 stitches to his face. Halfway through a Midget AA hockey game between the Sherwood Falcons and the O'Leary Maroons, a 17-year-old O'Leary player left the...

Should cellphones be allowed in the schools? It's one of this week's hot-button issues as Canadian teachers asked school boards and government for a ban on the mobile gadgets. Ever since students started bringing phones into schools, there's been a lot of disapproving noise about them. And...

ATLANTA (AP) - So much for God and country, at least during some in-flight showings of the Oscar-nominated movie "The Queen." All mentions of God are bleeped out of a version of the film distributed to Delta and some other airlines. Jeff Klein, president of Jaguar Distribution, the Studio City...

- Pontiac, Ill. (AP) -- A man was convicted of secretly videotaping women at his bar as they used the bathroom and a tanning booth. A judge hearing the case without a jury convicted William Lutson on Tuesday after reviewing 90 minutes of videotape from cameras hidden in a light fixture...

I Love Lucy CBS, 1951-61 Everyone throughout the world loves Lucy. Still syndicated internationally, Lucille Ball, then-husband Desi Arnaz as the Ricardos and their sidekicks William Frawley and Vivan Vance as the Mertzes, continue to live on in infamy. Ball and her cohorts set the standard...

By James Stevenson CALGARY (CP) - Canada has a developing world in its own backyard, with a number of aboriginal communities in a desperate state, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean said Thursday. In a speech praising the international development work of Engineers Without Borders, Jean said Canadians...

By Dene Moore MONTREAL (CP) - The Crown says a Montreal man's refusal to grant his Muslim wife a Shariah divorce should be considered an aggravating factor when he is sentenced Friday for stabbing her and their baby daughter. Other than that, there is nothing the courts can do for the woman...

The Dave Clark Five was one of the top British Invasion bands of the 60's and a lot of the group's success was a result of the efforts of its hard-driving leader, Dave Clark. The group had twenty-two hit records in Britain and twenty-four in America along with six sell out US tours and thirteen...

The story of the Supremes can be traced back as far as 1958, when a trio of singers called The Primes, consisting of Eddie Kendricks, Kell Osborne and Paul Williams, were starting to make a name for themselves in the Detroit area and decided they needed a female version to go along with their...

By Alana Buckley-Carr A LEADING Perth psychologist forced his bulimic client to wear a dog collar, sexually assaulted her and whipped her with a wire coathanger and cat o'nine tails, saying it was part of a new treatment, a Perth court was told yesterday. Bruce Beaton, 64, was arrested after...

By Jim Ellis ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - AirTran Airways on Tuesday defended its decision to remove a Massachusetts couple from a flight after their crying 3-year-old daughter refused to take her seat before takeoff. AirTran officials said they followed Federal Aviation Administration rules that...

By Debbie Hummel PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - At a festival that features several films with sexual content, including full male nudity and a documentary about bestiality, a Southern Gothic tale that includes the rape of a young girl is causing the biggest stir. "Hounddog" is the story of Lewellen...

When Are You Being Served? (AYBS? or AYBS for short) first aired in the U.K., it became one of the BBC's most popular shows. Then the show came over to the United States (via PBS) where its success made AYBS an international pheonomen. Now, over 25 years later, it's still enjoying an immense...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A San Francisco-area pastor who pleaded guilty to helping smuggle young leopard sharks from California to aquariums in Europe and the United States has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. Kevin Thompson, 48, a...

QUEBEC (CP) - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says the Liberals want to know more about Canada's mission in Afghanistan and how it's working. Dion said today in Quebec City that he's not in favour of withdrawing Canadian troops in dishonour and wants parliamentary hearings on the mission...

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick February 9, 1936 An imagination taller than the Rocky Mountains. A wanderlust that has taken him further than a Northern Ontario bush pilot. A guitar, a pair of boots, and a knack for writing songs about Canada can...