NEW YORK (AP) -- "You Light Up My Life" tunesmith Joseph Brooks is staying free while fighting charges of molesting a string of would-be actresses in his Manhattan apartment.

Defense lawyer Jeffrey Hoffman said Tuesday that the Academy Award-winning songwriter sold stock to come up with $1.25 million cash bail.

Brooks' bail was raised from $250,000 after prosecutors increased the charges against him last month.

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NEW YORK – The Academy Award-winning songwriter of "You Light Up My Life" has ended his six-figure fight with a former fiancee he accused of conning him out of cash and pricey gifts by hiding the fact that she was already married.

A Manhattan judge last week approved a settlement between composer Joseph Brooks and Joaly Gomez, who said Brooks knew she wasn't single.

The settlement terms weren't specified, but court

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DUBLIN (AP) -- Irish balladeer Liam Clancy, last of the Clancy Brothers troupe whose feisty, boozy songs of old Ireland struck a sentimental chord worldwide, died Friday in a Cork hospital. He was 74.

Clancy died in his hospital bed flanked by his wife Kim and daughters Siobhan and Fiona, his manager and family said. He suffered for years against incurable pulmonary fibrosis, the same lung-destroying disease that

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Reese Witherspoon struggles bringing up her young children in Los Angeles - because she is unable to rely on her parents for support.

The Legally Blonde star was raised in Nashville, Tennessee but moved to L.A. when her acting career took off in the 1990s.

She married actor Ryan Phillippe and the couple had two kids, Ava, 10, and six-year-old Deacon, before their split in 2006.

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Matisyahu, best known for his hit 2004 reggae album "Shake Off the Dust… Arise" has a new album, "Light", that drops Tuesday, August 25th. Matisyahu discusses his inspiration behind the album, the recording process and how he learned to sing with a Patois accent.

Starpulse: Your new album "Light" comes across as being a beautiful, catchy and enjoyable work of art. Can you tell us a little bit about "Light" and what some of your influences and inspirations were going into more...

Hard-Fi have been quiet of late so there's definitely space for a new energetic, swaggering West London band primed to tear up the British indie scene. While the Staines crew incorporated punk and dub into their punchy repertoire, 12 Dirty Bullets are often content to hang their songs around a classic no-frills sound of the kind gilded by The Libertines. Here on 12's debut album Downsides To Making A Living this approach mostly works, too.

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NEW YORK (Billboard) – The cult of personality will be revived this fall, when purveyors of hard funk-rock Living Color return with "The Chair in the Doorway" -- the band's first set of new material in nearly six years.

Due September 15 on Megaforce Records, the 11-song set was recorded in numerous locations over the last few years, with a majority of the sessions taking place at Sono Studios outside Prague in the Czech

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