'Bonanza' Ranch Rides Into Pop Culture Sunset
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nevada  - A great symbol of the  rugged old West, or at least as it was portrayed by Hollywood,  is riding off into the sunset.
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Several reality shows based on home-buying and selling are being broadcast as the real estate boom is a fading memory.
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High above a landscape of canyons and shadows, veteran pilot Jim Herd sees a tiny flash on a mountainside. A mirror? A piece of wreckage? A closer look reveals a prospector's small mine, the reflection most likely coming from metal fencing or some broken glass. It was just another false alarm during a week of mysteries and dashed hopes in the search for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett.
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Federally owned lands are being transformed into the new playgrounds, and battlegrounds, of the American West.
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LOS ANGELES  - The cinematographer of the upcoming remake of "3:10 to Yuma" doesn't view the film as a classic Western, even though Russell Crowe and Christian Bale spend much of the running time battling gangsters, greedy landowners and other assorted varmints.
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While Mel Gibson secretly roams the  United States testing reaction to his latest movie,  "Apocalypto," one of television's longest running shows has  decided to incorporate his recent legal troubles into an  episode.
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WOODSTOCK, Ill. -- The ranch house here where Marc Moxon and his family live is a sparkling winter wonderland: trees garlanded in glittering lights, illuminated plastic penguins, polar bears and other characters dotting the lawn, even a reindeer-drawn sleigh on the roof.
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Known for his paintings of cozy cottages, country gardens and churches, artist Thomas Kinkade has created a similar tranquil scene in his painting of Elvis Presley's famous home.
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Tonya Selken's home sat in a dip along a ridge on Dog Mountain, where they had a sweeping view of rolling horse pasture and the misty Ozark foothills in the distance. But she didn't choose these two of her grandfather's 210 acres just for the scenery.
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I was lazily flipping around the other night and came across the second half of the final episode of "The Prisoner." This is like saying you were out for a drive on an Arizona highway and stumbled across the Grand Canyon.
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, TV writer Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The West Wing, premieres in the US.
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By Shelley Shelton, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  FOOTHILLS  Residents turn out to dress up and repair spot  To get a feeling for the spirit behind the ongoing transformation of a once-barren street island in the Oracle Foothills neighborhood, imagine a potluck gathering.
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Manga murals, iPod docks, videogame suites and other geek amenities are the order of the day at Japantown's recently remodeled Best Western.
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While Mel Gibson secretly roams the   United States testing reaction to his latest movie,   "Apocalypto," one of television's longest running shows has   decided to incorporate his recent legal troubles into an   episode.
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As the show's 40th anniversary looms, here's a tour d'horizon of the melodramatic, outlandish and iconic phenomenon that captured the hearts of geeks everywhere. By Lore SjÃ¶berg.
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By Chuck Mueller, San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.  Feb.
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LOS ANGELES - The new series "Clubhouse" - about a teenager who's a batboy for a major league team - may use sports as a metaphor for life, but the producers know the action on the field still has to look authentic. That was fairly easy to pull off in the pilot, in which Dodger Stadium served as the stand-in for the fictional New York Empires' ballpark...