It was a little over two years ago that John Mayer soaked his career in kerosene and lit a match, sitting for a Playboy interview in which he compared a certain part of his anatomy to David Duke, and gratuitously overshared about his relationships with ex-girlfriends Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson. It was one of pop history’s most spectacular (and purposeful? Freud would say yes) acts of self-sabotage. Read full article > >

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Quick Spins: John Mayer’s ‘Born and Raised’

Chelsea striker Fernando Torres wants talks with the club about his future after suffering the ‘worst moments’ of his career.

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Unhappy Torres considers future

West Ham manager Sam Allardyce says winning promotion back to the Premier League is one of the greatest achievements of his career.

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Win means everything – Allardyce

If it seems like Betty White is everywhere these days, that’s because she is. She started tweeting last month. She was roasted last week at the Friar’s Club in New York, where she was treated to a life-size cake in her image. And Thursday night, the 64-year showbiz veteran, former star of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Golden Girls,” was at Lisner Auditoruim to discuss her career and share recollections from her book, “ Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo ,” which came out this fall. ( White is at the National Zoo for a book signing Friday.) Read full article > >

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Betty White dishes on her career at Lisner Auditorium

The Australian entertainer looks back over his career

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Rolf Harris unveils retrospective

At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”

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Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, Noted Psychiatrist, Apologizes for Study on Gay ‘Cure’

Radio 2 DJ Ken Bruce has pulled in the biggest audience of his career, according to new figures from Rajar.

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Ken Bruce gets best ever audience

A knee injury that probably ends his season, and perhaps his career, seems an unjust way for the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera to leave the field.

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On Baseball: On Baseball: Imagining the Ninth Inning Without Mariano Rivera

Neil Lennon says securing the title as manager of Celtic is the highlight of his career, surpassing the five championships he won as a player.

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Appraising the career of the Southern novelist Harry Crews, who died Wednesday at 76.

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ArtsBeat: Reading Crews, a Novelist as Swaggering as His Characters

Fashion provocateur Jean Paul Gaultier is no stranger to dressing dancers — after all, he laced Madonna into her cone bra in the most athletic phase of her career. Burlesque queen Dita Von Teese va-va-voomed down Gaultier’s catwalk a couple years ago in a black couture gown, intricately assembled to be swiftly disassembled for the striptease that ensued. Read full article > >

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Designer Jean Paul Gaultier’s twist on ballet is a unique ‘Snow White’

In the 1990s, reinterpretations of Ms. Bassman’s photographs found a new generation of admirers, and a full-fledged revival of her career ensued, with gallery shows and international exhibitions.

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Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94

Annie Leibovitz photographs the 1 percent, the rich, beautiful and famous, conspiring with the apparatus of celebrity and capitalism to make the lives of successful people feel even more glamorous and alluring. The Library of Congress has officially declared her a “Living Legend,” and despite a few financial problems awhile back — a massive home-renovation project in Greenwich Village contributed to the setback — she has joined the same rarefied ranks of privilege that she has so diligently served throughout her career. Read full article > >

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Annie Leibovitz’s personal ‘Pilgrimage’ feels commercial

If you’ve ever looked down your nose at country music, it might be because so many artists seem to suffer some form of multiple-personality disorder. To wit: Dierks Bentley’s new album, “ Home ,” finds him cast as lover man, party bro, proud patriot, dedicated dad. Throughout his career, he has gone from bar-crawling lothario to devoted husband from one song to the next. Read full article > >

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Paintings by Winston Churchill have gone on display alongside works by the now-famous Moroccan artist, Hassan El Glaoui, who owes his career to Churchill.

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VIDEO: Churchill and protege reunited