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• An Atlantic City, N.J., casino is stretching the bounds of good taste and cardiovascular health with Bacon Week.
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• 9. AT WESTMINISTER, FOUR GROUP WINNERS DOWN, THREE TO GO
• The sporting, working and terrier dog groups are set to compete, then comes the selection of best of show.
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• 10. SHAUN WHITE BIDDING TO WIN MEN'S HALFPIPE COMPETITION AGAIN
• If successful, he would become just the seventh athlete to win gold in an individual event in three straight Winter Olympics.
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AP News in Brief
Shirley Temple, iconic child star and Depression-era box office draw, dies in California at 85
• WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, publicist Cheryl Kagan. She was 85.
• Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died at her home near San Francisco.
• A talented and ultra-adorable entertainer, Shirley Temple was America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford.
• In 1999, the American Film Institute ranking of the top 50 screen legends ranked Temple at No. 18 among the 25 actresses. She appeared in scores of movies and kept children singing "On the Good Ship Lollipop" for generations.
• Temple was credited with helping save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy with films such as "Curly Top" and "The Littlest Rebel." She even had a drink named after her, an appropriately sweet and innocent cocktail of ginger ale and grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry.
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