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David Letterman has dived right into material on Tiger Woods on the "Late Show," joking he wishes the golfer would stop asking him for advice. Letterman kicked off his monologue Monday with the subject of Woods, even though the late night host is only weeks removed from his own scandal. Letterman said, "Boy, it looks like that Tiger Woods is having some trouble, huh?" In October, Letterman admitted to workplace affairs police say led to a blackmail plot. Woods last week admitted letting his family down with "transgressions" that became known following a Thanksgiving weekend car crash outside his Florida home. Letterman asked the ... Read Full Story

A former manager of The Fray says the band owes his company more than $750,000 in commission and expenses. The band's hits include "How to Save a Life." A lawsuit is pending in federal court in Denver against Gregg Latterman over copyrights to the band's songs. The band alleges Latterman failed to disclose that his management company obtained ownership to a portion of the band's music when songwriters Joseph King and Isaac Slade signed a publishing agreement in 2005. Latterman, who managed the band's early career, disputed that in documents filed Monday and filed counterclaims alleging breach of contract and fiduciary duty. He says ... Read Full Story

The 2009 Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller says she started writing when it was no longer possible to use spoken words to describe what was happening in her native Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Mueller says she was persecuted after refusing to become an informant and she paid tribute to those who live under totalitarian regimes today. She said in her Nobel lecture on Monday that she wanted to express how dictatorships deprive people of dignity. She said she reacted "to the fear of death with a thirst for life." The 56-year-old writer smuggled her early work into Germany to have it published, ... Read Full Story

British broadcaster ITV has apologized after two contestants on a reality TV show skinned, cooked and ate a rat during filming. Chef Gino D'Acampo and actor Stuart Manning have been charged with animal cruelty after preparing and eating rat risotto on the wilderness show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" last month. They were charged after complaints by animal welfare activists in Australia, where the show is filmed. The maximum penalty is three years in prison. ITV said Monday that producers had sought health and safety advice about eating the rat but had failed to check whether killing it was legal. ... Read Full Story

Mostly excellent, all of them memorable, here are the decade's Top 10 television achievements as tapped by the TV writers of The Associated Press. In no particular order, they are: _ "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (premiered October 2000) and the franchise it inspired. This drama was already a surprise hit when, with season two, it emerged as a reassuring response to the sorrows and anxieties of 9/11. The Las Vegas-based investigators functioned with a clinical detachment from evil and evildoers, while insisting that truth and justice await those who pursue it with keen-eyed devotion. That was just the sort of reminder viewers needed. And ... Read Full Story