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Tuesday April 22, 2008

Ray Charles, who overcame childhood poverty, blindness and heroin addiction to help create soul music and become one of America's most beloved singers, died on June 10, 2004 at the age of 73 after a long fight with liver disease, his spokesman said.  Charles is pictured performing "America the Beautiful" in a tribute to the veterans of the Gulf War before Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Florida, in this  January 28, 2001 file   Files
Children battle for Ray Charles legacy
Ray Charles's children are accusing his long-time manager of mismanaging his estate and tarnishing his legacy.

STAY IN TOUCH
Curry is King

Antonia Kidman Stay In Touch: Stephen Curry and Antonia Kidman emerged from pay TV's ASTRA Awards as winners last night. Even Jimmy Barnes got a guernsey.


PEOPLE
Hoff in hospital - but not for rehab

David Hasselhoff has been admitted hospital to have something removed above his eye, not for rehab, his publicist says.


ENTERTAINMENT
World-class cuisine

Sydney's Tetsuya's restaurant is named the ninth best restaurant in the world.



MUSIC
Finding reasons to keep going

Mark Everett In his new memoir, Eels frontman Mark Everett explains how he learnt to live while surrounded by so much death.


PEOPLE
Madonna granted delay in adoption case

Malawi's High Court agrees to delay a hearing to finalize Madonna's adoption of a boy from the African nation.


ARTS
Reminders of the silenced ones

iexist Ella Dreyfus's photographs always provoke a strong response. Such as the media frenzy and hate mail generated by her portraits of naked pregnant women in the 1990s, Dreyfus gets people talking.


BOOKS
In with the underdogs

A hard-fighting author has never forgotten his impoverished upbringing.



GOOD LIVING
Hard slog cafe

Business can be tough but food lovers still want to live out their restaurant dreams.


FILM
Hitler 'comedy' to hit screens

The company behind American Idol is developing a black comedy about Adolf Hitler's early years.



What's On  
The Deck

In a great harbourside setting, the food and service leave something to be desired.



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