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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jerry Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative partnership with Dean Martin, settled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, teary host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died ...

Talk about having something surprising up his sleeve, Stelarc, an award-winning Australian performance artist is growing an ear on his arm, for art's sake, he says. Part surgical, part human, the artist's own tissue are being used so it becomes a living, feeling and functioning part of his body...