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Nothing comes easily for UCLA this season. But slowly, it seems to be coming. The Bruins have had injuries, NCAA investigations, intense scrutiny on a Shabazz Muhammad birthday present from his mom (Gucci backpack) and occasional carping from an UCLA alum (Bill Walton). Yet, here the Bruins sit with three games left, tied for first place. UCLA got there the hard way, laboring through a 79-74 overtime victory over Arizona State on Wednesday at Pauley Pavilion. The victory left the Bruins (21-7, 11-4)

Rachel McAdams and Michael Sheen have split. The couple ended their relationship, according to Us Weekly , which reports that "The Vow" actress is back on the market. McAdams, 34, and Sheen, 44, met on the set of Woody Allen's 2010 film "Midnight in Paris" - their characters were romantically entangled when Sheen played Owen Wilson's rival in the film. However, McAdams has said that Sheen and she did not hook up while filming. VIDEO: 'To the Wonder' trailer revels in beauty "I feel strongly about not doing [that]

The Walt Disney Concert Hall stage didn't look so hot for Tuesday night's Green Umbrella concert. Rather than the trademark umbrellas being gracefully suspended from the ceiling, they were placed in clumps, like lean-tos, on either side of a stage and so saturated with green light that they appeared covered with AstroTurf. Then again, the Los Angeles Philharmonic may simply be packing early for its upcoming tour and wanted to have those umbrellas handy. This was a showcase concert of the orchestra's New Music Group, and it will be repeated in London the week after next.

Can't wait to dish on who wore what to the 85th Academy Awards Sunday night? Listen in as Adam Tschorn talks Oscar fashion here at 2:30 p.m. Tschorn will discuss red carpet wins, flops and some surprises, with Anne Hathaway in Prada and lead actress winner Jennifer Lawrence in her Dior nosedive. Tschorn's also got the scoop on what fashion critic Booth Moore thought of Helen Hunt in H&M and Giorgio Armani ruling the red carpet. Oscars 2013: Winners | Red carpet | Fashion | Show highlights | Nominee list | Timeline See who had the best hairstyles of the night and trends we couldn't ignore.

Steven Spielberg was inspired by Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Ben Affleck was provoked by a Middle Eastern hostage tale. Adam Pesapane wanted to transform a hand grenade into an avocado. All three directors will walk the red carpet at Sunday's Academy Awards, but for Pesapane, 39, the shot at Oscar gold for his 1 minute, 46-second stop-motion animated film represents more than a chance to add a fancy statuette to his mantelpiece. The English major-turned-commercial director, who goes by the professional moniker Pes, is hoping the Oscar attention for his "Fresh Guacamole" movie, made for less than $100,000 by Showtime Networks, can help him climb the show business ladder and give him a chance to direct his first full-length feature film.

Boston Beer Co., one of the oldest -- and largest -- craft beer brands in America, announced this week that it would begin canning its signature Samuel Adams Boston Lager . The amber lager will be available in specially designed " Sam Cans " this summer, and the move is a change in direction for the craft giant that declared in 2005's " Craft Beer Bill of ...

Years before Adam Lanza shot up Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, his mother, Nancy, had enrolled him there in the hopes that the boy would pull out of his shell. He never did. A new investigation, co-reported by the Hartford Courant and PBS Frontline , plunges into the minutiae of one of America's most mysterious families -- mysterious perhaps solely because of the massacre Adam Lanza, 20, perpetrated in Newtown, Conn., which left 26 dead at the school, plus himself.

Revealing a 30-year-old family secret, retired U.S. Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) acknowledged that he fathered a son outside his marriage with the daughter of former U.S. Sen. and Nevada Gov. Paul Laxalt. In a story published Wednesday in the Albuquerque Journal, the 80-year-old Domenici said he and onetime Republican lobbyist Michelle Laxalt of Alexandria, Va., are the parents of Las Vegas attorney Adam Paul Laxalt. Both said they decided to announce their secret because they believed someone else was about to make the news public.

"Raising Adam Lanza," which premieres Tuesday as part of the PBS series "Frontline," is one of a number of programs the network is airing this week under the banner "After Newtown. " Undertaken in concert with the Hartford Courant, it focuses on Nancy Lanza, the mother of the Sandy Hook Elementary School killer and also his first victim, to try to make a senseless act more sensible. It fails, of course. There are some nuggets of new information, to be sure, which "Frontline" and the Courant had jealously guarded; reviewers were forbidden to publish these facts before the paper unveiled them in a more detailed print story last Sunday.

Add Samuel Adams to the growing list of beers available in cans. The Boston Beer Co. said it will start selling its popular Samuel Adams Boston Lager in cans for the first time this summer, the Associated Press reports. The move will allow beer fans to take the popular lager places where glass bottles may not be allowed, such as pools, parks, beaches and sporting events. Once considered to impair the taste of fine beers, cans are now used by more than 180 craft breweries, according to the website ontaponline.com.