Star Wars Episode VII Release Date Announced, Billy Graham Turns 95

Billy Graham Turns 95

ByABC News
November 8, 2013, 9:26 AM

Nov. 8, 2013 — -- quicklist: 1title: 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets Release Datetext: Coming (kind of, but not really) soon to a theater near you, "Star Wars: Episode VII."

Walt Disney Studios announced that the next installment of the epic franchise will hit cinemas Dec. 18, 2015.

The film is the first in the series' history not to be released during the summer. "Lost" creator JJ Abrams will write and direct the new film.

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quicklist: 2title: Billy Graham's Birthday Bashtext: In what's being hailed as Billy Graham's "last sermon," America's foremost evangelical minister was feted at a 95th birthday party Thursday in North Carolina.

Guests included former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and real estate tycoon Donald Trump.

"There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God," Graham said in a 30-minute videotaped sermon shown at the event.media:20826969

quicklist:3title: New Hammerhead Shark Species Discoveredtext: A team of scientists from the University of South Carolina have discovered a rare new species of hammerhead shark.

The newly discovered Carolina hammerhead is virtually indistinguishable from the more common scalloped hammerhead, but has fewer vertebrae and lives exclusively in salt water, according to lead biologist Joe Quattro. media:20826634

quicklist: 4title: Sharon Osbourne Apologizes to Hosts of 'The View.'text: In what's very likely a clever ratings ploy in the ongoing battle of the shows-with-a-bunch-of-women-sitting-at-a-table, Sharon Osbourne zinged the competition at "The View" only to follow up with a tender apology.

Osbourne, a host of "The Talk," told Arsenio Hall this week that while she believed Barbara Walters was divine, her three other hosts "could go [expletive deleted] themselves."

On Thursday, she apologized to Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy on the set of her own show, saying, "I was inappropriate and I was trying to be funny at somebody else's expense."media:

quicklist:5title: Kelly Cuoco Gets Married on 'Ellen'text: A routine talk-show visit became an affair to remember, when Ellen DeGeneres surprised sitcom star Kelly Cuoco with an impromptu wedding ceremony.

DeGeneres surprised Cuoco and fiancé Ryan Sweeting with a veil, flowers and an ordained minister, telling them, "We have this ready. Should you choose, we can do it."

"It will save you so much money," DeGeneres continued. "You can dance afterward."

The couple were "married" by DeGeneres' head writer, who had recently become ordained. media: 20817640