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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch author and sculptor Jan Wolkers, once controversial for his explicit writing on sex and later famous for his glass and steel creations, died on Friday aged 81, his publisher said.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britney Spears is having a bad week. A day after she lost visitation rights to her two young sons, the pop star drove over the foot of a paparazzo on Thursday night while trying to navigate past the hordes of photographers who document her every move.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actress Claire Danes admitted it was a challenge to master a cockney accent for her Broadway debut, but winning over critics with her role in a play that inspired the musical “My Fair Lady” has proved more difficult.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - FBI agents have raided a Las Vegas warehouse owned by magician David Copperfield — for reasons they did not disclose — and media reports said that they seized nearly $2 million and computer equipment.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Gunmen shot reggae star Lucky Dube in front of his children in one of South Africa’s highest-profile murders, uniting political rivals in calls for a crackdown on violent crime.
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ROME (Reuters) - When the Rome film festival forgot to invite Sophia Loren for its first edition last year, she was said to be furious at the snub.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran Hollywood director Brian De Palma has lashed out at what he calls the censorship of his new film about Iraq and the chilling effect of corporate America on the war.
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WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Sen. Hillary Clinton might be leading the race for Democratic campaign cash, but she is far from Hollywood’s darling, with the former first lady and rival Sen. Barack Obama neck and neck for entertainment industry cash.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - One of the biggest challenges in marketing “Rendition,” which stars Reese Witherspoon as a young American mother whose Egyptian-born husband mysteriously disappears, has been differentiating the film from other recent movies set against the backdrop of the Middle East.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. pleaded not guilty to a trio of illegal weapons charges on Friday and a judge ordered him detained for another week.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video footage from a “secret” Paul McCartney show in London this past summer will be included on a DVD that will be packaged with a reissue of his latest album next month, his Hear Music label said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joey Bishop, the deadpan comedian, TV host and last of the super-hip team of performers known as the Rat Pack, led by Frank Sinatra, has died at age 89, his publicist said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rapper Soulja Boy’s “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” began a sixth non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Thursday, while Kanye West’s “Stronger” held at No. 2.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish-born actress Deborah Kerr, best known for her performance as the adulterous wife alongside Burt Lancaster in the 1953 film “From Here to Eternity,” has died at age 86.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Oscar race appears to be off to a slow start this year as many early hopefuls have met only limited success at film festivals and in wide release, leaving award watchers hoping the best films are yet to come.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For comedian Ellen DeGeneres, this shaggy dog tale has gone too far.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, announced plans on Thursday to cut 1,800 jobs and integrate its TV, radio and Internet news operations to confront the digital-age shift away from traditional media.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. court has suspended Britney Spears’ visitation rights with her two young sons until the pop star complies with all court orders, celebrity Web site TMZ.com reported on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its landmark album “The Joshua Tree,” U2 is reissuing the set in four different incarnations on November 20.
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ROME (Reuters) - Homegrown sex symbol Monica Bellucci opened the Rome film festival on Thursday as the gang moll in “Second Wind”, a French gangster movie set in the 1960s.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer, one of America’s most renowned authors, is recovering in a New York City hospital after lung surgery, his editorial assistant said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Tyler Perry’s triumph at the box office with “Why Did I Get Married?” has heartened the growing number of studios looking to crack the market for black films.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood’s latest take on kidnapping and torture in the war on terror is surprisingly bold and realistic but won’t change people’s views overnight, a prominent lawyer for Guantanamo Bay prisoners says.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Concert violinist David Juritz has performed in many of the world’s greatest halls as a soloist, guest artist and concertmaster of London’s famed Mozart Players.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Just as he’s reached the top of the album charts for the first time, Kid Rock has made a major change at the top of his business operations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Television broadcasters should be required to air daily public service announcements alerting viewers about the transition to digital television in 2009, the head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amid an uproar over the huge demand for seats to pop idol Hannah Montana’s tour, a U.S. federal judge on Monday barred the use of automated software to make mass ticket purchases from the leading box-office service Ticketmaster.
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NEW YORK, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Rapper Foxy Brown emerged from jail on Tuesday to plead innocent to assaulting a New York City woman with her BlackBerry, fighting charges that could derail her music career with a seven-year sentence.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Madonna has signed a multi-album, touring and merchandising global partnership with Live Nation Inc., the concert touring company said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hip-hop mogul Diddy — real name Sean Combs — is being investigated in relation to an alleged assault at a New York City nightclub during the weekend, police sources said.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A trio of awards-season hopefuls were forced to cede the spotlight at the weekend box office to the latest populist hit from Tyler Perry, the writer-director-actor-producer whose commercial success is inversely proportional to his critical respect.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pop star Madonna has dropped her long-term music label Warner Brothers and signed a multi-album, touring and merchandising global partnership with Live Nation Inc., the concert touring company said on Tuesday.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Egyptian director Nadia Kamel, worried by messages of religious war her young nephew was hearing from Cairo mosques, decided to show him their own family’s history of mixed marriage in a journey that takes her from Italy to Israel.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Britney Spears turned herself into a Los Angeles police station on Monday to be photographed and fingerprinted in connection with two minor traffic offenses.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It won only one Oscar, but Orson Welles’ 1941 film “Citizen Kane” is widely considered his best movie. Now the Academy Award Welles received for his masterwork can be bought for a cool million — or maybe more.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Dubliner Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize, one of the literary world’s most prestigious awards, on Tuesday for her bleak Irish family saga “The Gathering.”
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Beatle Paul McCartney has likened his bitter divorce battle with Heather Mills to “going through hell” and said their daughter Beatrice and his music have helped him through the ordeal.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday ordered Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. held in a U.S. jail for at least three more days pending a bail hearing after his arrest on illegal weapons charges.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Harry Potter might have waved his wand and cast a spell, but author J.K. Rowling sat down and cheerfully signed 1,600 books for schoolkids on Monday as she launched her first U.S. book tour in seven years.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paris Hilton is on a mission to change her image, heading to Rwanda on a trip she hopes will allow her to leave a mark on the world — and possibly create another reality TV show.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month, they said on Monday.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland’s decision to honor the German officer who helped save the Jewish musician depicted in the film “The Pianist” has angered some World War Two veterans.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A healthy overrun from the New England Patriots-Dallas Cowboys’ late game delivered dual primetime wins Sunday to CBS.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Patrick Swayze will play an unorthodox but effective FBI veteran in A&E Network’s drama pilot “The Beast.”
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India’s Oscar selectors accused Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science of “disparaging” comments on Monday after it questioned the country’s official award entry this year.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - A fascinating and relatively unexplored topic is examined in “The Rape of Europa,” detailing the Nazis’ systematic pillaging of art works throughout the continent.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - In this exclusive interview, Glenn Frey takes Billboard through the making of “Long Road Out of Eden,” the Eagles’ first studio album since 1979. “Eden” is due October 30, exclusively via Wal-Mart stores.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Federal agents arrested Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. on Saturday on charges of buying illegal machine guns, hours before he was due to star at a major hip hop awards ceremony.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Farewell King Lear. Hello Hobbits. An actor’s life can take strange turns.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Drew Carey, come on dowwwnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! The man who would be Bob Barker finally takes the mike, replacing the legendary Barker, who hosted this seminal CBS daytime game show for 35 years (since its inception in 1972).
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Justin Timberlake was not yet 2 years old when Duran Duran bombarded the charts with debut “Hungry Like the Wolf” in 1982. The generations collide on “Falling Down” — the group’s launch single from 12th album “Red Carpet Massacre,” due November 13 — which Timberlake produced, co-wrote and contributes vocals to. At first glance, such a proposition seems tenuous: DD has remained relevant enough without any outside help through the years; is this kid going to conte
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The latest movie from writer/director/actor Tyler Perry crushed some high-powered competition at the weekend box office in North America, earning more than the combined total of films starring Oscar winners George Clooney and Cate Blanchett.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox has cut the order for its midseason Parker Posey comedy “The Return of Jezebel James” to seven episodes from 13, including the pilot.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taking a page from the “American Idol” playbook, the Metropolitan Opera held open auditions on Saturday for its lavish new production of “War and Peace.”
