LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - “Here’s the beauty of being me,” says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. “They can’t buy me off.” Seinfeld, whose “Bee Movie” debuts in theaters on Friday, grins when he tells his off-the-cuff joke, and although the reporters with him laugh, everyone knows he is not joking.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Lane Garrison, who played an inmate on the television drama “Prison Break,” was sentenced to three years and four months in prison on Wednesday for a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Heather Mills, estranged wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, says Britain’s tabloid media drove her close to suicide and wrongly cast her as a gold-digger.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In her first interview amid the media frenzy over her child custody hearings, Britney Spears told a radio station on Wednesday that the world can be cruel but she deals with it by staying true to herself.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Lane Garrison, who played an inmate on the television drama “Prison Break,” was sentenced to three years and four months in prison on Wednesday for a drunken driving crash that killed a teenager.
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Oct. 31 - Two winners are awarded the hotly-contested title of the “world’s most beautiful bottom”.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Philharmonic announced plans on Wednesday to tour China and Taiwan but failed to confirm media reports that the United States’s oldest symphony orchestra will also perform in North Korea.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - English rock band Coldplay is nearing completion of its fourth album, due in the first half of 2008.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With Hollywood braced for the possibility of an imminent strike, screenwriters and studio bosses met on Wednesday for one last bargaining session before the midnight expiration of their current contract.
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LONDON (Reuters) - All eyes at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich will be on U.S. star Justin Timberlake, who dominated the show in 2006, and British singer Pete Doherty’s performance on Thursday night.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A book billed as an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the “Harry Potter” series infringes copyright and attempts to cash in on the successful brand, author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. said when they filed a lawsuit on Wednesday.
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DETROIT (Billboard) - Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood’s memoir has just hit U.S. bookshelves, but he’s already talking about another volume — and even a film adaptation.
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A new generation of online financial sites aims at younger spenders who are trying to get a handle on where, exactly, their money goes.
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Oct 31 - Halloween becomes “Hallo Queen” in Washington, DC as drag queens in costume sprint to the finish line in a flamboyant high heel race.
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Oct. 31 - Hong Kong celebrates Halloween with giant neon pumpkin overlooking Victoria Harbour
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Baritone Robert Goulet, who shot to overnight international fame by playing Lancelot in the original 1960 Broadway production of “Camelot” with Julie Andrews and Richard Burton, died on Tuesday at age 73.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Rapper Coolio, who topped the pop charts in 1995 with the Grammy-winning tune “Gangsta’s Paradise,” will star in a reality TV show for women’s cable network Oxygen.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Just because you are dead, it does not mean you can’t stage a comeback.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed doubt on Tuesday that a law barring child pornography could be applied to popular award-winning movies like “Lolita,” “Traffic,” American Beauty” and “Titanic.”
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Oct. 30 - Police in Australia wrestle a bearcat and return it to the Melbourne Zoo after it escaped from its enclosure.
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Acrassicauda, which claims to be Baghdad’s only heavy metal band, fled to Syria and on to Turkey to avoid the violence in Iraq and specific death threats from insurgent groups, but now the four young musicians may be forced to return home.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Britney Spears barely played or spoke with her two young sons during a court-ordered visit by a parenting coach, who said their home life “ranged from chaotic to almost somber with little communication at all.”
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With all due respect to “I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes’ imaginative and often dazzling meditation on the pop-culture mythology of Bob Dylan, there ain’t nothing like the real thing.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Screenwriters and studio executives resumed contract talks on Tuesday as a federal mediator joined the session in hopes of averting what could be the most crippling strike to hit Hollywood in nearly 20 years.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Almost every day that Oscar winning actor Denzel Washington filmed scenes for his latest movie, “American Gangster,” he was closely watched on the set by an old man in a wheelchair — the drug lord he was portraying.
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NASSAU (Reuters) - The long-awaited inquest into the mysterious death of tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith’s son convened briefly in the Bahamas on Tuesday but was adjourned because Tropical Storm Noel threatened the islands.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan is being investigated on possible assault charges against a photographer, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department said on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Cartoonists have thoroughly explored the animal kingdom, giving anthropomorphic vigor to mice, dogs, cats, birds, donkeys, fish, pigs, bugs, dinosaurs, roadrunners, coyotes and even one big green ogre. Now it’s the bees’ turn in DreamWorks Animation’s “Bee Movie.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-poverty groups the ONE Campaign and DATA, both co-founded by rock star Bono, will merge in the United States to form a single organization in tackling poverty, especially in Africa, officials said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court allowed actress Elizabeth Taylor to keep a Vincent van Gogh painting on Monday, rejecting an appeal by descendants of a Jewish woman who said she was forced to sell it before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939.
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Oct. 29 - Churchgoers in Australia mix beer with the Bible, attending Sunday services at a pub.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A third defendant in the O.J. Simpson memorabilia robbery case told a Las Vegas judge on Monday that he would plead guilty and testify against the former football star, a court official said.
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MADRID (Reuters) - One of the world’s finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - U.S. country singer Porter Wagoner, lanky Grand Ole Opry star whose flashy Nudie rhinestone suits dazzled fans when he sang with rising new performer Dolly Parton in the 60s, died on Sunday from lung cancer, said his publicity agent, Darlene Bieber. He was 80.
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - It might not have gone more than four games, but the Boston Red Sox’s second World Championship since 2004 still boosted Fox to a primetime win Sunday night.
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Oct. 28 - Georgian athlete Lasha Pataraia sets record by pulling M18 helicopter over 26 meters with his ear.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tourist chiefs keen to tempt “set-jetters” to Britain launched a campaign on Monday to cash in on historic locations featured in the new Cate Blanchett movie “The Golden Age” about Tudor Queen Elizabeth I.
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Oct 29 - Women put on their sturdiest heels and braved bitterly cold weather to compete in a high-heeled shoe race in Mexico City.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new film about a meeting between two mothers over the deaths of their daughters in Jerusalem, a New York play set in the West Bank and a ceramic art exhibit are each being hailed for getting Israelis and Palestinians to talk to each other.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British army regiment has signed a one million pound ($2.05 million) record deal with Universal Music, a spokesman for the Pipes and Drums of the unit, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, said on Sunday.
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Oct 27 - The Austrian capital hosts what’s billed as the world’s first fair focusing on all matters relating to divorce.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If it’s Halloween, it must be time for the “Saw” horror franchise to scare up the top spot at the North American box office.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Music Within” introduces audiences to a supremely cool and witty real-life character, Richard Pimentel (well played by Ron Livingston), who then escorts them through his life as a disabled Vietnam veteran, motivational speaker, author and passionate activist for the disabled community. What should be a tough, sentimental slog whisks by in a breezy, entertaining 94 minutes like a kind of illustrated stand-up comedy routine.
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INGOGO VILLAGE, South Africa (Reuters) - Thousands of fans bade an emotional farewell on Sunday to South Africa’s top reggae star Lucky Dube, whose murder in an apparent botched carjacking stunned even a nation hardened to violent crime.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The music industry continues to build bridges between the digital and physical world.
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ROME (Hollywood Reporter) - The teen comedy “Juno” — revolving on a pregnant girl who tries to find a couple to adopt her baby — won the top prize at the second RomaCinemaFest on Saturday.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - British filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott returns to theaters on Friday with “American Gangster,” a crime saga about a Harlem-based heroin smuggler (Denzel Washington) being pursued by a dogged detective (Russell Crowe).