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Britney Screwed Every Which Way 2008-03-09 03:58:44 Talk about screwed up — Britney
Spears is having to pay her new lawyer big bucks for challeging another lawyer’s bill.
Our sources tell us, Stacy Phillips, Brit’s lawyer du jour, took K-Fed’s deposition this past Monday. Phillips grilled Federleze like a cheeseburger, asking him about … his lawyer’s bill! That’s right, Mark Vincent Kaplan is [...]
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Why we fall for the fakes 2008-03-09 03:57:09 Has ‘reality’ fare spawned the phony memoir?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, there’s a brand-new entry in the memoir-that-turns-out-to-be-fiction sweepstakes: “Love and Consequences” by the author formerly known as Margaret B. Jones, whose real name is Margaret Seltzer. Published to gushing reviews, the book has been recalled by [...]
Her Sister, Her Surrogate 2008-03-09 03:56:14 The Return of Jezebel James
Hour-long premiere Friday at 8 p.m. on Fox. Airs regularly Fridays at 8:30 p.m.
Basic story: Indie It Girl Parker Posey makes her small-screen lead debut in this sitcom from “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. Posey stars as a children’s book editor so desperate for a baby that she persuades her estranged [...]
Heath Ledger’s father: Michelle Williams, Matilda will be ‘taken care of’ 2008-03-09 03:55:24 Heath Ledger’s relatives said Saturday they will make sure his daughter and the girl’s mother are “taken care of,” even though the actor’s will doesn’t mention them, People.com reported.
A day after the Daily News revealed details of the “Brokeback Mountain” hunk’s will, Ledger’s father, Kim, said the family would stand by Heath’s former girlfriend, actress [...]
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, Michelle
, Williams
Goldberg thanks Swayze for Oscar 2008-03-09 03:54:00 Actress Whoopi Goldberg
has credited her Ghost co-star Patrick Swayze - who was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer - with helping her win an Oscar
.
Goldberg won a best supporting actress Academy Award for playing psychic Oda Mae Brown in the 1990 film.
Goldberg said Swayze, 55, told director Jerry Zucker: “I’m not making this movie unless [...]
Former ‘NYPD Blue’ Star Cleared of Rape Charges 2008-03-09 03:52:56 Actor Esai Morales has been cleared of rape accusations by his ex-girlfriend, after a district attorney found no grounds on which to convict him. Elizabeth Mazzocchi, 33, initially accused the former NYPD Blue star of sexual misconduct in August and re-accused him of rape during a press conference in December, claiming other women [...]
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Movie ticket sales hit record 2008-03-08 12:41:11 In Hollywood, the math is never simple.
Worldwide box-office revenue rose to record levels last year, the studios’ main trade group said Wednesday — but a closer look at the numbers suggests a murkier picture of movie industry strength.
Movie ticket sales climbed to $9.6 billion in the U.S. and Canada and $26.7 billion globally, both logging [...]
Heath Ledger’s Will Revealed 2008-03-08 12:38:13 Before his Oscar-nominated role in Brokeback Mountain, Heath
Ledger wrote a will leaving everything he owned to his parents and sister, New York’s Daily News reported Saturday.
The 28-year-old actor, who died of an accidental prescription drug overdose earlier this year, filed a three-page will in his native Australia in April 2003. The will preceded [...]
Stallone & Rock Named in Pellicano Witness List 2008-03-08 12:34:04 Action man Sylvester Stallone
and comedians Chris Rock and Garry Shandling have been named among a list of potential witnesses in the trial of disgraced private investigator Anthony Pellicano. The stars are just some of the celebrities who allegedly had their phones bugged or names illegally checked against police databases on the order of Pellicano. [...]
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Microsoft and Sony reportedly in Blu-ray discussions 2008-03-07 11:23:35 The power of Blu-ray is so intense that Microsoft
has even begun talking to Sony
about possibly incorporating the technology into the Xbox 360.
The Financial Times reports that Sony Electronics president Stan Glasgow disclosed information about the talks although Microsoft will not confirm anything.
Microsoft decided long ago to support HD DVD in the high definition [...]
Microsoft’s IE architect: IE8 is what we’ve been building up to 2008-03-07 11:22:26 For Internet Explorer platform architect Chris Wilson, IE8 is more than just a new version. It’s the realization of an effort that began with IE7 to build the best Web browser for both developers and consumers.
“IE7 was the start to IE8,” Wilson told BetaNews this afternoon in Las Vegas. It’s not a secret that Microsoft
[...]
Timberlake has a ‘Problem’ 2008-03-07 11:16:09 Reveille has teamed with Justin Timberlake
to produce an American adaptation of the hit Peruvian comedy “My Problem
With Women” for NBC. The project, which Reveille will co-produce with U.K.-based Power and Frecuencia Latina International, follows the adventures of Jose, a thirtysomething bachelor who begins seeing a [...]
‘24′ Movie for coming out in Fall? 2008-03-07 11:15:24 Fans of Fox’s 24 who were miffed at the decision to delay the show’s return until next January learned Wednesday that the network is developing a two-hour movie to air in the fall that will bridge the sixth and seventh seasons of the show. Fox had produced eight episodes of the seventh season when production [...]
Final Potter film ’split in half’ 2008-03-13 06:23:07 The seventh and final Harry Potter
novel will be adapted for the big screen in two parts, reports suggest.
Producer David Heyman told the Los Angeles Times it had been impossible to cram Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ 608 pages into a single movie.
“Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book,” [...]
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, split
Hart Welcomes Second Son 2008-03-13 06:18:26 American actress Melissa Joan Hart has given birth to a boy in Los Angeles. The former Sabrina The Teenage Witch star and her rocker husband Mark Wilkerson welcomed Braydon Hart Wilkerson into the world at 3pm on Wednesday. Braydon weighed in at seven pounds and three ounces. Hart and Wilkerson, who married in 2003, [...]
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Silverstone Denies Quitting TV Show Because of Spears 2008-03-13 06:15:51 Batman & Robin star Alicia Silverstone
is laughing off reports she pulled out of a role in U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother after learning she’d be appearing opposite Britney Spears
. Spears plays a receptionist/secretary in an upcoming episode of the show, and insiders claim her boss was supposed to be the big screen’s [...]
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Uma Thurman “Stalker” Trial Delayed 2008-03-13 06:14:10 The New York trial of a man accused of stalking Uma Thurman
has been delayed until next week. Jackson Jordan, 36, stands accused of attempting to gain entry to Thurman’s trailer on a New York movie shoot, and sending her letters and drawings, including a sketch of the actress digging his grave. One letter allegedly [...]
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, Trial
, Uma Thurman
‘Idol’ Draws 31.58 Million Viewers 2008-03-13 06:13:12 Beatles night on American Idol Tuesday night left rivals shouting “Help!” as together they failed to attract an audience that equaled Idol’s alone. According to Nielsen Research, Idol’s first hour drew a 15.6 rating and a 25 share. The second hour rose to a 17.8/27, with the final half hour clocking in 31.58 million [...]
Studios To Help Underwrite Costs of Digital 2008-03-13 06:12:09 Four of the six major studios have signed deals with Access Integrated Technologies to underwrite the costs of converting thousands of theaters to digital technology over the next three years. In effect, the deal calls for the studios — Disney, Fox, Paramount and Universal (Warner Bros. and Sony are expected to join the group as [...]
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, Digital
, Studios
Clooney’s Pressure On Olympic Hosts 2008-03-13 06:11:35 George Clooney
is stepping into the fight over 2008 Olympic
host country China’s trade links with Sudan - because of his sponsorship deal with Games sponsors Omega. Clooney endorses the luxury watch brand, which has been an Olympic partner since 1932. According to the New York Daily News, the star - a United Nations Messenger [...]
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, Pressure
Carey To Replace Sick Jackson 2008-03-13 06:10:49 TV show Saturday Night Live has swapped one R&B superstar for another - Mariah Carey
will replace Janet Jackson
on the program this weekend. Jackson called in sick after coming down with a bout of influenza at the beginning of the week. Her illness was so severe she checked into a Los Angeles hospital, suffering [...]
Wells’ Lawyer: “Arrest Reports Are Inaccurate and Erroneous” 2008-03-13 06:08:25 Gilligan’s Island star Dawn Wells
‘ lawyers have hit out at the media coverage of her recent arrest, branding the reports “extremely inaccurate and erroneous”. The 69-year-old was alleged to have been sentenced to five days in jail, placed on six months’ probation and fined $410.50 at a hearing in Driggs, Idaho on February 29 after [...]
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, Lawyer
Williams and Friends Pay Magazine Tribute to Ledger 2008-03-13 06:07:24 Heath Ledger’s closest Hollywood pals, including ex-partners Michelle Williams
and Naomi Watts, have spoken out for the first time since his death in January. The pair joined forces with director Todd Haynes - who made Ledger’s movie I’m Not There - actors Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, his agent Steve Alexander, and pal Ellen DeGeneres, [...]
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, Magazine
Sick Jackson Pulls Out of ‘Saturday Night Live’? 2008-03-12 03:01:13 Pop superstar Janet Jackson
has reportedly scrapped her appearance on TV show SaturdayNight
Live after falling ill. The singer was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday night with a “shortness of breath,” according to UsMagazine.com. Jackson’s representatives have since insisted the pop star is “fine” but she has pulled out [...]
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, Saturday Night Live
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