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Filmmaker Polanski out of jail
Friday, 12.04.2009, 07:58am
Film director Roman Polanski has been released from custody in
Switzerland and placed under house arrest, Swiss justice authorities
said Friday.
Polanski was released "pending extradition" to the
United States, the Swiss Department of Justice and Police said in a
statement. Polanski faces a sex-offense charge from the 1970s that
involves a girl who was 13.
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Tiger Woods engulfed in PR storm
Wednesday, 12.02.2009, 10:24am
From the time he putted a golf ball at the age of 2 on "The Mike Douglas Show," Tiger Woods has been a golden child.
While
athletes in different professions dealt with doping scandals and other
controversies, Woods continued to do what he did best: dominate the
field of professional golf and rake in endorsements.
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Aborigine drama wins top prize at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Friday, 11.27.2009, 07:09am
An Australian drama featuring two indigenous kids living in the
middle of the vast continent has taken the top prize at Asia-Pacific's
film awards.
"Samson & Delilah" scooped the Best Feature
Film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards held each year in
Queensland, Australia.
Director Warwick Thornton's debut
screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and
was awarded the Camera d'Or for best first feature.
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Donny Osmond is new 'Dancing' champ
Wednesday, 11.25.2009, 10:06am
Donny Osmond's family dinner table may have a unique centerpiece
this Thanksgiving holiday: a sparkly, much-perspired-over mirror ball
trophy.
Osmond was named champion of this season's edition of
"Dancing With the Stars" on Tuesday night, beating out singer Mya, who
took second place, and Kelly Osbourne, who finished third.
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Susan Boyle's debut: Dream or nightmare?
Monday, 11.23.2009, 11:33am
At the start of this year, none of us had heard of Susan Boyle. Now,
in the Christmas sales rush, her debut album "I Dreamed a Dream" is the
most pre-ordered CD in Amazon's history.
Already, the Scottish
Internet sensation has been the subject of fervid tabloid attention.
Catapulted to global fame by a British reality show, her fragile ego
cracked when she lost the "Britain's Got Talent" final to a dance
troupe and she was later admitted to The Priory, an exclusive London
psychiatric clinic.
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Some parents wary of 'New Moon'
Friday, 11.20.2009, 10:34am
Not everyone is as psyched for Friday's "New Moon" release as the "Twi-hards," the "Twilight" series' hard-core fans.
Many
parents of tween girls are on the fence about letting their daughters
see the vampire romance, saying they are worried the film sends the
wrong messages about self-esteem to young girls.
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Twilight started with a dream
Wednesday, 11.18.2009, 11:02am
When the first book of the "Twilight" series was released in October
2005, no one could have guessed the phenomenon it would become.
Four
years later, 70 million copies have been sold worldwide. The books have
spent 143 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, and the first
movie in "The Twilight Saga" grossed $380 million at the box office.
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Cat Stevens fans await their hero's return
Friday, 11.13.2009, 09:22am
The artist once called Cat Stevens is warming up his vocal cords
ahead of his comeback tour following a 33-year break in which he
retired from the music scene to embrace Islam and support charitable
causes.
The singer, now known as Yusuf, is playing four dates in
Britain and the Republic of Ireland from Sunday, but said he hoped to
take his unusual concerts to other countries if it's "within my
energetic abilities."
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Michael Jackson estate fight becomes public family dispute
Wednesday, 11.11.2009, 11:28am
Michael Jackson's mother dropped her challenge of the two men named
as executors in her son's will, but her sudden reversal caught her
husband by surprise Tuesday and led to a bitter fight in court. In
the end, the judge approved John Branca and John McClain as executors
to run the pop star's estate and he ruled that Michael Jackson's father
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Alicia Keys plays professor in advance of new album
Monday, 11.09.2009, 08:48am
Backstage in a dressing room at New York University's Skirball
Center for the Performing Arts, lit by bright "Hooray for Hollywood"
lights along the mirrors, Alicia Keys stands.
She is giddy.
"I just got this new belt," she says to my camerawoman and me as we meet her, showing it off.
Indeed,
the new belt is stylish. It's brown, low-slung and has a little pocket
attached to it on the side.
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From the time he putted a golf ball at the age of 2 on "The Mike Douglas Show," Tiger Woods has been a golden child.
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But it is that squeaky-clean image, and the tightly controlled persona Woods has cultivated over the course of his career, that experts say is fueling speculation and interest in the circumstances surrounding his recent car accident.
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