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WHITNEY HOUSTON has fuelled rumours she is dating R&B singer RAY J after the two were spotted sharing a dinner in Beverly Hills on Sunday night (14JAN07).
The star announced she was filing for divorce from husband BOBBY BROWN in September (06) after 14 years of marriage and is currently working on a comeback album.
Ray J, whose real name is WILLIAM RAY NORWOOD JR, is the brother of R&B star BRANDY and is 18 years younger than Houston.
The two were seen leaving Maestro’s Steakhouse together and eyewitnesses reportedly saw the two getting cosy while enjoying drinks after dinner.

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER and filmmaker JAMES CAMERON are set to work together again on new sci-fi movie SATURN 3, according to internet reports.
Fansite TheArnoldFans.com reports the California Governor will lend his voice to a robot in Cameron’s SATURN 3 movie. Cameron is slated to produce the project.
The film is a remake of a cult 1980 film, which starred FARRAH FAWCETT, HARVEY KEITEL and KIRK DOUGLAS.
Schwarzenegger and Cameron previously worked together on THE TERMINATOR, its sequel and TRUE LIES.

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California Governor ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER will put politics on hold to present the Best Picture (Drama) award at tonight’s (15JAN07) Golden Globes.
The former Hollywood action man, who was inaugurated as Governor for a second term earlier this month (JAN07), will hobble onto the Beverly Hilton stage after fracturing his femur in a pre-Christmas (06) skiing accident.
Other presenters at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards include DREW BARRYMORE, JAKE GYLLENHAAL, DUSTIN HOFFMAN, SHARON STONE and recently split couple CAMERON DIAZ and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE.

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Pop star BRITNEY SPEARS and her new boyfriend ISAAC COHEN spent the weekend (ends14JAN07) in Las Vegas holed up in the Fantasy Tower suite at The Palms hotel.
The couple stayed in the tower’s $40,000 (£21,000) per night, two-story Hugh Hefner Sky Villa on Saturday (13JAN07), with a Jacuzzi pool, glass elevator, rotating bed and full bar.
A source who spotted the new couple tells America publication People, "They seem very happy together." The trip was Spears’ first appearance in Las Vegas since she made headlines on New Year’s Eve (31DEC06) by falling asleep at a party she was hosting at Pure nightclub.
Spears was wide awake this time around, and was spotted dancing and smoking cigarettes with Cohen at a gay nightclub just off the Las Vegas strip.
This is the second weekend in a row that the couple have been seen together.
On 6 January (07), they hung out on a powerboat off the coast of Marina del Rey, California and met up the next night at the W Hotel’s Whiskey Blue bar in Westwood.

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JESSICA SIMPSON was asked to leave her local market by the store’s manager after she caused a media frenzy that was proved to be bad for business.
The singer was attempting to shop for groceries when a storm of photographers descended on the store trying to get a shot of Simpson shopping.
She explains, "Two weeks ago, I was at Whole Foods and probably about 100 photographers were outside waiting for me.
"The manager gave me his card and said, ‘Jessica, I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t come in during store hours.
"Give me a call and I’ll open up early or you can come in after we close. But this is very distracting for all my customers.’ "I looked at him kind of shocked. Then I was just mad, not at him, but at the situation. I couldn’t even live my normal life anymore."

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Director MICHAEL MANN has entered the race against JOHNNY DEPP to make a film about ALEXANDER LITVINENKO, the ex-KGB agent who was fatally poisoned in London last year (06).
Mann’s film is based on the unpublished book DEATH OF A DISSIDENT, which is being written by Litvinenko’s widow MARINA and ALEX GOLDFARB, who reportedly had close ties with the spy.
The movie will focus on the Russian power structure enforced by the KGB and its successor the FRS and the "Wild West capitalism" that followed glasnost, with Litvinenko caught in the middle.
Meanwhile, Depp’s production company and Warner Bros have just announced plans to make a film based on the book SASHA’S STORY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A RUSSIAN SPY, which is currently being written by New York Times London Bureau Chief ALAN COWELL.
British police are still investigating Litvinenko’s death, after traces of lethal radiation were found in his body when he was admitted to hospital three weeks before he died.

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One of America’s leading skin doctors fears the young cast of the HARRY POTTER films has done teenagers the world over a huge disservice by seeming to have bypassed puberty on the big screen.
DR VAIL REESE has blasted the brains behind the Potter films for digitally altering the appearances of DANIEL RADCLIFFE, EMMA WATSON and RUPERT GRINT rather than let their characters offer hope to spotty teens.
He fumes, "It would have been much cheaper to offer the stars acne treatment before their outbreaks but they went and used a computer to clear things up.
"I’d love to be able to show my young patients footage from the films as a way of proving almost everyone suffers from acne, but none exists."

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ASHLEY HARDER, the reigning Miss New Jersey, has resigned after discovering she’s pregnant.
Just a month after Miss USA pageant owner DONALD TRUMP stripped KATIE REES of her current Miss Nevada title after photos of her kissing another girl appeared on the internet, and weeks after the tycoon insisted reigning Miss USA TARA CONNER seek counselling to control her wild ways, Miss New Jersey’s tiara is looking for a new head.
The 20-year-old voluntarily stepped down this morning (15JAN07) because it’s against pageant rules to compete while pregnant.
Runner-up ERIN ABRAHAMSON, 23, will assume the title and will represent the state in the upcoming Miss USA pageant in March (07).

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EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND star PATRICIA HEATON insists there is nothing wrong with having a beer and taking a sleeping pill to try and cope with the stress of trying to balance work and family life.
Heaton is normally based in Los Angeles, where she has four young boys, but is currently appearing in the off-Broadway play THE SCENE in New York City.
The Emmy Award winner admits she has a little help when it comes to trying to maintain some sense of order in her life.
She explains her secret is "beer and (sleeping pill) Ambien. You can do a lot as long as you know how to deal with the stress.
"My husband was still back in LA with the kids and I went out after the show.
I had a couple bourbons. Little bourbons. With ice in them and I went home. You get wound up after the show and it’s hard to come down, so I took an Ambien and I got in bed and my husband called.
"It was right before Christmas and he said, ‘I got you your present.’ And I said, ‘How much was it? If it’s too expensive take it back. I told you not to spend a lot of money on me’ and we started getting in a fight. The next thing I knew, the sun was coming up and the phone was going, ‘If you’d like to make a call…’ I literally just (passed out)!" The star insists she now knows better than to drink and take sleeping pills adding, ‘I’ve learned that!’"

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STEVE KRANTZ, who produced the X-rated animated movie FRITZ THE CAT and created successful TV mini-series out of wife JUDITH KRANTZ’s romance novels, has died.
He was 83.
Krantz died of complications from pneumonia on 4 January (07) in Los Angeles.
During his TV career, he wrote for MILTON BERLE and ARTHUR GODFREY and helped create several comedies, including DENNIS THE MENACE and BEWITCHED as head of creative development at Columbia Pictures Television. He was also executive producer for STEVE ALLEN’s THE TONIGHT SHOW.
Krantz later turned to feature films such as Fritz the Cat, based on the ROBERT CRUMB underground comic and COOLEY HIGH, about black high school students in the 1960s.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he produced mini-series based on his wife’s steamy novels, including SCRUPLES, MISTRAL’S DAUGHTER and DAZZLE.
After his retirement, Krantz was involved with mental-heath counselling and former California Governor PETE WILSON appointed him to the board of the California Mental Health Council.

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LATEST: OJ SIMPSON insists that a chapter from his unpublished book that hypothesises how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend was created by a ghostwriter and has factual flaws.
The latest edition of US magazine Newsweek published a story for its current issue paraphrasing the chapter, called The Night In Question, which the magazine said it had obtained from an anonymous source.
Simpson explains, "I’m saying it’s a fictional creation. It has so many (factual) holes in it that anybody who knew anything about it would know that I didn’t write it." Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his ex-wife NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON and RON GOLDMAN after a year-long trial, but a civil jury later held him liable for the killings.
The former football star says he saw a number of factual flaws while proof-reading the chapter, but did not correct them because he thought that would prove that he did not write it.
The book was set to be published on 30 November (06), before being cancelled by News Corp head RUPERT MURDOCH ten days prior to publication.
Simpson insists that he now believes the decision to participate in the project was a mistake adding, "Was it tacky? Yes, it was tacky."

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Former THE CLASH star MICK JONES was so upset when he was kicked out of the band in 1983 he dyed his hair and donned a disguise so that fans wouldn’t stop him in the street.
The guitarist still lived in the same area of London as his ex-bandmates and the group’s most fervent fans. And rather than become a prisoner in his own home, he opted to hit the streets looking like an unshaven MICHAEL CAINE.
Jones tells Blender magazine, "I was in a state of shock that lasted for months.
"I put Michael Caine glasses on, dyed my hair blond and grew a beard for a bit. We all lived in the same area and I didn’t want to see people."

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Listen out for ghostly backing vocals on the new ARCTIC MONKEYS album frontman ALEX TURNER insists the studio the group recorded in was haunted.
The British singer and his bandmates have been recording the follow-up to WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT in a creepy London basement, and Turner insists they haven’t been alone.
He says, "It’s said that a young girl, ELSIE, haunts the chamber, and unexpected faint whispers have appeared on recordings in the past."

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THE CLASH frontman JOE STRUMMER was still upset when he died that his hit ROCK THE CASBAH was the first song played on Allied Forces Radio after the invasion of Kuwait.
The peace-loving rocker lived his final years regretting the fact that his anthem was used as a war victory chant. He died in 2002.
Former Clash bandmate MICK JONES tells men’s magazine Blender, "When he saw it (Rock The Casbah) put on the side of a US bomb… Joe was in tears.
"We hated that appropriation. We never meant anything like that."

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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and GNARLS BARKLEY have picked up the leading awards in US men’s magazine Blender’s 2006 Readers’ Poll.
My Chemical Romance’s THE BLACK PARADE was named the year’s best album, ahead of Timberlake’s FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS; Gnarls Barkley were named New Artist Of The Year and Timberlake’s MY LOVE was named Song Of The Year.
Other winners and losers in the magazine poll include LINDSAY LOHAN (Trainwreck Of The Year); PAMELA ANDERSON and KID ROCK (Couple Of The Year); ASHLEE SIMPSON (Nip/Tuck Of The Year), and RICHARD PRYOR (Saddest Farewell).
In the magazine’s main poll, My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade beat the ARCTIC MONKEYS’ WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT to top the Best Album list, while Gnarls Barkley’s CRAZY topped the Greatest Songs Of 2006 countdown.

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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN’S daughter has delayed the release of her debut album amid speculation she is suffering from an eating disorder.
The release dates of 20-year-old CHLOE LATTANZI’s debut single and album, which reveals the singer/songwriter’s darkest days, have been pushed back in order for her to deal with her health issues.
Sources tell Sydney, Australia’s Daily Telegraph she is fighting to avoid a relapse of body image issues she endured as a teenager and her mother is desperately trying to help her beat the illness permanently.
A source says, "Olivia is a survivor. Chloe is a fighter. They’re inseparable and they’re winning this." Lattanzi has spoken out about depressive episodes in the past and has been treated by specialists in the US.
Last March (06), she addressed widespread rumours that she was battling an eating disorder and admitted she had weight issues as a teenager, but denied it was a problem saying, "I went through a phase in my life where I know I was too thin - I acknowledge that. That was a very stressful time in my life, and it has passed now."

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LATEST: STING is considering reuniting with his former bandmates from THE POLICE to mark the 30th anniversary of the group’s formation.
The band’s ex-frontman wants to commemorate the occasion properly and play gigs again with drummer STEWART COPELAND and guitarist ANDY SUMMERS.
He explains, "We started 30 years ago, so it would be nice to do something to celebrate. We don’t quite know what, but we’re talking about it.
"I’m very proud of the band we were in. I left the band because I felt I wanted to grow as a musician, to mature as a musician and to try more things than a band is able to do.
"A band is very constricted. I spent the last 25 years exploring that freedom and having a great time." Sting’s reunion thoughts come just two weeks after news circulated the trio was planning a comeback in 2007.

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LATEST: Pop superstar KYLIE MINOGUE has already rescheduled the two UK concerts she was forced to cancel after being struck down with a respiratory infection.
The CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD singer stopped a gig in Manchester, England on Saturday (13JAN07) after signing nine songs, citing a bad cold. She reemerged 10 minutes later for a duet with sister DANNII, before abandoning the gig just 45 minutes into her two hour set.
Doctors have since advised Minogue to cancel tonight’s (15JAN06) and tomorrow’s (16JAN07) shows at the same venue.
However, the 38-year-old has now rescheduled those two concerts for 21 and 22 January (07). Tickets for the original gigs remain valid.
It is not yet known whether Saturday’s gig is to be rescheduled too.
The UK leg of her Showgirl Homecoming tour is Minogue’s first British appearance since her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer in 2005.

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