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Broadway is mourning one of its veterans following the death of actor LEO BURMESTER, who lost his battle with leukaemia, at the age of 63, on Thursday (28Jun06).
A regular in New York theatre hits like The Fantasticks, Urban Cowboy, The Civil War and Les Miserables, Burmester also enjoyed success as a character actor on the big screen.
His movie resume includes The Devil’s Advocate, Lone Star, The Last Temptation of Christ and Broadcast News.
Burmester also recorded an album of folk originals, Blue Horse, with his wife Lora Lee Ecobelli.

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Spanish actor JAVIER BARDEM was so impressed with the portrait of him created for new movie GOYA’S GHOST he’s determined to claim it as his own.
The movie star plays a monk posing for a portrait by Francisco de Goya during the Spanish Inquisition - and his image was used for a copy of one of the artist’s most famous canvas creations.
Bardem says, "The artist for the film was so good. He did my portrait from a photograph of me. He did a great job.
"I want that portrait. Where is it? I should ask for it. I want to put it in my room. I’m so self-centred, I’m so narcissistic that I want to wake up and see myself. I’d put it on the ceiling."

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Actor STEVE ZAHN lost 40 pounds (18.1 kilograms) on the set of new movie RESCUE DAWN - eating nothing but raw vegetables, fruits and fish.
The Joy Ride star plays a prisoner of war opposite Christian Bale in the harrowing new film and knew he had to lose weight for the role, but left it until he arrived on set in Thailand to start losing the pounds. And he did it very quickly thanks to a strict diet and daily runs.
He says, "It wasn’t that difficult. I’d eat all day but I’d just eat raw vegetables, fruit and nuts and I’d have fish at night.
"On top of that I ran at least five miles a day, sometimes twice a day. I lost the weight in a matter of four months." By the end of filming, he was down to just one meal a day and he admits that was often a struggle.
He adds, "I never cheated but it was tough - I’m a meat and potatoes kind of guy."

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DON CHEADLE received no help from MILES DAVIS’ family while researching his role as the jazz man - because no one had any recollections about the music icon’s secret life.
The Hotel Rwanda star felt sure recollections from Davis’ family members would help him master the essence of the legend but Cheadle discovered he knew more about his subject than they did.
He says, "I asked them about parts of his life and they don’t have any idea.
They don’t know what was going on.
"Miles Davis lived in a house on the Upper West Side in New York - in this converted church - for five years and they said, `There were days when we’d come to see him and he wouldn’t let us in.’ "I ended up with the soup of the person and who that person was spiritually… What his wife said, what his ex-wife said, what his girlfriend says, the nephew says, the son says, there are all these different perspectives on this one person." And when Cheadle turned to Davis interviews to help his research he didn’t find a lot of help there either.
He adds, "He’d tell a long story and the guy said, `That’s amazing. Did that really happen?’ and he’d say, `I don’t f**kin’ know.’"

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The HILTON family is bracing itself for another controversy - PARIS’ step-great-grandmother ZSA ZSA GABOR’s legal row with her daughter turned into a screaming match in Los Angeles on Friday (29Jun07).
The wheelchair-bound actress was forced to miss a mandatory court date on Friday (29Jun07), due to a serious leg injury.
Gabor, who was once married to Hilton’s great-grandfather Conrad, is sitting by as her husband Prince Frederic Von Anhalt battles her daughter Francesca over claims she embezzled funds from her mother.
The fraud suit was initiated by Zsa Zsa in 2005, but her health has declined since then and her husband is now fighting on her behalf.
Gabor injured her left in a fall at her home earlier this month (Jun07).
Outside court in Los Angeles on Friday, Von Anhalt and Francesca clashed, with Zsa Zsa’s bitter daughter screaming, "He’s (Frederick) never worked a day in his life. He’s a gigolo," to reporters at the hearing.

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Extreme sports supercouple LAIRD HAMILTON and GABRIELLE REECE are expecting their second child.
Former professional volleyball champion Reece announced the good news during a TV interview on Friday (29Jun07). She’s three months pregnant.
Reece and surf legend Hamilton already have a daughter, Viola, who is three.
The couple wed in November 1997.

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A bomb threat in central London on Friday (29Jun07) forced the cancellation of several West End performances.
A Mamma Mia! matinee at the Prince of Wales Theatre and the evening performances of The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre and The Last Confession at the Theatre Royal Haymarket were axed as police investigated a car bomb that had been left on the street.
A suspicious vehicle was reported parked in Haymarket early on Friday morning. An explosive device was discovered in the vehicle, and police worked to defuse the bomb after evacuating the area and sealing off several streets and underground stations.

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LITTLE BIG TOWN are getting ready to add another baby to their extended family following the news PHILIP SWEET’s new wife REBECCA is pregnant with their first child.
The country group is celebrating after bandmate Kimberly Rhoads (corr) announced she was expecting her first child at the beginning of 2007.
The baby news follows a spate of band weddings - Rhoads got married last year (06), as did bandmates Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild. Sweet wed Rebecca in March (07).

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MANDY MOORE had a couple of very special guests when she showcased tracks from her new album in Los Angeles on Thursday (28Jun07) - her ex-boyfriends.
Both Wilmer Valderrama and Adam `DJ AM’ Goldstein were spotted in the crowd at the Roxy, where stars like Emmy Rossum and Sophia Bush cheered the pop star/actress on.

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Country rocker GEORGE McCORKLE has lost his battle with cancer just a month after he was diagnosed with the disease. He was 60.
The guitarist, who died on Friday (29Jun07), co-founded the Marshall Tucker Band in 1971 and wrote the band’s Southern rock anthem Fire On The Mountain.
He enjoyed cult solo success in the late 1990s thanks to a well-received solo album, American Street. He then went on to perform as a member of the Renegades of Southern Rock.

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A German lorry driver caused a pile-up on a busy motorway after swallowing his false teeth.
Peter Seiler, 57, was driving on the A3 motorway near Wuerzburg when he decided to tuck into a crispy apple.
After taking one big bite, Seiler choked on a piece of the fruit, started coughing and ended up swallowing his false teeth.
Struggling to breathe, Seiler lost control of his lorry and smashed into another car.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident.

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Prisoners in India are refusing to apply for bail because the food is so good.
Parappana Agrahara prison, in Bangalore, is crowded with 4,700 inmates - more than twice its capacity - but inmates don’t want to leave and juvenile offenders are lying about their age to try and get in.
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness - a Hindu evangelist organisation - serves up rice, vegetables, spicy lentils and buttermilk twice a day and a dessert on festival days and national holidays.
Prisoner Raja Reddy, who has been arrested 20 times in 30 years for theft, robbery and burglary, said: "When we are getting tasty, nutritious food three times a day here, why should we go out and commit crimes?"

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A Japanese hot-dog eating champion may be forced to retire after being diagnosed with an arthritic jaw.
Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time New York Coney Island champion, is unable to open his mouth more than a centimetre and admits it’s too painful to eat.
He said: "My jaw refused to fight anymore - it has abandoned the frontline.
"Already I can’t open my jaws more than just a little bit. There’s no pain only if I open my mouth about enough for one finger. More than that is painful and I can’t open it." Kobayashi - nicknamed Tsunami - is now worrying he won’t be able to claim his seventh consecutive victory in the annual July 4 contest.
He said: "I feel so ashamed that I didn’t hear the alarm bells ringing in my own body."

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Canadian police are attempting to sniff out a bank robber with terrible body odour.
The wreaking wanted man has allegedly carried out at least eight robberies in Calgary, Alberta and has earned the nickname ‘The Stinky Stick-Up Man’.
The police description of the criminal is of a white male with brown hair and a red moustache, who is 5ft 10ins, weighing around 160lbs and has pungent and unpleasant BO.
Local police Detective Al Van Dusen says he doesn’t want to raise a stink about the man’s personal hygiene, but he feels detailed descriptions will help to catch the robber as quickly as possible.

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A US toddler miraculously escaped unharmed after the parked truck he was sitting in rolled out of the driveway and down the road, leaving a path of destruction in its wake.
The pick-up truck rolled across a road and down several embankments, smashing through a gas pipe, crushing some trees, crossing a pond, destroying the porch of a house and finally coming to a rest as it hit a chain-link fence.
Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Susan Quayle said the two-year-old boy was sitting in the cab of the Ford truck while his mother loaded a mattress into the back, helped by a man, when the vehicle began its wild journey.
It is not known how the truck began rolling.

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Chinese drivers - banned from honking their horns - have resorted to personalised ‘horn tones’ to express themselves.
Shanghai banned honking this month in an effort to combat street noise and so drivers have converted their horns to playing messages and music to make themselves heard on the roads.
At least one taxi driver has converted his to a recording of a woman saying, "Please mind the car, we are making a turn." Other horns play music.
Faced with fines of up to 200 yuan (£13) for using their old horns, drivers are spending up to 800 yuan (£53) on customised horns.
Police are yet to crack down on the personalised horns.
Police officers are banned from using their sirens in the area, except in cases of extreme emergency.

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US prison inmates used pancake batter and toothpaste to cover a hole they had made in a cell wall.
A female inmate at Missouri’s Scott City Jail slid through the cavity - dug with a tool made from a nail, a wire from a light fixture and a toothbrush - to spend the night with a male inmate in the next cell.
During the day they would use the concoction - which looked just like mortar - to conceal the opening.
Steel plates are now being added to the jail’s interior walls. The prisoners are being housed in a county jail in the meantime.
Police Chief Don Cobb said: "Unless they can smuggle in an arc welder, they aren’t getting through that."

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US parents have been using the services of baby-naming consultants to help them decide what to call their child.
Walker and Reyes of Las Vegas are a couple who offer "name consultations and workshops" at a rate of $50 a time to help parents choose what to call their baby.
Their services were last year employed by John and Shannon Bentham, who felt "enormous pressure" to find a strong-sounding boy name beginning with ‘J’.
Mrs Bentham said: "I wanted a name that would look good on a marquee or a political banner." Walker and Reyes produced an 11-page list of possibilities, including Jackson, which the Benthams eventually settled upon.
A California woman recently spent $500 for a numerologist to make sure the name she chose had "positive associations."

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