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Gay singer BETH DITTO has hit out at actress ANGELINA JOLIE’s claims she’s bisexual, insisting she wouldn’t be dating BRAD PITT if she was.
The Girl, Interrupted star frequently speaks out about her lust for other women - but the Gossip frontwoman suspects her comments are lies.
Ditto says, "If she were actually a lesbian she’d be with a woman."
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R&B star ALICIA KEYS will follow in the footsteps of CHRISTINA AGUILERA, PINK and COURTNEY LOVE by collaborating with super songwriter LINDA PERRY.
The singer/actress is teaming up with the famed musician on her next album which is due to be released in October (07).
She tells MTV, "I’m actually really interested in working with the young lady that I’ve been working with on my album.
"I can’t explain how excited I am about this music. (Perry has) written a tremendous amount of incredible work. And us together, us as both being musicians and being writers has really created this incredible music."
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HARRISON FORD has branded his role playing a futuristic cop in Blade Runner "a f**king nightmare".
The actor admits he was initially attracted to the role as Rick Deckard in the 1982 movie, but was not keen on the voiceover narrations. Ford claims director Ridley Scott agreed to remove them for the script - but was disappointed when the spoken words made the film’s final cut.
He says, "When we started shooting it had been tacitly agreed that the version of the film that we had agreed upon was the version without voiceover narration.
"It was a f**king nightmare. I thought that the film had worked without the narration. But now I was stuck re-creating that narration. And I was obliged to do the voiceovers for people that did not represent the director’s interests."
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Hollywood star MATT DAMON insists he was lucky to land the lead role in THE BOURNE IDENTITY after starring in two critically-panned movies.
The actor claims All The Pretty Horses and The Legend of Bagger Vance were his worst ever career moves, but was grateful they were released after he was chosen for his role as Jason Bourne in 2002 movie The Bourne Identity.
He says, "Had those two film come out before Bourne, I don’t think they would have hired me. "That was when the phone stopped ringing. The rose-coloured lenses came off.
It’s a tough, tough business and it’s tougher to maintain it than it is to break it. It’s ‘Oh I see, It’s not about how nice a guy you are."
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British director KEN RUSSELL has given up hope of winning a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, because he has made too many controversial films.
Russell has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in cinema, but is convinced his 1971 movie The Devils - which features nudity and satanism - has ruined his chances.
He says, "I think I was nearly offered a knighthood years ago when I was doing Women in Love and I was invited three times to the Palace to meet the Queen.
"She was very nice and we chatted. She seemed to know an awful lot about nude wrestling. I thought she was warming me up for a gong. Then I did The Devils and I think she went off me after that. I don’t think it will ever arrive now."
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Actor MARTIN SHEEN has slammed President GEORGE W. BUSH’s behaviour towards the DIXIE CHICKS after they spoke out against him - branding his behaviour ‘un-Christian’.
The star has criticised America’s reaction to the 2003 incident, in which bandmember Natalie Maines said she was "ashamed the President of the United States was from Texas" - her native state; comments which led to a national boycott of the band’s music.
But Sheen believes President Bush should have dealt with the situation in a more impartial way.
He says, "I saw what happened to the Dixie Chicks.
"If George W. Bush were a true Christian, like he proclaims himself to be, you know what he would have done? He’d have invited them to his next barbeque to play and say ‘Hey, I love their music and whether or not I agree with them, I support their right to free speech.’ But instead he was a bully. And he enjoyed watching what happened to them … it gave him a sense of power and righteousness."
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Actress TONI COLLETTE has praised AL GORE’s campaign to promote environmental awareness through music at this weekend’s (07Jul07) Live Earth gigs.
The star will help to kick off the Sydney, Australia leg of the global "green" event on Saturday with her band Finish - and the star is hopeful the worldwide concerts will get Gore’s message across.
She says, "It’s not a time to be ignorant about what is happening to the planet.
"It can be a great pressure, but the more people know, the more they will hopefully feel they have a responsibility to the planet. Certainly Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth spoke to a lot of people and if the message can get out in any shape or form that’s a good thing. Music can create unity."
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Bollywood star AMITABH BACHCHAN found himself at the centre of a bomb plot at his home on Wednesday (04Jul07).
The actor was contacted by local police in Mumbai, India, who had received an anonymous fax an explosive device which was due to go off at 4:30pm that day had been planted in Bachchan’s bungalow..
However, the allegations - originally sent to a private television channel in the area by a man calling himself Pappu Yadav - proved to be false and no bomb was discovered.
Bachchan says, "’The police team and the bomb disposal squad conducted a search after all family members were evacuated.
"They searched the entire house and found nothing."
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Former GUNS N’ ROSES bass player DUFF McKAGAN has put his rock career on hold to forge a career in property development.
The musician is currently overseeing a number of property projects, stocks in vintage guitars and is also looking after his band Velvet Revolver.
But the rocker admits launching his own business has been difficult.
He says, "(Guns N’ Roses) didn’t know what money was. I didn’t know how to invest in stocks or anything back then. So I just didn’t.
"Now I have mutual funds. I have a lot of individual stocks. I’m across the board, really well diversified. And then real estate has been a thing for me." (LJ/WNNWR/JC) WENN - FIFTH - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - 04 JULY 2007
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Rockers RAZORLIGHT are rubbing their hands in glee after securing a spectacular pay raise for a festival performance later this summer (07).
The band are due to headline England’s Reading and Leeds Festivals and demanded more money when they discovered they were the only native act leading the bill.
Frontman Johnny Borrell says, "We’re the only British band headlining. I think that’s f**king great because you can’t fluke that.
"I said, ‘How much money are they going to pay us? Whatever it is, double it.’ "I’m no idiot, I was f**king thrilled." Other acts appearing at the August event include Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Smashing Pumpkins.
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MANDY MOORE is still upset her ex-lover WILMER VALDERRAMA chose to reveal intimate moments from their love life on a national radio show.
Valderrama told Howard Stern in an interview last year (06) he took Moore’s virginity, adding "It wasn’t like warm apple pie." And Moore, who is now dating singer-songwriter Greg Laswell, admits she is still haunted by the now infamous quote, reports Blender magazine.
She says, "That’s not a fun thing to have said about you. Even now when I think about it, I’m like, ‘Ugh’ - it’s pretty tacky."
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Rocker OZZY OSBOURNE is lending his support to a Taiwanese band campaigning for the country’s entry into the United Nations.
The group, named ChthoniC, will use its links to the former Black Sabbath frontman to promote Taiwan’s campaign of obtaining membership to the world body.
The band will travel to at least 80 cities in Canada, Germany, Britain and the United States to further their cause - with Osbourne setting up 20 of the U.S.
gigs and paying a proportion of the transport costs.
Singer Freddy Lim says, "I’m not for any political party, but I’m for my poor country’s joining the United Nations."
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Former U.S. Vice-President AL GORE has been served a little bad news as he prepares for Saturday’s (07Jul07) Live Earth spectacular - his son has been charged with driving under the influence and possessing prescription drugs and marijuana.
Gore’s 24-year-old son, Al Gore III, was pulled over by cops after he was clocked driving his hybrid Prius car at 100 milesper-hour in Orange County, California.
Traffic cops reportedly smelled marijuana coming from his vehicle and a search turned up less than an ounce of marijuana, painkillers and valium.
Gore was booked into cells at the Inmate Reception Center in Santa Ana, California, where he was officially charged, on Wednesday (04Jul07). Bail has been set at $20,000 (GBP10,000).
Gore Sr is a co-organiser of the Live Earth concerts, which were inspired by his global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. (KL/WNV) WENN - BREAKING NEWS - JULY 4 2007 —————————————————————-
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LATEST: Music legend MICHAEL JACKSON has moved into a luxury $60 million (£30 million) property in Las Vegas.
The Thriller hitmaker was forced to give up his 10-bedroom mansion in Nevada’s Sin City suburbs because his $1 million (£500,000) lease on the property has expired.
Jackson and his three children, Prince Michael I, 10; Paris Michael, nine; and Prince Michael II (Blanket), five; have now moved into Spanish Trail - the compound owned by Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei.
His new neighbours include Andre Agassi, Greg Maddux, Siegfried Fischbacher, David Copperfield, and Randall Cunningham
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Troubled star BRITNEY SPEARS has apologised for attacking a paparazzo’s SUV with an umbrella earlier this year (07) - insisting she was "rehearsing for a film role".
The Toxic singer has attributed her bizarre behaviour outside estranged husband Kevin Federline’s house - the night before she entered rehab in February - to preparation for a part in a movie about a much maligned wife who swaps places with her husband.
In a message to gossip site X17, she writes, "I want to apologise for the past incident with the umbrella. I was preparing a character for a possible movie role where the husband doesn’t play his part so they swap places.
"Unfortunately I didn’t get the part. I’m sorry I get carried away with my role!"
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British soul star JOSS STONE has vowed to remain defiant despite pleas from her record label to refrain from promoting her music in the U.K.
The singer was ridiculed for her appearance at this year’s (07) Brit Awards in February after she spoke in an American accent.
But Stone insists she doesn’t care how she is portrayed by the British press - and insists she’ll never "shut up".
She tells MTV.com, "In a way I wasn’t surprised. I’ve learnt that the w**ker newspapers don’t build you up to be nice they do it to knock you down so there’s nothing I can do.
"They (the label) said don’t do anything in the UK because everybody hates you. I wasn’t allowed to speak but I’m totally not shutting up any time soon I never have and never will."
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HARRY POTTER star DANIEL RADCLIFFE is still starstruck when he meets J.K ROWLING, the author of the fantasy series.
Despite having played Rowling’s boy wizard creation on screen for the past six years - he confesses he is overwhelmed by the author’s presence.
Speaking at the U.K. premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Radcliffe says," I still get starstruck. When you’re around her, you sort of sit there thinking, you know, I’ll just be very professional about this, we’re work colleagues now, but inside I’m just thinking, ‘Oh my god, she’s written the book!’"
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U2 frontman BONO has a secret power - he can erase the memory from his friend’s mobile phones.
Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell says he experiences a bizarre technical hitch soon after speaking to the Irish rocker on the phone.
He says, "Nobody has Bono in their contacts! Bono doesn’t have a number that can stick in contacts. The last time Bono phoned me, it wiped all my saved text messages out of my phone.
"It went ‘ching, ching, ching, ching’ like that - like a Pac-Man thing. He deleted all my text messages - it was amazing! "Maybe he was using Al Gore’s phone of some secret service stuff, but there was no way you could get the number to call him back because not only had the number gone but the whole call history had gone. I don’t think anyone’s got Bono’s number."
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