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Hip-hop star 50 CENT has filed a lawsuit against internet advertising company Traffix Inc. for illegally using his image in a game about the rapper.
‘Shoot The Rapper’ invites users to gun down a ‘50 Cent character’ who walks back and forth across a small advertisement at the top of a webpage.
By clicking on the game, the user is brought to Traffix Inc’s client’s retail website.
50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, filed the suit in a New York court on Friday (20Jul07) and is seeking $1 million (£500,000) in damages and a ban on his likeness being used in the game.
His lawyer Peter Raymond notes the company does not use 50 Cent’s name, but adds, "It looks like him, and there’s no doubt the character is intended to be him… he is personally offended."

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R&B star RIHANNA has quashed rumours her new hairstyle was inspired by SPICE GIRL VICTORIA BECKHAM.
The Umbrella star insists getting rid of her long hair earlier this year (07) was a move to make her appear ‘edgier’, and wasn’t a nod to the stylish short crop of Beckham, who moved to the U.S. earlier this month (Jul07).
She says, "It’s very edgy. It’s a lot different from how you’ve seen me before. The short hair, the attitude is very B-girlish. I have a lot of attitude now and I’m not afraid to let it out anymore.
And the singer’s stylist is adamant Rihanna’s hair wasn’t a Beckham copy.
She tells MTV News, "We wanted to do something different, so we came up with this idea and everybody loves it.
"We’ve heard of Victoria Beckham but we actually didn’t copy her. For Rihanna we gave her longer pieces in the front and added highlights to it so we didn’t copy her look - we have our own look going on"

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JAMES BOND star DANIEL CRAIG has become the U.K’s highest-paid actor - after signing a multi-million dollar deal with 007 bosses.
The actor has committed to appear in a further two movies in the super spy franchise, earning $10 million (£5 million) and £16 million (£8 million) for each one respectively - after his appearance in Casino Royale helped the movie become the biggest-grossing Bond outing ever, taking $600 million (£300 million) at the box office.
The $26 million (£13 million) sum is over twice the amount Craig originally negotiated with Bond production agency Eon, according to British newspaper the Sunday Express.

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DOCTOR WHO actor DAVID TENNANT is in mourning after the death of his beloved mother Helen MacDonald.
MacDonald died last Sunday (15Jul07) after years of battling cancer. She was 67.
Production on the BBC sci-fi drama has been halted so Tennant could return to his native Scotland to be with his family.
Her funeral took place in Renfrewshire, Scotland on Saturday (21Jul07).

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ZULU actor IVOR IMMANUEL has died. He was 80.
The Welsh star was best known for his work in the 1964 film, which was a dramatisation of 1879’s Battle of Rouke Drift in South Africa.
Ellen Baker, the widow of Zulu producer Stanley, says, "It is a terribly sad day. It was Ivor who held Zulu together - was the linchpin and I just adored him. He was the sweetest most gentle man."

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Bollywood actress SHILPA SHETTY has been blamed for the break-up of her business partner Raj Kundra’s marriage, by his estranged wife.
The Phir Milenge star, 32, has recently been romantically linked to the British-based entrepreneur, although she insists they’re just friends.
However, Kundra’s estranged wife Kavita tells Britain’s News Of The World newspaper her husband informed her in February (07) that he was ending his marriage for Shetty.
Kavita says, "Raj bragged Shilpa and her family had been sounding him out as a potential husband. I was stunned. Up until then I didn’t even know they’d met.
"She can have any man she wants - there are plenty of single men. She didn’t need to go after my husband.
"I find it really hard and hurtful to even look at pictures of her. That’s the woman who’s got my husband, wrecked my marriage and is now living my life." However Raj denies his ex’s claims, saying, "My marriage ended 12 months ago and it was nothing to do with Shilpa."

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Former American televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Messner has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 65.
Messner died on Friday (20Jul07) in Kansas City, Missouri.
The brave woman has detailed her fight against the illness in a diary on her official website and was interviewed by Larry King on CNN on Thursday night (19Jul07).
Messner’s ex-husband Jim Bakker paid tribute to his former wife, saying, “She lived her life like the song she sang, If Life Hands You a Lemon, Make Lemonade.” Messner is survived by her second husband Roe Messner and her four children.

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Animated movie THE SIMPSONS had its world premiere in the family’s newly-adopted hometown of Springfield, Vermont on Saturday (21Jul07).
Actors dressed as Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie walked a specially-made yellow carpet at the Springfield Theater in front of thousands of fans The Simpsons creator Matt Groening enthused, "As Homer would say, ‘Woo-hoo.’" The Vermont town beat 13 other Springfields across the U.S. to host the premiere.

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Former Hollywood madam HEIDI FLEISS had no bruises on her face days after she alleged she was assaulted by ex-boyfriend TOM SIZEMORE, a plastic surgeon said in court on Friday (20Jul07).
The troubled Saving Private Ryan actor, 45, claims the alleged attack didn’t happen and is attempting to overturn his 2003 conviction of misdemeanour corporal injury.
Fleiss alleged Sizemore punched her in the jaw in the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California in April 2003.
Speaking in Los Angeles Superior Court, Doctor Michael Cardenes said he spoke to the couple five days after the alleged assault and Fleiss ‘looked fine’.
Sizemore’s lawyer Fay Arfa asked, "There was no sign of any trauma, bruising or anything like that?" Cardenas replied, "I did not notice anything like that." Deputy District Attorney Robert Cha suggested Fleiss may have sought treatment to reduce the swelling before Cardenas saw her.
Sizemore is currently serving a-16 month prison sentence for violating probation from a drug arrest.

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U.S. President George W. Bush temporarily handed power for Vice President Dick Cheney when he underwent a colonoscopy on Saturday (21Jul07).
The American premier transferred power to Cheney at 7.16am and reclaimed it at 9.21am after the procedure was completed in Camp David, Maryland.
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said five small growths, or polyps, were removed, but "none appeared worrisome".
The polyps have been sent off for examination. The results of the tests are expected between Monday and Tuesday (23-24Jul07).

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British band THE KLAXONS have disappointed French fans by cancelling an appearance at a music festival - after vocalist Jamie Reynolds fractured his ankle.
The Golden Skans stars were due to perform at the Festival Les Vielles Charrues in Brittany on Sunday (22Jul07), but Reynolds was ordered by local doctors to rest due to his injury, which was caused when he jumped off the stage at a gig in Angouleme, France on Saturday (21Jul07).
Posting on their website, the band writes, "At last night’s Angouleme show Jamie jumped off the stage and unfortunately fractured his ankle. He was keen to carry on and play tonight’s show but doctors at the local hospital insisted that he return to England and pin his ankle. "This unfortunately means that the band will be unable to play tonight at the Festival Les Vieilles Charrues in Brittany, France. The band, and Jamie in particular, are gutted that they are missing the show and will try and make it back soon." On Friday (20Jul07), the band ‘cancelled’ an appearance at a Spanish music festival after adverse weather conditions in the U.K. grounded flights leaving London - but managed to play a late night slot at Benicassim when their plane finally arrived in the country three-and-a-half hours later than scheduled.

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Singer PATRICK WOLF has launched a scathing attack on fellow British musician MIKA - just hours after performing as his support act at a gig in London.
The Magic Position played at the Somerset House concert on Tuesday (17Jul07) as Mika’s opening act, later branding the Grace Kelly star "a t**t".
Posting on his MySpace blog on Wednesday (18Jul07), Wolf writes, "Mika is a t**t", before continuing a thinly-veiled attack on the singer by making a plea to stop over-hyped stars breaking into the music scene.
He adds, "Please let’s put an end to over-marketed, expensive, heartless, tacky rubbish." Wolf’s comments have since been removed from the page.

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Pop star NATASHA BEDINGFIELD is desperate to work with SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS - as she loves collaborating with a wide range of artists.
The Unwritten singer - who has worked with rapper Ne-Yo on a forthcoming track - insists she wants to explore her hip-hop side, and would love to work with the genre’s heavyweights - including super-producer Pharrell Williams, and Missy Elliott.
She says, "Diddy would be a great collaboration, I’m going to suggest it to him.
"The other person I totally respect is Pharrell. There are a lot of people who have major musical ideas and I would love to get together with. Missy Elliott is a huge one. I love collaborating, it’s my favourite thing about what I do. I love the chemistry, the idea of bringing two people from different places with different experiences and seeing what they end up creating."

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LATEST: British rapper M.I.A. has finally been given a visa to travel to the U.S. after problems forced her to pull out of a Washington gig in May (07).
The star, real name Mathangi Arulpragasam, cancelled her performance at the Sasquatch music festival two months ago after she couldn’t get a visa to enter the U.S. in time.
Speaking to New York’s Village Voice newspaper last week (ends20Jul07), M.I.A. said, “It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to get into the U.S. I have an apartment in Brooklyn. It’d be nice to go there.” Although no reason for the visa refusal has been given, reports have speculated the decision was related to the rapper’s estranged father, Arul Pragasam, a former militant for the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.
M.I.A. was scheduled to perform at the Siren Festival in Coney Island, New York on Saturday (21Jul07).

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SUM 41 frontman DERYCK WHIBLEY was threatened with deportation from the U.S.
after a journalist took offence at negative lyrics he wrote about President GEORGE W. BUSH.
The Canadian rockers’s song March of the Dogs contains the words: "Ladies and gentlemen of the underclass/ The president of the United States of America is dead… And now the president’s dead/ Because they blew off his head/ No more neck to be red/I guess to heaven he fled." And one writer went to extreme lengths to have the band removed from the country over the controversial words - by calling on politicians to exercise their power against Sum 41.
Whibley explains, "He (the reporter) went to the House minority leader in the States (a Republican), who tried to have me deported, trying to say I’m threatening the president."

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