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SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS will unveil a statue of late comedian TOMMY COOPER in his home town of Caerphilly, Wales later this year (07).
The veteran movie star is patron of the Tommy Cooper Society - which raised £40,000 ($80,000) to pay for the bronze effigy of the deceased television star.
Tudor Jones, secretary of the Tommy Cooper Society, explains, "He said he would be honoured and happy to come and unveil the statue… We’re absolutely thrilled to bits." Cooper died of a heart attack after collapsing onstage at the London Palladium theatre in April 1984.

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R&B heart-throb USHER wed his pregnant fiancee TAMEKA FOSTER in his native Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday (03Aug07), according to U.S. reports.
American magazine People reports 28-year-old Usher, real name Usher Raymond, married stylist, 37, at the office of the singer’s lawyer in Atlanta.
The Chicago Sun-Times claims Usher’s mother Jonetta Patton was among the guests. Recent reports have suggested Patton was fired as Usher’s manager earlier this year (07) when she disagreed with his engagement to Foster.
The Friday nuptials follows last weekend’s (28Jul07) last-minute cancellation of a star-studded wedding at music mogul Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid’s Sagaponack, New York home.
Sources claimed the couple cancelled their New York wedding last month after an argument over the meal at the reception, but Foster said a brief hospitalisation caused the postponement.
The couple started dating in November 2005, the same year Foster split from her ex-husband Ryan Glover - father of her three children.
Usher and Foster’s baby is due this winter (07).

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HARRY POTTER star EMMA WATSON is dating a 16-year-old up-and-coming rugby player, according to reports.
The 17-year-old actress was photographed enjoying a romantic break on the French Riviera with handsome sportsman Tom Ducker.
And the staff at their Nice hotel described the young couple as "delightful guests".
During the French holiday, the couple spent their time perusing Nice’s swanky art shops, and Watson spotted a £15,000 ($30,000) painting, reading "Je suis incognito ici, faites le savoir" (I’m incognito here, tell everybody), which she offered to buy in cash immediately.
Owner Ali Abdelhafidh says, "Emma fell in love with it and offered to buy it there and then. The words on the piece seemed to sum up her evening. But sadly it just wasn’t for sale, so she posed for a photo next to the picture instead." Despite the reports, Ducker’s parents have laughed off rumours of any romance between the pair, insisting the relationship is nothing more than platonic.
John Ducker, "They are just friends - don’t read anything more into it than that. My wife and I have met Emma once or twice. She is a lovely young lady."

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Pop superstar KYLIE MINOGUE was reduced to tears during an emotional party celebrating 20 years since her first hit single The Loco-motion on Friday (03Aug07).
The singer - who was joined by friends and family at the London bash - became bleary-eyed when manager Terry Blamey hailed her as "sexy and strong".
When the party ended at London’s Fulham Palace, Kylie and her pals continued dancing at the city’s Movida nightclub.
After soaring to fame as Charlene Mitchell in Australian soap opera Neighbours in the late 1980s, Minogue quit acting to embark on her hugely successful music career, and won a battle with breast cancer last year (06).

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LATEST: A day after EDDIE MURPHY confirmed his paternity of MELANIE BROWN’s baby in a statement, the former SPICE GIRL has fired back at the comedian, complaining that he isn’t fulfilling his parental duties.
The British singer slammed Murphy for failing to visit the newborn tot Angel Iris - despite her encouragement.
Brown’s lawyer Gloria Allred says, "He has not indicated in his statement or to us that he plans to visit the baby." She insists that Brown’s main concern is for Murphy to "see his child, spend time with her, hold her, love her and bond with his daughter." In Friday’s (03Aug07) statement, Murphy angered Brown by contradicting her claims that the pregnancy was planned.
Baby Angel was born on 3 April (07) and a subsequent DNA test established Murphy, who is now engaged to producer Tracey Edmonds, as the father.

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Actor ADAM BRODY dislikes socialising with his THE O.C. co-star BENJAMIN McKENZIE - because it makes him feel uncomfortable, like a "fictional person".
Brody, who played McKenzie’s character Ryan Atwood’s surrogate brother Seth Cohen on the now-defunct TV show, is convinced strangers are laughing at them when the twosome are out in public.
He says, "I was with Ben McKenzie yesterday, who plays Ryan and I guess we’re adopted brothers (in the show).
"I’m always embarrassed hanging out with him because I feel like a fictional person. I feel that everyone who recognises us is for sure laughing at us.
"If you work with someone, you like them, but then you’re out in public… I would laugh at us, if it wasn’t us. ‘Oh they’re really hanging out! Cool.’"

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Director WOODY ALLEN is set to unveil his latest film CASSANDRA’S DREAM to North America at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The film, which stars Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell as brothers, makes its worldwide debut in this month’s (Aug07) Venice festival, although there was already a ’secret’ premiere in Spain, where the ANNIE HALL director is currently working.
The 32-year-old Toronto Film Festival is thought by many to be the first platform for potential Oscar winners and will also show Beatles-soundtracked musical Across the Universe and Elizabeth sequel The Golden Age.
The Coen Brothers have also announced that their latest, No Country For Old Men will be shown, after premiering at Cannes in May (07).

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Supermodel JODIE KIDD’s 18 month marriage to husband AIDAN BUTLER is almost over after a 60-second divorce hearing at a London court on Friday (03Aug07).
Neither were present at London’s High Court and Kidd has not contested the divorce, but the catwalk beauty has claimed that her internet entrepreneur spouse’s citation of "unreasonable behaviour" was false.
And legal papers suggest that Kidd had no knowledge of her partner’s plans to put an end to their union until she received his petition.
The pair met while taking part in a Gumball Rally race in 2004, and married a year later (Sep05) - but they confirmed reports of a split earlier this year (Apr07) after Kidd was photographed without her wedding ring.

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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL star ZAC EFRON is calling on filmmakers to devise new musicals instead of remake old stories.
Efron has recently appeared in the all-singing, all-dancing Hairspray and the High School Musical sequel is set to premiere on U.S. TV later this month (Aug07).
While Efron, 19, wants to focus on more serious acting roles in the near future, he’s open to appearing in another musical, as long as the script is original He says, "I will do another musical at some point. There are so many great, exciting shows, but I think we need some brand new musicals.
"(Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!) was a great movie. I would love to do something like that."

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Former DAWSON’S CREEK star JOSHUA JACKSON was left to entertain the German parents of girlfriend DIANE KRUGER during a recent trip to the polo - despite neither of them speaking a word of English.
The couple - who split at the beginning of 2007 - have recently re-kindled their romance, and were enjoying a day out at last week’s Cartier International Polo tournament in Surrey, England when Kruger left her boyfriend to chat to her mother and father from Germany.
Kruger says, "It’s been hard work because neither of them speak a word of English and I’ve had to translate everything. Joshua helped look after them but fortunately we did manage to go to Boujis together."

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Hollywood hunk RYAN PHILLIPPE has denied reports he is giving his marriage with REESE WITHERSPOON another try after the couple were spotted lunching together.
The couple split last October (06) after six years of marriage and two children together. They are currently in the middle of divorce proceedings.
Recent reports claimed the ex-couple had been seen jogging, shopping and lunching together in Brentwood, California, with an unnamed friend saying, "Reese and Ryan are trying to work it out. They are still close." However, the Gosford Park actor’s representative tells the New York Post, "It’s not true."

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The widow of late actor JOHN RITTER is still battling doctors for failing to diagnose a congenital heart defect which she believes led to her husband’s death The star’s wife Amy Yasbeck filed a lawsuit against doctors at the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, California, claiming her husband was misdiagnosed twice.
Yasbeck and her five children already settled for $12.5 million (£6.5 million) from the Californian hospital where Ritter died - but now they are still battling three New York doctors who have submitted subpoenas arguing that the hospital’s medics were not negligent.
The doctors’ lawyers state that Ritter was failed to make an appointment with a cardiologist three years before his death - claims which the New York doctors have subpoenaed.
Yasbeck claims that if it wasn’t for a missed X-ray procedure, which was never performed, Ritter would have survived.
The actor was filming 8 Simple Rules when he was rushed to hospital (11Sep03) with vomiting and chest pains - and died hours after entering the emergency room.
But only when the symptoms became more violent, did the doctors discover the cause of the pain - an aortic dissection.
The case against the doctors John David Friedman and Matthew Lotysch will go to trial in January (08).

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EWAN McGREGOR has finished his 15,000 mile (24,000 kilometre) motorcycle journey from Scotland to South Africa.
The Trainspotting star and his actor pal Charley Boorman began the road trip at John O’Groats in Scotland in May (07), and reached their final destination of Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday (03Aug07).
The journey - which took the friends through Europe, Libya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Rwanda - will be broadcast on BBC2 television series The Long Way Down.
He says, "The Long Way Down has been an amazing journey and it has been a real privilege to be able to experience these diverse and beautiful places.
We’ve had the opportunity to see such different ways of life to ours and have travelled to remote places very few people have access to. The sense of freedom and exploration has been incredible."

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LATEST: The caretaker attacked by dogs reportedly belonging to VING RHAMES has been named as the actor’s caretaker, Jacob Adams.
The deceased man, 40, was pronounced dead on the scene in front of Rhames’ Brentwood, California, home on Friday (03Aug07) morning.
Part of his job was to look after the actor’s dogs - which include three mastiffs and one bulldog.
But the cause of death remains uncertain.
Coroner Ed Winter said: "It’s premature to say how he died. We don’t know if he was attacked by the dogs and suffered a heart attack." The Pulp Fiction star was not at home at the time of the mauling, and is thought to be out of the country shooting a movie.
The autopsy will be carried out on Monday (06Aug07).

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WEEZER star RIVERS CUOMO is shopping his memoirs around to publishers.
The Beverly Hills singer and former Harvard University student has reportedly hired literary agent David Vigliano, who sold Kurt Cobain’s journals on behalf of Courtney Love, to do his bidding for him.
Cuomo’s upcoming memoirs are expected to feature information about his upbringing on an ashram and details about his self-imposed celibacy.

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BIG & RICH star JOHN RICH is auctioning off his Corvette to raise cash for a Nashville, Tennessee children’s hospital.
The big-hearted country star has placed the item on auction website eBay.com with a minimum bid of $50,000 (£25,000).
The black hardtop coupe has been featured in magazine Corvette Quarterly and has only 17,800 miles on the clock.
Rich claims Gretchen Wilson and Kid Rock are among the celebrities who have been behind the wheel.
The auction ends on Wednesday (08Aug07).

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Double bass player ART DAVIS died of a heart attack in his Long Beach, California home last Sunday (29Jul07). He was 73.
The musician - who collaborated with John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan during his career as a session musician - was also an acclaimed classical performer, and often played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Later in his life, Davis gained a PhD in clinical psychology from New York University in 1982, after which he moved to California where he both practiced psychology and performed jazz gigs.
Pianist Nate Morgan - who collaborated with Davis - says, "He was adventurous with his approach to playing music… It takes a certain amount of integrity to step outside the box and say: ‘I like it here and I’m going to hang here for a while.’" Davis was survived by two sons and a daughter.

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Late funk legend JAMES BROWN is the father of two more children, DNA testing has confirmed, Dozens of people underwent foolproof DNA analysis after claiming to be the offspring of the late singer - and now Brown’s attorney and longtime friend Buddy Dallas has confirmed that two of the results came back positive.
Although he refuses to identify the names of the star’s new-found children, LaRhonda Pettit has gone public with the results of her test - a 99.99 per cent probability she is the soul man’s daughter.
Pettit - the spitting image of the soul legend - claims that Brown picked out her mother from the audience at a Los Angeles gig in the early 1960s, and she soon became the singer’s girlfriend, often ironing his shirts before his shows.
Pettit met Brown briefly in Texas in 2003, but says he refused to acknowledge she was his daughter.
She says, "I was angry that he was out there making all this money, and he wasn’t doing anything for my mother and me… I could have had a better life." But the single mum also claims she has mixed feelings about her father, "I love my daddy. When I hear my daddy’s music, it just freezes me." The disabled former flight attendant is also hoping for a windfall inheritance from her late father, which she will use to fund her two daughters’ education.
The identity of the second confirmed child has not been revealed.
Brown passed away last year (25Dec06), aged 73, from heart failure.

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