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Actress ISLA FISHER feels unworthy of her status as a rising Hollywood star, blaming her insecurities on her Australian background.
After impressing with her role in Wedding Crashers, the pregnant partner of Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen has landed a number of follow-on movie parts - and she is still coming to terms with her success.
The 31-year-old former soap star says, "Maybe it’s an Australian thing but I always feel that I shouldn’t be here somehow. When I’m auditioning for films with women I really respect, and usually when they get the job and I don’t, I just think, ‘Well, they really deserve it’.
"I feel a bit of an interloper."

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BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE have tried to kill rumours their relationship is on the rocks by partying together at a Chicago nightclub.
In recent weeks gossips have revelled in reports Hollywood’s hottest pair is close to splitting, three years after they met on the set of movie Mr and Mrs Smith.
Jolie has even been spotted viewing a California villa on her own.
But the couple held hands early on Monday (13Aug07) as they left a night-time hotspot in the Windy City, where Jolie is shooting a new movie Wanted.

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Singer/songwriter JAMES BLUNT has blasted his critics, insisting people who hate him and his music need counselling.
Blunt, whose hit song You’re Beautiful was voted the most irritating song of all time in a recent British poll, is fed up of being slammed by people who do not know him.
He tells dissenters, "Off to the counsellor with you, mate. Because it’s nothing to do with me.
"I’m pretty sure I’m not a horrid person. I don’t think I am."

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SIR ELTON JOHN’s former songwriting partner GARY OSBOURNE has branded the singer terrible at break-ups.
The pair worked together on a string of hits including Little Jeannie and Blue Eyes but Osbourne was dumped without warning, and never heard his services had been terminated until he read it in a newspaper.
In Elton: The Biography, he tells author David Buckley, "Elton is the most talented, charismatic, generous and funny person I have ever known. But if he has a fault, it is that he’s not very good at ending things.
"Even so, I was crushed to learn from a newspaper that… I would no longer be working with Elton. I tried not to take it too personally, but even now, over 20 years later… I often have dreams about Elton, and on some level there is an ache that never quite goes away."

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British artist MARC QUINN is creating a new version of his naked and contorted KATE MOSS sculpture to go on sale in Britain.
Quinn is designing a 3 metre (9.8 feet) high version of Myth (Sphinx) from white-painted bronze for the upcoming Beyond Limits sale of modern and contemporary sculpture at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
And Alex Platon, a specialist in modern art at Sotheby’s, is confident the sculpture will attract a hoard of bidders: "Myth (Sphinx) is a blow-away piece: she (Moss) has a completely mesmerising, Medusa-like effect
. It is a real testament to the compelling, tantalising, power of beauty." Quinn’s original installation of the catwalk beauty toured Europe last year (06)
.

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Late Hollywood legend JAMES STEWART’s career is to be feted on a new U.S.
stamp.
The country’s Postal Service will unveil the image - based on a portrait of Stewart as he appeared in a publicity photo for 1949’s The Stratton Story - at ceremonies in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Hollywood, California.
Stewart died in 1997 aged 89. Among his best-loved movies are It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Philadelphia Story, for which he won an Oscar in 1941.

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Producers on the latest JAMES BOND movie have come under fire from animal rights activists over fears horses may be injured or killed.
Bond 22 reaches its climax against the backdrop of historic bareback horse race the Palio, which takes place in the Tuscan hill town of Siena.
The race is renowned for being extremely dangerous and campaigners are predicting horses will be at risk of injury or even death during filming. They claim that 50 horses have died in the race since 1970 with many more maimed.
Shooting on the scene is due to commence on Thursday (16Aug07).

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Broadway writing legend ARTHUR LAURENTIS has attacked director SAM MENDES, accusing the Oscar winner of destroying his musical GYPSY.
Laurentis has returned to the New York stage with a new production of Gyspy at the age of 90, because he is so ashamed of the version Mendes staged in the Big Apple in 2003, starring Bernadette Peters.
The veteran - who also wrote West Side Story - tells the New York Post, "I thought Sam did a terrible disservice to Bernadette and the play, and I wanted a Gypsy seen in New York that was good.
"You have to have musical theatre in your bones and Sam doesn’t. You can’t put it there. I know. I tried. I gave Sam many notes, but he just couldn’t do it."

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KANYE WEST has been arrogant and sexually confident since he was 12, according to his mother.
Donda West has written Raising Kanye - Life Lessons From The Mother of A Hip-Hop Superstar, about her experiences with the rapper.
She writes, "When he was 12 or 13 I caught him primping in the mirror one day. He turned and said, "Mom, look at me! I could be a teenage sex symbol!" He was serious. it used to tickle me, him looking at himself in the mirror. And Kanye did become that sex symbol."

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Soul star ANGIE STONE insists she’s the one who moulded D’ANGELO into the super-stylish and confident singer he is today.
Stone reveals D’Angelo had no fashion sense when they first started dating in the mid-90s, and he had little faith in his musical abilities either.
She tells Essence magazine, "When I was dating him he wore glasses, had short hair and his pants were hanging down to his butt. He was just a 19-year-old kid with big shorts and nobody cared and no one saw his beauty but me.
"And I told him, ‘You are beautiful. I promise you when your record drops your lips are gonna become famous, your eyes - everything will become famous.’ But he couldn’t see it because his self-esteem wasn’t where it is today."

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KANYE WEST is now glad he missed out on the Best Video award at last year’s (06) MTV Europe Music Awards, because he has hired the man responsible for the promo that beat his.
The rapper was initially outraged to miss out on the prize and stormed the stage when Justice Vs Simian were awarded it for their video for We Are Your Friends.
He told the crowd, "My video cost a million dollars. Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons and s**t." West later apologised for his rant and has recruited Justice’s label art director So Me - who was onstage at the ceremony when he made his dramatic intervention - to make his next video.
He says, ‘I think God had me not win that award for a reason. He was like, ‘Hey, let me introduce me to your new friends.’"

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Former STONE ROSES bassist MANI has launched a blistering attack on Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) for failing to provide late music mogul TONY WILSON with adequate drugs.
The Factory Records co-founder died on Friday (10Aug07) after losing a battle with kidney cancer.
But Mani insists his life could have been prolonged with better healthcare after the NHS refused to fund a £3,500 ($7,000)-a-month treatment programme for Wilson when chemotherapy failed to tackle his condition.
Mani says, "It’s a f**king disgrace, especially when you consider how much money he must have given the taxman.
"He worked his life, paid his taxes, and the NHS treat him like that. It’s another indication of what a **thole we’re currently living in." The rocker adds, "Everyone in the indie music world owes Tony a debt of gratitude. He put us (The Stone Roses) on his TV show even though we were in direct competition with the Happy Mondays, who were on his label.
"It’s a crying shame that he’s gone. Tony showed that anyone can start their own thing up."

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LATEST: ANGELINA JOLIE’s former lover is refusing to believe claims she’s given up women and kinky sex for BRAD PITT.
The 32-year-old actress recently told France’s Public magazine Pitt had tamed her, and she no longer seeks thrills in lesbian conquests and dangerous love-making.
But model Jenny Shimizu, who boasts a 10-year relationship with Jolie, is skeptical.
She says, "She (Jolie) loves danger and dabbling in the dark side.
"Angelina is an unbelievable lesbian lover. That’s where she gets her kicks not playing happy families with one man."

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ASHTON KUTCHER has been shocking New York residents, by carrying out handyman work on their homes.
The actor is shadowing a real life worker to research for a forthcoming movie role.
A source tells the New York Daily News, "The client was shocked that a celebrity was installing his closet. But he was such a great guy. Just a decent, normal guy." "People recognised him when he was out. One gentleman was sitting in traffic when he saw Ashton. He left his car idling, raced out and asked for an autograph."

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Hollywood star JODIE FOSTER is so terrified of shopping she has a physical reaction when she enters stores.
The Silence Of The Lambs actress first started feeling agitated as a child, but the condition has worsened with age.
She tells Self magazine, "When I was a kid, my mom liked to shop and I would stay in the car and read. Since then, my shopping dread has gotten worse, and now it’s a phobia.
"I’ll walk into a store, feel my face twitch, and go back to the car."

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Hollywood star CHRISTIAN SLATER is set to present the top prize at this year’s (07) Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
The actor, who appeared at the prestigious comedy festival in 2004 in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, will award one of 350 shows on the bill the £8,000 ($16,000) if.comedy prize - formerly known as the Perrier award.
He says, "Having made my U.K. stage debut at the Fringe, I am delighted to be returning to Edinburgh." Past winners of the gong include eminent British comics Steve Coogan, Lee Evans and The League Of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.

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New mum NAOMI WATTS received police protection as she went shopping on Monday (13Aug07) as pursuing paparazzi sparked a safety scare.
Watts, who gave birth to Liev Schreiber’s son last month (Jul07) attracted more than 30 photographers as she shopped for groceries in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood.
Fearing for the safety of the actress and other shoppers, two LAPD officers ordered the snappers to leave the Whole Foods organic supermarket and its car park.
After paying for her food, the Australian star was forced to remain hidden in the supermarket while a pal drove her vehicle close to an exit door.
An unnamed Whole Foods employee says, "The paparazzi just came from everywhere.
"It becomes a safety issue for customers, especially in the car park, which is busy enough without all those guys with cameras."

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TV star ROSIE O’DONNELL was subjected to a furious homophobic verbal assault by a biker who accused her of driving at him.
The talk show host describes the incident, which took place during a vacation O’Donnell is taking with her partner in Miami, Florida, on her blog.
She claims she was driving out of a parking lot after dinner on Saturday (11Aug07) when, "Along came a bald screaming infuriated man, it’s always a man I tell ya…
"As I buckled my belt he ran towards (our) car angry, ‘My motorcycle blah blah’.
"(I said) ‘chill dude - we didn’t touch it.’ "This apparently did not calm him down, however, and soon there was name-calling. He got madder, pupils big - snorting like a dragon: ‘f**king lesbians’. He screamed the trump card."

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