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BRITNEY SPEARS has held an emergency meeting with her ex-husband KEVIN FEDERLINE in a bid to resolve custody issues over their children, according to reports.
The Toxic singer organised the meeting with Federline and his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan on Wednesday (12Sep07) - their son Jayden’s first birthday.
They arrived separately at the Century City, Los Angeles, offices of Spears’s lawyer Laura Wasser, just five days before they are due to face each other before a family court judge on Monday (16Sep07).
However, the meeting didn’t go as planned - Federline turned down the star’s proposals.
A source says, "Britney asked for (the meeting) She wants to put an end to this public debacle.
"However, Kevin (has) refused. He needs more money so he’s determined to win this." But a source close to Federline tells People.com, "He’s not going for additional child support in the court papers that were filed. It’s not about the money." Federline currently receives $20,000 (£10,000) a month from Spears’s $737,868 (£360,000) income, but has "no net income after business expenses", according to court documents released on 30 August (07).

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PULP FICTION co-stars UMA THURMAN and SAMUEL L. JACKSON will reunite next month (18Oct07) to host a charity bash in London.
The pair will take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for the annual Prince’s Trust Fashion Rocks event, which teams designers with top music artists.
Alicia Keys, Marc Almond and Timbaland are among those booked to perform.

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Actress NAOMI WATTS had an all too graphic taste of childbirth before she went into labour by researching her new movie role as a midwife.
The Ring star discovered she was pregnant with boyfriend Liev Schreiber’s child two weeks into making thriller Eastern Promises - just after completing an exhaustive stint in a hospital delivery room.
Watts admits she actually donned medical scrubs and shadowed real midwives as they brought babies into the world.
She says, "It was intense… I felt guilty being in the rooms with those people.
"It was quite scary. I went in there and put my scrubs on… and they started asking me to do things, like adjust lights and move garbage." The research worked well for Watts’ film role, but she admits it put her off becoming a mum.
She tells USA Today newspaper, "Believe me, it made me not want to."

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DANIEL RADCLIFFE regrets not going wild when he turned 18 - vowing to make sure his 21st birthday will be a "a more raucous affair".
The Harry Potter actor’s 18th birthday in July (07) was a low-key celebration - he spent the day watching the cricket.
But admits his next milestone birthday will be wild.
The star told British radio station Heart: "I’m certain my 21st will be a more raucous affair than my 18th, I hope so anyway, why not? "I’m not going to go off the rails though. I’m just going to keep on doing what I’m doing and won’t get embroiled in any of that."

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MARY-KATE OLSEN confessed she has a crush on TV host CONAN O’BRIEN, during an appearance on his talk show on Wednesday (12Sep07).
Despite the 23-year age difference, Olsen blushed as she complimented the 44-year-old’s hair.
She said, "I just have to say, I am a huge fan. I have a bit of a crush."

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Director QUENTIN TARANTINO has no intention of making different genre movies - insisting he is happy telling stories through violence.
The filmmaker, who is famed for his violent movies - insists he is sticking to what he knows rather than tackle other genres.
He says, "I don’t need new jumping-off points to tell a story "I’m not (Swedish director Ingmar) Bergman. Why would I want to make a Bergman movie? I’m Quentin. I make Quentin movies. I don’t need new genres or sub-genres to tell a story."

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Hollywood star MARY-KATE OLSEN has a secret addiction to coffee.
The 21-year-old actress is frequently pictured at branches of coffee shop chain Starbucks, and she confesses getting a caffeine hit has become an obsession.
She told Conan O’Brien during an appearance on his talk show on Wednesday (12Sep07), "(Going to Starbucks) Is the only time I leave my house or get out of my car to go somewhere.
"Ever since I was young I have loved the taste of coffee."

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MARC ANTHONY’s seven-week reign atop the Billboard Latin albums chart has been brought to an end - MANU CHAO’s LA RADIOLINA has debuted at number one.
The salsa singer’s soundtrack for the Hector Lavoe film biopic, El Cantante, slips down to third position, while Camila’s Todo Cambio is at number two 19 weeks after its release.
Beyonce’s Irremplazable - the Spanish version of her hit LP B’Day - moves down one spot to number four, with Ricardo Arjona’s Quien Dijo Ayer close behind in fifth place.
In the singles chart, Gloria Estefan’s No Llores takes the top spot back from Dimelo by Enrique Iglesias, with the Spanish heartthrob falling two places to number three.
Daddy Yankee’s Ella Me Levanto is in second position.

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GYM CLASS HEROES frontman TRAVIS McCOY has the perfect solution to hecklers he kisses them.
The Cupid’s Chokehold star once smooched a heckler as punishment for pestering him during a recent performance..
He says, "There was this one guy who just would not stop heckling. I thought, like, ‘Dude, if I were you, I’d just go to the bar.’ But he didn’t.
"After the set I walked through the audience and I saw him. He was right there in front of me. So what I did was I rushed right up to him, like I was going to mess him up. I’m a big guy, I can be pretty intimidating if I want to be." But instead attacking the heckler McCoy grabbed him and kissed his face.
McCoy laughs, "You should have seen the look on his face!" (KMJM/RWK/) DYLAN TO PLAY ‘VIRTUAL’ LIVE CONCERT A ‘virtual’ BOB DYLAN concert featuring performances spanning 39 years of his career is due to be broadcast next month (Oct07).
BBC Radio 2 will air the Dream Dylan Concert featuring 11 rare live performances from 1962 to 2001 and four recordings never heard before.
The Dream Dylan Concert will air on October 6 at 8pm.

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FOO FIGHTERS frontman DAVE GROHL wants his fans to stop idolising him insisting there are more people in the world deserving of the accolade.
The former drummer for 1990s grunge band Nirvana can’t understand why rock stars are so revered.
He says, "We played a show recently for a bio-engineering company. We met the man who invented synthetic insulin. He basically saved millions of people’s lives by reinventing that drug. He is the kind of dude who deserves a medal not some drunk onstage wearing eyeliner and selling 10 million records. "What we do isn’t changing the world."

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Singer LAURYN HILL’s record deal is "inactive" - after her label boss concedes she will never have an album as successful as her former group THE FUGEES.
The hip-hop star hasn’t released a solo album since 2002’s MTV Unplugged No.
2.0 - and Columbia Records senior manager Kyambo ‘hip Hop’ Joshua admits he doesn’t know when the follow-up will be.
He says, "Her deal is borderline inactive, though I’m sure they want to do an album. But when you sign an act in another era, with a deal based on the act being a superstar, things can change (years later). "These days, even if you do great numbers, they will likely not be Fugees numbers. So, I have to see what direction she and her people would like to take and what they’d like to do." The Fugees split in 1997 - but briefly got back together in 2004.

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The jury in the PHIL SPECTOR murder trial were ordered not to watch a TV news special about the case, which aired in America on Wednesday night (12Sep07).
Jury members, who began the fourth day of deliberations to decide whether the record producer is guilty of actress Lana Clarkson’s death on Thursday (13Sep07), were told on Wednesday to avoid the Dateline NBC expose, which featured damning testimonies from some of the 77 witnesses who took the stand in the case, some of who recounted terrifying moments when Spector held guns to their heads.
The hour-long special also featured a look back over the legendary record producer’s life and career, with commentary from British journalist Mick Brown, who penned new biography Tearing Down The Wall of Sound.
Ironically, the producer of the news show is one of the 12 person jury, which has been in service since the second-degree murder trial began on 19 March (07).
The Facing The Music programme featured commentary about Spector’s infamous love of guns, and host Keith Morrison revealed the record producer fired a gun in a studio while recording with John Lennon and held a gun to the heads of Leonard Cohen and Mamas & The Papas star Michelle Phillips.
The TV special also featured a look back over Clarkson’s career, with comments from B-movie mogul Roger Corman, who produced the actress’ big movie break Barbarian Queen.
The Dateline expose also recounted the night a reportedly intoxicated Spector met Clarkson at the House of Blues in Hollywood and took her back to his home, where she lost her life.
Spector maintains he didn’t kill Clarkson. His lawyers have argued the depressed actress shot herself in Spector’s Alhambra, California mansion.

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Hollywood sweethearts CHARLIZE THERON and STUART TOWNSHEND have declared themselves "married", despite never making the union official in a ceremony.
The couple showed off their ‘wedding’ rings at the premiere of Townsend’s directorial debut, Battle in Seattle - which stars Theron - at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday (12Sep07).
Townsend revealed, "I didn’t do a church wedding or anything, but we’re married. We’re husband and wife.
"We love each other and we want to spend our lives together. We didn’t have a ceremony, I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there’s no big official story on a wedding, but we are married…I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband."

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Rapper 50 CENT has slammed Interscope Records for failing to adequately promote his album CURTIS, accusing his record label of "dropping the ball" in his chart battle against KANYE WEST.
The In Da Club hitmaker - real name Curtis Jackson - released his new LP on Tuesday (11Sep07), the same day as West’s Graduation - but the Stronger star is already outselling 50 Cent by two to one, according to midweek sales figures.
And Jackson is so unhappy with Interscope he has vowed to ditch the label after he completes his contract.
Speaking to DJ Angie Martinez on New York radio station Hot 97 on Wednesday (12Sep07), he says, "To be honest the process of selling this record hasn’t been fun. I’m happy with the performance, but I’m not happy with the set up. We had conference calls and after we created this plan, nobody actually had a plan.
"It was the label. They’re dropping the ball all over the place. I’ll release my next album and then I’m a free agent."

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JESSICA ALBA’s on/off boyfriend CASH WARREN has threatened to sue U.S. tabloid the National Enquirer over a scandalous expose which claims he cheated on the sexy actress with a Russian model.
Just weeks after Warren and Alba reconciled, following a summer (07) split, their shaky romance has been hit with a bombshell.
Pretty blonde Vera Mishina tells the publication she spent a night partying with Warren in New York, and then a morning making love to the producer - only to discover she was just "a one-night stand" and her lover was already back with his famous ex.
The 20-year-old Russian passed a "rigorous" lie detector test before the Enquirer ran with her saucy expose, but that hasn’t stopped Warren from threatening to sue.
After Mishina gave the publication his cellphone number and a reporter called him to ask for a response to the model’s allegations, Warren fumed, "I advise you not to print that if you don’t wanna get sued. No comment." But the National Enquirer went ahead with Mishina’s story.
The model reveals, ""On the night he picked me up and got me into his bed, he was acting like the world’s biggest single man.
"But I found out that only hours after being with me, he was on a plane back to L.A., where he was then photographed having dinner with her (Alba) and acting affectionate." The spurned model adds, "If he had told me they had gotten back together there’s no way I would have allowed him to sleep with me. I now feel like all he wanted was a one-night stand. I feel used.
"Cash wasn’t very honest to lead me along like he did. Jessica may want to rethink taking him back. He cheated on her the minute he was away from her." Warren has hired a lawyer and denies the story.

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LATEST: Extras hurt on TOM CRUISE’s new movie VALKYRIE have been told the production company was not responsible for the accident.
Eleven extras were injured when they fell off a driving truck last month (Aug07). Authorities for occupational health and safety insist no major safety defects were found on the vehicle - contrary to the claims of some extras. An inspection had shown the truck was safe. It is claimed the extras failed to close the truck’s side covering properly, causing it to open in transit - absolving the production company of any blame.
Filming will now have to be controlled by a safety manager at all times.

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U.S. talk show host LARRY KING has been honoured for his long serving career in entertainment- with a city block in Hollywood named after him.
Larry King Square means King joins the ranks of late comedian Lucille Ball and Lucy Casada - as part of the City Council’s initiative to acknowledge successful celebrities.
The decision was made during a vote by council members - who chose to honour King’s fifty years in broadcasting.

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Actor JOAQUIN PHOENIX has joined forces with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to campaign against the slaughtering of lambs by Australian farmers.
The Walk The Line star has faxed a letter on behalf of PETA to Peter McGauran - Australia’s minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry, urging him to end the practise of "mulesing’- the process of cutting chunks of skin and flesh from lambs without using painkillers.
The letter reads, "I used to think that wool came from animals who were merely sheared and allowed to live fairly decent lives.
"I was shocked to learn from my friends at PETA that Australian farmers cut huge chunks of skin and flesh from lambs’ backsides without any painkillers ..
"Won’t you please step in and push the wool industry to do the right thing, right now?"

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