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JANET JACKSON hopes her hit new film WHY DID I GET MARRIED? encourages troubled couples to seek marriage guidance counselling.
The twice-divorced singer/actress admits she would have benefitted from the film’s message, which is not to let your union become a mess.
And amid reports she’s set to wed for a third time, Jackson reveals she’s not averse to walking down the aisle again, but this time she’ll consider seeking expert help if her marriage falters.
She says, "I think just having that spiritual connection and finding your soulmate and exchanging vows, is good - but it’s a work in progress.
"Marriage is not easy and if the love is really there you’ll work at it. You should go to counselling if it can help for sure and it definitely can help.
"One of the things that I absolutely love about this film is there are a lot of lessons within the film that are given to the spouses to work on for their relationship and you can actually take those lessons and apply them to your own relationship. It’s really well thought out." Why Did I Get Married? stunned movie experts on Sunday (14Oct07) when it debuted at number one on the U.S. box office chart with an impressive $21.5 million (£10.75 million) opening weekend take.

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Oscar winner MIRA SORVINO is struggling with nightmares as she promotes her latest film - because it’s all about the death of a child.
The new mum is only glad that she didn’t have to play Jennifer Connelly’s role in the film, Reservation Road, because she’s the mourning mother in the movie.
But that doesn’t mean Sorvino is sleeping well.
She explains, "I had just given birth to my son four months before this film started shooting and I think I would have been too fresh in the joy of motherhood to contemplate directly losing it - as Jennifer does.
"I don’t want to put myself in the actual position about theorising about the loss of my kids.
"That said, this film has still had a very deep effect on me. I’m usually a very sound sleeper and I started having dreams involving my children and something happening to them while I was making the film.
"I had a bad dream the other night following one of these days talking about the film, about a rabbit that was very injured and I was carrying it and trying to feed it and keep it alive and trying to get a hospital to take care of it.
"My daughter calls herself a bunny so it was an allegory. I can’t wait to be done with the press now because it’s starting to eat at me."

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USHER was stunned by the negative press his recent marriage to pregnant girlfriend TAMEKA FOSTER attracted, because he feels people should celebrate a wedding.
The R&B singer - born Usher Raymond IV - and Foster wed at his lawyer’s office Atlanta, Georgia in August (07).
The nuptials followed a last minute cancellation of a star-studded wedding ceremony at music mogul Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid’s Sagaponack, New York home in late July (07) - leading to tabloid speculation it was called off because Usher’s mother Jonetta Patton and Foster didn’t get along.
He tells American magazine Essence, "It was like, `Wow!’ (Getting married) and having a child is something that everyone should celebrate. What’s happened to us as a culture and a people?"

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Socialite PARIS HILTON has denied reports she’s dating KID ROCK.
The hotel heiress and Rock were spotted partying in Toronto, Canada over the weekend (13-14Oct07), leading to ridiculous speculation they are an item.
However, a spokesperson for Hilton says, "She went to his show in Toronto with some friends and to the after-show party. They are absolutely not dating." Earlier this month (Oct07), Rock’s ex-wife Pamela Anderson wed her third husband Rick Salomon, best known for ’starring’ alongside Hilton in sex tape 1 Night In Paris.
Rock, meanwhile, is currently dating Scandinavian model May Anderson and hotel heiress Hilton is romancing Swedish model Alex Vaggo.

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KEIRA KNIGHTLEY’s proudest moment came during a bout of food poisoning when she turned the worst audition ever into a huge success.
The actress had been "vomiting all morning" when she came face to face with super-critical The Jacket director John Maybury, who calmly told the Brit he didn’t think she could act.
Maybury went on to inform Knightley that he only agreed to audition her because producers were begging him to cast her opposite Adrien Brody in his film.
But, despite the criticism, her illness and the fact she had lost the script she was supposed to read from, the Pirates Of The Caribbean star won the filmmaker over.
She told the director to let her read and to stay silent if he was unimpressed and let her walk out of the room, adding, "If I’m good you have to offer me the part here and now." She tells Allure magazine Maybury stayed silent throughout her reading and then let her walk halfway towards to door of the audition room, before stating, "Here’s my mobile number, and I’ll see you on the set."

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Animated rodent movie RATATOUILLE continues to gnaw away at the top of the international box-office chart, where it sits as the world’s number one film for a second week.
Ratatouille earned a further $21.2 million (£10.6 million) in cinemas outside the U.S. over the weekend (12-14Oct07), taking its total global haul to $271.4 million (£135.7 million).
Zombie sequel Resident Evil: Extinction remains at two with $9.8 million (£4.9 million), while Mexican/Spanish film The Orphanage sits at number three.

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Former JACKASS star and stunt impresario STEVE-O has become the latest star to bare all in a People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) ad.
The heavily-tattooed prankster peeled off for the latest ‘I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur’ campaign, which he will unveil in person at Los Angeles Fashion Week later this week (ends19Oct07).
And Steve-O’s threatening to get naked for the press - just to hammer home his point that fur farming is cruel.
A PETA spokesman says, "Steve-O might seem like a madcap, carefree guy, but he really cares about animals.
"For each fur coat, collar, or cuff, animals are trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in the wild or gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms. That really concerns Steve-O." The stuntman adds, "I never liked fur. Abuse yourself all you want, just leave animals out of it. I just say f**k it. Don’t wear fur!"

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Actress HELENA BONHAM CARTER found solace with strangers online when she suffered a bad reaction to fertility treatment.
Bonham Carter, 41, found getting pregnant with boyfriend Tim Burton’s second child problematic after she started taking fertility drug Clomid, so she went on the internet to discuss her issues.
She says, "I had a terrible reaction to it. It turned out I was ovulating anyway. It stressed me out beyond belief. Hormonally, I was all over the shop and I got really low emotionally.
"Lots of people don’t have that reaction, but, on the internet, I found a Clomid Club, with people who react to the stuff discussing it online." Bonham Carter also considered IVF (In vitro fertilisation) treatment, but ended up conceiving naturally.
She is due to give birth in December (07).

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JENNIFER CONNELLY fears she’s the worst celebrity flyer - but she’s too nervous to take medication to calm her nerves.
The Oscar winner admits she’s a wreck on plane flights, and spends much of her time in the air in tears of panic.
She says, "Nothing really works for me. I’ve tried kissing the plane and I think it’s gonna make things better… I don’t like the noises and I know that every time they’re the same noises.
"Every time there’s that engine shift, it really freaks me out, any bump, I’m the one saying, like, ‘Ohhhh…’ and the tears start streaming down my face.
It’s really, really bad.
"I should be medicated; I think I deserve it, and so does the rest of the cabin… I can’t because I get nervous about that, like what if something happens? What if I’m the person who can’t get off the plane or, heaven forbid, can’t get my kids off the plane?" And Connelly’s flying phobia hit new heights recently when the plane she was in almost landed - and then took off again without warning.
She recalls, "It was an island (destination) and we almost landed and the plane tales off again - that’s really bad for someone like me.
"We start banking… and no one’s saying anything and I’m the kind of person they need to tell me what the problem is.
"I got my life preserver out. I kid you not, it was on my lap, I’m crying."

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A second co-defendant in the O.J. SIMPSON armed robbery case has agreed to testify against the sports star-turned-actor in return for a reduced sentence.
Walter Alexander, 46, told a judge on Monday (15Oct07) he plans to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery in the alleged hotel suite theft of sports collectibles.
Earlier on Monday morning, co-defendant Charles Cashmore pleaded guilty to being an accessory to robbery in a Las Vegas courthouse. He will also testify for the prosecution when the case comes to court.
Both Cashmore and Alexander are expected to testify that guns were involved in the September (07) raid that landed the former American football star jail.
According to reports, Cashmore will testify that two of the men in Simpson’s posse were carrying guns.
Simpson spent three days in a Las Vegas jail following the incident. He was then released on bail and allowed to return home to Florida.

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R&B singer SEAN KINGSTON is celebrating after hitting number one on the European singles chart with his debut release BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
The 17-year-old’s smash-hit song has climbed up three places to top the new chart, knocking 50 Cent’s collaboration with Justin Timberlake, Ayo Technology off the number one spot.
That track falls to two, while Timbaland’s new tune The Way I Are also falls a place to three.
Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen’s Magic has debuted at the top of the European albums chart.
After two weeks in pole position, James Blunt’s All The Lost Souls drops to two, while Katie Melua’s Pictures is at three.

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MICHAEL STIPE, JOHN MAYER, PERRY FARRELL and MICK FLEETWOOD are among the rockers whose photographs feature in a new exhibition co-curated by LOU REED.
Visions Of Rock, which is being held at New York’s 401 Projects Gallery, also includes photos taken by Reed, Jakob Dylan, Graham Nash, Lenny Kravitz and Melissa Auf Der Maur.
Reed’s pictures document his beloved New York.
He says, "I’ve always been interested in photography. What was I trying to accomplish with the New York photos? I wanted to record the way New York looks right now, before it changes any more." The exhibition is being curated by Reed and photographer Mark Seliger, and runs until 4 November (07).

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Rocker DAVE GROHL refuses to look back on his days in NIRVANA nostalgically because, despite their phenomenal success, the band was just like any other he’s played in.
The former drummer, who now fronts Foo Fighters, recalls the abject poverty Nirvana endured before 1991’s breakthrough album Nevermind.
He says, "When I think of Nirvana, I think of Krist (Novoselic), Kurt (Cobain) and me. I think about us driving through Canadian snow-storms in a van leaking fuel. We’d reek like guys working in a gas station. I think about us selling equipment for food.
"I don’t think about number one records. I think of it like any other band I’ve been in - although that was the one that touched the most people.
"But I don’t wear it like a badge. For starters, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. And beyond that, it starts sitting like a chip on your shoulder.
"I was in a huge band at one point in my life and I can’t believe that happened to me, but I’m not looking back."

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Puerto Rican singer LUIS FONSI has to wait five years until he can start a family with his wife after she was advised not to conceive while undergoing breast cancer treatment.
Fonsi and his bride Adamari Lopez are desperate to have kids, but her cancer fight has scuppered their plans to start immediately.
Lopez tells Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero, "It will happen when God wants and when the doctors say. The doctor says I have to wait five years.
"If I feel healthy, I could stop my treatment and try it, but it would run a risk (sic)." Actress Lopez was diagnosed with breast cancer this summer (07) and has undergone chemotherapy.
She admits her health crisis has given her a new outlook on life: "I want to attend to the most precious thing in the world, my husband… We want to enjoy ourselves as husband and wife."

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Colombian singer JUANES has been honoured in his native Carolina del Principe with a statue of his likeness.
The Latino hunk spent part of his childhood in the town and was recently named prince of the town - the first pop star to receive the accolade.
A statue of the 35-year-old was unveiled in Carolina del Principe’s main square on Friday (12Oct07) - in front of the house where his late father once lived.
The singer met with dignitaries and Mayor Gabriel Angel Avendano, as part of the town’s 220th anniversary celebrations.

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Singer/songwriter MARC COHN had no idea he’d been shot in the head during an attempted carjacking in 2005 - until he felt blood streaming down his face half a minute later.
The Walking In Memphis singer was seriously injured in the Denver, Colorado shooting, but didn’t realise how serious his situation was at first.
He says, "I didn’t even know I’d been shot until 30 or 40 seconds later. We thought the driver had been shot. Then I sensed blood on my face." In October 2006, Joseph Yacteen, 27, pleaded guilty to attempted first degree murder and was sentenced to 36 years in prison.

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BLONDIE star DEBORAH HARRY has hit back at reports she’s unhappy with the casting of KIRSTEN DUNST in a forthcoming biopic of the singer, admitting the two stars have met and chatted about the project.
Dunst dealt with the initial internet criticism she received when she was first cast in the Michael Gondry film by stating Harry actually chose her for the role, and inviting unhappy Blondie fans to "take it up with her".
But subsequent reports have suggested Harry was far from happy with the idea of Dunst playing her.
Now the ageing punk icon has spoken out about the fuss, telling Spinner.com she has given the actress her personal blessing.
She says, "She’s (Dunst) a really sweet person. I’ve met with her a couple of times and hung out with her socially. She’s just a sweetie.
"She’s probably capable of a lot of things she hasn’t been asked to do yet, and doing something that’s sort of left of centre would be great for her."

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NAS is set to test hot-button race issues in rap by naming his next album NIGGA.
While many of his peers are apologising for using the ‘N’ word in past lyrics and refusing to use the derogatory term, the defiant I Can hitmaker is challenging the politically correct by using it to title his next release.
Nas told fans during a Friday night (12Oct07) show at New York’s Roseland Ballroom, that he plans to release the album by the end of 2007.
The album will be the follow-up to Nas’ critically acclaimed Hip-Hop Is Dead album.
Nas has at least one ally in his fight to keep the ‘N’ word alive and well in hip-hop - Mississippi rapper David Banner, who recently addressed the congressional rap lyrics hearings in Washington, D.C. by stating, "If by some stroke of the pen, hip-hop was silenced, the issues would still be present in our communities. Drugs, violence and the criminal element were around long before hip-hop existed."

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