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Actress JAMIE LEE CURTIS has slammed the residents of southern California, blaming them for the wildfire disaster.
The Trading Places star is not among those directly affected by the tragedy, which has cost 1,430 families there homes so far, but she’s shattered by the loss of lives and property.
And she has a tough message for her fellow southern Californians: "This is not an act of God!" The angry actress fumes, "We live in southern California, we build houses where we shouldn’t build them, we’re living in the worst drought this country’s ever had and we pretend that we’re not and we water our lawns; talk about ultimate denial.
"We’ve done this, we’ve created all of this… This isn’t an act of God, this is an act of man."

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SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS is making daily dashes between his home and Hollywood in a bid to make sure he can evacuate his property properly if California wildfires threaten his estate.
The movie star and his wife live in coastal Point Dume near Santa Barbara and have so far escaped the many fires burning throughout southern California.
But Hopkins isn’t taking any chances, and is limiting the time he spends in Los Angeles, promoting his directorial debut Slipstream.
He says, "It’s (fires) a terrible thing to watch but so far we’re OK. I’m going straight back to make sure everything’s OK." Kelsey Grammar, Olivia Newton-John, director James Cameron and Jane Seymour haven’t been so lucky - they were all evacuated from their homes in and around Malibu, California earlier this week (begs22Oct07).

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BRITNEY SPEARS confidante SAM LUTFI has hit back at reports he’s trying to sell the troubled singer’s diaries - after finding her journal in the trash.
Reports suggest Lutfi has been offering the diaries to U.K. publications for a $2 million (£1 million) payday, but the latest deal with an unnamed tabloid has just fallen flat.
But the dancer insists he’s not trying to sell the journal, telling Life & Style magazine, "Britney doesn’t have any diaries." However, a source close to the deal, insists Lutfi is behind the sale of Spears’ "deepest feelings at the most troubling time of her life".
The insider says, "The tabloid flew a reporter to Los Angeles to continue negotiations. Sam wouldn’t back down on the price. It was $2 million or nothing. Sam said it had to be worth it because he was risking everything.
"The diary contains entries about how her drug use spiralled out of control." And the deal also included a series of emails sent between Spears and concerned members of her family.
The source adds, "One was from (father) Jamie to Britney asking her to find God. He also wrote about how he’d battled addiction and how he blamed himself for Britney’s predicament."

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Feuding BRITNEY SPEARS and KEVIN FEDERLINE have reunited in Beverly Hills, California to discuss parenting issues.
The former couple met at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday (24Oct07) to begin a Parenting Without Conflict programme - a six-week course that Spears is required to take as part of the pair’s ongoing child custody battle.
The programme suggests parents take the course together, but it is not mandatory.

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BEN AFFLECK made sure he can support his beloved Boston Red Sox in the baseball World Series - by checking out his wife’s Broadway debut in advance.
Previews for Jennifer Garner’s run in Cyrano De Bergerac began on Friday (19Oct07), and Affleck has already been to see his wife onstage - making sure he shows her his support before cheering on the Red Sox, who begin their chase for the World Series at home on Wednesday night (24Oct07).
Garner’s new play, which also stars Kevin Kline, officially opens on 1 November (07), when the Red Sox’s best-of-seven series with the Colorado Rockies is expected to reach fever pitch.
Affleck says, "Fortunately for me, I’ve already been to see Jennifer on Broadway, so there’s not really a conflict. I’m not required to go see that again." The movie star/director admits he’s lucky to be married to a woman who respects his Red Sox interests: "She’s a very big Red Sox fan so she’ll be I’m sure running back during the intermission checking the score."

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British rocker PETE DOHERTY has vowed to stay clean after a judge released him from a drug treatment order six months early on Wednesday (24Oct07).
The once drug-addled Babyshambles frontman is no longer under court supervision, for the first time in 18 months, after Judge Jane McIvor ruled she is confident Doherty will continue to follow the treatment plan he has been undergoing.
Judge McIvor told London’s Thames Magistrates Court, "There is no need for statutory supervision or state funding… I wish you well." As he emerged from the hearing, Doherty, who recently completed a six-week stint in rehab, said, "It’s just the beginning… My life has changed." However, Doherty is back in court on Friday (26Oct07) to answer charges dating back to an arrest in May (07), when he was caught allegedly driving while in possession of illegal drugs.

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JENNIFER LOPEZ and husband MARC ANTHONY’s upcoming Cox Arena show in San Diego, California has been postponed due to the wildfires that have engulfed the city.
Lopez and Anthony were scheduled to perform there on Wednesday night (24Oct07), but the show will now take place on 10 November (07).
The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Wednesday (24Oct07) gig at San Diego’s 4th & B has been cancelled because of the tragedy.
Shows at the city’s House Of Blues venue have also been cancelled out of respect to those fans who are too focused on saving their homes to attend concerts.
The state emergency has resulted in 800,000 people being evacuated from their homes. Over 1,400 homes have been destroyed in the 18 separate fires that have ravaged southern California since the weekend (20/21Oct07).
Three deaths have been reported and 40 people have been injured trying to fight and escape the flames.

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HUGH JACKMAN’s wife and business partner DEBORRA LEE-FURNESS is "very disappointed" their risky TV series has been cancelled after just two episodes.
Viva Laughlin, in which Jackman played a ruthless casino boss, failed to impress U.S. critics or viewers when it debuted in America last week (18Oct07) - the show was cancelled on Monday (22Oct07) following terrible ratings for its second episode on Sunday night (21Oct07).
Australia’s Nine Network also pulled the song-and-dance series after just one episode aired.
Lee-Furness says, "We are obviously very disappointed, but you have to take risks in this business.
"But, if I’m going to fail, I want to fail spectacularly, and it seems like we did." The show was the first project for Jackman’s Australian production company, Seed, which he owns with Lee-Furness.

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SIR ELTON JOHN, BEYONCE KNOWLES and CARRIE UNDERWOOD are among the pop stars who will take the stage at the inaugural Movies Rock concert later this year (07).
The event, which celebrates the relationship between music and film, is being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 2 December (07).
Knowles will sing Somewhere Over The Rainbow from The Wizard Of Oz, John will perform music from animated movies, and Underwood will cover the title song from The Sound Of Music.
Among the other artists who will perform are Mary J. Blige and John Legend, who will duet on As Time Goes By from Casablanca, and Fergie and Jennifer Hudson, who will team up for a rendition of James Bond theme Live And Let Die.

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Former DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES star ROGER BART has been forced to pull out of MEL BROOKS’ new Broadway musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN after badly injuring his back.
The actor stepped out of performances at the Hilton Theatre on 13 October (06), and he has been absent ever since.
In a statement, a show publicist says, "He is responding well to treatment and is expected to return to the show shortly… He has a lower back problem." Understudy Matthew LaBanca has earned his Broadway debut after taking over the role of Frederick Frankenstein from Bart. No official date has been announced for the injured actor’s return.

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Former child actor BOBBY MAUCH has died of complications relating to a heart condition. He was 86.
Mauch, who was a teenage star in the 1930s - known as one-half of the Mauch Twins alongside his brother William, passed away on 15 October (07) at a convalescent hospital in Santa Rosa, California.
Born Robert J. Mauch, he starred in The Prince And The Pauper (1937) and Penrod And His Twin Brother (1938) with his sibling.
Mauch quit acting at the end of the 1930s and started a new career as a film editor.

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JAMES BROLIN and DIANE LADD are in negotiations to play EWING family parents JOCK and MISS ELLIE in the revamped DALLAS movie project.
Directors and cast quit the film at the beginning of 2007, leaving signed-up star Luke Wilson to comment he felt the film adaptation of the 1980s TV soap would never be made.
Wilson is reportedly still onboard, as is John Travolta, who has been cast as oil tycoon villain J.R. Ewing - and now a few more gaps are being filled, with Dr Doolittle director Betty Thomas at the helm.
According to website CinemaBlend.com, Brolin has already agreed to play the part of Jock Ewing, the role played by the late Jim Davis in the TV series.
Minka Kelly is reportedly in talks to replace Jennifer Lopez as Pamela Ewing, while Julie Bentz has been offered the part of J.R.’s wife Sue Ellen Ewing.

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Veteran character actor LONNY CHAPMAN has died of heart disease. He was 87.
Chapman, who appeared in movies including Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, Woody Allen’s Take The Money And Run and disaster film Earthquake, passed away on 12 October (07) in North Hollywood, California.
Chapman made his television debut in Captain Video in 1949, the same year he first appeared on the Broadway stage in The Closing Door, directed by Lee Strasberg.
His last movie role was in 2003’s The Hunted.
For the last 34 years, Chapman was artistic director of the Lonny Chapman Theater in Los Angeles.
He is survived by his wife Erma and a son.

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MARCIA GAY HARDEN is hoping her harrowing post-surgery breast reveal in new movie RAILS & TIES prompts all women to get tested for breast cancer.
The Oscar-winning actress plays a woman dealing with cancer in the film, which features one eye-popping scene where her character looks at herself in a mirror after a mastectomy.
She tells Movies.com, "A radical mastectomy is fearful. It’s equivalent to a guy having a testicle lopped off.
"Women’s breasts are such an integral part of them; when you get them you know you’re growing up. They’re sexual objects. They provide food for your babies.
"To lose one is a lot to cope with psychologically. And it’s just one more wake-up call to women that routine examinations are so important."

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LATEST: O.J. SIMPSON is facing another charge of felony coercion in the alleged armed robbery of sports collectibles in a Las Vegas hotel room last month (Sep07).
Clark County District Attorney David Roger filed a rewritten criminal complaint in Las Vegas Justice Court on Wednesday (24Oct07), increasing the number of charges against Simpson and his co-defendants Clarence ‘C.J.’ Stewart, Michael McClinton and Charles Ehrlich to 12.
The new charge alleges the men threatened a collectibles dealer by gunpoint, and took his mobile phone. They also face charges including kidnapping, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy.
All four men are due in court for a preliminary hearing on 8 November (08).
On Tuesday (23Oct07) two other co-defendants in the case pleaded guilty to reduced charges in return for agreeing to testify against former American football star-turned-actor Simpson and the three others.
Walter Alexander pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy to commit robbery, while Charles Cashmore pleaded guilty to felony accessory to robbery in the alleged hotel suite theft of sports collectibles.
Both Alexander and Cashmore are expected to testify that guns were involved in the September (07) raid that landed Simpson in jail.
According to reports, Cashmore will testify that two of the men in Simpson’s posse were carrying guns.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has waved a wand over the U.S. album charts - taking his MAGIC back to number one.
With just 77,000 copies sold last week, The Boss did enough to topple Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus, which debuted at the top last Wednesday (17Oct07).
Magic entered the chart at number one three weeks ago with sales of 335,000.
Kid Rock’s new release slips a spot to two, while country trio Rascal Flatts’ Still Feels Good stays put at three.
And Christmas has come early for singer Josh Groban - his holiday album Noel jumps up the Billboard chart from 10 to four.
The highest debut belongs to rockers Jimmy Eat World, who enter at six with Chase This Light.

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Rocker DAVE MATTHEWS’ indie record label ATO is the front-runner to distribute RADIOHEAD’s new album IN RAINBOWS in America.
The British band are reportedly interested in striking a one-off deal with ATO Records after turning down offers from their former label EMI and coffee chain Starbucks’ Hear Music offshoot.
The CD release will follow a digital download project, where Radiohead offered fans the chance to buy the album online for whatever price they saw fit.
XL Recordings, which distributed frontman Thom Yorke’s solo album The Eraser, remains the favourite to land international rights to distribute In Rainbows.
If Radiohead join ATO, their new labelmates would include jam band Gov’t Mule, the North Mississippi All-Stars and My Morning Jacket.

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The front door of the home rock legend JIM MORRISON lived in for six years of his life is up for sale on auction website eBay.com.
The door, which fronted the Clearwater, Florida home owned by The Doors star’s grandparents Paul and Caroline Morrison, was carefully removed by contractors working for building company Triangle Development when the house was demolished to make way for a condominium project, which is currently under development.
Triangle bosses, realising the importance of the door, preserved it and other artifacts to memorialise the late singer/songwriter.
In a tribute to Morrison, St. Petersburg, Florida artist Judith Dazzio painted the door with the mural she calls When The Music’s Over.
A doorbell on the frame plays three different short clips from the song when pressed.
The auction ends on 28 October (07); the current bid stands at $2,500 (£1,250). Proceeds from the auction will go to charity.

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