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MICHELLE PFEIFFER is set to return to the GREASE franchise by playing Rydell High’s sassy headmistress in a remake of the blockbuster 1978 musical.
The actress has revealed she has been approached to appear in the new film, and she’s keen to visit Eve Arden’s role, Principal McGee.
Pfeiffer, who starred in the 1982 sequel Grease 2, claims producers are trying to persuade Jessica Simpson to take the lead of Sandy - played by Olivia Newton-John in the original.
The actress says, "It’s a great idea and I hear they would like to get Jessica Simpson for the role of Sandy. She would be good.
"I would love to play the school principal. She is fun and has some great put-down lines. I think I would like the part now that I have been asked."

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Actor CHARLIE SHEEN has hit out at ex-wife DENISE RICHARDS one last time as their bitter custody battle comes to an end, calling her efforts to discredit him as a father a "ridiculous and unnecessary circus".
The divorced couple ended their public custody feud after agreeing to put their young daughters into therapy.
They have spent months fighting over custody arrangements for daughters Sam, three, and Lola, two, but have now resolved all matters during a six-hour mediation on 23 October (07).
But Sheen admits he’s still bitter about the 18-month ordeal, in which he was accused of surfing the internet for porn and sharing a bed with his fiancee and his daughters.
He snipes, "I wasn’t going to say anything, but she continues to reveal what type of person and parent she is through her behaviour."

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BRITNEY SPEARS is well on course to score a number one with her comeback album after selling 124,000 copies of BLACKOUT on release day.
Released on Wednesday (31Oct07), the first-day estimates suggest Spears’ sales have almost doubled those for country singer Carrie Underwood’s Carnival Ride, which debuted at number one on Wednesday (31Oct07).
Ironically, both stars have been romantically linked to American football hunk Tony Romo - Underwood dated him earlier this year (07), while Spears was spotted sitting on his lap at a recent Los Angeles party.
Chart experts at Spears’ label Zomba estimate Blackout will debut with 330,000-plus sales, which should give her next week’s number one.
The only act that could spoil Spears’ big comeback is rock veterans the Eagles.
If bosses at retail chain Wal-Mart choose to report sales of its exclusive Eagles album, Long Road Out Of Eden, the old-timers could find themselves beating Spears to number one.
The rock group’s manager Irving Azoff tells Billboard.com, "If the Eagles were SoundScanning (on the official sales chart) this week, even though it’s only available at one retailer, Britney wouldn’t be number one."

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HEATHER MILLS has openly blamed STELLA McCARTNEY for the breakdown of her marriage to the designer’s father in an explosive new U.S. TV interview.
The glamour model-turned-activist, who is currently embroiled in a divorce battle with Sir Paul McCartney, snapped during an appearance on U.K. show GMTV on Wednesday (31Oct07) and she followed up her headline-grabbing rant with a series of angry interviews in America on Thursday (01Nov07).
After blasting her estranged husband for not supporting her in her ongoing battle with the British media on breakfast show Today, Mills turned on the former Beatle’s daughter on news show Extra.
She raged, "Every single week Stella tried to break up our marriage. She was so jealous.
"Stella wasn’t interested in her dad’s happiness. I can’t protect her any longer. She’s done some evil, evil things." Mills reveals she was hurt when she discovered Stella had scratched out her face in a photograph when they were "in a psychiatric session together".
And the former model reveals she has evidence she has gathered against the "untouchable" McCartney family that she’ll make public if her divorce battle turns nasty.
She added, "It’s a very difficult thing but, if it’s going to carry on, then I’m going to have to tell all the truth."

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LINDSAY LOHAN’s new tough-guy bodyguard is on the hunt for a pushy photographer who kicked the actress during a Halloween (31Oct07) fracas in an underground parking garage.
The Mean Girl star’s mean guy, an ex-Israeli Army soldier, chased away the kicker after he attacked Lohan as she left a Beverly Hills restaurant - and then asked other snappers to identify the man.
When they couldn’t, the bodyguard asked one to find out who the guy was and tell him, "I want to meet him personally." The mystery bodyguard has been by Lohan’s side for weeks and has established a fearsome reputation among the paparazzi regulars who follow the actress all over Los Angeles.
As he barged his way through the paparazzi army waiting for his boss, he declared, "Everyone in my way is gonna be pushed." But he added to Lohan’s misery as he accidentally closed the door of her black SUV on her injured leg, prompting the actress to yelp.
Seconds before, Lohan cried, "Ow, I got kicked in the leg," after her bizarre attack.
Once she was safely in the car, the actress’ minder stormed off after the kicking cameraman, fuming, "Who was that?"

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SIR PAUL McCARTNEY and HEATHER MILLS spent much of their four-year marriage arguing about why the former BEATLE didn’t donate more of his millions to charity.
Mills, who split with McCartney in May, 2006 insists she was amazed her estranged husband didn’t hand over more of his estimated $1 billion (£500 million) fortune to the needy.
She says, "I was passionate about the power that Paul had; he could have done more for charity. Those are the things we argued about.
"How could anybody have that kind of money and not do more for charity? That’s what we argued about all the time."

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U.S. funnyman STEPHEN COLBERT’s political dreams have been shattered - South Carolina Democrats don’t want him to represent them.
The Colbert Report host announced he wanted to run for President of the United States, and called on Democrats to support his bid to stand in his home state.
Colbert is now considering standing as an independent candidate.

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Actress EVA MENDES is such a bad driver she recently crashed her car four times in a day.
To make matters worse, the accident-prone Training Day star had just bought her environmentally friendly car an hour before the first mishap.
She says, "I bought a Lexus Hybrid, so I felt very environmentally responsible. When I got it, I drove it home and I was all excited but I just didn’t pull in (to my garage) enough, so the garage door hit the back of the car (as it came down).
"I don’t count that as an accident, but it did leave a bump and a scratch, and I was like, `Oh, a new car. Fine.’ I kinda forgot about it.
"So later on I was pulling out and… I back up into a moving truck. This was the same day. This one was a little more (damaging) than the garage door. I think, ‘I have to take the car in (to be repaired).’ "So I’m driving down the hill and there’s another moving truck. I was getting a little antsy at this point. I was waiting for awhile because I live in a very narrow street. I thought, `I’m going to manoeuvre my way around this.’ And the left side now has been hit. I was totally embarrassed because these guys were looking at me like, `Dude, what’s she doing?’ "So I took the car in and… they gave me a rental car. The next day I have my rental car and I’m going down my hill and there’s a monster truck heading the opposite way. And this time it was not my fault. I veered to the right, as I should have, and he did not veer to his left. He just came right at me and smashed into me. My whole front is caved in, but he was really sweet and admitted fault right away.
"But basically I shouldn’t be on the road."

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Actor MARK RUFFALO and his wife SUNRISE COIGNEY are celebrating the birth of their third child.
The Zodiac star and Coigney welcomed a daughter into the world in Los Angeles.
As WENN went to press the baby girl’s name and date of birth were unknown.
Ruffalo and Coigney married in 2000 and have a six-year-old son, Keen, and a two-year-old daughter, Bella.

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A Halloween night (31Oct07) episode of U.S. reality series PHENOMENON turned scary when show judge CRISS ANGEL was attacked by a disgruntled contestant.
Wannabe illusionist Jim Callahan took offence to Angel’s criticisms after he performed a mindbending trick during the live taping of the show and "went after" the Mind Freak star, according to witnesses.
One bystander tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood, "Criss jumped out of his chair and was ready to battle it out." One insider reveals Callahan became upset when Angel called his act "comical" and then challenged the wannabe and fellow judge, professional mindbender Uri Geller to guess what was in an envelope he retrieved from his jacket pocket.
Angel said, "I will give you a million dollars of my personal money right now if either one of you can tell me specific details of what’s in here right now." Angry Callahan fumed, "I’ll tell you what I will tell you. I find you an ideological bigot," before stepping towards Angel.
Geller and show host Tim Vincent had to step in between the two men to prevent them from coming to blows.
Producers then cut to a commercial break as security stepped in to break up the fight.

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U.S. TV personality MARIO LOPEZ is laughing off internet reports he has fathered a child with BRITNEY SPEARS, but feels bad for his pop star pal, who has to put up with the claims.
Recent rumours that popped up in cyberspace suggest Spears is expecting the former Dancing With The Stars contestant’s baby - but he insists nothing could be further from the truth.
Lopez claims he has never bedded Spears, adding, "I hung out with Britney a couple times and she’s the nicest person. She’s really misunderstood.
"The young girl can’t say hi to someone without being linked to them, but there’s no way (she’s pregnant with my child). It’s not true.
"My name has been linked to a few headlines of late. This particular headline with Britney and the baby, it is laughable, but, at the same time, the poor girl has to deal with this." Meanwhile, Spears and her aides are refusing to comment on tabloid stories she’s pregnant.

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Tennis ace MARTINA HINGIS is under investigation after testing positive for cocaine.
The 27-year-old Swiss player announced her retirement from the sport on Thursday (01Nov07) after admitting she failed a drugs test at the Wimbledon tennis championships in England earlier this year (07).
Hingis, who has endured a string of ankle injury problems in recent years, insists she has never used cocaine.
She says, "I have tested positive but I have never taken drugs and I feel 100 per cent innocent.
"The reason I have come out with this is because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities.
"Because of my age and my health problems, I have also decided to retire from professional tennis." Hingis won five Grand Slam titles during her career. She retired from tennis in 2003 due to her ankle, but re-emerged in 2006 before being forced to prematurely end her season again last month (Oct07) due to hip problems.

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CHRIS BROWN has ended hip-hop sensation SOULJA BOY’s reign at the top of the U.S. pop charts with his new song KISS KISS.
Brown’s collaboration with rapper T-Pain has toppled Soulja Boy’s Crank That (Soulja Boy), which spent seven weeks at number one.
Soulja Boy’s hit falls to three on the new countdown, while Timbaland’s Apologize climbs to two.
Country star Gary Allen claims the highest debut on the new chart with his Watching Airplanes, which enters at 89.
In other U.S. singles charts, Foo Fighters’ The Pretender claims an 11th week atop the Modern Rock countdown, while Colombian hitmaker Juanes’ Me Enamora scores a seventh week at number one on the Hot Latin Songs list.

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Indonesian President SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO has shocked his peers by reinventing himself as a pop singer with an album of love songs.
Yudhoyono recently unveiled Rinduku Padamu, which includes the tracks Dear, I Miss You Too and My Longing For You, to an astonished Indonesia.
He says, "There’s presidents who love to read poems, such as the President of India, and the leader of Malaysia likes to ride horses. There is a president who likes to play saxophone (former U.S. leader Bill Clinton), and there is a prime minister who loves climbing, such as New Zealand’s Prime Minister. And there is also a president who loves fishing.
"As for me, my hobby is music."

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ROGER DALTREY’s failing eyesight has ended the rocker’s trademark microphone-swinging stage antics.
The Who frontman worries he’ll look foolish if her hurls a microphone into the air and then loses it in the lights.
And, after almost blinding Gary Glitter during rehearsals for The Who’s Quadrophenia shows in London a decade ago - when he hit him with a stray mic Daltrey has decided to retire his famous stage technique.
He says, "I got very good at it. I could probably have taken a cigarette out of someone’s mouth (swinging the microphone).
"I wouldn’t dare try it now, because I can’t see it anymore. I throw it and from then on I’m thinking, `Where’s it gone?’ and hopefully it’ll come back somewhere where I might be able to catch it."

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THE POLICE got into the Halloween spirit for their Madison Square Garden show in New York on Wednesday (31Oct07) - by taking the stage in costume.
Frontman Sting wore a jesters outfit, complete with mask, hat and a black cod piece with glittering thin yellow stripes, while drummer Stewart Copeland went for the ghoulish look, wearing black zombie make-up around his eyes and mouth and a red cape.
Guitarist Andy Summers went for the comedic silent type and dressed up as Charlie Chaplin, keeping in character throughout the show.
Sting made a point of poking fun at his Halloween look, telling the sold out crowd, "I used to be a school teacher and look at me now."

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LANCE BASS still has his sights set on space after training to become a cosmonaut on a defunct Russian mission.
The former ‘N Sync star is fully certified to join the Russians in outer space, and still hopes to rocket off one day.
Bass originally signed up for cosmonaut classes as part of a documentary, but he quickly became hooked.
He says, "It was definitely a legit mission. I had a lot of educational projects; I had studies of, like, the southern region of America with pollution, a lot of blood work type things that I was gonna help my commander with… I’m not gonna go just to go float around." And Bass is determined not to let his training go to waste.
He adds, "There’s no way I went through all that for nothing." The singer is now looking for sponsors to support a space mission.

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MEGADETH frontman DAVE MUSTAINE has become an unlikely goodwill ambassador for the World Taekwondo Foundation.
The heavy rocker, who is an avid fan of the martial art, was given the title at the WTF’s annual gala in Seoul, South Korea at the weekend (27Oct07).
The thrilled star, who is a taekwondo black belt, says, "I cannot begin to explain what this means to me. Taekwondo is a great discipline. For me, it was one of the things that changed my life.
"It helped me to eliminate a bad lifestyle of drug and alcoholism. It helped me to believe inside of myself and find the strength inside of myself that I never knew that I possessed." Mustaine maintains the martial art helped him combat a severe nerve injury to his left arm, which, in turn, led to him reforming Megadeth in 2004.
It was a big weekend for Mustaine and Megadeth in Seoul - on Sunday (28Oct07), the band performed at the Olympic Hall in Olympic Park.

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