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JULIA ROBERTS has offered BRITNEY SPEARS a safe house during the troubled singer’s ongoing child custody battle with ex-husband KEVIN FEDERLINE.
The Oscar winner believes Spears needs some time out of the limelight, so she can recuperate - and Roberts knows the perfect place.
She tells American magazine Vanity Fair, "I see and hear what’s happening to Britney Spears and it’s all I can do not to move her into my guesthouse and say, ‘OK, this is how it’s going to be.’ And just take care of her."

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Rapper 50 CENT is to make his debut in India later this month (Nov07) when he performs in front of 15,000 fans in Mumbai.
The hitmaker will perform at the MMRDA Grounds on 18 November (07).
Tickets for the show went on sale on Monday (05Nov07), priced at a bargain $15 to $25 (£7.50 to £12.50).

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LATEST: OPRAH WINFREY is glad the allegations of child abuse at her all-girls academy in South Africa have garnered the attention of the world’s media, because it allows her to correct the school’s faults before they get even worse.
The media mogul visited the Henley-On-Klip Leadership Academy, which she co-founded in 2006, last month (Oct07), after hearing reports a matron at the boarding school had molested a pupil. A total of 15 victims have since come forward.
Former employee Virginia Mokgobo, 27, was arrested on Thursday (29Oct07) on numerous charges, including assault, indecent assault and soliciting underage girls to perform indecent acts, after a local newspaper article brought attention to the matter. Mokgobo has been bailed pending further investigation.
But Winfrey believes it is not the school that is to blame - it is the "systems" in place in the academy which led to the situation.
She says, "I’m happy for it to get the attention (it has); it is my goal in life to put abusers - whether it be in the home, the academy, at work - where they belong, which is behind bars. The attention is justified.
"I don’t think we’ve failed the girls as a school, because there are many people at the school who are caring, dedicated and want the best for all the girls.
"The systems in the school failed the girls. Once you remove the systems and put in a new leadership, all that will change.
"No one is ever happy to have this kind of scandal or crisis, but I am happy it happened now and not one, two years from now, because we can now move to correct it. And as I’ve said to the girls, it is an opportunity to clean house."

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Former child star LEIF GARRETT sympathises with troubled stars BRITNEY SPEARS and LINDSAY LOHAN, insisting young celebrities are bound to make mistakes when they’re in the public eye so much.
Singer/actor Garrett, who has famously battled drug addiction as an adult, hopes the Hollywood starlets can sort out their problems before it’s too late.
The now-clean 45-year-old says, "It’s really tough, what Britney’s going through right now, and Lindsay. When you’ve got the media in your face the whole time it’s kind of tough.
"We’re all human… you make mistakes, and that’s what happens. It’s just not being publicised." Garrett checked into rehab last year (06) after police found him in possession of heroin in what was the latest of a string of drug-related arrests. After quitting the treatment centre, he was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years probation in May 2006, but was credited with the time already served in police custody.

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DAVID BECKHAM’s celebrity soccer match between his L.A. Galaxy teammates and VINNIE JONES’ Hollywood United on Sunday afternoon (04Nov07) raised $100,000 (£50,000) for the victims of the California wildfires.
England manager Steve McMahon watched as Beckham scored twice in the Galaxy’s 10-4 victory.
Without A Trace star Anthony LaPaglia, a former Aussie professional, was the stand-out star of the celebrity team, which also featured Beckham’s manager Alexi Lalas and Def Leppard star Viv Campbell.
LaPaglia played in goal for the celebrities and insists he’ll never forget stopping one of Beckham’s shots.
After the game, he said, "That one goes on the (computer) screen saver. I never thought I would get the opportunity to face him in an actual game."

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SYLVESTER STALLONE is set to direct and star in a remake of CHARLES BRONSON’s 1974 vigilante classic DEATH WISH.
Stallone is finalising talks to play a man who vows to clean criminals off the streets after his wife and daughter are attacked in the update, which will be written by Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris.
The original Death Wish was directed by Michael Winner and spawned four sequels, each starring Bronson, who passed away in 2003.
Last year (06), Stallone made belated sequel Rocky Balboa and his action follow-up John Rambo is due in cinemas in 2008.
It’s not the first time he has tackled a movie classic - his Get Carter remake was a flop in 2000.

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Animated rodent movie RATATOUILLE continues to draw a crowd at the top of the international box-office, where it remains the world’s number one film for a fifth successive week.
Ratatouille, which is released on DVD in America on Tuesday (06Nov07), made a further $14.5 million (£7.2 million) in cinemas outside the U.S. over the weekend (02-04Nov07), taking its total global haul to $371.8 million (£185.9 million).
Zombie thriller Resident Evil: Extinction came in second with a $10.7 million (£5.3 million) haul, while horror sequel Saw IV drops a place to three with $8.2 million (£4.1 million).

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Former HAPPY DAYS star ERIN MORAN, ex-BAYWATCH babe GENA LEE NOLAN and rocker ANDREW W.K. are among the celebrities who have signed up to publicly lose weight on the upcoming season of reality show CELEBRITY FIT CLUB.
The trio will join En Vogue’s Dawn Robinson and rapper KRS-One when the six season of the show launches on VH1 in early 2008.
Moran, who is keen to get back her ideal weight from when she was 23, says, "I need a kick in the bum. If I can get someone to get me going, hopefully, I can continue it."

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British actor TIM ROTH has vowed never to watch his new movie FUNNY GAMES because he was traumatised by playing hostage to two sick boys.
The tough guy admits the film didn’t quite turn out the way he thought it would, and he wishes he’d stuck with his first reaction to the script, and turned the project down.
He tells WENN, "I saw the 1997 original and thought it was possible that I could inject some humanity into it.
"But it was the hardest job I think I’ve ever done. It was the most disturbing film I’ve ever been involved in.
"It was five weeks of tears. That was brutal; that was one of the worst times for me. I’m so glad I did it but I’ll never watch it."

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Actor BRAD GARRETT is officially divorced from his wife of seven years, JILL DIVEN.
The Everybody Loves Raymond star and Diven, who have two children, split in April 2006.
According to court documents obtained by website People.com, they will share legal and physical custody of Max, nine, and Hope, seven.
Garrett will pay $20,000 (£10,000) per month in child support and $35,000 (£17,500) per month in spousal support.

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Former THE WEST WING star ALLISON JANNEY is hobbling around Hollywood after suffering a trampolining injury.
The actress was spotted wearing a cast and a foot support while grocery shopping with longtime partner Richard Jenik in Los Angeles on Monday (05Nov07).
Putting on a brave face, she said, "I injured my foot on the trampoline. I’d rather not go into details. Let’s just say I landed awkwardly." Slender Janney likes to put her body to the test - a yoga and pilates fan, the actress was one of the first celebrities to sign up for pole dancing lessons when former The West Wing co-star Richard Schiff’s wife Sheila Kelley hosted her S Factor striptease/exercises classes.

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Former LAW & ORDER star FRED THOMPSON’s bid to become the next U.S. President have been dealt a huge blow - one of his advisors has a drug record.
Newspaper The Washington Post has discovered Philip Martin, the man the Republican politician hired to help front his fundraising campaign, has a criminal record for dealing drugs.
Thompson has been using businessman Martin’s private jet as his leading mode of transport on his political campaign.
The Post has unearthed details of a drug bust in 1979, which led to Martin pleading guilty to selling marijuana.
Thompson’s communications director, Todd Harris, insists the presidential hopeful didn’t know anything about Martin’s criminal past.
Harris says, "There’s not a campaign in the world that has the ability to research every one of its supporters going back more than 20 years."

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LATEST: Top U.S. late night chat shows THE TONIGHT SHOW, THE DAILY SHOW and THE LATE SHOW have become the first big victims of the Hollywood writer’s strike.
Producers of the three programmes scrapped plans to air on Monday night (05Nov07) as the walk-out kicked off, following a weekend (03/04Nov07) of desperate talks to halt the strike.
The Tonight Show host Jay Leno briefly joined the picket line outside the NBC studios in Burbank, California - where his show is taped - after network bosses announced the show would immediately go into reruns.
David Letterman’s The Late Show will also run a series of repeats this week, as will The Daily Show and a series of daytime chat and talk shows.
The strike started on a noise note as picketing writers began chanting noisily outside CBS and Paramount Studios in Hollywood early on Monday morning (05Nov07).
Those organised outside Paramount wore red strike T-shirts and carried signs reading, "Writers Guild Of America On Strike."

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Canadian country singer ANNE MURRAY has topped a new list of female celebrity golfers.
With an 11 handicap, the beloved 1970s hitmaker has been named Golf For Women magazine’s first number one.
Murray beat Tea Leoni, Celine Dion and British model Jodie Kidd to claim the title.
Fellow singer Belinda Carlisle, Jane Seymour, Catherine Zeta-Jones and designer Vera Wang missed out the top 10 with handicaps over 20.
The top five is:

1. Anne Murray
2. Tea Leoni
3. Celine Dion
4. Jodie Kidd
5. Cheryl Ladd
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Veteran rockers the EAGLES have stunned chart watchers in Britain by beating BRITNEY SPEARS to the top of the albums chart.
The group’s first full studio album for nearly 30 years, Long Road Out Of Eden, claimed the new number one spot on Sunday (04Nov07), narrowly defeating Spears’ Blackout.
The Eagles and Spears are now fighting for the top spot on the U.S. albums chart, which will be announced on Wednesday (07Nov07).
Meanwhile, Leona Lewis scored a second week at the top of the U.K. singles chart, with boybands Take That and Westlife at numbers two and three respectively.
Elvis Presley’s re-release Viva Las Vegas is a re-entry in the British chart, debuting at 15.

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BON JOVI’s new concert film LOST HIGHWAY will hit 100 selected cinemas across America on Tuesday night (06Nov07).
The rockers recorded the one-off film during a Chicago, Illinois show in July (07).
The movie and Bon Jovi’s current 10-night stand at Newark, New Jersey’s new Prudential Center marks the launch of the band’s world tour, which is expected to take in more than 10 countries, including Japan, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Austria.

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Original AC/DC frontman DAVE EVANS was kicked out of the band because he was too popular with female fans.
Evans has opened up to website Blasting-Zone.com, exploding myths surrounding his departure from the Thunderstruck hitmakers in 1973.
History suggests Young brothers Malcolm and Angus kicked Evans out of the band because he was too much of a glam rocker, but the frontman, who was replaced by Bon Scott, has another tale to tell.
He explains, "Some guys get jealous if you’re getting too many girls, and the other guys are missing out. I didn’t really pay too much attention to it, but is just started getting worse and worse until the end where I was virtually going out without them (bandmates)." But Evans claims things came to a head when he fought with the group’s manager over his finances.
He adds, "We were worried where all the money was going to. We were doing top gigs… We’d had a top five hit and we were scraping together money. So we were all a bit worried about what was happening.
"I’m sure if the manager had explained to us where all the money was going, it would have been OK, but we didn’t know what was going on and it came to a head one time. I learned very quickly that you don’t go beating up your manager. That was the end of it, really."

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Cult rockers THE DECEMBERISTS have scrapped the remaining dates on their U.S.
tour to allow an unnamed band member to recover from a serious illness.
All 28 shows in cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego have been axed.
A band statement released on Monday (05Nov07) reads, "One of our band members has been ill for a while but we thought all would be well in time for these tour dates.
"After a couple shows, though, it has become clear that the illness is much worse than we had initially realised. We need to return home so our friend can mend.
"It saddens us to disappoint our fans. We hope everybody understands it is only because of an extreme situation that we had to cancel a tour we’ve all been excited about doing since the idea was originally hatched." The group and staff at The Decemberists’ record label refused to name the ill band member or release more information about the ailment.

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