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KEVIN FEDERLINE has been given a boost in the midst of his child custody trial with ex-wife BRITNEY SPEARS - he has been named the seventh most-influential man under 45 in Hollywood in a new magazine poll.
Federline also lands the cover of the upcoming Power 50 issue of Details magazine.
Spears tops the new list alongside ‘Disney Kids’ Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Shia LaBoeuf and Hilary Duff.
Federline also shares the title of The Good Fathers on the list - with Anna Nicole Smith’s ex Larry Birkhead.
The magazine declares, "By being more visible presences in their children’s lives than many Hollywood A-listers, they emerged as unlikely candidates for Dad of Year."

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LATEST: PIERCE BROSNAN will not face charges for allegedly beating up a photographer in Malibu, California - because there isn’t enough evidence against him.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have decided not to file criminal charges against the actor following his reported fracas with a snapper last month (Oct07).
Officials at the District Attorney’s office have ruled there was insufficient evidence to pursue a battery charge against Brosnan, according to TMZ.com.

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GEORGE CLOONEY and DON CHEADLE’s efforts to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur has earned the OCEAN’S 13 co-stars a major international prize.
The pair will be honoured with the Peace Summit Award at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome, Italy on 13 December (07).
The actors teamed up to stage Darfur benefits around the premieres for their casino heist movie. Clooney and his father also travelled to Darfur in 2006 to shoot a short film about the plight of refugees.

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Beloved U.S. chat show host KELLY RIPA was forced to cut short a live broadcast of hit morning show LIVE WITH REGIS & KELLY on Tuesday (27Nov07) after falling ill.
The former soap star’s partner Regis Philbin was forced to explain her absence later during the telecast, which was being broadcast from the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas. Ripa appeared to be tired and unwell at the beginning of the show, but she made it through an interview with Project Runway star Tim Gunn before leaving the set during a commercial break.
Philbin told viewers, "Kelly is a little bit under the weather right now. We hope she’ll be back before the show is over." She did not return.
Ripa has since been diagnosed with stomach flu. She is expected to return to the show on Wednesday (28Nov07).

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Actress LAURA LINNEY is heading back to Broadway to take on the historical villain played on the big screen by GLENN CLOSE and ANNETTE BENING.
The Love Actually star will play scheming La Marquise de Merteuil, opposite Broadway newcomer Ben Daniels, in Roundabout Theatre Company’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Linney was last on the Broadway stage in 2005, when she won a Tony nomination for her role in Sight Unseen (2005).
Previews of Les Liaisons Dangereuses will begin next spring (08).

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Former MTV favourite CARSON DALY is set to become the first late night chat show host in America to defy the ongoing writers strike and resume production of his LAST CALL programme.
Daly, who is not a member of the Writers Guild union, will begin taping new episodes of his show later this week (ends30Nov07). They’ll air next week (beg03Dec07).
The show joined all the other late-night shows which went dark and stopped production when the writers came out on strike on 5 November (07).
Contract talks between studio executives, producers and the writers union officials resumed on Monday (26Nov07).
The striking writers are seeking more royalty money for material distributed over the Internet.

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Scottish actor JAMES McAVOY has confirmed he’s a skilled confectioner after learning the craft in a bakery as part of an apprenticeship.
The myth of McAvoy’s past has spiralled in recent months, with reports suggesting the 28-year-old Becoming Jane star was a master baker - but he insists he just decorated cakes. He explains, "I was like the apprentice confectioner. The other guy did all the hard stuff, and I would come in and put the cream and the little kiwi fruit on the top.
"It was great fun - cakes and tarts and gateaux and all that."

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The 2008 IFC Independent Spirit Awards will be a "zero-waste event" in a bid to make the event the greenest ever.
All materials at the prizegiving, which will be held in Santa Monica, California on 23 February (08), will be recycled, including the Astroturf stars will walk on at the event.
Organisers are also planning a "ride-sharing programme," whereby celebrities and nominees will be asked to team up to get to the Independent Spirit Awards.
Voters are also being asked to register before 15 December (07), so that nominated films can be streamed direct to them online - in a bid to save paper and packaging, and cut down on postal costs.

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Australian supermodel MIRANDA KERR was left shattered at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show when PARIS HILTON "stole" her favourite outfit.
Kerr reveals Hilton showed up 10 minutes before the show opened at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on 15 November (07) and decided she wanted to close the catwalk show.
Organisers told her to pick an outfit and she chose a pink dress that Kerr had been allocated.
Upset Kerr says, "I was standing by my rack and she goes, ‘I want that dress,’ and she pointed to my dress, my pretty pink dress, the one I was really proud of… and she stole it." In a post on her blog, Kerr admits she felt like hitting the heiress with her handbag, but she calmed down and let karma take care of her feelings - in the shape of Naomi Campbell, who was another late show for the event.
She explains, "Paris is about to walk out for the finale and Naomi walks in, so they rip the dress off Paris, she’s standing there naked and they put it on Naomi.
"I thought, that’s karma for you darling."

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A bronze tree featuring letters of the artistic alphabet created for BJORK’s 2004 album MEDULLA is to be ‘planted’ as the centrepiece of a new town in Iceland.
French design duo Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag will erect the tree on a site earmarked for a new community project outside of Icelandic capital Reykjavik next month (Dec07).
Author Stephanie Cohen will pen a children’s book about the tree’s origins.

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SHARON OSBOURNE’s public feud with COURTNEY LOVE has gone silent - because the matter has become a legal spat.
Osbourne accused Love of introducing her then-teenage son Jack to drugs, which led to "a really, really ugly situation" and culminated with the reality TV star checking into rehab.
Love has blasted Osbourne for her comments, insisting she’s not responsible for Jack’s drug habit.
And now Osbourne admits she can no longer talk about her bitter feelings for Love: "It’s kind of got to the point where it’s now in legal hands, so we can’t talk about it, because it’s gone to that stage."

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Rocker SLASH was forced to "tramp" around London in the same clothes for three days during a recent promotional trip to Britain - when his luggage didn’t arrive with him.
The VELVET REVOLVER star decided to wait for his misplaced suitcase to show up, rather than buy new clothes.
And when the luggage did eventually show up intact, Slash was more than a little relieved.
He says, "It had loads of really expensive jewellery and all my leather trousers."

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ENGRAVE rocker MARIO GUTIERREZ was killed by his brother-in-law in a Thanksgiving Day (22Nov07) row.
The guitarist was shot at a family gathering in El Sereno, California. He died at the scene, according to the Los Angeles Times. The rocker’s unnamed brother-in-law turned himself in to the police later the same day.
Gutierrez was one of the founders of Engrave, who became stalwarts of the Los Angeles area thrash metal scene.

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Rapper T.I.’s legal woes just got worse - prosecutors hoping to keep him behind bars on federal weapons charges plan to use three previous firearms possession violations to make their case.
The lawyers have discovered T.I., real name Clifford Harris Jr, has previously violated the law by unlawfully possessing guns, ammunition and a silencer on three separate occasions between 2001 and 2004. They plan to introduce this evidence at his upcoming trial.
The 27 year old was arrested last month (Oct07) while allegedly trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers.
He was charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon and placed under house arrest.

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OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE have agreed on a suicide pact - so they can both die at the same time.
Rock matriarch Sharon, who is also Ozzy’s manager, has revealed she and her husband agree they cannot live without each other, and so they’ve chosen to go to the grave together.
She explains, "Whatever it was, where you know you’re going to die, we would want to choose the time where we want to leave.
"I would go with my old man, and he would come with me… (Fortunately) my husband is better than ever, health-wise." But the macabre suicide pact doesn’t kick in until 2012, with busy Sharon adding she can’t contemplate taking her life "in the next five years".

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Hollywood actor JOSH HARTNETT refuses to let a stuntman take over his dangerous feats on set - because he believes getting hurt is part of his job.
The 29-year-old - who once braved a debilitating case of glandular fever on the set of 30 Days of Night - is so determined to pull through for a film’s cast and crew that he even refuses to call in sick when plagued with an illness.
His tough approach to his work also means he’s never too afraid to face the challenge of a hazardous stunt He says, "I soldier on. I don’t like to disappoint anyone, or let them down.
I’ve had glandular fever and I’ve still gone on to the set, even though my throat was raging and my mind was saying to me, ‘Hey Josh, shouldn’t you have had this in your teens?’ There have been times when I’ve broken knuckles in screen fights, and once I broke a blood vessel in my eye. "But you don’t quibble about that stuff, you just get on with it and accept it as part of the business - especially when you don’t like using stuntmen to do your job for you."

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AMY WINEHOUSE has been forced to cancel the remainder of her troubled U.K. tour by doctors - because the strain of her husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL’s incarceration has rendered the volatile singer unable to perform.
The Back To Black star - whose performances have been plagued by reports of fans storming out over her incoherent singing and delayed start times abandoned her tour crew on Monday night (26Nov07) after her gig in Brighton, England, and headed back to London in a taxi. She was due to play a concert in Bournemouth on the south coast of Britain on Tuesday night (27Nov07).
But the remaining eight U.K. tour dates were pulled after Winehouse was spotted walking into the London Clinic on Tuesday afternoon. The clinic is home to doctors specialising in such fields as breast enlargements, cancer screening, liver problems, pregnancy and gynaecological matters, among others in the capital’s famed medical centre, Harley Street.
In a statement from her record company Universal, the star - who has been battling a drug problem - blamed her recent erratic behaviour on the stress she has been put under following her husband’s incarceration at London’s Pentonville Prison. He was arrested earlier this month (Nov07) on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in relation to a charge of grievous bodily harm.
The statement reads, "Amy Winehouse has cancelled all remaining live and promotional appearances for the remainder of the year on the instruction of her doctor. The rigours involved in touring and the intense emotional strain that Amy has been under in recent weeks have taken their toll. In the interests of her health and well-being, Amy has been ordered to take complete rest and deal with her health issues." The singer herself adds, "I can’t give it my all onstage without my Blake.
I’m so sorry but I don’t want to do the shows half-heartedly; I love singing.
My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same."

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OPRAH WINFREY threw her support behind U.S. presidential candidate BARACK OBAMA, even though she knew it could destroy her career.
The talk show queen has publicly backed Obama as her choice to replace George W. Bush next year (08).
She tells the New York Daily News, "(I thought) What is the cost to me for doing it? Am I going to lose viewers? I made the decision that I have the right to do it as an American citizen. But I will not use my platform. I can use my own personal voice.
"I know him well enough to believe in his moral authority. And that is the number one reason why I am supporting him."

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