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LATEST: AMY WINEHOUSE is "determined" to perform at the 2008 Grammy Awards ceremony, despite her recent arrest for marijuana possession.
The Rehab singer received six Grammy nominations on Thursday (06Dec07), including nods for Best New Artist and Album Of The Year for Back To Black.
But Winehouse’s arrest in Norway for cannabis possession could prevent her from entering the U.S. for the ceremony in Los Angeles on 10 February (08) although the 24-year-old is hopeful she’ll be permitted to attend the event.
Her representative tells website People.com, "Amy is thrilled to be nominated for six Grammys and is very much hoping to attend.
"She is determined to be ready and well for that performance."

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CHARLIZE THERON has become the latest victim of callous thieves who have turned the Hollywood Hills into a hotbed of crime.
The Oscar winner’s home was targeted by robbers at the weekend (08/09Dec07), who broke into her estate, according to TMZ.com.
As WENN went to press it was not clear if the actress was at home when the burglary took place. There are also no details as to what was taken in the raid.
The year started off with Faith Hill and Tim McGraw falling victim to the Hollywood Hills crime wave. Thieves stole an unspecified amount of money from their home in February (07).
And Duran Duran star John Taylor’s Hollywood home was also hit by robbers.

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RUSSELL CROWE is in talks to give movie cop DIRTY HARRY a new look.
The Gladiator star is tipped to headline a remake of Clint Eastwood’s movie classic, according to internet reports.
The new film will recreate the original, taking Crowe - or whoever lands the role of tough detective Harry Callahan - back to early 1970s San Francisco, California.

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Actor GEORGE CLOONEY will make a second awareness-raising trip to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan next month (Jan08).
The 46-year-old hopes his celebrity status will draw more attention to the appalling conditions in the area as he tours the most affected areas of the crisis.
Clooney says, "I’m not a politician, so the reason I go is to focus attention there.
"We’re going to try to get deeper into Darfur, try to get some cameras in to the tougher camps and have conversations.
"That’s basically all I can do. If you put famous people in front of very ugly sites, people will watch." Clooney visited Darfur with his father, a former U.S. news anchor, last year (06). They shot a short film about the horrors of the refugee camps.
Details of Clooney’s upcoming trip are being kept secret for security reasons.
The actor admits he feels compelled to do all he can to raise awareness in Darfur: "It certainly reminds you to be ridiculously happy with your life. Once you see people suffering in the way these people are suffering, you feel very guilty about not suffering at all." On Thursday (13Dec07), Clooney and his Ocean’s Eleven co-star Don Cheadle will be honoured for their efforts in Darfur at the World Summit Of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome, Italy. Both actors will receive the Peace Summit Award at the event.

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LINDSAY LOHAN has fuelled speculation she has a new boyfriend, after the actress was filmed kissing a mystery hunk at a Los Angeles restaurant on Friday (07Dec07).
The Mean Girls star split up with her snowboarder lover Riley Giles - who she met in rehab - last month (Nov07), supposedly so she could focus on her career.
But during a night out at Il Sole on Friday, Lohan was filmed by website TMZ.com smooching a dark-haired man whose identity remains unknown.

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Fantasy movie THE GOLDEN COMPASS has pointed the way to the top of the international box office, where it debuted at number one over the weekend (07-09Dec07).
The film, which stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, proved the most popular movie in cinemas outside the U.S. with takings of $55 million (£27.5 million).
Disney fairytale Enchanted sits at two with $11.6 million (£5.8 million), while Bee Movie is at three with $10.1 million (£5.05 million).

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Hollywood legend JACK NICHOLSON can only find one downside to ageing - his friends keep dying.
The veteran actor is embracing old age, and although he’s helped by his teenage children, he still struggles to deal with the constant grief he feels for lost pals.
Nicholson, 70 says, "We all want to go on forever. I can’t bear the number of funerals you go to once you get older. I have to find a way to adjust to loss or sentence myself to a life of grieving.
"So I focus on the immediate, on my children."

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ALAN RICKMAN won’t be using his singing skills in the SWEENEY TODD movie musical as his inspiration to get back to Broadway because his last New York stage tune was a disaster.
Fans of the British thespian hope Rickman will follow his performance in Tim Burton’s new movie with a return to Broadway - but he insists that’s not in his future because he’s still smarting from the experience of singing in Private Lives.
Rickman explains, "Eight shows singing a week is different than one song recorded, as people find out to their peril and the loss of their voice.
"I actually did sing in Private Lives on Broadway, and we still think it was something wrong with the spores in the air conditioning.
"Both (co-star) Lindsay Duncan and I lost our voices and my vocal range was shot. I couldn’t speak or certainly sing and I nearly did something permanently damaging and that’s bad air, eight shows a week so it’s a tight rope.
"For the last few weeks of that run I had a song in it that I had to speak.
The voice is a weird instrument."

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Movie hunk MORRIS CHESTNUT sparked a medical emergency on the set of his latest film THE PERFECT HOLIDAY when a fan abandoned her baby in the back of a car to get close to the handsome actor.
Chestnut’s co-star Gabrielle Union was stunned when the young New Jersey mum dashed towards the actor, leaving her tot to roll off the backseat and into the street.
She says, "Morris walks out of this building and you hear this scream, and then, ‘Beep, beep, beep, thud!’ "This woman had been changing her baby’s diaper in the back seat of the car.
She sees Morris, leaves the baby on the edge of the seat and starts running after Morris.
"The baby rolls out of the car and we had to call the ambulance. She literally lost her mind. She was with an infant in pampers and just loses it."

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SYLVESTER STALLONE received death threats while shooting new movie RAMBO because the militia in Thailand didn’t want him there.
The movie star and his crew arrived in the country on the day of a military coup - and were warned to leave straight away.
But the Hollywood tough guy refused to be frightened off.
He says, "There were a lot of people trying to dissuade us. There were a lot of threats to myself, to the crew. There were some formidable death threats." Stallone reveals he was told that he and his crew would be shot if their plans to film along the war-torn border of Thailand and Myanmar went ahead.
And the actor/director admits there were many times he felt vulnerable: "On the set or at the hotel, you are fine. But I was worried for people travelling back and forth because things could happen."

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LATEST: Actress CAMRYN MANHEIM has applauded her GHOST WHISPERER co-star JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT for hitting out at the media after unflattering bikini photographs of her surfaced.
Hewitt was snapped in her black two-piece swimsuit last month (Nov07) as she was enjoying a romantic break in Hawaii with fiance Ross McCall.
The paparazzi shots were then ridiculed by the media’s fashion and fitness police.
The 28-year-old fired back in a post on her website, insisting she’s content with her figure, but feared comments about her body would put young girls under more pressure to diet.
A host of celebrities have applauded the actress for not just ignoring the harsh comments, and now Manheim, who faced her own body image issues, is heaping praise on Hewitt.
She’s convinced Hewitt’s response has sent out a strong message to young women: "I couldn’t be more proud of her. I think she’s really empowered. I wrote her a long email and said, `What I wouldn’t do for your beautiful butt!’" Other female stars who have backed Hewitt’s comments include Kate Walsh, Rosario Dawson and Anne Hathaway.

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LATEST: U.S. TV star GARY COLLINS will not be prosecuted for manslaughter, after the elderly man hit by a car driven by the drunk actor died on Friday (07Dec07).
The 69-year-old was arrested after crashing his black Ford Explorer into a blue Toyota while driving through Sherman Oaks, California in October (07).
Collins was sentenced to 96 hours in jail and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to drink-driving last week (ends09Dec07).
But Warren Gates, 89, has now died from injuries sustained in the collision.
According to website TMZ.com, police will not prosecute Collins for manslaughter because Gates caused the crash by making an illegal left-turn, and authorities must prove it was Collins who caused the accident.

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LATEST: Stunt legend EVEL KNIEVEL was laid to rest in Butte, Montana early on Monday (10Nov07), as family and friends remembered the daredevil, who died last month (Nov07).
Crystal Cathedral founder Revd. Robert Schuller led the tributes and prayers at the Butte Civic Center.
Knievel’s hearse was greeted by fireworks as it arrived in his hometown on Sunday (09Dec07).
Following the service, the body of the motorcycle stuntman was driven down the six-mile road that bears his name, Evel Knievel Way. A private family burial is planned.
Knievel was 69 when he died on 30 November in Florida after a long battle with diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis.

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Irish dancing superstar MICHAEL FLATLEY has won an $11 million (£5.5 million) settlement against a woman who falsely accused him of sexual assault.
The Lord Of The Dance and Riverdance star was awarded the damages on Friday (07Dec07) over malicious claims made against him by American Tyna Marie Robertson.
In a statement released through his publicist over the weekend (08Dec07), Flatley said, "I am very pleased with the judgment awarded to me.
"Ms. Robertson tried to extort money from me by spreading these lies and the court sent a message that it will not tolerate these types of schemes." Robertson alleged Flatley had raped her in a Las Vegas hotel in 2002. She threatened to file a sexual assault lawsuit unless Flatley agreed to pay a "seven figures" settlement, according to court papers.

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DOLLY PARTON thrilled the cast of upcoming Broadway musical 9 TO 5 by serving them homemade treats every morning.
Former The West Wing star Allison Janney, who is starring in the production, was among those who queued up for Parton’s culinary delights.
The actress plays the role made famous by Lily Tomlin in the 1980 film, which co-starred Parton as a busty secretary.
She says, "Dolly would come every day in her unbelievable outfits.
"She’d come with peanut butter fudge or whoopie pies (cookie and cream cake) she made the night before." Parton has written nearly 20 songs for the musical adaptation.
Janney adds, "She would sit there and write new lyrics during the course of the day. She would write lyrics on a paper plate.
"I would be trying to take the paper plates home with me, but she has people who grab those kinds of things to save them for her archives."

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HIM frontman VILLE VALO insists the heavy rock group could easily have had a successful career as a boy band if they’d chosen to.
Valo claims the Finnish three-piece has the perfect balance of different body-types to prove a hit with teenage girls.
He says, "HIM is kind of like a perfect boy band. We have one chubby one, one kind of nearly chubby one, and one really skinny one. We’ve got blondes. We’ve got everything in between, so we’d make a great boy band.
"But, at the end of the day, a musician is what I want to be, not a model."

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U.S. pop star JESSE McCARTNEY is hoping to break festive records in Minnesota this week (beg10Dec07) when he leads the world’s largest Christmas carol.
The singer will hit the Mall Of America in Minneapolis with fans to break the record, as part of the promotion for new movie Alvin & The Chipmunks.
McCartney provides the voice of chipmunk Theodore in the new film.

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Rocker JOHN PAUL JONES has disowned LED ZEPPELIN’s one-time road manager after his former friend sold the legendary band’s secrets to two biographers.
Richard Cole toured with Led Zeppelin throughout the group’s late 1960s/’70s heyday, and went on to become the primary source for author Stephen Davis’ landmark 1985 account of the band’s excesses on the road, Hammer Of The Gods.
When Jones later asked him why he’d exaggerated the group’s bad behaviour for the book, Cole explained that he’d been a drug addict who needed the money - so the rocker forgave him.
But Jones has now vowed never to talk to Cole again after he went behind the bandmates’ backs for a second time - for his own 2002 book, Stairway To Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored.
Jones says, "I saw Richard after that book (Hammer Of The Gods), and he’d cleaned up and said he did it for the money
. I went, ‘OK,’ because I knew him from before the band so we made our peace.
"And then another book came out, Stairway To Heaven, which made Bonzo (drummer John Bonham) look such a monster
. I’ve never spoken to him again." Led Zeppelin will reunite for a special one-off concert on Monday (10Dec07) at London’s O2 Arena
. The late John Bonham will be replaced by his son Jason on drums
.

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