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MICHAEL JACKSON’s THRILLER and PINK FLOYD’s THE WALL are among the 70 recordings that have been added to the Grammy Hall Of Fame.
Among the Recording Academy’s other 2007 selections are Lynyrd Skynyrd’s rock anthem Free Bird, Love’s classic album Forever Changes and Willie Nelson’s country hit Always On My Mind.
The Grammy Hall Of Fame was created in 1973 to honour recordings of lasting significance that are at least 25 years old. Its roster now numbers 798 recordings.

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WYCLEF JEAN has some news for pal ANGELINA JOLIE - he didn’t name is adopted daughter after the actress.
The rapper and his wife Marie adopted two-year-old Angelina from their native Haiti in March 2005.
Although he is close friends with Jolie, through her humanitarian work in his homeland, Jean insists the actress wasn’t the inspiration behind his name choice, despite reports to the contrary.
He says, "A lot of people think I named her after Angelina Jolie, because I have worked with her and everyone knows I am a fan.
"But I named her after an angel. Because she is an angel."

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KIEFER SUTHERLAND is receiving no special treatment as he serves a 48-day jail sentence for drink-driving - he’s spending his days cooking for inmates and washing dirty sheets.
The 24 actor checked into California’s Glendale City Jail earlier this month (Dec07) and will spend his upcoming birthday, Christmas (07) and New Year (08) behind bars.
According to the National Enquirer, the actor, who turns 41 on Friday (21Dec07), has been put to work in the laundry and kitchen, serving up food and cleaning the soiled sheets of homeless people.
Jail spokesman Sergeant Tom Lorenz says, "We pick up street people, who then sleep on bunks in our jail. Kiefer Sutherland has to wash their bedding.
"He needs to wear rubber gloves for the job, it’s not a pretty sight. Because it’s such a messy job, Sutherland is allowed to shower twice a day.
"Then he prepares and serves meals to the prisoners." Sutherland was handed the sentence for drink-driving and violating probation in September (07). He is due for release in January (08).

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ALICIA KEYS has claimed America’s Christmas number one single after scoring a fifth week at the top with NO ONE.
The hit also claims a 10th week at the top of Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Flo-Rida’s Low lands at two, swapping places with Timbaland’s Apologize, which falls to three on the new countdown.
Surf-rocker Jack Johnson scores the week’s highest debut on the Hot 100 - his new single, If I Had Eyes, enters the chart at 63.
Elsewhere, the Foo Fighters claim an 18th week at number one on the Modern Rock chart with The Pretender.

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R&B singer MARY J. BLIGE blames a lack of strong parental guidance for the troubles of stars including BRITNEY SPEARS, LINDSAY LOHAN and PARIS HILTON.
Blige claims the main reason many young celebrities are so badly behaved is because there’s nobody in their entourages who’s prepared to disagree with them.
She says, "In a business like the music business, too much success too soon for a young person can drive them crazy.
"If there’s no parental guidance to say, ‘You know, your environment isn’t right. Change it up,’ or something like that… Because everyone’s saying yes to everything you do, everything’s cool, everything you do is hot." And Blige, who has herself battled alcohol and drug addictions, admits her problems had a lot to do with surrounding herself with the wrong kind of people.
She adds, "When I finally woke up and was able to see my environment, I got out of there because they were killing my career, they were killing everything that was going to make me better.
"No one would tell me the truth, and no one’s telling them (today’s troubled stars) the truth and that’s the problem."

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Actress KATIE HOLMES treated a group of girlfriends to a lavish lunch at the Neiman Marcus store in Beverly Hills last week (15Dec07) before splashing out $100,000 (£50,000) on Christmas gifts.
The Batman Begins star insisted on paying the $300 (£150) lunch bill and then hit the aisles of the top department store to find presents.
According to In Touch Weekly magazine, Holmes, who turned 29 on Tuesday (18Dec07), spent more than $70,000 (£35,000) on her husband Tom Cruise.
Some of the gifts the Top Gun star will open on Christmas Day: a $30,000 (£15,000) rose-gold Cartier wristwatch, a black Giorgio Armani suit, Gucci snakeskin sneakers and a Prada ski coat.
The publication reports Holmes also spent nearly $5,000 (£2,500) on clothes for her baby daughter, Suri.

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LATEST: BRITNEY SPEARS was banned from her favourite Los Angeles hotel after her wild parties upset a wealthy resident.
The singer was turned away from the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles last weekend (16Dec07) by staff who told her "you’re not authorised to come in here".
U.S. tabloid National Enquirer claims Spears was blacklisted after ignoring repeated warnings the noisy parties she held in the luxury Presidential Suite were disturbing a high-paying resident who lives in the room below.
During one particularly boisterous stay, the guest complained and threatened to move out - so the hotel manager ordered security guards to escort Spears from the premises, and barred her from returning.
The Toxic superstar had become a regular there in recent weeks, taking trips to and from the hotel up to four times a day. She even spent visitation time with her two young children there.

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The film the Catholic Church urged the faithful to boycott has sailed past the $100 million (£50 million) mark at the international box office.
The Golden Compass has been slammed for being anti-God and anti-religion by scholars - and even officials at The Vatican have stepped in to criticise the film, starring Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman.
In an editorial in The Vatican’s newspaper l’Osservatore Romano, scholars call The Golden Compass "the most anti-Christmas film possible".
But that hasn’t stopped it from hitting $100 million in sales worldwide. The movie opened in America at the beginning of December (07), and has yet to open in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India and parts of South America.

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Sexy EVA MENDES is delighted to be back in favour with activists at People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals after upsetting them with a fur coat faux-pas.
The actress is PETA’s latest poster girl, baring all for a saucy new ‘I’d Rather Go Naked… Than Wear Fur’ campaign.
And Mendes admits she was more than happy to strip for the billboard, which she unveiled in Los Angeles on Thursday (20Dec07), after learning she was off PETA officials’ naughty list, where she landed after wearing a fur coat to a 2003 movie premiere.
She recalls, "I was so floored by what they (PETA) said that I said, ‘I promise I will never do it again.’" Mendes actually likes the idea of appearing naked on huge billboards in America’s leading cities.
She tells online blogger Marc Malkin, "It’s very tasteful. It’s all in fun.
It’s got a flirtatious, fun spirit about it. It’s not like come hither or anything like that."

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U.S. TV personality JACK LINKLETTER has died of lymphoma. He was 70.
Linkletter passed away at his home in Cloverdale, California on Tuesday (18Dec07).
Linkletter followed his father, Art, into television as a teenager in the 1950s and went on to host TV shows like Hootenanny, Here’s Hollywood, America Alive! and the annual televised Miss Universe pageant.

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MELANIE GRIFFITH and DON JOHNSON’s teenage daughter DAKOTA is planning a sober 2008 after secretly undergoing rehab treatment, according to U.S. reports.
The former Miss Golden Globe, 18, recently completed a 30-day program at Malibu, California treatment facility Visions Teen Treatment Center, reports American tabloid National Enquirer.
According to sources, former couple Johnson and Griffith realised their daughter needed help after chatting about the wild child’s partying ways at her 18th birthday party in October (07).
Dakota reportedly agreed to get help, and is now a reformed person, thanks to rehab and regular Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Both Johnson and Griffith have previously attended rehab - the former Miami Vice star battled drug and alcohol issues at the Betty Ford Clinic in the mid-1990s, while his ex hit rehab for addictions to booze in 1988 and painkillers in 2000.
Johnson’s publicist couldn’t be reached by press time.

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ANGELINA JOLIE has hit back at the media’s coverage of her recent weightloss because there was too much focus on how she looked in skinny jeans and not enough on her emotional trauma following the death of her mother.
Jolie admits the stress caused by her mum Marcheline Bertrand’s death from cancer in January (07) led to the weight issue.
She tells British magazine Grazia, "The thing that’s disturbing is that instead of people saying, ‘This looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something, probably from emotions,’ they say, ‘Does she fit into skinny jeans and look thin?’ "I want people to understand who I am as a person is not somebody that’s trying to look thin, but just trying to work through a very difficult year."

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American reality TV star VINCENT MARGERA has been ordered to give up his DON VITO persona for 10 years following his recent conviction on child sex assault charges.
The Viva La Bam star - the uncle of Jackass regular Bam Margera - was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault against children in October (07).
During sentencing in a Jefferson County, Colorado courtroom on Thursday (20Dec07), Judge M.J. Menendez banned Margera from signing autographs and from appearing on any TV show for a decade.
Judge Menendez also placed Margera on probation from 10 years to life and ordered him to register as a sex offender, seek treatment for his substance abuse problems and undertake a mental evaluation.
The 51-year-old had pleaded not guilty to allegations he groped three underage girls at an MTV appearance in a Colorado mall in August 2006. He was found guilty on two counts, but acquitted on another.

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LATEST: An independent panel of investigators who reviewed the way police handled MEL GIBSON’s 2006 drink-driving arrest has concluded nobody tried to cover the incident up.
The Braveheart star, 51, was taken into custody in July 2006 in Malibu, California after he was caught speeding on the Pacific Coast Highway.
Police initially told the world’s media the arrest went "without incident" but leaked details suggested Gibson had verbally abused arresting officer James Mee with anti-Semitic remarks.
Three employees at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have been disciplined for violating police policy in relation to Gibson’s arrest, but the Office Of Independent Review has concluded there was no deliberate cover-up.
According to website TMZ.com, the report reads: "Because of a concern about certain information gathered during the arrest falling prematurely into the hands of media sources and because there was no clear departmental guidance provided on how to handle this scenario presented, supervisors made spontaneous decisions with regard to how to package the information and describe the arrest.
"While these decisions do no indicate a violation of department policy, and were fairly sensible, they do point out the need for creating a thoughtful and systematic approach for how to handle future similar scenarios."

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Saxophonist KENNY G has become the latest star to sign a deal with coffee chain Starbucks’ record label offshoot.
His new album, a collection of Latin love songs, will be released by the label that earlier this year (07) snagged Sir Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell in February (08).
The easy-listening star collaborated with leading Latin musicians on the album, titled Rhythm And Romance.

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A bizarre musical tracing the life of TINA TURNER is heading for the London stage.
The show, based on Turner’s autobiography, will be called Simply The Best, according to reports.
It will chart everything from the singer’s youth as Anna Mae Bullock, through her abusive marriage to the late Ike Turner, to her subsequent solo superstardom.
The musical will feature hits like Private Dancer, Let’s Stay Together and What’s Love Got to Do With It? Insiders claim the plot will include links to Egyptian mythology.
A source tells the New York Post, "(In one scene) the Egyptian queen (Hatshepsut) watches over Tina. When Ike pulls a gun on Tina, Hatshepsut shields her and the gun ‘leaps’ out of Ike’s hand." The star’s life has been explored dramatically a number of times, including in the film What’s Love Got to Do With It, which cast Angela Basset as Turner, and in River Deep, A Tribute To Tina Turner, a 2006 musical inspired by the star’s autobiography I, Tina.
Tina’s ex-husband, Ike, died in his sleep last week (12Dec07).

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Country star DOLLY PARTON has blasted the North Carolina dinner theatre bosses who fired her brother for onstage drunkeness.
The singer’s younger brother, Randy, was sacked from his namesake theatre in Roanoke Rapids at the beginning of the month (06Dec07) after venue bosses reportedly found him under the influence of alcohol.
But his big sister insists Randy is just being used as "a scapegoat" for a failing enterprise.
She says, "I know in my heart that Randy gave it his best effort.
Unfortunately, now things aren’t working as well as everyone hoped, everyone is pointing fingers and naturally no one wants to take the blame." Randy Parton, who has occasionally performed in his sister’s band, was also reported to have sworn at audience members during a show in the days leading up to his dismissal.

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TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS were the second choice to perform at the Super Bowl next year (08) - the EAGLES were approached to play the half-time show and turned organisers down.
According to music magazine Rolling Stone, the Hotel California hitmakers refused to play at the American football final in Arizona and gave no reason for declining the offer.
Meanwhile, drummer/singer Don Henley insists the group would not turn down the chance to play at country mecca the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee - if he and his bandmates were asked.
He says, "That would be an honour… Certainly, country is one of the last bastions of good songwriting - and of singing in tune.
"Country music is now akin to what my generation was listening to in the ’60s and ’70s."

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