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Cement art HEATH LEDGER and his young daughter MATILDA created on the sidewalk near his former New York home has become an unlikely shrine to the movie star.
Ledger scribbled `MATILDA’ in the wet cement after his two-year-old daughter stepped on the drying pavement in Brooklyn last summer (07).
Her print was joined by that of a former neighbour’s dog, called Hugo.
Neighbour Roger Lang, who lived across the street from the apartment Ledger shared with his ex-fiancee, Matilda’s mother Michelle Williams, confirmed the markings were the actors to stunned fans who gathered outside his old home on Wednesday morning (23Jan08).
Lang said. "It was a secret. It was a fun thing. He did it as a surprise for his family." Fans have since placed carnations on the sidewalk near Ledger’s footprint art - as a tribute to the actor.

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LATEST: Police investigating the death of actor HEATH LEDGER have found a rolled-up $20 bill in his apartment, suggesting the late actor was a hard drug user.
The Brokeback Mountain star, 28, was found dead in the bedroom of his New York home on Tuesday (22Jan08) afternoon.
The $20 bill will now be tested by scientists, although police said no drug residue was visible on it and refused to comment on speculation that the bill was used to snort cocaine.
An autopsy carried out on Wednesday (23Jan08) failed to reveal how Ledger died, although police believe his death is drug-related as sleeping pills were found strewn around his apartment. No illegal drugs were found.
Officials will now have to wait for the results of a series of toxicology tests which may hold further clues into what caused the 28-year-old’s death. A spokesman for the medical examiner assigned to the case insists it may take up to 10 days to conclude their investigation.
Meanwhile, Australian Ledger’s body has been released to a New York funeral home.

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EVA LONGORIA PARKER’s first date with husband TONY PARKER was in a pancake house.
The couple met at a San Antonio Spurs basketball game in 2004 and arranged to meet up two days later - at U.S. chain diner International House Of Pancakes.
Longoria admits the cheap meal was a perfect starting point for two young lovers.
She says, "I’d never heard of Tony and he had no idea who I was." Parker and Longoria wed in France last summer (Jul07).

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TOM HANKS’ actor son COLIN is directing a documentary about the modern music industry.
The King Kong star was inspired to scrutinise record sales and downloading after realising kids were no longer growing up with the "thrill" of buying music from a store.
He says, "I’ve bought music online but I’m still very big about going into a record store.
"I’m very proud to say that I actually paid $14 for the Radiohead CD, and then actually went into the effort of converting it in pounds so I could buy it on the (British band’s) website.
"The film will show the death of the concept of what the music industry was and what it’s evolving into, and how that will effect all forms of entertainment.
"Everything is changing and it’s all because the fact that computers can now do a great many things. Something big is gonna change and it’s been changing in the music business for a while now and it will start affecting almost every other aspect of the entertainment industry.
"I will hopefully get a lot of musicians and various people involved in the music industry involved in the film."

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ALICIA KEYS has scored a third non-consecutive week at the top of the U.S.
album chart.
The singer’s As I Am debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 last month (Dec07) and returned to number one last week (16Jan08).
Sales of just 61,000 were enough to keep the album at the top in what has become one of the worst starts for any year since charts began.
The soundtrack to Oscar-nominated movie Juno and Mary J. Blige’s Gowing Pains each climbs up a place to claim the new two and three spots respectively.
The highest new entry belongs to Raheem DeVaughn, who debuts Love Behind The Melody at five.

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GEORGE CLOONEY is planning to take his relationship with girlfriend SARAH LARSEN to the next level after asking her to move in with him.
Clooney has occupied his Hollywood Hills home all alone since his beloved Vietnamese Pot Bellied pig Max died in 2006.
But sources tell tabloid Star that Clooney is smitten with the 29-year-old former waitress he has dated since last June (07), insisting the hunk is ready to co-habit again.
A friend tells the magazine, "Sarah is always with him, so it just made sense. Plus, he likes having her around. She has made him very happy because she has a great sense of humour and doesn’t stress him out. She’s easygoing and loving, and I think he really needs that right now.
"George has been feeling lonely. Sarah has filled the void."

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Actress DIANE KEATON has never wed because she’s afraid of men.
The Annie Hall star has famously dated stars like Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, but she admits she never came close to marrying either men - or any of the other guys she has romanced.
She says, "I was always a little bit afraid of men: ‘Oh no, am I going to get lost in this? Am I going to be myself, or am I going to be constantly saying, Your jokes are so funny!’ "I was inclined to be someone who would go along. Not a good thing. They’re not getting the real you, and you don’t know how to be the real you." The single mother-of-two adopted kids adds, "When I’d be attracted to men, I’d wish they’d be more like me… I wish I could have appreciated them for what they were about, instead of how they were in relation to me." But Keaton insists she still has crushes on some of her co-stars, falling for her onscreen husband in new film Mad Money, Ted Danson.
She explains, "As far as Ted goes I think he’s just the perfect kind of guy for me."

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British funnyman STEVE COOGAN’s new movie has become the first big hit of this year’s (08) Sundance Film Festival in Utah after the film, HAMLET 2, was picked up for distribution by Focus Features executives.
The movie bosses wasted no time in snapping up the comedy after its premiere on Monday (21Jan08).
According to Daily Variety, the deal followed an all-night bidding war, with Summit Entertainment, Weinstein Co., Lionsgate and Warner Independent Pictures as contenders." The film features Coogan as a struggling English teacher who pens a sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a desperate bid to save his school’s drama department.
The movie also stars Catherine Keener and David Arquette.

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Supermodel-turned-talk show host TYRA BANKS is dreaming of a wedding with her banker boyfriend of six months JOHN UTENDAHL.
The 34-year-old former catwalk queen has kept tight-lipped about her romance with 50-year-old Utendahl, and recently complained of her single life.
She said, "I go home and put my key in my door and… nothing; no friends, no husband, no children. I feel so full when I’m at work but so empty when I come home." But pals insist she is ready to come home to the financial whiz she has kept hidden from the world.
A source tells Star magazine, "She’s at a point in her life where she wants a serious commitment."

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U.S. comedienne-turned-TV host ELLEN DeGENERES paid a touching tribute to tragic actor HEATH LEDGER at the end of her chat show on Wednesday (23Jan08).
DeGeneres called the Brokeback Mountain star "an amazing, amazing, talented young man," before devoting the finale of her show to a clip of her and Ledger `riding’ on a bobsled in front of a green screen.
The TV star was one of many to offer her thoughts about Ledger the day after the Aussie actor was found dead in his New York apartment.
The late star’s Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee admits he’s heartbroken about his friend’s death.
Lee says, "Working with Heath was one of the purest joys of my life… His death is heartbreaking." Ledger was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role as gay cowboy Ennis Del Mar in the drama.
And Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd states, "We have lost one of our nation’s finest actors in the prime of his life."

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MICHAEL MOORE is amazed his movie SICKO has received an Academy Award nomination, because he thought he’d never be invited back after slamming U.S.
President GEORGE W. BUSH onstage in 2003.
Moore outraged many with his controversial speech, which Oscars producers cut short, when picking up the Best Documentary award for Bowling For Columbine.
But the 53-year-old was pleased to hear his film about America’s health care problems had picked up a Best Documentary Academy Award nomination on Tuesday (21Jan08).
He says, "I’m appreciative that they allowed me back in the building (Kodak Theatre).
"If I’m fortunate enough to stand on that stage again, I will be true to myself and very gracious and grateful for the acknowledgment, but I would start by finishing the last 10 seconds of the previous speech." And the famously unstylish filmmaker adds, "I would thank my wardrobe designer and hair stylist."

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Cult rockers the LIARS’ U.S. tour has been thrown into doubt after frontman ANGUS ANDREW injured his back last weekend (19/20Jan08).
The singer is resting up after putting his back out while trying to pick up a pillow from a couch in his Los Angeles home.
A post on the band’s website reads: "As Angus stooped to retrieve a tiny pillow from the couch in his L.A. home a seismic bolt tore through the fabric of his lower back rendering him immobile on the living room floor… Angus was face down in spasms." The band’s tour is scheduled to start in San Francisco, California on Friday (25Jan08). Publicists insist the frontman will be fine for the show.

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Rap mogul DIDDY wants to change his name again.
The hitmaker and designer, real name Sean Combs, was once known as Puff Daddy before becoming P. Diddy two years ago (06). He abbreviated that to just Diddy last year (07).
Now he wants to be known as Sean John - the name of his successful clothing and fragrance line.
He says, "I have always evolved and taken a different name each time. Right now I want to be Sean John because that’s where I am right now."

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TINA TURNER is coming out of retirement to make her first proper public live performance in eight years at the Grammy Awards.
The 68-year-old supergran will duet with Beyonce Knowles at the music Oscars next month (Feb08).
Turner announced her retirement in 2000, but took the stage for a private charity gig at London’s National History Museum last May (07).
Now she’ll make a spectacular comeback by performing a currently-unknown song with Knowles at the Los Angeles awards ceremony.
Knowles, 26, is a longterm fan of Turner’s and performed her song Proud Mary at a Kennedy Center tribute to the veteran musician in 2005.

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Rockers R.E.M. have shot a new video in a New York City sex shop.
The group filmed part of the promo for new single Supernatural Serious at Babeland on Rivington Street in Manhattan on Monday (21Jan08).
Babeland co-owner Claire Cavanah tells Billboard.com she was thrilled to get a call from the group’s manager hours before bandmates Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills showed up to "play" to stunned shoppers.
She says, "We were thrilled." R.E.M. performed a 30-minute set in the store’s window. The trio took over the Italian restaurant next door for other scenes.
The track will be the first single from the band’s upcoming album, Accelerate.

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JACK NICHOLSON has hinted he warned tragic HEATH LEDGER against taking on the role of THE JOKER in the new BATMAN film.
Ledger, 28 - who was declared dead at 3.30pm at his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday (22Jan08) - publicly declared himself exhausted and sleep deprived in November (07) following the gruelling shoot for The Dark Knight. He also revealed in an interview with the New York Times he’d resorted to taking sleeping pills - an overdose of which is believed to be the cause of his death - in a desperate bid to catch up on rest.
And Nicholson, who famously portrayed the menacing Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 movie Batman, implied to the waiting crowd outside plush London restaurant The Wolesley on Tuesday night he spoke to Ledger about his role in The Dark Knight - and warned him about the pitfalls of taking on such a demanding challenge.
When asked by the London crowds for his reaction to Ledger’s untimely demise, a defeated Nicholson simply replied, "I told him so." Batman Begins prequel The Dark Knight is due to be released in July (08).

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Hollywood star LINDSAY LOHAN is planning to reveal all about her rocky road to fame in a memoir.
The 21-year-old actress wants to share her life story and give an insight into her recent brushes with substance abuse and the law in a published diary.
A source tells OK! Magazine, "She wants it to be reminiscent of Drew Barrymore’s Little Girl Lost, which is about struggling with addiction as a child star."

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