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30 SECONDS TO MARS rocker JARED LETO shocked fans at a London gig after attacking an audience member with his microphone.
The actor-turned-musician was performing with his band in the British capital earlier this month (06Feb08) when he lashed out at a fan during hit Buddha For Mary.
It’s not the first time Leto has used his microphone as a weapon - he mounted a similar attack on a fan in May last year (07) at Netherlands festival Pinkpop.

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AMY WINEHOUSE’s jailed husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL was rushed to the prison medical block this week (begs 11Feb08) after allegedly taking a drugs overdose.
Fielder-Civil, who is currently behind bars in London’s Pentonville Prison, was found vomiting violently and writhing in pain on the floor of his cell after reportedly taking a potentially lethal combination of heroin mixed with an unknown toxic substance with five other inmates.
A Prison Service spokesperson said, "A small number of prisoners were treated in health care following the consumption of an unknown substance." Just days prior to the overdose, Fielder-Civil had been sentenced to solitary confinement after failing three random drug tests.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice and will stand trial in June (08).
The 25-year-old is accused of attempting to fix the outcome of a previous trial for grievous bodily harm.

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Actress CHARLIZE THERON is shunning red carpet glamour at this year’s (08) Oscars ceremony - in favour of her pyjamas.
The 32-year-old - who won a Best Actress Academy Award in 2004 for Monster and director/actor boyfriend Stuart Townsend have no plans to attend the 2008 ceremony, but will cheer on their Hollywood peers from the comfort of their living room sofa.
She says, "We are not going. I don’t think you go to those kind of award shows unless you are nominated.
"I think it’s a special thing if you get a nomination, or your film does.
Then you go.
"But we don’t have any nominations or anything like that in the house, so we sit in our jammies and watch it on the couch." The annual awards event will take place in Los Angeles on 24 February (08).

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KIRSTEN DUNST’s representatives have blasted accusations the actress’ split with actor JAKE GYLLENHAAL was caused by her alleged substance abuse.
The 25-year-old was reportedly admitted to Cirque Lodge after a week of partying at last month’s (Jan08) Sundance Film Festival - but family sources close to the Spider Man star insist it was her wild ways that caused the couple’s three-year relationship to end in 2005.
A source tells American magazine Us Weekly, "Jake was turned off by all the partying." A representative for Dunst has dismissed the split rumours as "downright wrong" and is adamant "she is not being treated for cocaine or any drug".

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Troubled rocker PETE DOHERTY delighted an American millionaire by agreeing to perform in his own front room in England - despite turning up over six hours later for the bespoke gig.
Californian computer games tycoon Greg Thomas flew from the U.S. and paid $30,000 (£15,000) for an up close and personal performance by the Babyshambles frontman.
The gig was due to take place on Friday (15Feb08) evening at the star’s Burbage, Wiltshire home at 9pm, but was delayed as Doherty was ‘too out of it’ to perform, according to his literary agent Paul Roundhill.
However, the one-hour performance for Thomas and his wife Cynthia later took place at 3am on Saturday (16Feb08), with the couple staying at Doherty’s residence following the special gig.
Doherty says, "The gig went really well. It was really nice. I got to try out lots of new material. These people were real aficionados. They certainly know their stuff. Everything I played went down really well, from old songs all the way through to my new stuff which no-one’s heard.
"They were a really nice couple as well. They’ve got three children and it was just nice all around, just for a bit of pocket money." Doherty’s latest unique performance earned him significantly more than his last personal gig - he was paid just $200 (£100) to play at an English teen’s birthday party earlier this month (Feb08).

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British actor TODD CARTY is recovering in hospital after collapsing onstage.
The EastEnders star, 44, was performing in The Business Of Murder in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when he suddenly became "violently sick", passed out, and was rushed to a local emergency room.
His agent Derek Webster says, "It might have had something to do with an ear infection that Todd has been suffering from for a few days now - I can’t actually confirm that.
"He did collapse on stage, he was violently sick. The theatre staff brought the curtain down, rushed him to the Stevenage hospital.
"He’s undergoing tests, there’s not much more that we can say, other than that he’s well, he’s awake and he’s conscious and his wife is with him."

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Actress NATALIE PORTMAN is set to make her directorial debut - with a film in Hebrew.
The Israeli-born star - who also speaks French and some Arabic, besides English and Hebrew - will helm the screen adaptation of A Tale Of Love And Darkness, Amos Oz’s memoir of his childhood in Jersualem in the 1940s, reports the New York Post’s gossip column PageSix.
She tells America’s W magazine, "I’ve been reading Oz since high school, and when I read his biography I just sort of saw it."

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HARRY POTTER author J.K. ROWLING has dismissed speculation she used her ex-husband as inspiration for one of her literary villains.
The 42-year-old writer has been accused of basing her character Gilderoy Lockhart, an overly vain wizard, on her former husband Jorge Arantes, who she married in 1992.
She says, "None of the characters in my books are based on my ex.
"Whatever happened in our marriage, the truth is my ex-husband contributed 50 per cent to on one of the most beautiful things in my life, my eldest daughter.
"I’d never use him in a fairytale. He’s her father." Rowling and Arantes married in 1992 and lived as man and wife for less than two years, during which she gave birth to her first daughter Jessica.

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Actor CHRISTOPHER WALKEN sang while dressed in drag when he collected his Man Of The Year award from Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society on Friday (15Feb08).
The Oscar winner donned a bra and brown wig, danced and sang a song from movie Hairspray before accepting the wacky honour from the prestigious Massachusetts college’s amateur theatrical organisation.
Walken admitted he would "have prepared or had a couple of drinks" had he known what was in store at the ceremony, adding, "I hope nobody’s watching. I acted on this stage in a play about 20 years ago." The 64-year-old later admitted he was "amazed and thrilled" by the honour.
Talisa Friedman, press manager for the Hasty Pudding drama troupe, said Walken exemplifies the Hasty Pudding spirit and the value it puts on fun.
Actress Charlize Theron collected the Hasty Pudding Woman Of The Year award earlier this month (Feb08).

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JOSE PADILHA’s crime drama THE ELITE SQUAD has won the 2008 Golden Bear - the top honour at the Berlin Film Festival.
The film - about corrupt police officers supposed to be fighting drug crime in Brazil - beat out 21 other movies, including the Oscar-nominated There Will Be Blood and Mike Leigh’s comedy Happy-Go-Lucky, to take home the prize.
The Silver Bear gong was awarded to filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson for his oil epic There Will Be Blood, while British star Sally Hawkins won Best Actress for Happy-Go-Lucky and Iranian actor Reza Naji scored Best Actor for The Song Of Sparrows.

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JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT and fiance ROSS McCALL were left red-faced at a recent concert - after CELINE DION dedicated a love song to them.
In her first concert since she wrapped her five-year A New Day residency in Las Vegas in December (07), the singer singled out the newly-engaged couple and thanked them for coming to the show last week (ends15Feb08) before launching into her hit ballad The Power Of Love.
Love Hewitt, 28, met the Scotsman when he made a 2006 guest appearance on her TV show The Ghost Whisperer. The pair became engaged last November (2007) after the Band Of Brothers star proposed while on vacation in Hawaii.

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Fans of music legends THE CARPENTERS have launched a campaign to save the duo’s former home from redevelopment.
Current owners Manuel and Blanca Melendez Parra have submitted plans to build a new home to officials in Downey, California, where the five-bedroom house once lived in by Karen and Richard Carpenter stands.
The pair are tired of fans converging on the iconic residence, which was was featured on the cover of 1973 album Now & Then, and was owned by the Carpenter family until 1997.
The Parras’ daughter Jessica says, "In the beginning, we let everybody in.
But honestly, it became horrible, not only for us but for the neighbourhood.
"People peek in windows and take pictures. They leave flowers on the front porch." But fan Jon Konjoyan is hopeful his campaign to save the historical house will succeed.
He explains, "This house is our version of Graceland. When they photographed the Now & Then cover here in 1973, the house was instantly immortalised.
"They were such a huge American act in the 70s. So many people loved them." Officials in Downey have confirmed they have received plans for a new home on the site, but have not yet issued a demolition permit.

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