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BRITNEY SPEARS wowed French fans on TV on Friday (28Nov08) when she performed her new hit WOMANIZER on talent show STAR ACADEMY.
A night after making her first major comeback performance since the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards - at the 2008 Bambi Awards in Germany - Spears was in Paris for her TV turn.
Wearing a flashy red corset dress, she sent fans wild with a lip-synced performance.
Spears will complete her whistle-stop tour on Saturday night (29Nov08) when she performs on British TV talent show The X Factor.

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Movie mogul DINO DE LAURENTIIS was so appalled when a young MERYL STREEP was brought in to audition for him for KING KONG - he called her a "pig".
The moviemaker/producer, who eventually picked Jessica Lange for the role in the 1976 film, thought he was being clever by using Italian to convey his disgust - but Streep understood every word.
She tells America’s Entertainment Weekly magazine, "He said, ‘Why did you send me this pig? This woman is so ugly… so I looked at him and I said, ‘I’m very sorry that I disappoint you.’ "He was so used to treating girls like bimbos (and) never imagined that a blonde person could speak Italian." De Laurentiis has denied Streep’s story, insisting he did meet with the actress about another film project - but the encounter was nothing like the one the actress describes.

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Actress MARY STEENBURGEN is glad Thanksgiving Day in America is over - she had to cook for 25, and cover everyone’s varied diets.
The Parenthood star loved having family and friends around her for the big feast on Thursday (27Nov08), but there was a lot of planning that had to go into the party.
She says, "You have to accommodate a lot of different diets - my husband is vegan, or near vegan, because of his cholesterol, that he’s trying to lower naturally.
"So we did a seitan piccata from our favourite restaurant… from their recipe - and that was good."

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Supermodel HEIDI KLUM has kept every tooth she has ever lost and carries them everywhere she goes in a little bag.
The German catwalk queen, who is married to British soul star Seal, unveiled her bizarre stash of teeth during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
She explained, "I carry around a little bag of my teeth.
"We don’t have a tooth fairy (in Germany), so I put them in a little bag.
"I don’t know if it’s good luck, it’s just a crazy thing that I do."

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MICKEY ROURKE owes his life to his late Chihuahua Beau Jack - because the pooch convinced the actor not to take his own life as depression took a stranglehold.
The Angel Heart star recalls locking himself and his beloved dog away in a closet, planning to commit suicide - but he just couldn’t go through with it and it was all down to his little dog.
Rourke recalls, "(I was) doing some crazy s**t, but I saw a look in Beau Jack’s eyes, and I put the s**t down. That dog saved my life." But even though his acting career is on the rise again, thanks in part to his acclaimed new role in The Wrestler, Rourke admits he still has self-destructive tendencies.
He adds, "There’s still a little man inside me with an axe, but I keep that little f**ker quiet." Beau Jack died in 2002, and Rourke now dotes on his late pooch’s daughter, Loki.

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PATRICIA MARCHAND, Broadway’s LOIS LANE, has died, aged 74.
The actress, who played Superman’s love interest in quirky 1960s musical It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman, lost her battle with brain cancer on Thursday (27Nov08) at her home in Manhattan. She was 74.
As well as her many successes on stage, the Tony Award nominee was also a regular on the Merv Griffin Show on television in America.
Marchand’s theatre credits include a stint in The King & I, opposite Yul Brynner, and as Aldonza in Man Of La Mancha.
The redhead won her Tony nomination for her starring role as Lois Lane in the Broadway production of It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman in 1966.

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Rapper T.I. has scored a fifth week at the top of the U.S. pop charts with his RIHANNA duet LIVE YOUR LIFE, but BEYONCE KNOWLES is a double threat at two and three.
Beyonce’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) has rocketed to two from 28, thanks mainly to 204,000 digital downloads, while her ballad If I Were a Boy stays put at three.
The R&B star claimed America’s top album on Wednesday (26Nov08) when I Am…
Sasha Fierce debuted at number one.
Meanwhile, T.I.’s former chart-topper, Whatever You Like, slips to four and Katy Perry’s Hot N Cold rounds out the new top five.
The Fray score the week’s top debut at 28 with You Found Me.

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FALL OUT BOY singer PATRICK STUMP has never ordered a drink at a bar - because he’s terrified of having to face a barman.
The frontman admits social anxieties keep him out of bars, and, as a result, he rarely drinks alcohol.
Stump tells Rolling Stone, "I’m too busy to get drunk. I’ll have a glass of wine at dinner, but that’s about it.
"I’ve still never gone up to a bar and ordered a drink. I have a crippling fear of doing it because I don’t know the basic social conventions of doing it.
I’ve only seen it in movies."

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FAITH EVANS has attempted to bury past problems between herself and one-time love rival LIL’ KIM by insisting she no longer feels any resentment towards the rapper, who wooed her late husband, NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
In a candid interview with urban magazine Sister 2 Sister, Evans insists Kim doesn’t owe her an apology and that she actually attempted to contact her former rival when she was incarcerated on federal perjury charges in September 2005.
The comments put an end to an almost 15-year feud between the two loves of Notorious B.I.G.’s life.
Evans says, "I don’t feel she owes me an apology, to be honest. I don’t expect an apology because, whatever situation was between us wasn’t caused by her or myself being a bad person or having bad intentions with one another. We came across each other’s path by way of a common denominator, and that was Big.
"We were both at different places in our lives… She seems to have moved on in a lot of ways… so I’m proud of her evolvement." And Evans admits she was upset when she heard Kim had been jailed for lying about a shooting incident.
She adds, "I tried for a couple of minutes to see if I could get her contact information… but once it didn’t happen right away I didn’t want to push it, and I didn’t want to have to go through the different channels of getting in touch with the people I probably would have had to call."

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Rapper T.I., CHRIS BROWN, PAUL WALKER and HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN have teamed up for a new urban OCEAN’S ELEVEN, called BONE DEEP.
The quartet will form part of a group of noble thieves in the gritty all-star drama, which will also feature Idris Elba, Matt Dillon and Zoe Saldana.
T.I., who is also a producer of the film, says, "It’s about some intellectual, good-looking, well-dressed, articulate… prestigious bankrobbers.
"It’s a mix between Ocean’s Eleven and Heat."

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