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MADONNA’s ex-partner CARLOS LEON has offered his love and support to the singer and her ex-husband GUY RITCHIE in the wake of their divorce.
Leon, the father of Madonna’s 12-year-old daughter Lourdes, insists he is sad about the collapse of her marriage - and reveals he became close to director Ritchie, who he describes as an "inspiration".
The 42-year-old tells Hello magazine, "It is a bad situation for both Guy and Madonna and I send them a lot of love and all the children involved. I think it is too early to say if the divorce will make things better or worse for the family.
"(Guy) is the gent. He always treats me with respect. Of the film work of the two, I like Ritchie better. He is incredibly talented as a director and producer and he inspires me." Leon adds of Lourdes, "I speak to her every day. She is very talented, she gets that from her mum. She has had advantages I never had. But it is up to her to take it to a new level in singing or acting."

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Music mogul SIMON COWELL is more famous than God and QUEEN ELIZABETH II, according to a new British survey.
More than 1,000 kids under the age of 10 were asked to name the individual they considered the biggest celebrity - and the X Factor and American Idol judge came out on top.
Cowell rose from fifth place in last year’s survey (07), knocking the monarch from the top spot.

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TV queen OPRAH WINFREY has signed an exclusive new deal to develop movies and miniseries for cable network HBO.
The talk show host will develop the projects as part of a three-year deal with her company, Harpo Films, which has been working with ABC for the last 15 years.
Harpo Vice-President Kate Forte says it has not yet been discussed if Winfrey will act in any of the projects.
Winfrey began her acting career with a role in 1985 movie The Color Purple.

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JIM CARREY uses vitamins to combat the depression he has suffered since childhood - insisting anti-depression drugs don’t work.
The actor has tried various treatments to help him beat the illness, and believes strong drugs like Prozac are a short term quick-fix.
Speaking on the same day Tom Cruise apologised on live TV for his "arrogant" criticism of anti-depressants, Carrey told talk show host Larry King on Monday (15Dec08), "At the risk of like opening up the whole Tom Cruise Prozac argument, you know, I don’t disagree in many ways. I think Prozac and things like that are very valuable to people for short periods of time. But I believe if you’re on them for an extended period of time, you never get to the problem.
"You never get to see what the problem is, because everything is just kind of OK. And so, you don’t deal. And people deal when they get desperate." Revealing what works for him, Carrey adds, "It is vitamins. But it’s also certain elements of the brain like Tyrosine and hydroxytryptophan that they’re treating depression with now. It is a natural substance that’s in your brain…
This actually creates dopamine and creates serotonin - a wonderful thing. It’s amazing. I’m going to talk a lot about it in the near future."

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TOM CRUISE would "love" his two year old daughter SURI to follow in his and KATIE HOLMES’ acting footsteps.
Cruise insists the tot will be able to choose whatever path she follows in life; but he admits he would be thrilled if she developed a passion for acting.
The Top Gun star says, "She can be whatever she wants. All my kids (can do) whatever they want to do in life. When I was growing up, I always wanted to travel the world. I wanted to not just be enveloped by different cultures, but learn about their history and how they do things. And that’s how I raise my kids - so that they have full exposure to the world, and all different kinds of ideas and possibilities so that they can make choices themselves.
"I’d love it (if she wanted to act). Acting is work that I love. I love to create life and give energy, create characters and create stories. It’s a lot of fun." Whatever she chooses, Cruise vows he and Holmes will pressure Suri - as well as her elder brother Connor, 13, and sister Bella, 15 - to pursue her ambitions with aggression.
He adds, "I do have a thing - if you want to do it, really do it. Don’t be passive about it."

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Wholesome DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES star MARCIA CROSS’ twin girls have helped her land a new role - as spokesperson for apple sauce giant MOTTS.
The 46-year-old actress and husband Tom Mahoney, who married in 2006, tried for a baby using In Vitro Fertilisation, with Cross eventually giving birth to twin girls Savannah and Eden in February 2007.
And company bosses have chosen the actress for refusing to hire a nanny, unlike so many other stressed out celebrity mums.
Motts spokesperson Hans Dorsinville says Cross "is balancing her work and her life without surrounding herself with five nannies".
He adds, "We wanted to say something different and new about an old brand that has been around since 1842." The new campaign is scheduled to debut in March (09).

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Moviegoers’ hysteria for vampire love story TWILIGHT has prompted studio bosses to rush the release of its sequel, less than 12 months after the film made its global debut.
The film, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, has sucked $150 million (£97.9 million) from U.S. moviegoers alone since it was released on 21 November (08).
Movie maker Chris Weitz will take over the directing role from Catherine Hardwicke for the forthcoming follow-up, New Moon.
Summit Entertainment spokesman Paul Pflug has confirmed the sequel will open to American audiences on 20 November (09).

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French composer MAURICE JARRE will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next year’s (09) Berlin Film Festival for his pioneering musical scores.
The 84-year-old Academy Award winner will pick up the Honorary Golden Bear prize on 12 February (09) at the 59th annual event.
Festival chief Dieter Kosslick said on Tuesday (16Dec08), "Film composers often are in the shadows of great directors and acting stars.
"It’s different with Maurice Jarre; the music of Doctor Zhivago, like much of his work, is world-famous and remains unforgettable in cinema history." (JMA/WNWA/JMA) WENN - SIXTH - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - 16 December 2008

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FALL OUT BOY rocker PETE WENTZ has spoken up yet again about his "amazing sex life" with wife ASHLEE SIMPSON - insisting the first time the two slept together was "the single best sexual encounter" he’s ever had.
Wentz, who married Simpson in May (08), opened up about their sex life to raunchy U.S. radio host Howard Stern on Tuesday (16Dec08).
The rocker tells Stern he had to "beat her (Simpson) over the head with a club and drag her back to my cave" before she first agreed to have sex with him.
He adds, "It was at the Soho Grand Hotel (in New York City), and I’m looking in the mirrors, (thinking), ‘Oh my God, you are (sleeping with) the girl of your dreams, and you can watch yourself!’" And though the pair welcomed their first child Bronx Mowgli last month (Nov08), Wentz doesn’t see their intense sexual chemistry fading.
He adds, "We have an amazing sex life. We have such sexual chemistry. If we had been on this show last year, we’d probably be doing it in the green room right now.
"Hopefully, the kid doesn’t change it. The kid’s (a few) weeks old (but) we do other fun stuff."

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Singer BETTE MIDLER has embraced her Hawaiian roots and learned to play the ukulele for her Las Vegas show.
The superstar treats fans to a rendition of the traditional islands instrument during performances at Caesar’s Palace, where she has been performing nightly.
And she reveals it has fulfilled a lifelong ambition - because she could never afford her own ukulele when growing up in Honolulu.
Midler says, "I always admired it. I used to see the kids orchestras… the men and women who used to sing Hawaiian music and I was so envious of them. But you know, I was poor, and I didn’t have the money for a ukulele.
"I picked it up and I’ve been playing it for a little less than a year."

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GUS VAN SANT’s SEAN PENN-starring movie MILK has swept the board at the San Francisco FIlm Critics Awards - picking up four prizes.
The movie, set in the California city, picked up the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay awards, and Van Sant lifted the Best Director honour.
Penn - who plays Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay elected official had to share the Best Actor prize with Mickey Rourke, who has won rave reviews for his performance in The Wrestler.
Elsewhere, the late Heath Ledger was named Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Dark Knight, and Sally Hawkins won the Best Actress award for her role in Happy Go Lucky.
The full list of winners - voted by film critics in the San Francisco area is as follows: Best Picture - Milk Best Director - Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black, Milk Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk/Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Best Supporting Actress - Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Foreign Language Film - Let the Right One In Best Documentary - My Winnipeg Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight Marlon Riggs Award for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community - Rob Nilsson, in recognition of his 9@NIGHT series of films
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NICOLE KIDMAN has enraged Aboriginal leaders in her native Australia by breaking a centuries-old taboo against women playing the didgeridoo.
The actress was seen blowing into the wooden instrument on a German TV chatshow last Saturday (13Dec08).
And several cultural leaders have now criticised her for the stunt, because tradition dictates that only men should play the didgeridoo.
One critic has even suggested Kidman’s fertility could be at risk after she broke the ancient rule.
Aboriginal actor and language teacher Richard Green says, "People are going to see Nicole playing it and think it’s all right. It bastardises our culture.
I will guarantee she has no more children. It is not meant to be played by women as it will make them barren." And Alan Madden, a cultural officer at Sydney’s Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, adds: "I presume she doesn’t know, otherwise she wouldn’t be playing it."

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GWEN STEFANI’s reformed rock band NO DOUBT have pushed back the release of their next album until 2010 - so they can concentrate on their comeback tour.
Stefani recently revealed the band would hit the road in 2009, and that a new LP was in the works - their first in more than seven years.
Drummer Adrian Young confirms he and his bandmates are working on new music but a release is a long way off.
He tells MTV, "We’ve been working on a new record off and on now for a bit of time, and we’re going to continue to work on a new record next year. "We’re going to start touring in the spring of 09 through the summer, and we’re going to continue to work on music while we’re travelling. (We’ll have) a mobile studio on the bus and eventually get to a new No Doubt record."

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Film historian RASHIT YANGIROV has died of cancer, aged 54.
Yangirov, who served as a prominent historian of Soviet cinema, died on Sunday (14Dec08) in Moscow, Russia, his former colleagues at the Associated Press Television News (APTN) have confirmed.
Details of his illness have not yet been released.
Yangirov is credited with reviving several pre-World War II filmmakers with his work, which included his post for the past 14 years as a journalist for APTN.
He wrote more than 200 articles on Russian cinema and published his book Slaves of the Silent in 2008 about the country’s movie pioneers.
He is survived by his wife, Zoya, and one daughter, Lucy.

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Rocker-turned-director ROB ZOMBIE has signed to make a sequel to his HALLOWEEN horror movie, just months after vowing never to return to the franchise.
Zombie’s 2007 remake of John Carpenter’s classic horror film proved a huge hit, grossing $60 million (GBP40 million) at the U.S. box office.
Studio chiefs were keen to tie him down to a sequel, but he vehemently refused, until a break helped him fall in love with the franchise again.
He explains, "I was so burned out, but I took a break, made a record and I got excited again." Zombie now faces a race against time to have H2 ready to hit cinemas in time for Halloween on 31 October 2009.
He says, "Now we’ll be hauling ass. That’s the problem with making a movie called Halloween. If you come out on November 1st or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, it’d be fine."

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Actors JOHN GOODMAN, DAVID STRATHAIRN and NATHAN LANE are teaming up to take on Broadway in a new performance of SAMUEL BECKETT’s famous play WAITING FOR GODOT.
The play kicks off a run at New York’s Studio 54 on 30 April (09).
The production coincides with an adaptation of the same 1953 play, this time in London and starring Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

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Veteran entertainer BETTE MIDLER sticks to a strict exercise regime during her Las Vegas residence, in order to stop her body "falling apart".
The 63-year-old star debuted her Vegas show Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On earlier this year (Feb08) at the city’s renowned Caesar’s Palace venue.
And she exhausts the extra hours not spent rehearsing with an intensive workout regime.
She says, "Looking after your health, looking after your voice and all that it’s actually pretty severe. The show is not the grind, the grind is getting ready for the show… The hard part is the warming up and the doing the exercise and trying to keep your body from not falling apart… I’ve decided I’m a tough old bird."

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British punk band THE WILDHEARTS reportedly stormed off stage during a concert in London last week, after frontman DAVID ‘GINGER’ WALLS suffered a breakdown while performing.
Walls struggled through the first half of the gig at the Kentish Town Forum on Thursday (11Dec08), while complaining about the sound quality, according to blogger Dave Ling.
After 50 minutes, Ling claims Walls confessed "I’m hopeless at lying if I’m having a s**t time; I just can’t do it," and strutted off stage.
When he returned some time later, to applause, Walls reportedly told the bemused crowd, "I apologise for acting like a c**t - no, don’t clap me, I’m bi-polar¡­ I don’t deserve it." The band went on to finish their gig, before the frontman hinted they could be close to splitting - 19 years after they first formed.
He told the crowd, "I don’t even know if the Wildhearts have got a place in the world anymore, but thank you for being here tonight."

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