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The frontman of BARENAKED LADIES has announced his decision to part ways with the Canadian group.
Steven Page is planning to pursue solo ventures, including composing the score for the Renaissance play Bartholomew Fair, which will be staged at Canada’s Stratford Festival this summer (09).
The remaining Barenaked Ladies will continue to perform and plan to tour later this year (09).
Page writes on his official blog: "Yes, it’s official. I am no longer a Barenaked Lady. After twenty years (plus a few months), I’m heading out on my own.
"These guys are my brothers. We’ve grown up together over the past twenty years. I love them and wish them all the best in the future." Page’s bandmates have wished him the best in his endeavours, with singer Ed Robertson adding: "It’s the start of a new chapter for all of us. Here’s to the future!"

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Animated Disney film BOLT remains top dog in the U.K. box office chart, with takings of $4.35 million (£3 million).
The movie, featuring the voices of John Travolta and Miley Cyrus, saw off stiff competition from newly-released Confessions of a Shopaholic, which took second place.
The comedy, starring Isla Fisher, took $2.75 million (£1.9 million), pushing Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire down to number three, with takings of $2.2 million (£1.5 million).
Hotel For Dogs moved up a place to four, with $1.6 million (£1.1 million), while Brad Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button rounded out the top five, garnering $1.45 million (£1 million).

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THE SPIRIT star PAZ VEGA’s family of three is about to get bigger - the actress is expecting her second child.
The 33-year-old Spanish actress is pregnant with her second child with husband Orson Salazar, who she married in 2002.
And the star, who is already a mother to one-year-old son Orson, couldn’t be happier about her new baby.
She says, "I’m doing really well. The upsets from the first months have passed and now, to enjoy! A pregnancy is a marvellous moment that I would love to repeat and repeat." And Vega is already thinking about returning to work following the tot’s birth: "I am going to try to recuperate as quickly as possible and start work."

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Supermodel ADRIANA LIMA has denied reports she is pregnant - and demanded the closure of the fake Internet page that first declared the news.
Reports circulated on Tuesday (24Feb09) that the Brazilian beauty, who married U.S. basketball star Marko Jaric on St. Valentine’s Day (14Feb09), was expecting her first child after a MySpace page said to be Lima’s hinted she might be pregnant.
But Lima is adamant she is not carrying a baby - and the profile on the social networking site has now been taken down.
A statement from the star reads: "I’m not pregnant." Lima’s publicist adds: "The MySpace page is a fake. Marko and Adriana are very happy, but not with child. They plan on having a family one day in the future. But not now."

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Oscar-winning movie SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is the gift that keeps giving for its child stars - authorities in Mumbai, India are planning to provide the young actors with housing so they can escape their lives of poverty.
Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played Latika and Salim in the early scenes of the film, were plucked from obscurity by moviemaker Danny Boyle after he first visited the Indian slums to set the scene for his picture.
Despite controversy surrounding their wages - between $725 (£500) and $2,465 (£1,700) for their work - Boyle vowed to ensure the children’s future - promising to put them through school and establishing a trust fund for the pair.
And the kids weren’t forgotten as Slumdog Millionaire swept the board at the Academy Awards on Sunday (22Feb09) - they were whisked to Hollywood for the ceremony to see the movie collect eight awards out of the ten categories it was nominated in.
Now, housing bosses in Mumbai have arranged flats for Ali and Ismail and their respective families in a bid to move them from out of the slums which helped make them famous.
Rubina’s father Rafiq says, "It means so much to get a proper flat. First the Oscars, now this. For three generations, we have been in this slum - now we may get out of here. We never dreamed of owning a flat." Amarjeet Singh Manhas of the Maharashtra housing authority, adds, "These children have made the country proud." Earlier this week (begs23Feb09) India’s Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced entertainment tax would be waived for the film after boosting tourism in the country.

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Rapper FLO RIDA has been forced to dump his highly anticipated collaboration with CHRIS BROWN from his forthcoming album - as a result of the singer’s alleged altercation with girlfriend RIHANNA.
The Low hitmaker had high hopes for the track, called Sweat, and planned to release it as a single.
But the star admits he has now had to ditch the song from his upcoming album R.O.O.T.S due to the controversy surrounding Brown, who has been charged with making criminal threats following an alleged attack on Rihanna on 8 February (09).
He says, "I recorded a great song with Chris. But I won’t be releasing it now because of what’s going on with him and Rihanna. It could have been my next No1."

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Rapper 50 CENT has vowed to stop joking about the alleged altercation between CHRIS BROWN and RIHANNA - after seeing a photograph of what appears to be a badly bruised RIHANNA.
Singer Brown was charged with making criminal threats following an incident earlier this month (Feb09) which reportedly left the Umbrella hitmaker needing hospital treatment.
50, real name Curtis Jackson, had been making light of the alleged fight between the pair, even posting an animated video on his website featuring Brown and Rihanna as characters from the video game Street Fighter.
But the In Da Club hitmaker has now promised to stop poking fun at the supposed altercation after he was left shocked by a snap on celebrity website TMZ.com that appears to show Rihanna with heavy bruising on her forehead, a swollen nose and a bloody lip.
He tells MTV.com, "After I saw the photograph, that wasn’t funny anymore. I didn’t have any information on it. You’re just going on what the public actually had. It shifts the whole thing. Even if you’re saying you’re in a dysfunctional relationship, I understand that.
"There’s a point when you’re already past a woman fighting you back. You look at (the picture), and it’s obviously past that point. There’s some issues there that definitely gotta be addressed. Not to take any shots at Chris or Rihanna or take sides in any way, (but) it’s really not cool. It’s not funny anymore, so there will definitely be no more reference to that from me in any way."

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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE actress FREIDA PINTO is determined to land a role alongside her schoolgirl crush LEONARDO DiCAPRIO.
Pinto was infatuated with the Titanic star when growing up in Mumbai, India, even keeping pictures of the actor from magazines.
And now she has set her sights on sharing some screen time with the Hollywood heartthrob, after being catapulted to fame with her role in Danny Boyle’s Oscar-winning film.
She tells Access Hollywood, ""I had a big crush on him back in school. I had this little Leonardo DiCaprio scrapbook with his picture on the front. Now he’s going to think I’m a creep after this!" But if she fails to land DiCaprio as her leading man, Pinto has a back-up in mind.
She adds, "I�d have to say Jack Nicholson. He�s the one person I�ve been dying to meet and for some reason, I just haven�t seen him anywhere.�

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FRANZ FERDINAND star ALEX KAPRANOS is giving up his job as a food writer - because he doesn’t feel qualified to comment on the culinary arts.
The singer/songwriter was asked to write about his love of food for British newspaper The Guardian; his musings led to a book, Sound Bites, and earned him a reputation as "a foodie".
But the Take Me Out hitmaker insists this was never a path he wanted to take.
He says, "I had a couple of calls from TV stations asking if I wanted to present food programmes, and I thought, ‘God, this has got to stop. This is not who I am.’" Kapranos admits his former job as a kitchen worker in top Scottish restaurants gave him an edge as a food critic.
He adds, "I remembered working in my first restaurant in Fort William when a chef asked, ‘Hey, you want a slice of shark?’ And my response was, ‘Shark? What the f**k?’ I figured it would actually be interesting to write from a naive perspective."

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Bosses at footwear firm Converse are planning a new line of sneakers honouring legendary bands AC/DC, PINK FLOYD and METALLICA.
The Metallica and AC/DC shoes will feature artwork connected to the rock acts and will be available from the end of this year (09) while the Pink Floyd design, which will include images from the group’s classic albums Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here, will hit stores in March 2010.
A The Who shoe, which featured the British Union Jack flag, was released last month (Jan09) and has already become a Converse best-seller.

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Music mogul SIMON COWELL could be another high-profile victim of the global financial crisis - he’s reportedly set to lose millions over a failed property venture in Barbados.
The reality TV judge allegedly spent $21 million (£15 million) buying a villa on the Caribbean island�s proposed £280 million Clearwater Bay development, which will feature a five-star hotel.
But the development is under threat due to financial problems and construction on the project has now been halted for the foreseeable future, according to British newspaper The Sun.
Cowell is now worried he could miss out on the dream bachelor pad, with a source telling the publication, "It�s a big problem. He�s got a lot of money tied up over there and doesn�t know yet whether he�s going to get it back."

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Veteran crooner TOM JONES was once serenaded by singing legend ELVIS PRESLEY while naked in the shower.
The Delilah hitmaker was getting ready for a show in Las Vegas when Elvis, who died in 1977, interrupted Jones’ preparations to sing him a tune.
Jones says, �He couldn�t wait. I was in the shower and I could hear Elvis Presley singing. When I opened my eyes he was leaning over the door singing to me. I didn�t have any clothes on. I think he was checking me out.�

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British singer KATE NASH is to marry her THE CRIBS rocker boyfriend RYAN JARMAN in the U.S. this weekend, according to reports.
The couple will wed in Portland, Oregon on Saturday (28Feb09), according to U.K. newspaper The Sun.
A source tells the publication, "Both of them are very excited about the wedding but they didn’t want any fuss. That’s part of the reason why they decided to do it in America." The pair announced they were dating in September 2007.

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Actress/TV presenter ROSIE O’DONNELL gave her kids a sober Christmas gift - she quit drinking beer.
The A League of Their Own star has revealed she stopped drinking on 1 December (08) after her teenage son, Parker, refused to get her a beer from the refrigerator.
She says, "I was with my son, who is now 13, and I said to him, ‘Park, can you get me a beer?’ and he said, ‘No, I don’t want to.’ And I said, ‘Really why not?’ And he says, ‘Because… I think you drink too much beer." "I said ‘You know, when I was a kid - when I was 22 - I stopped drinking for, like, eight years.’ He goes, ‘Well, maybe you should do that again.’" And when O’Donnell revealed she’d struggle with sobriety, her son suggested she seek help.
She tells U.S. talk show host Tyra Banks, "He said, ‘There’s a drunk club. I forget what it’s called, but you have to, like, be really drunk to get in. I don’t know if they’d let you in, but you could ask them for tips.’"

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MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN’s THE GREEN MILE co-star BONNIE HUNT came to the rescue when the actor disappeared from the film’s set to spend a week partying - she pretended they were having an affair.
The actor landed in hot water after a crew member on the Nashville, Tennessee set mistakenly told him he had eight days off, prompting him to jet home to Chicago, Illinois to party.
He cut himself off from all cell phone contact while away - and returned to discover his absence had brought all production on the film to a halt.
And he credits Hunt with saving his job.
Clarke Duncan explains, "Bonnie helped me out of a bad situation. Never ask a second second assistant director what your schedule is. I asked him and he said I was off for the next eight days.
"So I flew to Chicago and I turned my phone off, ’cause I didn’t wanna be bothered for at least six days. So I’m partying hard and having a good time and there’s this voice in my head going, ‘Check your messages’. So I check my messages and the lady’s voice says, ‘You have… 28 messages.’ And I said, ‘Oh no!’ So the producer has called, the director had called, everybody had called and they were like, ‘Where are you, we’re losing time, we’ve had to change the schedule around.’ "So I flew straight back to Nashville and David Valdes, the executive producer came in and made me feel bad, like, ‘You’ve lost us so much money.’ I was like, ‘Ah man, I didn’t mean to do that.’ So I go onto the set and everybody’s looking at me, like, ‘Where have you been? Tom Hanks is here, Bonnie Hunt’s here, everybody’s here, where have you been?’ "And Bonnie was like, ‘He was in my room ok? I like a little bit of black meat every now and then!’ You broke the ice, everybody started laughing so thank you. That was cool."

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Asian actor EDISON CHEN gave evidence to a court in Hong Kong via video-link on Tuesday (24Feb09) at the trial of a man accused of distributing explicit pictures of the actor.
The film star was at the centre of a scandal last year (08) when a tape of him allegedly engaging in sexual acts with a string of different women hit the internet.
The video, which Hong Kong Police say captures 1,300 private shots of Chen with at least half a dozen women, was reported to have been copied by staff at a computer shop when Chen put a faulty laptop in for repair.
Computer technician Ho-Chun Sze has since been charged with stealing the photographs from Chen’s computer while servicing the machine and releasing them.
Chen refused to return from the United States to give evidence at the trial, instead providing evidence via video-link from his birthplace of Vancouver, Canada.
And Chen told the court on Tuesday he was the victim of "foul play", adding "I’m quite a private person. This was never meant for anyone else to see. This was a huge shock to me." Chen told the court he believes the photos were copied from his laptop when he took it to a shop for repairs.
The trial continues.

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The Oscar-winning producers of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE are to create a musical version of the movie - to provide financial help for the children depicted in the film.
The Hindustan Times reports producer Christian Colson is working on a stage musical of the film to raise funds for Mumbai’s slum kids.
Slumdog Millionaire won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, on Sunday night (22Feb09).

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Hollywood legend PAUL NEWMAN was given a posthumous honour on Tuesday night (24Feb09) as the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution honouring the life, achievements and contributions of the late actor.
Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, introduced the move honouring the Oscar winning star, who lost his battle with cancer in September (08), on the House floor in Washington.
Jim Jordan, a Republican from the actor’s native state of Ohio, was among the House members to pay tribute to Newman.
He says, "His legendary acting, steely blue eyes, good humour and passion for helping the less fortunate made him one of the most prominent figures in American arts for 40 years." Newman was nominated for 10 Oscars in his 50-year-long career, winning the Best Actor accolade for his role in The Color of Money in 1986.

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