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FRIENDS co-stars JENNIFER ANISTON and COURTENEY COX are embracing their 40s head-on - by taking on roles as middle-aged women who prey on younger men.
Aniston, 40, has signed on to upcoming romantic comedy Pumas, about two thirty-something women who regularly chase after youthful beaus.
And her best pal Cox will also be tackling similar subject matter - she has begun filming new TV series Cougar Town, in which she plays a single mother exploring the dating scene after a divorce.
A shooting date for Pumas has not yet been set, while Cougar Town is scheduled to debut on U.S. TV later this year (09).

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Actress LESLIE MANN is in awe of JENNIFER ANISTON’s "perfect butt" after spending the entire Academy Awards ceremony checking out the former FRIENDS star’s backside.
The comedienne attended the prestigious prizegiving earlier this year (09) with her director husband Judd Apatow and the couple was seated directly behind Aniston.
Mann admits she has always been envious of photographs of Aniston frolicking on the beach in tiny swimsuits and decided to use the Oscars opportunity to discover how true to life the paparazzi shots were.
And Mann was left so stunned by the actress’ anatomy, she insists the tabloid shots don’t do Aniston justice.
She says, "We got invited to the Academy Awards and we were sitting behind Jennifer Aniston and I’m always kind of jealous of the pictures of her in those trashy magazines in the little bikini, with her whole butt hanging out… Her butt looks so perfect and I can’t believe anyone’s butt looks so good, I’m convinced they retouched it.
"So I’m sitting behind her and I thought there’s a lot of standing ovations, so I’m gonna sit down and check it out. So everybody’s standing up and I’m sitting down and I got every view, every angle of her butt and it’s perfect! Perfect! Those magazines don’t even do her justice, it’s better in person!"

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MICHAEL JACKSON slipped from a healthy, sharp man, excited about his comeback concerts, to a frail, emaciated shadow of his former self in just three weeks, according to the King of Pop’s chef, who served up his final meals.
Kai Chase, who became the singer’s cook in March (09), reveals she parted ways with Jackson for three weeks in May (09) - due to a contract dispute - and couldn’t believe what had become of her boss during her absence from his Holmby Hills, Los Angeles home.
Upon her return, a skinny Jackson took the chef to one side and praised her cooking skills, telling Chase, "I need you to keep me healthy." The tragic star begged her to make sure the beet juice he liked to drink was always ready for him and confessed rehearsals for his doomed This Is It tour were "killing" him.
Chase was with Jackson and his kids on 25 June (09) - the day the singer died.
She reveals she was shocked by his appearance when she returned to work for Jackson in June (09): "In April, Mr. Jackson would come downstairs… before he went on his rehearsals, looking wonderful, sharp… He’d be chipper, eating and feeling really good about himself.
"When I came back in June I noticed he was a little thinner and I was wondering, ‘Had he been eating…?’ I figured he wasn’t getting the nourishment I had been giving him. It just seemed to me that he was very, like, not with it.
"He said, ‘I need you to take care of me… Do you have my beet juice in the refrigerator? …They’re killing me, I’m rehearsing very hard - maybe two rehearsals a day." But Chase dismisses reports Jackson didn’t eat: "He ate very well when I was there… I would actually see the man eat."

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s chef was devastated upon learning the King of Pop had died after she was sent home following a crazy morning at the pop superstar’s rented Hollywood home.
Kai Chase had just prepared the singer’s lunch when Jackson’s "frantic" personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray burst into the kitchen and asked the cook to get the pop star’s son Prince Michael.
Minutes later, security guards and paramedics swarmed the Holmby Hills home as Chase, a maid and Jackson’s three children prayed that everything was going to be OK.
The chef recalls, "You could feel the energy change… It was a happy home, there’s music playing throughout the house, fireplaces roaring and beautiful laughter… It just felt still, it just felt like a distant feeling.
"We’re all panicking and wondering what’s going on. Paris is screaming and crying, ‘Daddy, daddy…’ "Security comes to us and asked us, ‘At this point we’re asking that you leave the house.’" Minders then told Chase that Jackson had been taken to hospital - but she had no idea how ill her dying boss was.
She adds, "I’m driving in my car and I hear… ‘Mr. Jackson’s pronounced dead.’ "I had to pull over… Who knew? I panicked. I was devastated and started crying. This was a lovely man. This man was sensational… He was a fabulous father of his children." Now, Chase, who started working for Jackson in March (09), is left with happy memories of a devoted family man who prized meal times with his kids: "He spent a lot of time with his children… at the dinner table… He would always make great ambiance in the dining room - turn the lights down… turn up the music.
"In the day times he would have, maybe, some of the art he enjoyed, that he collected, and he’d have it around the dining room, so the kids would have an impression they were eating in a museum."

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Two police chiefs have been arrested for allegedly devising a plan to break into the home of SARAH JESSICA PARKER and MATTHEW BRODERICK’s surrogate.
The Hollywood couple, who welcomed twin girls via surrogate on 23 June (09), have been swept up in the ongoing investigation surrounding an alleged tabloid scam to dig up dirt on the woman who carried their babies.
Martins Ferry Police Chief Barry Carpenter and Bridgeport Police Chief Chad Dojack were booked into the Belmont County, Ohio jail at approximately 9pm on Wednesday (29Jul09).
Bruce Callarik, the son of Bridgeport’s mayor John Callarick, was also arrested in connection with the case, reports TMZ.com.
The three men posted bond shortly after their arrests. Charges made against the men had not been released as WENN went to press.

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ASHTON KUTCHER was so desperate during his years as a model in New York he’d hook up with women just so he had a nice place to spend the night.
The actor/producer admits his life was so miserable when he first arrived in the Big Apple he’d romance lusty girls in a bid to find a good place to sleep.
He tells Parade magazine, "It was always a good thing to hook up with a girl… (I) got to sleep some place nice for the night. I wasn’t there to stay, but, if you did hit it off with a girl, her place was always nicer than yours." And Kutcher reveals he was so broke in the years before he became an actor, heading home to Iowa for Christmas with his family was a humbling experience.
He explains, "I was running out of money. I knew I had to go home for the holidays, but I couldn’t expose the fact that it wasn’t going well.
"So I bought my whole family these fake watches and fake Versace pants and fake anything I could find, like fake Calvin Klein T-shirts, so I could take them home and show them how well I was doing, even though I didn’t have a place to live."

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Dad-to-be JUDE LAW has no doubt he’s the father of a mysterious ex-lover’s child - because he insisted on a DNA test before announcing the happy news.
The actor’s publicist confirmed Law was expecting his fourth child on Wednesday (29Jul09) and now Life & Style magazine reports the Brit wanted to make absolutely sure the unborn baby was his before going public with the big news.
A source tells the publication, "Jude and the mother of the child had a DNA test done to prove that Jude was without a doubt the father." According to the U.S. magazine, the Alfie star met the unidentified mother of the child in January (09) while he was shooting Sherlock Holmes in New York, and the couple had a brief fling.
The insider says, "After he left, she found out she was pregnant. She tried to reach him, but the cell phone number she had for him was a temporary number that he only used in New York while filming.
"Her only way of contacting him was through Jude’s team. She didn’t want to go to his lawyer because she was afraid that then Jude would think she was only after his money. And that’s not the case at all.
"Jude isn’t being a jerk about being a father. He’s willing to take responsibility for his baby. And she’s definitely keeping it. She’s probably about seven months along right now." Meanwhile, Internet rumours suggesting his Sherlock Holmes co-star Rachel McAdams’ make-up artist sister Kayleen is the mystery woman have been dismissed.
Law’s representative, Simon Halls, says, "I can emphatically deny she is the mother." The actor has three kids with ex-wife Sadie Frost.

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SIENNA MILLER suffered a "semi-breakdown" after heartless critics started daubing cruel comments all over the wall outside her London home.
The actress admits she started to lose her cool after the media took aim at her for dating married U.S. actor Balthazar Getty - and the final straw came when she and her mother had to scrub the word ‘Slut’ from outside her home.
She tells the new issue of Nylon magazine, "I got to a point where I was like, ‘I will just run away.’ It was just breaking my spirits, and I had been pretty resilient for a long time.
"I was not able to leave the house and was living in a state of fear, when I’m really a fearless person. I had a kind of semi-breakdown… and everything just became too much. It was cutting me up to the point where I thought it wasn’t worth it.
"I thought, ‘Either I try and take them on, or if I can’t, I don’t do this anymore.’" Miller found a move away from London was just what she needed, and she now lives in a 16th century country cottage.
The Alfie star adds, "Things are calmer now. I’m not rebelling against something every day anymore."

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s personal chef KAI CHASE has been offered a job as a cook for the late King of Pop’s kids.
The healthy foods specialist was hired as the pop star’s personal chef in March (09) and prepared meals for Jackson and his three kids until a contract dispute forced her to leave his employ in May (09). She returned in June (09), and was cooking up lunch for the family when her boss fell ill on 25 June (09).
Chase was told to leave the premises by security staff, who informed her and other staffers that Jackson had been taken to hospital. She learned Jackson had died on her drive home.
Now, she’s considering a new post at the Jackson family compound in Encino, California, where she has been offered a job as chef to Jackson’s kids Paris, Prince Michael and Prince Michael II.
She says, "They asked me if I could come and assist them with the children." But first she plans to work on the cookbook her late boss encouraged her to write before his death.
Meanwhile, Chase has applauded a new custody deal which will see her former boss’ kids stay with their grandmother - because she thinks they’ll have the best upbringing among the Jacksons.
The chef admits she was very close to Jackson’s three children and was thrilled to see Prince Michael, Paris and Prince Michael II at peace during her recent visit to the Jackson family compound - and she’s convinced that’s where the grieving siblings need to be.
The cook says, "I got a chance to see the children a couple of weeks ago… It was a beautiful experience.
"They have a chance to play with their cousins and they’re having a great time… They’re happy." Speaking on U.S. breakfast show Today, Chase admits she never heard Jackson’s two eldest children, Paris and Prince Michael, speaking about their biological mother, Debbie Rowe, who was reportedly considering challenging the custody arrangement laid out in her ex-husband’s will.
Rowe and the children’s grandmother, Katherine Jackson, were expected to face each other in court next week (03Aug09) to battle over custody.
However, the 79 year old’s lawyer, L. Londell McMillan, reveals the pair has reached an agreement which will see Katherine become the youngsters’ legal guardian, while Rowe will receive visitation rights.

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MARIAH CAREY is set to gamble on a Las Vegas residency, according to Internet reports.
The singer is in secret talks to stage a series of shows at the Palms Casino Resort’s Pearl theatre in September and October (09).
If the gigs go ahead, she’ll be the latest in a long line of divas to hit Sin City for a fixed set of shows - Celine Dion, Cher, Bette Midler and Toni Braxton have all performed lengthy residencies there in the past decade.

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SIR PAUL McCARTNEY’s young daughter is beginning her vegetarian campaigning career early - she was shunned by fellow holidaymakers in France after badgering them about eating meat.
Animal rights activist Heather Mills recently took five-year-old Beatrice, her daughter with the Beatles legend, to the south of France for a vacation - and was amazed when the little one began lecturing fellow guests about food.
But Beatrice’s helpful advice backfired - and she was soon shunned when her new friends grew frustrated with her questioning.
Mills says, "Beatrice questions everybody who eats animals. When we were in the south of France, there was a buffet for kids, and by the end of the week no one would sit near us because she would go over and say, ‘Why are you eating that cow’s bottom?’ or ‘Oh, look at that little shrimp with little eyes.’ Mills opened a vegan cafe, VBites, earlier this summer (09) in East Sussex, England.

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Aussie rockers MEN AT WORK have lost the first round of a plagiarism case for the alleged illegal use of a popular children’s tune in their smash hit DOWN UNDER.
Bosses at Sydney-based music publishers Larrikin filed a lawsuit claiming the band’s flute solo on the track sampled parts of the Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum tree song, written by Australian Marion Sinclair for the Girl Guides in 1934.
The band’s songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert and music label executives at Sony BMG hit back at the claims, insisting Larrikin bosses don’t own the rights to the Kookaburra song, and the tune was actually owned by the Australian scouting group.
But a judge has ruled the publishers do in fact own the rights to the song - making way for a full-scale plagiarism case.
Larrikin Music bosses are suing for breach of copyright and unpaid royalties.
Legal action was taken after the alleged similarities were mentioned during a televised music quiz show in Australia in 2007.
Lawyers for Men At Work and Sony BMG have denied the claims, and argue the copyright for the song was never signed over properly by Sinclair, who died in 1988.
A date for the next hearing is yet to be set.

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Oscar winner A. R. RAHMAN’s six-year-old son is set for his turn in the spotlight - he has recorded a song for VINCE VAUGHN’s new movie COUPLES RETREAT.
Child star-turned-moviemaker Peter Billingsley hired Slumdog Millionaire composer Rahman to score the romantic comedy - and the Indian musician decided to put his son Alim in front of the microphone for one of the film’s pivotal songs.
Insiders claim that Alim has made it very clear to his parents that he wants to be a singer when he grows up and Rahman was happy to help his young son realise his dreams in the studio.
Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, who broke the news of the Rahman collaboration to WENN, says, "Alim wants to be a playback singer when he grows up and his parents and India are very proud of his debut performance."

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Rockers PANIC! AT THE DISCO are regrouping after the departure of RYAN ROSS and JON WALKER earlier this summer (09), and have just announced who’ll be the new members of the band.
Walker and Ross quit the group and have since formed new band the Young Veins, and now their former bandmates Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie have replaced them.
Cab guitarist Ian Crawford and The Brobecks’ Dallon Weekes will join Panic! for upcoming studio and live commitments.
Smith tells MTV News, "They’re friends, so the decision was easy… Ian is probably the most talented guitar player that me and Brendon have ever played with, and Dallon is a really nice guy and a really great bassist… We’re really excited." The revamped four-piece plans to hit the road with both Blink-182 and No Doubt later this summer (09).

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Rocker BECK has posted a personal tribute to late choreographer MERCE CUNNINGHAM on his official website, calling the dancer one of his first inspirations.
Cunningham died from natural causes at his New York home on Sunday (26Jul09), and Beck has fond memories of living close to him when he first arrived in the Big Apple.
He writes, "When I moved to NYC at 18 I ended up staying on the floor of a friend of a friend’s, in an apartment across the hall from the Merce Cunningham Studios.
"I remember waking to the sound of the morning rehearsals and heard them working into the night. The atmosphere around the studio informed my impressions and experience of being in NY at that time, starting to write songs and performing for the first time."

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The BLACK EYED PEAS have set a new U.S. pop chart record after scoring the longest successive number one streak on the Billboard Hot 100.
The group’s Boom Boom Pow and current chart-topper I Gotta Feeling have spent a combined 17 weeks at number one - a week more than Boyz II Men, who notched up two 16-week runs over a decade ago.
Boom Boom Pow spent 12 weeks on top and I Gotta Feeling took over five weeks ago, keeping Drake’s Best I Ever Had and Knock You Down by Keri Hilson at numbers two and three respectively on the new countdown.
Taylor Swift’s You Belong With Me and the Kings of Leon’s Use Somebody rounds out this week’s top five.
The Black Eyed Peas’ former chart-topper, Boom Boom Pow, remains in the top 10, falling a spot from six to seven.
The highest new entry on the countdown belongs to country trio Lady Antebellum, who debut I Run To You at 27.

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Moviemaker EDWARD ZWICK has won a seat on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Directors Branch after winning an election run-off with longtime Oscars boss GIL CATES.
Director Zwick will serve his first term on the Board of Governors for the next year.
He’ll join Martha Coolidge and Curtis Hanson as the third governor representing the branch.
Zwick’s election battle with Cates made history - it was the first time in Academy history that there was a tie in the balloting.
The 2009-2010 Academy Board of Governors also features Annette Bening, Tom Hanks and Henry Winkler.

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U.S. human rights leader JESSE JACKSON has won a battle to pardon African-American boxing champion JACK JOHNSON for illegally marrying a white woman in 1913.
The heavyweight was forced to emigrate to Europe after breaching the Mann Act.
Democrat Jackson led the charge for a pardon and was backed by former presidential candidate John McCain, among others.
His resolution, which was passed on Thursday (30Jul09), calls for President Barack Obama to pardon Johnson for his 1913 conviction.

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