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Funk legend GEORGE CLINTON will be honoured at the BMI URBAN AWARDS later this year (09).
The music pioneer will take the BMI Icon title, previously awarded to James Brown, The Bee Gees, Willie Nelson and Al Green.
The event honours Urban songwriters who have "a unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers" and belong to the BMI - a performance rights organisation.
Clinton pioneered the P-Funk genre of music and was the mastermind behind bands Funkadelic and Parliament - who have since been sampled by hip-hop artists such as Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.
An all-star group will perform during the ceremony to honour the 68 year old, although the line-up is yet to be announced.
The BMI Icon Awards will take place on 10 September (09) at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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GOSSIP GIRL star TAYLOR MOMSEN refuses to spend time with anyone her own age - because she can’t "relate to high school kids".
The 16 year old shot to fame in the hit U.S. show when it debuted in 2007 and has quit school in order to pursue her acting career and focus on her band Pretty Reckless.
Momsen admits she has grown up quickly living in the public eye and finds it difficult to spend time with other teenagers - revealing she only has two real friends.
She tells Teen Vogue magazine, "I live a very adult life. What am I going to do, hang out with high school kids? I just can’t relate to what they talk about - it seems so petty." And Momsen has vowed to only date older men, adding, "Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is. I would eat a boy my age alive."

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BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD is set to bare her fangs in the TWILIGHT franchise after landing a role as a bloodthirsty vampire in the upcoming ECLIPSE movie.
Howard will replace Rachelle Lefevre, who stars in the hit 2008 movie Twilight and its upcoming sequel New Moon, as Victoria, the flame-haired vampire who plots to destroy Kristen Stewart’s heroine Bella Swan.
A spokesperson for film studio Summit Entertainment says, "We are incredibly happy that Bryce has agreed to come into the franchise." Lefevre was forced to pull out from the third movie due to scheduling conflicts.

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EVA MENDES has heaped praise on psychiatrists - insisting therapy has made her "a completely different person".
The Hitch actress spent several weeks in a rehab facility in Utah last year (08), but has refused to reveal why she needed the stint at the centre.
But she is proud to admit she is a huge fan of therapy sessions, because she is such an emotional person.
The star tells Marie Claire magazine, "(I’m) a woman who has been through life experiences, thank God, and therapy. I love therapy! "Iâ��m very into it. Iâ��m very in touch with my feelings, so Iâ��m a completely different person.
"Not that different but you know… I gotta tell you, thereâ��s nothing like going in and sitting down and talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.
"Just to talk to someone. It�s amazing."

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Bollywood icon LEELA NAIDU has died at the age of 69.
The actress passed away in Mumbai, India, on Tuesday (28Jul09) after suffering lung failure following a prolonged bout of influenza.
Naidu, who was crowned Miss India in 1954, starred in a number of high profile Hindi films.
She was best known for acting in Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke, based on the 1959 Nanavati case - the last jury trial held in India - and in Merchant Ivory Productions’ first film The Householder.
Naidu also narrowly missed out on appearing alongside Marlon Brando in Brit film The Journey.
She was last seen on screen in 1992 movie Electric Moon.

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MEGAN FOX has failed to work her charm on all red-blooded men - several editors of America’s biggest male websites have decided to boycott news and pictures of the siren for one day.
The Transformers beauty has stormed into the popular press in the last year and is regularly voted as the sexiest women in the world.
She has also become a men’s magazine stalwart, appearing on the cover of GQ, Esquire, Maxim and Empire in just a matter of months.
But bosses of several U.S. websites aimed at men have decided to ban any news about the raven-haired actress for a full 24 hours - insisting they fear she is becoming over-exposed.
AskMen.com editor James Bassil says, "We’re joining in the media blackout and giving our readers a one-day reprieve from the woman we’ve been drowning in all summer." Eric Rogell at TheBachelorGuy.com adds, "It’s time to give another young actress a shot at the attention. We’re taking a one-day break from covering Megan’s latest nail polish colour and instead promoting another Next Big Thing." The Megan Fox ‘media blackout’ will take place on 4 August (09).

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THE WOLF MAN’s growl is turning into a whimper - the movie’s release date has been pushed back for the fourth time.
The highly-anticipated movie, starring Benicio del Toro as a cursed werewolf, was first slated to hit cinemas in 2007, but was postponed after a problem in securing a director.
Video auteur Mark Romanek was set to helm the film, but dropped out after stating the $100-million (£75million) budget wasn’t enough to finance his vision. Jurassic Park III boss Joe Johnston subsequently took over.
The film was then pushed back to February this year (09) and then November (09), but Universal Studio bosses are reportedly trying to avoid a big office battle with Twilight sequel, New Moon.
Now the supernatural project, which also stars Sir Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt, won’t be released until February 2010.
Last minute special effects changes, to make del Toro’s wolf character walk on four legs rather than two, are cited as the reason for the latest postponement.

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MEGAN FOX has attempted to downplay her "feud" with TRANSFORMERS director MICHAEL BAY, insisting the swipes they’ve exchanged in the media are simply how the pair interacts.
The brunette beauty blasted Bay in an interview in June (09), just days before Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen was released in the U.S., ranting that "working with Michael Bay is not about acting".
Bay went on to dismiss her comment in a separate interview, telling the Wall Street Journal, "Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers." He added, "That’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do." But now the actress is paving the way for the pair to reconcile by insisting she has no bad feelings towards the filmmaker.
Speaking at Comic-Con in San Diego, California at the weekend (25-26Jul09), Fox said, "That’s just me and Mike. That’s how we talk. I don’t feel like we’re in a war of words at all." And Fox went on to admit there could be some truth to the criticisms Bay made about her: "Obviously, what he said is not untrue, about me saying ridiculous things all the time and being 23. That’s all accurate."

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Actor JAMES WOODS could take to the stand in the first wrongful-death case stemming from the 9/11 terrorist attacks when it hits court in April (10), according to a new report.
The Oscar-winner allegedly testified at a deposition earlier this year (09) over his claims he saw several of the 19 Al Qaeda hijackers on his American Airlines flight from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles a month before the 2001 attacks.
According to the New York Post, Woods grew suspicious of the Middle Eastern men onboard after noticing they didn’t order drinks or speak to attendants but seemed to be carefully monitoring the crew.
He reportedly told a staff member, "I think this plane is going to be hijacked. I know how serious it is to say this." Now Woods could once again be called to testify at a hearing into the deaths of flight attendant Sara Low and passenger Barbara Keating, who were killed when American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the World Trade Center’s North Tower in New York.
A Manhattan federal judge has set 12 April 2010 as the start date for the case brought by the families of three victims, who are taking legal action against the airline and airport security.
A third lawsuit has been filed by the relatives of hockey scout Mark Bavis, 31, who was on United Airlines Flight 175 when it hit the South Tower.
Another 97 families refused to pursue legal action and instead accepted settlements from the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which divided up $500 million (£334 million) between the families.

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AMY WINEHOUSE’s ex-husband BLAKE FIELDER-CIVIL has accused the singer of cheating on him with at least four different men while he was in prison.
The pair married in Miami, Florida in 2007 after a whirlwind romance, but divorced this month (Jul09) with Fielder-Civil citing adultery as the reason for the split. Winehouse admitted the charge in court papers.
The break-up followed a stormy year which saw the singer sink deep into drug abuse and her husband get sent to jail.
Fielder-Civil was handed a 27-month sentence last July (08) after he was found guilty of grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice, in relation to a 2007 assault on a pub landlord.
And the 27 year old, who was released in February (09), claims his wife was unfaithful to him while he was behind bars - with four different lovers.
Fielder-Civil has named the men as Winehouse’s former assistant, Alex Haines, Babyshambles guitarist Mik Whitnall, actress Sadie Frost’s on/off boyfriend, Kristian Marr, and rugby hunk Josh Bowman, who the star met on her recent Caribbean holiday.
He says, "There may be others, but if there are she hasn’t told me. She kept cheating on me, kept saying sorry. And I kept saying, ‘It’s alright, I forgive you.’ The nastier she was, the more in love I became. And she couldn’t believe her luck. You should have seen the state of them, especially Alex Haines. I can’t even understand why she did it. And I can’t believe Amy is still friends with Sadie Frost after she f**ked her boyfriend." And Fielder-Civil reserves extra criticism for the men who slept with his wife - insisting they took advantage of a woman who was obviously unwell and under the influence of drugs.
He adds, "If I was the person she had these flings with, I may have thought it’s not the best idea to sleep with someone who is out of their mind, can barely speak and probably weighs about five stone. But that’s their cross to bear. I think she’s just very lonely and has always used her sexuality to make friends." But the former junkie admits that despite all of her indiscretions, he still has feelings for his ex-wife: "Despite everything, despite her affairs, I still love her. Deep down, that’s impossible to change."

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Intimate footage of late superstar MICHAEL JACKSON at home with his children has been obtained by a British newspaper.
The private five minute tape features footage from birthday parties held for Prince Michael, now 12, and Paris, now 11, as well as intimate moments of the superstar laughing and joking with his kids.
Although it is not known when the tape, obtained by U.K. tabloid The Sun, was shot, it is believed to have been filmed before the birth of Jackson’s third child, Prince Michael II aka Blanket, now seven.
Jackson is shown sitting on the floor at his Neverland Ranch in California, putting together a jigsaw puzzle with the two children as he sings and encourages them to join in.
During footage of Prince’s birthday, Jackson turns to the camera and records a special message for the youngster to watch when he grows up. He says, "Prince, that was for you to learn about perseverance and confidence and the true meaning of success - which is love.
"And to know that you can reach any goal that your heart desires. It is totally up to you, you can do anything that you want to do and I love you." In the next scene Paris is seen addressing her father, telling him, "Daddy, Thank you for my birthday cake. I love you so much. You are the best daddy in the whole world," while Prince adds, "You’re the best daddy in the whole world and I love you," before running over to give his dad a kiss and a hug.
Jackson then asks Paris for her birthday wish and she insists she wants to grow up to be a singer like her famous father, saying, "I want to do what you do, dance and sing, " before Prince jumps in and adds, "Me too!" The kids go on to serenade Jackson with a touching rendition of classic song You Are My Sunshine, changing the lyrics to: "You are my daddy, my only daddy, you make me happy when skies are grey. You’ll never know dear, how much I love you. So please don’t take my daddy away." The video ends with the two youngsters hugging their dad, as Jackson tells them, "Ah, I love you. That was sweet."

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R&B beauty RIHANNA is on course to become one of the world’s wealthiest young pop stars - she earned a massive $15 million (£10 million) in 2008.
The Umbrella hitmaker is reported to have made most of her money from her third album, 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, as well as her various tours and endorsement deals.
Forbes magazine claims the 21 year old also profited from the re-release of her hit album, which was re-issued with added tracks and remixes last year (08), and her contract with fashion giant Gucci.
R&B superstar Beyonce is currently the wealthiest celebrity under the age of 30, earning a staggering $87 million (£58 million) in the last year.

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Troubled actress MISCHA BARTON has made her first public appearance since she was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold at a Los Angeles hospital earlier this month (Jul09).
The former The O.C. star was placed under the care of doctors at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after reportedly suffering a meltdown and calling cops to her Hollywood home.
She was released over the weekend (25-26Jul09) after a week of treatment, with her representative insisting the 23 year old is preparing to get back to work.
And now the star has proved she is ready to move on from the incident.
Barton was pictured looking happy and healthy as she smiled and waved to photographers outside L.A.’s LAX Airport on Tuesday (28Jul09) before catching a flight to New York, where she is due to begin filming new her TV show The Beautiful Life.
Shooting on the programme, created by Ashton Kutcher, was initially reported to have been delayed by Barton’s hospitalisation, but bosses at The CW network insisted the hold-up was the result of unfinished sets.
Barton, 23, is set to play Sonja Stone, a catwalk beauty addicted to pills, on new show, which is tentatively scheduled to start filming on 31 July (09).

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British actress SIENNA MILLER was "disappointed" to have been dropped from RUSSELL CROWE’s new ROBIN HOOD movie - but insists her replacement CATE BLANCHETT was a much better choice.
The star was originally signed on to play Maid Marian, but she mysteriously left the project last year (08) amid rumours she had been dropped because she was considered too young to play 45 year old Crowe’s love interest.
The 27 year old admits that although she was looking forward to starring in the epic movie, she accepts that Blanchett, 40, is much better suited to the part.
She says, "If I had to make a choice between myself and Cate, then I’d choose her as well. Of course I was disappointed, but I am also big enough to know these things happen all the time in the film industry - it’s just that when they happen to me it’s news."

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Basketball legend SHAQUILLE O’NEAL has challenged DAVID BECKHAM to a game of soccer for his new reality TV show - urging the star to step up in a series of posts on his Twitter.com page.
O’Neal is preparing to film his Shaq Vs programme, which will see him take on his rival sporting peers at their own game.
He has already set up a swimming battle against Olympic athlete Michael Phelps, a boxing bout against former world champion Oscar De La Hoya and a tennis game against Serena Williams.
But O’Neal is desperate to land a battle with Beckham on the Disney show - and has been taunting him in a series of posts on Twitter.com.
He writes, "Dear David Beckham. I know you have heard about my Shaq Vs show, anyway u (sic) will never score a goal on me. I challenge you, lil’ man.
"David Beckham, I know you hear me. Don’t be scared, don’t make me call u (sic) out. U (sic) will never score a goal on me. Don’t make me Tweet to two million people that yur (sic) scared of Shaq, u (sic) better respond, if u (sic) scared get a dog."

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Hollywood actor JOHNNY DEPP is scouting schools in the U.K. for his kids - because he wants them to receive a British education.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star lives in France with his longterm partner Vanessa Paradis and their two kids, Lily-Rose, 10, and seven-year-old Jack.
The actor has been looking at an exclusive private school near the city of Bath, England after reportedly buying a home in the area.
A spokesman for the educational institution, which remains unnamed for legal reasons, confirms the star has been making inquiries.
The rep tells British newspaper The Sun, "As yet, he hasn’t enrolled his children and I believe he is looking at other schools.
"If he is thinking of us for September (when the next school year stars) he had better be quick as the school is filling up fast for the new term."

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Super producer MARK RONSON is baffled by reports he has signed up to work with Irish boyband BOYZONE - insisting he has nothing to do with their new album.
The band’s frontman Ronan Keating recently unveiled plans for their upcoming record, revealing the Grammy Award winner had agreed to join the group in the studio.
He said, "Mark Ronson is involved. I like him a lot, I’m a big fan. The album is very different than what people would expect. It’s colourful, uplifting, uptempo stuff.â�� But Ronson has thrown the project into confusion - by insisting Keating’s announcement is the first he has heard of the collaboration.
In a post on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "I read I was working with the group Boyzone. Um, categorically untrue." In-demand Ronson shot to fame after producing hit albums for Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse.

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R&B group JAGGED EDGE have ruled out ever reuniting with longtime producer JERMAINE DUPRI to work on their future projects, insisting that door is "closed".
The Where The Party At hitmakers - consisting of twins Brian and Brandon Casey, Kyle Norman and Richard Wingo - rose to fame in the mid-1990s after signing to Dupri’s So So Def Records.
Jagged Edge recently agreed a new deal with Slip-N-Slide Records for the release of their upcoming album The Remedy, and singer Brian Casey reveals the group’s professional relationship with Dupri is now over for good.
However, he insists the split is amicable.
Asked whether Dupri would be contributing to The Remedy, Casey said, "No. I usually like to leave the door open for questions like that, but I’m going to go ahead and close that door. No, we’re not working with Jermaine.
"I’m not really looking to ever work with Jermaine again. It’s not beef. It’s no love lost. I just think we’re on two different pages and that’s fine. He can be where he’s at and we can be where we’re heading."

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