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JAY-Z is continuing his reign as the King of Hip-Hop - he’s been named the best rapper alive in a new poll by MTV.
The Run This Town superstar, real name Shawn Carter, landed the top spot on the annual Hottest MCs in the Game countdown, beating Lil Wayne and his protege Drake into second and third place, respectively.
The MTV accolade comes just three months after Jay-Z was placed at number one on Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash Kings list with his past year earnings of $35 million (£23.3 million) - and that was before he made history with his new release The Blueprint 3.
The disc debuted atop the Billboard albums chart last month (Sep09), giving Jay-Z his 11th U.S
. chart-topper - surpassing Elvis Presley’s record for most number one albums and only just behind The Beatles.
Jay-Z’s good pal Kanye West also scores highly on the new list, despite his notorious outburst at the recent MTV Video Music Awards, when he stormed the stage to protest Taylor Swift’s win for Best Female Video.
MTV’s Hottest MCs in the Game are as follows:
1. Jay-Z
2. Lil Wayne
3. Drake
4. Kanye West
5. Rick Ross
6. Gucci Mane
7. Young Jeezy
8. Fabolous
9. 50 Cent
10. Raekwon
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THE ROOTS star AHMIR ‘?UESTLOVE’ THOMPSON is nursing an injured hand after he was involved in a car crash in Houston, Texas on Sunday morning (04Oct09).
The producer and drummer took to his online blog in the early hours of Sunday to tell fans of his close encounter, initially insisting he had escaped unscathed.
He wrote on his Twitter.com page, "I gots (sic) to be the golden child. Survived yet another car crash unscathed. The cab however…" But in another post a few moments later, Thompson admitted his hand had suffered slightly in the collision.
He added, "Left hand feels pain but in the scheme of things I’m happy to be alive and leaving Houston." It’s the second car accident Thompson has been caught up in in the last year - last November (08), the acclaimed hip-hop band survived a bus crash in Paris, France, escaping with minor cuts and bruises.

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German media tycoon REINHARD MOHN has died. He was 88.
Mohn was the fifth generation to head Bertelsmann AG - turning the company his family founded in 1835 into one of the world’s largest media conglomerates.
He died on Saturday (03Oct09) after a long illness.
In March (09), Forbes magazine estimated Mohn and his family were worth $2.5 billion, making them the 261st wealthiest family in the world.
The company owns Random House, which publishes works from authors including Stephen King, John Grisham, Dan Brown and John Updike. It also controls RTL Group, Europe’s largest broadcasting company, magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, and media-marketing firm Direct Group. The company’s other businesses have included Sony BMG and AOL Europe.
Mohn took over Bertelsmann in 1947 and served as CEO until 1981.
He is survived by his wife and six children. His widow, Liz, remains on the firm’s supervisory board.

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Late screenwriter LARRY GELBART accused DUSTIN HOFFMAN of refusing to give him credit for writing TOOTSIE.
Gelbart died last month (Sep09) after a battle with cancer but in an interview conducted a year before his passing, he blamed the actor for declaring it was his pal Murray Schisgal who conceived of the 1982 comedy, about an entertainer who dresses as a woman to find work.
But Gelbart, who won an Academy Award for co-writing the film, was adamant the idea for the screenplay was his own.
He told Mike Sacks, "Tootsie is my vision, despite Dustin Hoffman’s lifelong mission to deprive anybody of any credit connected with that movie, except for his close friend, the writer and producer Murray Schisgal.
"I say that because Dustin appeared with James Lipton on (TV series) Inside the Actors Studio in 2006 and declared that the Tootsie idea sprang from Schisgal’s intestines. I don’t know much about gastroenterology, but I do know that the central theme for Tootsie came from me. And the central theme was that Dustin’s character, Michael Dorsey, would become a better man for having been a woman. That was the cornerstone of the film. All of the other details are just floating around that idea." Gelbart shared his Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Schisgal and Don McGuire.

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Director JAN KOUNEN cancelled the Swiss premiere of his new movie COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY at the Zurich Film Festival on Friday (02Oct09) to protest the arrest of ROMAN POLANSKI.
The Chinatown filmmaker was taken into custody by Swiss officials on 26 September (09) in connection with a 31-year-old child sex case.
Polanski, who was due to collect a top honour at the film festival, is now fighting extradition to the U.S. to face sentencing for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor - a charge he pleaded guilty to before fleeing to France in 1978.
A host of his Hollywood pals have come out in defence of Polanski, and Kounen showed his support for the controversial director by withdrawing his movie from the festival’s line-up.
The film, about a 1920s love affair between the French fashion designer and Russian composer Stravinsky, was due to be screened on Friday night, but the showing was pulled at Kounen’s request, festival spokeswoman Nadja Schildknecht confirmed.

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PETER ANDRE has triumphed over KYLIE MINOGUE in a celebrity auction - landing nearly four times as much cash as his fellow Aussie star.
Spinning Around singer Minogue donated a pair of her Giuseppe Zanotti designer shoes to an online sale in aid of health charity Wellbeing of Women.
The stilettos attracted a winning bid of $1,561 (£1,041) - but the chance to share a lunch date with Andre fetched a staggering $5,850 (£3,900).
And Minogue was also outdone by Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden - a day out shopping with the TV star sold for $1,980 (£1,320).
A pair of Rupert Sanderson heels, donated by Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, fetched $881 (£541) while a mystery bidder paid $697 (£465) for British singer Leona Lewis’ Stella McCartney sandals.

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Pop punk stars PARAMORE have knocked MADONNA off the top of the British album chart.
The band, who last week (begs28Sep09) postponed a string of U.S. gigs to allow singer Hayley Williams to recover from laryngitis, claimed the number one spot with Brand New Eyes, with the Queen Of Pop’s Celebration falling to two.
Folk singer Newton Faulkner was at three with Rebuilt By Humans, followed by Barbra Streisand’s record Love Is The Answer. Muse’s The Resistance was at five.
In the U.K. singles chart, Taio Cruz’s Break Your Heart retained the top spot while Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys climbed a rung to two, knocking David Guetta and Akon’s collaboration, Sexy Chick, into third.
She Wolf by Shakira and the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling completed the top five.

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ANTONIO BANDERAS must demolish part of his beachfront Spanish villa after losing a court battle to retain the land for himself.
The Desperado star had hoped to suspend the demolition of a portion of his luxury Marbella home, which stands on an area marked for communal beach use, but officials at the Andalucia High Court overruled the order.
The actor was said to have been offered a deal to pay the community $3 million (£2 million), the equivalent of the property’s value, in exchange for the right to keep his home intact.
But a lawyer representing the local Community of Owners insists negotiations have failed and the star must surrender the area.

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LINDSAY LOHAN burst into tears walking the runway after debuting her first collection with design house Emanuel Ungaro at Paris Fashion Week.
The Mean Girls star was appointed artistic adviser of the French brand just last month (Sep09) and has spent the last few weeks quickly putting together a line with head designer Estrella Archs.
On Sunday (04Oct09), the actress’ efforts were on display for all the fashion world to see as models strutted down the runway wearing Lohan’s blazers and mini-dresses at Paris’ Louvre museum.
Lohan and Archs then took to the catwalk to take a bow but the emotional star began tearing up as she was applauded, and was seen clutching Archs’ hand for support.
Speaking to reporters backstage, Lohan admitted the role she played in creating the range was "the hardest thing I’ve ever done".

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JENNIFER GARNER would hate to be under husband BEN AFFLECK’s direction on a movie set - because he takes so much time with his work.
The happy couple has been married for more than four years, but Garner admits she would struggle to take orders from her other half.
She says, "I don’t want to because he is not the world’s fastest director, and I like to get in and do my work and go home and put the kids to bed.
"I’m afraid there would be this moment where I would say, ‘Okay. You’ve got it. I promise you it is in the can. I’ve got to go home.’ But you know, life is long and I never say never. I think Ben is brilliant at what he does. I am so happy for him and proud of him."

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Guitarist ZOLTAN BATHORY has laughed off speculation his disappearance last month (Sep09) was a stunt to publicise his metal band FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH.
The musician sparked a massive manhunt in Las Vegas after he disappeared from a party following the band’s show in Sin City and was found days later, just in time to begin their U.S. tour.
Bathory is adamant he was only out of touch with his bandmates because he had broken his cellphone - and was shocked to discover the dilemma had courted such publicity.
He says, "For a PR stunt, I could think of a million better things than ‘woohoo, rock musician gets s**tfaced in Vegas and disappears for few days.’ "My cellphone ended up taking a dip in a swimming pool somewhere so I was off the grid for a couple of days. It was a raw weekend, and a lot of stupid stuff fits in 48 hours in Vegas. When I called my manager, he was like, ‘F**k, dude, half of the country is looking for you.’ I thought it was just a figure of speech, (but) apparently it wasn’t - it was bizarre."

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Reggae star MAJOR MACKEREL was hospitalised after a jealous husband attacked him with a machete in New York.
The dancehall musician was left needing urgent medical attention after a resident in his Brooklyn neighbourhood slashed him across the head and hand with the vicious weapon over claims the singer had been flirting with his wife.
Oscar Joseph was taken into custody and charged with assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon shortly after the attack on Sunday (04Oct09).
Mackerel, real name Garfield Dixon, was released from hospital after several hours, and insisted his run-in with Joseph was a "Jamaican thing".
He tells the New York Daily News, "I don’t feel bad. These things happen. It’s a Jamaican thing."

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The story of THE BEATLES’ rise to fame will be told in a new theatre production.
Director Iain Softley has adapted his 1994 movie Backbeat, about the band’s early days gigging in Hamburg, Germany, for the stage.
The film chronicled the relationship of original Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe and a local photographer, Astrid Kirchherr - and Softley has picked Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre in Sutcliffe’s native Scotland to debut the play.
He says, "I am so delighted that, after all these years, we can bring Backbeat to the theatre, and to debut in Scotland where Stu was born." Backbeat is slated to begin in February (10).

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Rock wildman OZZY OSBOURNE ravaged his body so badly with drink and drugs, doctors wrongly diagnosed him with Aids.
The Black Sabbath frontman was tested for the deadly virus during his heady heyday, and was left in shock when a blood test came back as HIV positive.
He tells Britain’s Glamour magazine, "I went to the doctor and had an Aids test and he told me it was positive.
"That was one of the worst days of my life." But after undergoing another blood test, the star was relieved to hear he had been misdiagnosed because of the impact his hedonistic lifestyle had taken on his immune system.
He adds, "When I used to f**king get loaded I would get myself into all kinds of situations.
"It turned out that because I was drinking and using drugs so much, my immune system had dropped so that it was a borderline result.
"When I went back to be tested again it was negative."

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Grieving KANDI BURRUSS is struggling to come to grips with the death of her fiance - because she had so many bottled-up feelings to share with her partner.
The R&B singer/songwriter had put her wedding plans with Ashley ‘AJ’ Jewell on hold as they tried to work out a series of relationship problems.
But former Xscape Burruss is devastated she and her lover will never have a chance to resolve their differences and marry, after he was killed in a bar brawl on Friday (02Oct09).
She says, "I had spoken to AJ two hours before I got the call that he was in the hospital. Never in a thousand years did I think it was going to be the last time I heard his voice. He was taken way too soon. There are so many things that I should have said to him, wanted to say to him, but now it’s too late.
"I am devastated by the loss of AJ. His death comes on the heels of the death of my beloved Uncle Ralph and with both of them gone, my heart is heavy with grief.
"I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to all of my family and friends - and that means my Twitter and Facebook friends as well - for the beautiful words of encouragement, prayers, and the sweet condolences. I make it through these difficult days because of you." Fredrick Richardson has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after Jewell died of massive head injuries in an altercation in the parking lot of The Body Tap Club in Atlanta, Georgia.

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MILEY CYRUS is set to return to the stage on Tuesday (06Oct09) after her bout of illness - and has promised fans an extra special show to celebrate.
The Hannah Montana star was forced to axe three gigs on her U.S. tour last week after she was taken ill with a sore throat.
But after resting up over the weekend (03-04Oct09), the teen sensation has been given the all-clear to perform again - and wants to make up for lost time when she takes the stage in Auburn Hills, Michigan on Tuesday night.
She writes on her Twitter.com blog, "Got the go ahead from the Doc & the beast is ready to be unleashed! I always love performing in MI but this show is gonna get crazzzzyyy!"

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LA TOYA JACKSON fought back tears on U.K. TV as she recalled how her mother screamed down the phone when she found out her son MICHAEL had died.
La Toya was on her way to hospital after receiving an urgent call from her father Joe telling her that the King of Pop had been taken ill.
But the star admits she almost crashed the car after hearing her grief-stricken mother Katherine shout down the phone that her beloved brother had passed away just minutes before she arrived at the medical facility.
And La Toya reveals the initial call eerily came just moments after she had been discussing the passing of actress Farrah Fawcett - who died on the same say as Jackson in June (09).
She tells Britain’s GMTV, "I was actually at home, my father called me. I was speaking with my business partner, who had just told me about Farrah (Fawcett). And I said, ‘Oh my, who’s next?’ Because it always happens in threes. And the next thing, my father had called me and said, ‘I need to you to rush over to the hospital immediately.’ And I said, ‘What is it?’ And he said, ‘It’s your brother, Michael. They took him to the hospital.’ He called back five minutes later and said, ‘You have to go there, you have to. I hear it’s serious, you have to go to the hospital.’ "I was driving over to the hospital and I was speaking to my mother’s assistant, and I kept asking how he was doing, and he (the assistant) just wouldn’t answer me. And I heard my mother in the background say, ‘Who is that?’ And she grabbed the phone and screamed down the phone, screamed at the top of her lungs, ‘He’s dead, he’s dead.’ And I heard it and I almost crashed the car so many times as I tried to get over there, even though I was only three minutes away." The Thriller hitmaker died on 25 June (09), after suffering a cardiac arrest. Farrah Fawcett died earlier the same day following a long battle with cancer.

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German supermodel CLAUDIA SCHIFFER has vowed never to step foot on a fashion runway again.
The beauty has been modelling for almost 20 years, but she’s had enough of strutting her stuff down the catwalk, preferring to watch the shows instead of star in them.
She says, "I’m finished with the runway. I won’t miss it. I am still modelling and I enjoy that a lot but no more runways. I can sit on the side and view the outfits and see all the detail and that suits me fine. It’s very enjoyable. I like my new viewpoint."

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