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BONNIE RAITT and harmonica player CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE are to be inducted = into Memphis, Tennessee’s Blues Hall of Fame.
Raitt, who co-founded the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, will be the lead h= onouree when the class of 2010 is saluted in May (10).
Chicago, Illinois bluesman Lonnie Brooks will also be inducted. (KL/LAT=

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THE WHO’s future rests on new in-ear monitors which will help tinnitus su= fferer PETE TOWNSHEND overcome hearing issues during live shows.
The rocker was introduced to the new technology by pal Neil Young’s aud= iologist and he’s planning to test the equipment when The Who perform the= ir Quadrophenia concept album at a charity show in London at the end of M= arch (10).
If it works for him, the band could be back on the road by the end of 2= 010.
Bandmate Roger Daltrey says, "It’s a good test for Pete’s hearing. We w= on’t know until we try."

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MOTORHEAD star LEMMY and JUDAS PRIEST’s ROB HALFORD are to be honoured wi= th top prizes at the second annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards in April (= 10).
Ace of Spades singer Lemmy will be the 2010 recipient of the Lifetime A= chievement Award, while fellow Brit Halford will take home the event’s Go= lden God Award.
Rob Zombie, Fear Factory and Zakk Wylde will provide the performances a= t this year’s show, which will be held at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, whil= e Andrew W.K. and professional wrestler-turned-musician Chris Jericho wil= l co-host.
Nominees for awards were announced on Wednesday (17Feb09) and Heaven & = Hell lead the pack with four, including a Best Vocalist nod for Ronnie Ja= mes Dio, who was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer, and a Best Guita= rist salute for Tony Iommi.
The supergroup also landed nominations for Album of the Year and Comeba= ck of the Year.
Slayer scored three nominations for Album of the Year, Best Live Act an= d Best Drummer (Dave Lombardo).
Alice In Chains, Fear Factory, Metallica, Megadeth, Mastodon and Them C= rooked Vultures scores two nods apiece.
The coveted Album of the Year prize will be fought for by Alice in Chai= ns (Black Gives Way to Blue), Heaven & Hell (The Devil You Know), Mastodo= n (Crack the Skye), Megadeth (Endgame), Slayer (World Painted Blood) and = Them Crooked Vultures (Them Crooked Vultures).

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Former hellraiser OZZY OSBOURNE put an end to his cheating ways after a H= IV scare saw him wrongly test positive for the deadly virus - and left hi= m contemplating suicide.
The ex-Black Sabbath frontman took full advantage of his rock ‘n’ roll = lifestyle in his heyday and freely admits to cheating on his manager wife= Sharon Osbourne.
But he quickly turned his back on his wild ways after one night of unpr= otected sex in a Hollywood hotel back in the early 1980s left him facing = a bleak future.
In his new memoir I Am Ozzy, the rocker recalls undergoing a HIV test o= n the advice of his doctor - but he was not prepared to hear the results.
He tells the National Enquirer, "I f**king freaked! At the time, I beli= eved it was only gay people who got HIV, and now the doctor tells me I ha= ve the bloody plague! "It was like he’d handed me a death sentence! I literally sank to my kn= ees and wanted to throw up. I was a mess." Laboratory technicians soon called to reveal the test was "borderline p= ositive" and told Osbourne he should undergo a second test for accuracy -= with results returned within a week.
Osbourne almost refused the test because he was already seriously conte= mplating taking his own life.
He says, "I told him quite seriously, ‘Look doctor, I can’t wait that l= ong because I’ll have killed myself by then.’ And I would have." Osbourne eventually relented and a second HIV test came back negative = - and that was enough to scare him into being faithful.
He adds, "What happened was that I was doing so many drugs, my immune s= ystem was depressed. So it appeared I was HIV positive! "But I can tell you, that was the end of my career as a Casanova. I nev= er cheated on Sharon again."

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Rocker COURTNEY LOVE has assured fans she’s not spiralling into another d= rug hell, despite reports to the contrary.
As she embarks on her comeback, after losing legal control of her teena= ge daughter Frances Bean, fans feared the Hole singer would struggle to c= ope.
And a series of bizarre online rants about her daughter have only serve= d to increase fan’s concerns.
But the rocker insists she’s clean and sober and has no intention of re= turning to her drug abuse days.
She tells Spin magazine, "I don’t take anything that isn’t prescribed t= o me. Cocaine, narcotics - those would be tantamount to suicide, and I’m = not suicidal." Love has a history of drug abuse and was sentenced to six months in reh= ab in 2005 after violating probation and then leaving a 28-day treatment = program without permission.
Released from house arrest in 2006, she thanked the judge who sentenced= her, stating, "I would just like to thank the court for allowing me thes= e 90 days… It helped me deal with a very gnarly drug problem, which is = behind me."

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Actress PATRICIA WETTIG is turning her hit TV drama BROTHERS & SISTERS in= to a real family affair - her daughter has joined the cast of the U.S. se= ries.
Wettig, who has portrayed Holly Harper on the show since its premiere i= n 2006, already works alongside her husband Ken Olin on set - he is an ex= ecutive producer on the programme and has also played her boyfriend David= Caplan on-screen - while their son Clifford serves as a writer.
Now Wettig and Olin’s 24-year-old daughter Roxy has joined the popular = drama - but the young actress admits she’s struggling to bond with the ma= le members of the cast because they don’t want to get too close to the "b= oss’ daughter".
Roxy Olin, who previously appeared on MTV reality show The City, tells = People magazine, "At first it was hard because they (her family) were all= working on it and I wasn’t. My dad, he’s the boss… Boys on the show do= n’t look in my direction because of my dad, and it drives me crazy.
"Dave Annable, Matthew Rhys and Balthazar Getty, they’re all like the c= utest things ever, and I’m like, ‘Hey boys.’ And they’re like, ‘Boss’ dau= ghter. No.’" And Wettig admits she’s enjoying watching Roxy try to win over her new = colleagues.
She says, "This is the one downside that Rox just cannot get past. She = is the boss’ daughter, and it just makes her nuts."

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A top documentarian has solved the 3,000-year-old mystery of what killed = Egyptian king Tutankhamen with the help of high-tech science.
Brando Quilici worked with top researchers, using DNA tests and CT scan= s, to determine King Tut’s cause of death - and came to the conclusion th= e legendary pharoah died of complications of a broken leg and malaria.
The life and death of King Tut has puzzled scholars the world over ever= since his tomb was discovered in 1922.
Quilici’s King Tut Unwrapped film will also unearth other medical findi= ngs about the ancient Egyptian - like the fact he suffered from a cleft p= alate and had a club foot.
The filmmaker created cigarette-sized cameras to capture the precise wo= rk of the researchers as they tested the DNA on a royal Egyptian mummy fo= r the first time.
Quilici says, "King Tut is such a famous name but so little is known ab= out him; we just knew when he was born and when he died. So now, thanks t= o the DNA, (leading Egyptologist) Dr. Zahi Hawass was able to identify th= e father… who is an extremely well-known pharoah, called Akhenaten. It’= s very important because he’s the first Egyptian pharoah… who started t= o believe in one single god." The study featured in the documentary also unearths the fact that Tutan= khamen’s parents were siblings and that his stepmother was fabled queen N= efertiti.

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QUENTIN TARANTINO has teamed up with artists like DAVID CHOE and JEREMY F= ISH to raise cash for the Haiti earthquake relief effort by turning hit f= ilm INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS into an art project.
Choe and Fish are among a group of 13 artists who have created posters = inspired by Tarantino’s 2009 film.
The artworks will be sold off to benefit the survivors of the 12 Januar= y (10) earthquake during an exhibition in Los Angeles on Thursday (18Feb1= 0).
Other artists involved in the Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds showcase= include Sam Flores, Estevan Oriol, Grotesk, Rene Alamanza, Morning Breat= h and Skinner Davis.
Tarantino will sign each limited edition print.
All proceeds from the project will be donated to The American Red Cross= ..

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FARRAH FAWCETT’s former hairdresser has been left stunned by the actions = of an opportunist, who is attempting to sell off a lock of the late actre= ss’ hair online.
Mela Murphy, who styled the Charlie’s Angels star’s famed blonde locks = for 20 years, has called plans to sell the sick memorabilia to fans for $= 1,000 (=C2=A3625), "scary".
The "one-time novelty item from the 1970s" has been put up for auction = on website HunkWithJunk.com, but Murphy will not be among the bidders.
She tells the Globe, "I am stunned."

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Scottish movie star JAMES MCAVOY is so dreading the workout regime for hi= s WANTED sequel, he’s keen to persuade moviemakers that his assassin char= acter should suffer from an eating disorder.
The actor had to bulk up his frame for the first film, in which he star= red alongside Angelina Jolie, and he doesn’t relish having to return to t= he gym to regain his Wesley Gibson physique.
He says, "I got more buff than I’d ever been in my life. We also employ= ed the 300 (movie) workout, which nearly f**king killed me.
"I might go skinny for the next film - he’s a bulimic assassin, he vomi= ts after killing… No matter what the script says, I think I’m gonna pla= y the second film like he’s in dire need of therapy. And I think he might= ‘ve stopped eating." But first the sequel has to be given the go-ahead.
He tells Nylon magazine, "They’re between scripts, so, until they get a= script, they can’t do a schedule. And, until they get a schedule, they c= an’t do a budget… They can’t hire people, they can’t do anything, reall= y." One thing’s for sure, he’ll need a new leading lady - Jolie’s character= , Fox, was killed at the end of the first film.

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EWAN MCGREGOR found perfectionist ROMAN POLANSKI to be a hard task master= on the set of new movie THE GHOST WRITER - the actor and the moviemaker = almost fell out over accents.
The Scot worked hard on his English accent before filming began - but P= olanski was far from happy the first time McGregor spoke in character.
He tells WENN, "I spoke to Roman about playing the ghost with a Scottis= h accent and he said, no he had to be English. Also, he (character) went = to Cambridge (University), so my first thought was that he would have a s= tandard English accent; I find it difficult to do that accent without fee= ling kind of posh. I really wanted the ghost not to be posh.
"We were doing the wardrobe fittings and I hadn’t read any of the scene= s with Polanski and we had two days before we were ready to shoot. I’m tr= ying on clothes and Roman appears every now and again and I said, ‘Can we= just talk, because if you don’t like this accent I’m going to have to th= ink of something else quick.’ "We finally sat down to read the scenes and he was much more picky abou= t how I said the lines. Right from the get go he’d say, ‘No, no, why woul= d you read it like this?’ And he’d take the whole script and read my line= s for me until finally he said, ‘Now you see!’ I didn’t know what I had d= one differently other than I was a little bit more frightened than I was = a minute ago.
"The next morning I phoned up Roman from my car and literally read him = some scenes using the London accent just to see if he thought it was OK a= nd I wanted to double check. I actually double checked sneakily behind Ro= man’s back with Robert Harris, the writer of the novel - and he said it w= as alright." But McGregor only had to get his accent right; co-star James Belushi un= derwent a makeover.
The actor explains, "We shot Belushi for six hours with hair and, after= six hours, Roman went, ‘No, in the book he has no hair,’ and they went a= way and shaved his head and we re-shot six hours worth of stuff with no h= air! "I didn’t know how he (Polanski) worked, so I was slightly taken aback.= He’s a total perfectionist but I’m really fond of him. He was an extraor= dinary director to work with and a great collaborator and he keeps you on= your toes. The first day we shot for 22 hours. I looked at him and thoug= ht, ‘F**k, I’ve got four months of this!’"

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Embattled golfer TIGER WOODS has been snapped in public for the first tim= e since his sex scandal hit the headlines last year (09).
Hours after the sports star announced plans to face the media at a pres= s conference on Friday (19Feb10), Woods was spotted teeing off at a drivi= ng range near his Florida home, surrounded by security guards, and then h= e was photographed jogging with his trainer.
The disgraced sportsman has remained out of the spotlight since news of= his infidelities broke in November (09).
He resurfaced at a sex addiction clinic in Mississippi last month (Feb1= 0) after a reported trip to South Africa.
Woods allowed himself to be photographed for the first time since Novem= ber (09) - while out jogging in Florida on Wednesday (17Feb10).
The star attracted the attention of the paparazzi as he returned to the= his home in the state - the place where he crashed his car into a tree f= ollowing a heated row with his wife Elin Nordegren.
The incident led to a string of affair reports, prompting Woods to anno= unce a hiatus from golf and then flee the family home.
The golfer’s latest photo has fuelled speculation his marriage to forme= r model Nordegren is over - he was not wearing his wedding ring in the sh= ots.

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ASHTON KUTCHER has turned technology diplomat in an effort to help Russia= n officials crackdown on human trafficking.
The tech-friendly star has joined a delegation of politicians and boffi= ns, which has jetted off to Russia to offer advice and tips about how tec= hnology can help lawmakers.
The project follows the success of a similar U.S. State Department-rela= ted mission to Iraq and Mexico City last year (09), which provided offici= als in those countries with information and equipment to help them beat c= rime.
While in Russia, Kutcher will discuss how communications technologies a= nd social media, like his beloved Twitter.com, can be used to strengthen = and broaden the ties between America and Russia and help leaders there fi= ght crime issues.
He joins eBay.com boss John Donahoe and Twitter.com co-founder Jack Dor= sey, as well as Ellis Rubinstein, the president and CEO of the New York A= cademy of Sciences.
Kutcher has agreed to ‘tweet’ about the trip.
The co-founder of the Demi and Ashton Foundation, which works on anti-t= rafficking issues, Kutcher is keen to promote new ways of combating the g= rowing illegal sex trade problem in Russia.
The delegation is tentatively scheduled to meet with politicians and ad= visors to President Dmitry Medvedev, as well as the leaders of Russian te= chnology and telecommunications companies.

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BRITTANY MURPHY’s brother has taken aim at the bosses of the cemetery whe= re the actress was laid to rest in December (09) - for refusing to let hi= s father visit her grave.
Angelo Bertolotti was denied access to Murphy’s gravesite on Monday (15= Feb10) after arriving at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills= to pay his respects.
Staff told the actress’ estranged father that only family members could= visit Murphy’s grave - and because his name wasn’t on her death certific= ate, they couldn’t grant him access.
Distraught Bertolotti was forced to leave the cemetery without seeing h= is daughter’s grave and his son, Murphy’s half-brother Jeff, is speaking = out about what he calls "a travesty".
Talking to U.S. news show Access Hollywood, he says, "I cannot think of= a more cruel thing to do to an 84-year-old man.
"He’s on the birth certificate. For an 80-something-year-old man to go = to his daughter’s grave and be turned away is ridiculous. It’s one of the= most cruel and unusual things I can think of." Meanwhile, his father is attempting to add his name to the death certif= icate at the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office.
Jeff Bertolotti adds, "It’ll get cleared up." And Murphy’s brother hopes the cemetery mix up will help to bring his e= xtended family together: "I don’t think anyone from our side of the famil= y is on the list (to visit the grave)… When someone passes, it’s a time= to bring everyone together, not turn them away."

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Movie stars JEFF BRIDGES and ROBERT DUVALL became the toast of Hollywood = for their musical skills on Monday night (15Feb10) when they packed a tin= y Los Angeles club to perform songs from their CRAZY HEART film.
Bridges, who is Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of grizzled country s= inger Bad Blake in the film, performed tracks from the movie with songwri= ters T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham - and was even joined onstage at the= 200-capacity Vibrato Grill by Elton John and Harry Dean Stanton.
Duvall took to the stage to sing the gospel song Live Forever, which he= performs on the soundtrack, with actor pal Stanton on harmonica.
Elton stunned the crowd when he joined Bridges on piano for the closing= track, I Don’t Know.
And the stars weren’t only onstage - the audience consisted of Crazy He= art co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal and her brother Jake, Jon Hamm, Woody Harre= lson, Peter Fonda and film composer Hans Zimmer.

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Even lesbians can’t resist the charms of MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY - as the act= or and his girlfriend discovered on a recent trip to Austin, Texas.
The Sahara star and Camila Alves were out partying when they stumbled i= nto a gay bar and became the centre of attention.
But it had nothing to do with the stunning Brazilian - the lesbians all= wanted to get close to her man.
Alves says, "We go in and I’m like, ‘Yes! Victory!’ because everywhere = we go, everybody loves Matthew - I do too - but sometimes you want to not= have people bother you. We’re in a lesbian bar, now it’s my turn - peopl= e are gonna hit on me. That didn’t happen.
"He (McConaughey) was turning lesbian women straight. We had to have th= e bar security come and stand in front of us… You just can’t win with t= he guy. He has it and you gotta love it."

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KE$HA has wrecked LIONEL RICHIE and QUINCY JONES’ dreams of debuting thei= r revamped all-star WE ARE THE WORLD 25: FOR HAITI charity hit at the top= of the U.S. pop charts.
The party-loving pop star will start a ninth week at number one when th= e Billboard Hot 100 is officially released on Thursday (18Feb10), accordi= ng to early estimates.
And that means the new Artists For Haiti single will debut at two on th= e new countdown.
The track was released as a digital download on Friday evening (12Feb10= ) after the new video accompanying the track debuted during the telecast = of the opening night of the Winter Olympics.
The new We Are The World had sold over 267,000 downloads when WENN went= to press.
The original tune, which was written by Richie and Michael Jackson and = recorded by supergroup USA for Africa, debuted at 21 on the Hot 100 in Ma= rch 1985. The track rose to number one three weeks later and stayed there= for four.

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SANDRA BULLOCK’s husband JESSE JAMES has ended his three-week hunt for hi= s missing dog after a woman returned the pitbull to the TV mechanic’s Cal= ifornia motorbike shop.
The TV daredevil’s beloved Cinnabun mysteriously disappeared from his c= ustom bike shop, West Coast Choppers, in Long Beach, California on 25 Jan= uary (10).
He appealed to fans for help and even called in pet detectives a week a= fter the dog vanished.
James also offered a $5,000 (GBP3,125) reward for information.
According to TMZ.com, James’ dog was returned on Wednesday morning (17F= eb10) by a woman who recognised the stray from a picture of the dog on a = flyer posted in her neighbourhood.
Cinnabun was returned safely but has lost a reported 15 pounds since he= went missing.

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