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SYLVESTER STALLONE is planning to retire from acting in the next few year s to concentrate on his work as a director.
The 63-year-old movie action man admits he is on "borrowed time" and wi ll soon no longer feel comfortable in front of the camera.
But Stallone, who has written and directed numerous films over the year s, hopes he will be able to continue his career by mirroring Clint Eastwo od’s decision to move behind-the-scenes full-time.
He says, "I’m on borrowed time. At this age I hear the ticking clock an d it’s as loud as the gong on Big Ben (London’s famous clock tower). The ultimate ambition is to follow in Clint Eastwood’s footsteps and move on to directing films without me having to be in them.
"I’m on borrowed time and know my longevity will be predicted on being able to make that move."

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Hollywood powerhouse The Weinstein Company is now free of its $450 millio n (=C2=A3300 million) debt following a ground-breaking restructuring deal which saw the company hand over the rights to 200 films including HALLOW EEN II and SCARY MOVIE 4.
The film studio, set up by movie moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 200 5, spiralled into debt over the last few years following a series of shak y investments in fashion, TV and online projects.
But the firm is now back on track after the Weinsteins agreed an innova tive deal which will see insurance company Ambac pay $115 million (=C2=A3 76.7 million) of the debt to financial companies Goldman Sachs and Assure d Guaranty.
The movie moguls wiped the rest of the debt by handing over control of 200 films to executives at Goldman Sachs, but they managed to retain the rights to the company’s most high-profile movies including Inglourious Ba sterds, Pulp Fiction and the Scream franchise.
The Weinstein Company will also receive a distribution fee on the title s now owned by Goldman, according to The Wrap.
Harvey Weinstein tells the website, "(It is) the perfect deal - four co mpanies perfectly aligned, in a deal that recoups incredible value for Th e Weinstein Company, and gives us the wherewithal to continue… We won=E2 =80=99t be buying clothing or internet companies. Those days are over." The deal means The Weinstein Company will be able to move forward with a number of projects, including The King’s Speech, which will see Colin F irth playing England’s stammering King George VI, and I Don’t Know How Sh e Does It with Sarah Jessica Parker.

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SEAN KINGSTON once turned down a dance date with RIHANNA - because he had no freshly pressed clothes.
The Beautiful Girls singer was partying in London at the exclusive Kens ington Garden Hotel when he encountered the Bajan beauty, and was thrille d when the Umbrella singer asked him to escort her to nearby club Mahiki.
But Kingston quickly rebuffed her offer because he hadn’t ironed his cl othes - and now regrets his lame excuse.
He tells Britain’s Daily Mirror, "Rihanna asked me to go clubbing with her. Looking back I can’t believe I said no just because I didn’t have an y clothes ironed.
"But I couldn’t go out with a superstar looking bad."

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Health-obsessed GWYNETH PALTROW was given a calorific task while training with chefs in a London restaurant kitchen - she was put in charge of the deep-fat fryer.
The Iron Man star is famous for her notoriously strict diets, enduring a macrobiotic plan and punishing herself with excessive exercise and yoga regimes to keep her slender figure.
The actress recently admitted that living in Britain and becoming a mot her of two has cost her her once ultra-healthy lifestyle, and she proved she’s no longer counting the calories while cooking with chefs at London’ s River Cafe - she relished the chance to deep-fry everything in sight.
On her Goop newsletter, she reveals, "A few weeks ago, I had the pleasu re of spending the day working in London’s famous River Caf=C3=A9, and it was incredible! The kitchen runs with a precision you would expect but a calm you perhaps would not.
"Once service started, I was stationed at the deep fat fryer (Delight! Fried zucchini! Fried anchovies!), and also helped Danny on pasta with hi s very busy day. It was an experience I won’t soon forget."

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Former DESTINY’S CHILD star KELLY ROWLAND has come clean about her split from Columbia Records, revealing she was dumped.
Last year (09), the singer parted company with the label in what was ca lled "a mutual decision", but now she has confessed the company let her g o.
In a candid interview with Entertainment Weekly magazine, she reveals, "The records that I put out probably didn’t perform as well as maybe they wanted them to. We live in an industry where you’ve got to bring in mone y… I get it."

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s mother KATHERINE has backed her daughter LA TOYA’s alle gations the King of Pop was murdered - insisting her superstar son was co nvinced "people wanted him dead".
In a rare TV interview with NBC’s Dateline - set to air in the U.S. on the first anniversary of Jackson’s death on Friday (25Jun10) - the family matriarch reveals the Thriller hitmaker always feared he would meet a tr agic end.
And the 80 year old is adamant greed played a part in the superstar’s d emise.
She says, "I know Michael didn’t die of natural causes. Someone did thi s to him. Mean, evil, vicious people didn’t want him around for some reas on. It just shows how vicious people are and greedy for money.
"He told me several times that he felt that people wanted him gone, wan ted him dead. He would always say that. And for him to say that he must h ave known something." The claims follows La Toya’s recent insistence that Jackson was killed for money, saying, "Michael was murdered for his (music) catalogue - that ’s the bottom line." Jackson’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray stands accused of admini stering the powerful anaesthetic Propofol which led to the singer’s death .. He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter. (MJ/

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DAMON ALBARN is so "nervous" about GORILLAZ’s headlining slot at Glastonb ury on Friday (25Jun09) - he’s been having nightmares of "empty fields" a head of his performance at Britain’s legendary festival.
The Blur frontman will headline the famed U.K. music event with his ban d after stepping in to replace Irish rockers U2, who pulled out of the sl ot due to Bono’s recent back surgery.
But Albarn, whose 2009 Glastonbury slot with Blur was voted fans’ favou rite in a recent survey, admits he often worries revellers will snub his show.
He tells Britain’s The Sun newspaper, "I’ve headlined twice with Blur a nd now this. I don’t take it for granted, that’s an enormous privilege. I mean, you can’t take it for granted because that’s when it’s all over.
"All the same anxieties, the dreams are starting to come in of empty fi elds. I know what happens to me, and I don’t know how to deal with it, bu t it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen and I don’t feel incredibly nervous.
"For me Glastonbury is the most special festival on earth. I believe th at there’s magic in the earth there, so I’d never take it for granted." (

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s mother KATHERINE is convinced the father of the boy who accused the star of sexual abuse committed suicide because of his guilt over masterminding the allegations.
Former dentist Evan Chandler, 65, became estranged from his entire fami ly after he accused Jackson of molesting his son Jordan in 1992.
A 13-month police investigation cleared Jackson of any wrongdoing, but the singer, who died a year ago on Friday (25Jun10), later paid the teena ger $22 million (=C2=A314.6 million) for "personal injuries arising out o f claims of negligence" in return for dropping a civil suit against him.
Evan Chandler’s body was found at his apartment in New Jersey last Nove mber (09) and officials ruled the death as suicide.
In her upcoming book, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Katherine Jackson Arch ives, the music matriarch writes that she "wants to believe" Chandler kil led himself because of the pain he caused the Thriller hitmaker with his claims.
According to TMZ.com, Jackson writes, "Evan Chandler, the father of Mic hael’s first accuser, recently committed suicide.
"Though I can’t comment on why, I want to believe his conscience finall y caught up with him and he was not able to live with himself after destr oying an innocent person’s career and breaking his spirit." (MJ/WNWCZM/KD

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One of Hollywood’s most beloved animal stars is to be sold off at auction - even though it’s dead.
Country cowboy and singer Roy Rogers had his trusty equine sidekick Tri gger stuffed when the animal died in 1965.
A taxidermist was commissioned to mount the animal in a rearing positio n.
Now, the creature is to be sold off next month (14-15Jul10) during a we ekend clear-out at the former Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum, which cl osed last year (09).
Christie’s experts will oversea the sale of 300 items in association wi th High Noon Western Americana.
Trigger is expected to go under the hammer for between $100,000 and $20 0,000 (=C2=A366,600 to =C2=A3133,300).

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TWILIGHT hunk TAYLOR LAUTNER is excited to start filming upcoming action movie STRETCH ARMSTRONG - even though his new film character has "the wor st superhero power".
The 18 year old star has signed up for the big-screen adaptation of the Hasbro action figure’s life story, but insists the script will have to b e "creative" for fans to be interested in the long-limbed hero.
Lautner tells MTV.com, "It’s, like, the worst superhero power, possibly , to get, and how you’re going to take that and use it for good.
"The awesome thing with toys is it doesn’t give you a story line, so yo u get to create it. The development process for this movie has been aweso me and it’s going to continue to be. I just can’t wait to see a script…
I just want to see it." The movie, which will be shown in 3D, is to hit theatres in 2012 - and he can’t wait to get his hands on the toy version of himself as Stretch: "You get to create everything with it, which is super exciting." (PAW/WNW

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TWILIGHT star KRISTEN STEWART is struggling to get a pet movie project he r mother wrote made - because producers can’t see her as a boy in the fil m.
The actress admits her success in Twilight means she has more power ove r getting certain favourite films made and landing roles she wants - but she still can’t get one project off the ground.
She tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "I still can’t get K-11 made b ecause I’m playing a boy in it. If I were playing a pretty girl, it would be done already.
"My mom and her writing partner wrote a script called K-11 that takes p lace in a jail, and I would play a man. But people don’t want to see (Twi light character) Bella doing that, so they didn’t want to raise money." (

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German actor FRANK GIERING has died, aged 38.
The star was found dead at his apartment in Berlin, Germany on Wednesda y (23Jun10). Police are investigating his cause of death.
Best known for his role as a courteous psychopath in Michael Haneke’s 1 997 film Funny Games, Giering was often cited as an inspiration for wanna be performers.
He was well known in his homeland for small, supporting roles and his p art as Chief Inspector Henry Weber in German crime series Der Kriminalist .. Programme bosses have halted filming on the new season of the show.
A statement from Odeon Film, the company behind Der Kriminalist, reads, "We are deeply moved by the much too early death of this young, talented actor. With Frank Giering we have lost a very treasured colleague who ha s in the past four years accompanied and enriched us." Giering openly spoke of his struggles with alcoholism and claimed his e motional issues stemmed from growing up in communist East Germany. (MJ/WN

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Bosses at a BBC radio station have been criticised for giving the HARRY P OTTER franchise "undue prominence" during a day-long dedication to the fi lm series last year (09), according to the corporation’s governing body.
Britain’s BBC Radio 1 came under fire from commercial industry body Rad ioCentre after the station broadcast Potter coverage throughout 15 July, 2009 to mark the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The ‘Harry Potter Day’ included mentions of the film across Radio 1’s m ain shows.
In response to the official complaint by RadioCentre, the BBC Trust - w hich governs all of the public-funded network’s output - upheld part of t he claim.
A report from the Trust states, "The verbal references to the brand or the film were not used sparingly nor were there very strong journalistic reasons for repeated references.
"The number of references and the manner in which the trails were deliv ered amounted to undue prominence." However, the body rejected claims the network broke the rules by pluggi ng the film.
A statement from a Radio 1 spokesperson reads, "While this was not a br each of Radio 1’s service licence we take note of the findings around tim ings and promotion of these events.
"We have been assured that this ruling will not prevent Radio 1 from re flecting music and culture in a timely fashion in the future." The news comes just months after BBC bosses were found to have breached official guidelines by unfairly promoting U2’s last album, No Line On Th e Horizon, with a day of coverage across the network. (MJ/WNTSU&WNWCCB/KD

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SIENNA MILLER missed out on SIR ELTON JOHN’s annual charity ball in Winds or, England on Thursday (24Jun10) after falling ill with glandular fever.
The Rocket Man’s White Tie and Tiara Ball is a highlight of the celebri ty social calendar in the U.K., with Elizabeth Hurley, Sharon and Kelly O sbourne and David Walliams all heading to the singer’s Windsor estate for the lavish affair.
But Miller was forced to skip the festivities after succumbing to the v iral infection, which is also known as infectious mononucleosis (mono).
She tells WENN, "I can’t make it, I have glandular fever." The Alfie star cheered herself up with a hair appointment in London’s p osh Mayfair instead.
At the ball, Sir Elton was excited to auction off an Audi A1 car painte d in pink by British artist Damien Hirst to raise money for the Elton Joh n AIDS Foundation.
He said, "This is one of the most exciting auction items we have ever h ad for White Tie."

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TOTO frontman BOBBY KIMBALL and YES stars BILLY SHERWOOD and TONY KAYE ha ve formed a new rock supergroup, called YOSO.
The trio’s first album, Elements, will be released next week (02Jul10) in Europe and later in the month (Jul10) in America.
Sherwood tells WENN, "YOSO was started when I suggested to Bobby Kimbal l we should write some new music and form a band.
"We had been working together on various tribute projects that I was pr oducing and one thing lead to another. Before too long we had five songs in the can and were well on our way to making a record. That is when we s tarted thinking seriously about taking it to the next level. Once there was a few songs underway the concept grew into the band we now have." (KL

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Cuban band BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB were forced to cancel a concert in Bro oklyn, New York on Thursday (24Jun10) after failing to secure U.S. work v isas in time.
The group was due to play a show in Prospect Park but struggled to obta in their immigration documents in time to arrange a flight, according to their attorney Bill Martinez.
But the lawyer insists the delay was down to "a timing issue" and had n othing to do with problems with U.S. border authorities.
The band blamed their late applications on their hectic work schedule, which only recently saw them return from their European tour, reports Reu ters.
However, Buena Vista Social Club are planning to go ahead with their tw o scheduled shows this weekend - they will play in Chicago, Illinois on S aturday (26Jun10) and at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Sunday (27J un10).

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New wave pop icon GARY NUMAN is set to make up for his Coachella festival no-show by performing his most famous album in its entirety on an upcomi ng American tour.
The Cars hitmaker was among the stars caught up in the volcano ash chao s over Europe which prevented performers getting to America for Coachella in April (10), but he’s now announced an extensive autumn (10) tour with a twist.
Numan will play his landmark 1979 album The Pleasure Principal from sta rt to finish - to mark the 30th anniversary of the release.
The tour will be the Brit’s first U.S. dates since 2006. Concerts begin in Florida on 17 October (10) and wrap up with a two-night stint at Los Angeles’ El Rey a month later.

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Country trio RASCAL FLATTS have been named official ambassadors for a gro up dedicated to preventing teen suicides.
The Life is a Highway hitmakers will participate in public service anno uncements, events and programmes for the Jason Foundation.
The bandmates will also spearhead a new campaign which alerts teens to signs their friends might be depressed or in trouble.
Rascal Flatts have shot a PSA which will be shown during their Nothing Like This tour, which begins Friday (25Jun10).

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