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AN EDUCATION star CAREY MULLIGAN is desperate to tackle WILLIAM SHAKESPEA RE’s most beloved heroine on Broadway before she’s too old to play her.
The actress, 25, hopes to hit the stage as Juliet in a new production o f Romeo & Juliet next year (11).
She tells WENN, "I’ve been talking to someone about Romeo & Juliet and I’d never sort of gone after it and tried to make that happen. I’ve never done Shakespeare, so that really scares me. But it’s exciting.
"I won’t be able to play Juliet in a couple of years and if I’m ever go nna do it I should do it now." And Mulligan insists she’ll always return to the stage in between movie s - because theatre’s in her blood.
She adds, "I love doing film but I do think I’m more comfortable on sta ge because the film was never the dream."

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JOSH BROLIN wears his 2008 jail time as a badge of honour - because he’s proud he stood up for W co-star JEFFREY WRIGHT in a Louisiana bar encount er.
The actors were arrested and charged with interfering with police busin ess following the altercation at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport but the charges against both have since been dropped.
And Brolin insists he’d do what he did all over again - whatever the co nsequences - because he hates bar bullies.
He tells Playboy magazine, "Going to jail that time was for an excellen t reason: Jeffrey Wright didn’t do anything… I don’t like bullies. I do n’t like when people are mistreated.
"There was a bartender and other people, and I said to these guys, ‘You have to be able to look me in the eye and acknowledge that it’s wrong th at this guy’s going to jail. I want you to have some integrity about your own f**king decision. I’m a big guy. You get scared and want to put me d own? I get it. Pepper spray my face and I get confrontational; I don’t ge t violent.’ I got slammed on the ground at that point." Wright was tasered in the fracas and Brolin’s assistant was arrested fo r "asking too many questions".
The Jonah Hex star adds, "She was more assaulted than anybody else. The back of her head was slammed on the ground.
"I heard this melon-like squish and she wound up with a baseball-size s welling on her head. I freaked out because I kept saying, ‘She didn’t do anything’."

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JOSH BROLIN wears his 2008 jail time as a badge of honour - because he’s proud he stood up for W co-star JEFFREY WRIGHT in a Louisiana bar encount er.
The actors were arrested and charged with interfering with police busin ess following the altercation at the Stray Cat bar in Shreveport but the charges against both have since been dropped.
And Brolin insists he’d do what he did all over again - whatever the co nsequences - because he hates bar bullies.
He tells Playboy magazine, "Going to jail that time was for an excellen t reason: Jeffrey Wright didn’t do anything… I don’t like bullies. I do n’t like when people are mistreated.
"There was a bartender and other people, and I said to these guys, ‘You have to be able to look me in the eye and acknowledge that it’s wrong th at this guy’s going to jail. I want you to have some integrity about your own f**king decision. I’m a big guy. You get scared and want to put me d own? I get it. Pepper spray my face and I get confrontational; I don’t ge t violent.’ I got slammed on the ground at that point." Wright was tasered in the fracas and Brolin’s assistant was arrested fo r "asking too many questions".
The Jonah Hex star adds, "She was more assaulted than anybody else. The back of her head was slammed on the ground.
"I heard this melon-like squish and she wound up with a baseball-size s welling on her head. I freaked out because I kept saying, ‘She didn’t do anything’."

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THE SOPRANOS star JAMES GANDOLFINI’s truck was impounded by Hollywood pol ice after he was caught driving on a suspended licence on Tuesday morning (21Sep10).
The actor’s vehicle was pulled over after he ran through a stop sign wh ile talking on his cell phone.
Officers subsequently discovered Gandolfini had temporarily been banned from driving and a tow truck was called to the scene to take his vehicle to a police impound, where it will be held for the next 30 days, reports TMZ.com.
He calls a friend to pick him up from the roadside.

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SANDRA BULLOCK has been targeted in legal papers filed by her ex-husband JESSE JAMES’ former partner, who accuses the actress of telling her daugh ter she lied to police.
The reality star and Bullock were granted full guardianship of little S unny in 2009 after porn star Janine Lindemulder, James’ second wife, was sentenced to six months in jail for tax evasion.
She was released later that year (09) and her custody efforts were give n a boost after James was exposed as a love cheat in March (10).
The TV mechanic was granted permission to relocate from California to T exas with the six year old in July (10), but Lindemulder now shares legal custody of Sunny and regularly sees the young girl.
And the adult movie star was left fuming recently, when the youngster a ccused her of lying to cops.
In legal papers filed in Orange County Superior Court and obtained by T MZ.com, Lindemulder claims Sunny told her: "Sandy (Bullock) said that you lied to the police and that’s why you went to jail." The suit comes a month after Lindemulder lost her battle for increased child support after revealing plans to follow James to Texas to be closer to Sunny.

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A guitar veteran singer/songwriter JUDY COLLINS used while composing her hit song WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES is expected to fetch up to $30,000 (=C2=A320,000) when it goes up for auction next month (Oct10).
The 1939 instrument, also played by Collins while recording Whales and Nightingales, is one of eight guitars from her lengthy career included in the Christie’s sale in New York on 8 October (10).
Another custom-made 12-string guitar, decorated with a pearl inlay on t he neck, is estimated to go under the hammer for between $2,000 (=C2=A31, 330) and $4,000 (=C2=A32,670).

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Rapper NICKI MINAJ refuses to set the record straight on rumours she’s bi sexual, insisting she’s unfazed by the focus on her personal life.
The Your Love hitmaker has been dogged by claims she is secretly attrac ted to both women and men since she emerged as Lil Wayne’s sexy rap prote ge last year (09), and recent jokes about enjoying a threesome with singe r Cassie and model/actress Lauren London have only fuelled the gossip.
She was recently forced to dismiss reports she had wed labelmate Drake after a prank on Twitter.com spiralled out of control, but she is happy t o keep people guessing about her sexual preferences.
She tells the upcoming issue of Complex magazine, "Take what you want f rom it (the bisexual rumours). (In the press) I didn’t say (I don’t like women). I said I don’t have sex with women. I don’t have sex with men rig ht now either. If (bisexual is) what they wanna call me, then fine." And Minaj admits she’s enjoying a period of celibacy: "Maybe it’s becau se we don’t need that physical stimulation all the time. I can just have a daydream and it does it for me."

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Pop group SMAP have found themselves at the centre of a diplomatic disput e between their native Japan and China after officials in Beijing halted ticket sales of their upcoming concerts in the country.
The boy band is due to perform two shows at the Shanghai World Expo nex t month (Oct10) but fans have been told they won’t be able to purchase ti ckets to the gigs without an explanation.
It is believed authorities in China acted in response to the escalating feud brewing with Japanese officials over the arrest of a Chinese fishin g captain, who was taken into custody earlier this month (Sep10) when his boat collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels in disputed waters.
A Japanese judge extended his detention by another 10 days last week (e nds17Sep10) and the Chinese have vowed to impose "strong counter-measures " as a result - with SMAP’s tour of China appearing to fall victim to the protests.
The band’s Tokyo-based management is currently trying to work around th e issue by engaging in talks with concert organisers in Shanghai, accordi ng to local news sources.

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Soul legend DIONNE WARWICK has helped to secure $30,000 (=C2=A320,000)-wo rth of brand new computer equipment from electronics giant Hewlett-Packar d for students at her alma mater in New Jersey.
The singer attended the school in East Orange, formerly known as Lincol n, in the 1940s but it was renamed the Dionne Warwick Institute of Econom ics and Entrepreneurship in her honour in 1996.
And Warwick used her star power to land her old school a brand new, ful ly-equipped technology laboratory, giving youngsters access to top-of-the -range computer equipment, software and online training resources free of charge.
The computer lab was officially opened last Thursday (16Sep10) and the kids were amazed by the new equipment at their fingertips.
Economics and entrepreneurship teacher Sharon Giles tells the New York Times, "When the students came, they were like ‘wow’. It’s going to open up a whole new world for them." Warwick established a relationship with Hewlett-Packard bosses after us ing one of the company’s laptops to write her forthcoming memoir, My Life , as I See It.

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A man has been arrested in Chicago, Illinois after allegedly plotting to blow up a baseball arena where the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND was performing on S aturday night (18Sep10).
Sami Samir Hassoun was ambushed by a team of police and federal agents moments after dropping what he thought was a bomb into a trash can outsid e of Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs team, on Saturday.
The 22 year old had been under surveillance by FBI officials for months and they followed Hassoun as he planted the explosive, which, unknown to the suspect, turned out to be a fake.
Authorities claim Hassoun planned to blow up the arena and inflict chao s at the venue as gig-goers left the building, in protest of outgoing Chi cago mayor Richard Daley’s administration.
In the months leading up to the failed bomb plot, cops claim the Lebane se native had plotted to poison the city’s water supply, target popular n ightspots and detonate car bombs across Chicago, as well as assassinate t he politician.
His actions were monitored by an FBI informant, who had gained access t o his inner circle of cohorts.
Hassoun appeared in court on Monday (20Sep10), when he was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to detonat e an explosive device.

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Actress ROSAMUND PIKE is fed up with reports suggesting she enjoyed the h igh life as a child, because her parents were so poor they couldn’t even afford a house.
The posh-sounding former Bond girl insists rumours she comes from a wea lthy background are all wrong - she was even turned away from one drama s chool because officials thought she had been born into a prosperous famil y.
Pike insists she still doesn’t even own her own property and her family struggled financially throughout her childhood.
She tells Britain’s You magazine, "There’s this impression that I’ve so mehow lived a charmed life. When I applied for drama school I was turned down by every single one, which was crushing at 19, although it’s now a b adge of pride.
"Later I met someone who had been on one of the panels, and he admitted I’d done the best audition he’d ever seen but he’d been overruled becaus e his colleagues felt I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth (had a p rivileged upbringing), which simply isn’t true.
"I don’t own a house, my parents never owned a house; not through any p hilosophy but because they couldn’t afford one. I wouldn’t mind being tho ught of as privileged if I’d had any of the wealth that’s supposed to acc ompany it, but we weren’t at all well off."

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A bad case of influenza forced actor JOEY LAWRENCE to scrap an appearance on U.S. TV personality WENDY WILLIAMS’ daytime talk show on Tuesday (21S ep10).
The former Blossom star was expected to join the outlandish Williams to promote his latest TV series Melissa and Joey but the 34 year old had to call in sick after catching a nasty cold from his eldest daughter Charle ston.
But he delighted the studio audience by calling in from his sick bed to apologise for his absence.
He told Williams over the phone, "I got it bad. I have two children and my four-year-old girl got it (the flu). I had to take her to school beca use my wife - we have a six month old girl - she had to be quarantined so she didn’t get sick, so of course I took her (Charleston, to school) and I got it! Four year old cooties are the worst, man! "It’s horribly bad so I apologise for not being there."

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PATRICK SWAYZE’s widow LISA NIEMI has heaped praise on her late husband’s DIRTY DANCING co-star JENNIFER GREY for taking to the dancefloor again f or a TV tribute to the star.
Grey broke down during rehearsals for Dancing with the Stars on Monday night (20Sep10) when the emotion of what she was doing hit her - and the footage aired on the season debut.
The actress danced to Dirty Dancing tune These Arms of Mine with profes sional Derek Hough - and confessed the experience reminded her of dancing with Swayze in the movie. But she shone on the dancefloor, and wowed Swa yze’s widow.
Niemi tells Access Hollywood Live, "What they showed of Jennifer in reh earsals… I was not quite expecting so much connection to Patrick during the rehearsals and of course it makes total sense. It was a little tough ..
"But I thought that dancing to These Arms of Mine… first of all I thi nk that she did every bit as good a job as I thought she would and then s ome. Jennifer is a natural talent and she brought this kind of special se nsuality… I was super thrilled."

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Actress MOLLY RINGWALD reunited with her former THE BREAKFAST CLUB castma tes on Monday night (20Sep10) to pay tribute to late director JOHN HUGHES at a special event in New York.
The now-grown-up kids from the cult 1980s movie - Ringwald, Anthony Mic hael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy - gathered at the Film Society For Lincoln Center event, 25 years after shooting the iconic picture.
The four stars last appeared together at the 2010 Academy Awards, durin g a tribute to Hughes, who died last year (09). The fifth remaining Break fast Club member, Emilio Estevez, was the only noticeable absentee from t he anniversary event.
Praising the late filmmaker, Sheedy said, "(Hughes) put different parts of himself into all the different characters. He was just like that. He was brutally honest and open, so I think all those things are in the movi e… Teenagers were treated with such respect in this movie. I think that ’s why people remember it so well." And Sheedy was excited about the prospect of introducing the classic fi lm to a whole new generation of film fans - taking her own daughter along to the event as her date.

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PARIS HILTON has cancelled a scheduled press conference to promote her fa shion range in Japan after immigration officials refused her entry into t he country on Tuesday (21Sep10).
The socialite was quizzed by border authorities over her recent cocaine possession conviction upon her arrival in Tokyo - she was handed a one-y ear suspended sentence on Monday (20Sep10) and ordered to attend a substa nce abuse programme following her arrest in Las Vegas last month (Aug10).
Hilton jetted off to Japan with her designer sister Nicky shortly after the court appearance but her travel plans have been thrown into chaos af ter she was banned from entering the country.
A source tells WENN, "She was questioned by a Tokyo customs officer for many hours to determine whether they should allow her to enter Japan as they can reject people convicted by drug cases to enter our country.
"It seems at the moment that Japanese customs will not allow her to ent er our country due to her arrest for cocaine possession in Las Vegas last month." A statement issued by her representative, Dawn Miller, reads, "Paris Hi lton was delayed by immigration authorities at a Japanese airport this ev ening after arriving for business obligations planned many months earlier ..
"Paris was contractually bound to her business trip and didn’t want to let down her brands and many Asian fans." As a result of her border troubles, Hilton has been forced to call off a press meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday (22Sep10).
The hotel heiress has been allowed to check into an airport hotel while officials investigate the matter further and Hilton is reportedly undeci ded about whether to wait until the issue is resolved or leave the countr y and continue on to the next destination on her tour of the Far East, re ports TMZ.com.
Hilton’s business trip was also due to take her to Indonesia and Malays ia.

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JOE JONAS is set to show off his acting talents in an episode of hit teen drama 90210.
The Jonas Brothers star has already enjoyed roles in the band’s project s including two Camp Rock movies and their own TV show JONAS L.A.
He made a recent guest appearance in Hot in Cleveland and he’s followin g it up by joining the cast of 90210 for a special episode playing himsel f and providing a love interest for Jessica Lowndes’ character Adrianna.
The episode is set to air in the U.S. in November (10).

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Country music singer ZAC BROWN went back to school last week (ends19Sep10 ) to play a concert for special needs students in Texas.
The Zac Brown Band frontman, along with his bandmate Clay Cook, perform ed at the Bynum School in Midland, Texas, on Friday (17Sep10), after a vo lunteer at the facility won a competition organised in conjunction with t he Grammy Foundation.
The musical duo performed and shared stories about their career with 37 pupils, as well as their families and teachers.
Brown said, "I’ve been blessed to have music in my life since my childh ood. Today, too many schools are finding it impossible to maintain a vibr ant music program."

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British singer PETE BURNS has revealed the damage he suffered after his b otched lip surgery was so extreme doctors considered amputating his jaw.
The former Dead or Alive frontman won his case against London Harley St reet doctor Maurizio Viel in 2008 after a lip implant operation left him needing major corrective surgery.
Burns flew to Italy where he underwent more than 100 further procedures to correct the damage after suffering an adverse reaction to the collage n implants, which left him facing the frightening prospect of losing his entire jaw.
And the singer is relieved he managed to find a surgeon who was able to reconstruct his face without resorting to the extreme operation.
He tells Britain’s This Morning, "I was saved. I went all over the worl d to the best surgeons I could find and no one could save me from what he ‘d done. There was going to be lip amputation… jaw amputation, and I fo und a surgeon in Italy, a cancer reconstructor (sic) specialist called Gi ovanni Ferrando, who has now set up an office in London who maintains my face and maintains the damage that still goes on with it." And Burns has vowed to never have any more surgery, apart from procedur es to maintain the work he has already had done: "This is not classical g ood looks, I’ve gone as far as I will go, now mine is going to be mainten ance.
"When you go through what I went through with Maurizio Veil I would nev er have cosmetic surgery again, and luckily I found someone who could sav e me and rebuild my face."

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