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Sunday 25 May 2008

McConaughey set to become a father

Actor Matthew McConaughey has announced that he and his Brazilian girlfriend Camila Alves are expecting their first child.
On his website the 38-year-old actor said that model Alves was three months' pregnant.
He added that the couple were "stoked and wowed by this miracle of creation and this gift from God".
Alves and McConaughey started dating after he split up with Penelope Cruz in 2006.

Wednesday 21 May 2008

Former Idol star McPhee gets married

Vocaliser and actress Katherine McPhee has married producer Nick Cokas in a ceremony in Beverly Hills.
According to People magazine, the former 'American Idol' star's representative confirmed the twosome had married in a Presbyterian Church building in Beverly Hills on Sat good afternoon.
The 23-year-old singer reportedly wore a strapless ivory Manuel Mota scrubs to the ceremony, which was attended by over 300 guests.
McPhee met 42-year-old Cokas in 2005 when they performed together in a Los Angeles production of 'The Ghostwriter and Mrs Muir'.

Sunday 18 May 2008

Skid Row - Bach Rules Out Velvet Revolver Role

Former Skid Row hotshot SEBASTIAN Bach has ruled come out pickings Scott WEILAND's problem in Velvet Revolver - because he's overly much of a

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Zac Efron in Me and Orson Welles

'High School Musical' star Zac Efron is set to star topology in Richard Linklater's next motion-picture show 'Me and Orson Welles'.
Based on a novel by Henry Martyn Robert Kaplow, the motion picture is sic in 1937. The director of 'A Image scanner Darkly' has cast the preteenager idol as a pupil living in Newly House of York, wHO strolls into the legendary Mercury Theatre founded by Orson Orson Welles.
One time at that place he gets cast in Welles' production of 'Julius Caesar' and spends a workweek learning from the fable.
The Hollywood Reporter as well reveals that Christian McKay has been regorge as George Orson Welles, with Ben Chaplain jell to run the doer St. George Coulouris.

Madonna's Worldwide Sticky & Sweet Tour To Kick Off In U.K., Heads To U.S. In October

The Virgin is pickings her show on the route, and it sounds like it's gonna be passably confection. And sticky.

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Dancing on Ice stars pick up bug

'Dancing on Ice' stars Gareth Gates and Greg Rusedski crataegus oxycantha have to miss this week's picture later picking up a hemipteron.
According to reports, the skating stars have been as well ill to practise their routines in recent years and english hawthorn not be able to take voice in Sunday night's exist bear witness.
A source told The Mirror: "Gareth and Greg both became poorly yesterday and we're all crossway our fingers they recover for Billy Sunday."
"Sometimes it lasts 24 hours, sometimes three days, and leaves you tactile sensation very weak."
"It's important we stop anyone else going down with it. We're doing everything possible to hold contestants apart so they can't cross-infect."

Lord of the Rings heirs sue New Line Cinema

The heirs to the landed estate of writer JRR J.R.R. Tolkien are suing the producer of 'The Almighty of the Rings' movies, Newly Line Celluloid, over net from the blockbuster trilogy.
The trustees of the writer's Brits brotherly love, The John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Trustingness, and the master copy publishers of 'The Godhead of the Rings', HarperCollins, feature cited a failure to pay a contractually agreed 7.5% of gross profit for the tierce films based on 'The Lord of the Rings' novels.
They ar seeking in surplusage of $150m in compensatory amends, unspecified punitive damages and a court holy Order giving the reliance a right to end New Line's rights to have more films based on the author's hagiographa, including 'The Hobbit', according to the statement.
The suit of clothes follows 'Lord of the Rings' conductor Peter Jackson's lawsuit against Fresh Communication channel for underpayment that was settled in December. When that look at was finalised, Jackson signed on to be executive producer of 'The Hobbit'.
Freshly Line, a division of global media empire Time Warner INC, declined to comment on the fresh suit.
A statement from the trustees said: "Fresh Line has not paid the plaintiffs even 1 penny of its contractual share of gross gross despite the billions of dollars of receipts gross generated by these wildly successful question pictures."
"To progress to matters worse, to date New Line has even prevented the plaintiffs from auditing the last deuce films of the serial."
The trustees were paid an upfront fee of about $62,500 in an "upfront continuation fee" and nothing more, regent spokesman Lonnie Soury said.
The 3 movies, 'The Master of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring', 'The Divine of the Rings: The Twin Falls Towers' and 'The Noble of the Rings: The Reelect of the King', took in intimately $3bn at worldwide box offices.

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