LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears wasn’t the only starlet to suddenly shave her head last year. Not long after the pop princess did the deed, actress Mena Suvari took to the clippers — and then had to explain that she wasn’t crazy. “It didn’t really hit me until I was …
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LOS ANGELES – Emmy Rossum is the epitome of the ultimate Hollywood role model with her clean-cut appearance, sweet personality and ability to stay out of trouble in Tinseltown. But it seems the 21-year-old screen sweetheart won’t rule out flashing at least some flesh for a film role. “But I …
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WASHINGTON – Al Qaeda propaganda tapes released by Multinational Forces-Iraq reveal a possible new trend in the group’s terror strategy in Iraq. The tapes, obtained by FOX News and later released to the media, are training videos showing black-masked Iraqi children between 6 and 14 being taught how to hold …
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I remember the very first time I watched the Academy Awards. It was 1978, and I was just a child in a small town in southern Illinois. Hollywood must have seemed like a million miles away. “Star Wars” was a best picture nominee that year, and my science fiction-addicted older …
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First Reese, Now It’s Ryan’s Turn | Queen Aretha’s Surprise Birthday | Hollywood Trial: Fields’ ‘Fifth’ Symphony First Reese, Now It’s Ryan’s Turn You thought maybe Ryan Phillippe was just another pretty face, the ex-husband of Reese Witherspoon. Hey, she won an Oscar for learning to sing like June Carter …
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Drew Barrymore | Bruce Springsteen | Concert for New York A New Barrymore? Drew Rumors Turn Green Actress Drew Barrymore fled New York last week after she did Saturday Night Live, and the word was she fled the NBC building the night before because of the anthrax scare. Now I’m …
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Asbestos fibers in the air and rubble following the collapse of the World Trade Center is adding to fears in the aftermath of Tuesday’s terrorist attack. The true tragedy in the asbestos story, though, is the lives that might have been saved but for 1970s-era hysteria about asbestos. Until 30 …
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Sean ‘P. Diddy/Puff Daddy’ Combs | Rapper’s Made Debut, by Swingers | Alicia Keys | The Sopranos Can Puffy Puff Up Ailing Paramount? What a time for Paramount Pictures: Their summer and spring — with the exception of the truly awful Tomb Raider — hasn’t been so great. And now …
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NEW YORK – Just what kind of person would go undercover to market products without telling unwitting targets what they’re doing? It could be anyone, really. Your neighbor. A relative. Your best friend. As long as the “agent” is enthusiastic about what he or she is hyping. One 29-year-old New …
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Well, the Clooney-O’Reilly standoff is getting kind of old, but it has heated up again and spotlights a more important issue. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. Melissa Robison, who lives in Antelope, California, writes, “Bill, just saw Clooney on the Letterman show. You should sue him.” …
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