Mar
09

Philippine talk show host Kris Aquino (pictured) has apologised after she provoked a fellow celebrity into launching a campaign against her presidential candidate brother Benigno Aquino.(AFP/File/Joel Nito)AFP - Philippine talk show host Kris Aquino has apologised after she provoked a fellow celebrity into launching a campaign against her presidential candidate brother Benigno Aquino.


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Mar
09

Film, TV casting briefs (Reuters)

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Reuters - Actress Spencer Locke has been cast in a guest spot on the CW’s “Vampire Diaries.” She will play Amber Bradley, a girl who enters a beauty pageant along with Elena and Caroline. Locke has appeared in the ABC series “Cougar Town,” the film “Resident Evil: Extinction” and the Nick series “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide.”

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Mar
08

NBC renews “Miss Universe” pageant (Reuters)

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Reuters - Miss America may be searching for a new home, but NBC said Monday it has renewed its deal with Donald Trump and the Miss Universe organization to televise “Miss Universe” and “Miss USA” for three more years, beginning 2011.

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Mar
08

FILE- In this Feb. 9, 2010, file photo, rapper Lil Wayne enters Manhattan criminal court in New York. After two delays, Lil Wayne is finally set to be sentenced Monday, March 8, 2010,  to a year in city jail, as planned when he pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted illegally having a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his tour bus in July 2007. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.


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Mar
08

Carey Mulligan, best actress nominee for Reuters - “The Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow battled her way into Oscar history books on Sunday, topping her movie’s best film honor with her own Academy Award for directing to become the first woman ever to earn that distinction.


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Mar
08

How top Oscar Winners fared at the box office (AP)

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AP - Domestic box-office totals through February for the most-honored films at the 82nd annual Academy Awards:

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Mar
08

Reuters - “The Cove,” which chronicles the grisly business of dolphin hunting in Japan, on Sunday won the Oscar for best feature documentary.

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Mar
08

Reuters - The mayor of a Japanese town which conducts an annual dolphin hunt protested on Monday against the Academy Award given to “The Cove,” a documentary film about the grisly slaughter.

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Mar
08

Reuters - Argentina’s drama “The Secret in Their Eyes” won the best foreign-language film Oscar on Sunday in an upset that brought the South American country its second Academy Award.

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Mar
07

Oscar stumbles in attempt to be hip (Reuters)

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Reuters - It’s fitting that the strategic approach to producing Hollywood’s biggest night seemed to be inspired by Botox: lots of small injections that did little to give the Academy Awards a youthful glow.

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