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

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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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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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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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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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