Celeb News Aggregate
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Michael Jackson paid a hefty $23 million in his former molestation case, Britney Spears cancels tour because of knee injury and Glen Campbell will see jail time over drunken driving charges. Plus: news on Jennifer Lopez, Alanis Morissette, Prince and Morgan Freeman.
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Box Office Analysis, Oct. 12: Kill Bill opens in the top spot followed by School of Rock Intolerable Cruelty Good Boy! Out of Time House of the Dead The Rundown Under the Tuscan Sun Secondhand Lions Lost In Translation Mystic River
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Fox's talent competition series American Idol and NBC's freshman police drama Boomtown won the highest honors at the 19th annual Television Critics Association Awards, which were presented Saturday at the Hollywood Renaissance hotel.
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Oscar Watch on who will get nominated for an Academy Award when they are announced Feb. 12 Russell Crowe Gene Hackman Billy Bob Thornton Will Smith Denzel Washington Halle Berry Judi Dench Nicole Kidman Sissy Spacek Renee Zellweger Cate Blanchett Helen Mirren Kate Winslet Jennifer Connelly Marisa Tomei Jim Broadbent Steve Buscemi Hayden Christensen Jon Voight Ben Kingsley Ron Howard Robert Altman Baz Luhrmann Peter Jackson Ridley Scott
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Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Rose Marie, Rhonda Vincent, Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay, Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling, Square Pictures, Savage Garden, Alanis Morisette, Reba McEntire, more.
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TV and movie composer Jack Elliott died at 74 on Saturday of a brain tumor at the UCLA Medical Center, The Associated Press reports. Elliott was diagnosed with the tumor three weeks ago.
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HOLLYWOOD, March 11, 2001 -- If you're in an Oscars office pool, take note.
At the 53rd Annual Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday night, Ang Lee was the top winner for his craftsmanship on the Chinese epic "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," a win that clearly pushed the talented director to the Oscar forefront. The DGA awards historically predict the Oscar-winning filmmaker; the organization has missed only four times in its 53-year history.
Lee's win certainly is not a surprise, since he also won the Golden Globe in January for best director, but Lee remains humbled by his honors. "Wow, this is too much. The timing is good. Thank you from the bottom of my heart," Lee told the black-tie audience. And about his chances for an Oscar, he said, "Whatever happens, I'm just going there to celebrate. I'm already very happy.''
Lee beat out several talented directors,
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 25, 2000 -- The jokes have paid off for Carl Reiner. The legendary funnyman joined the list of comedians honored with The Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Award on Tuesday. Reiner joins Richard Pryor and Jonathan Winters as the comedians that the Center has honored every year since 1997, Reuters reports. Fellow comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Dick Van Dyke were among the celebrities who spoke at the event to pay homage to Reiner.
The 78-year-old got his big break in 1950 on Sid Caesar's classic TV shows "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour." Before that, he spent three years on Broadway. But he hit the big time on the small screen in 1961 when he created and wrote "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
``That was my baby. It was about my reality, my life, my ideas and thoughts. So I'm most proud of that,'' he told reporters before the Kennedy Center gala.
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Whoopi Goldberg will receive the fourth annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.