Celeb News Aggregate
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Britney Spears' acclaimed stint on sitcom How I Met Your Mother hasn't earned her an Emmy nod--she and Mary-Kate Olsen's guest TV spots won't be among those competing for gold.
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Film legend Dame Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 75th birthday with 75 friends and family in Las Vegas on Tuesday night.
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Clint Eastwood's Mystic River has won the first major prize of this year's film award season. Also: Louis Horvitz 76th Academy Awards Michael B. Seligman Carrie Fisher The Empire Strikes Back Barbra Streisand Ray Romano Raymie, Dickie, and the Bean: Why I Love and Hate My Brothers Ray Liotta Murder Inc. Irv Gotti Irv Lorenzo David Hemmings Sandra Bullock Brendan Fraser Matt Dillon Ryan Phillippe Don Cheadle Crash Naomi Watts Peter Jackson King Kong
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Pop oddity Michael Jackson has a not-so-new bouncing baby boy. In its latest issue, People magazine reports that Jackson brought the 6-month-old baby backstage at Siegfried and Roy's Las Vegas show on July 30, along with his two other children, Prince Michael, 5, and daughter Paris, 4.
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Quote of the Day: May 19 Director George Lucas discussing continuing the "Star Wars" saga
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Saying that he had hoped that his appearance in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back would have been treated as an uncredited cameo, Mark Hamill has expressed dismay that it is instead being used to promote the film in trailers and TV spots.
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HOLLYWOOD, May 15, 2000 -- CANNES, May 15, 2000 -- There are two sides (at least) to everything, right? For example, at the exact same time you want to keep dancing at the tres late rooftop party, you also want to fall asleep for the next 18 hours. At the same time you want to do yoga, you long for a warm chocolate crepe. Marlon Wayans wants to be here to celebrate his role in Darren Aronofsky's (his post-"Pi" flick) new movie, "Requiem for a Dream" at the same time he has to be in Los Angeles for the birth of his new baby. But that's the Cannes Film Festival. The French keep the eternal paradox alive and well.
Other festival tidbits:
-- "A wise man once said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes..." mumbles a voice as Griffin Dunne's new movie, "Famous" starts. Okay, so we all know about that 15 minutes thing, but what co-writing co-stars Laura Kirk and Nat DeWolf and
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2000 -- Filmmaker Roger Vadim, best known for discovering Brigitte Bardot and keeping company with the likes of Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve, died today of cancer. He was 72.
The Paris-born Vadim was married to the then-teenage Bardot when he made his directorial debut in 1956 with "And God Created Woman." The film launched Bardot's career as a sex symbol and stirred much talk for its outrageous (at the time) unveiling of her skin. In the short run, "And God ..." was banned in several countries. In the long run, it helped launch France's New Wave film movement of the 1950s.
In 1965, Vadim wed a 27-year-old, pre-controversial Jane Fonda (his third wife). Two years later, the couple teamed to reveal Fonda's own assets on screen with the Vadim-directed sci-fi cult hit "Barbarella". The couple had one daughter, Vanessa, before splitt
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2000 -- You would think that after last summer's insane brouhaha that was "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace", the masses would breathe a sigh of relief.
But the commotion is brewing for the second prequel (yet to be titled), which won't be released until summer 2002. Although it isn't inspiring 'round-the-block lines just yet, it is scheduled to begin filming at Fox Studios Australia this June, so this brings us to the most talked-about casting decision of the year: Who will play the grown-up Anakin Skywalker?
We'll know soon enough. Casting for "Episode II" is going on right this second, according to Jeanne Cole, spokeswoman for Lucasfilm. Casting director Robin Gurland has been seeing "hundreds of actors" for the past month, but no decision has been made yet.
A casting memo that circulated around the Internet -- and was co