Celeb News Aggregate
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Rap mogul and founder of Death Row Records Marion "Suge" Knight was sent back to prison for 10 months Thursday for punching a parking attendant at a Hollywood nightclub. Also: Queen Latifah, Jam Master Jay, Marie Trintignant, Bertrand Cantat, Jennifer Garner, Shortlist Music Prize, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Gore Verbinski, Nicolas Cage, John Stalberg, Oliver Hudson.
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Rapper 50 Cent and B2K were the big winners Tuesday night at the third annual BET Awards at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, walking away from the three-hour event with two honors apiece.
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Norah Jones wins eight Grammys, including record of the year.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards" easily held on to first place despite tracking studies that had projected Dimension Films' opening of "Reindeer Games" would be the weekend's big winner.
"Reindeer Games " Although the tracking data had pointed to an opening of $10 million to $12 million for "Reindeer," no film managed to crack double digits last weekend. "Reindeer" wound up an embarrassed No. 3 for the weekend with a red face and nose. The weekend's only other wide opening, Paramount's "Wonder Boys," lived up to tracking expectations, finishing out of the Top Five, in seventh place, with a grim estimated $5.85 million.
The best-performing film of the bunch continued to be "Yards," Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures' R-rated comedy. "Yards" continued laughing atop the chart in its second weekend with an estimated $9.61 million
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 22, 2000 -- MTV comic Tom Green is in "excellent spirits" after three hours of cancer surgery Tuesday in Los Angeles. Tom Green The procedure -- a second sweep by doctors to nab any remaining cancerous cells -- comes after one last week in which the 28-year-old funnyman had his right testicle removed.
"He's resting comfortably, and the prognosis looks good," publicist Marleah Leslie told The Associated Press.
Production on Green's self-titled show on MTV is on hold while he rehabs. When he comes back, he'll star in "The Cancer Special" (really) featuring footage from Tuesday's surgery.
In the meantime, the comic has launched a drive to help others with the Big C. It's called: Tom Green's Nuts Cancer Fund. Really.
RELATIVE TROUBLE: A man who legally changed his name to Jonathan Taylor Spielberg in 1997 has been indicted for
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BEVERLY HILLS -- It was a 13-year odyssey to bring John Irving's "The Cider House Rules" to the big screen, and as the finished product rolled into theaters Dec. 10, no one could be happier than Irving himself.
"I love it," the 57-year-old novelist said at the film's premiere Dec. 7 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "I feel not just extremely well-treated, but the finished film really looks better than I imagined it."
Kudos from the author should be praised enough, but the adaptation, which Irving penned himself, has won acclaim on its own: On Dec. 8, the National Board of Review, one of the early indicators for the Academy Awards, named "The Cider House Rules" the best screenplay of 1999.
The coming-of-age film stars Tobey Maguire as Homer, a young man growing up in an orphanage in Maine in the 1940s. Sheltered and reared as the successor to the