The Champ (1979)

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  Kid 'Jeopardy!' Champ Lands Lead In ‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’

  I'll take "How to land in a movie with Tom Hanks" for $400, Alex.
  

  
  
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  Hilton Kicks Off 2006 with $100,000 Champagne

  Socialite Nicky Hilton and her actor boyfriend Kevin Connolly got 2006 off to an expensive start at midnight on Saturday when they cracked open a $100,000 bottle of champagne.
  
  

  
  
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  Pop Star Couple Nick and Jessica Happily Married, Hollywood Studios Crack Down on Bootleggers, Jeopardy Champ Won Top Prize, More...

  News, Nov. 4: Pop Star Couple Nick and Jessica Happily Married, Hollywood Studios Crack Down on Bootleggers, Jeopardy Champ Won Top Prize

  
  
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  Beyonce To Launch Clothing Line, "Jeopardy" Champ's Run May Have Ended, Pam Anderson Helps Chickens

  Beyonce enters fashion world with her own clothing line, "Jeopardy" champ's reign may have ended, Pam Anderson lends image to help chickens, more…

  
  
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  Moore Takes "Fahrenheit" Out of Best Docu Race; "Pulp Fiction" May Get Prequel; "Jeopardy" Champion Wins Again

  Michael Moore takes Fahrenheit off the Academy Awards' Best Docu list; Pulp Fiction may get a prequel; Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings wins again, more…

  
  
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  By the Numbers: "Sara," "Simone" No "Undisputed" Champs

  The box office predictions for the weekend beginning Aug. 23:Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Serving Sara, Al Pacino, Andrew Niccol, Simone, Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Undisputed, Ribin Williams, One Hour Photo, Blue Crush, Eddie Murphy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaaron Eckhart, Possession, Vin Diesel, XXX, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Mel Gibson, M. Night Shyamalan, Signs, Dana Carvey, Master of Disguise, Stuart Little 2, Tom Hanks, Road to Perdition, Jennifer Aniston, The Good Girl, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Tom Hanks, Road to Perdition

  
  
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  Champagne the inspiration behind Lewis' Monroe impersonation

  Juliette Lewis, to Britain's Empire movie magazine, on playing a Mariliyn Monroe impersonator in the upcoming comedy Room to Rent:

  "Impersonators tap into the cliché of the person, I think Marilyn Monroe was a very intelligent person who knew what she was doing, she knew her comic skills. But socially she did put on that lip quiver and that dizzy blonde act and I think when I played it, it was so comfortable to do. You don't have to engage in an intellectual way with people, you can hide behind this dizzy veneer and its also very disarming to people around you. I connected to the champagne buzz aspect of Marilyn."

  
  
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  Olympic Champion Seeks Out 'Friends'

  HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9, 2000 -- Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, a breakout star of the Sydney, Australia, Olympics who swam his way to three gold medals, has ambitions outside his Speedos and the swimming pool.
  
  Thorpe, 17, wants to act.
  
  And his first acting goal: An appearance on the NBC hit sitcom "Friends" along the same lines as a fellow Aussie, supermodel turned actress Elle Macpherson.
  
  Macpherson has offered to help the teen Olympic champion achieve his acting goal, Thorpe's manager, Dave Flaskas, told Reuters today.
  
  "Of course I would (put in a good word for Ian), but I think he has more pull than I do at the moment," Macpherson told the Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney.
  
  Flaskas said that Thorpe will visit the United States this week along with fellow gold medalists Michael Klim and Grant Hackett.
  
  According to Flaskas, Thorpe will be a g