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Fascinating Hollywood Facts

1. Fergie wrote hit ballad “Big Girls Don’t Cry” while she was claiming unemployment in the years before she became a member of the Black Eyed Peas.

2. Studio bosses have unwittingly placed a giant 50-foot-tall poster for Matt Damon‘s latest movie The Bourne Ultimatum on the side of the actor’s apartment building in New York City.

3. Author J.K. Rowling is moving on from Harry Potter and has started writing a detective novel.

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4. The daughter of late glamour girl Anna Nicole Smith, Dannielynn, will celebrate her first birthday next month at a party in Louisville, Kentucky.

5. Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is taking classical lessons from a Los Angeles Philharmonic cellist for his upcoming movie The Soloist, in which his character masters the instrument. Foxx isn’t deaf to the classics–he’s a trained pianist.

6. Smooth crooner Wayne Newton is to join the cast of the wannabe ballroom kings and queens in the upcoming season of TV talent show Dancing with the Stars.

7. Hairspray has become the 10th musical to take more than $100 million at the U.S. box office.

8. The stripper poles, barstools and other fittings from the New Jersey club that served as the Bada Bing bar on TV series The Sopranos are to be sold on eBay.

9. Disney’s The Lion King has become the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history after playing its 4,098th performance on Aug. 21. That show broke Miss Saigon‘s top 10 record. The Lion King will officially celebrate its 10th anniversary on Nov. 11.

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10. Model-turned-actress Carmen Electra is making a musical comeback, 15 years after her self-titled debut album failed to make the charts.

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