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Rapper Kanye West cleared in airport scuffle

A judge on Friday cleared rapper Kanye West of criminal charges following a scuffle with paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport last year, pending his completion of community service, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney said.

Sony looks for box office hit with This Is It

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Heading toward its October 28 release, Michael Jackson movie This Is It looks like a box office winner for Sony's Columbia Pictures movie studio with one estimate saying it could make more than $600 million worldwide in a limited two-week run.
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Polanski could face two years prison if extradited

Film director Roman Polanski could face two years in prison if extradited to the United States after fleeing sentencing in California on child sex charges in 1978, the Swiss justice ministry said on Friday.
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U.S. asks Swiss to extradite fugitive Polanski

The United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, who fled sentencing in California on child sex charges in 1978, the Swiss justice ministry said on Friday.
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Slapstick TV comedy pioneer Soupy Sales dead at 83

Soupy Sales, a pioneer of slapstick television comedy who once estimated he had taken 20,000 pies in the face, died on Thursday night in a New York hospice, the Detroit Free Press reported. He was 83.
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Lawmaker in Travolta mistrial mess blames rumor

A Bahamian lawmaker who caused a judge to order the retrial of two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta was just repeating a rumor when he prematurely announced an acquittal verdict, his lawyer said on Thursday.
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Bon Jovi unveils world tour

Rockers Bon Jovi on Thursday announced a world tour of almost two years to promote their 11th studio album The Circle.
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Michael Jackson fans say film covers up grim truth

A small group of Michael Jackson's dedicated fans have started an awareness campaign surrounding the upcoming movie This is It, saying it covers up the grim reality of the dead pop star's final days.
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Anne Hathaway, Neil Patrick Harris join Rio

Anne Hathaway, Neil Patrick Harris and Rodrigo Santoro are negotiating to lend their voices to Rio, the next collaboration between Blue Sky Studios, Fox Animation and director Carlos Saldanha, all of whom are riding the $882 million global tsunami of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
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Three vie for European Film Awards' animation prize

Finnish Christmas film Niko & The Way to the Stars, Ireland's The Secret of Kells and Mia and the Migoo from French director Jacques-Remy Girerd are the nominees for best animated feature film for the 2009 European Film Awards.
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Swank soars in old-fashioned Earhart biopic

Freckle-faced, prairie-voiced and fiercely independent, Hilary Swank's depiction of aviator Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's biographical film Amelia is of a high order. It ranks with recent portrayals of Ray Charles by Jamie Foxx and Truman Capote by Philip Seymour Hoffman and could be similarly awards-bound.
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A Minute With: Tobin Bell of the Saw horror films

Tobin Bell plays the killer named Jigsaw who ensnares victims in deadly games for the Saw horror film franchise that has captivated audiences with the same fervor Jigsaw dedicates to his bloody traps.
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New Moon vampires take bite out of Rome film fest

The vampires of New Moon, the sequel to the popular teen movie Twilight, hit the blood-red carpet at the Rome film festival on Thursday, with fans getting a 20-minute preview of the picture before next month's release.
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Mockingbird actress Collin Wilcox Paxton dies

Collin Wilcox Paxton, who played the white girl who accused a black man of raping her in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, died October 14 of brain cancer at her home in Highlands, North Carolina. She was 74.
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Former KISS drummer: men get breast cancer too

Peter Criss, founding member of rock band KISS, knows that many of his male fans are macho, so he is making the rounds to tell them even tough rocker guys like him can suffer from a disease usually associated with women -- breast cancer.
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The Big Man on life with and without Springsteen

Saxophonist Clarence The Big Man Clemons knew his life would never be the same when he walked up to a New Jersey bar nearly 40 years ago and the door blew off its hinges and sailed into a storm-battered night.

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