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Sci-fi movie, Sony ad prompt Nigerian image angst

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A blockbuster sci-fi movie which caricatures Nigerians as gangsters and cannibals and a Sony PlayStation advert which implies they are fraudsters have infuriated a government battling to improve the country's image.
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Cougar Town not likely to seduce viewers

Cougar Town is a place dreamed up by Bill Lawrence, the man who also helped give the world many excellent episodes of Scrubs. Courteney Cox, the woman who gave the world many amusing moments on Friends, is the star of ABC's Cougar Town. Their television marriage could have worked.
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Megan Fox Transformers costume up for auction

Megan Fox's black leather motorcycle costume, a 17-foot-tall robot and more than 100 other props, costumes and set pieces from the Transformers movie franchise are going up for auction near Los Angeles next month.
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Anna Nicole prescription was pharmaceutical suicide

A pharmacist asked to provide powerful medications for late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith described the combination of drugs as a prescription for pharmaceutical suicide and refused to fill the order, according to court documents released on Tuesday.
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Heather Locklear to return to Melrose Place

Actress Heather Locklear, who played a scheming advertising executive in 1990s drama Melrose Place, is reprising the role in the new version of the show, the CW television network said on Tuesday.
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Photographers sue Bundchen, Brady over shooting

News agency Agence France Presse and two photographers sued NFL star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen over an incident in which they allege the couple's bodyguards fired on the photographers.
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Exhibit gives a back room glimpse of World War Two

Documents and personal letters from world leaders provide a glimpse of the back drop to key historical events and a new exhibit highlights several from the defining event of the 20th century -- World War Two.
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Kevin Jonas unveils his Best Men

The date Kevin Jonas will wed his girlfriend, Danielle Deleasa, is not yet set but he knows who will be his best men -- his younger brothers Joe and Nick.
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Dancing with the stars dancing couples unveiled

The pairings for the next season of Dancing With the Stars were announced Tuesday. The ninth season which premiered Monday on ABC will feature former congressman Tom DeLay, rockstar Kelly Osbourne and Iron chef star Mark Dacascos, among others.
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Food rains down on box office chart

Animated children's movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, topped the box office over the weekend, according to Screen International on Tuesday.
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Christian Slater's new TV series forgettable

Every week, you can watch hot murder cases or cold ones. You can see murders solved by ghosts, extrasensory perception, forensics, advanced mathematics, undercover disguises or mental deduction. You can learn about real cases and fictional ones.
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Latest Hollywood script deals

Walden Media has rubbed the lamp and picked up Gene, a modern take on the classic genie story from writer Randi Mayem Singer.
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Jazz Baroness intriguing, but incomplete

The strengths and the limitations of taking a personal approach to documentaries can be seen in Hannah Rothschild's The Jazz Baroness, which was shown at the Telluride Film Festival and has been bought for broadcast on HBO.
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John Turturro revisits Sicilian roots

I don't think a people can exist without a memory of its traditions, John Turturro says in Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, a personal tour of Sicilian traditions, his family origins and a project he's been developing for years.
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Sony to turn Enron play into movie

Sony has purchased the film rights to playwright Lucy Prebble's Enron, currently being staged in a sold-out run at London's Royal Court Theater. A Broadway move is being planned for April.
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NCIS: Los Angeles like new version of A-Team

NCIS, which this week starts its seventh season on CBS, seems a little old to be bearing offspring. On the other hand, the show has shown surprising ratings resilience in the past couple of years.
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Killers, Yorke on New Moon soundtrack

The soundtrack for New Moon -- the second movie installment of the Twilight vampire series -- will feature songs by the likes of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and the Killers.
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Jackson movie to get mass worldwide premiere

The Michael Jackson movie This Is It -- based on footage from concert rehearsals before his death in June -- will have simultaneous premieres in more than 15 cities around the world next month, the studio behind the film said on Monday.
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Chanel advanced women's rights, says actress Tautou

Gabrielle Coco Chanel didn't just make beautiful clothes, she also advanced women's rights, says actress Audrey Tautou, who portrays the pioneering French fashion designer in a new film about her early life.
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Renoir exhibition in Paris highlights later works

A major exhibition on Renoir opening in Paris this week aims to bring a new perspective to the later works of the French master as his art evolved from the sun-dappled Impressionist style that made his name.

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