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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Britney Spears asks: What the hell was I thinking?
Pop star Britney Spears plans to set the record straight about her personal and professional woes in a documentary to be aired shortly before the release of her new album Circus in December.
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Bollywood legend Bachchan in hospital: official
Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 66 Saturday, has been undergoing medical tests after complaining of abdominal cramps, a hospital spokesman said, as fans feared for his health.
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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Hollywood celebs join Arab stars at Abu Dhabi fest
The second edition of the Middle East International Film Festival, hosted by the oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi, has kicked off with a glamorous red carpet parade.
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Posted: 10:01:06 AEDT
YouTube starts running full-length CBS shows
YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, has started to run full-length TV shows from CBS Corp's archive, in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programming.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Rudd pledges health reform at book launch
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged to do more to reform the health system, at the launch of a book by a leading Sydney cancer surgeon.
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Posted: 14:10:23 AEDT
Rogen looks at lighter side of cancer
Is the world ready for a cancer comedy?
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Posted: 12:59:43 AEDT
Nazi parody aims to break German taboo
A made-in-Germany Nazi satire which parodies 1981 submarine epic Das Boot will try to prove the Third Reich is no longer taboo terrain for German comedians.
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Posted: 09:01:12 AEDT
Eight shorts vie for doco Oscar
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez's grape boycott, gay men in China and historian David McCullough are among the subjects of the films vying for Oscar nominations for best documentary short subject.
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Posted: 08:28:44 AEDT
Academy to allow film ads on Oscar night
For the first time since the Oscars moved to TV in the early 1950s, studios will be able to advertise movies during the telecast of the Academy Awards next year.
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Posted: 08:25:48 AEDT
'Open-ended' film offers insight into soldier life in Iraq
A film commissioned by the Australian War Memorial (AWM) is offering the public an alternative insight into the daily lives of Australian soldiers in Iraq.
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Check your politics at the door, DiCaprio urges Hollywood
Born of Hollywood, acting as a teenager, Oscar-nominated by age 19: Leonardo DiCaprio is a product of the film studio's star-making machine.
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Monet exhibition set to wow Sydney
George Shackelford beams as he casts his expert eye around the masterpieces by French impressionist painter Claude Monet hanging on the walls of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
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Tasmanian wins Deadly theatre award
A Tasmanian writer and director has won a prestigious award for his play about a confronting period of Australia's Indigenous history.
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Nov release date for Guns N Roses album
More than a decade after its conception, Guns N Roses's Chinese Democracy will finally see the light of day before year's end.
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Tourism group supports Taste's late nights
The Tasmanian Tourism Industry Council has welcomed plans for new entertainment at the Taste of Tasmania festival in Hobart.
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Nobel judges accused of anti-US bias
The selection of a French writer as the winner of this year's Nobel Literature Prize has further stirred the pot over claims that the Swedish Academy has an anti-American bias.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Claims of American bias ahead of Nobel announcement
The Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize tonight, amid charges from critics that anti-American bias is blocking literary figures such as Philip Roth from clinching the award.
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Posted: 18:12:07 AEDT
Happy-Go-Lucky's Hawkins gets Oscar buzz
Actress Sally Hawkins is relatively unknown but an acclaimed role in British director Mike Leigh's new film may find her on Hollywood's red carpets this awards season, a prospect she calls "gob-smacking.".
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Posted: 13:57:04 AEDT
Foo Fighters accuse McCain of 'perverting' song
The Foo Fighters have blasted the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using their song My Hero at rallies without its permission.
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Posted: 11:14:35 AEDT
Brel's Amsterdam goes for a song
The handwritten lyrics to one of Jacques Brel's most melancholic songs - Amsterdam - fetched more than 108,000 euros ($220,000) at a Paris auction overnight.
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Posted: 10:15:17 AEDT
Tate saves Rubens sketch
An important sketch by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens valued at over 11 million pounds ($28 million) will be on permanent public display in Britain after being bought by private, public and charity funds.
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Posted: 09:30:19 AEDT
German musicians strike over pay
Concert halls and opera houses across Germany may fall silent because thousands of the country's top musicians have gone on strike for a pay rise.
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Posted: 09:28:31 AEDT
Tom Thumb heads to big screen
A little man is coming to the big screen.
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Posted: 09:25:33 AEDT
Actor Butler accused of punching paparazzo
Actor Gerard Butler is being investigated for an alleged attack on a photographer.
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Posted: 09:04:41 AEDT
Mirren reigns over Taymor's Tempest
Julie Taymor is gathering blue-blooded Oscar winners and up-and-comers for her big screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Burke, Cundall in pulp mill showdown
Gardening personality Don Burke has been hired by timber company Gunns to help win support for its northern Tasmanian pulp mill.
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Yoko Ono, EMI drop Imagine suit
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and EMI Records, the world's fourth largest music company, have dropped copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of a documentary that used a portion of the song Imagine without permission.
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James Bond admits to plastic surgery
Daniel Craig has revealed he had cosmetic surgery after being injured on the set of the latest Bond movie.
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Spears rejects plea deal, heads to trial
Britney Spears is ready to go on trial to clear her name for allegedly driving without a California licence, her lawyer J Michael Flanagan said.
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Nightclub plans for Taste irk neighbours
Waterfront businesses are concerned about the Hobart City Council's plans to revamp the Taste of Tasmania.
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Gunns desperate for publicity: Cundall
The former presenter of ABC TV's Gardening Australia, Peter Cundall, says television personality Don Burke would not work for Gunns if the timber company was building a pulp mill in his backyard.
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Fine weather draws crowds to Launceston Show
Thousands of Tasmanians have turned out for this year's Launceston Show.
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Gods, ghosts exhibition 'renaissance' of Pacific art
The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) is hoping its new exhibition in Canberra will spark renewed interest in Pacific art.
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Yunupingu wins Deadly prizes
North-east Arnhem Land's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has taken top honours at the 2008 Deadly Awards.
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France's Le Clezio wins Nobel Literature Prize
French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Literature Prize.
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