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Actress SARAH JESSICA PARKER was left red-faced after taking a tumble during a photoshoot for American VOGUE.
The star was being snapped by iconic photographer Annie Leibovitz at New York’s Lincoln Center on Friday (07Mar08) when she fell mid-shoot.
Parker, dressed in metallic stilettos and an off-white gown, tripped on the red carpeted stairs of the arts complex - but immediately got back on her feet, helped by her team of assistants, reports British newspaper The Daily Mail.

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British star LILY ALLEN’s father used to steal his ex-wife’s expensive pots and pans to sell on the street - because he was so short of money.
The LDN hitmaker used to accompany her cash-strapped dad - actor Keith Allen - to Portobello Market, in London, to help him shift the stolen goods.
And the singer, 22 - who witnessed her father split from her mum, movie-maker Alison Owen, when she was four years old - blames money struggles for her parents’ marriage breakdown.
She says, "When my parents split up my dad was completely skint. He’s come and pick me and my brother up and steal my mum’s Le Creuset pots and pans and make us go to Portobello market and sell them.
"But we’d get moved on because we didn’t have a licence."

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Actress KEIRA KNIGHTLEY is set to add singer to her resume - after debuting her vocal talents on the soundtrack to new movie THE EDGE OF LOVE.
The star, who appears in the forthcoming film, will perform three songs on the album, despite protestations from Knightley she isn’t a good singer.
She says, "I can’t really sing. I had to have a few lessons, but once I started doing it, a sound emerged that wasn’t too disagreeable."

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LINDSAY LOHAN has landed a dream role opposite her heroine ANN-MARGRET in a new JACK BLACK comedy.
The actress insists she can’t say much about the project, but she simply can’t keep quiet about the prospect of working with the Tommy star, who she has emulated for years.
The two redheads met up for a photoshoot in 2006 and Lohan declared Ann-Margret was her ultimate role model. The pair has become firm friends.
And now the Mean Girls star says, "I’m part of a film that Jack Black is involved in that is starting around April, hopefully. We’re getting the cast together now.
"I can’t say too much. It’s a comedy. Ann-Margret is a part of it and I’m very excited (about that).
"One of my favourite movies is her movie Kitten With A Whip. It’s a great movie. I just really respect her."

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British singer ROBBIE WILLIAMS would dump his pop career to become an alien investigator, according to a new interview.
The Angels star was being interviewed by soul singer Joss Stone for a British radio show - and even tried to enlist the 20-year-old’s help in his search for extra terrestrials.
He tells Stone, "Seriously, I want to go out and investigate these things.
I’m stopping being a pop star and becoming a full-time ufologist.
"We could be like (The X Files FBI agents) Mulder and Scully in real life.
You’re always mega-busy but I’ve got nothing on at the minute." Williams also claims he has been visited by aliens on at least three occasions, and witnessed a "big strip of black light" during recording in a studio in Los Angeles.
But the 34-year-old insists he can understand if the public view his latest obsession with concern.
Williams adds, "People will think, ‘This geezer’s been in rehab, he’s off his head.’ How mental are they going to make me out in the papers."

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THE BRADY BUNCH creator SHERWOOD SCHWARTZ has been honoured with his very own star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
The 91-year-old - who also wrote Gilligan’s Island - paid tribute to actresses Dawn Wells and Florence Henderson who starred in his legendary shows when he accepted the award.
He says, "To me, Dawn will always be Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island and Florence will always be Mrs. Brady." He also revealed how he fell into show business "by accident" after writing jokes for late actor Bob Hope, while he was studying for a master’s degree in biological sciences.
He says, "Bob liked my jokes, used them on his show and got big laughs. Then he asked me to join his writing staff.
"I was faced with a major decision - writing comedy or starving to death while I cured those diseases. I made a quick career change." He eventually turned to TV, creating Gilligan’s Island in 1963, and later brought The Brady Bunch to the small screen.

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Professional wrestler-turned-action star DWAYNE ‘THE ROCK’ JOHNSON is desperate to land a certain macho role - a JAMES BOND villain.
The 35-year-old muscle man decided to part ways with World Wrestling Entertainment to pursue a career in Hollywood, winning tough-guy parts in The Mummy Returns and The Rundown.
And although the Scorpion King star is now distancing himself from such roles, he admits he would jump at the chance to play a bad guy in the superspy franchise.
He says, "I would love to be a Bond baddie. I am a big fan of the films."

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Former BOND girl WARIS DIRIE has been found, three days after the former model vanished.
The 43-year-old was discovered walking through the Grand Place square in Brussels on Friday (07Mar08) and appeared to be in good health.
Just hours earlier, Belgian police had begun a nationwide search for the U.N.
goodwill ambassador, who had last been seen getting into a taxi after a mix-up concerning hotel arrangements on Wednesday (05Mar08).
Estelle Arpigny, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, says Dirie is being questioned about her disappearance.

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Action hero JACKIE CHAN flew to Australia on Saturday (07Mar08) to attend his father’s funeral - six years after the death of his mother.
The Rush Hour star’s father Charlie died in a Hong Kong hospital on 26 February (08) after battling with prostate cancer. He was 93.
Chan brought his father’s body to Canberra, Australia - where his parents had lived together - so he could be laid to rest beside his mother Lee Lee Chan, who died in 2002.
Hundreds of mourners including the U.S. ambassador and Chinese deputy envoy attended the funeral - messages of support were read out from former U.S. vice president Al Gore and film director Quentin Tarantino.
The movie star and his son Jason led mourners from the service carrying a large photo of his father before traveling to the cemetery, where roses and fishing mementoes were placed alongside the casket.
He said, "It’s a hard day. I loved my father so much because he did so much for me when I was young. We had a very poor family and he left Hong Kong to support himself. He was just the greatest father for me." The stunt man’s father lived in Australia for more than 40 years - but spent most of his final years in Hong Kong with his actor son following the death of his wife.

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Soul newcomer ADELE wants to form a pop supergroup - with her former schoolmates AMY WINEHOUSE, KATIE MELUA, LILY ALLEN and KATE NASH.
The 19-year-old Brit is convinced the quintet, who are all graduates of the U.K.’s BRIT school for performing arts - could conquer the music industry as one.
She says, "Amy, Katie, Lily, Kate and me all come from the same school. If we were in a band I think it would be the best band ever.
"We’re not afraid to speak out minds. I think everyone is entitled to an opinion whether it is good or horrible." And the singer insists the all-girl group would win over a multitude of female fans because real women could relate to them: "All of us represent most women in the world.
You don’t need to be a doll with tanned legs, blonde hair, big boobs and good lips. I really don’t think you have to be like that any more."

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Hip-hop producer MARIO WINANS is reportedly refusing to support his three-year-old son, according to his ex-lover JANEL BENNETT.
Bennett, who was in an eight-year relationship with Winans before she had her son Jordan, claims she was removed from her family home in Miami, Florida because Winans refused to pay child support.
The surprise eviction has apparently left the cocktail waitress "homeless and living with friends on the south side of Chicago".
Two years ago (05) the single mother was caught up in a legal battle with the rap producer to prove he was the father of her son. DNA reports came back positive, and Winans was made to pay Bennett $4,500 (£2,250) per month in child support.
Bennett tells the New York Post’s PageSix, "He hasn’t paid me. I just wanted support, and I was on disability and Medicaid and welfare just to have the baby.
"He stopped paying last year… by the end of August 2007, I lost the house and moved to Chicago… I just want him to do right by Jordan… It would be so simple for him to call me so we could work something out." Bennett met the I Don’t Wanna Know star in 1997 through their mutual friend Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Winans’ representatives have made no comment on the allegations.

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DETAILS COURTNEY LOVE is fuming after identity thieves used her late husband KURT COBAIN’s social security number to buy a $3.2 million (£1.6 million) property.
The Nirvana rocker committed suicide in 1994 but still managed to purchase a New Jersey home last year (07) - much to Love’s surprise.
Identity thieves have also managed to open 188 credit cards in Love’s name, and have embezzled as much as $69 million (£34.5 million) from the couple and the trust fund of their daughter, 14-year-old Frances Bean - and Love is desperate to bring the criminals to justice and reclaim the cash.
Love handed over paperwork and bank statements to Los Angeles Police Department officials on Wednesday (05Mar08), almost four years after she first went public with her fears that money had been illegally taken from her daughter’s trust fund.
She says, "I knew it had been going on since when I went cuckoo - bananas in 2003. It was fraud after fraud. But nobody believed me until now. I did a check on my deceased husband’s social security number and he has a house in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He bought it last year.
"I would like to know how. He should probably get his ass back home if that is the case." In 2004, she initially claimed she had been swindled out of a $40 million (£20 million) fortune, leaving her daughter with nothing from her inheritance.
The documents, filed on Wednesday (05Mar08), show that 188 fraudulent credit cards, mortgages and loans have been taken out in Love and her late husband’s names.
Love says, "I have 26 pages covered in the word fraud, I have about 18 Amexes (American Express cards) and a new nine Amexes have just been found - all fraud.
"I’ve never had more than one Amex - let alone 27 (sic).
"(On) any given day… you can find me on a private plane from Tucson to Dallas, tooling around London… and LA - and four C Cobains on a Virgin flight to (London airport) Heathrow all on the same day." The star has employed forensics financial investigation company KROLL - the firm she claims "found Saddam Hussein’s hidden assets" - to look into the embezzlement, and has an Orange County, California FBI agent ready to take on her four-year investigation when the issue "gets press".

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Actor ASHTON KUTCHER was once doubtful if his romance with DEMI MOORE could last - because his ego almost prevented him from getting along with her ex-husband BRUCE WILLIS.
The 30-year-old’s unlikely friendship with the Die Hard star has been the subject of much media scrutiny since Kutcher married Moore in a Los Angeles ceremony in 2005.
Although Kutcher and Willis have reportedly become friends, the Punk’d creator insists he didn’t immediately accept the 52-year-old.
He explains, "I just had to get over my ego, which was screaming, ‘This guy used to sleep with your woman.’ "And I listened instead to the little voice inside that was whispering, ‘This guy loves and cares about your woman.’"

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Legendary actor JACK NICHOLSON has shrugged off his hellraising reputation, insisting old age has forced him to put a stop to his wild ways.
The 70-year-old is notorious for his party-loving lifestyle and penchant for beautiful women, but the lothario admits his ageing body is letting him down.
The Batman star says, "You’re never too old. But I’m not as wild as I used to be. I found out those days had gone when I made The Shining. I thought: ‘I’m going to burn London to the ground every night!’ A few weeks into filming I jumped over a wall and I was out, hurt my back and I was laid up for eight weeks.
"That started me thinking, ‘Hey maybe I should pay attention to my job and not think about how wild I can be.’ I’m a quieter, more introspective man than I was 20 years ago."

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Actors OWEN WILSON and ERIC DANE surprised reporters at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper on Friday (07Mar08) when they dropped in unannounced to research their new film.
The pair are co-starring alongside Jennifer Aniston in Marley & Me, based on a memoir by Sun-Sentinel columnist John Grogan, and spent an hour scouting locations inside the publication’s Fort Lauderdale office.
One female reporter tells People.com, "They were charming. I swooned a bit.
Owen was very sweet. They certainly created a lot of hubbub and excitement."

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CYNDI LAUPER and the organisers of her upcoming tour have thrown BRITNEY SPEARS a comeback lifeline - by asking the fallen star to join the second True Colors trek.
The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun singer reportedly invited troubled Spears to join the gay rights touring revue onstage at Los Angeles’ Greek Theater last summer (Jun07) - but she ignored the offer.
Lauper and producers of the tour aren’t giving up, however - they’ve re-approached the Toxic singer with an offer to join them on the road this year (08), according to E!online.com.
The 2008 True Colors tour kicks off in Boston, Massachusetts at the end of May (08), and features Lauper, comedienne Rosie O’Donnell, the B-52s and Joan Jett And The Blackhearts.

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Actor-turned-politician ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER has come under fire from environmentalists for regularly commuting more than three hours to work by private jet.
The California Governor lives with his family in Brentwood in Los Angeles County, while his office lies 380 miles (612 kilometres) to the north, in Sacramento, California.
His commute by Gulfstream jet, which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, has upset environmental groups, who are angry the anti-global warming politician is setting a bad example to his constituents.
And although Republican Schwarzenegger offsets the carbon dioxide his mode of transport causes by purchasing ‘pollution credits’ - which fund efforts to reduce greenhouse gases - green campaigners are still upset.
Denis Hayes, the president of environmental group Bullitt Foundation, tells the Los Angeles Times, "He has been very bold on all these (environmental) initiatives, so it is sad to see him undercut that.
"If you are going to be talking about an issue, you should be living the reality you are trying to embrace." Schwarzenegger recently defended his airborne commute, arguing it allows him to see his children on a daily basis.
He said, "The question is how can I be with my family, because that is extremely important, to be with my kids. They are all growing up. They are in their teens. They need their father around.
"I felt it took a toll on my family not being at home every day. So what I am trying to do is find that balance between the family and running the state."

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RADHA MITCHELL will forever be in SIR MICK JAGGER’s debt, after the ROLLING STONES star persuaded French customs officials to let her into the country to attend the Cannes Film Festival.
The Australian actress had landed at Nice airport to attend the event a few years ago - but she’d forgotten her visa and was quickly ushered into a security room for an interrogation.
When Mitchell spotted Jagger, she introduced herself and told the Brown Sugar rocker of her predicament, at which point the singer decided to exert his influence on the French officials.
Mitchell recalls, "They put me in a security room at the airport and there was Mick. I introduced myself, and somehow he took mercy on me.
"He spoke to the officials in French and they let me go."

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