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PAMELA ANDERSON has impressed the parents of students at her children’s school, by helping pupils cross the road outside.
The Baywatch star is makes sure it’s safe for kids to cross the road adjacent to her sons Brandon, 11, and nine-year-old Dylan’s school in Las Vegas.
She says, "With the neon vest and everything, it’s really hot. I get a lot of high fives.
"Other parents think it’s funny that I’m doing it, but I’m a mom and you have to. I love it."

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PARIS HILTON is set for her wildest photoshoot yet - as the covergirl of an upcoming April Fool’s Day (01Apr08) spoof magazine.
The sexy socialite will pose seductively with people dressed up as wild animals for an upcoming four-page spread of Harvard University’s Lampoon magazine.
A press release advertising the publication credits the comedy shoot as `Paris Hilton in Your Wildest Animal Fantasies.’ In one photo, animal-loving Hilton straddles the back of a `bear’, while in others, she hugs a gorilla and an elephant, according to PlanetGossip.Eonline.com.
Hilton was honoured with the Harvard Lampoon’s Woman of The Year award in February (08).

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LATEST: LINDSAY LOHAN did not star in a sex tape with her ex-boyfriend CALUM BEST - the woman featured in the explicit video purported to be the actress is actually an unknown from Illinois.
The Mean Girls star found herself at the centre of a scandal on Thursday (20Mar08) after British tabloid The Sun published grainy images from the internet video, claiming the footage showed Lohan performing a sex act on model Calum Best, who she dated briefly in 2007.
Best - the son of Northern Irish soccer legend George Best - instantly denied the reports, and now website TMZ.com alleges other stills taken from the sex tape show the woman in the clip bares few similarities to Lohan.
The video footage was, in fact, posted on file-sharing website YouTube.com by the male star of the clip, who had filmed his girlfriend performing oral sex on him.

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Funnyman JIM CARREY has vowed never to wed his longterm girlfriend JENNY McCARTHY - because he doesn’t want to jinx their good relationship.
The divorcee has been wed twice before, first to former actress Melissa Wormer - with whom he has 20-year-old daughter Jane - in 1987, and then again in 1996 to his Dumb And Dumber co-star Lauren Holly. That union ended after less than a year.
And Carrey cites his bad track record for wanting to steer clear of any more wedding vows.
He says, "I’m happy with Jenny, although I probably won’t get married again.
If you’ve done it twice you really should stop doing it.
"And everything is good. I have a wonderful daughter, who writes music and is very talented, just like my father, and Evan (McCarthy’s son) is such an incredible little person too." Carrey’s comments echo those of former Playboy pin-up McCarthy, who recently ruled out marriage and kids with The Mask star.

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BRUCE WILLIS lost his temper with the paparazzi on Thursday (20Mar08) afternoon when showered the hounding photographers with a bottle of water.
The Die Hard star had enjoyed a day of shopping with his model girlfriend at The Grove in Los Angeles, and the couple was heading home in their car when Willis hit out at the pack of photographers who follow his every move.
Leaning out of the passenger seat, the actor swore at the snappers before splashing them with some mineral water.

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LATEST: Actor MICKEY ROURKE has slammed the police officer who arrested him for driving under the influence last year (07), insisting the cop is "unfit for duty".
The Angel Heart star was pulled over by Miami Beach, Florida police in November after they reportedly spotted him weaving all over the road on his Vespa scooter.
Rourke was initially booked for driving under the influence (DUI), but authorities later admitted the breathalyzer test - which the actor failed during his arrest - was incorrect.
A second machine used later showed Rourke was just under the legal limit, and the DUI charge is expected to be officially dropped by Miami Beach’s District Attorney.
On Friday (21Mar08), Rourke pleaded guilty to another charge of reckless driving and was sentenced to six months’ probation, community service and ordered to pay a fine.
But Rourke is still angry about the embarrassing way arresting officer Peter Socarras treated him at the time of the incident.
He rants, "I’m friends with most cops in the city and they told me the guy who got me isn’t even liked by his colleagues. He’s a 400-pound f**k unfit for duty.
"I said to him: ‘F**k you, I’m not drunk.’ I guess he didn’t like that. They started on me at the station with the pencil in front of my eyes. Then they gave me the breath thing, like, seven times. And it always came out under the limit. I had two drinks hours before they stopped me." However, Juan Sanchez, a spokesman for Miami Beach Police Department, has defended the cop’s conduct, saying: "I’m sorry that’s how he (Rourke) feels about an officer who’s just doing his job."

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Rapper TABOO is set to show off his brawling prowess - he’s signed up to star in the new STREET FIGHTER movie.
Taboo - real name Jaime Luis Gomez - has previously made big-screen outings in films including 2005’s Dirty and 2007’s Cosmic Radio, but his role as Vega in Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li will mark his first appearance in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Taboo will star in the action film alongside actors Michael Clarke Duncan, Chris Klein and Neal McDonough.
Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li is the second movie adaptation of the popular video game Street Fighter. The first big screen version hit theatres in 1994 and featured martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. (CAM&MT/WNWCSX/GES) WENN - FIFTH - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - 21 MARCH 2008

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A rap concert in Texas featuring WEBBIE, 2 PISTOLS and COLBY O’DONNIS has been marred by violence after a series of fights broke out following the gig.
Twelve people were arrested after Thursday’s (20Mar08) concert in Galveston, Texas, which was held as part of Spring Break celebrations - when U.S. students take extended leave.
Fighting reportedly broke out on the beach where the gig was held and the entire local police force was enlisted to help calm tensions. Officers are said to have spent almost four hours clearing the surrounding streets.
No injuries were reported as a result of the violence.

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R.E.M. singer MICHAEL STIPE has poked fun at his homosexuality by reading out a ’statement’ revealing his bandmates MIKE MILLS and PETER BUCK are heterosexual.
In the staged press conference video on the group’s YouTube webpage, Stipe sits down to read his humourous statement as camera bulbs flash repeatedly around him.
The frontman, who first revealed his sexual preference in an interview with Time magazine in 2001, retains a deadly serious composure throughout the clip, before collapsing in a heap of laughter at the end.
In the video, Stipe says: "R.E.M.’s Pete Buck and Mike Mills have announced today, after years of awkward speculation, that they are heterosexual, or straight.
"I am happy for my bandmates and congratulate their candidness and their courage at making this bold statement. I stand beside them as always and I’m proud of their strength of character in this difficult, but liberating, decision to come forward.
"I can say on their behalf that they’re relieved to acknowledge their real selves publicly. Mike Mills said, and I quote, ‘It was time to step out of the fog, fag, fog… the fog of uncertainty and into the light of light.’"

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The family of BOB MARLEY is refusing to license any of the late reggae legend’s music for a biopic - because they want to use the music in a competing documentary.
A movie adaptation of Marley’s widow Rita’s book No Woman, No Cry: My Life With Bob Marley is currently being created by The Weinstein Company, but the star’s family will not co-operate for the project.
Instead, the family is handing over the rights to use his hits to director Martin Scorsese, who is making a documentary about the singer together with the Marley-owned Tuff Gong Pictures, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The family members involved in the Scorsese project claim they were unaware the Weinstein biopic would be unveiled so soon and believe that its projected late-2009 release date would interfere with the documentary’s February 2010 release - timed to coincide with Marley’s birthday.
The documentary’s executive producer and Bob’s son, Ziggy Marley, says, "The Weinstein project has put the documentary into jeopardy. All our efforts and support are currently directed toward the documentary.
"We believe that this project is the best way to represent our father’s life from his perspective, and any other film project pertaining to our father will be empty without his music to support it." The Marley family’s lawyer Terri Dipalo denied the latest move is a negotiating tactic to compel the Weinsteins to buy Marley music rights.

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SEAN ‘DIDDY’ COMBS has completed his deposition in a $130 million (£65 million) lawsuit filed against him in relation to a 1999 shooting outside a New York nightclub.
Music mogul Combs and former Bad Boy MC Shyne have both been named in the civil suit filed by victim Natania Reuben, who was shot in the face at the incident at Club New York.
Shyne - real name Moses Michael Leviy - is currently serving a 10-year jail term after being found guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and gun possession following the shooting.
Combs, who was with his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez at the time of the incident and whose honour the rapper was supposedly defending, was acquitted of all charges in the case.
But Reuben filed a civil action against the pair seeking damages for her injuries. A judge is now required to decide whether Shyne acted alone or as part of Combs’ Bad Boy collective - the record label the hip-hop giant founded in 1993 - before the case goes to trial.
If both Combs and Shyne are required to stand trial, it will be up to a jury to decide who should take responsibility for the shooting.
Shyne, who did not testify during the criminal trial, may be required to take the stand and testify about the incident. The rapper is currently incarcerated at the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York State, and could be released as early as next year (09).

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ANGELINA JOLIE and her partner BRAD PITT have proved their humanitarian credentials by donating over $8 million (£4 million) to charity.
The couple is known for their work with good causes - Jolie is a United Nations goodwill ambassador while Pitt has been devoting much of his time to helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005.
The pair also set up their own charitable organisation - the Jolie Pitt Foundation - in 2006, with Jolie donating $4.1 million (£2.5 million) and Pitt giving $4.4 million (£2.2 million) to the fund.
The foundation poured out $2.4 million (£1.2 million) in 2006 alone with money going to charities including Doctors Without Borders and the Global AIDS Alliance.
In addition, Jolie and Pitt donated $137,000 (£68,500) to the Namibia Red Cross as an apology for the media circus that descended on the country when Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh there in 2006.

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LATEST: HEATHER MILLS has publicly condemned a judge’s decision to publish details of her divorce battle with SIR PAUL McCARTNEY - insisting it has added to her media "vilification" and violated her "human rights".
Mills lost an appeal at London’s High Court on Tuesday (18Mar08) to stop details of the case from entering the public domain and Judge Mr Justice Bennett subsequently published his findings.
The 40-year-old won $33 million (£16.5 million) cash and assets worth $15.6 million (£7.8 million) following the breakdown of her four-year marriage to the former Beatle on Monday (17Mar08), but faced a barrage of criticism in the press after the judge slammed her evidence as "unreliable" and accused the former glamour model of indulging in "make-belief".
And now Mills had hit back at the release of the report, issuing a statement to British TV programme GMTV, insisting the judgment was only published in part and if the case details were issued in full, she would have received a much more positive review from the judge The statement, which was read out on Friday (21Mar08) morning, reads, "It seems an overall tabloid-created perception of my personality is preferred to much detail that I prepared for my case.
"It is now in the public interest to reveal the transcripts of the FULL court proceedings. As this judgement is now being used to further my vilification, details contained within the transcripts and evidence will paint a far fairer and truthful picture which is surely in the interests of justice.
"This decision appears to have been taken with disregard for my human right to privacy and that of my daughter. It cannot be in her interests that one parent is condemned by the media while the other is ‘protected’ or even revered." McCartney and Mills split in May 2006 and have a four-year-old daughter, Beatrice. A further hearing to grant a decree nisi and officially dissolve their marriage will take place on 12 May (08).

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BRITNEY SPEARS is still facing charges of driving without a licence after prosecutors in California refused to dismiss the case.
The hearing - which took place on Thursday (20Mar08) - was originally set for last month (Feb08) but it was postponed after Spears’ lawyers argued the star was not fit to give a deposition.
The case relates to an incident in August (07), when Spears scraped a parked car in a private parking lot in California’s San Fernando Valley while driving without a valid licence.
The hit-and-run charge, which was caught on camera, was dismissed in court in October (07) after Spears offered a personal apology and $1,000 (£500) in compensation to the vehicle’s owner, Kim Robard-Rifkin.
But the troubled star is still facing a charge of driving without a valid California driving licence - because at the time she was only in possession of a permit from her native Louisiana.
Her lawyer, Charlie Unger, urged the court to drop the charges, insisting that Spears "seems to be getting her life together. She has nothing on her record other than the infraction-type tickets we all get." But prosecutor Michael Amerian refused to back down, arguing that continuing the case is "the fairest way to treat her. (We’re) not affected by her celebrity status." The next hearing is set for 18 June (08).

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Troubled singer BRITNEY SPEARS is going back to her dancing roots - she’s reportedly planning to open her own studio.
The Toxic hitmaker wants to open a studio next to her favoured North Hollywood Millennium Dance Complex, where she has been practicing her own routines as well as teaching a class of youngsters.
A source tells celebrity gossip website PerezHilton.com, "It will be right near Millennium
. And she plans to call it The Basement." (CAM/WNWCHP/MT) * FASCINATING FACT: Country star TOBY KEITH is to host the fifth annual Toby Keith & Friends Golf Classic in Oklahoma on 7 June (08) to raise money for cancer charity Ally’s House
. The singer will also participate in a live auction, as well as a dinner and concert, the night before the tournament
.

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Rap superstar JAY-Z and hip-hop/soul queen MARY J. BLIGE have been forced to scrap a scheduled concert in Colorado next month (Apr08) - less than three hours after announcing the date in a press release.
The pair is due to hit the road for their Heart of the City Tour this weekend (22Mar08) in Miami, Florida, with further dates across North America over the next few weeks.
An additional gig at Denver’s Pepsi Center on 23 April was declared by promoter Live Nation on Tuesday (18Mar08) night at 8.59pm, with tickets due to go on sale on Saturday (22Mar08) morning.
But at 11.48pm, Live Nation issued another statement, pulling the concert altogether.
The latest press release reads: "Due to late additions of appearance commitments, they are disappointed that they will not be able to play in Denver."

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Mythical odyssey 10,000 BC has left its cinematic counterparts back in the dark ages after topping the U.K
. box office chart in its first week of release.
The pre-historic film, directed by Roland Emmerich, clawed in more than $3.86 million (£1.93 million), bumping last week’s (begs10Mar08) number one, Vantage Point, into second place.
The Game Plan beat off the competition to stay at number three, while Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman’s historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl drops two places to number four and The Bank Job completes the top five at five
. (CAM/WNWCCB/MT) * FASCINATING FACT: Comedienne ELLEN DeGENERES will join RYAN SEACREST to host the AMERICAN IDOL charity special IDOL GIVES BACK on 9 April (08)
. Celebrity participants include BRAD PITT, BONO, REESE WITHERSPOON, JOHN LEGEND, SNOOP DOGG and CARRIE UNDERWOOD
.

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Actress THANDIE NEWTON considered adoption after visiting children in poverty-stricken Mali.
The Crash star has two daughters with husband Ol Parker, but contemplated adding to her family following her trip to the West African Country.
However, Newton decided against adopting, preferring to donate money to their cause instead.
She says, "I had a really strong urge immediately after both my daughters to have another. But I felt it best to get to know them better first. Later I realised that urge can be satisfied by helping people.
"Rather than having more kids within my four walls, it’s better for me to give out. That’s not to say adopting isn’t fantastic."

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