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• 5Silver screen beckons for Daly

  Reuters – Tue Dec 8, 12:24 am ET

  SYDNEY (Reuters) - His turbulent life has already been played out in newspapers, magazines and television networks around the world but American golfer John Daly now wants to be the subject of a Hollywood movie. Full Story »

• British TV channel apologises over rat eating row

  AFP – Mon Dec 7, 10:14 am ET
  Ken McKay/ITV

  LONDON (AFP) - The British TV channel behind hit show "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!" apologised Monday for the death of a rat during filming in Australia, as the stars who killed it faced police charges. Full Story »

• Federer, Brad Pitt named in new edition of Who's Who

  AFP – Mon Dec 7, 10:10 am ET
  AFP/Getty Images/File

  LONDON (AFP) - Swiss tennis star Roger Federer, Hollywood actor Brad Pitt and Brazilian author Paulo Coelho are among new entries in "Who's Who", the British guide to society's most influential people published Monday. Full Story »

• Reality series `Basketball Wives' set for VH1

  AP – Mon Dec 7, 9:21 pm ET

  LOS ANGELES - A VH1 reality series that promises an inside look at the lives of NBA players' wives and girlfriends is set to air early next year. Full Story »

• S.African actors 'want Hudson out of Mandela film'

  AFP – Mon Dec 7, 4:51 am ET
  AFP/Getty Images/File

  JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African actors want to stop Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson from playing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new film on the ex-wife of the nation's first black president, reports said Monday. Full Story »

• Seinfeld delivers masterful riffs on what bugs him

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 2:53 am ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There's one major difference between "Seinfeld" and its star's stand-up act. The TV show ostensibly was about nothing, but it thrived on the comedy of coincidence; onstage, Jerry Seinfeld mines the comedy of annoyance. Full Story »

• Jack Black gets animated with movie project

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 2:11 am ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jack Black, who provided the lead voice in DreamWorks Animation's' "Kung Fu Panda," is once again heading into the land of animation. Full Story »

• 'I'm A Celebrity' TV stars charged over rat risotto

  AFP – Mon Dec 7, 12:45 am ET
  AFP/File

  SYDNEY (AFP) - Two stars of hit British TV show "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!" are facing animal cruelty charges for killing and eating a rat during filming in Australia, activists said Monday. Full Story »

• Bennett Miller in talks to direct "Moneyball'

  Reuters – Sun Dec 6, 7:45 pm ET

  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Capote" filmmaker Bennett Miller is in negotiations to direct "Moneyball," a baseball drama starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's who rewrote the unwritten rulebook of baseball. Full Story »

• Mexican governor: Gibson to make film in Veracruz

  AP – Sun Dec 6, 4:12 pm ET
  AP

  VERACRUZ, Mexico - A Mexican governor says Mel Gibson will make a movie at a prison in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz next year. Full Story »

• Fear of regime inspired Romanian Nobel winner

  AFP – Mon Dec 7, 4:40 pm ET
  AFP/SCANPIX

  STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature told Monday of how her fear of the communist regime in her native Romania inspired her to write. Full Story »

• Rat cooking lands TV show in hot water

  AP – Sun Dec 6, 12:37 pm ET
  Ken McKay/ITV

  SYDNEY - Two stars of the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming. Full Story »

• African-American princess joins Disney royals

  AFP – Sun Dec 6, 12:00 pm ET
  AFP/Getty Images/File

  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Seventy-two years after Snow White first emerged on the silver screen, Disney's exclusive pantheon of fairytale royals is about to get another member to delight little girls around the world. Full Story »

• Billy Joel's daughter out of hospital

  Reuters – Mon Dec 7, 3:30 pm ET
  Reuters

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Billy Joel and his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, are staying together at an undisclosed location following her release from a New York hospital over the weekend, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Full Story »

• Gainsbourg, Beck bring out joint album

  AFP – Sun Dec 6, 6:23 am ET
  AFP/File

  PARIS (AFP) - An album of psychedelic and folk-tinged pop songs jointly created by the celebrity French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and the cult US musician Beck goes on sale here Monday. Full Story »

• Obama to accept peace prize as war president

  AFP – Mon Dec 7, 3:23 pm ET
  AFP

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama will accept his Nobel peace prize this week as a war president, and will address the awkward timing of his Afghan troop surge announcement head on, the White House said Monday. Full Story »

• Adam Lambert to appear, sing on ABC's 'The View'

  AP – Sat Dec 5, 7:20 pm ET
  AP

  NEW YORK - ABC says glam-rocker Adam Lambert will appear and perform on its daytime talk show "The View" on Thursday. Full Story »

• Underwood aims for family fun with variety show

  AP – Sat Dec 5, 2:43 pm ET
  AP

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The variety show was once a television staple, and Carrie Underwood thinks it might be time for a resurgence.