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MIAMI - Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom Friday, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a little wave on the way to the witness stand.
Once on the stand, though, Hilton was businesslike when it came to defending herself against an $8 million lawsuit's claim that she didn't do her part to promote the 2006 box-office bomb "Pledge This!" She acknowledged in court the movie didn't turn out very well but insisted she plugged it for everything she was worth.
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Fri Jul 10, 2009, 2:18 pm EDT
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NEW YORK - Jim Carrey is going to be a grandfather.
Carrey's spokeswoman, Marleah Leslie, says his 21-year-old daughter, Jane Carrey, is expecting her first child.
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Fri Jul 10, 2009, 10:23 am EDT
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NEW YORK - When the "Harry Potter" film series is completed, its three young stars — Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — will have inhabited their roles longer than Sean Connery played James Bond, Christopher Reeve was Superman or Jerry Seinfeld played himself on "Seinfeld."
Radcliffe, Watson and Grint have already effectively spent half of their lives in J.K. Rowling's universe. Radcliffe, who is now 19, was 11 when he was cast as the boy wizard for the series' 2001 debut. Watson, now 19, was 10 when she auditioned for the whip-smart Hermione Granger. Grint, the eldest of the trio, is 20.
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Fri Jul 10, 2009, 6:03 am EDT
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L'AQUILA, Italy - George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy's recent earthquake and told the survivors he'll shoot a film in their mountain region.
The actor inspected crumbled buildings during a visit on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in L'Aquila. The April 6 quake left thousands homeless and killed nearly 300 people.
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Fri Jul 10, 2009, 5:54 am EDT
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NEW YORK - David Arquette is going to live in a box in New York City to raise money for the hungry.
The 37-year-old actor plans to stay in a Plexiglas box above the Madison Square Garden marquee on Tuesday and Wednesday to raise $250,000 for Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief charity. He'll stay in the box each day for about eight hours.
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Thu Jul 09, 2009, 7:19 pm EDT
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NEW YORK - David Arquette is going to sleep in a box in New York City to raise money for the hungry.
The 37-year-old actor is staying in a Plexiglas box above the Madison Square Garden marquee on Tuesday and Wednesday to raise $250,000 for Feeding America — the nation's largest domestic hunger relief charity.
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Thu Jul 09, 2009, 4:37 pm EDT
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LOS ANGELES - Michael Moore's latest documentary now has a title — and a theme that resonates with recession-weary audiences.
Moore's look at the consequences of big business will be called "Capitalism: A Love Story." The documentary is due in theaters Oct. 2.
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Thu Jul 09, 2009, 3:05 pm EDT
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LOS ANGELES - Harry Potter has kept his fans waiting for two years, the longest school break they have had to endure for a new movie adventure about the teen wizard.
It's been worth the wait.
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Thu Jul 09, 2009, 2:45 pm EDT
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VIENNA - Austrians could be forgiven for bristling at "Bruno."
After all, the film character boasts that his fame is second only to Hitler's and says he just wants "to achieve zee Austrian dream — find a job, get a dungeon und raise a family in it."
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Thu Jul 09, 2009, 2:38 pm EDT
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MIAMI - Paris Hilton has arrived for the Miami trial of a federal lawsuit accusing her of failing to adequately promote her 2006 movie "Pledge This!"
Hilton entered the courthouse Thursday afternoon wearing a black and white dress.
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