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Elton John to Tie the Knot With Partner (AP)
 AP - Rock star Elton John is tying the knot with longtime partner David Furnish Wednesday, in a civil union ceremony seen as a watershed in the struggle for gay rights — and as the party of the season by celebrity-spotters.
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Brooks & Dunn to Open for Stones (AP)
 AP - One of country's hardest rock bands will open for one of rock's hardest country bands. Brooks & Dunn will warm up for the Rolling Stones in Omaha, Neb., Jan. 29.
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Gwen Stefani Said Pregnant With First Baby (AP)
 AP - Gwen Stefani, nominated for five Grammy Awards including album of the year for "Love.Angel.Music.Baby.," is pregnant with her first child, according to Us Weekly.
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Britney Spears Sues 'Us Weekly' for $20M (AP)
 AP - Britney Spears has filed a $20 million libel lawsuit against Us Weekly, charging the celebrity magazine published a false story reporting she and husband Kevin Federline had made a sex tape and were worried about its release.
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The ball is in Woody's court (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Can it be true? At a time when the likes of Paris Hilton is capable of inspiring a Christmas shrine, Woody is hot again.That's Woody Allen, of course, the bespectacled nerd with the ginger hair, pipsqueak physique and existential Borscht Belt humor who made films that mattered, such as 1977's still-sublime best-picture Oscar winner, Annie Hall.
New film makes star of 15-year-old "Pocahontas" (Reuters)
Reuters - The new film's reclusive director
is happy to let his movie speak for itself, since he doesn't
give interviews. The male star would be happy to promote the
film, but he's in rehab.
Elton John to Tie the Knot With Partner (AP)
AP - Rock star Elton John is tying the knot with longtime partner David Furnish Wednesday, in a civil union ceremony seen as a watershed in the struggle for gay rights — and as the party of the season by celebrity-spotters.
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Iran glued to TV comedy that tackles tough issues (Reuters)
Reuters - At eight o'clock each evening, Iran
grinds to a halt and tunes into a ground-breaking television
comedy that candidly broaches often uncomfortable facts of life
in the Islamic Republic.
'40-year-old Virgin' has smash DVD debut (Reuters)
 Reuters - "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," a
surprise box office hit for Universal Pictures, appears poised
to take a spot among the year's best-selling comedies on home
video and DVD, a studio spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Everybody Rise - and Grab an Instrument; Barbara Walsh to Star in Cincy 'Company' (Playbill)
Playbill - Tony Award nominee Barbara Walsh, of Broadway's Big, Blood Brothers and Falsettos, will play boozy Joanne in John Doyle's conception of Company that has actors playing instruments.
New film makes star of 15-year-old "Pocahontas" (Reuters)
Reuters - The new film's reclusive director
is happy to let his movie speak for itself, since he doesn't
give interviews. The male star would be happy to promote the
film, but he's in rehab.
'40-year-old Virgin' has smash DVD debut (Reuters)
Reuters - "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," a
surprise box office hit for Universal Pictures, appears poised
to take a spot among the year's best-selling comedies on home
video and DVD, a studio spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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'Dozen' sequel predictably awful (Reuters)
Reuters - A textbook example of
how not to mess with success, "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is every
bit as forced, synthetic, banal and mawkish as the first
edition, meaning there's no reason to assume it shouldn't come
close to matching the $138 million-plus taken in by its equally
underachieving predecessor.
Nothing 'Fun' about Carrey's new comedy (Reuters)
Reuters - Centering on an upwardly
mobile couple who resort to robbery to maintain their way of
life, this comedy remake boasts an all-too-timely premise.
DVD review: 'King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries' (Reuters)
Reuters - When Merian C. Cooper
unleashed his "King Kong" in 1933, he went to great lengths to
safeguard the secrets behind its mind-bending special effects.
'Virgin' videos good for 3.7 million units (Reuters)
Reuters - Consumers snapped up 3.7
million DVDs and videocassettes of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" its
first week in stores, Universal Studios Home Entertainment
reported Tuesday.
Huffman Hits the Road in `Transamerica' (AP)
 AP - Felicity Huffman wasn't supposed to win the Emmy over her more glamorous and talked-about "Desperate Housewives" co-stars. But she did. Now, she's an Academy Award favorite for her performance in "Transamerica" — in which she plays a man prepping for sex-change surgery.
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Egypt "Syriana" actor sees Hollywood gaining nerve (Reuters)
 Reuters - An Egyptian actor in a movie about oil
and violence in the Middle East has praised Hollywood for
taking a frank look at the region and showing nuanced
characters instead of trading on stereotypes of Arabs as
terrorists.
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Austrian Mayor Tries to Woo Schwarzenegger (AP)
AP - The mayor of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian hometown on Tuesday begged the California governor to reconsider his decision to end ties to the city after locals assailed him for his death penalty stance.
French Antitrust Group Fines Disney Unit (AP)
AP - France's antitrust regulator Tuesday slapped a 14.4 million euros ($17.2 million) fine on Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc., a unit of Walt Disney Co., and three French retailers for fixing home video prices between 1995 and 1998.
Elton John to Tie the Knot With Partner (AP)
AP - Rock star Elton John is tying the knot with longtime partner David Furnish Wednesday, in a civil union ceremony seen as a watershed in the struggle for gay rights — and as the party of the season by celebrity-spotters.
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Brooks & Dunn to Open for Stones (AP)
AP - One of country's hardest rock bands will open for one of rock's hardest country bands. Brooks & Dunn will warm up for the Rolling Stones in Omaha, Neb., Jan. 29.
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Death Cab for Cutie to Unveil 12 Videos (AP)
 AP - Death Cab for Cutie has plans for new "Directions." Each song from the band's Grammy-nominated album, "Plans," has been made into a music video, adding up to an anthology of 12 short films titled, "Directions."
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NPR to Offer Choral Music on Sunday's (AP)
AP - National Public Radio will offer three hours of choral music to all its 815 stations every Sunday, beginning with a sample program Christmas morning.
Derivative dance duo Revenge stuck in '80s (Reuters)
Reuters - It never bodes well when
dance bands give the crowd permission to dance. But that's just
what frontman Justin Warfield felt the need to do Monday at the
sold-out Troubadour. Some obliged -- for a while, at least.
Bo Bice Bitten by RMA Curse (E! Online)
 E! Online - Just days after being tapped to
replace an ailing Ashlee Simpson at the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas
Monday night, Bo Bice has canceled his performance due to illness.
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Matchbox Twenty hoping for musical reinvention (Reuters)
Reuters - After a two-year break, matchbox
twenty is gearing up for a December 30-January 1 reunion at the
Joint in Las Vegas.
John Legend enthralls sell-out South African crowd (Reuters)
Reuters - A day before he played to a
sold-out crowd of 5,000, John Legend told a press conference
that his eight Grammy nominations had not changed the energetic
way he approached his live performances, "except that I will
now probably be in a slighter better mood than my previous
shows."
Gwen Stefani Said Pregnant With First Baby (AP)
AP - Gwen Stefani, nominated for five Grammy Awards including album of the year for "Love.Angel.Music.Baby.," is pregnant with her first child, according to Us Weekly.
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Boy George Gets Drug Case Delay (E! Online)
 E! Online - Boy George just got a big Christmas present from a New York judge:
The "Karma Chameleon" singer's cocaine case has been adjourned until
Feb. 1.
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