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Actress Heigl of 'Grey's Anatomy' engaged
(AP)
 AP - Katherine Heigl is engaged to musician Josh Kelley, according to People magazine. The "Grey's Anatomy" star and her fiance have not set a wedding date, representatives told the magazine.
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Was the Britney-to-Namibia story a hoax?
(AP)
 AP - A Namibian tourism official said Saturday he may have been duped into believing that Britney Spears was considering having her baby in Namibia.
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Jolie: Birth experience was 'terrifying'
(AP)
 AP - Angelina Jolie, in her first U.S. interview since the birth of her daughter last month, says the experience was frightening.
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'Screech' hopes to be saved by the T-shirt
(AP)
AP - More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.
Museums wrestle with antiquities ownership
(AP)
 AP - Anthropologist Bennet Bronson recalls working on an archaeological dig in Thailand for months, then returning the next year to discover that the site had been destroyed by looters who used backhoes and machine guns.
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Stars and communism meet at Shanghai Film Festival
(Reuters)
 Reuters - The 9th Shanghai International Film
Festival opened on Saturday, drawing Hollywood stars to China's
financial capital as the country's cultural life begins to
catch up with its economic boom.
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Was the Britney-to-Namibia story a hoax?
(AP)
AP - A Namibian tourism official said Saturday he may have been duped into believing that Britney Spears was considering having her baby in Namibia.
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Actress Heigl of 'Grey's Anatomy' engaged
(AP)
AP - Katherine Heigl is engaged to musician Josh Kelley, according to People magazine. The "Grey's Anatomy" star and her fiance have not set a wedding date, representatives told the magazine.
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Former NBC producer joins CBS News
(Reuters)
Reuters - CBS News has hired away
from rival NBC a producer who has worked closely with Katie
Couric to redesign the look for the "CBS Evening News" when
Couric starts on the air in September.
Playwright Eldridge's "Market Boy" proves messy
(Reuters)
Reuters - In his big and brash new play
"Market Boy" at the National Theater, playwright David Eldridge
attempts to distill Britain's cruel and greedy Thatcher years
using the life and times of a London street market, but the
result is messy and unconvincing.
Stars and communism meet at Shanghai Film Festival
(Reuters)
Reuters - The 9th Shanghai International Film
Festival opened on Saturday, drawing Hollywood stars to China's
financial capital as the country's cultural life begins to
catch up with its economic boom.
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Greg Kinnear and wife welcome 2nd child
(AP)
 AP - Greg Kinnear is a new father. His wife, Helen, gave birth to their second daughter this week in Los Angeles, the actor's publicist said Friday.
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Giuliani documentary diluted by heavy bias
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Kevin Keating's film, the
latest in a seemingly never-ending series of politically themed
documentaries presumably designed to have an impact on the
upcoming elections, deals with former New York mayor and
possible 2008 presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.
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Spielberg's Space Odyssey
(E! Online)
 E! Online - Steven Spielberg is getting ready for his next close encounter.
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Movie marketers pressured to fill seats
(AP)
AP - Movie marketing is big business. Studios spend about $3.5 billion each year to advertise and promote films. And sometimes the biggest talent works on the posters, trailers and slogans that lure moviegoers into theaters with images and tag lines more memorable than the films they promote.
Pitt Tops DiCaprio in "World" Domination
(E! Online)
 E! Online - And for an encore, Brad Pitt gets to eat Leonardo DiCaprio's brains...
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Pixar's "Cars" should take flag in second lap
(Reuters)
 Reuters - While four wide releases
hit theaters on Friday, the weekend movie scene is shaping up
as one for car enthusiasts of all ages with two racing-themed
films likely parked among the top box-office slots when the
dust settles.
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"Garfield" movie sequel heads for litter box
(Reuters)
Reuters - If 2004's "Garfield: The
Movie" seemed completely devoid of anything resembling charm or
inspiration, make way for "Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties," in
which Jim Davis' glib feline proves to be even more unpleasant
than he did in his first computer-generated incarnation.
Jack Black delivers mucho comedy in "Nacho Libre"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Jack Black, "School of
Rock" writer Mike White and "Napoleon Dynamite" director Jared
Hess make up the fearsome comedy tag team behind "Nacho Libre,"
an amiably clunky, unapologetically silly summer confection
that nevertheless lands sufficient lethal slams to the funny
bone to rake in mucho dinero for Paramount.
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Jet Li gives kick to kung fu biopic "Fearless"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Witty choreography
juices the pedestrian plot of "Fearless," an earnest and
technically accomplished biopic in which action star Jet Li
flexes his limited dramatic muscles to portray kung fu master
Huo Yuanjia.
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Was the Britney-to-Namibia story a hoax?
(AP)
AP - A Namibian tourism official said Saturday he may have been duped into believing that Britney Spears was considering having her baby in Namibia.
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Ricky Skaggs' tour bus kills man in Tenn.
(AP)
AP - A tour bus carrying bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs from a performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival struck and killed a man, authorities said.
Ex-Beatle McCartney learns what it's like to be 64
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As a young Beatle, Paul McCartney
wondered what it would be like to be 64. On Sunday he will
know.
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Snoop Dogg rolling out "Blue Carpet"
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Rapper Snoop Dogg has assembled an
eye-popping roster of guests for his next studio album, "Blue
Carpet Treatment."
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Beyonce readies "B-Day" celebration
(Reuters)
 Reuters - When it came time to begin work on
her second solo album, Beyonce didn't even tell her manager,
who also happens to be her father, that she'd booked studio
time.
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Sacred music takes center stage at Morocco event
(Reuters)
Reuters - It's hard to imagine a better place
to discuss cross-cultural currents than at the annual Fez
Festival of World Sacred Music.
Bluegrass star McCoury takes fans to 'Promised Land'
(Reuters)
Reuters - After performing bluegrass music
for more than 40 years, collecting numerous accolades including
the International Bluegrass Music Assn.'s entertainer of the
year award nine times, and winning a Grammy Award earlier this
year, you'd think Del McCoury would have checked off everything
on his professional to-do list. But there's at least one thing
left: a gospel album.
European hitmaker Rae readies U.S. debut
(Reuters)
 Reuters - As singer-songwriter Corinne
Bailey Rae's star ascends across Europe, her record label finds
itself in the strange position of trying to decelerate her
career.
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Steve Miller raids archives, gets jazzy
(Reuters)
 Reuters - With a 30th anniversary edition of
Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" due out this month, can the
same treatment for its follow-up, "Book of Dreams," be far
behind? Probably not, says Miller.
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The Stones, Ron Included, Still Rolling
(E! Online)
 E! Online - The Rolling Stones may be falling out of trees and battling
addictions, but they're gonna keep on rockin'.
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