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09/06/2010 09:54 AM
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'Crocodile Dundee' says bad publicity behind release
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 AFP - Paul Hogan, the actor made famous by the "Crocodile Dundee" films, said the bad publicity surrounding his dispute with the Australian tax office had forced it to lift travel restrictions on him.
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09/06/2010 09:03 AM
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Avatar director vows to aid Amazon tribe
(AFP)
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 AFP - Film director James Cameron said he will return to Brazil this year to make a 3D film on indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam for fear it could flood tribal lands.
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09/05/2010 10:21 PM
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Noted bicyclist to ride in Maine Dempsey Challenge
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AP - Olympic bronze medalist and Tour de France veteran Levi Leipheimer (LEE'-vy LYP'-hy-mur) is visiting Maine to take part in the second annual bicycling fundraiser put on by "Grey's Anatomy" star Patrick Dempsey.
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09/05/2010 09:41 PM
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George Clooney shoots first at box office
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Reuters - George Clooney outgunned his rivals at the Labor Day holiday weekend box office in North America with a low-caliber opening for his assassin drama "The American," as the lucrative summer moviegoing season wound down on a traditionally weak note.
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09/05/2010 09:25 PM
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U.S. comedian Robert Schimmel dies after car accident
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Reuters - Comedian Robert Schimmel died on Friday night in a Phoenix hospital from injuries he sustained in a car accident, his public relations firm said on Saturday.
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09/05/2010 06:35 PM
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Dutch painter and Cobra co-founder Corneille dies
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Reuters - The Dutch painter Corneille, co-founder of the avant-garde Cobra movement, died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Dutch Cobra museum said on Sunday.
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09/05/2010 03:36 PM
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'Meek's Cutoff' shows women's view of West
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 AP - Lost wandering in the Oregon desert for five weeks when the journey should have taken two, low on water, food and patience, a young emigrant played by Michelle Williams says of the group's ego-driven guide: "Is he ignorant, or just plain evil? That's my quandary."
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09/05/2010 12:51 PM
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Kanye West: 'I bled hard' over Swift debacle
(AP)
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 AP - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his ambush of Taylor Swift last year — and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.
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09/05/2010 11:40 AM
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Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Paul Conrad dies at 86
(AP)
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 AP - For more than half a century, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Paul Conrad poked fun at politicians, taking on presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush.
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09/05/2010 11:19 AM
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Dublin protestors pelt Blair at first book signing
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 AFP - Angry protestors hurled plastic bottles and flip-flops at former British prime minister Tony Blair as he arrived at the first public signing of his memoirs in the Irish capital Dublin on Saturday.
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