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An actor who appeared in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" was charged with attempted murder Tuesday after police said he stabbed his former girlfriend more than 20 times.
Shelley Malil, 43, remained in custody on $2 million bail. He was arrested late Monday as he left a train in Oceanside, California, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department [...]

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Global warming and the state of the planet aren’t exactly laughing matters, but into comedian Abie Philbin Bowman, the dire environmental position has at least one bright side.
"In 50 years, my generation will be in its 70s and we’ll be able to boast that we were the only generation to press contraception, iPods, cheap [...]

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Stoners are riding exorbitant nowadays. Fans are buzzing about the reunion of Cheech and Chong after a long feud, and a couple of tokers are lighting up the box office with "Pineapple Express."
From the pot partakers and dealers of "Weeds" to Harold and Kumar to Sean Penn’s dude in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," [...]

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Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar to go to the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff’s officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday.
Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby [...]

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Dick Clark is still Mr. New Year’s Eve — but he’ll be sharing the title with Ryan Seacrest.
Starting this December, Clark’s longtime end-of-year special force be called "Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest," ABC and dick clark productions said Friday.
It was also announced that Seacrest will serve as co-host with [...]

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When Americans go to the polls this November, there will be many factors that influence where they eventually decide to cast their vote:
The Iraq War, the economy, national allegiances, image, age and race — these are all things that could affect voters’ choices.
Yet as the two outstanding candidates, Republican John McCain and [...]

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Katie Holmes just keeps taking it unlikely.
Mrs. Tom Cruise, who made a huge hairstyle splash when she helped fuel Hollywood’s bob craze most recent matrix year, has been seen out and about in New York with a new pixie cut. Photos popping up on the Internet show Holmes sporting a shaggier rendition of the [...]

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According to UNICEF, there are 143 million children in the world who have frantic one or both parents.
In America alone, there are half a million children in foster care, and approaching 120,000 of these children are waiting to be adopted. In many countries, children are too day in and day out orphaned or abandoned [...]

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Morgan Freeman’s lawyer says the actor and his wife of 24 years are getting a divorce.
Freeman’s lawyer, Bill Luckett, told the Memphis Commercial-Appeal newspaper that the divorce action is pending. Freeman’s wife is Myrna Colley-Lee.
The lawyer declined to provide details. There was no response advanced Thursday at phone numbers fitting for [...]

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"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and its sequel, the less elegantly titled "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2," both make a good-natured encase not only for equality among women but for similitude among a immeasurably cattier subset: up-and-coming starlets.
In each film, the myth — easily shorthandable as a young-adult version of "Sex [...]

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