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Hollywood agency, TV writers settles age bias suit (20 August 06:43) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Hollywood talent agency International Creative Management agreed on Tuesday to pay $4.5 million to settle an age-discrimination suit brought by TV writers, the fi... |
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Toronto film festival promises lighter touch (20 August 05:03) |
| TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto International Film Festival is promising a lighter touch this year, both thematically and in the number of films presented, with domestic dramas and comedies ... |
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Elizabeth Taylor home after hospital stay - report (20 August 01:29) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film star Elizabeth Taylor is "at home and happy" following a recent stay in a Los Angeles hospital, People.com reported on Tuesday.
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Bono pumps up the volume, lets slip new U2 songs (19 August 09:00) |
| DUBLIN (Reuters) - Rock stars may have to rein in their taste for loud music after a fan overheard U2 frontman Bono listening to tracks from the group's forthcoming album and recorded them b... |
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Enid Blyton voted Britain's favourite author (19 August 05:00) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Top selling writer J.K. Rowling suffered a rare literary defeat on Tuesday when Enid Blyton came top of a poll to find Britain's best-loved author.
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Abandoned whale calf mistakes boat for its mum (19 August 02:52) |
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Rescuers in Australia are trying to save a baby humpback whale which they say took a shine to a moored yacht, possibly mistaking the vessel for its lost mother.
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Russia's Prokhorov denies buying world's No.1 home (19 August 02:31) |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov denied on Tuesday French media reports he had bought the world's most expensive home, a French Mediterranean villa.
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Jade Goody quits Bigg Boss over cancer fears (19 August 02:22) |
| MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Celebrity Big Brother" star Jade Goody's stint on the Indian version of the British reality TV show has been cut short after medical tests indicated she may have cancer, ... |
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Biking grans to pinheads, Chinese go to extremes (19 August 11:20) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Liu Xianghui cycled over 1,300 km to Beijing towing his 98-year-old grandmother in a pedicab to fulfil her dream of attending the Olympics.
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Coastal split widens in actors contract stalemate (19 August 07:11) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tensions within the Screen Actors Guild mounted on Monday as the union's Hollywood-based leaders rejected a call by SAG's New York branch to bring in a federal mediat... |
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A good steam helps sauna-mad Finns cope with life (18 August 10:27) |
| HELSINKI (Reuters Life!) - Forget horoscopes and fortune-tellers -- steam is the hot way to ensure marital bliss for a bride-to-be in sauna-loving Finland.
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Singer Lennox recovering after back surgery (18 August 08:48) |
| LONDON (Reuters) - Former Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox is recovering from spinal surgery after being forced by a back injury to return home early from an AIDS conference in Mexico, the sta... |
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GREEN LIVING - African sun fuels solar-powered study time (18 August 04:50) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Burkina Faso student teacher Hema Cecile has a lot more time to crack the books thanks to a recent initiative from the World Bank and the International Finance Corpo... |
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Solar safari wins socially responsible award (18 August 03:55) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A solar-powered safari camp in Kenya and an environmentally conscious Amazon resort were awarded annual travel prizes on Monday for giving back to their communitie... |
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Thirsty? Robot bartender pulls a fast pint (18 August 02:52) |
| TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - He can pull a pint faster than you can shout for one, and there's no chance he's going to be distracted by the cute girl behind you in the queue: meet Mr. Asahi, the ... |
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Only 10 Games athletes say they are gay - survey (18 August 11:22) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Only 10 of the 10,500 athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics are openly gay, according to a study by a gay website.
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Bring on the bling and do your thing (18 August 09:10) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - The youngest athlete at the Olympic Games fiddles nervously with the green, red and yellow-beaded "Africa" necklace she wears as a lucky charm.
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'Tropic Thunder' beats Batman at the box office (18 August 08:31) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Big-screen Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. scored his second No. 1 movie of the summer on Sunday as Hollywood spoof "Tropic Thunder" ended the monthlong reign of "The Dark... |
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Perfect hostesses outclass sexy cheerleaders at Games (18 August 08:28) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Forget the skimpily clad cheerleaders. The immaculate hostesses handing out medals at the Olympics have won the spectator vote for glamour.
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Cupcake makers at war over dot-in-circle trademark (16 August 01:58) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sprinkles Cupcakes, a California purveyor of mini-cakes beloved by Hollywood stars, has accused rival Famous Cupcakes of stealing its trademarked "Modern Dot" cupcake... |
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Dead Palestinian poet's words alive on UK stage (16 August 01:50) |
| EDINBURGH (Reuters Life!) - The words of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish have come poignantly to life on an Edinburgh Festival stage a week after his death following heart surgery in a U.S.... |
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LL Cool J sees more music projects in his future (16 August 01:26) |
| ATLANTA (Reuters Life!) - Rapper-actor LL Cool J finished his last album under a contract with Def Jam Records that spanned two decades, but told Reuters it was not likely to be his final mu... |
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New porn channel lets Canadians strut their stuff (16 August 01:24) |
| TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadians who may have become tired of being passed over as porn stars will have a new, home-grown outlet to showcase their erotic talents.
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Rhythm and Blues pioneer Jerry Wexler dies at 91 (16 August 01:06) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rhythm and Blues pioneer Jerry Wexler, who helped build Atlantic Records into a music powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s with artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Char... |
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Rocker Jackson Browne sues McCain over a song (16 August 01:04) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock star Jackson Browne has sued U.S. presidential candidate John McCain for copyright infringement, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of using the singer'... |
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Jade Goody to take part in India's 'Big Brother' - reports (15 August 05:02) |
| MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Celebrity Big Brother" star Jade Goody will take part in India's version of the British reality series, media reports said ahead of the show's launch on Sunday.
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Rapper DMX arrested after missing Ariz. court date (15 August 08:14) |
| PHOENIX (Reuters) - Chart-topping rap star DMX was arrested at a store in Florida on Thursday for failing to appear in an Arizona court on drug charges, authorities said.
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Next Harry Potter movie pushed back to July 2009 (15 August 03:34) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The release date for the sixth Harry Potter movie, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," was pushed back on Thursday to July 2009 from its original slot in Novemb... |
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Just a Minute With: Woody Allen for "Vicky Cristina" (15 August 02:06) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Woody Allen has long been considered a genius of U.S. cinema with a list of writing credits dating to the 1960s and "What's New Pussycat," as well as directing ... |
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Palestinian poet Darwish critically ill - officials (09 August 11:55) |
| RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry Palestinians believe has given a voice to their suffering, lay critically ill on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas, a Palest... |
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U.S. comedian, actor Bernie Mac dies at 50 (09 August 09:22) |
| CHICAGO (Reuters) - Comedian and actor Bernie Mac, who starred in one of U.S. TV's few black sitcoms and appeared in the "Ocean's 11" movies, died in Chicago on Saturday after a bout with pn... |
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Hip-hop could "big up" or burden Obama (09 August 08:27) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama listens to hip-hop, knows many of the genre's moguls, such as Jay-Z, Russell Simmons and rapper Ludacris, admires their business a... |
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Brightman says ceremony moved her to tears (09 August 05:39) |
| BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - British soprano Sarah Brightman doesn't cry often, so she was surprised to find herself moved to tears before singing at the Olympics opening ceremony.
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Add a hint of sex to elite sport, and it's gold (09 August 01:45) |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Sex and sport. It's an irresistible mix and one that Olympians are no longer shy of using to fund their sporting careers.
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Former "Idol" star Clay Aiken welcomes a son (09 August 07:01) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken, who has gone onto a singing career, said his "dear friend," music producer Jaymes Foster, gave birth on Friday to a... |
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"Chick flicks" face uphill battle in Hollywood (09 August 06:04) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When "Sex and the City" debuted at No. 1 at box offices earlier this year, headlines trumpeted the unusual success of a film about women aimed at women, and industry ... |
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Paris Hilton gets down to business in Denmark (08 August 09:55) |
| COPENHAGEN (Reuters Life!) - Hotel heiress Paris Hilton took a break from U.S. presidential politics this week to focus on a subject she knows even better: handbags.
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New York gig marks end of the road for The Police (08 August 11:55) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - British rock trio The Police played their final concert together on Thursday and were joined by the real police -- the New York City police band.
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Oscar winner Morgan Freeman released from hospital (08 August 07:06) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar winner Morgan Freeman said he was feeling "real good" on Thursday after his release from a Memphis, Tennessee, hospital where he was treated for broken bones an... |
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Japan's females are longest living in world - report (06 August 09:54) |
| TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japanese girls born last year can expect to live until they are 86 years old, which would make them the longest survivors in the world, a report from the country's he... |
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Australia art prize in uproar over Christ painting (06 August 09:09) |
| CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's top religious art prize was thrown into turmoil on Wednesday after a judge quit in protest over the words "only women bleed" on a painting of Christ nailed t... |
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Japan gender-crossing dancer grips fans with glance (06 August 08:36) |
| TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - On stage, the Japanese dancer, with heavy white makeup and pouty red lips, spins to booming music, sending a rainbow-coloured kimono fluttering.
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'Dark Knight' clears $400 million at record pace (06 August 04:03) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" smashed yet another Hollywood record as it cleared the $400 million domestic box office mark in 18 days, less than half the time it to... |
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Steve & Barry's can pay Venus Williams - Judge (05 August 11:43) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt apparel chain Steve & Barry's LLC can pay tennis star Venus Williams under the terms of her clothing line contract, a U.S. bankruptcy judge said on Tuesday.... |
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Ex-Eurythmic Stewart tours again as 'band leader' (05 August 11:34) |
| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dave Stewart was half of the musical duo Eurythmics in the 1980s but when his partnership with singer Annie Lennox faded, the British artist found other outlets for h... |
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Rights to legendary Packard up for sale (05 August 11:19) |
| PHOENIX (Reuters Life!) - A Canadian couple is seeking to sell the rights to the defunct luxury auto-maker Packard along with a high-end prototype car, with the hopes of resurrecting the leg... |
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U.S. actor Kelsey Grammer released from hospital (05 August 11:17) |
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. actor Kelsey Grammer has been released from a New York hospital, his spokesman said on Tuesday, after checking in about a week ago when he was feeling faint followi... |
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German police women get "bullet-proof bras" (05 August 07:16) |
| BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of German police women will receive what media have labelled "bullet-proof bras".
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Punk progeny launches "Terrorist" clothing line (05 August 06:32) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Joe Corre was born to rail against the establishment and now has the store to power the movement.
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Lad magazines encourage men to be callous - UK party (04 August 08:51) |
| LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Lads' magazines such as "Nuts" and "Zoo" promote a shallow approach towards women and encourage young men to think of them as permanently, "lasciviously" available, ... |
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