 CELEBRITY NEWS + GOSSIP - July 6, 2008
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| Eddie Murphy has hinted he wants to retire from acting. The 'Beverly Hills Cop' actor is considering returning to his previous career as a stand-up comedian. He told TV show 'Extra': "Thirty years and I have close to 50 movies and it is like, 'Why am I in the movies? I've done that part now. I'll go back to the stage and do stand-up.'" |
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| Sir Paul McCartney says George Harrison was like his "baby brother." The 66-year-old music legend enjoyed such a close relationship with George, who died in 2001, he saw him as family. Paul, who first met George in 1954, said: "He was my little baby brother, almost, because I'd known him that long." |
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| Pharrell Williams is splashing out hundreds of thousands of dollars on new skin. The producer has grown bored of the numerous tattoos he has etched onto his body so is paying a firm to grow him replacement skin in a test tube, which they will then stitch over his old permanent markings. |
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| Meryl Streep's family sent her to the closet whenever she wanted to rehearse her songs from 'Mamma Mia!'. The Oscar-winning actress - who has four children with husband Donald J. Gummer - was banned from practicing some of the classic ABBA hits which appear in the movie unless she locked herself away in her soundproof cupboard. |
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| Maggie Gyllenhaal says becoming a mother has made her a better actress. The 30-year-old star - who appears alongside Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger in 'The Dark Knight' this summer - admits having daughter Ramona, now 20-months-old, with fiance Peter Sarsgaard has "deepened" her acting ability. |
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| Madonna and Guy Ritchie's accountants have reportedly been asked to organize the couple's assets ahead of their rumored divorce. The couple - who are not believed to have a pre-nuptial agreement - are said to have asked celebrity accountancy firm MGR to put their affairs in order. |
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| Amy Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil has been writing X-rated love letters to a female jailbird he has never met. Love rat Blake - who is currently on remand at London's Pentonville Prison awaiting sentencing - revealed his sexual fantasies to Melissa Goldstone, who is serving a two-and-a half-year sentence for conspiracy to supply class A drugs at Surrey's Downview Prison. |
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| Jack Black hides his bad films "like a sexually transmitted disease." The 'Kung Fu Panda' actor admits he is not keen on promoting the work he is ashamed of. He said: "You don't just do something to do it. When you do a good movie you feel good at promoting it." |
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