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Hunter to ignore Stewart in biography
 
London, April 15   Model Rachel Hunter plans to avoid mentioning her marriage to rocker Rod Stewart in her upcoming autobiography.

The 37-year-old was married to Stewart for nine years and has two children together.

Contactmusic.com reports that she is refusing to include too many details of her relationship with Stewart. She says: "I don't think my marriage would take up much of a
chapter. It would probably just be the wedding date and then the end. Full stop."


 

Bruce impresses Halle with good food
 
London, April 16   Actor Bruce Willis served daily treats to Oscar winning actress Halle Berry when they worked together in "Perfect Stranger".

Willis had his team of top chefs create dishes for her. Berry admits she enjoys eating good food and was impressed with Willis for having his own chef prepare food for him, reports contactmusic.com

She said: "He always brought me food a lot because he had really good cooks, a really good chef that always cooked the good stuff in his trailer.

"I'd get this little decadent treat that his chef was cooking up for the day. While I just had the regular set food he had this gourmet meal cooking. It was amazing."
 
Duff lost too much weight
New York, April 16   Singer-actress Hilary Duff was so thrilled with the results of her "dessert or bread" diet that she went crazy and now accepts that she lost too much weight.

Duff stunned fans and onlookers alike when she showed up at parties looking very thin, reports hollywood.com. The reactions made her examine herself very carefully and she was not happy with what she saw.

She says: "I made a conscious choice to get in shape. I've always been a junk food eater, but I started paying more attention to what I put in my body and cut out foods like pizza, chicken fingers and French fries. If I knew I'd want dessert one night, I wouldn't have bread that day. If I wanted to eat bread, I wouldn't have dessert.

"Seeing how well it worked motivated me to keep going, but I hit a period when I got too skinny. I wasn't too obsessed with it, but I did learn that there have to be days when you just don't think about it."
 
Zeta-Jones and Eckhart present culinary award
 
New York, April 16   Actors Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart, who play rival chefs in the upcoming movie "No Reservations", presented the Food Network Awards recently.

Pagesix.com reports that the actors presented Matthew Finkel a $100,000 Culinary Institute of America Scholarship and Food Network Mentorship of a Lifetime.

Finkel graduated from high school last year and worked part time at a pizzeria. He was also awarded a two-foot-wide metallic wedge of a cake that commemorated the occasion.

 
Morello surprises fans by taking stage on open-mike nights
 
London, April 16   Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello likes to surprise fans by taking stage at open-mike nights in between shows.

Morello says he has played hundreds of unannounced shows and loves to have fans guess if it is really he.

Contactusic.com quoted him as saying: "We would be on these Audioslave arena tours and on a night off, I would look in the local paper and find an open-mike night, go down there completely anonymously, sign up, wait my turn and sing a couple of songs.

"The experience was terrifying to be naked with just an acoustic guitar. There were enough of those nights that really felt like everybody's soul in the room was at stake and I knew this was something I had to pursue."

 
Prince William ended relationship on phone: report
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London, April 16 (DPA) Britain's Prince William told his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton that their romance was over -- in a mobile phone call, The Mirror newspaper reported Monday.

Middleton, 25, had been hoping for reconciliation even though she and William, 24, had agreed at an Easter meeting their four-year affair was on the rocks, said the paper.

A colleague, who saw Middleton take the call in car park at her work in London, said: "It was clear it was William - and definitely a tiff."

Heartbroken Middleton paced nervously around a car park as she learned her romance with the prince, whom she met at university six years ago, was over.

"Kate was walking up and down and looking upset as if she was having an argument. But she didn't cry. Word went round that it was William and they were having problems. Now it's clear what it was all about.

"When she came back to the office she didn't say a thing and disappeared for the rest of the day. She hasn't been back to work since."

The couple had decided they had no future together at a dramatic face-to-face meeting over the Easter holiday, said The Mirror.

Middleton discovered there was no going back when she spoke to him Wednesday. The split, which appeared to come as a complete surprise, was announced Saturday.
 
Madonna back in Malawi: report
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Johannesburg, April 16 (DPA) American pop singer Madonna has returned to Malawi to undertake charity work with her Raising Malawi organization, reports said Monday.

The 48-year-old star was seen landing at Lilongwe Airport on Monday morning, South African public radio said quoting witness reports.

A spokesperson for the singer confirmed last she week she would be returning to the southern African country, where her adoption of a baby boy last October was surrounded in controversy,

The singer was accused at the time of bypassing the country's laws in seeking to adopt one-year-old David Banda from the orphanage, where his father placed him.

Authorities waived adoption laws in granting Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Richie an interim order and custody of David Banda for 18 months, at the end of which they said Madonna has said she will apply to make the adoption permanent.

Foreign non-residents are not usually allowed to adopt children in the impoverished southern African country that is home to nearly one million orphans, partly as a result of high HIV/AIDS infection levels.

 
Ferry apologises for praising Nazis
 
London, April 17   British musician Bryan Ferry has apologised for praising the Nazi propaganda machine and says the comments were made from an art history perspective.

Contactmusic.com quoted him as saying: "I, like every right-minded individual, find the Nazi regime, and all it stood for, evil and abhorrent."

Ferry was recently quoted in an interview with German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, as saying: "The Nazis knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves. Leni Riefenstahl's movies, Albert Speer's buildings and the mass parades and the flags are just amazing. Really beautiful."

The comments have upset people in his country and questions loomed over his modelling contract with Marks and Spencer, which was founded and owned by a Jewish immigrant.

"I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused by my comments on Nazi iconography," Ferry added.
 
Spears shocks photographer with pregnancy comment
 
New York, April 17   Troubled pop star Britney Spears, who is constantly hounded by paparazzi, shocked a photographer when she told him that she's expecting a baby and came to know about her pregnancy through a magazine.

Spears said it when she was cornered by photographers and her comments left the media guessing, reports hollywood.com

She said: "I really am pregnant. I saw these magazines and they said I was pregnant, and, like, it's so true. Like, America, believe everything you read because, like, you're smart and I'm stupid."
 
Voight still estranged from daughter Jolie
 
London, April 17   Actor Jon Voight says he hasn't been in contact with daughter Angelina Jolie, or her four children, since she broke off communication with him for saying that she was unbalanced.

In 2002, Voight was on TV crying because he believed Jolie was having "severe emotional problems". Contactmusic.com reports that the two have not had any communication since then.

Jolie recently said: "He said some very ugly things about me. Even though he is related to me, I don't have to listen to what he says. I don't have to care. And I don't have to have him in my life."
Voight now believes the best way to win back his daughter is to keep quiet.

"I haven't been in touch with the kids and I would love to be spending time with them, that's all. I have nothing to say, people want to make news out of everything.

"It's just a cruel slap at somebody and it becomes a part of our mythology, we can't correct it. I don't want to bring attention to it again. It always hurts me when things are brought back to the fore that are distorted," said Voight.
 
Bloom felt like pirate on Antarctica trip
 
London, April 17   Actor Orlando Bloom felt like a real life pirate during a recent trip to Antarctica on a Norwegian icebreaker.

Bloom and his cousin took a three-week trip as a part of an environment exercise, reports contactmusic.com. He said he felt more like a pirate than when he played Will in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.

"It was the real pirate ship. The boat was an old Norwegian ice breaker now used for scientific research. I slept in a bunk and did the washing up and shared a toilet and a shower with, like, 27 other guys. It was an amazing experience," said the star.

  
Weinstein lining up stars for musical
 
New York, April 17   Studio boss Harvey Weinstein is said to be lining up an all-star cast for the movie version of the musical "Nine".

Speaking of the six leading roles, he said: "I'm thinking of taking Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renée Zellweger." Pagesix.com reports he still does not know how he will pay the actresses.

"We'll figure it (payment) out. There are roles for six women in the movie who have to be beautiful and sing and dance. It's a terrible assignment to cast this," added Weinstein, who is considering George Clooney, Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp for the male leads.
 
Brad defends 'Supergirl' Angelina
 
Los Angeles, April 17   While the tabloids have been having a field day speculating that Hollywood star Brad Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie has been strained to breaking point, the actor has only good things to say about her.

"You know what it's like to be on the cover of every magazine, having your personal life dissected with all the lies, all the rubbish!" he was quoted as saying.

"It's hell. Certainly, pick on me but why pick on Angelina? That's so low. She's such an amazing woman - like a Supergirl, in every way," added Pitt.

However, a man by the name of Jim Cruse, who claims that he has known Pitt for several years, has told a British tabloid that the star "is feeling overwhelmed by his newfound domestic responsibilities", reports www.hollywood.tv.

"Brad always said he wanted a family. But you should be careful what you ask for," said Cruse. "He has got four kids in two years, all under the age of six. It's no picnic."

Cruse also criticised Jolie's belief that she can "have it all" and still be able to balance being a working mother, a loving partner and a UN ambassador.

"I don't think she's ever really been content," said Cruse. "If you ask me, this thing about her 'wanting it all' is just another way of saying she's never happy. The truth is that she makes no excuses for who she is. She thinks of herself as a survivor."

When Jolie's manager, Geyer Kosinski, was told of Cruse's comments, he said the 31-year-old actress is not placing career over family.

"Jolie worked a total of only 35 days last year and is currently scheduled to work 40 days this year," he said.
 
Fans go wild at 'Spider-Man 3' Tokyo premiere
 
Los Angeles, April 17   Hundreds of fans waved and shouted "kawaii" (cute) as Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst headed down the red carpet to attend the world premiere of "Spider-Man 3" in Tokyo, Japan.

Maguire later noted that Tokyo was one of the few cities in the world where the comic book superhero would have a far easier time of swinging among the city's multitude of skyscrapers, reports www.hollywood.tv.

"If we do a fourth movie, we might need Spider-Man to come to Tokyo," he said and his remark evoked even more enthusiasm from the fans.

While Sony Pictures is a Japanese-owned company, the Tokyo premiere was part of its marketing strategy. "Of course we are looking to boost our proceeds in Japan," said a Sony official in Tokyo.

While higher quality domestic films in 2006 outsold Hollywood movies at the Japanese box office for the first time in 20 years, "Spider-Man 3" was "made with the Japanese movie market in mind", said producer Avi Arad.

"Japanese viewers enjoy sophisticated movies with eye-opening action scenes. But it's also been proved that unless the story is good, the movie won't be accepted," Arad added.

Sony Pictures is said to have spent approximately $250 million on the new film, with a substantial amount of the budget being spent on special effects.

The film introduces two new villains - Sandman and Venom.

"I feel this film is a kind of natural conclusion to a lot of stuff that's happened in the first two movies. It kind of feels like a natural trilogy," said Maguire.

There is word that a fourth sequel is being written and Maguire intimated that he would continue to play the role "if we come up with something we feel deserves to be told. I'm not going to make them just because they've been successful".

"Spider-Man 3" will have its British premiere April 23 and its US premiere April 30 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

On May 1 the blockbuster will be released in Japan, China and selected European countries.

"Spider-Man 3" will hit Indian screens May 4 through Percept Picture Company (PPC) with 600 prints.
 
I won't let my career break my marriage: Jada Pinkett
 
Los Angeles, April 17   Though her husband Will Smith and she are both successful film stars, Jada Pinkett said she would willingly give up acting if it ever came down to a choice between career and marriage.

"I'm aware how busy careers can quickly lead to divorce, but I'm not going to let that happen to us," she said.

"I'll give up my career before I let it break up our marriage. I made it clear to Will that I'd throw it away completely, which is what I'm doing to a certain extent."

Married for 10 years, Jada and Will have two children - their son Jaden Christopher, 8, who recently starred with his father in "The Pursuit Of Happyness", and daughter Willow, 6, reports www.hollywood.tv

In her latest film "Reign Over Me", Jada plays a wife who's trapped in an unhappy marriage, a role that conversely taught her even more what it takes to make a marriage work.

"Even though you have this union as husband and wife, you can never forget who you are, just simply as yourself.

"If you lose yourself then everything else will fall out. There is no relationship to be had if you don't have a relationship with yourself first," she said.
 

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