Jimmy James Johnson - the man who punched hip-hop producer Dr. Dre in the face at the Vibe Awards last November as paid a pretty price for throwing the fist: he received a one year jail sentence on Wednesday.
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, perhaps the most versatile of all blues-based musicians, died Saturday at age eighty-one of complications from lung cancer and heart disease.
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A frenzy of reports that pop princess Britney Spears had given birth to a baby are false, according to a spokeswoman. American radio sent rumours flying with reports that Spears had been admitted to hospital for a caesarean.
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Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain," a homosexual romance set in the mountains of Wyoming, won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award on Saturday, beating festival favourite George Clooney for the top prize.
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Viggo Mortensen doesn't mince words when you ask him what it was like to work with Canadian director David Cronenberg on A History of Violence: "It was the best thing I've been involved in," he answers.
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Singers Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin were among stars and hundreds of fans paying tribute at a memorial to the late soul star Luther Vandross.
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June Haver, the sunny blond star of 1940s musicals who was promoted as the next Betty Grable but gave up her career to briefly enter a convent, has died.
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