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Amid the big buzz surrounding Transformers the movie, opening July 3, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, Cartoon Network and Hasbro, Inc. are announcing today that there will be a 2-D animated series — Transformers Animated — coming in 2008. Expect…

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May-December love: Tony Bennett, 80, married Susan Crow, 47, his girlfriend of 20 years, last week (click to enlarge photo). They’re honeymooning now in Italy. Tall love: Yao Ming, the 7-6 basketball star for the Houston Rockets, just got engaged…

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Last week, a 1957 Plymouth was unearthed in Tulsa after being buried in a time capsule. Now, Russell Crowe has just become one of thousands of Australians who have penned letters and bought cards to be buried for 25 years…

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Don’t crash on the downtown freeway tonight if you happen to notice the trailer for SiCKO, Michael Moore’s expose of the American health care system, showing on the side of a building. The trailer will be projected with full sound…

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Christina Aguilera wants to get into film. I am looking forward to moving into another form of what I feel is another creative outlet for me and that would be acting, the 26-year-old singer told reporters Monday in Shanghai, where…

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Score one for the passionate parody-makers. First there was a YouTube parody of Die Hard. Then Fox had it quickly removed — copyright violation! Then Fox realized it was free advertising, and now the makers are stars….

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Busy week ahead, as Paris gets out of jail tomorrow. … Mark your calendars: on Saturday, Britney Spears will join Cyndi Lauper’s concert in L.A. … Today, Regina King, Howard Hesseman and Jimmy Jean-Louis of Heroes are among performers getting…

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Larry King is not only a world-renowned journalist, but a true American icon. It will be an honor to do his show. — Paris Hilton on the CNN host, with whom she will appear Wednesday, a day after her release…

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Author David Morrell (First Blood, The Brotherhood of the Rose) makes his first foray into comic books with Marvel Comics’ six-issue limited series Captain America: The Chosen. The first two issues are to be released in September. In The Chosen,…

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NBC has yanked Sunday repeat episodes of Friday Night Lights. Repeats of Law Order will air in its place (9 p.m. ET/PT). And CBS has broken the clay-animation mold for Creature Comforts, replacing it tonight with a repeat of The…

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The Istanbul edition of the July 7 global Live Earth concerts has been canceled. Organizers are seeking a site in the city to put up giant screens to show TV feeds from the remaining eight shows, Billboard reports. Turkish press…

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