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Paula Patton signs up for ‘Mission: Impossible’

Paula Patton signs up for ‘Mission: Impossible’

-CNN Getting cast to star alongside Tom Cruise in an action franchise? That’s not a “Mission: Impossible” for Paula Patton. The 34-year-old new mom – who welcomed her first child with husband Robin Thicke in April – has landed the lead female role in “M: I,” Deadline.com reports. Although this film has been referred to [...]

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Rapper T.I., wife arrested on drug charges

Rapper T.I., wife arrested on drug charges

LOS ANGELES – Rapper T.I. and wife Tameka Cottle were arrested late Wednesday night on drug charges after police smelled alleged marijuana coming from their car, authorities said. The arrests for possession of a controlled substance occurred on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood during a traffic stop, Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy Mark Pope told The [...]

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NY ex-employee, 51, accuses ‘Diddy’ of age bias

NY ex-employee, 51, accuses ‘Diddy’ of age bias

NEW YORK – A New York woman has sued rapper-producer Sean “Diddy” Combs, saying he fired her because of her age two decades after she helped launch his career. Fifty-one-year-old Francesca Spero filed the age discrimination lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan. The lawsuit says the Malverne resident introduced Combs to hip-hop mogul Russell [...]

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Gunman takes hostage at office building in Maryland

Gunman takes hostage at office building in Maryland

By KATHLEEN ELLIS Associated Press WASHINGTON — Police in Maryland say a gunman has entered the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring and has taken at least one person hostage. Montgomery County Police Cpl. Dan Friz tells WJLA-TV that a gunman is in the building. A person inside the building tells the Associated Press the [...]

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Fox snags Jamie Foxx sketch comedy series‎

Fox snags Jamie Foxx sketch comedy series‎

By Gerrick D. Kennedy Jamie Foxx is returning to Fox , but not as a permanent judge for “American Idol,” as rumored. The network has picked up a half-hour sketch comedy series for midseason with the Academy Award-winning actor serving as executive producer, Fox announced Wednesday. The show is pegged to follow in the vein [...]

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Obama to honor troops as Iraq combat mission ends

Obama to honor troops as Iraq combat mission ends

By Julie Pace WASHINGTON – As President Barack Obama prepares to officially end the lengthy and divisive U.S. combat operation in Iraq, he’ll personally thank some of the soldiers who fought there for their service to a mission he forcefully opposed from the start. Many of those soldiers deployed from Fort Bliss, the sprawling Army [...]

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Clemens, in court, tells judge: ‘Not guilty’

Clemens, in court, tells judge: ‘Not guilty’

By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer WASHINGTON (AP)—Roger Clemens put his right hand on the lectern, leaned down toward the microphone and made what might be the most important pitch of his life: “Not guilty, your honor.” Those words, uttered Monday in a strong, confident voice by the seven-time Cy Young Award winner sporting a [...]

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Obama visiting New Orleans on Katrina anniversary

Obama visiting New Orleans on Katrina anniversary

By Erica Werner VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. – President Barack Obama is aiming to underscore his commitment to a region weary of calamity as he travels to New Orleans on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Obama ends his Martha’s Vineyard vacation Sunday and heads to the Gulf, five years to the day from when Katrina [...]

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UFC 118: Randy Couture dominates James Toney

UFC 118: Randy Couture dominates James Toney

By Beau Dure BOSTON — UFC President Dana White had said earlier Saturday that he was worried about the fight between UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture and boxing veteran James Toney, knowing he’d never hear the end of it from the boxing community if Toney managed the upset. He needn’t have worried. Couture, an [...]

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Tupac Movie to Focus on Rapper’s Final Day

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By  Daniel Kreps The long-gestating Tupac Shakur movie may finally begin production this November, now that director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) has brought on Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson to pen a new script. Wilkinson tells Vulture that the film, originally written in a documentary style, will not be a biopic. Instead, [...]

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