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- - Reuters - Male and female golfers will compete for Asia's richest individual prize of $1.28 million at the new Mission Hills Star Trophy, a Celebrity Pro-Am tournament that will debut in Hainan, China in October.
- - Reuters - He has become the most famous out-of-work American.
- - AP - Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers as LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80.
- - Reuters - Amy Poehler, star of Parks and Recreation, and her husband, Will Arnett (30 Rock), are expecting a second child.
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AP - Sandra Bullock has canceled her appearance at the London premiere of The Blind Side almost two weeks after winning a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in the movie.
- - AP - Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59.
- - Reuters - The future looks awfully predictable (underscore awfully) in Repo Men, a blood-soaked, derivative and increasingly ridiculous sci-fi thriller in which Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play a pair of hotshot repossession agents who forcefully remove artificial organs from those who fall behind on their payments.
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AFP - President Barack Obama Wednesday implicitly welcomed Tiger Woods' announced return to the links next month, by calling him a terrific golfer during a television interview.
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Reuters - The U.N. Development Program (UNDP) has named Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as a Goodwill Ambassador for the global fight against poverty, the agency announced on Wednesday.
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Reuters - Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock on Wednesday pulled out of the London premiere of her hit movie The Blind Side as a U.S. celebrity magazine published a claim that her husband cheated on her.
- - AP - Authorities are hailing the arrests of 149 people in one of New Jersey's most dangerous cities, which Conan O'Brien mocked on NBC's Tonight Show.
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AP - Donald Trump isn't firing The Celebrity Apprentice, but he's bringing back the regular edition of the show with 14 ordinary job-hunters plagued by the economic crisis.
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AFP - David Beckham is coming to terms, in positive fashion, with losing out on the chance to extend his international career at a fourth World Cup this summer.
- - AP - In Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight, George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez memorably created romantic sparks while huddled in the trunk of a car. By contrast, the action-laden romantic-comedy The Bounty Hunter begins with Jennifer Aniston bursting out a trunk in a smokey blaze of ignited flares as Gerard Butler chases after her.
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Reuters - The Black Eyed Peas, Shakira and Alicia Keys will be among scores of music stars performing at a concert on the eve of the soccer World Cup in South Africa, organizers said Wednesday.
