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• Coen brothers bring Pitt-Clooney crime comedy to Venice

  - 2008-08-27

  VENICE, Italy AFP — A black comedy starring Hollywood icons George Clooney and Brad Pitt, the latest quirky offering by the 2008 Oscar-winning Coen brothers, headlined the Venice film festival on Wednesday. The world premiere of "Burn After Reading," shown out of competition and also starring John Malkovich and...

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• Heavyweight cast set for ghostly Polanski thriller

  - 2008-06-26

  LOS ANGELES AFP — Roman Polanski has lined up an all-star cast for his next film "The Ghost," an adaptation of British author Robert Harris's political thriller of the same name, it was reported Thursday. Oscar-winning actors Nicolas Cage and Tilda Swinton as well as former 007 Pierce Brosnan...

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• 'Hannah Montana' ready to write her memoirs at age 15

  - 2008-04-22

  LOS ANGELES AFP — She's only 15, but teen idol Miley Cyrus is ready to tell her life story in a memoir for the legion of fans of her hit television show "Hannah Montana." The publishing branch of Disney's media empire, which launched the singer-actress's career, announced Tuesday that...

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• 'Che' Guevara's widow unveils memoir

  - 2008-03-20

  HAVANA AFP — The widow of legendary Cuban-Argentinian Ernesto "Che" Guevara unveiled her memoir, "Evocation," here Thursday, in which she narrates her six years with Cuba's hero before he left her to spread revolution in Africa. Aleida March, 71, dedicated her book to "my children, my greatest source of...

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• Faked books follow long tradition of literary swindles

  - 2008-03-06

  PARIS AFP — Two much touted books exposed as fakes in recent weeks -- a searing US memoir on life with gangs and drugs and a best-seller-turned-movie on the Holocaust-- have rocked the publishing world but are only the latest in an ignominious literary tradition of bogus tales and trumped-up...

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• French literati put brave face on faked Belgian book

  - 2008-02-29

  PARIS AFP — The duped French book-editor and film-producer of a faked Belgian Holocaust memoir scrambled Friday to put a brave face on the deception, which saw the best-selling book made into the movie "Surviving With Wolves." The book of the same name recounted the incredible tale of a...

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• Canseco plans sequel to tell-all doping book: reports

  - 2007-12-30

  NEW YORK AFP — Retired slugger Jose Canseco, who unveiled steroid doping by Major League Baseball stars in a 2005 book, plans a sequel to his tell-all memoir "Juiced" that promises to add names to the sport's shame. The New York Daily News and New York Post reported Sunday...

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• US Senator Kennedy in eight-million-dollar memoir deal: reports

  - 2007-11-27

  NEW YORK AFP — Senator Edward Kennedy, the elder statesman of the US political clan scarred so often by tragedy, is to publish his memoirs in a deal reportedly worth eight million dollars. The reported advance would vault the younger brother of president John F. Kennedy to the top...

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• Cycling boss knew Ullrich used EPO claims report

  - 2007-11-10

  BERLIN AFP — Rudy Pevenage, ex-boss of cycling team Deutsche Telekom, knew former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich used banned-blood booster EPO in 1996, according to a report in Monday's edition of German weekly magazine Focus. In an interview with former Telekom masseur Jef d'Hont, whose memoirs led...

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• Polanski to direct 'Blair' film

  - 2007-11-08

  LONDON AFP — Roman Polanski will direct a film based on a thriller about a former British prime minister rumoured to be modelled on Tony Blair, he said Thursday. The movie will be adapted from Robert Harris's novel "The Ghost", in which former premier Adam Lang, who is facing...

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