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May 15, 2008TORONTO - Shania Twain and Robert (Mutt) Lange - the uber-producer who steered the country star to international success - are splitting up after 14 years of marriage.
"This is a private matter and there will be no further comment at this time," Twain's Canadian publicist said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood private investigator was convicted Thursday on charges that he schemed to dig up dirt for his well-heeled clients to use in lawsuits, divorces and contract disputes against the rich and famous.
Anthony Pellicano, 64, was accused of wiretapping stars such as Sylvester Stallone, and running the names of others, such as Gary Shandling and Kevin Nealon, through law enforcement databases to help clients in legal and other disputes.
CANNES, France - Fur might be a politically incorrect fashion statement on the red carpet at the world's most-prestigious film festival. Not when you're the star of a movie called "Kung Fu Panda," though.
DreamWorks Animation, whose past Cannes entries include the first two "Shrek" flicks and "Over the Hedge," put its adorable martial-arts hero alongside the festival's highbrow cinema entries Thursday with the premiere of the action comedy whose voice cast includes Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman.
CANNES, France - Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, has some secrets for staying serene at the hectic Cannes Film Festival - get Brad Pitt to baby-sit sometimes and wear comfy shoes on the red carpet.
Jolie was at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday to promote DreamWorks' animated "Kung Fu Panda." She'll be busy at Cannes, as she also stars in another movie here, Clint Eastwood's "Changeling."
CANNES, France - The Cannes Film Festival has a big place in Aishwarya Rai's heart.
The Bollywood actress' first time at Cannes was to promote the lavish love story "Devdas" in 2002. The "Bride & Prejudice" star attended last year's French Riviera festival soon after her wedding to fellow film star Abhishek Bachchan.
CANNES, France - Fernando Meirelles did boys with guns in "City of God" and murderous corporations in "The Constant Gardener."
With "Blindness," the Canadian-written opening-night entry at the Cannes Film Festival, the Brazilian director exposes the world's ultimate savages: your friends and neighbours.
(CP) - A look at some concerts scheduled in the days ahead (check local organizers for details):
CANNES, France - It's an animated documentary, which is perhaps a contradiction in terms.
Israeli director Ari Folman thought the unusual technique was the only way to tell his story of recovering from long-repressed, nightmarish memories of his time as a young Israeli soldier waging war in 1980s Lebanon.
TORONTO - Ottawa-born actress Kelly Rowan, who starred in the teen soap "The O.C.," has given birth to a girl and recently split with Canadian multi-millionaire David Thomson, one of the world's richest men.
Her representative told People and Hello Magazines that Rowan gave birth to a girl on April 28 in Los Angeles.
NEW YORK - Fox will bring only two new series on the air in the fall, traditionally its slow season, but plans flashy two-hour season premieres of four programs during the same August week as the Democratic National Convention.
"Lost" producer J.J. Abrams is behind the new science fiction drama, "Fringe," about an airplane flight whose passengers meet untimely ends. "Fringe" will be paired on the schedule with "House" on Tuesdays in the fall and "American Idol" in the spring.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Rodney Atkins is still surprised when people recognize him in the grocery store nowadays. But give it time.
With six nominations for Sunday's Academy of Country Music Awards, including biggies like male vocalist, album of the year and song of the year, his shopping trips are about to get a lot dicier. He's also scheduled to perform at the show, which airs live from Las Vegas at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS.
LOS ANGELES - A person familiar with efforts to restart talks between the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios says negotiations will resume within two weeks.
The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Thursday that the talks will resume by May 28.
BOSTON - The actor who helped glamorize archeology in the "Indiana Jones"' movies is lending his star power to the Archaeological Institute of America.
Harrison Ford, who portrays the adventure-seeking archeologist, has been elected to the Boston-based organization's board of directors.
LOS ANGELES - John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.
Law died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, his former wife, Shawn Ryan, told the Los Angeles Times. The cause of death was not announced.
How would young Danny Bonaduce, the freckle-faced kid from "The Partridge Family," have done on the new reality/talent search series "I Know My Kid's A Star"?
"I would have won," Bonaduce, the creator and host of the series, says without hesitation. The U.S. cable reality show airs Sunday nights in Canada on MuchMoreMusic.
LILONGWE, Malawi - Madonna won't know until next week whether a Malawian boy she found in an orphanage in 2006 will become a permanent member of her family, her lawyer said Thursday.
Lawyer Alan Chinula had expected the judge to rule on the adoption Thursday but said the hearing was delayed after a Malawian human rights group presented arguments on "shortcomings" in the southern African nation's adoption laws.
NEW YORK - T-Pain's status as urban music's most frequent collaborator helped him nab a leading five BET Award nominations.
Kanye West and Keyshia Cole received three nominations, while Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and newcomer Flo Rida received a pair each. The nominations were announced Thursday.
LOS ANGELES - Legendary Hollywood press agent Warren Cowan, who represented stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87.
In a statement, his firm, Warren Cowan & Associates, said he died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, three weeks after being diagnosed with cancer.
