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    Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei has spoken about one of her most frightening roles ever – playing a stripper at the age of 43.
    She revealed how she did her research for The Wrestler by hanging out with real strippers.
    And the My Cousin Vinny Academy Award-winner confessed that the first time she took her clothes off for the camera she was scared to look at the “audience”.
    “The first time I had to strip I took a lot of tequila shots,” she admitted. “But I was still so scared.

    Actor Kiefer Sutherland has opened up about the seven weeks he spent in jail last Christmas for drunk driving.
    He revealed he was forced to quit smoking cold turkey but has taken up the habit again.
    He was not given a single cell, as he had been promised – and spent the entire time under lights and being watched by cameras.
    Sutherland spent his 48-day sentence, which included his 41st birthday and New Year, in Glendale County Jail in California after his second conviction for driving under the influence.

    Three men and three women banged up in jail used a design flaw in the prison to get together for sex romps.
    They were able to pry ceiling tiles lose, and because the internal walls did not go all the way to the roof they were able to move between cell blocks and get together.
    Misty Moore, 21, Nicole Haldeman, 26, Kay C Snyder, 27, Jesse Ross, 38, Alex Rathburn, 17, and William “Nick” Hutcherson, whose name was not given, have been charged with felony escape for their sexcapades.

    Dance superstar Michael Flatley is to host a new international television dance competition.
    Superstar Dancers of the World will pit teams from Ireland, the United States, India, Argentina, China, Russia, South Africa and Australia against each other.
    Each team will be made up of two soloists one couple and a larger group.
    The series comes from producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, who created Pop Idol, So You Think You Can Dance and American Idol.

    Former Dynasty and Melrose Place star Heather Locklear has been charged with driving under the influence of prescription drugs.
    The 47-year-old actress, who was arrested in September, had no booze or illegal drugs in her system and an initial charged of being under the influence of a controlled substance was dropped.
    She is due in court on January 16 in Santa Barbara, California, and faces anything from a fine to six months in county jail if she is convicted.
    Locklear, who has a role in the upcoming Hannah Montana: The Movie, was arrested after a tip-off from a member of the public that she was driving erratically.

     A perfume company is kicking up a stick, accusing pop star Prince of reneging on a business deal.
     The diminutive rocker is embroiled in a right royal row involving a fragrance named after his album 3121.
     Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics Inc. allege that Prince and his music publishers, Universal, failed to honour a contract to help market the fragrance.
     The company, which filed the breach-of-contract lawsuit in New York on Monday, says it licenced Prince's name, likeness and the album title 3121 to market its fragrance.

    Anuna are hoping for a very merry Christmas in the United States.
    The popular Irish choir have their sights set on chart success there this year.
    Anuna have a new TV special Christmas Memories being aired in America to kick of the holiday season.
    The television show will have an accompanying DVD and CD album release and a tour starting on November 29 that will take them all over the United States.

     The shellfish industry is out to keep "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, O."
     The 11th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration begins tomorrow in Charleston, South Carolina.
     The focus is to keep the world's shellfish alive and thriving.
     Fishing industry executives and other interested parties will exchange ideas and information to help restore mollusc and shellfish populations.
     During the three day conference, there will be scientific sessions focussing on such things as restoring shellfish habitat, water quality as if affects shellfish and improving coastal environments.

    Fans of teen singing sensation Miley Cyrus were devastated by a video posted on her YouTube page which claimed she had been killed by a drunk driver.
    The fake message was allegedly from her best friend, Mandy Jiroux, with Miley’s teary new single, Goodbye, playing in the background.
    The fake Mandy said: Hey guys, this is Mandy and I have some very said news :( ...We’re very hurt to tell everyone this, but Miley died this morning after being hit by a drunk driver.
    “Miley told us if anything ever happened to her, then we should let her fans know before the public...RIP honey, we will miss you so much.”

    Crime novelist Laura Caldwell has become the victim of a mugging eerily similar to a scene from her next book.
    Red Hot Lies features a red-headed lawyer who becomes scared when she is followed through a Chicago suburb.
    Caldwell, 41, whose books include The Year of Living Famously and The Night I Got Lucky, is a red-headed lawyer who was attacked in a Chicago suburb.
    She was jogging in early evening darkness when he saw tow men acting suspiciously, one with a hoodie pulled over his cap and the other pulling his jacket over his head.

    Nia Vardalos, star of the 2002 hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and her husband, Ian Gomez, have adopted a little girl.
    Vardalos, 46, who was nominated for an Oscar for her breakthrough role, and starred in a spin-off television series, My Big Fat Greek Life, actually brought the girl home several weeks ago.
    They have not revealed the girl’s name, but said she is less than five years old.
    A spokesman for the actress said: “They are going public now to bring attention to National Adoption Month and the 500,000 children in foster care.

    Sin City star Jessica Alba says her five-month-old daughter, Honor Marie, is the love of her life.
    The 27-year-old actress, who married producer Cash Warren in May, two weeks before the baby was born, said: “Everything is cute, everything is fun – including the explosive diarrhea – the best ever.”
    She says the baby has made her closer to Warren, whom she met filming Fantastic Four.
    “It brings family together,” she told People magazine. “It brings friends together. It makes every decision that you make much more important.

      Hollywood beauty Linda Lohan was showered with flour at a Paris nightclub by an anti-fur activist in the early hours of Saturday.
     The 22-year-old actress was pelted with the flour bomb because of her love of pelts.
     The American-based animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said they had targeted the Mean Girls movie star because of her love of wearing fur.
     Furious Lohan was visit  the French capital with her lesbian girlfriend, British born Samantha Ronson, who was dee-jaying at the club.

    Actress Charlize Theron has been named a new United Nations Messenger of Peace.
    The Hancock star, 33, will travel the world to focus on ending violence against women.
    It is a cause close to her heart because when she was 15 her father attacked her mother, who shot him in self defence.
    The Monster Oscar-winner, who lives with Irish actor Stuart Townsend, joins the likes of Ocean’s Eleven star George Clooney, who works for human rights, and Basic Instinct actor Michael Douglas, who lobbies for disarmament.

      The latest action packed James Bond movie was on track today to becoming a massive blockbuster hit in the United States - the most successful 007 film ever.
     Quantum Of Solace, which has shot to the top of the box office in every country where it has opened, was released in America on Friday and looks set to earn as much as a massive US$71 million over its first weekend.
     The flick, which has received mixed reviews at best, earned a phenomenal US$27 million on Friday night alone, according to early industry tracking reports.

    Actress Anne Hathaway’s Italian con-man ex-boyfriend has gone from a lavish lifestyle funded by his $2.5 million fraud to a rat-infested prison.
    Raffaello Follieri, 30, who is serving four-and-a-half years for swindling investors by posing as a Vatican aide, is living in “unspeakably unsanitary” conditions at a federal jail in Brooklyn which have made him ill.
    Follieri and Get Smart and The Devil Wears Prada star Hathaway, 26, dated for four years before breaking up shortly before he was arrested in June over his scheme in which he used his alleged ties to Rome to buy Catholic church property on the cheap.

     Pop heartthrob Justin Timberlake is being sued by a worker at a restaurant the singer owns, claiming the stingy star has short-changed him on his wages.
     Felipe Ramales, who cleared tables at Timberlake's trendy New York barbecue restaurant, alleges the fabulously wealthy star has violated the law and stiffed him over tips and overtime pay.
     Ramales alleges his tips went Bye Bye Bye while he worked at the restaurant, which specialises in serving ribs and such delicacies as haystack onion strings and deep fried pickles.

     American President-elect Barack Obama will call his brief career as a U.S. Senator a day tomorrow.
     Obama will formally close the books on being an Illinois Senator as he continues his transition from freshman federal lawmaker to the nation's chief executive.
     Announcing his decision, Obama called his four years in the Senate "one of the highest privileges" of his life.
     Obama's decision to leave the Senate early, as it faces difficult votes on the country's fiscal crisis, officially begins a scramble to replace him for the remaining two years of his term.
     But it allows him to focus on taking the reins of the presidency.

     U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is a real renegade - well at least the country's Secret Service think so.
     The federal musclemen have let it be known  - through channels to America's press - that the new president has been code-named "Renegade," according to reports in the United States.
     His wife Michelle is to go by the name "Renaissance" with their two daughters referred to by agents as "Radiance" and "Rosebud."
     It appears that all members of the family must begin with the same first letter.
 

     A Roman Catholic priest has warned his parishioners not to receive Holy Communion if they voted for President-elect Barack Obama.
     The Rev. Jay Scott Newman has told his congregation they should refrain from receiving the Eucharist because the Democratic President-in-waiting supports abortion and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."
     Father Newman said in a letter distributed to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina, that they are putting their souls at risk if they take the Sacrament  before doing penance for their vote.