Project Eyeball, 8 May 2001

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  • 11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Tuesday, May 8, 2001 80 CENTS
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    • 516 1 MATERNAL INSTINCT MUM’S THE WORD Hollywood has made motherhood hip, thanks to Julia Roberts (right), Catherine Zeta-Jones and Juliette Binoche. And now Clara Chow wants a baby. See Page 23 f SWEET MEDICINE Jeanmarie Tan meets the glamorous players behind Channel U’s star-studded medical drama Healing Hearts. See Page 21
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      121 2 CELIA O’MEARA of Auckland was sent a grand sum of one cent by a New Zealand government agency to help her pay for training. The astonished woman, who had applied for an allowance to subside a skills course she had enrolled in, remarked that it probably cost the work
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    • 372 2  -  What you didn’t know went on behind the scenes of the Channel U launch By Tan Dawn Wei dawntan@sph.com.sg THE Channel U launch extravaganza on Sunday night went off without a glitch. But did you know what went on behind the scenes?: Bryan Wong’s hilarious,
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    • 351 2  -  By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg THE Chinese newspapers in Singapore Press Holdings’ stable made news last night, both literally and figuratively. Yesterday was the first time that print reporters from Lianhe Zaobao, Lianhe Wanbao, Shin Min Daily News, Friday Weekly and Thumbs Up went live with
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    • Eyeball NEWS
      • 73 2 LOOKS like Singapore Telecom has set its sights firmly on India. The telecom giant said yesterday that it would increase its investment in the Bharti Group by another ***** million (US$2OO million). In all, SingTel’s latest commitment ups its total investment in the Bharti Group
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      • 46 2 HEALTH Minister and Second Minister for Finance Lim Hng Kiang heads today for Honolulu, Hawaii, to attend the Asian Development Bank’s 34th Annual Meeting and the Asean Plus Three (China, Japan and south Korea) Finance Ministers’ Meeting from tomorrow till Friday.
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      • 46 2 AP TAIWAN has pulled out of the International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (Imdex) Asia 2001 being held at the singapore Expo, an exhibition spokesman said yesterday. Taiwanese authorities gave no reason for the cancellation, according to spokesman Robin Keil.
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      • 50 2 A DRAMATIC gang fight unfolded at Simon Road near the Serangoon area a few days ago between two groups of youths, in their 20s, who wielded knives. The dominant gang fled when it was discovered that there were several security guards at a nearby army camp.
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
      • 706 4  -  Respect for teachers reins students in By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg CAUGHT in a tussle, the boy allegedly punched his opponent three times in the face and elbowed him in the chest. The victim ended up with bruises and a swelling on his face.
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    • 316 4 IN SINGAPORE, it was the case of an isolated incident involving a few blows. In other countries, hostility towards a teacher can lead to some pretty hairy situations. HONGKONG Four primary school kids were hauled up for questioning by the police for a chopping attack on
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    • 442 8 BUSH HOSTS T-BALL GAME Cox News WASHINGTON Once again, a White House contest produced no clear winner. But this time, nobody cared. Sticking to the rules of T-ball the pitcherless game that is part baseball and part recess no score was
      – Cox News; AP; Reuters  -  442 words
    • 362 8 Not business as usual, says Rumsfeld Wires WASHINGTON The US resumed surveillance flights off China’s coast yesterday, even as defence secretary warned that “it’s not business as usual with China”. In the first US reconnaissance flight off China’s coast since the April collision between
      – Wires; AP  -  362 words
    • 145 8 THE most sweeping shake-up of US military strategy in a decade will be unveiled by President George W Bush at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 25, according to the Washington Post. Here are some of the changes proposed: Scrapping the “two major wars policy”,
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    • The World
      • Article, Illustration
        235 3 |london~ Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was arrested yesterday moments after he touched down in Britain after more than 35 years on the run, police said. pERUSALEhP Two Palestinians, including a four-month-old girl, died as a result of Israeli shelling yesterday as Pope John Paul II prayed for
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      • 438 3 Author had made friends with bomber LONDON World renowned writer Gore Vidal will witness the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. “This boy has a sense of justice,” Vidal, a renowned liberal who struck a friendship with the bomber, told an Oklahoma newspaper.
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      • 198 3 WAR ATROCITY Reuters WASHINGTON No one had fired on the US troops the night former Senator Bob Kerrey’s Navy Seal unit attacked the Vietnamese hamlet of Thanh Phong 32 years ago, a Washington Post report quoted a former Viet Cong fighter as saying. Kerrey,
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      • 509 7 Ex-President who seldom read before claims he’s memorising the Constitution Wires MANILA Unshaven and smoking a Lucky Strike, former President Jo- seph Estrada says he is enduring the “mental torture” of imprisonment by reading. He brandished a copy of the Chinese classic Art
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      • 145 7 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has raised RM350,000 (*****,800) for a good cause by performing a duet with his wife. Dr Mahathir and Siti Hasmah Ali took to the stage at a fund-raising dinner for the Malaysian Crime
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      • 201 7 POST CENSURE Reuters JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid has no intention of dissolving parliament even though legislators may be moving closer to impeaching him, his spokesman said yesterday. Adhie Massardi said the President was asked at a meeting on Saturday with senior military officers about rumours
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      • 511 9 Sydney throws open doors to first legal heroin injecting room Wires SYDNEY Australia opened its first legal heroin injecting room in Sydney’s red-light Kings Cross district on Sunday night, but critics said it had failed to prevent overdoses only metres from its door. The controversial
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      • 294 9 FACTIOUS ON THE RISE Lat-Wp GAZA CITY Yasser Arafat’s image is übiquitous here, in the capital of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian leader stares down from posters, from huge roadside billboards and T-shirts. His leadership seems unquestioned as head of the Palestinian Authority and of the Palestine
        – Lat-Wp; AFP  -  294 words
    • Singapore
      • 753 5  -  Only insurance company to offer personal employment insurance ceases to do so due to heavy claims By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg BRACE yourselves for the likelihood of retrenchment in uncertain months ahead, we are told. But individuals looking to buy employment insurance, available in the US
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      • 72 5 More than a thousand devotees (top right) made their way to the Phua Jit Buddhist temple at Anchorvale Link in a candlelight procession to offer prayers to Buddha (right) yesterday morning. Amid the festivities at the Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery, a boy (above) takes the time
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    • Health
      • 378 6 FINALLY, some sexy news for men suffering from high blood pressure. A hypertension drug called losartan has been found to reverse the impotence that often results from high blood pressure and the news could pose a threat to the miracle of Viagra, reported
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      • Stork OPTIONS
        • 610 6 It can affect fertility DEAR Dr Chen: I’m 32 and I exercise regularly. I cycle every day, train with weights three times a week and swim about twice a week. I maintain a fairly healthy lifestyle and I don’t smoke or drink. However, I’ve
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    • Technology
      • 682 10 Virtual babe Aki could fool anyone NYT DR AKI ROSS, the young female protagonist of Final Fantasy, Columbia Pictures’ new science-fic-tion epic, has the sinewy efficiency of Sigourney Weaver in Aliens and the curves of Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. But when Aki arrives at megaplexs
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      • 453 10 NYT WHAT’S so distinctive about these stars? “It is the malleability of their image. They are constantly reinventing themselves in ways that make them seem like virtual figures,” said Andrew Niccol, the writer, director and producer of Simone, a movie from New Line Cinema. “We
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      • 858 11 Big profits for studios, rental stores Lat-Wp THERE are several ways that historians of the entertainment business could characterise the opening months of 2001. Some will recall it as the time when Hollywood quaked over possible strikes. And others will shudder at memories of the dotcom
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      • 188 11  -  Andrew Chin JUST DVD it. That seems to be the mindset in Singapore too, for DVDs are selling briskly here as well. Simon Ong, manager of retail outlet Showest at Great World City, told Eyeball that sales of DVDs have gone up by 50 to
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      • 419 11 HOME COMPUTERS Lat-Wp HOME computers are rarely as exciting as the ones we often see in movies. The bells and whistles exist in reality but on film they seem to do so much more than we can do on our desktops. Now, all
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      • Stock TAKING
        • 660 13 Scene set for trading-range market Lat-Wp WHEN Internet-based brokerages were adding customers by the millions in 1998 and 1999, some Wall Street veterans warned that the ease of buying and selling stocks online would turn long-term investors into short-term traders with ruinous results.
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      • 50 13 Workers lining up barriers outside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Sunday, ahead of the Fortune Global Forum which opens today. The authorities are tightening security to avoid the violent protests which have disrupted recent financial summits. Police checks have also been stepped up. Reuters
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      • 646 13 DOCUMENTARY ON NEW ECOMONY’S UNDERBELLY WINS PRAISE NYT SAN JOSE With laid-off dotcommers re-evaluating their short stints as masters of the world, forming support groups and going back to school to be teachers, a documentary about the dark side of the Valley has struck a
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    • Mailbox
      • Expat EYE
        • 587 14  -  By Rand Miranda rand@sph.com.sg IT’S RATHER amazing, when you think about it, how stable a society Singapore has when one looks at the political, racial, religious and economic difficulties that almost every neighbour seems to be dealing with. And while there may be those
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      • 256 14 ‘Beach party paradise’ (May 3) IT LOOKS like Sentosa is set to become Singapore’s rave central, as organisers scramble to hold dance parties on its beaches a la Zouk Out and Ke. Does Sentosa sound like the next great place to party? Or is
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      • 770 15  -  By Dave Barry RECENTLY, I was going through my December mail (I like to let my mail age for several months, in case it contains scorpions) when I came across a letter from a Mr Fred Jellin, who identifies himself as a vice-president for Baker Maid
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      • 80 15 WHEN you feel an ailment coming on, what do you usually do? 46% Pop aspirins/vitamins/po chai pills, or try to sleep it off. 21% Ignore it, I won’t die. 14% Exploit it to get an MC. And, doc, please make it two days. 13% -Go see the doctor.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 27 2 Qood morning! 4 Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 12.01PM/2.8M 11.33PM/2.9M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        93 16 AP HOUSTON Andy Roddick overpowered Hyung-Taik Lee 7-5,6-3 to win his second title in as many weeks on Sunday at the US Men’s Clay Court Championships. The 18-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida, won his 10th consecutive match, counting last week’s victory in the Verizon Challenge in Atlanta his
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      • 93 16 AFP OSAKA The table tennis world was packing up and heading home yesterday, but as one team prepared for a triumphant return the rest were left in no doubt they had some serious work to do. China dominated the 46th world championships in Osaka, winning every title and
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      • 69 16 AFP NEW ORLEANS David Toms shot a sparkling eight-under-par 64, in front of a home crowd, to erase a sLx-stroke deficit and emerge as the winner of the US PGA Tour event here on Sunday. Phil Mickelson opened the final round with a three-shot lead but played the
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      • Article, Illustration
        118 17 AFP TURIN AS Roma’s Japanese midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata was elevated to hero status on Sunday evening after a performance that has taken his side to the brink of the Italian first division championship. When Nakata substituted Francesco Totti during the match with Juventus, Roma was down 2-0 and
        – AFP; AFP  -  118 words
      • 84 17 AP HAMBURG With her second consecutive title in hand, Venus Williams is turning her attention to Martina Hingis and the No 1 world ranking. Williams hammered fellow American Meghann Shaughnessy 6-3,6-0 on Sunday to capture the Betty Barclay Cup in her first tournament since winning the Ericsson Open
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      • 66 17 Reuters BALTIMORE The New York Yankees completed a four-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with a 2-1 victory on Sunday. Mike Mussina won in his return to Camden Yards and Scott Brosius hit what amounted to his second game-winning homer in three days to spur the defending
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    • 810 16 LA takes lead with emphatic win Lat-Wp THE GIANT DIFFERENCE WITHOUT O’Neal, the Lakers scored 64 points, grabbed 30 rebounds and blocked three shots. With him, they scored 108 points, grabbed 51 rebounds and blocked 10 shots. Without him, they would have lost the first game
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    • 89 16 NBA: Allen Iverson couldn’t score enough to upstage Vince Carter and the Toronto Raptors yesterday. And if history is anything to go by, then the 76ers are in trouble because they have not won a best-of-seven series since the 1984-85 season. To read what was said after Game
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    • 267 17 English Premier League Derby has avoided relegation but Coventry has shot itself in the foot. WINNERS W L___ L L D 1. 10 11 16 Derby became just the second team to defeat Manchester United at home this season and Malcom Christie’s goal was enough to keep the
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    • 371 17 Warns Leeds of a full-frontal assault AFP MADRID Valencia has warned Leeds to expect a full-frontal assault when the two sides meet in their European Champions League semi-final second leg today (Singapore time 3 am tomorrow). Valencia rode its luck to get a goalless
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  • Unwind
    • Fashion
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        928 18 O CUT, no glory? Not anymore. These L J days, with procedures that are It I non-invasive, cosmetic surgery, like fast J food, has become a wham bam, thank ■■■Mi you ma’am, fact of life. Last year, the National Skin Centre reported an eight per cent increase in
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      • 136 18 June Wan WHAT: Minimally invasive skin treatment using Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) to correct a variety of benign skin conditions such as imperfections, signs of ageing, birthmarks, unwanted hair, unsightly veins and other blemishes. HOW: A cold gel is applied to the area to be treated. Both
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      • Article, Illustration
        401 19 June Wan POP in during lunchtime, and return to the office looking fresher, younger and brighter. Vanity has gone fast-food style, with these facial procedures that are the secret of celebrities and regular people who just want to look better. Botox WHAT: Minute quantities of Botulinum Toxin Type
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      • Personal STYLE
        • 542 20 His wardrobe used to be all-white now he’s looking forward to colours. He owns a Q-string but cant fathom why anyone would wear it. And he hates loose pants they make him feel insecure. Media Works artiste Darren Lim confesses his fashion quirks to LIM
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      • Fashion LOG
        • 83 20 HOW to get Mum to think of you and smile everytime she looks at her wrist? Simple. Get her Love Layers for Mother’s Day. This new creation by Swatch is a lavish timepiece presented on a silk pillow in a red-and-gold embroidered case. The face, draped
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        • 52 20 HOW would you like to receive a free limited edition Armani Jeans T-shirt? You can, when you spend $3OO and above at the Emporio Armani stores at Cuscaden Road or Isetan Orchard. This offer is valid only while stocks last, so get going on a shopping
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        • 113 20 ANARCHY and chaos aren’t just states of mind or what you see on the news at night. These qualities have come to jeanswear as well. Levi’s latest range, Red, is inspired by the rebel. It takes off from its wildly successful Engineered Jeans range to become what could
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        • 94 20 A SCENT nestled in beach sand? That’s how a new edition of Kenzo’s signature scent L’Eau par Kenzo is being presented. This limited edition packaging has the perfume fitted into a case with a double wall that contains White Sand (for her) and Anthracite Grey Sand (for him).
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        • 112 20 TAKE the outdoor spirit into dressing. That’s what Song+Kelly2l has done with its Spring/Summer collection. The Nature range, which has just premiered at their new store in Forum Galleria, combines “organic” silhouettes with attention-grabbing details. So you get flirty chiffon dresses in nature’s favourite hues
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      • 372 21 NYT AUSTIN (Texas) Let’s talk about fashion. Survivor fashion, that is. If we can even call it fashion. We realise foraging for food in the wilderness doesn’t lend itself to haute couture, but tube tops as a wardrobe foundation? Please. Even 18- to 34-year-old men
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      • Article, Illustration
        598 21 Channel U’s medical drama Healing Hearts promises to set hearts thumping with Hong Kong actors Esther Kwan and Jackie Lui starring alongside Singapore’s Bryan Wong JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) reports. POR a healthy TV diet, a regular dose of Healing Hearts and its lovely life-savers should do the trick. We
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    • Gender
      • 914 22 Salon SELF-HELP OR SELF-DESTRUCT? SELF-IMPROVEMENT books for women are everywhere. The following are just some of the tomes that teach women how to live their lives. But do they really empower? 1999 Swell: A Girl’s Guide To The Good Life by Cynthia Rowley and Ilene Rosenzweig
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      • Gender BENDERS
        • 143 23 HOAX letters that invite people to swingers’ parties are being sent across the British town of Warrington. They claim to be from a couple in the town of Appleton. But the horrified pair are urging people to ignore the letters. The letters give lewd descriptions of the
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        • 107 23 A CREAM which is said to stimulate “greater orgasmic pleasure” has been launched in Britain. The “love lotion” is already popular in the United States, where it is used by thousands of women. Viacreme, applied to a woman’s most sensitive area, creates a “cool tingling sensation” that
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        • 84 23  -  Ronald Rajan A ROMANIAN’S wife caught him making love in the car he allegedly stole for a love nest. Cristinel Coman is accused of stealing the Romanian-made Dacia because he had no place to take his lover to have sex. But after parking it near his
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      • Venus & MARS
        • 764 23 They're fun. They have hips. And they might just he the aspirational image for the next generation of mothers. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) looks up to Hollywood's screen mums as Mother's Day approaches, and discovers her own maternal yearnings. CATHERINE ZETA-JONES, Julia Roberts and Juliette Binoche all did it
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  • The Bach Page
    • 240 24 Chat Mouse Wants and needs FEMALE: The delicate balance of emotional, physical and psychological longing one seeks to have fulfilled in a relationship. MALE: Food, sex and beer. Thingy FEMALE: Parts under a car hood. MALE: The strap fastener on a woman’s bra. Glass ceiling FEMALE: The invisible barrier that
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    • 159 24 SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY has taken responsibility for the break-up of The Beatles. McCartney admitted that he walked out because he felt his ideas were being ignored. In a documentary which will be broadcast in the US next week, he reveals: “It was probably the
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 88 24 BRIDGET Jones star Renee Zellweger (left) seems to have a new man in her life and it’s no less than George Clooney. The pair have apparently been getting on very well since Zellweger’s birthday party last week, and they were spotted slow dancing on several
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      • 84 24 Wires THE wife of actor Robert Blake, best known for his 1970 s TV show Baretta, was shot to death on Friday outside the Hollywood restaurant where the couple had eaten. Bonny Bakley, 44, was shot once in the head and was pronounced dead at the hospital. No arrests
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