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  Jennifer Aniston will make a return visit to NBC

  Jennifer Aniston will return home to NBC, the TV network where she became a breakout star on the hit sitcom "Friends."

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  Diddy halts private jet flights over fuel prices

  Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent-flyer: Diddy.

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  Usher to help kick off NFL season with concert

  Like the NFL teams beginning their new seasons, Usher is hoping to go all the way to the Super Bowl.

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  Winfrey opens season with Phelps, other Olympians

  Gold medalists Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin and Kobe Bryant, along with 150 other U.S. Olympic team members, will be on the season premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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  Obama's speech seen by 38 million-plus viewers

  Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history.

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  Michael Jackson at 50: `The best is yet to come'

  Michael Jackson marked a personal milestone Friday: his 50th birthday.

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  Theron attends `Burning Plain' debut in Venice

  Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, "The Burning Plain," opens with a wide shot of a trailer ablaze in the New Mexico desert. While the landscape appears barren and exposed, it is concealing secrets that drive the story.

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  Stars over the moon about Obama's speech

  First word on Barack Obama's historic nomination acceptance speech from a bevy of celebrities in attendance was decidedly partisan: "It was excellent," Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie said. "It was amazing."

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  Trekkies pay final visits to Las Vegas attraction

  After a decade at the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is going where no Las Vegas Strip attraction wants to go.

• Iranian film explores transsexual world

  Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce "Khastegi (Tedium)" by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.

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  Michael Jackson turns 50, shadow of a superstar

  Singer Michael Jackson turned 50 on Friday, a shadow of the superstar once known as the "King of Pop" whose records thrilled millions before his bizarre personal life eclipsed his musical brilliance.

• Hollywood asks: who needs Harry Potter?

  Boy wizard Harry Potter won't be whipping up his magic when the fall film season begins next week, but Hollywood is hoping momentum from summer hits like "The Dark Knight" and a wide mix of new movies will keep audiences happy into the holidays.

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  Basinger and Theron team up for complex love story

  Oscar winners Kim Basinger and Charlize Theron play mother and daughter in "The Burning Plain," an intense story of love and betrayal and the directorial debut by acclaimed Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga.

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  David Duchovny's sex disorder likened to alcoholism

  Did life imitate art when David Duchovny, who plays a sex-mad writer on the hit US TV show "Californication," seek treatment for sex addiction?

• Kenny Rogers releases exclusive hits collection

  Seventy-year-old superstar Kenny Rogers is celebrating 50 years in the music business and has invited Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores along for the fun.

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  Cuban punk rocker fined for disobedience

  A Cuban punk rocker whose songs have ridiculed the Cuban government was fined for public disorder on Friday after prosecutors reduced a more serious "social dangerousness" charge that could have sent him to prison for four years.

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  Nobel laureate Pamuk publishes new book in Turkey

  Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk published a new book in Turkey on Friday, his first since obtaining the award.

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  Detective to stars, attorney guilty of wiretapping

  A private detective who once worked for Hollywood stars and a prominent attorney were convicted on Friday of federal wiretapping and conspiracy charges in a case stemming from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's bitter child support dispute.

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  Coen brothers' spy comedy divides Venice critics

  The Coen brothers' latest film, the madcap comedy "Burn After Reading," has sharply divided the critics, unlike last year's acclaimed "No Country For Old Men" which won four Oscars including best picture.

• New film adds to intrigue of Puccini love life

  A new film on Giacomo Puccini has uncovered letters and documents suggesting the composer may have a second living descendant, in a tangled tale of infidelity and vengeance befitting one of his operas.

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