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Clooney and Pitt were on the red carpet for the premiere The Venice Film Festival has opened with the premiere of the Coen brothers’ dark comedy Burn After Reading. The film, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, is showing out of the competition at the annual event. Before the screening, the stars posed good-naturedly for pictures and signed autograph books for fans lining up along the red carpet. There are 21 movies competing for the coveted Golden Lion this year, with entries from Ethiopia and Turkey. The festival continues with a fly-on -the-wall film about fashion designer Valentino Garavani - billed as a glimpse into a world of bygone glamour. The movie was directed and produced by special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine,

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Terrence Howard attends a news conference for the movie “The Brave One” during the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto September 7, 2007.

Terrence Howard earned an Oscar nomination for his role as a pimp aspiring to be a rapper in “Hustle & Flow” but the 2005 movie also shone a spotlight on the actor’s musical talents and helped him land a record deal.

Howard releases his debut album “Shine Through It” on Tuesday. But it’s nothing like the hip-hop he performed as Djay, which included Three 6 Mafia’s 2006 Academy Award-winning song, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.”

“Imagine Don McLean growing up in Cleveland in the ’70s and if he was black, with a little bit of Cat Stevens twisted into his words and a little bit of Richie Havens — that’s the thought behind it,” Read more »

Aug. 25, 2008: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Almost more than the convention of Barack Obama, the 2008 DNC is like a party given for and by Nancy Pelosi.

The House Majority Leader is a ubiquitous dynamo, an Energizer bunny pushing the Democratic platform, explaining and extolling the Obamas, making everything seem right in the world to anyone who might be worried or have Read more »

George Clooney (R) and Brad Pitt pose during a photocall in Venice August 27, 2008.

Brad Pitt and George Clooney star in a madcap comedy by the Coen brothers in which two Washington gym employees get caught up in the cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage, with results both daft and deadly.

“Burn After Reading” — spy movie meets slapstick farce — ensures an upbeat opening to this year’s Venice film festival where the picture has its red carpet premiere on Wednesday.

It brings A-list star power and crowds of screaming fans to the 11-day event in the canal city, where Asian and European art house cinema is up against Hollywood heavyweights in the race for prizes at the closing ceremony on September 6.

The film re-unites Joel and Ethan Coen with actress Frances McDormand, Read more »

It appears the emotional scars from Britney Spears’ much maligned performance on MTV’s Video Music Awards last year haven’t healed quite yet. After weeks of ”will she or won’t she” speculation about whether Spears will perform again this year, her manager told Ryan Seacrest on Monday that she will not.

“Britney Spears will not be performing at the VMAs this year. I’m telling you officially and unequivocally,” said manager Larry Rudolf on Seacrest’s KISS-FM morning radio show in Los Angeles.

Who could forget Britney, who used to steal the show with her song and dance performances, clumsily teetering around the stage last year with a bad hair weave and ill-fitting lingerie outfit? It was so bad, Read more »

BEIJING - The most expensive and lavish Olympic Games in history came to a close Sunday as Beijing officially passed the Olympic flame to London, and the countdown started for 2012 games that the British say will be frugal but fun.

To the deafening roar of fireworks, Beijing marked the end of Summer Games that brought it a record bounty of 51 gold medals and seized global sports supremacy from the United States.

The two-hour closing ceremony held a dash of whimsy - including scores of performers on pogo stilts - and more technical wizardry than the precision mass movements of singers and dancers of the Aug. 8 opening of the Games, designed to project China’s strength.

Some 7,000 performers took part in the closing ceremony, including Spanish tenor Read more »

Paris Hilton poses for photographers at a news conference announcing her new MTV series “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF (Working Title)” in Los Angeles March 13, 2008.

Calling all young, beautiful Britons with a yearning for life in the fast lane — Paris Hilton is heading to Britain to find a new best friend.

Since parting ways on screen with Nicole Richie, her former best friend and co-star of reality TV show “The Simple Life,” the socialite heiress has filmed a new series in Los Angeles called “Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” (Best Friends Forever).

In the show, which goes to air September 30, 20 wannabe members of Hilton’s entourage battle it out in a house to win her friendship with contestants eliminated along the way.

But with the series over, Hilton, 27, said she had so much fun that she going to head to England to do it all over again.

“Imagine all the trouble and fun I could cause all at once just with a text on my Blackberry, Read more »