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Nicole Richie Back Home with 'No Problems'

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Nicole Richie has checked out of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after battling pneumonia and is at home resting, says her boyfriend Joel Madden. "So I stepped off the plane after a month out of the country, and basically went straight to the hospital for the week," Madden wrote on his band's Web site on Friday. "But don't worry all is well and we are home with no problems." Richie, 28, had been sick for the last week and a half. "Ok cold, it's been 6 days. Lets part ways graciously & keep it moving," she Tweeted on Sunday. Last week the star's rep shot See more »

- Ken Lee

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Teary Oprah: Ending Show "Feels Right in My Bones"

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Oprah Winfrey says it's the "exact right time" to say goodbye. In a Very Special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing today, Winfrey confirms plans to pull the plug on her namesake program on Sept. 9, 2011. "I love this show. This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye," a tearful Winfrey tells her studio audience. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit. It's the perfect number—the exact right time. So I hope that you will take this 18-month See more »

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New Moon Shatters Midnight Box Office Record

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon got off to a fang-tastic start at the box office.

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The film pulled in an estimated $26.3 million from its midnight showings, breaking the record previously held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($22.2 million), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The second film in the Twilight series opened in 3,514 theaters, earning approximately $7,476 per screen. The film will expand to 4,024 theaters for the weekend.

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- Adam Bryant

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Academy: 'Tyson' Extortion Charge Is False

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By Steve Pond

So much for that “extortion” plot that director James Toback said kept his film “Tyson” off the Oscar shortlist.

In Friday’s New York Times, the director charged that during the voting process for the documentary feature award, he encountered an incident “which I fully put in the category of extortion.” He stood behind his comments in a statement released this morning:

"I regret that I didn’t bring my concerns to the attention of the Academy sooner but I have now done so and I have been reassured that they are looking into ... See more »

- Steve Pond

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Royal flush: five of the best play Queen in new film

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C4 documentary drama to portray the monarch in key moments since the 1950s

Playing the Queen brought Helen Mirren international fame and enough awards to fill a trophy room. Now five more British actors are taking on the role in a new Channel 4 documentary drama series.

The Queen, a five-part series starting next Sunday, focuses on crisis moments since the 1953 coronation. Emilia Fox stars in the first episode, centred around events in 1955 when Princess Margaret was considering marriage to a divorced equerry, Peter Townsend. Samantha Bond, best known as Miss Moneypenny in the See more »

- Tim Lusher

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Kick-Ass Gets A UK Distributor

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Good news, British readers: Kick-Ass, the really exciting, very funny and slightly twisted new film from Matthew Vaughn, has found a UK distributor. Yes, Universal will be bringing us the tale of superheroes minus superpowers, which is good news for audiences still waiting more than a month after See more »

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New Moon Opening Night: Box Office Sales Go Wild, Advanced Tickets Help Break Records

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From all indications, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" was a major hit on its opening night, midnight on Friday, November 20, with great success at the box office including advanced ticket sales. Directed by Chris Weitz and based on a Stephenie Meyer novel, and prominently featuring Kristen Stewart See more »

- Craig Kanalley

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Oprah's Leap From Series To Network Should Inspire These Five Shows To Follow Her Lead

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The Queen of Daytime Television is dethroning herself. On September 9, 2011, Oprah Winfrey will take her last bow as the host of the Oprah Winfrey Show, almost 25 years to the day since the program initially launched.

But Oprah's televised days are far from over, as the See more »

- Josh Wigler

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It's Come to This: the Toback Tantrum

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Illustration by Tim Sheaffer. Are you kidding me? Are you freak-in' kidd-ing me? James Toback, director of many an execrable feature film, is hopping mad that his 2009 documentary, Tyson, did not make the Academy's shortlist for Oscar consideration in the documentary category. He sputters and he foams See more »

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Sam Worthington goes back to the future

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Avatar's Sam Worthington is clearly not done with science fiction - he's attached to star in near-future tale The Last Days Of American Crime. The Minority Report-esque plot focuses on the Us government's plan to covertly broadcast a signal that would make it impossible for See more »

- James White

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