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APPEAL: Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail for willful failure to file his income tax returns.

Snipes appeals convictions

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US actor Wesley Snipes is set to ask a federal appeals panel to overturn his three federal tax convictions.

Oprah to go off air

Oprah Winfrey will end her popular TV show in 2011 because it "feels right in her bones".

Chills in the night for Sting

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The Police frontman claims to have seen the apparition of a woman and child in his home.

'Pussycat' Tem happy to be home

By SUE FEA - The Southland Times

Kiwi actor Temuera Morrison is rapt he gets to play a Maori in his latest movie, Tracker, being shot near Queenstown.

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Mariah wanted kittens

mariah Mariah Carey's request to have 20 white kittens for Christmas has been blocked.

Top model found dead in Paris

A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London has been found dead.

John Kerry's daughter arrested in Hollywood

Winehouse springs a leak

'Be extreme' says Stewart

kristen Actress Kristen Stewart thinks her Twilight character Bella is setting a good example to girls.

Twilight star talks love and vampires

New Moon's Robert Pattinson says fans are drawn to the dark romance of vampires onscreen.

NZ 'vampire western' invited to France

Hollywood's most overpaid stars

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Cruz has a dream year

Hollywood star Penelope Cruz says she has had a "dream year" with two special films about to hit theatres.

Boyle sets record

boyle Susan Boyle has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon.

Children's song branded 'racist'

A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.

Is Steven Tyler on drugs?

Groove Armada to play sideshow

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Shape of things to come

Even before Shapeshifter's new album, The System is a Vampire, went to No 1 in the charts, New Zealand's premiere drum and bass band was already flying high.

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Rove fans upset

r Fans have expressed their dismay over the surprise ending of variety show Rove.

New character is the Bomba

There's a new ladies' man in Springfield - created by a 52-year-old female fan of The Simpsons.

TVNZ backdown

Sheriff dies on Harper's Island

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No 'candy' for Giles

She may have told opponents beating them was like 'taking candy from a baby', but Yasmin Giles knows when to call it quits.

Reviewer to Ihimaera: Re-write book

The reviewer who discovered unattributed material in Witi Ihimaera's latest novel claims there are more examples of plagiarism.

Gay romance gloss-over upsets author's sister

Author Elizabeth Knox's sister has waded into the row over the film adaptation of The Vintner's Luck, saying the glossing over of a gay relationship was a case of "bad politics".

'Uni needs to address plagiarism'

Sarah Palin begins book tour

'BETRAYAL': Vintner's Luck director Niki Caro on set with Elizabeth Knox, the author of the book it was adapted from. Knox says she had little to do with making the movie.

Vintner's Luck film a 'betrayal'

Elizabeth Knox lay in bed and cried for days after watching Niki Caro's film adaptation of her book.

Erana painting her mark on world

erana At 20-years-old, Waitara's Erana James has cultivated a reputation as an artist which takes others years.

Red Light art at respected gallery

The National Gallery in London, one of the world's great public collections, has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam's Red Light District in a rare foray into contemporary installation art.

Ihimaera a laureate amid controversy

Ihimaera, Knox receive arts laureates

THOUGHTFUL: Max Patte with his new waterfront statue called Reflection, which is on loan to the city.

More reflected glory for Capital

Solace in the Wind now has a waterfront friend – a statue called Reflection loaned to the city.

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