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Porn Star Creates a Stir in Bollywood Debut

An Indo-Canadian porn star makes her Bollywood debut on Friday in what is expected to be one of India's raunchiest mainstream movies, which is already raising eyebrows in the sexually conservative country.

Sunny Leone, born in Canada to Indian parents, plays a porn actress in the Hindi film "Jism 2" (Body 2) that opens in cinemas on Friday to much buzz, as well as controversy over its provocative posters.

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Ethel Kennedy Says Didn't Play Taylor Swift Matchmaker

Ethel Kennedy says she didn't play matchmaker between a grandson and Taylor Swift but the Kennedys would be "lucky" to have the pop star in the family.

Kennedy is the subject of a new HBO documentary. She was asked Wednesday about reports that she set up the 22-year-old pop star 18-year-old Conor Kennedy. He's the grandson of Ethel Kennedy and the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

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Madonna Airs 1944 Warsaw Uprising Clip amid Concert Row

U.S. pop star Madonna aired a World War II-era newsreel on the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw Uprising at the top of her Wednesday gig in the city marking the day 68 years ago when the bloody insurrection was launched.

Thousands of fans applauded the two-and-a-half minute long film which ran as the concert got underway with nearly an hour's delay, the Polish PAP news agency reported.

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Call Me Alain Says Estranged Delon Son

The estranged son of French actor Alain Delon wants to forge his own film career using the name that made his father a cinema legend.

Alain-Fabien Delon, 18, told VSD magazine he wants to be known as simply Alain Delon as he attempts to establish his own reputation for acting, directing and film production.

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Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' Tops British List Of Best Films

Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" has climbed to the top of the British Film Institute's poll of the greatest films ever made, dislodging "Citizen Kane" for the first time in 50 years, it was announced on Wednesday.

Some 846 experts were polled for the BFI Sight and Sound magazine's decadal list, and selected the 1958 suspense thriller about a retired police officer with a fear of heights, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, by 34 votes.

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Lebanese Film ‘Super Full’ to Participate in Venice Festival

YouTube's inaugural film festival has selected 10 short films, including a Lebanese picture ‘Super Full’, that it will send to the Venice Film Festival.

The Google video site announced Wednesday the finalists of its Your Film Festival. The contest was overseen by director Ridley Scott, whose production company helped winnow the 15,000 submissions down to 10.

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Snoop Dogg Reincarnated As Snoop Lion

Rapper Snoop Dogg is moving up in the world. He's now Snoop Lion.

The U.S. hiphop star said he decided to change his wacky stage name during a visit to a Rastafarian temple in Jamaica, where he'd gone to record reggae tracks.

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Diana Ross Urges Privacy for Jackson Children

Diana Ross says the recent turmoil involving Michael Jackson's children and the appointment of a temporary guardian is a private matter and shouldn't be playing out publicly.

The singer writes in a statement to The Associated Press that "all interests are best served if it remains private."

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Kate Middleton Returns To Vanity Fair Fashion List

British royalty has made its mark atop Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List, with Kate Middleton and her brother-in-law, Prince Harry, both making this year's stylish slate.

The Duchess of Cambridge's decision to decline the services of a dresser and mix high-end couturiers like Alexander McQueen with her own browsing the racks of Topshop, earned her a spot on the 73-year-old list.

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U.S. Novelist Gore Vidal Dies At Age 86

U.S. novelist Gore Vidal, the iconoclastic commentator on American life and history in works like "Lincoln" and "Myra Breckenridge," died Tuesday at age 86, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The writer's nephew Burr Steers said Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications from pneumonia, the Times said.

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