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"Furtado recently admitted the LP is mostly about sex." - Life Style Extra
"In a widely publicized salary dispute, Sirico and Van Zandt, who play Paulie Walnuts and Silvio Dante, respectively, for months refused to budge from their $200,000 per-episode asking price." - Hollywood Reporter
"Even the sight of a naked man cartwheeling across the Centre Court grass did not distract Maria Sharapova during her Wimbledon quarter-final yesterday, with the Russian teenager keeping her thoughts firmly on the match as she defeated countrywoman Elena Dementieva to make the last four." - Telegraph UK
"I'm just wondering why - especially in this day and age of stupid FCC fines and controversy - would ESPN2 just show this again on tape when they know it happened live on NBC?" - TV Squad
"'(The press) said to me yesterday `How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was,' Knightley said." - AP
"Hungary's ambassador to the U.S. has taken his passion for rock 'n' roll to a town north of Washington on America's Independence Day and says he hopes to play guitar with rockers in the Bush administration." - Reuters
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"The pair reported had a furious bust-up after Nicole decided to screen Paris’ homemade sex tape, ‘One Night In Paris’, to an audience of friends." - Female First
"To say 2006 is a busy year for Miles Davis and the estate of the late jazz virtuoso would be like saying Davis was a decent trumpet player." - CNN
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