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Avatar, The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds were the critics’ darlings in Hollywood on Friday night (15Jan10) after scoring 11 prizes between them at the 2010 Critics Choice Movie Awards.Avatar claimed six honors, including all the night’s technical awards, Inglourious Basterds picked up three and The Hurt Locker doubled up with two of the eve…
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January
2010
There may have only been twenty four hours before the Australian Open got underway but some of the biggest names in tennis joined forces to raise money for survivors of the Haiti earthquake disaster.The brain child of Roger Federer the world number one announced yesterday that a number of players on the ATP and WTA tour would play together in a bid…
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17th
January
2010
After an up and down couple of weeks for Manchester United the reds steadied the ship against Burnley with a 3-0 win to keep the pressure on Chelsea.While the match was perfectly poised ay 0-0 at half time United were lucky not to have fallen behind as Burley could have taken the lead in the opening ten minutes.Nugent broke free down the right hand…
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17th
January
2010
Marcos Baghdatis kicked his season off in winning style as he claimed the Sydney International final beating Richard Gasquet in the final.The Cypriot got off to a fine start as he broke Gasquet’s serve in the opening game to immediately take the advantage.Baghdatis took the opening set 6-4 before play was suspended due to the weather. When th…
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17th
January
2010
Elena Dementieva defended her Sydney International title with a win over world number one Serena Williams.Despite Williams appearing to be dogged by injury it was an impressive and powerful performance by Dementieva as she took the match, and the title in straight sets 6-3 6-2.Serena struggled with a problematic left knee despite looking in fine fo…
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January
2010
Andy Murray says he’s ready to claim his maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open which kicks off tomorrow.To prepare for the event Murray chose not to defend his Qatar Open title and joined Laura Robson at the Hopman cup event in Perth.The pair reached the final with Murray producing some great tennis during a week of group matches. Ho…
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17th
January
2010
Blur Star Alex James’ classical music dream has died - he was voted off U.K. reality series Popstar To Operastar on the show’s debut episode.Rocker James has been in tough rehearsals under the watchful eye of Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins, and went up against singers including Jimmy Osmond and McFly star Danny Jones on Friday (15Jan10) night. His …
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17th
January
2010
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has landed a new reality tv series, documenting his efforts to make space tourism a reality.Branson unveiled his VSS Enterprise spacecraft last month (Dec09) with plans to launch the first Virgin Galactic flights in 2011.National Geographic Channel’s four-episode Virgin Galactic series will follow the billionaire mog…
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January
2010
Former Spice Girls boss Simon Fuller is set to follow Simon Cowell off the American Idol stage - the creator of the hit tv talent show has quit.Fuller plans to start his own entertainment production company and has stepped down as an executive at CKX Inc. - the company which owns his 19 Entertainment as well as a majority stake in Elvis Presley’s G…
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January
2010
Snoop Dogg Not As Black As He Thinks He IsRapper Snoop Dogg discovered he’s not as black as he thinks he is on late night tv in America on Thursday (15Jan10) - an official DNA test proved he’s only 71 per cent sub-Saharan African.The hitmaker agreed to swab his saliva prior to his appearance on chat show Lopez Tonight and was shocked with the genea…
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