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Hairspray’s Nikki Blonsky and her father were arrested Wednesday after getting into a fight with a woman at Providenciales international Airport in Turks and Caicos.Nikki, 19, was charged with actual bodily harm; her father was charged with grievous bodily harm. The woman was so badly hurt, the source adds, that she was flown off [...]

The Secret Life of The Veronicas has been exposed - literally - after raunchy pictures of a woman believed to be one of the pop twins were splashed over an international porn site.In a controversial scenario reminiscent of the recent sex scandals which soiled the reputations of US teen queens Vanessa Hudgens and Miley Cyrus, [...]

The prestigious STAGE international Script Competition, now in its third year, announces this year's winner for the best new play about science and technology. Photograph 51, by New York playwright Anna Ziegler, was chosen by a stellar panel of judges, all multiple award-winners in their own right: Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Award winning playwright David Auburn; Tony, Olivier, and Obie Award-winning playwright John Guare; Nobel Laureate in physics and KBE Sir Anthony Leggett; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire; and Nobel Laureate in physics Dr. Douglas Osheroff.

The battle over poker games run in rural Westmoreland County, PA by attorney Larry Burns has resulted in a petition being filed by Pennsylvania's state attorney general office to seize over $40,000 alleged as proceeds...

Movie Translations: 'Knocked Up' was titled 'Slightly Pregnant' in Peru.

THE international Olympic Committee bowed to world media outrage yesterday and forced China to begin unblocking the internet for the Olympic Games.

POLITICISING the Olympic Games would not help resolve international issues, Chinese President Hu Jintao said in an unprecedented interview with the foreign media before the opening of the Beijing Olympics next Friday.

Completing a study of the topic, University of Ontario Professor June Cotte has come down on the side of legalizing online poker. The study has shown the professor that a regulation of online poker in the United States would improve the conditions of gambling in that country. Fellow professor Kathryn Latour of University of Nevada was in on the study, which interviewed 20 live gamblers and 10 online gamblers...

Ben Affleck was one of the first big name celebrities to hit the poker tables and hold his own, and he is going to be showing just how much of his skill he had held on to when he plays in the charity tournament this August 3rd at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles, California. The event will also feature Montel Williams, Norm MacDonald and Colin Quinn, and will raise money for the One Step Closer Foundation (OSCF) which supports the fight against cerebral palsy. The OSCF will get half of the proceeds from the charity, which will have a $500 buy in with rebuys.Related Articles:Pussycat Dolls to Play on poker Island National Deaf poker Tour...

When poker player Michael Wax, the owner of a limousine company, got up from the poker table at the Borgata Casino Atlantic City, he had been playing for 17 hours in a cash game. He didn't plan on going home - just to the restroom - but a poker room manager followed him to the men's room to inform him that his table mates were complaining about his body odor. Wax tried to take his seat but was refused, and asked for a free room to go freshen up, but was also refused...