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SINGER Ashlee Simpson says she is outraged by news reports about her famous big sister Jessica's fuller new figure.

New year's resolution to losing weight and staying consistent.Content Producer: Nafeesah AbdullahPublished: Jan 28, 2009

'The Big Rich' is a galloping history of the wildcatters whose drive, ranches and gaudy mansions inspired both the Beverly Hillbillies and their malevolent neighbor, J.R. Ewing.

Film News: Conglom is still a major player in Euro media biz -- A big birthday party is taking place this year in Munich. Bavaria Film is celebrating 90 years of tradition and 50 years in its current, postwar incarnation.

Slumdog Millionaire, the independent film that has everyone buzzing, made it big through word of mouth and by winning four Golden Globes, including Best Picture. Slumdog Millionaire should sweep the Oscars!Content Producer: Aly AdairPublished: Jan 28, 2009

Director Ridley Scott signs up to produce the big screen remake of 1980s TV show The A-Team, according to industry paper Variety.

John Updike was so productive for so long that it's hard to believe even death will put an end to his torrent of novels, stories, poems, book reviews and essays. For anyone born in the 1950s or later, Updike was simply always there, dispensing even-handed judgments and adulterer's wisdom with a persona as loveable as Robert Frost's - the smiling public face of big-league American writing.Updike was American to such an extent that even his contradictions sometimes seemed scaled-down from the wider culture. A Christian (in spite of some anguished wrestling with Kierkegaard and other heavyweight thinkers in the 1960s), he made the joys of extramarital sex and material overabundance into signature themes. Determinedly non-metropolitan in outlook and residence, he was nonetheless a mainstay of both the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Above all, he used his effortlessly fluent, polished and mellifluous writing style to chronicle a world that had increasingly little use for

Google has gone a long way toward solving the biggest drawback of web-based e-mail - what do you do when there is no internet connection? Google aims to solve that problem with new offering that will enable Gmail users access from their browsers even when they aren't online.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX's publicist has fired back at reports the actor's rap career is all part of a prank, insisting the WALK THE LINE star really has big music plans.Pals close to ...

BEYONCE will make the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana a family affair this summer (Jul09) - her sister SOLANGE will join her for the big party.The 15th ...