`Valkyrie’ non-flop augurs well for Cruise, UA (AP)
AP - After the reasonably strong box office performance of “Valkyrie” over the weekend, skeptics were robbed of the chance to declare “Flop!”
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Ballas Benched By Dancing Injury (E! Online)
E! Online - Not even the show’s hiatus can stop the Dancing With the Stars curse from striking again.
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Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dead at 70: reports (AFP)
AFP - Influential jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard has died in Los Angeles aged 70, his spokesman said.
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Hilton Clan Goes Clubbing Together in Aspen (E! Online)
E! Online - The family that goes clubbing together, stays together? That seems to be the motto for the Hiltons at the holidays.
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Liverpool captain Gerrard charged over bar brawl (AFP)
AFP - Top English footballer Steven Gerrard was charged Tuesday with assault and affray over an alleged bar brawl while out celebrating a crushing match win for the Premiership leaders, police said.
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Against odds, Germans warm to Cruise in Nazi film (Reuters)
Reuters - Tom Cruise has defied expectations and won favorable reviews from German critics for his portrayal of a Prussian army officer who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944 in the Hollywood film “Valkyrie.”
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Who Can Challenge Suri as a Celeb Perennial? (E! Online)
E! Online - Maybe we overdo it sometimes, but E! works hard to quench your thirst for the adorable. Which is why we strive to keep you abreast of the latest in Suri Cruise “news,” like in this picture where she’s taking Mommy and Dolly out clubbing in Manhattan. Okay, okay, they were going to see Bolt, but for a kid that’s kinda like clubbing.
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Japan’s pop princess injured in fall (AFP)
AFP - Japanese pop diva Ayumi Hamasaki hopes to appear as scheduled on one of the country’s most-watched New Year’s eve countdown television programmes after injuring her hand in a fall, her agency said Monday.
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Delaney Bramlett dies in L.A. (Reuters)
Reuters - Rock guitarist Delaney Bramlett, who collaborated with such artists as George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died in a Los Angeles hospital following gallbladder surgery. He was 69.
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Hoffman, Hopper among Critics’ Choice presenters (AP)
AP - Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Hopper, Dakota Fanning and Sarah Silverman are set to join the star-studded list of presenters at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
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