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April 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - R and B star Ashanti is geared up to make her Broadway debut with the revival of 'Wizard of Oz'. Ashanti will portray the role of Dorothy in the version of L.

April 29th, 2009 Ashanti set to make her stage debut in 'The Wiz'NEW YORK — Ashanti (AH'-shaun-tee) is going down the Yellow Brick Road to Oz. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter will make her stage debut this summer as Dorothy in a revival of "The Wiz," the soul-tinged version of the classic L.

April 16th, 2009 LONDON - Aussie actor Russell Crowe has revealed that he may be making his directorial debut in an Australian movie. Crowe, 45, and Universal purchased the rights to the best-selling novel 'My Brothers Keeper' by Sydney newspaper investigative reporters Charles Miranda and Angela Kamper last year.

April 11th, 2009 LONDON - The World's Sexiest Man, Hugh Jackman, doesn't mind getting naked in movies - thanks to his "many skinny-dipping parties as a young man". The Wolverine star says he shuns the tactics other actors use to protect their modesty.

April 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Oprah Winfrey has been approached with an offer to buy a 60,000-dollar statue of tragic crocodile hunter Steve Irwin - because no one in his native Australia is interested in buying it. Aussie sculptor Mitch Mitchell designed the two metre (6.5 foot)-high bronze tribute and hoped to sell it to a museum in Irwin's native Melbourne.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Sienna Miller is set to make her Broadway debut in Patrick Marber's play 'After Miss Julie' in New York in October. The 27-year-old actress has admitted that she's scared as well as excited about it.

April 9th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin's bronze statue has failed to interest any buyers in Australia, and it now seems fated to be sold off overseas. The statue, made by controversial sculptor Mitch Mitchell, will now be offered to Oprah Winfrey and the Discovery Channel to see whether they are interested in buying it.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - American actress Michelle Rodriguez has revealed that movie bosses are after killing off her characters in every single movie that is being released this year. Rodriguez, 30, insists that what she is doing is standing up for the women in Hollywood.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Michael Jackson, who is set to make a comeback with his London O2 Arena, will be introducing his eldest son Prince Michael I, who will make his stage debut at the concert. The 12-year-old, who has been masked for his most of his life, will be unveiled to audiences, as Michael wants him to carry on his father's showbiz family tradition.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - English glamour model Nicola McLean has revealed that wearing an Indian bindi makes her feel complete and extra special. McLean, 25, who is wearing a bindi, which is an Indian piece of jewellery or cosmetic mark, on her forehead, is from Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and she has been the face of top jewellers Rox, who are designing a diamond bindi in honour of this year's tenth Miss Scotland contest.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Irish rocker Bono wants to re-record songs from U2's debut album 'Boy'- because he doesn't like the fake English accent he adopted while singing the tracks. Listening back to the 1980 disc, Bono still feels embarrassed by the 'phony English accent' he used.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - American actor Sean Penn is said to be in talks for a role in upcoming movie "Cartel". The movie is about Ed Marker's journey to protect his son after his wife is brutally murdered in the gritty world of Mexican cartels, and it had taken root at Imagine as a remake of 1993 Italian film "La scrota", reports Variety.

February 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - 'Slumdog Millionaire' that won eight Academy Awards has been made tax-free in Maharashtra, an official said Monday evening. The movie, in which a number of Mumbai children, majority of them from slums, play different roles, swept the 81st Oscar ceremony with eight honours, including two for music director A.R.

February 7th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Being repeatedly hit for a six by actor Harman Baweja in the film 'Victory' was not exactly his idea of a debut in the movies, South African cricket captain Graeme Smith said here as the movie continues to draw crowds to the box office in its third week. Smith is one of about 40 leading international cricket players who appear in 'Victory', most of them suffering defeat at the hands of the character played by Harman - that of India's latest cricket star.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise was kicked out of his son Conor's audition for new movie 'Seven Pounds' because he was distracting the teenager. The 16-year-old made his acting debut, playing the son of Will Smith's character in the movie.