Could an Emmy be next? Ozzy Osbourne was honored Thursday with a Prism Award for presenting an accurate depiction of drug, alcohol or tobacco addiction in his new song "Junkie." Other Prism winners included My Wife and Kids, Third Watch and The Division.
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A New York judge ruled Thursday that a 51-year-old German woman is fit to stand trial for allegedly stalking Richard Gere. Ursula Reichert-Habbishaw — who is said to have phoned the Unfaithful actor up to 1000 times — faces one year in prison if convicted.
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Brian "Kato" Kaelin has finally found a role he was born to play: a freeloader. O.J. Simpson's infamous live-in pal has shot a pilot for a television series titled House Guest. "It's a show where I go across America, I knock on doors of the unsuspecting and invite myself in to spend a weekend with the family," Kaelin told Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20 Wednesday. Kaelin assured Walters, however, that off-screen he finally has his own home.
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Yikes! Here's Fox's fight card for Celebrity Boxing 2, airing May 22 at 8:30 pm/ET: "Tabloid tough guys" John Wayne Bobbitt and Joey Buttafuoco square off, as do pro football's William "The Refrigerator" Perry and basketball's Manute Bol. The rest of the 90-minute special's C-list combatants will be announced at a later date.
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Fighting back tears, Oscar winner Julia Roberts pleaded with Washington lawmakers on Thursday for more money to research Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder that affects about 200,000 girls and women worldwide. Roberts was moved to take a stand after meeting 10-year-old New Yorker Abigail Brodsky, who died of the disease last June.
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A judge on Thursday awarded temporary custody of Robert Blake's two-year-old daughter with slain wife Bonny Lee Bakley to Delinah Blake, Blake's adult daughter. A hearing for permanent custody is slated for July 25.
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You knew this was coming: Universal is developing a big-screen update of the quintessential '80s cop series Miami Vice. Michael Mann (Ali, The Insider), who executive produced the TV show, will write, produce and possibly direct the movie version. There's no word on who will succeed Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas on the front lines, but let's pray it's not, well, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.
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"[Mother's Day is] a commercial rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like... I think maybe half of my children will be here; they're spread all over the world, and I never know if they're coming." — Mother-of-four Elizabeth Taylor in an interview with The Associated Press.
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Dan Rather better watch his back. According to TV Guide's Max Robins, NBC newsman Brian Williams wants Rather's job as anchor of the CBS Evening News. For the complete story, click here.
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Simon & Schuster will pay Ozzy Osbourne and his dysfunctional clan $3 million for two upcoming books — a paperback companion to their MTV reality smash and a hardcover family memoir. The Osbournes tie-in will hit stores in November and the memoir will be out in spring 2003.
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