Los Angeles - A stable of rock legends including Kiss, Abba, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Genesis were named as nominees Wednesday for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also on the list were the Hollies, LL Cool J, Jimy Cliff, the Chantels, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, The Stooges and Donna Summer.
Five of the 12 nominees will be chosen by some 500 music-industry voters in January and be inducted into the pantheon of rock stardom at a ceremony in March in New York. Musicians can be nominated starting 25 years after their first releases.
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Timberlake to star in Facebook film
Los Angeles - Justin Timberlake is to star in a movie based on the creation of the social networking site Facebook, Variety reported Wednesday.
Timberlake will play one of the founding members of Facebook, playing opposite Jesse Eisenberg, who will play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The movie, to be called The Social Network, is set to begin filming next month in Boston. David Fincher is directing The Social Network, which was scripted by The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin.
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Actress claims affair with her father from Mamas and Papas
Los Angeles - Actress Mackenzie Phillips opened up Wednesday about an affair with her father in a script too weird even for the television soap opera genre in which she once starred.
In excerpts from her autobiography High Arrival, Phillips, 49, said she had a 10-year incestuous affair with her father, John Phillips, who was a singer with the 1960s band The Mamas and the Papas. She said that she even had sex with her father the night before she got married in 1979 at age 19.
"My father was not a man with boundaries," Phillips wrote. "He was full of love, and he was sick with drugs. I woke up that night to find myself having sex with my own father."
Phillips has her own long history of drug abuse and claimed that her father introduced her to heroin.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, she said the sexual relationship eventually became consensual but felt it was a betrayal and an "abuse of power" by her father. However, she forgave him on his deathbed in 2001.
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Anna Nicole Smith's friend faces charges over her death
Los Angeles - Howard K Stern, the former companion of Anna Nicole Smith, was slapped with five additional felony charges Wednesday of obtaining and administering false prescriptions and controlled substances that led to her death in 2007.
According to People magazine, Stern pled not guilty to the charges, which came a day after Smith's physician and psychiatrist were charged with prescribing the deadly drugs.
A preliminary hearing to determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed to trial is set for October 5.
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Brady, Bundchen sued by photographers
New York - Supermodel Giselle Bundchen and her quarterback husband have been slapped with a million-dollar lawsuit by two photographers who claim they were shot at by the couple's bodyguards in April in Costa Rica.
The lawsuit claimed that the guards opened fire when the photographers refused to hand over cameras and memory cards that contained pictures they had snapped of the couple at their post- wedding party. The shots shattered the rear windshield of the photographers' vehicle and narrowly missing their heads, the lawsuit alleged.
