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" Well, I got to school early today for rehersal...um...I went into the change room to get my make up done and um..." Christina trailed off.

" WELL?" barked Mr.Rocco.

"Um...I overheard Bekkah talking to Danny about how much she hated Missy..." Christina trailed off.

Bekkah was suddenly rigid in her chair.

Christina continued ; " She said that if she got the chance, she would kill Missy she hated her so much and Danny said he would help her. Then, they noticed I was there and they started talking about how much they liked skateboarding..." She finished.

" Well, Bekkah, is this true?" asked Mr.Rocco, "We need to know."

Bekkah sighed, "Yes, I did say those things, but, how could I have cut the light if I was on the stage the whole time?"

     Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as Rambo in the fourth installment of the franchise. Also, Wesley Snipes and Jean-Claude Van Damme are teaming up for The Hard Corps. In the movie, Van Damme plays a combat veteran who becomes the bodyguard of a former boxing champ. Complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister is falling in love with Van Damme. You have got to be effing kidding me! After Rocky VI, Rambo IV and the return of Van Damme to the big screen, it can't get much worse. Unless Ah-nuld decides to do Terminator 4.

     Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black are teaming up for director Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy Holiday. The film is about the friendship between two women, both of whom have recently been dumped.

     Kevin Costner will play the titular role of a serial killer in Bruce A. Evans' psychological thriller Mr. Brooks.

     Michael Caine is joining Clive Owen and Julianne Moore for filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of The Children of Men. Caine is also re-teaming with Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale for Warner Bros.' The Prestige. Hugh Jackman also stars in the film, which features Caine as a retired magician who teaches tricks to Jackman's character, who has developed a rivalry with another magician (Bale).

     Erin Brockovich's Aaron Eckhart has signed on to star opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Castle Rock's remake of the 2001 German film Mostly Martha. Zeta-Jones plays the titular character, a chef who loses her sister and is obligated to care for her 10-year-old daughter. Eckhart plays a fellow chef and romantic interest.

     Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III) has been cast in three new movies. First, he joins Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Jimmy Fallon for the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl. Miller plays Sedgwick, Pearce plays Andy Warhol, and Christensen landed a role based on Bob Dylan. Christensen is also teaming up with Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Alba for the psychological drama Awake. Finally, he'll star opposite Christina Ricci in the modern-day fable Penelope, about a woman under the influence of a curse.

     Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd will lend their voices to Lions Gate's 3-D animated comedy Foodfight! The movie takes place in a supermarket that comes to life after hours.

     Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman have signed on for the indie flick Delirious. The film follows a celebrity photographer (Buscemi), a homeless man with a desire to become an actor (Pitt) and the hottest pop star of the moment (Lohman), as their paths intersect.

     Michael Vartan (Never Been Kissed) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) are teaming up for the Weinstein Co.'s thriller Rogue. The movie is about a giant crocodile stalking tourists in the Australian outback.

     Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing) is joining Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) for Warner Independent Pictures' romantic comedy Chaos Theory. The movie centers on a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to live his life without planning and in the process starts a romance with Mortimer's character.

     The "flying" Ford Anglia seen in the Harry Potter movies has been stolen from the lot of South West Film Studios in southwestern England.

     Charlize Theron won Best Actress at the Hollywood Awards for her performance in North Country, while Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for his portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.

     A weeklong celebration is being planned in Hong Kong to mark the unveiling of a statue of Bruce Lee on the city's Avenue of Stars on Nov. 27, which would have been the actor's 65th birthday.

     Late night talk show host Craig Ferguson will host the 32nd Annual People's Choice Awards live on CBS on Jan. 10.

     Of the 91 countries invited, a record 58 countries have submitted films for consideration for the Best Foreign Film Award category for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. The 58 will be narrowed down to five on Jan. 31, when the nominations are announced.

     Stanley Kubrick's archives will be housed at University of the Arts' London College of Communication for public viewing and student research beginning summer 2006.

     Actor William Hootkins (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark) passed away Oct. 23 from pancreatic cancer. He was 58.

     Tom Hanks will star in Universal's Charlie Wilson's War as a rogue Texas congressman who oversaw a successful CIA covert operation in Afghanistan that heped bring down the Iron Curtain. Hanks' Playtone Productions will also be teaming with Warner Bros. for the CGI animation flick The Ant Bully, which will hit theaters on August 4, 2006.

     Batman Begins' Christian Bale and Sahara's Steve Zahn are teaming up for Werner Herzog's independent action-drama Rescue Dawn, which is based on the German filmmaker's 1977 acclaimed documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Dawn tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Bale), a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Disney confirmed July 17 at the San Diego Comic-Con that Bale's Batman co-star Liam Neeson will provide the voice for Aslan the Lion for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, which hits theaters December 9.

     Christina Ricci will star in Type-A Films and Stone Village Pictures' modern-day fable Penelope. Ricci plays the titular character, a woman under a curse who tries to end a lifelong string of bad luck. Reese Witherspoon, who started Type-A, will also have a supporting role.

     Box office numbers were up for the second weekend in a row, July 15 to 17, thanks to the draw of new releases Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wedding Crashers. Additional support from the previous week's slump-stopper, Fantastic Four, also helped. Matt Dillon is joining Kate Hudson and Crashers star Owen Wilson for Universal's comedy You, Me and Dupree. The movie tells the story of a newlywed couple (Dillon & Hudson) whose relationship problems boil over when the groom's unemployed best man, Dupree (Wilson), moves in and seems to have no intention of leaving.

     Mel Gibson is teaming with Disney to distribute his next film, Apocalypto, which he wrote and will direct. The film is set in an ancient civilization 3,000 years ago, and the film's title is a Greek term which means "an unveiling" or "new beginning."

     The Weinstein Co. is teaming with Warner Bros. to distribute the first all-CGI-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, which will be released in 2007. Awesome!

     Universal and Imagine Entertainment are teaming up for an untitled heist comedy to be directed by Rush Hour's Brett Ratner and starring Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock. The movie is about a couple of blue-collar guys who aspire to pull off the perfect heist. Murphy came up with the idea and has expressed a desire to work with Rock.

     The life of Notorious B.I.G. is being made into a feature film with a script written by journalist Cheo Hodari Coker, the last person to interview the rapper before his untimely death. The biopic, produced by Fox Searchlight, will be directed by Training Day's Antoine Fuqua.

     Sin City's Rosario Dawson will star in and produce the psychological thriller Descent. Dawson plays Maya, a college student who turns into a vengeful seductress after a shocking act of violence.

     Memento's Guy Pearce and Constantine's Rachel Weisz will star in the Houdini drama Death Defying Acts. Based on true events during escape artist Harry Houdini's 1926 tour of Britain, the film follows his relationship with a woman he encounters in Scotland.

     An Officer and a Gentleman's Louis Gosset Jr. will star as a Miami police detective battling drug traffickers in the film Caribbean Manhunt.

     Melissa Gilbert has made the decision to not run for a third term as President of the Screen Actors Guild because she wants to spend more time with her family.

     Selena producer Moctesuma Esparza is building a chain of movie theaters called Maya Cinemas that aims to serve the 41 million Latinos living in the United States. The first theater opens July 29 in Salinas, California.

     Jude Law has issued a public apology to fiancee and Alfie co-star Sienna Miller, admitting that he has been having an affair with Daisy Wright, the nanny of one of his kids. "I want to publicly apologize to Sienna and our respective families for the pain that I have caused," Law said in a statement released to the British Press Association.

     Tom Cruise's couch-hopping antics on Oprah has topped TV Guide's poll to determine the Wildest Celebrity Meltdown. Runners-up include Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Farrah Fawcett and Mariah Carey.

     Salma Hayek appeared at a Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Violence Against Women Act July 19 in Washington D.C. to speak about the importance of lending support to battered women.

     Filmmaker David Lynch has announced that he'd like to raise $7 million to launch the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, a massive transcendental meditation program. The program would begin in the United States and later spread worldwide, teaching school kids stress-reducing techniques which he believes will go a long way toward achieving world peace.

     Roman Polanski has won his libel suit against Vanity Fair, which published a 2002 article claiming he attempted to seduce a woman en route to wife Sharon Tate's funeral. The Pianist director was awarded about $87,000 in damages. Polanski viewed the proceedings via video link from his Paris hotel room in order to avoid extradition to the United States.

     A Los Angeles judge issued a restraining order July 19 against a woman who is allegedly trying to distribute a sex tape involving Colin Farrell. The actor filed suit July 18 seeking to block the sale of a 15-minute sex tape featuring the actor and the woman, former Playboy playmate Nicole Narain. A hearing has been scheduled for August 10.

     A hearing has been scheduled for Freddie Prinze Jr.'s lawsuit against his former manager, Ric Beddingfield, whom he alleges gave bad business advice, costing more than $700,000.

     Tom Sizemore admitted to using a prosthetic device in an attempt to fake a May 25 drug test in an L.A. court July 22. A judge ordered the actor to be confined at a Pasadena rehab facility pending a September 15 court hearing.

     James Doohan, who played Scotty the engineer in the Star Trek TV series and movies, died July 20. He was 85. His final request was that his ashes are scattered in space. "Beam me up, Scotty."

Quote of the Week: "American popular culture is my culture, and I don't just live in it; I love it madly, and writing about it seems as natural - and as necessary - as breathing." -Stephen King, in his column "The Pop of King" in the July 29 issue of Entertainment Weekly

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     Film critic Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 23. Congrats and yay! Someone truly more deserving than Seacrest. Annette Bening, Steve Martin, Ray Romano and Charlize Theron are among the stars who will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.

     German film critics are protesting Paramount for implementing a worldwide embargo preventing reviewers from publishing their critiques of Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds until the film's global release date June 29. The critics called the embargo a "violation of basic constitutional rights." Is the movie that bad?! Tom Cruise hosted a special screening of the  War of the Worlds for hundreds of fans in Los Angeles June 20. Laurence Fishburne and Philip Seymour Hoffman are joining Cruise and Keri Russell for writer-director J.J. Abrams' upcoming Mission: Impossible 3. Two good additions.

     Frankly, my dear, I do give a damn: The line "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone With the Wind was named the American Film Institute's (AFI) number one quote on its "100 Years... 100 Quotes" list and special, which aired June 21 on CBS. Casablanca had the most entries at six, with "Here's looking at you, kid" at number five, the highest-ranked one from that particular movie.

     Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's Plan B production company have entered a first-look agreement that gives Paramount an exclusive first bid at producing projects developed by Plan B over the next three years. Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Brad Grey is the third founding member of Plan B. Warner Bros' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Plan B's first endeavor, hits theaters July 15.

     The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) invited 112 members of the film industry to become members. Members of AMPAS vote on who should be nominated for and win Oscars. Gael Garcia Bernal, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Sophie Okonedo, Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard, Imelda Staunton and Ziyi Zhang are the foreign actors that got in. American actors Thomas Haden Church, Jennifer Coolidge, Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti and Mykelti Williamson were extended invitations as well. Five directors got in: Alejandro Amenabar, Marc Forster, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Andy Tennant and Joel Zwick. Paramount CEO Brad Grey, Spider-Man producer Avi Arad, Robert Rodriguez's producer-wife Elizabeth Avellan, Crash creator Paul Haggis, The Motorcycle Diaries writer Jose Rivera and School of Rock writer and co-star Mike White were also invited to join AMPAS. On June 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted against granting a consortium of stunt performers their request for an Oscar in their field. Oscar-winning Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar received a Bunuel's Razor Award for the Best Spanish Film of 2004 for his latest hit, Bad Education. Again, congrats and yay!

     The Los Angeles trial for the case of a photographer accused of trying to extort money from Cameron Diaz via racy photos of her taken before she was famous started June 23. Diaz's Charlie's Angels co-star Lucy Liu will star opposite Cedric the Entertainer in Les Mayfield's action comedy The Cleaner. Liu plays an FBI agent posing as a waitress to Cedric's amnesiac janitor who thinks he's an undercover agent. Liu will also executive produce and star in the independent thriller Devil to Pay. Diaz's pop star boyfriend Justin Timberlake is in talks to join Christina Ricci and Samuel L. Jackson in the film Black Snake Moan. Ricci and Jackson are good, but I don't know about Timberlake - or the title for that matter.

     Fox and Marvel Enterprises are suing Sony and Revolution Studios over Sony's new comic book satire Zoom, starring Tim Allen, which will hit theaters around the same time as Fox's X3. Fox and Marvel claim that Zoom rips off elements of the X-Men.