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Amy Winehouse doesn't know why rappers from Snoop Dogg to Ghostface Killah have taken a liking to her music, but and Jay-Z's remix of "Rehab.
" "I'm flattered that he liked [the song] enough to do something with it," she said. ..
. After seven years apart (and a year in jail), Lil' Kim got back in the booth with Diddy, recording her first rhymes since her release for a remix of his track "Last Night." And .
"She's sounding good and strong," Diddy told us. "I'm a witness. I was in the studio with her.
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She wasn't rusty or nothing." ..
. And how do you fit a heartbreaking elimination into a two-hour charity special? You don't.
, and banked the record 70 million votes cast by viewers. That tally will be added to next week's results, and two contestants will be sent packing Wednesday. Quote of the Day: "The whole Limp thing is absolutely, offensively impossible.
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Snoop Dogg is not welcome in Australia. Authorities announced Thursday (April 26) that the rapper is barred from entering the country after pleading no contest to gun and drug charges in the U.
S. this month, . "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews said in a local radio interview.
Snoop was scheduled to attend Sunday's MTV Australia Video Music Awards. ..
. that Eve was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence early Thursday morning in Los Angeles after crashing a Maserati on Hollywood Boulevard. .
.. It took them months come on, the guy's not even on "American Idol" anymore but to accompany the Sanjaya phenomenon .
.. thanks to According to the tabloid, the singer's mother was arrested in February 2005 after the Pierce County, Washington, authorities found marijuana plants growing in the Malakar garage.
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Suge Knight was set up. posted video yesterday of the Death Row big man confronting a guy who kind of looks like Kevin Federline, but if you listen closely, you'll hear paparazzi telling Suge that it really is K-Fed. Knight apparently doesn't like Federline because he's all about Britney Spears: "Britney, that's the homegirl 'cause she's the underdog," he said on the video.
"I like the underdog." ..
. The White Stripes are coming up on their 10th anniversary without having completed a full-on tour of Canada. "Meg and I thought it was high time to go whole hog," Jack White said in a that kicks off June 24 in Burnaby, British Columbia, and visits each of the 10 Canadian provinces.
The band has also lined up shows in New York, Boston and 16 states that White says the band hasn't played, including Alabama and Connecticut. ..
. Queen Latifah has been cast in a remake of the the 1984 comedy "All of Me," . The original starred Steve Martin as a big-shot attorney whose body was taken over by an heiress (Lily Tomlin).
There's no word yet on whether Latifah is playing the body snatcher or snatchee. ..
. Hugh Grant was arrested in London on Wednesday after a photographer accused the actor of attacking him with "a tub of food," . The actor was questioned for an hour and released on bail.
He will return for questioning next month. ..
. Meanwhile, Richard Gere is a wanted man in India. that a court in the northern city of Jaipur ordered the arrest of the actor on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty this month.
The court called the repeated kisses at an AIDS awareness event an obscene act committed in public. If he returns to India and is arrested, he faces three months in jail. .
.. And the Canadian community that does the most to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as part of the with a carbon-neutral music festival.
And the knowledge that they've helped save the world.