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E! Online - Patrick Dempsey's plus-one is Donatella Versace? Get ouuuuut!

E! Online - If every person who watches little-watched 30 Rock bought a ticket to Baby Mama, the Tina Fey comedy would have, well, made a lot more money.

Movie News AP - If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed "Scotty" aboard Star Trek's starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert. More Info...  

Reuters - In Hollywood, where hype so often seems to be the norm, pro wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's frank assessment of his own performance in his debut movie is, if nothing else, refreshing.

AP - A hometown celebration of Kurt Vonnegut's life and literary prowess was highlighted Friday night with the last thing the author wrote — a speech he had planned to deliver himself at Butler University. More Info...  

AP - Car-theft charges against Daniel Baldwin were dropped Friday. More Info...  

AP - The negative of a feature-length film is typically treated with the utmost care, preserved meticulously to produce prints and DVDs.

Reuters - A new documentary about Marlon Brando shows he still mesmerizes fans who remember his range and raw emotion during a stunning career that saw him evolve from sex symbol to political activist to obese recluse.

Reuters - The director of a new documentary about two September 11 widows who launched a campaign to help Afghan war widows says it's not a "September 11 movie" and her aim is to counter U.S. public amnesia about Afghanistan.

Reuters - Horror movies reflect the culture we live in and cannot be blamed for causing real life violence, said the slasher genre director of the Hollywood classic "Halloween."

E! Online - Just as Alec Baldwin is being hung out to dry, Daniel Baldwin is off the hook. 

AP - Pamela Anderson will replace Carmen Electra as special guest star in Hans Klok's new show, "The Beauty of Magic," at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.

AP - Aishwarya Rai, Bollywood's hottest bride, will take her new husband's famous surname to become Aishwarya Bachchan.

E! Online - Magneto has no trouble attracting metal. Now, Hollywood's banking on him pulling in an audience.

Reuters - A Bollywood theme park is being built in India along the lines of Hollywood studio parks, allowing fans to go behind the scenes of the world's biggest cinema industry in terms of viewers.

Reuters - The weekend box office is likely to take another hit as moviegoers ignore the new arrivals ahead of next Friday's launch of "Spider-Man 3."

Reuters - Despite 17 uses of the F-word, the documentary "The Hip Hop Project" has been given a commercially friendly PG-13 rating after its director and star successfully appealed the film's initial R tag. More Info...  

Movie News

AP - Jack Valenti, the former White House aide and film industry lobbyist who instituted the modern movie ratings system and guided Hollywood from the censorship era to the digital age, died Thursday. He was 85.

Reuters - After a career in which he has terrified movie audiences as a murderous hitchhiker, a vampire, and an android, actor Rutger Hauer is preparing to take on a new role -- directing his first movie.

Reuters - The Iraq war is one of the hottest U.S. political issues, but the director of a new documentary about the soldiers serving there says he keeps being told that nobody wants to see his film. More Info...