• Jackie Chan puts Beverly Hills home up for sale

  February 19, 2005
  Film star, movie director and businessman Jackie Chan has put his Beverly Hills, Calif., home on the market for $6.7 million.

• Hollywood to name historic intersection after Gene Autry

  January 27, 2005
  Hollywood will name one of its historic intersections after legendary cowboy star Gene Autry, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday.

• Germaine Greer quits Britain's 'Celebrity Big Brother 3'

  January 11, 2005
  Famous Australian feminist Germaine Greer quit Britain's "Celebrity Big Brother" show Tuesday, just five days after joining the reality broadcast.

• 'Modern Drunkard' magazine extols virtues of drunkeness

  January 2, 2005
  A Denver-based magazine is nearing its ninth year of paying homage to getting drunk.

• Victoria Beckham's mother requests no cleavage at the christening

  December 22, 2004
  The mother of Victoria Beckham, better known as Posh Spice, is letting guests at her grandchildren's christening know they must dress modestly.

• Usher plans two more movies

  December 2, 2004
  U.S. pop sensation Usher has signed on to two more films in addition to an untitled MTV Films project and a Jackie Wilson biopic, reports MTV.com.

• Fox's 'The Next Great Champ' wins First Amendment court fight against NBC's 'The Contender'

  September 1, 2004
  In a battle between competing reality shows, California courts have once again confirmed that commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment.

• Fox releases details of 'Playing It Straight's unaired conclusion

  July 28, 2004
  Despite having been pulled off the airwaves after only three episodes, last spring's Playing It Straight series has continued to remain of interest among its small (but devoted) group of viewers -- so much so that Fox has apparently grown so tired of viewer questions about the program's ending that it's finally gotten around to posting episode synopses of the remaining unaired episodes at Fox.com

• NBC accelerates 'The Contender' to November debut, matching Fox's copycat show

  July 14, 2004
  If you can't beat them, don't let them beat you. That appears to be NBC's new motto for dealing with the reality-TV copycats at Fox.

• FOX announces identities of 'The Next Great Champ' boxers

  July 10, 2004
  Give Fox credit -- it isn't bashful about trying to steal Mark Burnett's idea.

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