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Reuters - Sunday, July 6

ABBA foursome make rare appearance

STOCKHOLM - All four members of supergroup ABBA appeared together on Friday at the Swedish premiere of the film "Mamma Mia!," delighting fans with their first public showing for years. Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad -- known as Frida -- and Agnetha Faltskog walked down the red carpet at a Stockholm movie theatre to the cheers of several thousand fans.

"Kung Fu Panda" prompts soul-searching in China

BEIJING - More than just a box-office hit in China, animated Hollywood comedy "Kung Fu Panda" has led Chinese artists to find fault with their own film industry and call for fewer government controls on culture. The movie, which tells the story of a fat panda who dreams of martial arts glory, was faithful to Chinese culture and laced with good humor, but China itself may have been incapable of producing such a film, a Chinese filmmaker and opera director lamented.

Paparazzi feel the heat in California

LOS ANGELES - For years Hollywood's paparazzi have hounded celebrities, but now -- with help from local politicians, a lawyer in the Monica Lewinsky case, and even Malibu surfers -- they are the ones feeling the heat. In Los Angeles and the nearby beachside enclave of Malibu, city leaders want to slap restrictions on the paparazzi citing safety concerns. But the paps, along with legal experts, say they are protected by their right to free speech under the U.S. Constitution.

Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and wife split: report

NEW YORK - Baseball star Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees and his wife, Cynthia, have broken up, according to the New York Daily News, amid media speculation that he has been seeing pop star Madonna. Cynthia Rodriguez, 34, has gone to the Paris apartment of rock star Lenny Kravitz, 44, the Daily News said, but Kravitz released a statement saying the two are just friends.

Just a Minute With: Josh Peck for "The Wackness"

LOS ANGELES - Actor Josh Peck has spent much of his teenage and young adult life in front of television cameras portraying the chubby, goofy character Josh in the Nickelodeon cable TV series "Drake & Josh." But a slimmed-down Peck, 21, is now starring in art house drama "The Wackness" as a New York City high school dope dealer, Luke Shapiro, who trades marijuana for counseling with his psychologist, portrayed by Sir Ben Kingsley.

Call girl in Spitzer case drops "Gone Wild" suit

MIAMI - The call girl linked to the sex scandal that prompted the resignation of then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in March has dropped a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis. A statement from an attorney for Ashley Alexandra Dupre said the complaint, filed in April in federal court in Miami and alleging illegal use of Dupre's name and image, was withdrawn on Thursday.

New Hunter S. Thompson film focuses on writings

NEW YORK - When Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney began filming the story of drug-addled U.S. journalist Hunter S. Thompson at the late author's funeral, he says it was one of his "greatest failures" in making the documentary. "Nobody wanted to talk, so we just sat there with a camera crew ordering room service, it was pathetic," said Gibney, recalling the estimated $2 million dollar funeral in 2005 funded by actor Johnny Depp and attended by other celebrity friends such as actor Bill Murray.

Man rips head from Hitler wax figure

BERLIN - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said. Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the exhibit.

"10,000 BC" clubs the DVD competition

LOS ANGELES - The prehistoric epic "10,000 BC" scored a triple victory on the latest home video charts, topping the national DVD sales and rental charts as well as the Blu-ray Disc sales chart its first week in stores. Director Roland Emmerich's March release, which cost just over $100 million to make, ended up grossing about $270 million worldwide.

Bozo the Clown's Larry Harmon dead at 83

LOS ANGELES - Larry Harmon, the alter ego behind Bozo the Clown for more than 50 years, died on Thursday of congestive heart failure at age 83, his spokesman said. Harmon, a native of Ohio, died at his home in Los Angeles, his spokesman, Jerry Digney said.

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