Norah Jones was banned from taking acting lessons
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Singer Norah Jones was banned from taking acting lessons for her movie debut.
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Sprinter Marion Jones was facing a ban after her first sample indicated use of the blood-boosting drug EPO.
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Performances of the London stage version of Lord of the Rings are cancelled after a cast member is injured.
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Marion Jones will not race again this season because she says her conditioning is lacking after taking a month off following her positive EPO test.
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The lavish production of Lord of the Rings in London's West End has been temporarily halted after the theatrical saying "break a leg" almost took literal form when an actor trapped his leg between two sections of the hydraulically moved stage.
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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said yesterday that if Marion Jones is found to have taken drugs she should be stripped of all her medals, regardless of when she won them.
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Star Jones Reynolds has finally cut ties with her former law career. A host of ABC's daytime talk show "The View," she listed her profession as TV personality instead of attorney for the first time last year while filling out customs forms during a European trip.
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Marion Jones should be stripped of her five Olympic medals if accusations that she used banned drugs before the 2000 Sydney Games are true, World Anti-Doping Agency Chairman Dick Pound said yesterday.
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Normally chatty and congenial  daytime talk show &quot;The View&quot; turned abruptly colder on  Wednesday as lead host Barbara Walters said that co-host Star  Jones Reynolds had been barred from the show a day after  announcing plans to leave in July.
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An etiquette teacher found herself on the wrong end of a lesson when Alabama's Supreme Court sided with actor Sacha Baron Cohen in a lawsuit she'd filed against the actor.  Kathie Martin claimed that the British comedian duped her into appearing in h...
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Disgraced Olympian Marion Jones, stripped of her medals and facing six months in prison, told Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday she admitted her steroid use because she could no longer live with her lies.
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NEW YORK  - Randy Quaid has been banned for life by Actors' Equity Assn., the labor union representing American stage actors, and fined more than $81,000 for his alleged actions during the Seattle production of the musical "Lone Star Love," which was scheduled to come to Broadway until producers canceled it.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: This ban is a classic instance of centralised meddling which ignores the potential of local self-discipline.
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Actors including Kevin Spacey and Sir Ian McKellen pass a motion of no confidence in Arts Council England.
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The entire staff of the New York radio  show "Miss Jones in the Morning" was taken off the air on  Wednesday after broadcasting a song that ridiculed victims of  the tsunami in South Asia, the radio station said.
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One of the best-known pop singers in Hong Kong, Jacky Cheung, has been banned from hiring Filipina maids after employing and sacking 21 in three years, the South China Morning Post said Thursday.
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US rapper Busta Rhymes is banned from the set of a film he is appearing in after police raised security fears.