Brando 'rejected Godfather role'
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Late actor Marlon Brando is said to have repeatedly refused his Oscar-winning role in The Godfather.
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LOS ANGELES -- Starbucks Corp. was one of the companies that turned down interview requests from Nick and Mark Francis when the brothers were shooting their documentary about rampant poverty among Ethiopian coffee growers.
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England football captain David Beckham has been offered a role in the new Pink Panther movie but has refused due to his commitment to his game.
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The Maltese Church believes that Italy's rejected European Commission nominee, Rocco Buttiglione, was treated harshly, though it said he could have made a better choice of words.
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: David Beckham ruled out early retirement today and said he turned down a &quot;good part&quot; in a Hollywood movie. &quot;I&#39;ve never said that I wanted to go into movies.
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Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' appeal to movie stars not to smoke on screen as it encourages the youth to pick up the cancerous habit has been rejected by superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
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Christian Brando, the troubled  eldest son of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando, has died at the age  of 49, media reports said on Saturday.
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Director Tim Burton was too shy to ask actor Johnny Depp to be his son's godfather and made his wife Helena Bonham Carter do the asking instead.
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He's one of Hollywood's biggest stars,  but Brad Pitt says he enjoyed taking a smaller role as part of  an ensemble in the new film "Babel," and was humbled by the  work of several nonprofessional actors in the film.
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Marlon Brando's former business manager filed a &#36;3.5 million claim against his estate, alleging the Oscar winner sexually harassed her and breached their contract by removing her as a co-executor of his will days before his death.
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Late acting legend Marlon Brando&#39;s former business manager Jo An Corrales has filed a $3.5m (â¬2.6m) claim against the actor&#39;s estate, accusing the Oscar-winner of sexual harassment and breach of contract.
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VENICE, Italy - Robert De Niro dismissed accusations that his Mafia roles have smeared the image of Italian-Americans, arguing that he plays realistic characters including many who could not be construed as stereotypes.    De Niro's defense Friday came after the Order Sons of Italy in America, a fraternal organization of Americans of Italian heritage, wrote a letter to the Italian government, urging it to cancel its plan to award the actor honorary citizenship...
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A woman who was Marlon Brando&#039;s caregiver, companion and self-described &quot;major domo&quot; of the household in the last years of his life has sued his executors, claiming she is a victim of fraud, deceit and a broken oral contract with the actor to give her a house.
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LOS ANGELES  - James Caan and Robert  Duvall have joined the late Marlon Brando in providing voice  acting and likenesses for Electronic Arts' "The Godfather"  video game.
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An autopsy on the body of Christian Brando did not immediately determine what killed the son of the late actor Marlon Brando, authorities said Tuesday.
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The late Marlon Brando will star in "The Godfather" again, beginning with a trailer for a video game that aired Tuesday on Spike TV's "Video Game Awards 2004" live broadcast.
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Marlon Brando&#39;s former business manager, Jo An Corrales, has filed a $3.5 million suit against the late acting great&#39;s estate, accusing him of sexually harassing her during the four years