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'Simple Life' ends for Paris, Nicole

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are saying goodbye to "The Simple Life."

The series finale will air Sunday on E!, the channel announced Monday. The program, which debuted on Fox in 2003, threw the privileged duo into everyday situations.

This season, the reality show reunited Hilton, 26, and Richie, 25, as drama camp counselors after they feuded and filmed their parts separately for the previous season.

"In this last escapade, Paris and Nicole write their own play in tribute to their decades-long friendship, enlisting the help of celebrity counselor Sally Kirkland to lead the production," E! said in a release.

Kirkland leads the pair and their campers through a "crash course in Acting 101" as they stage the play, which includes the actress playing the role of Richie's father, pop star Lionel Richie, E! said.

The high-living Hilton and Richie have routinely made headlines with their behavior and the legal repercussions that followed.

Last week, Richie, 25, was sentenced to nearly four days in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of drugs. Richie, who is rumored to be pregnant but has refused to comment, must complete her jail time by Sept. 28.

Richie had a previous DUI conviction, in June 2003, involving alcohol.

Hotel heiress Hilton spent 23 days in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case. She was initially released after three days for medical reasons but a judge intervened and she was sent back to jail after one just one night out.

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Thousands line up for 'Idol' auditions

By ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writer

SAN DIEGO - Thousands of people hoping to be the next Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson or even Sanjaya lined up outside Qualcomm Stadium on Monday as auditions for the seventh season of "American Idol" began.

Some brought makeup kits, Starbucks cups filled with throat-clearing salt water and even karaoke machines. Others came before dawn, armed with sleeping bags and pillows.

"Why wouldn't I get here early? My No. 1 goal is to be on the program," said Lonnie Beatty, 20, who spent the night on a trolley platform just outside the stadium grounds in order to be one of the first in line.

A publicist for the show said 12,000 people showed up for their chance at stardom.

John Edward Carey, 27, was one of the lucky few rewarded with a ticket to the second round of tryouts.

The custom guitar builder and post-punk rocker from Van Nuys, near Los Angeles, made it to the final 25 last year on his first outing and said he decided to give it another shot after dropping 35 pounds and getting an encouraging e-mail from a producer.

"Last year I thought, 'I want to make it to the top 50,' and I did," Carey said after his tryout. "This year I want to make it to the top 10. This year I want to win it!"

His wife, Annie, said she pushed her husband to audition after listening to him criticize contestants on the show.

"He kept saying, 'I can sing better than that,'" she said. "So finally I just said, 'Fine, you go audition and stop interrupting my show!'"

Would-be contestants began lining up at 3 a.m. They had already spent hours in line over the weekend waiting to register for wristbands to get into the tryouts: neon yellow for singers, slate gray for supporters.

"I haven't slept in two days," said 16-year-old Jessica Schaffer of Temecula, explaining she drove around all night until she was allowed into the stadium grounds.

With the Comic-Con entertainment expo drawing a record crowd of more than 120,000 to San Diego over the weekend and thousands more in town for a sandcastle competition and an international youth soccer tournament, "Idol" hopefuls who wanted some shut-eye resorted to the classified Web site Craigslist.org or even military bases for beds.

Sgt. Jessica Robson, a 26-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan veteran stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., said she snagged a bunk at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot but got up at 4 a.m. anyway.

"I don't think it matters where you are in line," she said from somewhere in the middle of the crowd.

People in line waved signs proclaiming their love for Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, but the celebrity judges were absent. In their place were 23 show producers who handed over Willy Wonka-style golden tickets to the people they wanted to put in front of executive producers and, eventually, the real judges later on this fall.

Show executives said they hoped to winnow the contestants down to between 300 and 500 for the second round.

"We'll see everyone who wants to be heard," said Patrick Lynn, a senior producer. "It's all about trying to find out who's going to be the person who's going to make it past the judges, who's going to make it to Hollywood."

Six more auditions are set in the coming weeks in Dallas; Omaha, Neb.; Atlanta; Charleston, S.C.; Miami and Philadelphia. The show returns to the air in January.

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Nicole Richie to serve 4 days in jail

Nicole Richie is another one of those celebrities who think they are always above the law. Following Paris Hilton jail “vacation”, Nicole Richie who has been charged with DUI twice in the last four years, has been sentenced to four days in jail. Nicole will have to serve the sentence in either a city or a county jail until September 28. As a recall, the law states that any individual who is charged with DUI twice must serve a minimum of five days in prison, but hey who am I to judge.

Anyway the it seems Nicole was not let off easy (if I can say so), she was also sentenced to 21 days in an alcohol education course, charged a fine of $2,048 and also was given a three-year probationary period.


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'The Simpsons Movie' earns big Doh!

By GARY GENTILE, Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - Woo Hoo! "The Simpsons Movie" turned doughnuts into dollars over the weekend, raking in $71.9 million to debut as the top movie this week.

The big screen tale of the lovable, if dysfunctional, family rolled over the competition, sending last week's top movie, Universal Studio's "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," into second place with $19 million, a 44 percent drop.

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," from Warner Bros., fell to third place with $17.1 million, a 48 percent drop from last week. The film has grossed $242 million domestically after three weeks in theaters.

"Homer's odyssey paid off," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers.

The film, which featured the antics of yellow-hued Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and a host of motley characters, grossed an average of $18,320 on 3,922 screens across the country and also opened strongly in 70 foreign markets.

"We are ecstatic," said Chris Aronson, senior vice president for distribution at 20th Century Fox. "It far exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations."

The hand-drawn movie had the fifth best opening weekend of the year, beating such notable contenders as "Transformers," from Paramount, "Ghost Rider," from Sony Pictures and the computer-animated "Ratatouille," from The Walt Disney Co. and Pixar Animation Studios.

"It's unprecedented to have the longest-running sitcom of all time still on the air and have it also be the number one movie in theaters," Dergarabedian said.

Dergarabedian praised the film's marketing campaign, which included dressing a number of 7-Eleven stores around the country as Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores selling such Simpsons' favorites as Buzz Cola and Squishees.

The debut was good news for Fox, which also has done well this year with top-grossing films "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer."

The long-awaited film version of the Fox Television show played well across the country and with all age brackets, Fox said Sunday, giving the distributor hope that it will hold its own against next week's big opener, "The Bourne Ultimatum," from Universal.

The stellar debut of "The Simpsons Movie" helped propel the summer box office take. This week's top-12 films grossed $168.6 million, up a whopping 45 percent from the top 12 last year, which included "Miami Vice" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

The weekend's other debuts made the top 10, but lagged far behind "The Simpsons Movie."

"No Reservations," the Warner Bros. romantic comedy starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as a gourmet chef, earned $11.8 million.

"I Know Who Killed Me," a Sony Pictures/Tri-Star thriller starring Lindsay Lohan, debuted in 9th place with a paltry $3.4 million.

"Who's Your Caddy," from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, grossed $2.9 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "The Simpsons Movie," $71.9 million.

2. "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry," $19.1 million.

3. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," $17.1 million.

4. "Hairspray," $15.6 million.

5. "No Reservations," $11.8 million.

6. "Transformers," $11.5 million.

7. "Ratatouille," $7.2 million.

8. "Live Free or Die Hard," $5.4 million.

9. "I Know Who Killed Me," $3.4 million.

10. "Who's Your Caddy," $2.9 million.

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Reviews Mixed for Lindsay Lohan’s New Movie

As the debate continues over what ’s Lindsey Lohan's personal woes of the past week will mean to her career, the star’s new movie, I Know Who Killed Me, strongly divided the nation’s movie critics on Saturday – a day after it opened to the public with no advance press screenings by its studio.

While the Boston Globe found it “intensely unpleasant” and The New York Times considered it “pretentious and inane,” the movie received more than passing marks from The Washington Post, which called it “a credible piece of pop entertainment of the hottie-in-distress genre” and says, “Lohan brilliantly brings off her double turn.”

In the R-rated movie, Lohan plays small-town teen Aubrey Fleming, a good student who is kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer before she escapes. She then wakes up in a hospital as Dakota Moss, a stripper, while the real Aubrey still faces danger.

Still, despite The Post’s approbation, the Associated Press only awarded the movie one star (out of a possible four), the Orlando Sentinel gave it one out of five (and called it “an unintentionally hilarious disaster”) and the New York Post gave it no stars whatsoever.

Just as bad were the Hollywood trade papers.

“Enduring this ponderous, convoluted thriller is pure torture,” summarized the Hollywood Reporter, adding: “You might, however, find yourself asking just what was Lohan – whose promising career already has taken a few hits with such films as Just My Luck and Georgia Rule – thinking when she signed on to this nonsense?”

Equally unmerciful was Variety, which said, “Much like the ongoing real-world meltdown of its troubled star, Lindsay Lohan, I Know Who Killed Me is a disaster that exerts a perverse fascination.”

As for its box-office prospects, the review says the picture “might possibly benefit … from tabloid coverage of Lohan’s ongoing travails. But, then again, probably not.”

Sure enough, from early indications Killing Me is not killing ‘em at the movieplex. In its opening day – which was ruled by the new The SImpsons Movie – Lohan’s picture made only $1.3 million, putting it at No. 9 on the box-office chart. Reuters reports it will be lucky to finish the weekend with $5 million.

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