Friday, February 27, 2009
Bono gets snarky, Jewel will go on, new Eddie Murphy flick

U2 frontman Bono has been forced to apologize after insulting Chris Martin during a live radio broadcast.

The Irish rocker called the Coldplay singer a "w**ker" during an interview on British station Radio One on Friday. The show's host, Jo Whiley, stopped the session and forced the star to apologize to listeners for the outburst. Bono retracted his previous comment, saying "Oops! Sorry, sorry, I'm a reformed character - I don't do that (swear) any more," before going on to label Martin "a completely dysfunctional character and a cretin" instead.

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Singer Jewel injured her knee this week while rehearsing for her Dancing With the Stars debut, leading many to think she would be dropping out of the competition.

But, just one day later she let everyone know that she was fully dedicated to getting better and performing.

Now she's updated her blog to give us all some good news!

Jewel says she went to her physical therapist and is thankfully feeling much better. And, according to her doc, if she rests now she'll be in good shape to compete next week.

She added:

"Anyway, I'm excited to get back to work next week dancing, hopefully it didn't cause me to get too far behind all the other contestants- I only had 3 weeks to prepare, and now it will be only 2 weeks - which isn't much considering how much I have to learn. All I can do is what I'm doing and to try and have fun- which I am! I will enjoy the days off to hang with my husband, and our family."

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American Pie star Chris Klein is about to take a major career leap -- literally.

The 29 year-old actor plays police officer Charlie Nash in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which opens today. Smallville actress Kristen Kreuk costars.

Klein says it was not an easy shoot.

"There was so much noise and so much going on. It comes off really good on screen," he told Kotaku.com. He remembered one particularly dangerous stunt where his only direction was "Don't get hurt."

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Veteran Heart rockers Ann and Nancy Wilson are to be honored with a lifetime achievement award from a prestigious songwriters' group.

The sisters, the only constant members of the group, will receive the Founders Award during publishing rights group ASCAP's annual pop music awards in Hollywood on April 22nd. Singer Ann Wilson, 58, and guitarist Nancy, 54, found fame in the 1970s with hits such as Crazy On You and Magic Man.

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Singer-guitarist Steven Page says he decided to leave the Barenaked Ladies because his songwriting contributions were being diminished.

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Oscar nominated actor/comedian Eddie Murphy is slated to star as Richard Pryor in an upcoming film about the legendary comic who battled drugs and M.S. Writer/Director Bill Condon is shopping his script entitled "Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?" to the studio subsidiaries and independent distributors around town.

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