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This is shaping up to be not much of a year for Emmy repeats (unless James Spader runs away with it again).

My Name Is Earl star Jaime Pressly, who was named Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy in 2007, has been left off the shortlist of female laugh-inducers who stand a chance of hearing their names announced July 17, when the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences reveals all the nominees for the 59th Prime-Time Emmy Awards.

Meanwhile, the competition Pressly beat out last year has made the cut, according to another top-secret list obtained by the L.A. Times' Gold Derby blog.

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Foot, meet (big) mouth. Again.

Six months after returning to the airwaves following his "nappy-headed hos" no-no, Don Imus was on the defensive today after comments he made about troubled Dallas Cowboys defensive back Adam "Pacman" Jones' race.

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Where's Luca Brasi when you need him?

Keeping his friends close and his enemies closer, the son of late Godfather author Mario Puzo is suing Paramount Pictures for allegedly screwing the family out of royalties from a 2006 video game based on the Mafia-friendly franchise.

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Metallica want opinions about Death Magnetic to live freely online.

The platinum-selling rockers have announced the title of their next album, which despite its fine pedigree (produced by über-visionary Rick Rubin), has already created its share of controversy for the shaggily coiffed quartet.

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The Stone Temple Pilots are singing the legal blues.

Atlantic Records is suing two of the grunge rock band's members, frontman Scott Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz, alleging they tried to exit their record deal with the Warner Music Group label before it was officially up.

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Mötley Crüe has kick-started legal action against another former manager.

The "Shout at the Devil" purveyors have filed a lawsuit against Burt Stein and his companies B Entertainment and Gold Mountain Entertainment, alleging the companies screwed the band out of large sums of money by putting the manager's interests ahead of the Crüe.

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Here's a change Rip Torn can believe in.

An Ohio politician has issued a public mea culpa to the Emmy winner for using Torn's altered mug shot from a 2006 DUI arrest in a campaign ad.

Cincinnati City Councilman Chris Monzel took out a full-page spread in the Cincinnati Enquirer saying he regretted his use of the photo in a commercial that aired on local television and cable last fall during his successful run for reelection. The ad's theme: keeping sexual predators off the streets.

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Rupert Everett's foot just did a tour of mouth duty.

The star of My Best Friend's Wedding has issued a speedy mea culpa one day after calling British soldiers "wimps."

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On the grand scale of celebrity tax evaders, Keith Olbermann is leagues removed from the likes of Wesley Snipes and Willie Nelson.

But that's not stopping the MSNBC pundit's right-wing critics from launching into full attack mode.

Led by the New York Post and conservative bloggers, the cable news commentator is getting ripped for a relatively small tax bill he allegedly owes New York state.

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It's not often the music critic is the one getting the bad reviews.

But that was the case today as the judge in R. Kelly's child pornography trial lashed out at Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times reporter who anonymously received the sexually explicit videotape allegedly showing the R&B singer having sex with a minor, touching off this legal imbroglio.

Kelly's camp subpoenaed DeRogatis to testify about how he came to obtain the tape in 2002. The singer's attorneys want to know whether DeRogatis altered the video before turning it over to police.

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Oliver Stone hopes Dubya scores the popular vote come Election Day.

The maverick filmmaker has scored a deal with Lionsgate to open his George W. Bush biopic on Oct. 17, according to Variety, three weeks before the Nov. 4 presidential election. Shooting starts next week in Louisiana.

"We don't really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we've been allowed to see on TV. This movie's taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain," Stone says with typical humility. "I'm real pleased that Lionsgate has the independence necessary to bring this provocative story to an American audience."

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, the Oscar winner makes the biopic sound more knee-slapper than A&E-worthy examination.

"This movie can be funnier because Bush is funny. He's awkward and goofy and makes faces all the time. He's not your average president...It's almost Capra-esque, the story of a guy who had very limited talents in life, except for the ability to sell himself."

W stars an almost unrecognizable Josh Brolin eerily channeling the prez and Elizabeth Banks as his missus. The high-powered ensemble also includes James Cromwell (George H.W. Bush), Ellen Burstyn (Barbara Bush), Thandie Newton (Condoleezza Rice), Jeffrey Wright (Colin Powell), Scott Glenn (Donald Rumsfeld) and Ioan Gruffudd (Tony Blair). Dick Cheney has yet to be cast.

Apparently Darth Vader was unavailable.

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For Star Jones, Barbara Walters' tell-all revelations about Jones' rapid weight loss felt like a knife to the gut.

The erstwhile View cohost has hit back at her former mentor after Walters blabbed in her recently published memoir Audition, that the View crew was, at Jones behest, forced to lie about her having gastric bypass surgery.

"It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," Jones tells Us Weekly. "It speaks to her true character."

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