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Japanese TV personality Mao Kobayashi dies after public bout with cancer

TV personality Mao Kobayashi, right, and Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo announce their engagement in January 2010.

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Japanese TV personality Mao Kobayashi dies after public bout with cancer

TVpersonalityMaoKobayashi,right,andKabukiactorIchikawaEbizoannouncetheirengagementinJanuary2010.MaoKobayashi,apopularTVpersonality,diedonJune22afteralongbattlew

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TV personality Mao Kobayashi dies after public bout with cancer

TVpersonalityMaoKobayashi,right,andKabukiactorIchikawaEbizoannouncetheirengagementinJanuary2010.MaoKobayashi,apopularTVpersonality,diedonJune22afteralongbattlew

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Miles Teller arrested for public intoxication

MilesTellerwasarrestedforpublicintoxicationSunday,accordingtoSanDiego,Californiapolice.Theactor,however,tooktoTwittertoofferhisownaccountoftheincident,including

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Restaurant comic series heads to TV

TV series Midnight Canteen, adapted from the hit Japanese manga with the same title, will debut on Beijing Satellite TV and the video-streaming site v.qq.com on June 12.

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Restaurant comic series heads to TV

TVseriesMidnightCanteen,adaptedfromthehitJapanesemangawiththesametitle,willdebutonBeijingSatelliteTVandthevideo-streamingsitev.qq.comonJune12.Setinafictionalres

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'Deadwood' and 'The Avengers' actor Powers Boothe has died aged 68

PowersBoothe,thecharacteractorknownforhisvillainrolesinTV's"Deadwood,"andinthemovies"Tombstone,"''SinCity"and"TheAvengers,"hasdied.Hewas68.Boothe'spublicistsays

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'Allo 'Allo actor Gorden Kaye dies

British actor Gorden Kaye, best known for playing a French cafe owner in long-running BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, died on Monday aged 75, his agent said.

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S. Korea's drama awards season rolls around

South Korea's top stars will be gathering at major broadcasting stations next week to honor and celebrate the best performances by actors in TV series this year.

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Peter Vaughan: Thrones and Porridge star dies at 93

British actor Peter Vaughan, best known for roles in Game of Thrones and Porridge, has died at the age of 93.

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Off to a Loki start: why Taylor Swift’s reported beau Tom Hiddleston deserves a break

There’s a lot more to the Shakespearean British actor than playing the trickster god Loki in the Thor films, so let’s cut the Loki jokes on social media, whether or not we think he and Swift are for real

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Aussie deputy PM hits back at Johnny Depp after being called a "tomato" on live TV

​The well-publicized furor between Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Hollywood actor Johnny Depp has reignited on Wednesday, after Joyce hit back at the actor who said Joyce looked to be "inbred with a tomato".

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Film awards presented in Myanmar for past two years

The Myanmar Motion Picture Association presented 18 Film Academy Awards for a combined years of 2014 and 2015 to the country's successful artists at the Myanmar Event Park on Sunday night.

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Actor Alan Rickman, best known as Professor Snape in Harry Potter films, dies at 69

Veteran British actor Alan Rickman, a master of playing menacing screen villains, has died at the age of 69 after suffering from cancer, his family said Thursday.

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Indian court sentences Bollywood actor Salman Khan to 5 yrs in jail in hit-and-run case

​An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced Bollywood actor Salman Khan to five years in jail for running over pavement dwellers with his car in Mumbai nearly 13 years back.

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Zhang Mo gets six months, 5000 yuan fine for drug use

Zhang Mo, the actor Zhang Guoli's son, has been sentenced to six months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan($800) for drug use and providing others with a venue for drug use, the People's court of Beijing Haidian District announced on Tuesday morning.

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83-year old Oscar winner Maximilian Schell dies

Austrian actor Maximilian Schell has died at the age of 83, media reports said Saturday.      The Vienna-born actor died overnight following "a sudden and serious illness", media quoted agent Patricia Baumbauer as saying.      Maximilian Schell won an Academy Award for his role in the 1961 film "Judgment at Nuremberg".      After Austria was annexed by the Nazis in 1938, Schell fled with his parents into exile in Switzerland. He returned to Austria after the war and later became a successful Hollywood actor.