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GEORGE Michael is the latest pop star to sign on for Sting's next charity concert. ''And the Beat Goes On'', a benefit for the Amazon rain forest, will be held on March 2 in New York. It will feature music from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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TALK show host David Letterman is still undecided whether to base his new CBS television network show in New York or take it to Los Angeles' state-of-the-art Television City. While with NBC television, Letterman originated his show in the Rockefeller Centre but CBS wants him to broadcast from its Studio 42 on Manhattan's far West Side, an isolated location not exactly to Letterman's liking.

JULIANNE Phillips is not about to take responsibility for her breakup with Bruce Springsteen. ''I had to make the transition from modelling to acting, but in the marriage, trying to do your own work is like swimming in quicksand,'' she says in TV Guide.''The media put so much focus on our personal life, it took over everything.'' DUSTIN Hoffman has an idea for his next picture. ''I really would like to do the life story of Madonna,'' he said in London. ''We would call it Tootsie 2. I could do it. I'm the right height, and I've got a good body. All I need is the wig.'' WHAT Amy Fisher, the ''Long Island Lolita'', wants most when she gets out of prison is a Ferrari. That's what she told her boyfriend, Paul Makely, in a secretly shot video before being imprisoned on a shooting charge. And, she might get it. High Societymagazine said it would give her the US$150,000 (HK$1.15 million) car if she posed nude for the publication.

MARIA Shriver and her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger, expect their third child in October. They have two girls, aged three and eighteen months.

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