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In 2008, Victoria Principal will go into space on the first commercial spaceflight. "I'm going to be one of the first civilian astronauts," she told ABC's Diane Sawyer about her upcoming trip on the Virgin Galactic. Space may be the only place left for Principal to conquer, as she has already seen so much success on Earth. ABC News

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Carrie Underwood's dark hit "Before He Cheats" won video of the year, female video and best video director Monday at the fan-voted CMT Music Awards. ABC News

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Richard Gere's repeated kisses on the cheeks of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in an event to promote AIDS awareness sparked protests in India on Monday with demonstrators burning effigies of the actors. AOL News

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will file suit Tuesday against the National Enquirer in multiple overseas courts in response to a Mar. 12 item that appeared in the tabloid's British and Irish editions linking the couple to a drug scandal, their lawyer said. E! News

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"American Idol" contestant Sanjaya Malaker is, by all accounts, not the most talented performer on the show. But research firm Nielsen BuzzMetrics says the blogosphere has played a large part in making him the most visible. CNN News

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Charlie Sheen has settled a lawsuit brought by a California woman who accused the actor of using her life as the basis for the zany character on his hit CBS sitcom, Two and a Half Men, court records show. E! News

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Barry Gibb, the former Bee Gee who bought the house that Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in for decades before their deaths in 2003, said on Monday he plans to build a new home near where the house stood before burning down last week. ABC News

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Cormac McCarthy, whose novel "The Road" was recently chosen by Oprah Winfrey for her book club, has added another honor: "The Road" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday. CNN News

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Regis Philbin says he'll return to his syndicated daytime talk show April 26, about six weeks after having triple heart bypass surgery. ABC News