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He needs to build a bridge: Art Garfunkel has been charged with marihuana possession for the second time in two years. PHOTO: AP

Singer Art Garfunkel, who pleaded guilty last year to drug possession, has been charged again after a marijuana cigarette was allegedly found in his car, New York state police have said. A state police spokesman said Garfunkel, one-half of the legendary folk duo Simon and Garfunkel, was pulled over by a trooper on Sunday after failing to halt at a stop sign not far from Woodstock in upstate New York.

A subsequent search of the vehicle uncovered an unsmoked marijuana cigarette, the spokesman said, adding that Garfunkel, 63, had been ordered to appear in court on Sept. 22. The singer was busted on a similar charge and in similar circumstances in January of last year, when he was pulled over by state police who found some pot in one of his jacket pockets.

On that occasion, Garfunkel pleaded guilty to possession and was fined US$200.

Former Baywatch television series babe Pamela Anderson is the most powerful Canadian in Hollywood, topping high-paid stars like Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Keanu Reeves, according to a Canadian magazine. The shapely Anderson, born in Ladysmith, western Canada in 1967, scored high on Canadian Business magazine's first celebrity power list because of her countless Web hits, numerous press clippings, media appearances and a salary estimated at US$300,000 per TV episode. Anderson first appeared in the early 1990s as the sexy blonde Lisa, the Tool Time girl, on the hit US television series Home Improvement. Since then, she has appeared in more than a dozen films and television sitcoms, including Baywatch, comic book legend Stan Lee's Stripperella, VIP and her latest effort, Stacked, about a party girl working in a bookstore.

Kylie Minogue is looking well after being treated for breast cancer. PHOTO: AP

But Anderson is likely most famous for her much-publicized relationships with bad-boy rock stars Tommy Lee, from Motley Crue, and Kid Rock, as well as her 11 appearances on the cover of Playboy magazine.

Pictures of a smiling Kylie Minogue were splashed across the British tabloids on Tuesday after the pop star was spotted strolling with her boyfriend in Paris where she is being treated for breast cancer.

Wearing a polkadot headscarf and simple black summer's dress, the Australian songstress, 37, was pictured walking through the smart Saint Germain district with her French actor boyfriend Olivier Martinez.

"Wrapped in a headscarf, Kylie smiles through her breast cancer agony ... What a fighter," said The Sun tabloid in a front page story about the London-based

sensation.

Michael Jackson, on a private visit to Dubai, is reportedly thrilled by the Gulf Arab emirate which is in the midst of a construction boom. Local newspapers reported that Jackson has been touring the emirate, the Gulf region's trade and tourism hub, for the past week in the company of the Dubai-based Arab rally driving champion and friend Mohammed bin Sulayem.

Glen Campbell, the group Alabama and pioneering black Grand Ole Opry musician DeFord Bailey will become the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, said the Country Music Association, or CMA. Their formal induction will take place Nov. 15 during the 39th Annual CMA Awards show from Madison Square Garden in New York City, said Ed Benson, director of the association.

After his well-publicized visit to these shores, thousands of middle-aged Japanese women screamed like teena-gers yesterday as they came face-to-face with South Korean heartthrob Bae Yong-joon, a symbol of reconciliation between the neighbors. Bae, known as "Yon-sama," was making his first appearance in Japan since bilateral tensions resurfaced this year, but politics did not dent his fans' enthusiasm.
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