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Jimmy Kimmel and Ben Affleck have been getting up close and personal. PHOTO :AP

Hong Kong singer-actor Edison Chen (陳冠希), 27, is trying to claim copyright over the hundreds of pictures circulating the Internet of him in erotic poses with starlets, a news report said Monday.

Chen made a copyright infringement complaint to customs officials in Hong Kong in an effort to stop the pictures being shared over the Internet, the South China Morning Post reported.

The singer, who announced Thursday he was quitting show business over the scandal, plans to leave Hong Kong for the US as soon as police no longer need his help, the newspaper said.

Customs officials confirmed to the newspaper a complaint of copyright infringement had been received from Chen.

Hong Kong has been captivated for weeks by the scandal over the photos which were downloaded from Chen's laptop and circulated after he took it in for repairs.

They show him apparently having sex with a string of young starlets including Twins singer Gillian Chung (鍾欣桐) while using a video camera to record the intimate liaisons.

The long arm of the law let go of British singer Amy Winehouse's hand. PHOTO :AP

Stars like Brad Pitt, Robbie Williams, Macy Gray and Cameron Diaz have taken cameo roles in a hit Internet video series started by chat show host Jimmy Kimmel and his risque comedienne girlfriend Sara Silverman.

Silverman started the spoof series by releasing a video called I'm Fucking Matt Damon in which she breaks up with Kimmel by telling him she has been unfaithful with Damon.

Damon, who is married, joins Silverman in the video and the two describe all the different places they are supposedly having sex. Silverman then confesses, "Last week when I was playing Scrabble with you online, I was fucking Matt Damon."

The original video was a viral hit on the Net. But Kimmel got his revenge with his own spoof music video that he aired on his post-Oscar talk show, in which he revealed he was having an affair with actor Ben Affleck who won an Oscar with Damon for writing Good Will Hunting.

The video parody features a shirtless Kimmel quietly strumming his guitar in a romantic ballad dedicated to Affleck, who then joins Kimmel in a series of embarrassing poses. The video features Pitt as a low-key delivery-man bringing Kimmel a cake to celebrate his relationship with Affleck. It ends with a We Are the World-style tribute to the couple, starring singers and stars such as Williams, Gray, Diaz, Joan Jett and Huey Lewis.

Soul singer Amy Winehouse will face no further action in connection with an investigation into obstruction of justice charges against her husband, British police said on Friday. The Grammy Award-winning singer had been released on bail after being detained for questioning last December and was due to return to a London police station later this month pending further inquiries.

Meanwhile, the architects of British punk have been quietly passing on the baton to a new generation in a tiny London bar, but the secret is out and about to hit America. Founding members of the Clash, the Sex Pistols, Generation X and a collection of young bands have revived the spirit of 1970s London punk rock at a series of small gigs in the Clash's old stomping grounds in London's Notting Hill neighborhood.

Sheffield rockers the Arctic Monkeys dominated the NME music awards on Thursday by scooping the best British band, best track and best video prizes.

It was the third year running that the quartet had made the headlines at the annual awards chosen by NME readers. The magazine called them "the biggest band of a generation."

Eight days ago, the group won the best band and best album categories at the Brits, which are voted on by members of the music industry.

Thousands of people in Hong Kong bade farewell Sunday to late actress Lydia Sum (沈殿霞), a popular comedian known for her iconic thick black-rimmed glasses and heavy build.

Sum, who was reportedly suffering from cancer and a bile duct condition, died on Feb. 19. She was reportedly 61.

The public memorial service for Sum drew many of her friends from Hong Kong's entertainment industry.

In an eulogy, Sum's daughter said her mother was a "shooting star'' and that she was honored to have stood in her light.

The Hong Kong ceremony also showed footage of Sum's earlier funeral in her adopted home of Vancouver, Canada, where she was buried last week.

Sum is survived by her

ex-husband and their daughter.

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