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From The Associated Press

Five months later, actress Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of a kiss from Richard Gere. Immigration officials at Mumbai airport in India briefly detained Shetty, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of the public kiss with the Hollywood star in April, her publicist, Dale Bhagwagar, said Thursday.

Shetty was in tears after being stopped on her way to Berlin where the musical “Miss Bollywood” opens this weekend, said Bhagwagar. Shetty plays the musical’s lead role.

Armed bandits raided director Francis Ford Coppola’s Argentine headquarters and stole a computer with the screenplay for the upcoming feature film “Tetro,” according to local news media. The director of “The Godfather” apparently was not in Buenos Aires at the time.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will pay tribute to their native city when Liverpool becomes European Capital of Culture next year. “I’m very excited about Liverpool being the European Capital of Culture in 2008,” McCartney told the launch event in a video message Thursday. “We have a fantastic series of events, which are sure to get you excited, too.” The ex-Beatle will headline a June 1 concert for more than 30,000 people. Starr, along with Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart and the Liverpool Symphony Orchestra, will lead the opening ceremony Jan. 12.

Bono says he had “slept uneasily” since seeing extraordinary photos and TV footage of the violence in Myanmar, and is praying for the country’s pro-democracy demonstrators. The 47-year-old singer said he had met and corresponded with Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader of Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy Party. “U2 actually wrote a song, ‘Walk On,’ for her,” he said.