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AN STYLE='font-size: 100%; color: #990000; font-weight: bold; '>In This Corner: Hollywood's Growing Fight Club
Boxing used to be a sport that people who needed their teeth avoided. Now lots of famous faces are jumping on the boxing bandwagon, including Rocky Balboa. Have these people forgotten the Rocky sequels?

Sylvester Stallone
With Survivor producer Mark Burnett in his corner, Sly will hunt for the next champ in the $2 million-per-episode NBC show The Contender

Meg Ryan
As hard-nosed boxing promoter Jackie Kallen in the recently released Against the Ropes, Ryan didn't throw the punches. And the critics didn't pull any either

George Foreman
The former heavyweight champion is shopping an unnamed reality series that follows boxers as they train. Grilling tips are not included

Russell Crowe
He has already won in the ring as the Gladiator. In Ron Howard's Cinderella Man, due in December, Crowe will get pugilistic as Depression-era fighter Jim Braddock

Joe Louis
Some projects don't need living stars. The Fight, a documentary awaiting distribution, looks at the 1938 bout between the Brown Bomber and rival Max Schmeling

Forget 100 Years of Solitude — Let's Hang Out
One alarming fact you'll learn from songstress SHAKIRA'S new DVD documentary, Shakira Live and Off the Record, is that belly dancing causes tendinitis. Another is that she's chummy with Nobel-prizewinning novelist and fellow Colombian GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, who, in the film, visits Shakira backstage in Mexico City, where he lives. In the movie Shakira describes the author as "one of those people who will never die, for sure not in my heart." The two met in 1999 when Garcia Marquez interviewed Shakira for a magazine, a planned one-hour chat that lasted five. Comparing navel rings perhaps?

Dick's Latest Blooper
America's oldest living teenager has always liked hanging with the kids. But when DICK CLARK turned down a fellow septuagenarian for a job at his production company, he landed in some grownup legal trouble. Producer Ralph Andrews, 76, filed suit against Clark, 74, for age discrimination last week, citing a letter Clark wrote him. "The last development guy we hired was 27 years old," it says, according to the claim. "People our age are considered dinosaurs!" A spokesman for Dick Clark Productions declined to comment. Clark's other employees may want to stock up on their Grecian Formula.

Lane's Look
What makes a great Oscar frock? A good backstory helps. DIANE LANE'S Loris Azzaro gown was among the last the Italian designer, who created body-clinging styles for stars like Sophia Loren in the '60s and '70s, made before he died at 70 last fall. "I liked that it was irreverent," says Lane, whose 10-year-old daughter chose the dress. "It went against the belle-of-the-ball look, that grande dame thing with the train and all the underpinnings and things." Ooh, take that, Renee Zellweger!