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We're Pickin' Up Bad Vibrations
Real gangstas air their awards shows live. But Vibe taped its statuette ceremony, so viewers didn't get to see the free-for-all that broke out after a man slugged DR. DRE, left, and another came to the rapper-producer's defense, stabbing the assailant. When the show aired the next night, nothing appeared out of the ordinary except that Dr. Dre looked more shaken than a man getting a lifetime-achievement award should. Within a day, the cops thought they had their perp, rapper YOUNG BUCK (né David Darnell Brown), right, who was caught on video during the melee wielding a knife (another reason gangstas don't tape). Later Young Buck surrendered to police, was released on bail and resumed touring. Kind of a win-win situation for both men.

Rough Meets Tumble
Go ahead. Fill in the thought bubble. Take a moment and make it a good one. In the meantime, here's the caption: Sopranos stars JAMES GANDOLFINI and Tony Sirico mixed and mingled with troops as part of a U.S.O. tour. After a stop at Camp Doha, Kuwait, where Gandolfini posed with a Saddam Hussein bust, the TV mobsters headed to Iraq. The duo even donned fatigues. The gunning, however, they left to the professionals — as far as we know.

Q&A Freddie Highmore

Freddie Highmore, 12, is in Finding Neverland and will be in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Is it difficult showing such raw emotions as you did in Finding Neverland?

It was really tough doing the funeral scene because it was right under a flight path, so we'd have to stop everything halfway through and then start up again. But with the other scenes, you just think that your mom's dead and your dad's dead, and it's really upsetting.

Are you having fun filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Yes, it's great because other kids are around. Sometimes you can feel a bit lonely, you know, when you're just on your own, when you're the only kid [on a set].

How does Charlie differ from the character you play in Finding Neverland?

Peter is really a quite unhappy, sad child. Charlie is more lighthearted.

How did you hear about the role of Charlie?

I heard the role was coming up, so I read the book again and went along to the auditions. And then I got the part, which was a dream come true because I was quite sad when I left Finding Neverland because I thought I'd never see Johnny [Depp, who's in both movies] again.

Any other literary characters you'd like to bring to life?

I think it would be quite nice to just do some school for a while.

No, It's Your Turn to Clean Up
Marriage can be a pill. Especially when you have been hired to kill your husband and — unbeknownst to you — he has been retained to return the favor. In next June's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE play married assassins who keep their real identities secret until they each get assigned a job that hits a little too close to home. The fallout is matrimonial as much as it is martial. Now, don't worry: there are still pyrotechnics and Jolie's trademark self-performed stunts. But in the end, the characters find that the toughest thing about a day at the office is coming home afterward. "We're impressed by the wrong things," says director Doug Liman, who did the Bourne action-adventure franchise. "Try to make a woman happy for six years of marriage. I'd like to see James Bond do that."