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Museum to get Clooney’s uniform

Augusta, Ky. – A Kentucky museum dedicated to George Clooney’s late aunt just wanted the actor’s helmet from the movie “Leatherheads.”

Turns out, the museum for singer and actress Rosemary Clooney will get the leather headgear and the rest of the football uniform.

“This will be a nice addition,” curator Steve Henry said. “In the future we are hoping to accumulate at least one costume from each of his new movies.”

Clooney’s uniform will be placed among his aunt’s memorabilia. Henry said the new display at the Rosemary Clooney House Museum is scheduled to be unveiled June 7.

“We were at the premiere of ‘Leatherheads’ in March and were told the entire football costume, from the cleats and socks to the helmet we had originally asked for, was ours to have for the museum,” Henry told The Ledger Independent of Maysville.

Lange bashes Iraq war in graduation speech

Bronxville, N.Y. – Oscar-winner Jessica Lange bashed the Bush administration and denounced the war in Iraq during a commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.

The star of “Tootsie” and “Blue Sky” was applauded by students Friday at the small liberal arts college after comparing the conflict with the Vietnam War. She said the graduates have “a heavy burden” to chart a new path for the country.

“We are living in an America that, in the last seven and a half years, has waged an unnecessary war, established prison camps, condoned torture, employed corporate armies, eliminated the right of habeas corpus, practiced extraordinary rendition, and believe me, this is only a partial list,” Lange said.

Lange asked the graduates, including her 22-year-old daughter Hannah Shepard, to commit themselves to the “pursuit of peace.”

Teen actor killed in fight outside bar

London – A British teenage actor playing a minor role in the upcoming “Harry Potter” film was stabbed to death during a brawl in London on Saturday, police said.

Rob Knox, 18, was stabbed after he got caught up in a fight outside a bar in southwest London early Saturday, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Knox plays Ravenclaw student Marcus Belby in the upcoming film “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince,” set for release in November.