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Monday February 11, 2008

In Brief: Jaws star Roy Scheider dies

Actor Roy Scheider (pictured), best known for his role as the police chief in Steven Spielberg's 1975 movie Jaws, died on Sunday at an Arkansas hospital aged 75... Carla Bruni has taken to appearing in flat shoes since she married French President Nicolas Sarkozy; according to a biography, she doesn't want to earn the nickname given to his ex-wife Cecilia - 'Sarko's control tower' - because of the height difference... Leonard Cohen is expected to perform at this year's Glastonbury festival in June... Police divers in Paris are searching for the body of one of Africa's first supermodels amid fears that she fell into the Seine more than a week ago after a heavy drinking session; Katoucha Niane, 47, from Guinea was the face of Yves Saint Laurent in the Eighties... Barack Obama won a Grammy at Sunday’s awards - best spoken album for the audio version of his book The Audacity Of Hope... Heath Ledger's former fiancee Michelle Williams and fellow actress Rose Byrne joined other mourners in a spontaneous sunset dip after the 28-year-old actor's funeral in Perth yesterday...

FIRST POSTED FEBRUARY 11, 2008

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