People update: Will Madonna make NBC sorry for booking her on Super Bowl?

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 5, 2011 -- Madonna will perform at halftime of the Super Bowl in Indianapolis in February.

We're also praying Justin Timberlake is nowhere in the vicinity.

NBC, which will broadcast football's biggest game, announced during the Detroit-New Orleans game Sunday night that
the Grammy Award-winning singer will take the stage at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Feb. 5.

Madonna's representatives confirmed the news after months of speculation and revealed Madonna will be working with

a creative team from circus group Cirque du Soleil for the performance. We don't really know what that means, but
we're hoping for lots of explosions. Big ones.

The NFL released a statement saying "We are happy to confirm that Madonna will perform in the Bridgestone Super
Bowl XLVI Halftime Show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday, February 5 ... The Material Girl has
partnered with a creative team from Cirque du Soleil, Jamie King, and multimedia artists from Moment Factory, to
create a signature performance for the Super Bowl's halftime show, which will be broadcast worldwide."

Can we stop calling her the material "girl," now that she's receiving Social Security?

Madonna previously agreed to play the Super Bowl in 2000 but was forced to pull out due to a scheduling conflict.
She had a date.

The Super Bowl halftime show is the most-watched musical event of the year, with more than 162 million in the
U.S.watching The Black Eyed Peas' performance in Dallas last February.

Madonna joins such acts as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Prince, U2, Paul McCartney, The Who and the

Rolling Stones to perform during recent Super Bowls. No truth to the rumor that she'll leave her latest boyfriend
back at the hotel because she goes on after his bedtime.

TV HOST TO HAVE DOUBLE MASTECTOMY: Six weeks after revealing she has breast cancer, E! News host Giuliana Rancic
says she will have a double mastectomy.

The 37-year-old made the announcement Monday on NBC's "Today" show.

"It was not an easy decision but it was the best decision for me," she said.

She plans to have the surgery next week and said she hopes to be recovered by New Year's Eve, when she and husband

Bill Rancic are planning to be in Times Square.

Rancic said she received an "overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support" after announcing her breast
cancer diagnosis in October.

"I want to make sure to thank everyone and give them an update for being so kind and loving and supportive," she
said Monday.

E! expressed its support for Rancic in a statement Monday.

"Giuliana's strength continues to amaze us," the network said. "We admire her courage and are proud to stand by her

side through every step on her path to full recovery."

WE CAN ALL SLEEP BETTER NOW: Bradley Cooper has confirmed "The Hangover" cast is set to reunite for a second sequel
set in Los Angeles.

Hopefully that doesn't mean making the same movie a third time.

The actor shot to fame with his role in the 2009 Las Vegas-based comedy opposite Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and
Justin Bartha, and a follow-up, "The Hangover Part II," set in Thailand, was released earlier this year. Cooper
said filming should begin in September and will likely be set in California.

He told TV host Graham Norton, "I know (director) Todd Phillips is working on the script. We stuck to the formula
in the second one but the third would need to close the trilogy. I think it'll take place in L.A. and not adhere to
the structure."

TAKE TWO: Angelina Jolie is being sued by Croatian journalist and author James J. Braddock, who says the plot for
the film was lifted from a 2007 article he wrote.

According to the suit, filed in federal court in Illinois, Braddock's story and "Blood and Honey" -- which Jolie
wrote and directed -- tell a similar tale of a rape victim who comes to work as a servant in the camp occupied by

the soldiers who've abused her.

"The subject work's main female character is subject to continuous abuse and rape by soldiers and officers in the
camp. In addition to being raped continuously by soldiers and officers, she is forced to become a servant at the
camp headquarters, a duty assumed by very few of the captives," the suit reads.

"The Motion Picture's main female character is also subject to continuous rape by soldiers and officers in the camp
and subsequently becomes a servant at camp headquarters."

Claiming copyright infringement, Braddock -- who also goes by the name Josip J. Knezevic -- has requested a jury
trial and is seeking unspecified damages. GK Films, which is releasing the film, is also named in the suit.

The film has been problematic for Jolie from the start. She was initially banned from filming in Bosnia, due to
reports that the film would feature a rape victim who falls in love with her attacker. The filming permit was
reinstated after Bosnia's culture minister was given the script for review.

"In the Land of Blood and Honey" is scheduled for a Dec. 23 release. Jolie has not commented on the suit.

ROSIE TO TIE THE KNOT: Rosie O'Donnell and her girlfriend, Michelle Rounds, are engaged.

O'Donnell's publicist and a spokesman for the Oprah Winfrey Network say the host of "The Rosie Show" told her
studio audience about the engagement Monday during a commercial break.

Then everyone looked under their seats and found new cars.

The Emmy Award-winning talk show host's new program debuted in September. She tapes in Winfrey's former Chicago
studio.

Rounds is a 40-year-old headhunter for an information technology company. O'Donnell is a mother of four and was

previously married. She and former partner Kelli Carpenter publicly wed in San Francisco in 2004, two weeks after
the mayor authorized granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The licenses were later voided by the
California Supreme Court. O'Donnell's publicist says a wedding date hasn't been set.

'ROBOCOP' TO JOIN 'STAR TREK' CAST: "Robocop" actor Peter Weller is joining the cast of director J.J. Abrams' big-
screen "Star Trek" sequel.

An APA talent agency spokesman for Weller said Monday the actor's role is a principal one in the film, but details

were being kept under wraps. Weller's sci-fi credentials include the "Robocop" films and the TV series "Odyssey 5."
He has guest-starred on shows including "Dexter," "Fringe" and "Psych."

His directing credits include "Monk" and the TV movie "Elmore Leonard's Gold Coast."

The second "Star Trek" film will include the return of stars Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. The film is set for a
May 2013 release.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 6, the 340th day of 2011. There are 25 days left in the year.

1790: Congress moved to Philadelphia from New York.

1884: Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the
obelisk.

1889: Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.

1907: The worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in
Monongah, W.Va.

1917: Some 2,000 people died when an explosives-laden French cargo ship collided with a Norwegian vessel at the
harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the city.

1921: The Anglo-Irish Treaty, which established the Irish Free State, was signed in London. (The treaty came into
force one year later on this date.)

1947: Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S. Truman.

1957: America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed as Vanguard TV3 rose about four feet off a
Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding.

1960: Nearly 9 million acres of Alaska was set aside as an Arctic National Wildlife Range by order of Interior
Secretary Fred A. Seaton.

1971: The original Auto-Train, which carried rail passengers and their motor vehicles from Lorton, Va., to Sanford,
Fla., went into operation. (Although the privately owned line went out of business in 1981, Amtrak revived the
service in 1983.)

1989: Fourteen women were shot to death at the University of Montreal's school of engineering by a man who then
took his own life.

2006: The bipartisan Iraq Study Group concluded that President George W. Bush's war policies had failed in almost
every regard, and said the situation in Iraq was "grave and deteriorating." The Senate voted, 95-2, to confirm

Robert Gates as defense secretary. Searchers found the body of San Francisco resident James Kim in the Oregon
mountains, two days after his wife and two daughters were rescued from their car (Kim had set out on foot to find
help for his family).

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