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12 June 2008 6:58 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Lily Tomlin is reportedly embroiled in a bitter row with her California neighbour who is trying to stop her chopping down the trees surrounding her home.

Her next door neighbour in Sherman Oaks claims the star is scared the trees will fall on her.

Corey Steele tells the National Enquirer, "I had to call the cops to stop her from cutting down every single tree.

"She's already cut down a giant redwood and three eucalyptus trees. And when I ask her why, she said, 'I'm deathly afraid of trees. I'm afraid they'll fall on my head.'"

The battle is now destined to be settled by a third party.

A police spokesperson confirms, "Police officers were called to Lily Tomlin's residence because of a dispute over tree cutting with a neighbour. Both parties agreed to go to arbitration."

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25 May 2008 7:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

American comedian-turned-director Dick Martin has passed away at the age of 86.

He died early Saturday evening surrounded by family and friends, after suffering from respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, California, according to the star's spokesperson Barry Greenberg.

Martin enjoyed a career spanning 40 years, but was perhaps best known for his role as co-host of the hit 1960s TV series Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In.

The variety show debuted in January 1968, winning over both audiences and critics and topping the Nielsen TV ratings charts for two years. The show, which featured song-and-dance segments and stand-up banter between Rowan and Martin, helped launch the careers of several young actors and comedians, including Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson and Jo Anne Worley.

Hollywood stars John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, as well as then-presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, also made brief appearances on the show before it was cancelled in 1973.

Martin later moved on to directing, following the advice of fellow comic and actor Bob Newhart. He quickly established himself as one of Hollywood's most hard-working TV directors, working on episodes of Newhart, In The Heat Of The Night, Archie Bunker's Place and Family Ties.

Martin is survived by his wife Dolly Read and two sons from his first marriage to Peggy Connelly: actor Richard Martin and Cary Martin. At his request, there will be no funeral.

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7 May 2008 6:51 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Gay actress Lily Tomlin regrets not 'coming out' 30 years ago, because she missed the chance to become the first openly-lesbian star.

Tomlin was offered the chance to come out of the closet in a Time magazine article in 1975, but she refused, and kept her sexuality a secret until after comedienne Ellen DeGeneres exposed her lesbian status in 1997.

The 68-year-old actress says, "In some ways I regret that I didn't do it."

But she explains the real reason behind her decision not to give Time magazine the gay scoop in the mid-1970s: "(I was) insulted that they thought I would do it just to get the cover."

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23 April 2008 9:18 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor James Caan has quit new comedy Nailed after an on-set bust-up with director David O. Russell.

The star was hired to join the movie's South Carolina set for just two days to shoot his role as a U.S. politician who chokes to death on a cookie.

But Caan walked off the set on day one, after an argument with Russell. The director reportedly wanted Caan to cough and choke at the same time - but Caan refused, insisting he couldn't do both.

According to Reuters, Russell offered to shoot the scene both ways - but Caan refused and quit.

The movie's producer Douglas Wick insists the row was "part of an ongoing creative conversation between the actor and director".

It's not the first time Russell has clashed with castmembers. George Clooney reportedly punched him on the 1999 set of Three Kings, and Russell was captured on film involved in a screaming row with Lily Tomlin while shooting 2004's I Heart Huckabees.

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