Britney Spears smoking hotel demands

BEIJING, May 9 -- Britney Spears is demanding a hotel room which has never been smoked in for her UK visit.

The 'Womanizer' singer has reportedly made several requests to London's Dorchester hotel where she will stay in June when her tour comes to England, including humidifiers in every room, Marilyn Monroe DVDs and 100 watt light bulbs.

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Britney has also asked for fresh flowers which she will arrange herself, celebrity magazines and women's novels.

A source told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "Britney may only be staying in the city for two weeks but she knows exactly what she wants.

"She'll be bringing all her own pillows for ultra comfort and her security will sleep outside her suite every night."

Britney has requested tickets for West End theatre productions, as well as a place to horse ride and a map of running routes around the nearby Hyde Park.

Ivanovic bows to Radwanska in Rome Masters

ROME, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Ana Ivanovic's suffered a setback on way to French Open on Wednesday when she was ruled out of the third round in Rome Masters with a 6-1 3-6 6-4 loss to Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.

The Serbian fifth seed, yet to win a title this year, looked on the way to victory when 4-0 up in the final set, after having fought back from set down. But she shockly lost the following six games.

Ivanovic had tidied up her act in the second set of the match at the Rome tournament, which is played on clay like the French Open, after making an inept start and losing the first set in just23 minutes.

Radwanska, seeded 10th, will take on the winner of the match between American fourth seed Venus Williams and Russia's Anna Chakvetadze in the quarter-finals.

Seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova ended Italy's hopes of a localchampion when she battled to a 6-3 3-6 6-0 victory over Flavia Pennetta.

Kuznetsova set up a meeting with champion Jelena Jankovic who eased through when Ukrainian Kateryna Bondarenko retired ill from their third round match with the Serb leading 6-1 1-0.

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Legendary Josephine Siao Fong Fong

Legendary Hong Kong film actress Josephine Siao Fong Fong will be presented with a lifetime achievement at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night. The 62-year-old actress became popular as a child and continued her success, winning numerous domestic and international film awards throughout her career spanning some five decades.

Josephine Siao was born in 1947 as Siao Liang in Shanghai. At the age of two, she was brought to Hong Kong by her parents. Siao's first movie appearance was at age seven in "A Child's Tear". Two years later she won the Best Child Award for her role in "Orphan Girl".

Unlike many child stars, Siao made a successful transition to adult stardom, remaining one of Hong Kong's most prolific and popular actresses. In the 1960s alone, she starred in over 200 films. She was one of the popular female teenage stars who were termed the "Seven Cantonese Princesses" of the 60s. But she was perhaps the most popular of them all. She appeared in all sorts of films, from romance to drama, to comedy, action and fantasy.

In 1970, she cut back on her film output to focus on her education. Siao earned a Communications degree from New Jersey's Seton Hall University. From then on, she worked less frequently in films. In 1974, Siao had only a small part on the screen as the hero-cop "Girlfriend", but it won her the Best Supporting Actress at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards.

In 1975, she worked as one of the directors for "Jumping Ash". The film is regarded by film critics as a prelude to the Hong Kong New Wave movies of the 1980s. She then created for TV the bumbling plain Jane character, Lam Ah Shun, in 1977.

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