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Billy Bob Thornton signs up for boxing film

August 21, 2009
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Monster's Ball star Billy Bob Thornton has signed up to appear in a new boxing film called Pound for Pound.


Thornton, 54, will appear in the film, which is based on the novel by FX Toole, who also wrote the book that became Clint Eastwood's hit movie Million Dollar Baby.


The film focuses on the parallel lives of a retired and widowed boxer who is depressed following the death of his grandson in a car accident and a Latino teenage fighter from a difficult background.


Thornton will take on the role of the retired boxer. The Latino fighter is yet to be cast.


Producer Leslie Greif said: "Unlike Million Dollar baby, which was fabulous but a dark movie and a trag .....

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Rocker Billy Bob Thornton pens song about venereal disease

July 13, 2009
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Rocker Billy Bob Thornton plans to spread the word about venereal disease in a new song.


Thornton, who fronts The Boxmasters, has said that he doesn't think there are enough songs warning about the dangers of sexually-transmitted diseases.


A report says: "On the next record... we actually have a song coming out about venereal disease, which I think needs to be talked about.


"And it's a song called It Only Hurts When I Pee."



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Billy Bob Thornton's daughter released from Jail

June 1, 2009
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The estranged daughter of Billy Bob Thornton, has been released from jail. Amanda Brumfield was arrested and charged with felony neglect after a one year old tot allegedly died in her care.


Brumfield, the child of Thornton's marriage to Melissa Parish, told detectives that the child fell from a playpen, hit her head and bit her tongue at her home back in October 2008, it was reported.


Brumfield said the child, who was her goddaughter, was eating bananas and appeared normal before the fall.


She said she even painted the child's toenails before she went to sleep on a sofa.


In an affadavit, Brumfield stated that more than two hours later she noticed the chi .....

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Billy Bob Thornton's daughter charged with child neglect over baby's death

May 31, 2009
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Actor Billy Bob Thornton's eldest daughter has been charged with child neglect over the death of a one-year-old girl she was babysitting.


Amanda Brumfield told police in Ocoee, Florida, the baby died in October after falling from her playpen. An autopsy revealed the child suffered a fractured skull and a subdural hematoma due to blunt trauma.


Brumfield, 29, said she noticed the baby's tongue was bleeding after the fall and cleaned it with a paper towel. She claimed she then played with the child, who seemed “happy”, and fed her bananas and fruit snacks.


Brumfield told cops she laid the child next to her on the couch and fell asleep, celebrity website TM .....

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Billy Bob Thornton talks about his Canadian radio interview meltdown on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

April 25, 2009
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Billy Bob Thornton hit back at claims that he had a 'meltdown' in an interview on Canadian radio.


The actor-turned-musician defended his response to Studio Q interviewer Jian Ghomeshi's questioning on The Jimmy Kimmel Live!, claiming his reaction was nothing out of the ordinary.


Thornton, 53, who was on the radio show to promote his band, The Boxmasters, told Kimmel that he had a deal with the show's producers not to talk about his film career during the show.


"First of all, I do that all the time - it is not the first time," he said, "I was doing a show in Germany, we were touring there about 10 years ago with my first solo record and this women was told, 'Don't s .....

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Billy Bob Thornton cancels tour after angry interview hits the web

April 11, 2009
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Billy Bob Thornton has cancelled a Canadian tour with his band a day after a bad-tempered promotional radio interview was posted online.


Apparently keen to be taken seriously as a musician, Thornton was angered by host Jian Ghomeshia's reference to his acting career in the introduction for the interview.


He then answered questions with senseless ramblings, compared himself to Tom Petty and even had a dig at Canadian audiences.


Now it has emerged that the group, who were touring with Willie Nelson and were booed on stage in Toronto, are no longer part of the show.


“It has been reported that Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters will not be continuin .....

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Radio host hits bum note with Billy Bob the music-maker

April 9, 2009
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A radio presenter hit a sour note with Billy Bob Thornton after mentioning the Oscar-winner's acting career during a live chat about his music.


The actor was furious when a Canadian host referred to his Hollywood career during an interview with Thornton and his hillbilly band The Boxmasters.


When presenter Jian Ghomeshi introduced the trio on his CBC radio show he noted that the singer-songwriter-drummer was also an "Oscar-winning screenwriter-actor-director."


But, after refusing to answer any of the presenter's questions properly, Thornton said: "What I'm explaining is that we said do not talk about s**t like that.


"And we also said that we didn't want .....

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