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Fox earns Hollywood star

Actor Michael J. Fox was honored Monday with 2,209th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.

With Fox was his son, Sam Fox, to accept the award.

Fox won three Emmy Awards with NBC's "Family Ties" and later was cast as Marty McFly in the film series "Back to the Future."

Bidders default on Eminem house

Los Angeles - Eminem's former home did not sell at auction on eBay, despite reports that the owners had received bids as high as $12 million.

When the house's owners hired a company to weed out phony bids, sales prospects dimmed quickly. None of the offers met the minimum bid of $120,000, and the online auction has now expired.

The Grammy-winning rapper and star of "8 Mile," whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, lived in the suburban Detroit bungalow as a teenager. It was appraised at $91,000.

Another former Eminem house in Detroit also failed to attract a minimum bid, which was set at $500,000, on eBay when the auction expired last week. A third house Eminem had lived in had attracted a bogus bid of $99.9 million, but the owner is still hoping to sell it for $2 million.

They don't want Brad

Malaysia - Brad Pitt is sought after for magazine covers and posters worldwide, but the Malaysian government believes the Hollywood star's appearance in a recent series of car advertisements in this region was "an insult to Asians."

Deputy Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin said Monday that ads featuring models and personalities who don't look Asian would "plant a sense of inferiority among Asians," the national news agency Bernama reported.

"Why must we use their faces in our advertisements?" Zainuddin was quoted as saying. "Aren't our own people handsome enough?"

Zainuddin said the government recently pulled the plug on advertisements for Toyota Altis cars featuring Pitt. The campaign ran for at least several weeks in mid-2002 in newspapers and on television in Malaysia and many other Asian countries.

Monroe stockings in auction

London - A pair of nylon stockings that Marilyn Monroe wore, Laurence Olivier's black suede shoes, and a jacket that Jack Nicholson wore in "The Shining" are among movie memorabilia to be auctioned in London, Christie's auction house said.

The 200-lot sale spans more than 80 years of film and TV history.

Among the lots are four helmets from 1977's "Star Wars," three letters from Alfred Hitchcock to British movie producer Michael Balcon, and a wristwatch Pierce Brosnan wore in the 1999 film "The World Is Not Enough."