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Newsmakers: Liza Minnelli, Naomi Campbell

Liza Minnelli's legendary 1972 concert "Liza With a 'Z' "--now restored--is on Showtime and is out this week on DVD. Minnelli sat down with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin.

Six years ago, Naomi Campbell enrolled in an anger-management course. It's time for a tuneup. New York police hauled the supermodel from her Park Avenue penthouse last week and booked her on charges of assaulting her housekeeper. The weapon was reportedly Campbell's jewel-encrusted cell phone, which sounds funny until you remember she chucked a phone at an assistant in 1998, in which case it sounds like a nasty habit. Campbell knows a thing or two about perp walks--she dressed for the occasion in a plush white poncho with frills just low enough to hide her handcuffs. In court, she made two pleas: not guilty, and could she please keep her passport. She's set to travel with Nelson Mandela. "Surrendering her passport would not only be unfair to her," Campbell's lawyer told the judge, "but unfair to the children of South Africa." Lucky kids--the judge let her go.

Between the Babies and Brad, Angelina Jolie keeps up her efforts as humanitarian heroine. Hot on her heels, though, are some not-so-usual suspects.

Say what you want about Mr. Spears, but at least his heart seems to be in the right place: he recently cut 10 inches off his hair for the children's charity Locks of Love.

She praised Angelina for the spotlight she's shone on international adoption, and Simpson says she now plans to adopt as well.

We all know about Pitt's globe-trotting with Angie for good causes from Kenya to Haiti. Now he's narrating a PBS special on global public health, "Rx for Survival."

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Marc Peyser was named senior editor of the Arts & Entertainment section in October 2006, overseeing NEWSWEEK's coverage of movies, television, theater, books, art and architecture.

Previously he had served as a senior writer covering the television industry since 1999. He has contributed to numerous cover-length stories on popular television shows, stars and personalities.  Among the most recent topics: "The Colbert Report," "Desperate Housewives" and "American Idol," along with "The Sopranos," the end of "Friends" and "Six Feet Under." He has also reviewed new television shows as well as Broadway and off-Broadway theater.

Before that, Peyser was a general editor in the Nation and Arts sections and penned the popular Newsmakers page from 1997 through 1999. He joined Newsweek in September 1989 as a letters correspondent and later served as editorial and senior editorial assistant of arts and associate editor of Nation, Society and Arts & Entertainment.

Peyser was a reporter for The Register newspaper in Red Bank, N.J. from 1987 to 1989.  While at The Register, Peyser won two New Jersey Press Association Awards for feature stories.

He received his B.A. in English from Stanford University and his M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University.  He resides in Manhattan.

Nicki Gostin interviews celebrities for newsweek.com. She has written for Newsweek, TV Guide, The Age newspaper, and Australian Women's Weekly, and has appeared on Entertainment Tonight. She dates her interest in celebrities and the Royal Family back to when she was five and wrote letters to Sesame Street, the Queen, and Basil Brush (a British puppet fox with his own TV show).

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