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By SHARON FINK, Times Staff Writer ATTACK OF THE CLONES -- THE PREQUEL: Star Wars fanatics, don't relax yet. 'N Sync fans, keep your fingers crossed. Anti-'N Syncers, keep your laughter down. And the rest of you, continue to wonder what all the fuss is about. No matter what 'N Sync's Joey Fatone told WFLZ-FM 93.3 about band members having their minute cameos cut from Episode II -- Attack of the Clones, Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynn Hale tells Eonline.com that no decision has been made. "The 'N Sync guys were shot as extras, and whether they're in or out won't be determined until the final edit," Hale says. Fatone called WFLZ last week to say he wanted to make it "officially known" that the boys, playing unidentifiable Jedi warriors in a climactic battle scene, were cut because of an uproar from the Star Wars fanatical after the news got out. "We're not going to be in it, and I'm not going to comment on it any more," Fatone told FLZ's Carson. Hale tells Eonline that one person and one person only -- director and birth parent of all things Star Wars George Lucas -- decides who will be in the movie. And he doesn't bow to boy band hysteria one way or the other. "George makes all his decisions himself," Hale says. "And the final edit of the film is what he determines it will be." FRANKLIN WOULD HAVE A HARD TIME MAKING THE CUT, TOO: "Eleanor Roosevelt is not going to be anchoring your weekend news, okay?" -- Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, saying Paula Zahn needs to get over her insult -- and her pretense -- over being described as sexy in a short-lived CNN ad. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have settled their $50-million lawsuit against the maker of their wedding rings in the Hollywood way: They dropped their demand for tons of money in exchange for creative control of the project. Pitt will design rings for high-end Italian jewelers Damiani International, and Aniston will model in their ads, Pitt's publicist confirmed to Eonline.com. The couple sued the company in July, claiming Damiani violated an agreement by making copies of their rings and selling them to celebrity couple wannabes. The rings were based on an idea of Pitt's. Damiani sold them as "Brad and Jennifer" rings and used the couple's picture in promotions. The company, which said the suit resulted from "an unfortunate misunderstanding," will stopselling the copies as part of the settlement.
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