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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soul music veteran Isaac Hayes, the voice of the libidinous character Chef on the satiric cable TV cartoon "South Park," said on Monday he was leaving the show, citing its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs and others begins," Hayes said in a statement issued through his spokesman in New York. Hayes, 63, a...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soul music veteran Isaac Hayes, the voice of the libidinous character Chef on the satiric cable TV cartoon "South Park," said on Monday he was leaving the show, citing its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion. "There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs and others begins," Hayes said in a statement issued through his spokesman in New York. Hayes, 63, a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After a string of publicity faux pas that made him one of Hollywood's favorite punch lines, actor Tom Cruise has hired a leading public relations firm to replace his sister as his chief spokesperson. In a statement issued on Monday by his new publicist, Cruise said Rogers & Cowan has taken over as his personal publicist and would also oversee media relations for his production company, Cruise-Wagner Prods. His sister, Lee Anne DeVette, is now assigned...