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As if the Travolta courtcase wasn’t cinematic enough already, his lawyer has adopted some choice moves from the movies to help move the trial along.

According to TMZ, the defense attorney tried to claim Travolta’s lawyer Michael McDermott was the one behind the extortion plot to which – and this is when it gets good – McDermott responded, “You can’t handle the truth! You can’t handle the truth!”

The line is straight out of A Few Good Men starring Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise and Demi Moore, and the defense lawyer didn’t miss the reference.

The lawyer for the alleged extortionists replied, “You’ve watched ‘A Few Good Men,’ huh?”

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Former Baywatchstar Pamela Anderson is denying reports that she has gone bankrupt, reports TMZ. An article, which Anderson claims is false, says she is allegedly in debt to the tune of some $1.2 million.

“It is true that I am in a dispute with some of the contractors working on my home,” she said. ”This is because after paying millions of dollars to build the house, I continue to get bills from the contractors. My lawyers are reviewing the work done to see if the bills are fair. If they are, they’ll be paid. If they aren’t, they won’t be. Mistakes have been made in calculating taxes owed and we are now in the process of ensuring that any taxes owed are paid.”

It looks like 2008 is going to be another rough year for Britney Spears. TMZ.com reports that Spears’ lawyers have quit because she repeatedly refused to heed their advice and is destroying her own case.

Trope and Trope, a powerful legal firm, have been fighting Britney’s uphill custody battle for her against Kevin Federline. That is, until they filed to withdraw as her representation yesterday, saying that “There has been a breakdown in communications between [Britney] and Trope and Trope making further representation of her interests impossible.” This came just hours after Spears missed her fifth scheduled deposition.

Spears’ lawyer Laura Wasser also quit on her last year. It is not known whether Spears has been able to lawyer up again or not.