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TV's Craig Ferguson aces citizenship test

No need for any more honorary citizenships for talk show host Craig Ferguson. He's going to be the real deal.

The Late Late Show host announced Monday that he got a perfect score on his citizenship test, taken Friday in Los Angeles. The Scottish-born Ferguson will officially be sworn in a few weeks from now.

"All of you people born here, if you had to take that test -- well, Canada would be building a fence right now," he said on his CBS show Monday.

It started as a joke last June, when Ferguson received a letter from the mayor of Ozark, Ark., granting him "honorary citizenship" of the town for his kind words about its catfish. Ferguson started a campaign to get the designation elsewhere and is now an honorary citizen of 16,109 communities nationwide.

Deciding to become a citizen of the nation at large required him to take a test with such questions as "What month is the new president inaugurated?" and "Who is the chief justice of the Supreme Court?"

He made it. And in the true American spirit, was already joking that President Bush's final State of the Union address "was like a farewell, special edition of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?"

"I'm getting cocky for someone who is not yet a citizen, aren't I?" he said.

DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWS HAVEL

Former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel is giving the world a backstage peek at his turbulent political career. A new, two-hour documentary, Citizen Havel -- premiering in his home country on Thursday -- was culled from 45 hours of material gathered by Havel's friend Pavel Koutecky, who followed the president around the world for 13 years, starting in 1992. The footage, shot like a home video, shows Havel at home, on the world stage and shaking hands with celebrities.

The movie "puts a human face on the image of Havel, the icon," said David Dusek, one of the film's co-producers. Viewers get to see Havel nervous against the backdrop of political Washington, clowning around with Bill Clinton in a jazz club and showing the Rolling Stones around Prague Castle.

Dusek says the movie was well received at screenings at U.S. universities last year, and will compete at the Berlin Film Festival next month. It is unclear whether it will have wider international distribution.

Havel was a dissident playwright when he led the 1989 revolution that peacefully toppled communism. He became president of then-Czechoslovakia in December 1989 and served as Czech president from January 1993 after the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. His last term in office ended in February 2003.

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