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 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

Nov 6, 09 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Jon Stewart asked the tough questions last night: Now that Glenn Beck has lost his appendix, how are we going to stop the conspiracy to harvest the rest of his organs? The Daily Show host channeled everything Beck last night, from glasses-fiddling to chalkboard to leaps of logic. “... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Fox News • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • appendicitis

MOVIE REVIEW

 Inside The Box, 
 a Muddled Surprise 

Film is wayward, most critics agree, but for some it's interesting

Nov 6, 09 12:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Critics are split on The Box, the new film from writer-director Richard Kelly, known for the much-loved Donnie Darko and the reviled Southland Tales. Some takes on the flick about a box with a mysterious, life-changing button:
  • Pass, writes writes Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News.
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entertainment • film • movie review • thriller • Cameron Diaz • Richard Kelly • James Mardsen • Twilight Zone • The Box

 Pre-Scandal 
 Fergie Spills 
 to Cosmo 

Before Josh Duhamel's stripper fiasco, singer applauded him in mag

Nov 6, 09 11:09 AM CST
(Newser) - When Cosmopolitan interviewed Fergie for its December issue, no one could have predicted that by the time it hit stands, hubby Josh Duhamel would be embroiled in a stripper-sex scandal. At the time, Fergie sang his praises, Radar reports, telling the mag when it came to her recent weight gain... More »

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entertainment • sex scandal • celebrity • stripper • Fergie • cheating • celebrity marriage • Josh Duhamel

 Rihanna: 'I Was 
 Battered, I Was 
 Bleeding' 

'I fended him off with my feet,' she says of Chris Brown attack

Nov 6, 09 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - As he hit her, Rihanna says, Chris Brown had “no soul in his eyes,” and he left her bleeding and swollen. The singer didn't hold back in the second part of her interview with Diane Sawyer on today’s Good Morning America , saying, "All I kept thinking... More »

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entertainment • domestic violence • celebrity • Rihanna • physical abuse • Chris Brown

TIPS FOR THE MANSIONLESS


 What Broke 
 Celebs Can 
 Teach Us 

Don't make the same mistakes as Nicolas Cage and Annie Leibovitz

Nov 6, 09 9:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Celebrities really are just like us: During these financially stressful times, they’re suffering, too. On Huffington Post, Manisha Thakor points out the takeaway from four high-profile meltdowns.
  • NBA Player Antoine Walker: Squandered away his $110 million fortune by age 33. The lesson? If you have a variable
... More »

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entertainment • debt • celebrity • recession • Antoine Walker • credit crisis • Annie Leibovitz • Nicolas Cage • Nicolas Cage broke

UNFAVORITE THINGS

 Oprah to Rosie: 
 Stop Calling 
 Me Gay! 

Winfrey to O'Donnell: 'I don't want to hear it anymore!'

Nov 6, 09 9:17 AM CST
(Newser) - Watch out, Rosie: You got yourself on Oprah’s bad side. The talk-show queen is upset with O’Donnell after the comedian recently told Howard Stern that Winfrey and BFF Gayle King "are the emotional equivalent of" a gay couple—especially since this isn’t the first time Rosie’... More »

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entertainment • lesbians • Rosie O'Donnell • Oprah Winfrey • celebrity • homosexuality • Howard Stern • Gayle King

APOLOGIES dept.

 Shatner Reads the Real Levi 

Conan O'Brien sorry for fake Tweets, but not too sorry

Nov 6, 09 7:29 AM CST
(Newser) - The Tonight Show got the last laugh on Levi Johnston. The soon-to-be Playgirl model threatened to sue if Conan O’Brien didn’t retract Wednesday’s poetry session, featuring William Shatner dramatically reading Levi’s supposed Tweets. So O'Brien admitted they were actually written by “a clever impostor posing... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • lawsuit • late night talk show • Conan O'Brien • Tonight Show • William Shatner • Sarah Palin • Twitter • Levi Johnston

NIKKI FINKE

 Oprah Sets Date for 
 Cable Launch, 
 Show Move 

Discovery Channel to media mogul: 'Move it or lose it'

Nov 5, 09 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - The long-awaited launch of Oprah's cable network is set for early 2011, and her syndicated talk show will move to the new Oprah Winfrey Network—and from Chicago to Los Angeles. The switch from Discovery Health Channel to OWN was originally set for mid-2009, and Discovery threatened to rescind the... More »

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entertainment • television • CBS • ABC • Oprah Winfrey • Discovery Channel • Discovery Communications • Oprah Winfrey Network • syndication

 New Site 
 Decodes 
 Rap Lyrics 

Rap Exegesis breaks down Jay-Z, Ghostface Killah, and more

Nov 5, 09 11:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ song “Empire State of Mind” is everywhere, even at the World Series. But do you know what the lyrics mean? If not, Rap Exegesis can clue you in the way it educated Nick Antosca of the Huffington Post. Some of the explanations the site offers:... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • rapper • rap music • Alicia Keys • Ghostface Killah • Lil Wayne • Notorious B.I.G. • Jay-Z • Jay-ZTV

 Beatles Break Free of CDs 

Pricey USB drive holds band's remastered studio albums

Nov 5, 09 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Beatles songs still aren't available on iTunes, but you can get them on an apple—a USB drive shaped like an apple, that is. EMI is charging a mere $279.99 for all of the band’s remastered studio albums, previously available only on CD, and a slew of video,... More »

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entertainment • music • EMI • digital music • Beatles • apple • remastering • remastered • USB


 I Went Back to 
 Chris Brown: 
 Rihanna 

Says it takes 'eight or nine' times for an abused woman to leave

Nov 5, 09 10:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Rihanna returned to Chris Brown after he assaulted her Feb. 8, telling Diane Sawyer, “I fell in love with that person. That’s embarrassing. So far in love, so unconditional, that I went back.” Responding to Sawyer’s estimate in an interview airing tonight and tomorrow on ABC... More »

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entertainment • domestic violence • celebrity • Rihanna • Diane Sawyer • physical abuse • Chris Brown • celebrity breakup

HOT LEGAL ISSUES

 Prejean 
 May Sue 
 —This Time, 
 Over Sex Tape 

Former Miss Cali's lawyer considering breach of contract lawsuit

Nov 5, 09 9:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Only a day after Carrie Prejean dropped her lawsuit against the Miss California Pageant, she's ready for another. The dethroned Miss California’s lawyer says, thanks to sex tape rumors, they may sue for breach of contract. “It seems as if someone has acted in an unethical and unlawful... More »

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entertainment • beauty pageant • lawsuit • sex tape • Carrie Prejean • Miss California • Keith Lewis • tell-all • Carrie Prejean sex tape

TINY COURT FILINGS

 Ex Slaps 
 Mini-Me With 
 Restraining Order 

Beauty queen ex says Verne Troyer threatened her

Nov 5, 09 9:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Verne Troyer, better known as Mini-Me from Austin Powers, has already had a sex tape leaked—now he can add restraining order to his list of scandals. Ex-galpal Yvette Monet got the order last month after claiming she believes Troyer has a gun and she fears for her life, Radar... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • restraining order • Verne Troyer

WATCH THE VIDEO

 Shatner 
 Poeticizes 
 Levi's Tweets 

William Shatner back on Conan for dramatic reading of Johnston's posts

Nov 5, 09 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Only a dramatic reading by William Shatner can give Levi Johnston’s tweets the gravity they truly deserve. Shatner visited The Tonight Show yesterday to poeticize Twitter gems such as, “Maybe I’m a genius and not even know it. Maybe I don’t exist and it only seems... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • late night talk show • Conan O'Brien • Tonight Show • William Shatner • Sarah Palin • Twitter • Levi Johnston

FERGIE'S DEVOTED HUBBY

Stripper: I Had 'Lots of Sex' With Josh Duhamel

Nicole Forrester reveals affair with 'freaking hot' married man

Nov 5, 09 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The stripper who claims to have bedded Transformers star (and Fergie hubby) Josh Duhamel shared all the dirty details with an Atlanta radio station Monday, including her claim that “we did hook up and had lots of sex and we had a really, really good time.” The interview... More »

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entertainment • sex scandal • celebrity • stripper • Fergie • Josh Duhamel

SPICOLI LITE

 Sean Penn's 
 Son Dodges 
 Drug Charges 

But Hopper may have been kicked out of another school for drugs

Nov 5, 09 8:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Sean Penn’s son, arrested last week at his Malibu high school, is not facing drug charges. Sources close to the investigation say he was picked up for drug possession, but tell Radar that the drugs—no names given—were medications prescribed to Hopper, and that the district attorney's office... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • prescription drugs • arrest • Sean Penn • Robin Wright Penn

HUH, HOW ABOUT THAT?

 Sex Tape 
 Got Prejean 
 to Settle Suit 

TMZ says it's had too-racy-to-post video for months

Nov 4, 09 6:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Today’s decision by former Miss California Carrie Prejean to drop a lawsuit against the pageant came after one of its lawyers showed Prejean a sex tape that TMZ says it obtained “months ago but decided not to post … because it was so racy.” As part of... More »

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entertainment • beauty pageant • lawsuit • TMZ • sex tape • Carrie Prejean • Miss California • Carrie Prejean sex tape

 Relationships 
 That Wouldn't 
 Work in Reality 

Hollywood cooks up some screwed up matches

Nov 4, 09 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood’s great at making us root for relationships that shouldn’t work. But some of them really shouldn’t work. The Nerve imagines if the following couples moved in next-door:
  • Beauty and the Beast: No, I’m not kissing a dog … he’s really a
... More »

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entertainment • television • Beauty and the Beast • Arrested Development • Dexter • movies • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Mad Men



 Michelle Pushes 
 Healthy Meals 
 —on Iron Chef 

First lady will guest on Food Network competition's season opener

Nov 4, 09 11:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Michelle Obama’s campaign to wean kids off junk food is taking a slightly unorthodox turn: The first lady will guest on Iron Chef America’s Jan. 3 episode. In addition to discussing her crusade for healthy school lunches and more, Obama will reveal the secret ingredient for the show's... More »

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entertainment • Michelle Obama • cooking • Mario Batali • Emeril Lagasse • Bobby Flay • Jay-ZTV • Iron Chef

KINKY INTERVIEW

 Nicole Kidman: 
 I've Explored 
 Fetish Sex 

She admits to sexual experimentation, talks 'danger' of marriage

Nov 4, 09 10:55 AM CST
(Newser) - She still won’t discuss what went wrong in her marriage to Tom Cruise—but ask her about kinky sex and Nicole Kidman is happy to deliver. “I’ve explored obsession,” she tells British GQ . “I’ve explored strange sexual fetish stuff.” She adds that her... More »

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entertainment • Nicole Kidman • Tom Cruise • sex • celebrity • Keith Urban

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