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Fox News
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Aug 11, 08 11:20 AM CDT
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Cancer-stricken Paul Newman is finished with chemotherapy and has gone home to be with his family, Fox News reports. The 82-year-old Oscar-winner reportedly has weeks to live but “didn’t want to die in the hospital,” a family friend said. The actor is said to have been getting his affairs in order; at home he'll be with wife Joanne Woodward and his five daughters, who are “beside themselves with grief.”
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Daily Mail (UK)
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Aug 11, 08 8:00 AM CDT
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This is one legend who isn’t shopping a comeback. At 84, Hollywood icon Doris Day has changed her name to Clara Kappelhoff—her birth surname—and lives in obscurity in rural California where she spends her days rounding up stray animals to take back to her 11-acre fortress-like ranch, the Daily Mail reports.
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Chicago Tribune
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Aug 8, 08 5:10 PM CDT
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Just months into their relationship, former Beatle Paul McCartney and girlfriend Nancy Shevell are road-tripping across legendary Route 66, but an extended journey spent in a car can be deadly to romance, Mary Schmich writes in the Chicago Tribune . "A road trip is a compatibility test on wheels, one that many couples have flunked," she writes.
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People
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Aug 8, 08 3:10 PM CDT
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Crooner Clay Aiken is now a dad. The former American Idol runner-up welcomed a baby boy this morning with music producer Jaymes Foster. "He's here!" Aiken wrote on his website. "My dear friend, Jaymes, and I are so excited to announce the birth of Parker Foster Aiken." Aiken and Jaymes are not in a romantic relationship, though they plan to raise their son together. She became pregnant via in vitro fertilization.
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People
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Aug 8, 08 11:40 AM CDT
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Jewel eloped to the Bahamas last night with her longtime boyfriend, the rodeo champion Ty Murray, People reports. The pair, who never announced their engagement, exchanged vows at a private ceremony in which the singer wore a traditional gown and Murray donned his favorite jeans and cowboy hat. The groom currently stars in his wife’s video for her country single “I Do.” They've been together 10 years.
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Associated Press
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Aug 8, 08 9:30 AM CDT
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L’Oreal says it didn't lighten Beyonce’s skin tone for an ad for its Feria hair color brand, the AP reports. Media outlets have been abuzz since TMZ juxtaposed the ad—running in Elle , Allure , and Essence magazines—with a photo of the star in which she seems to have darker skin. One advertising insider says the discrepancy could be due to routine touchups in the studio.
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Crain's New York Business
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Aug 7, 08 11:36 AM CDT
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HarperCollins will pay $2 million to publish Steven Tyler's memoirs, Crain's New York Business reports. The 60-year-old's tell-all will delve into his childhood, his kids, “and all of the sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll imaginable,” the publisher said in a statement to the New York Times .
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Entertainment Tonight
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Aug 6, 08 12:36 PM CDT
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Lisa Marie Presley and husband Michael Lockwood are expecting twins in the fall, Entertainment Tonight reports. "She wanted it really to be kept a secret for a long time, you know, and I think women should, because they should be able to announce what they're having, and when it's time to make the announcement," her mother, Priscilla, said.
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Reuters
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Aug 6, 08 11:49 AM CDT
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Victoria Beckham’s girl-power roots go a lot further back than her Spice Girls days: The pop icon is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a 19th-century communist who worked with Karl Marx, Reuters reports. A German historian discovered the link between Posh and revolutionary Carl Heinrich Pfaender who was chummy with Marx and fled to England after the failed revolution of 1848.
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Associated Press
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Aug 6, 08 10:44 AM CDT
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Scarlett Johansson might laugh about it now, but she was embarrassed by the media coverage of her so-called "email relationship" with Barack Obama. "I was merely trying to express my delight at Obama's commitment to his campaign…and how wonderful and refreshing that is. And it was manipulated into such an unfortunate media frenzy of kind of a nonstory."
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Reuters
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Aug 5, 08 11:26 AM CDT
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Charlie Sheen is the highest-paid primetime TV actor at $825,000 per episode, but the Two and a Half Men star's $20 million per year pales in comparison to Oprah's haul. The media mogul took home $385 million last year, Reuters reports in deconstructing TV Guide ’s annual list of top earners.
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People
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Aug 5, 08 10:01 AM CDT
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Morgan Freeman “has a broken arm, broken elbow, and minor shoulder damage but he is in good spirits," his publicist told People . The actor underwent successful surgery to correct the damage from a car accident Sunday night in Mississippi, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. "He's worried about his golf swing," said a business partner.
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New York
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Aug 4, 08 12:51 PM CDT
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Following the lead of Madonna and Demi Moore, women in their 50s and 60s are trading the tight pull of traditional facelifts for techniques that push out the face to resemble the baby fat plumpness of teenage definition, reports New York. The magazine dubs the sought-after look the “New New Face.”
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Chicago Sun-Times
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Aug 4, 08 9:51 AM CDT
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Comedian Bernie Mac is in “very, very critical” condition and in a Chicago hospital being treated for pneumonia, a family friend told the Chicago Sun-Times . But the 50-year-old’s publicist called reports of his death "a very horrible rumor" and said he'll be released soon.
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People
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Aug 4, 08 5:06 AM CDT
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Raising six kids is “chaos—but we are managing and having a wonderful time," Angelina Jolie tells People in an interview accompanying the magazine debut of her newborn twins, Knox and Vivienne. The brood is spread out in the family's $60 million mansion Château Miraval in Provence, where Brangelina's four "older" children—all under the age of 7— are helping care for the newest arrivals.
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NBC 4 Los Angeles
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Aug 1, 08 11:42 AM CDT
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LA's police chief said yesterday the city's paparazzi problems are under control now that Britney Spears has “started wearing clothes and behaving” and "Lindsay Lohan has gone gay." A proposed anti-paparazzi law is a "complete waste of time," William Bratton told KNBC-TV before a meeting about the need for restrictions.
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Los Angeles Times
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Aug 1, 08 10:05 AM CDT
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Tinseltown is ticked over John McCain’s recent ad likening Barack Obama to Britney Spears—and to Paris Hilton, whose parents have donated the maximum to the senator's campaign. The problem isn't just looking ungrateful, reports the LA Times, but the fine distinction between a mere “celebrity” and a "rock star" like Obama.
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