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“‘Even though they are still in love, they felt it would be better to just be friends,’ a source close to Hilton, 27, tells Us. The reason for the split? ‘Benji was overprotective and controlling. He doesn’t get along with any of her friends,’ the source tells Us. ‘Friends thought Paris had changed since being with Benji and she wants to be herself again.’” [Link]
“All three CEOs - Rick Wagoner of GM, Alan Mulally of Ford, and Robert Nardelli of Chrysler - exercised their perks Tuesday by flying in corporate jets to DC. Wagoner flew in GM’s $36 million luxury aircraft to tell members of Congress that the company is burning through cash, asking for $10-12 billion for GM alone. ‘We want to continue the vital role we’ve played for Americans for the past 100 years, but we can’t do it alone,’ Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee. While Wagoner testified, his G4 private jet was parked at Dulles airport. It is just one of a fleet of luxury jets owned by GM that continues to ferry executives around the world despite the company’s dire financial straits.” [Link]
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“Ticket sales for the movie’s opening weekend could approach $60 million, box office analysts say, fueled by Ms. Meyer’s rabid fans and Summit’s marketing pyrotechnics. That kind of money — especially for a film that cost just $37 million to produce — propels to the center of Hollywood a studio known for bombs like ‘P2,’ a horror movie set in a parking garage, and ‘Sex Drive,’ about a loser who works in a doughnut shop. ‘It’s the first time a little engine that could has come along in awhile, and that’s getting the attention of people who never thought twice about Summit,’ said Tara S. Kole, a partner at the entertainment law firm Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, which represents clients like Steven Spielberg and Mary-Kate Olsen.” [Link]
“Meeting in closed session, the state high court asked litigants on both sides for more written arguments and said a hearing on the cases could come as early as March. The court also signaled its intention to decide the fate of existing same-sex marriages, asking litigants to argue that question.” [Link]
“President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former U.S. Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle to be Health and Human Services secretary, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing sources close to Obama’s transition team.” [Link]
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Megan Fox on the red carpet of the GQ Men Of The Year 2008 Event
“The creators of the cartoon South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are planning to stage a Broadway musical based on the lives and (many) loves of typical members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. It will be co-written by the composer Robert Lopez, who wrote Avenue Q, the award-winning musical which sends-up another all-American institution, Sesame Street. Cheyenne Jackson, an openly-gay Broadway star who appeared in the film United 93, said this week that he has agreed to play the lead role, a Mormon missionary, in the show, which is currently being work-shopped and is slated to open in 2009.” [Link]
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“‘[The ceremony will be] small,’ the former Beverly Hills, 90210 star added at Tuesday night’s GQ bash in L.A. ‘Originally we were talking elopement and now we might have a few people there.’ Still, he said, don’t expect a lot of press hoopla surrounding their big day. ‘You might hear about it the week after.’ ” [Link]
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Kim Kardashian appears at the GQ Men Of The Year event.
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Paris Hilton appears at the 2008 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in Miami
“Michael Kolb, 23, 1023 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, approached the girl in late October while she was doing community service work at the school, Hebron Police Chief Dale Egland said. ‘He asked her if she was still doing some modeling work to which she said yes,’ Egland said. ‘He told her there was more money to be made in the adult film business.’ Egland said the girl then left, but on Nov. 4 Kolb pulled her into a back room at the school.” [Link]
“In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—’house negroes.’ Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term ‘abeed al-beit,’ which literally translates as ‘house slaves.’ But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as ‘house negroes.’ ” [Link]
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Suelyn Medeiros in a yellow bikini.
“The U.S. Army is investigating a soldier who allegedly videotaped his son in a battle with another toddler and allowed the tape to be spread on the Internet. Alicia Scheideger, the boy’s mother, told ABC News her ex-husband, who is stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, had custody of the boy. She said she was the one who notified authorities of the video, which has been removed from the Internet. ‘I was horrified. It’s a baby cockfight just like somebody put two animals up to fight each other,’ Scheideger said.” [Link]
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“Rashida Jones has joined the cast of the new sitcom from ‘The Office’ writer-producers Greg Daniels and Mike Schur, but she won’t be playing Jim Halpert ex Karen Filippelli. Jones will play nurse Ann Logan opposite Amy Poehler (‘Saturday Night Live’) and Aziz Ansari (‘Human Giant’).” [Link]
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“20th Century Fox is gearing up to continue its ‘X-Men’ franchise with a younger set of mutants. Studio has tapped ‘Gossip Girl’ creator Josh Schwartz to write ‘X-Men: First Class.’ He’d also been offered a chance to direct the film, but declined. Schwartz, the creator and exec producer of CW’s teen sudser hit as well as Fox’s youth-centric ‘The O.C.’ and NBC’s ‘Chuck,’ is expected to inject a next-gen sensibility into the superhero series, which has collectively earned $1.2 billion worldwide.” [Link]
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“In the wake of recent news that naughty photos of Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon had made their way onto the internet, OK! has confirmed that the Disney pop trio is no longer slated to be a part of a huge holiday tradition — the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in NYC.” [Link]
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“While promoting her movie Bolt Sunday, the Hannah Montana star told E! News that she’d like to try reality television. ‘I would want to be on a reality show like The Real World because I think that’s crazy,’ said Cyrus. ‘Anyone who would do that has some serious guts.’ With the hectic lifestyle that she lives, the pop princess said it would be nice to just chill out. ‘I just want to be in a really nice house with cameras following me around,’ said Cyrus. ‘I can just sit there, eat Cheetos, read my book, hang out all day.’” [Link]
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“Angelina Jolie admits she struggled breastfeeding her 4-month-old twins, Knox and Viv, simultaneously. ‘You think, ‘Ah, if anybody can do that, I can do that,’ she says in an interview on British show GMTV. ‘But it’s a lot harder than it looks in the books. I did that a few times, but [mostly] I would take turns. It just takes a long time.’” [Link]
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Britney Spears walks the tightrope in a new promo pic for her upcoming “Circus” album.
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