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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Tom Cruise Regrets Bashing Brooke Shields — Tom Cruise realizes he crossed a line when he criticized Brooke Shields last summer for her use of antidepressants, a colleague of the actor says. — "That, he deeply regrets," Kathleen Kennedy, who produced Cruise's War of the Worlds with Steven Spielberg, tells the New York Daily News.
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Tom Turning Around his Image? — Tom Cruise is saying he's sorry to Brooke Shields after he bashed her for using antidepressants following her daughter's birth... well, sorta. Tom's colleague says that he "deeply regrets" what he said. It's nice timing - Tom is trying to turn around his image just as he was dumped by Paramount.
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The Green Straw
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Cruise's Camp Fires Back at Paramount — On Wednesday Paramount Pictures announced the end of its business relationship with Tom Cruise - with Sumner Redstone, chief of Paramount parent company Viacom, blaming the actor's conduct. Now, Cruise's camp is firing back.
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Celebritology
Nicholas White / People.com:
Macy Knocks Costar Lindsay Lohan's Lateness — Veteran character actor William H. Macy says he respects Lindsay Lohan's talent - but not her behavior. — "You can't show up late," Macy, 56, told reporters Thursday at a Los Angeles junket promoting his new movie, Everyone's Hero.
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Miuvonf / A Socialite's Life:
Punched In The Face By Firecrotch — Did I miss something? Has Lindsay Lohan been taking lessons from the most famous of assistant abusers, Naomi Campbell? And if so, it's called using a cell phone, sweetie. The last thing you want to do is break a nail... According to KROQ, Lindsay punched her assistant in the face.
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Seriously? OMG!
Richard L. Eldredge / accessatlanta.com:
Pop idol spills beans with J-Lo baby news — Tween idol Jesse McCartney's new pop album is appropriately titled "Right Where You Want Me." At an appearance Thursday morning in-studio at Star 94, the 19-year-old was right where Steve McCoy and Vikki Locke wanted him. — At the center of a celebrity stork report.
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New York Post:
PARTY SPOILED — ANGELINA Jolie and Brad Pitt were in no mood to recon cile with Jolie's outspoken dad, Jon Voight, at the Hollywood birthday bash for Scott Caan the other night. The ultimate celebrity couple spent a half-hour sitting in their car out side the party after learning that Voight was in side.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Why Isn't Britney a Supermodel? — This is the two-dolla question! Britney Spears is so good at posing with different objects that she should really replace Gisele Bundchen as the top model in the World. Here's our girl at the Primary's Action's and Adwil Agency's Emmy Suite on August 24th.
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Just Jared:
Britney Spears' Daughter — Britney's Back Fo' Real — Producer Swizz Beatz promises something groundbreaking for the new Britney Spears album, which he's currently working on with songwriter Sean Garrett. "That's my partner in crime right there," Swizz said. "The Britney stuff, we're creating just for her.
NY Daily News:
Evans flies into an 'Entou-rage' — Could HBO's Hollywood-skewering hit "Entourage" be getting its first lawsuit from a target? — Friends of legendary producer Bob Evans say he's furious about a caricature of him, played by Martin Landau. — "Entourage" producers approached Evans months ago to play himself on the series.
NY Daily News:
The haves who just don't get it — New York's rich, young socialites love to be seen as givers. So they borrow designer gowns and pricey jewelry to attend charity galas, where they pose for paparazzi and brag to TV crews about the joys of altruism. — Now, It girls such as Tinsley Mercer Mortimer …
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A Socialite's Life
People.com:
Jessica: Who's She Rollin' With? — Plus: Jake Gyllenhaal flirts with the party scene in N.Y.C. — Jessica Simpson sure gets around. Two days after hosting the Teen Choice Awards in L.A. the pop diva jetted home to the Lone Star State to be a special guest at the Interskate Roller Rink in Lewisville, Texas.
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The Sun:
Pete cocaine bust at Priory — SICK Pete Doherty sparked outrage last night after it emerged he was caught giving cocaine to a troubled teenager at The Priory. — A security guard saw the junkie rocker — in rehab as part of a bail condition — handing the class A killer drug to a youngster in the dead of night.
broadway.com:
American Idol's Constantine Maroulis to Join The Wedding Singer in September — Constantine Maroulis, a contestant in the 2005 edition of American Idol, will join the cast of The Wedding Singer in early September in the role of Sammy, the not-so-bright bandmate of the title character.
Teresa Wiltz / Washington Post:
'Idlewild:' A Rap Movie With Rapturous Originality — By all rights, "Idlewild," the much-promoted Prohibition-era musical starring the Grammy-winning OutKast, those quirkily space-age rappers from the ATL, shouldn't work. Shouldn't work, wouldn't work, but somehow does work.
Richard Simpson / Daily Mail:
Cindy Crawford: 'My 11 years of cosmetic surgery' — Supermodel Cindy Crawford has made the astonishing revelation that she has been using a cosmetic surgeon for the past 11 years. — It had always been assumed that Miss Crawford earned her £25 million fortune from her natural looks.
Clemmie Moodie / Daily Mail:
Despite frail health, Liz Taylor goes sailing with the sharks — She has been married eight times - so it can safely be assumed she has tangled with her fair share of predators in her time. — With that in mind, Elizabeth Taylor's most recent excursion - despite her years and frail health …
Associated Press:
NYC officials want to stop segregated 'Survivor' — 'How could anybody be so desperate for ratings?' asks one city councilman … MSNBC TV — NEW YORK - A group of New York City officials blasted CBS and its hit series "Survivor" on Thursday, a day after the network announced that the teams …
Just Jared:
Tom Cruise's Secret Yahoo! Deal — After parting ways with Paramount Studios, Tom Cruise secretly (or not so secretly — he did wave to paparazzi after all) met with executives of Internet media giant Yahoo! for a three-hour meeting in in Santa Monica, California. Remember when TomKat invaded Yahoo! HQ back in March?
Sky News:
POSH'S NEW TV GIG — We've kept our eyes on her style for many a year now. — So, who better to hand out expert advice on fashion than celebrity clothes horse, Victoria Beckham? — Posh is set to land her own style programme on American TV. — The man behind the venture is none …
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Hecklerspray
