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3:45 PM ET, August 25, 2006

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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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Sky News:
ANGE'S TRICKY NIGHT  —  Angelina Jolie had an awkward moment when she arrived at a Hollywood party.  —  In fact, there are reports that she stayed in her car until a certain guest left.  —  But it wasn't Jennifer Aniston or any of Jen's close-knit girl pals.  It was Ange's own dad, Jon Voight.
Discussion: POPSUGAR
Star:
ANGELINA'S MONSTER-IN-LAW!
Discussion: lePaparazzi
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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Sarah Hall / E! Online:
Cruise Not a Popularity Contest Winner  —  It seems Sumner Redstone is not alone in his distaste for Tom Cruise's couch-jumping conduct.  —  On the heels of Paramount Pictures' decision not to renew Cruise's production deal comes word that the Mission: Impossible star's popularity ratings are down.
Discussion: PerezHilton.com and MollyGood
POPSUGAR:
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.
Discussion: The Green Straw
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Cruise's Camp Fires Back at Paramount
Discussion: Celebritology
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.
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
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Hollywoodtuna:
Lindsay Lohan Will Soon Smell Good  —  It looks like Lindsay Lohan is hoping to join the long list of celebs like Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears — and even Antonio Banderas, who have gotten into the very lucrative perfume business.  —  Source
Sean Daly / Celebrity Week:
Co-Star: Lohan Should Be Fired
Discussion: Cinematical
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.
Discussion: We Love Celebs!
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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:
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 …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
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.
Discussion: A Socialite's Life, Yeeeah! and Defamer
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.
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.
Discussion: POPSUGAR
People.com:
Prince to Rock ET/PEOPLE Emmys Party  —  The place to be after Sunday night's Emmys awards ceremony?  Entertainment Tonight's 10 annuals Emmys party, sponsored, for the third year, by PEOPLE.  —  Stars including Sandra Oh, Calista Flockhart and Denis Leary will head from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium …
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.
TMZ.com:
Meat Loaf Cusses Like a Bat Out of Hell  —  The Kerrang!  Awards in London was a party like no other, and one-time rocker Meat Loaf's "enthusiasm" for the show was definitely the highlight.  —  Taking the stage to present the Best Video Award, Meat Loaf dropped the f-bomb 10 times in under 40 seconds …
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?
 
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