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2:10 PM ET, November 13, 2006

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Jhwang / usmagazine.com:
TomKat Lands in Rome!  —  Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes arrived at Rome's Ciampino Airport on Monday with their daughter, Suri, nearly 7 months, and Cruise's children, 13-year-old daughter Isabella and 11-year-old son Connor, in tow.  Upon arrival, the family alighted to the posh Hotel Hassler Roma …
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New York Post:
HUNGER PANGS  —  NO wonder Katie Holmes had to take a break from her new best friend, Victoria Beckham - she was starving.  The super-skinny soccer wife had been helping Holmes lose her baby weight, but it seems Beckham's dietary rules were too much.  A spy said, "Victoria maintains …
Reuters:
Tom Cruise arrives in Rome ahead of wedding  —  ROME (Reuters) - Tom Cruise flew into Rome on Monday ahead of his wedding to actress Katie Holmes this weekend in Italy, an airport official told Reuters.  —  The "Mission: Impossible" star, presumably in town early to wrap up last-minute details …
New York Post:
CASTLE DATE FOR TOM AND KATIE  —  THE Tomkat's out of the bag as to where Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will tie the knot.  They'll swap vows Saturday at picturesque 15th-century Castello Odeascalchi, which overlooks Lake Bracciano north of Rome, according to Italy's Il Messaggero newspaper.
Discussion: MollyGood and celebrity nation
Miuvonf / A Socialite's Life:   TomKat Wedding Next Saturday
TMZ.com:
TomFat — Mouth Wide Open
Discussion: CelebNewsWire
Emily Smith / The Sun:
Borat spanked by angry Yank  —  BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego.  —  He approached the man and said: "I like your clothings.  Are nice!  Please may I buying?  I want have sex with it."  —  But the bystander didn't see the joke.
Discussion: The DarkHat and Best Week Ever
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Daily Mail:
Borat star attacked in street by man who didn't like his jokes  —  Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen was punched by a man who didn't like his jokes, it emerged.  —  Cohen approached the passer-by in a New York street and said in the style of his Kazakh alter ego: "I like your clothings.  Are nice!
Daily Mail:
Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors
Discussion: WOW Report, Towleroad and Blowing Smoke
New York Post:
CANDID CAMERA  —  KEVIN Federline has come up with new way to make money now that Britney Spears has derailed his gravy train and crowds are staying away in droves from his $20 concerts.  Fed-ex, who made a cool $2 million selling home videos for the show "Chaotic," is trying to sell footage from cameras he installed in his car.
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Abby / Yeeeah!:   Britney Sex Tape To Hit the Net
Susan Hatch / The National Ledger:
Britney Spears Homemade Sex Video For Sale?
Discussion: Hollywoodtuna and The DarkHat
New York Post:
Eatery King Kicks The Critics  —  DANNY Meyer, owner of the popular Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern, titled his new HarperCollins book, "Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business" - but he's anything but hospitable to many of the city's most influential food writers.
Noelle Hancock / usmagazine.com:
Us Exclusive: Grey's Anatomy Star Ellen Pompeo Engaged  —  Ellen Pompeo, 37, and her boyfriend of nearly three years, Chris Ivery, are engaged, Pompeo's rep confirms to Us Weekly.  Ivery proposed on Friday — which was also the actress' birthday — with a 3.5-carat emerald-cut diamond and platinum ring by Tacori.
Associated Press:
Angelina Jolie gets on full Mumbai train  —  MUMBAI, India - Actress Angelina Jolie hopped onto a crowded Mumbai commuter train Monday to film a movie about slain journalist Daniel Pearl who lived and worked in India's financial and entertainment capital.  —  Hollywood actor Dan Futterman …
NY Daily News:
If playing the sands,  —  Bush jokes are sheik  —  Qatar may be one of America's strongest allies in the Arab world, but that doesn't mean its emir can't laugh at a good Bush joke.  —  Recently, we visited the desert kingdom of Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani for the second annual benefit …
Discussion: TMZ.com
The Sun:
Nat gets spicy with Mex ex  —  NATALIE PORTMAN is back in the arms of Mexican movie hunk GAEL GARCIA BERNAL.  —  The petite beauty amazed partygoers at a SEU JORGE gig in London last night by spending the entire evening locking lips with her old flame.  —  Natalie split from MOTORCYCLE …
Pete Norman / People.com:
Jude Law and Sienna Miller Call It Quits  —  Jude Law and Sienna Miller have finally split for good, a source close to the pair tells PEOPLE exclusively.  —  "It's a mutual decision," a pal of the actor says of ending the roller-coaster romance.  "They have definitely come to the end of the road.
Jeannette Walls / MSNBC:
Will Andrea Bocelli serenade TomKat?  —  Famed tenor has reportedly been invited to sing at the couple's wedding  —  Will one of the world's most famous singers croon at TomKat's wedding?  —  Tom Cruise is pulling out all the stops for his top-of-the-line nuptials, and has reportedly booked …
Discussion: POPSUGAR
Raphael Tenthani / Associated Press:
Judge to rule next week in Madonna case  —  LILONGWE, Malawi - Malawi's High Court said Monday it will rule in one week's time whether a coalition of Malawian human rights and child advocacy groups should help decide whether pop star Madonna is fit to adopt a motherless Malawian toddler.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Especially for you, Kylie  —  U2 frontman Bono showed his support for Kylie Minogue last night by singing a duet with the Australian pop singer in Sydney.  —  The duo sang Minogue's hit, Kids, which the singer originally recorded with Brit Robbie Williams, before 10,000 people at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Discussion: u2.com and Pink Is The New Blog
TMZ.com:
Cruise Photog Mauls Infant; Tom Dazed Too  —  It was a knock-down-drag-out day at the soccer field for Tom Cruise on Saturday, problem is — the victim was an innocent toddler caught in Tom's paparazzi crush.  —  It went down moments after Tom put his soon-to-be wife, Katie Holmes …
Ruth Ryon / Los Angeles Times:
Beverly Hills will be Aniston's next pit stop  —  LOS ANGELES—Jennifer Aniston has made her first home purchase since she and Brad Pitt parted ways.  —  The Emmy-winning actress is buying a house in Beverly Hills for $15 million (all figures U.S.).  The home, designed in the early 1970s …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
Andrea Vance / News of the World:
POSH pop star James Blunt cheated on his supermodel girlfriend when he took a sexy student nurse Back to Bed.  —  Just weeks after the upper crust chart-topper announced he's a one woman man we can reveal he had a highland fling with Jenna MacDonald after a concert.
Discussion: The Corsair
 
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