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9:45 AM ET, October 20, 2008

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Richard Simpson / Daily Mail:
Madonna ‘wants another child with baseball star’ Rodriguez … Madonna is hoping she can have a natural child with the new man in her life Alex Rodriguez, despite her age.  —  The singer, who is 50, is planning her future with the American baseball player, it emerged last night.
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Daily Mail:
‘It was never about the money’: Guy Ritchie will get just £10million from Madonna in divorce settlement … Madonna will give Guy Ritchie just £10million in a divorce settlement.  —  As part of the deal Guy, 40, has agreed to a gagging clause that will prevent him from ever talking …
The Sun:
David is better off with me  —  THE father of MADONNA'S adopted son David Banda has said he feels bitterly disappointed the pop queen is getting a divorce and has delcared: “I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he would be better off back with us.”
Bob Thomas / Associated Press:
Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies in Los Angeles  —  LOS ANGELES - Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died.  He was 86.  —  Blackwell died Sunday of complications …
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PopEater:
Celeb Fashion Critic Mr. Blackwell Dies  —  Before there was Tim Gunn and all of the modern day fashion critics out there, there was Mr. Blackwell, whose annual list surgically and colorfully picked apart the apparel of celebrities.  Sadly, the fashion outlaw with a sharp tongue has passed away at the age of 86.
Mary Rourke / Los Angeles Times:
‘Mr. Blackwell,’ 86; compiled ‘worst dressed’ celebrity lists for nearly 50 years
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Reuters:
Hollywood fashion maven Mr. Blackwell dies: reports
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Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
'An affair?  I'm not going to deny it': Tennis coach tells of her close friendship with ‘sex addict’ David Duchovny as he splits from wife … When David Duchovny entered a rehab clinic two months ago the move was widely acknowledged to be an attempt to save his ailing marriage.
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Jennifer Garcia / People.com:
Zac Efron Turns 21!  —  Zac Efron  —  It's party time for Zac Efron!  —  The star of High School Musical 3: Senior Year celebrated his 21st birthday Saturday with an intimate two-hour dinner party at L.A.'s Pace restaurant with a group of friends and family that included his parents and brother …
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Shaheem Reid / MTV:
Lil Wayne Announces He's Expecting A Son  —  MC breaks news onstage at BET Hip-Hop Awards.  —  ATLANTA — Weezy F. Baby is having another baby.  Lil Wayne announced Saturday night during the BET Hip-Hop Awards that he's having his first son in just a “couple of days.”
Sara Wallis / Mirror.co.uk:
New baby for widow Actress Natascha McElhone  —  Natascha McElhone and Martin Hirigoyen Kelly (Pic:Getty Images)  —  Actress Natascha McElhone has given birth to her third child five months after the death of her husband.  —  The Solaris and Ronin star, 36, had the baby at the London hospital …
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Blog
Daily Mail:
From Paris to London...Ms Hilton is ‘here to stay’ … Paris Hilton has decided to relocate from her natural Los Angeles habitat to make London her new home.  —  The hotel heiress may not have been successful in her attempts to attract the attentions of Princes William and Harry on a recent evening …
New York Post:
PRINCESS CARRIE SETTLES SCORES  —  CARRIE Fisher, who had a disastrous marriage to CAA superagent Bryan Lourd, ridicules the idea that she changed Lourd's sexual orientation.  —  In her hilarious memoir, “Wishful Drinking,” due in December from Simon & Schuster, Fisher says of Lourd, the father of her daughter Billie:
 
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Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
An investigation into AdVon, the company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers, finds its AI content and fake authors at the LA Times, Miami Herald, and more

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The NYT added 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1, for 10.5M subscribers in total, up 8% YoY, and ad revenue fell 2.4% YoY to $103.7M; the OpenAI lawsuit cost $1M

Austin Fuller / Current:
NPR CEO Katherine Maher will not attend a US House committee hearing on May 8 looking at alleged NPR bias due to a schedule conflict, but offers to appear later

 
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