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1:00 PM ET, October 20, 2008

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Daily Mail:
A-Rod set to buy £40m New York pad next door to Madonna as relationship heats up … Madonna's ‘soulmate’ Alex Rodriguez is weeks away from buying a New York penthouse apartment two blocks from the superstar's - in a bid to be close to her.  —  Speculation of a romantic relationship between …
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
David Banda's Dad: “Maybe He'd Be Better Off Back With Us”  —  In light of Madonna's divorce from Guy Ritchie, David Banda's biological father is having second thoughts about giving his son up.  —  “I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he'd be better off back with us,” he told Britain's The Sun.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Mollygood
Richard Simpson / Daily Mail:
Madonna ‘wants another child with baseball star’ Rodriguez
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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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Fashion's Mr. Blackwell Dies
Discussion: Bitten and Bound
PopEater:
Celeb Fashion Critic Mr. Blackwell Dies
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
Alissa R / Us Weekly:   Fashion's Mr. Blackwell Dies at 86
Reuters:
Hollywood fashion maven Mr. Blackwell dies: reports
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Just Jared:
Faith Hill is a Bikini Babe  —  Bikini-clad Faith Hill takes the December 2008 cover of Shape.  Here's what the mother-of-three had to say:  —  On her first time ever posing in a bikini: “Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.”
Discussion: Us Weekly
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Mandi Illuzzi / Us Weekly:
Faith Hill Poses in Bikini for 41st Birthday  —  Mother-of-three Faith Hill poses in a bikini for the first time on the cover of December's Shape.  —  “Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself,” she says in the magazine, as excerpted by JustJared.
Discussion: dailystab.com
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Faith Hill's Birthday Gift to Herself: Bikini Photo Shoot
Discussion: Jezebel
OK! Magazine:
OK!  Exclusive: Ellen & Jen Hit Hollywood Baby Bash  —  Jennifer Aniston, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Ellen DeGeneres, Jack Black, Tobey Maguire, Kate Beckinsale, Jonah Hill... That's a list of stars that you'd expect to see at an exclusive blockbuster movie premiere or major awards show.
New York Post:
ROUGH TRAIN RIDE  —  SAMANTHA Ronson deserves a medal for putting up with gal pal Lindsay Lohan.  The two took the Acela train to Washington on Thursday and “had a quiet fight” the whole time, our spy says.  Lohan spent most of the time complaining about her staff and told Ronson …
Pamela McClintock / Variety:
Audiences enter house of ‘Payne’  —  ‘W.’ performs on the upper end of expectations  —  The 20th Century Fox family was feeling no pain as Mark Wahlberg actioner “Max Payne” topped the weekend box office and Fox Searchlight's “The Secret Life of Bees” buzzed its way to a photo finish with family holdover …
Discussion: Defamer
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Joshua Rich / EW.com:
‘Max Payne’ Is Top Gun at the Box Office
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Cele|bitchy
New York Post:
'Grey's' goosed again  —  So what's the deal with “Grey's Anatomy”?  Last Thursday's episode averaged only 14.5 million viewers, a far cry from its average last season (roughly 18 million viewers), and was steam rolled, again, by “CSI” (19.2 million viewers).
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:
PopEater:
Epic ‘Ugliness’ Coming to Madge-Guy Split?  —  Even though it's less than a week since Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced they would be divorcing, many have begun speculating on just how nasty and public the split would become.  According to one source, expect “ugliness of epic proportions.”
Discussion: OH NO!!
Dalton Ross / EW.com:
Exclusive: Jeff Probst creates new show for CBS  —  Survivor's Jeff Probst has created — and will host — a new reality pilot for CBS, EW.com has learned exclusively.  The show, Live Like You're Dying, will feature a person who has been given a terminal diagnosis with a finite amount of time to live and …
Emmet Sullivan / People.com:
Lil Wayne Expecting a Boy  —  Lil Wayne  —  Get ready for another Lil Wayne on the scene.  The rapper announced during the BET Hip-Hop Awards his first son will be born in “a couple of days.”  —  “I got a son about to be born any day now, so shout-out to him.
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
People.com:
Derek Jeter & Minka Kelly Romance Heats up in Texas  —  Minka Kelly (left) and Derek Jeter  —  With the Yankees out of the playoffs, Derek Jeter has some time on his hands and he's spending it romantically - with Minka Kelly.  —  The baseball star, 34, and the Friday Night Lights actress …
Discussion: Lifeline Live
 
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