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Jayson Rodriguez / MTV:
Kanye West Asked To Leave VMAs After Rant Against Taylor Swift  —  West was photographed holding a bottle of Hennessey on VMA red carpet.  —  Kanye West was asked to leave Radio City Music Hall not long after he crashed the MTV Video Music Awards stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video.
Perez Hilton:
Kanye West Steals Taylor Swift's Spotlight And Gives Praise To Beyonce  —  Are U guys watching the MTV VMAs?  —  The adorable Taylor Swift just won Best Female Video, beating out Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, and Beyonce to name a few.  —  But as the young Swift took the stage …
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People.com:
Kanye West Apologizes to Taylor Swift  —  Kanye West is “SOOOOO SORRY” for interrupting Taylor Swift at Sunday's Video Music Awards.  The rapper posted an apology on his Web site's blog after the show in his usual style of all caps.  —  “I'm in the wrong for going on stage and taking away from her moment,” he wrote.
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Kanye West Storms the VMAs Stage During Taylor Swift's Speech  —  Leave it to Kanye West to produce one of the most infamous moments in VMAs history before the 2009 show was even an hour old.  It happened after Taylor Swift's victory in the Best Female Video category for “You Belong With Me …
Jayson Rodriguez / MTV:
Beyonce Brings Taylor Swift On VMA Stage After Kanye West Rant  —  Swift gets another shot at an acceptance speech after West interrupted her first attempt.  —  In a classy display of selflessness, Taylor Swift got a do-over at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Beyoncé brought …
Popeater:
Kanye Being Kanye: Rapper Interrupts Taylor Swift's VMAs Win  —  Kanye West is known for speaking his mind and early on during the VMAs, he didn't disappoint.  —  When Taylor Swift won Best Female Video for ‘You Belong With Me,’ Kanye jumped onstage, grabbed the mike from the country singer's hands and did what he does best.
William Grimes / New York Times:
Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60  —  Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.  He was 60.  —  The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.
Us Weekly:
Colin Farrell Confirms He'll Be a Dad Again  —  The actor confirmed that he and girlfriend Alicja Bachleda were expecting their first child together at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday evening.  —  Farrell, 33, and the Polish actress, 26, began dating earlier this year.
Jessica Herndon / People.com:
Lionel Richie: ‘Sparrow Looks Just Like Harlow’  —  “I am so proud of Nicole and Joel,” boasted second-time grandfather Lionel Richie, at the UNSF's An Evening of Stars Saturday, honoring the legendary singer, just days after his daughter Nicole Richie, 27, and Joel Madden, 30, welcomed son Sparrow into the world.
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Us Weekly:   Lionel Richie: Sparrow Looks “Just Like Harlow”
omg!:
Madonna: We “Abandoned” Michael Jackson  —  Madonna delivered a touching tribute to Michael Jackson at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in New York City.  —  Taking the stage at the beginning of the show, the 50-year-old singer - wearing all black - stated how they were both born in August of 1958 to large families in the mid-West.
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NY Daily News:
Bondy: Williams' exit no cause to cheer  —  So we are all supposed to rejoice today because Kim Clijsters, nice person and new mother, defeated Serena Williams, dilettante and tantrum thrower.  It happened Saturday night at Ashe Stadium, 6-4, 7-5, in a circus finish to a semifinal that really didn't represent closure at all.
 
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