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8:15 PM ET, September 14, 2009

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 Top News: 
Shaheem Reid / MTV:
Exclusive: Lil Mama Apologizes For Crashing Jay-Z's VMA Performance  —  ‘I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys,’ 'America's Best Dance Crew' judge says in statement.  —  If it wasn't for a guy named Kanye West, Lil Mama might have dominated Monday's headlines with her …
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Us Weekly:
Taylor Swift Speaks Out on Kanye Incident  —  After Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards - during which Kanye West brazenly interrupted Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech to say that Beyonce deserved to win - the 19-year-old singer spoke to reporters about the incident.
Iamkelly / random thoughts by me:
Kanye West  —  What happened to you as a child??  Did you not get hugged enough??  Something must have happened to make you this way and I think we're all just curious as to what would make a grown man go on national television and make a talented artist, let alone teenager, feel like s**t.
X17 Online:
Kanye Blogs “I'm Sorry” To Taylor... AGAIN!
Discussion: omg!
MTV:
Kanye West Crashes VMA Stage During Taylor Swift's Award Speech
Popeater:
Exclusive: Drunk Kanye Was the Only ‘Loser’ at VMAs, Perez Says
Discussion: omg! and Best Week Ever
Michael Y. Park / People.com:
Russell Brand Comes to Kanye's Defense
Michael K / Dlisted:
Kanye West Can't Handle His Henny
Discussion: Bitten and Bound
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Kate Gosselin Admits She Had a Meltdown This Weekend  —  It took Serena Williams's meltdown at the U.S. Open over the weekend to bring the Hot Topic around to Kate Gosselin - discussing a meltdown of her on own on The View, where she served as a guest co-host Monday.
Discussion: The Superficial and Perez Hilton
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Us Weekly:
Kate Gosselin: “I've Lost Control in My Life”  —  Kate Gosselin wishes she could go back to being a regular mom.  —  At Ohio's second annual Cleveland Women's Show on Friday, the reality mom of eight, 34, told a crowd of mostly women, “I've lost a lot of control in my life.”
Discussion: ImNotObsessed.com and Perez Hilton
omg!:
Kate Gosselin: I Won't End Jon & Kate Plus 8
Discussion: INF Daily
Mark Dagostino / People.com:
Ethan Zohn: ‘My Cancer Is Back’  —  Just last month, for the first time since being diagnosed with a rare form of Hodgkin's disease in April - followed by three months of intense chemotherapy - Ethan Zohn was finally feeling good.  —  “I was off chemo,” he says.
Mark Dagostino / People.com:
Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten Has Lung Cancer  —  Kathryn Joosten, a two-time Emmy winner for her role as feisty neighbor Mrs. McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, has lung cancer - and she plans to do everything she can to fight it.  —  “I've got a little hang-up here,” …
People.com:
Harrison Ford Cracks the Whip on Indy 5  —  Shia LaBeouf (left) and Harrison Ford  —  Dust off the fedora and clear out the snakes - Indiana Jones is ready to ride again.  —  Harrison Ford, 67, says he's already ready for the globe-trotting archaeologist's next adventure …
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Is Sylvester Stallone's face melting?  —  Sylvester Stallone was in attendance for the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, and his appearance is “raising some eyebrows”.  I say it this way to be snarky, because it seems Stallone has gotten himself some kind of epic facelift, and his eyebrows are ridiculous.
Discussion: Dlisted and Pajiba
Michael Ausiello / The Ausiello Files:
‘True Blood’ scoop: Denis O'Hare crowned King!  —  Insert your own fresh meat joke here: Off my just-completed one-on-one with Alan Ball, I've learned that True Blood has cast Tony winner Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out) as the king of Mississippi.  —  The veteran actor's name may not be a household one, but you've for sure seen him.
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Michael Ausiello / The Ausiello Files:
Exclusive: ‘True Blood’ finale postmortem with Alan Ball!
Discussion: X17 Online
Liz Berman / People.com:
Elton John Cannot Adopt Ukrainian Orphan  —  The Ukrainian orphan Elton John wants to adopt will not go home with the singer and his longtime partner David Furnish, a Ukrainian family minister said Monday - citing a national law that prohibits unmarried couples from adopting, the Associated Press reports.
Discussion: Perez Hilton and EW.com
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Popeater:
Elton John Prohibited From Adopting
Discussion: omg!
Emily Nussbaum / New York Magazine:
High-Wire Act  —  Neil Patrick Harris used to be an underage doctor on TV.  Now he's another Hollywood first: an out gay actor who can host award shows, play a womanizer, walk the red carpet with his boyfriend, and then get cast in movies as a straight dad.  Neat trick. … (Photo: Art Streiber)
The Cheese / Hollywoodtuna:
Mariah Carey's Fat Cleavage  —  Here's Mariah Carey and her big fat cleavage at a Toronto International Film Festival cocktail party before the screening of some movie called ‘Precious’.  I don't really give a s**t about the movie but I'm glad that Mariah managed to stuff those big things …
Popeater:
Whitney Says Bobby Brown Spit On Her  —  As the world waits to see Oprah Winfrey's two-part interview with Whitney Houston, the first details of it are coming out ... and boy are they disturbing.  During the interview, Houston says that during her drug-filled marriage to Bobby Brown, he was emotionally abusive and spit on her once.
Oh No They Didn't!:
Westwick Gets Fugly New Tattoos  —  Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl apparently gets baked out of his mind and gets two fugly new tattoos on his arms.  One is NSFW under the cut.
Discussion: Best Week Ever
 
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Dave McNary / Variety:
Morgan in talks to join ‘Red Dawn’
Michael K / Dlisted:
She By Sheree At New York City Fashion Week
Discussion: E! Online
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Rihanna: Angrier, Edgier and Ready to Roar?
Discussion: Popeater and Perez Hilton
Cristina Everett / NY Daily News:
Couple alert!  Chace Crawford and Bar Refaeli get cozy on the dance floor
 Earlier Picks: 
People.com:
Couples Watch: Drew Barrymore & Justin Long, Reese & Jake . . .
Lesley Messer / People.com:
Everything's Good at Home, Says David Duchovny
Discussion: Socialite Life
E! Online:
Eddie Cibrian's Ex: “I Do Not Speak with LeAnn Rimes”
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Just Jared
Carlos Greer / People.com:
Mischa Barton Places Her Trust in Dog
Us Weekly:
Lady Gaga Turns Heads in Shocking VMA Outfit
 

 
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