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2:35 PM ET, September 14, 2009

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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.
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MTV:
Kanye West Crashes VMA Stage During Taylor Swift's Award Speech  —  Kanye continues his history of onstage award-show rants.  —  This year, Kanye West picked the beginning of the Video Music Awards to deliver one of his famous rants.  —  The rapper stormed the stage just after the first award …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Us Weekly:
Jon Gosselin Hits VMA After-Party!
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Michael K / Dlisted:
Kanye West Can't Handle His Henny
Discussion: Bitten and Bound
The Superficial:
Kanye West apologizes to Taylor Swift
Discussion: CelebNewsWire
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.
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: Perez Hilton and ImNotObsessed.com
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)
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Rennie Dyball / People.com:
Neil Patrick Harris: 'We'd Make Very Good Parents'
Discussion: New York Magazine
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 …
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.
People.com:
Couples Watch: Drew Barrymore & Justin Long, Reese & Jake . . .  • Justin Long treated Drew Barrymore to an authentic Indian dinner at Brick Lane Curry House in New York's East Village.  The couple walked in without a reservation and went unrecognized in the restaurant, clearly enjoying each other's company.
Discussion: Just Jared
Rennie Dyball / People.com:
Elton John To Adopt?  —  Elton John got more than he bargained for on a tour of a Ukrainian orphanage Saturday - a toddler who stole his heart.  —  The singer told reporters that his partner, David Furnish, “always wanted to adopt a child and I always said no, because I am 62 and because of the traveling I do.”
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Daily Mail:
Sir Elton John, 62, wants to adopt Ukrainian orphan toddler …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy, RADAR and X17 Online
Us Weekly:
Lady Gaga Turns Heads in Shocking VMA Outfit  —  The 23-year-old “Poker Face” singer - who is up for nine awards — donned a black lace Jean Paul Gaultier dress with Dragon print silk underlay from Gaultier's fall/winter ready to wear collection.  She accessorized the look with a Keko Hainswheeler neck brace and Kiko jewelry.
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Anything Hollywood
Lesley Messer / People.com:
Everything's Good at Home, Says David Duchovny  —  David Duchovny appeared happy to be at the Toronto Film Festival, where he's promoting his new movie The Joneses, except for one thing: He was without his wife, Téa Leoni, and their kids, Madelaine West, 10, and Kyd Miller, 7.
Discussion: Socialite Life
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”
 
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