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11:55 PM ET, September 14, 2009

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TMZ.com:
Patrick Swayze Dies  —  Patrick Swayze died today after a long battle with cancer.  He was 57.  —  Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2008.  His publicist says he died with his family at his side.  —  He was the star of such movies as “Ghost,” “Dirty Dancing,” and “Road House.”
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Associated Press:
Patrick Swayze dies at 57, his publicist reports  —  Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died today after a battle with pancreatic cancer.  He was 57.  —  “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today …
Discussion: X17 Online, omg!, Popeater and popbytes
Michelle Tauber / People.com:
Patrick Swayze Dies at 57  —  Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer Monday.  He was 57.  —  “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” his rep tells PEOPLE in a statement.
CNN:
Patrick Swayze dies of cancer at 57  —  LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Patrick Swayze, whose good looks and sympathetic performances in films such as “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” made him a romantic idol to millions, died Monday.  He was 57.  —  Swayze died of pancreatic cancer, his publicist, Annett Wolf, told CNN.
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Stars React to Patrick Swayze's Death
Discussion: Popeater and Reuters
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
ABC's Moran removes tweet with Obama swipe at Kanye  —  ABC News reporter Terry Moran caused quite a commotion tonight on Twitter after writing the following: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won.  Now THAT'S presidential.”
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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.
Michael Y. Park / People.com:
Russell Brand Comes to Kanye's Defense  —  If anyone can sympathize with Kanye West's predicament, it's foul-mouthed comedian Russell Brand, who hosted the MTV Video Music Awards during which West infamously slighted Taylor Swift.  —  “Because in the past I've made mistakes and done things a little bit daft …
X17 Online:
Kanye Blogs “I'm Sorry” To Taylor... AGAIN!
Discussion: omg!
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 …
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”
Discussion: ImNotObsessed.com and Perez Hilton
omg!:
Kate Gosselin: I Won't End Jon & Kate Plus 8
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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,” …
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.
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.
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Jill Serjeant / Reuters:
Whitney Houston says mom rescued her from drugs
Discussion: TMZ.com and The Dish Rag
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!
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
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)
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Christoph Waltz Is Villain In ‘Green Hornet’  —  EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that ICM's actor Christoph Waltz who won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination) has now been cast as villain Chudnofsky in Sony's …
 
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