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12:30 PM ET, May 16, 2010

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Just Jared:
Greyson Chance Signs Record Deal, Gets Lady Gaga Moment  —  Greyson Chance is the latest YouTube phenomenon to score a record deal.  At just 12-years-old!  —  The big-voiced sixth grader, who has attracted nearly 14 million views on YouTube with his rendition of Lady Gaga's “Paparazzi,” has signed with Interscope Records.
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Interscope sign YouTube Star?  —  According to our sources, Interscope Records have signed 12-year old Greyson Chance, who has attracted over 13 million views on YouTube with his cover of Lady Gaga's “Paparazzi.”  —  Our sources tell us that Interscope closed the deal before any other label could even step in and meet the kid.
TMZ.com:
Homeless Men — Cruz Wanted Us to Cut Her Throat  —  The homeless men Juan-Carlos Cruz allegedly tried to hire to kill his wife claim they were instructed to “cut [a] woman's throat.”  —  The men told TMZ an elaborate story.  According to Little Dave, Cruz — who had a show on The Food Network …
Karen Nickel Anhalt / People.com:
Claudia Schiffer Welcomes a Baby Girl  —  Claudia Schiffer gave birth to her third child, a girl, on Friday in London.  —  The baby joins Caspar, 7, and Clementine, 5, Schiffer's children with husband Matthew Vaughan, a film producer whom she married in 2002.
Discussion: Just Jared, PopEater and LilSugar
Eunice Oh / People.com:
CW Stars Jensen Ackles and Danneel Harris Tie the Knot  —  It's a match made in CW heaven.  —  Supernatural star Jensen Ackles and longtime girlfriend, One Tree Hill actress Danneel Harris, got married Saturday in Dallas, PEOPLE has confirmed.  —  Ackles, 32, and Harris, 31 …
Eunice Oh / People.com:
Bret Michaels Plans to Attend Celebrity Apprentice Finale  —  Bret Michaels's road to recovery includes more than just returning to the stage.  —  He's sitting down to talk with Oprah Winfrey and hoping to attend the live Celebrity Apprentice finale on May 23, his rep said Friday.
Hollywoodreporter / Heat Vision:
David Fincher to direct ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ (exclusive)  —  Captain Nemo and his Nautilus are surfacing again.  —  Months after deep-sixing a McG-helmed version of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Disney is in negotiations with David Fincher to direct, and hot “Bourne Ultimatum” …
Just Jared:
Summer Glau in THE CAPE — First Pics!  —  Summer Glau types away on her invisible keyboard as investigative blogger Orwell in this first still from her upcoming NBC show, The Cape.  —  The one-hour superhero drama series stars ER's David Lyons (pictured) as Vince Faraday …
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The Live Feed | THR:
NBC picks up ‘Friends With Benefits,’ ‘The Cape’
Discussion: Movieline and New York Magazine
Cara Lynn Shultz / People.com:
Is Ashton Kutcher's Reign as Twitter King Ending?  —  There's twouble in the Twitterverse!  —  After famously beating CNN to 1 million followers last April, Ashton Kutcher has been the undisputed king of Twitter, gaining more followers than anyone else on the micro-blogging site.
Lynette Rice / Hollywood Insider:
‘Heroes’ canceled by NBC  —  It seemed inevitable but the news is nonetheless shocking: NBC's drama Heroes won't be back for a fifth season.  The beleaguered drama only averaged 6.5 million viewers this year.  It last aired on Feb. 8, when it only brought in a mere 4.4 million.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
CANNES: Bruce Willis Plays Mature Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Time Travel Pic ‘Looper’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Willis is joining the cast of Looper, a science fiction time travel tale that reunites the Brick team of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and writer/director Rian Johnson.  The Terminator-esque action film has a clever premise.
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
New Victim Accuses Roman Polanski of ‘Sexual Abuse’  —  Actress Says Director Abused Her When She Was 16, He Was on The Lam  —  A British actress who starred in a Roman Polanski film charged today that the director “sexually abused” her when she was 16 years old in his Paris apartment.
Discussion: Dlisted and Gawker
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Us Weekly:
Tom Cruise Approves of Suri's Expensive Wardrobe  —  $850 Ferragamo bags?  $635 dresses?  $27 Chanel lip gloss?  All par for the course for 4-year-old Suri Cruise — and her famous daddy has no problem with it.  —  “Whatever she wants to wear, she wears it,” Tom Cruise said of his daughter …
Discussion: Bumpshack.com and ETonline
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From Mediagazer:

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The NYT added 210,000 digital subscribers in Q1, for 10.5M subscribers in total, up 8% YoY, and ad revenue fell 2.4% YoY to $103.7M; the OpenAI lawsuit cost $1M

Austin Fuller / Current:
NPR CEO Katherine Maher will not attend a US House committee hearing on May 8 looking at alleged NPR bias due to a schedule conflict, but offers to appear later

Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBCUniversal signs deal to make iHeartMedia the exclusive audio partner for the 2024 Paris Olympics; iHeartMedia will create an original iHeartPodcast

 
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