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6:15 PM ET, October 6, 2010

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Maggie Coughlan / PopEater:
‘Burning Dan,’ Brother of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dies  —  Dan Gordon-Levitt, better known as “Burning Dan” and the proud brother of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, died this week at age 36.  —  Joseph announced his brother's passing on Twitter on Tuesday evening, “My super hero brother @burningdan 1974-2010.
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RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Inception Star's Brother Took Drugs Before Death, Say Neighbors
omg!:
Inception Star Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Brother Dies
Discussion: X17 Online and Perez Hilton
RegularJOE / hitRECord:
BURNING dAN 1974-2010  —  BURNING dAN brightly embodied …
RADAR:
BOMBSHELL CLAIM: Demi Moore & Ashton Kutcher Have ‘Open Marriage’  —  Ashton Kutcher told his alleged mistress Brittney Jones that he and wife Demi Moore shared an open relationship and regularly had threesomes, RadarOnline.com is reporting.  —  EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Naked Photos …
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Aimee Curran / Hollywood Life:
EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS! …
Ramin Setoodeh / People.com:
Was Rutgers' Student Tyler Clementi Bullied to Death?  —  On the last day of his life, Tyler Clementi left his room at Rutgers University wearing brown slacks and orange flip-flops.  —  “He just had a really blank stare on his face,” says Lauren Garcia, who lived in his dorm.
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Us Weekly:
Tim Gunn Reveals He Tried to Kill Himself
Discussion: Celebrity Gossip …
Daily Mail:
'Every actress out there is more beautiful than me': Jessica Alba bemoans her post-baby body (but doesn't hesitate to strip off!)  —  She's one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, with a face and figure to die for.  —  But Jessica Alba is far from happy with the way she looks …
Discussion: Yeeeah! and Clutch Blog
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The Superficial:
Jessica Alba Says She Has Cellulite
Discussion: Crushable, Dlisted, TheFABlife and PopSugar
Dahvi Shira / People.com:
Jessica Simpson, Eva Mendes & Jessica Alba Say They Were Bullied, Too
Howard Breuer / People.com:
Oksana Grigorieva: I Thought Mel Gibson Would Kill Me  —  You've heard the tapes.  Now Oksana Grigorieva, Mel Gibson's former girlfriend, is speaking out about their relationship - and her claims that Gibson was abusive to her.  —  In a wide-ranging interview with PEOPLE, Grigorieva, 40 …
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Teen Mom's Amber Opens Up About Attacking Baby's Father  —  Teen Mom star Amber Portwood tells the new Us Weekly that she's facing her serious anger issues head on.  —  Fans of the MTV show were shocked by the Sept. 28 episode, in which an enraged Portwood, 20, punched …
PopEater:
Kelly Osbourne Plans to Remove Her Tattoos  —  Kelly Osbourne is planning a massive reinvention and has announced plans to remove some of her tattoos after deciding they were a “mistake,” UK's Daily Mail reports.  Ozzy Osbourne's daughter — who has more thank 15 inkings on her body …
Nerve:
Win Katherine Heigl in Ninety Minutes or Less: A Short Film  —  A no-fail guide to dating Hollywood's rom-com über-frau.  —  For a long time, we've been wondering how to make Katherine Heigl fall in love with us.  (We know, we know.)  So, we turned to her work (starting with this Friday's Life …
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Marco / X17 Online:
Victoria Beckham Is Head And Shoulder Pads Above The Rest  —  Courtesy: Marie Claire Victoria Beckham is the only woman we know who can pull off a black bra and shoulder pads ... and make it somehow look couture.  While wearing a sexy black two-piece for the cover of Marie Claire's November issue …
Discussion: PopEater
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David Carr / New York Times:
At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture  —  In January 2008, soon after the venerable Tribune Company was sold for $8.2 billion, Randy Michaels, a new top executive, ran into several other senior colleagues at the InterContinental Hotel next to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
Star:
Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones: Inside Their Brave Struggle  —  Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones' May-December romance beat the odds and blossomed into a beautiful marriage that has lasted nearly 10 years.  But now they face the hardest test of all as he bravely battles Stage IV throat cancer.
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Sam Raimi Commits To Disney ‘Oz’ Take, While ‘Rabbit Hole’ Scribe Will Rewrite  —  While Disney topper Rich Ross and production president Sean Bailey have been beating the drum on both coasts for Tron: Legacy and Tangled, they have just solidified their next 3D event-sized family film followup to Alice in Wonderland.
The Huffington Post:
James Franco In Drag For Candy Magazine (PHOTOS)  —  What's Your Reaction: … James Franco is barely recognizable on the cover of Candy Magazine.  Terry Richardson shot the actor, with his hair slicked back, wearing blue eyeshadow and thick red lipstick.
Linda Marx / People.com:
Bret Michaels Calls His New TV Show ‘Unprotected Reality’  —  You can't keep a good man down - especially not Bret Michaels.  —  The rocker, who suffered from a brain hemorrhage and small warning stroke earlier this year, is coming back to reality TV on Oct. 18 with a new VH1 show, Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It.
Discussion: I'm Not Obsessed!
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New York Magazine:
Fox Offers Wolverine 2 to Darren Aronofsky  —  The choice of Zack Snyder by Warner Bros. to direct Christopher Nolan and David Goyer's Superman: Man of Steel appears to have wide-spread repercussions for Hollywood's other superheroes.  Vulture has just learned that 20th Century Fox today entered …
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Kieran Crowley / New York Post:
Lohan sis ID hacked  —  Tweet  —  A US State Department clerk has been indicted for using her government computer to gather personal information on more than a hundred celebrities and their families — including Lindsay Lohan's sister Ali, sources said.  —  Ali Lohan was recently mailed …
Discussion: Gawker and Crazy Days and Nights
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Chelsea Handler Enlists In ‘This Means War’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Lately host Chelsea Handler has landed a juicy role opposite Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy and Chris Pine in This Means War, the McG-directed 20th Century Fox comedy.  Handler will play the best friend and confidante of a woman …
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Ramona Singer Punches Producer  —  Last week, Ramona Singer, star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York, hit a producer while filming in her NYC apartment, sources tell UsMagazine.com.  —  “She was furious and felt like the producers were ganging up on her,” says one insider.
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Biggest Loser Couple Get Engaged After Dropping a Total of 241 Lbs  —  From ranch to ring!  —  While shooting a special for The Biggest Loser, season 9 contestant Sam Poueu, 23, proposed to castmate Stephanie Anderson, 30, at the NBC show's ranch in in Calabasas, Calif., Oct. 4.
Discussion: Bumpshack.com and Fancast News
Tim Nudd / People.com:
Christina Hendricks Turns Women On as Much as Men  —  It doesn't matter who you are - man, woman, straight, gay.  Chances are you find Christina Hendricks pretty sexy.  —  “Women hit on me.  My husband thinks it's so odd that so many women hit on me,” the ravishing Mad Men redhead tells Harper's Bazaar …
TMZ.com:
Lindsay Lohan — No Time Limit for Rehab  —  Lindsay Lohan will definitely be in rehab at least until her court appearance later this month — but how long she stays after that will probably be determined by the judge.  —  Sources tell us ... the plan is for Lindsay to stay in rehab …
Tina Jordan / EW.com:
Exclusive: Stephenie Meyer's ‘The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide’ to go on sale April 12, 2011  —  The bad news: It's not another sequel.  —  The good news: There will be plenty of brand-new details in The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a reference book Stephenie Meyer created …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and newsfeed.time.com
PopEater:
Man Wants to Pay Weezer $10 Million to Break Up  —  If someone doesn't like a band or artist, they would usually just ignore their music, but James Burns hates Weezer so much he's willing to raise millions to get them to hang it up for good.  Seattle native Burns launched an online fundraiser …
 
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Daily Mail:
Rihanna enjoys a romantic rendezvous in London with boyfriend …
Discussion: Socialite Life and FitPerez
William Keck / TVGuide.com:
Keck's Exclusives: 24's Chloe is Modern Family Mitchell's Ex!
Discussion: Fancast News, TV Fanatic and TV Squad
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Fox Gives ‘Raising Hope’ Full-Season Order
The Cheese / Hollywoodtuna:
Elizabeth Hurley's Got The Classiest Cleavage
Matt / Warming Glow:
So *That's* How You Get on ‘X-Factor’
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Allie Merriam / PopSugar:
Tom Cruise's Sexy Six Pack Steals the Show on the MI4 Set!
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Doug / RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Raising Sextuplets' Bryan Masche Pleads: ‘I Want My Wife Back!’
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Larry Fitzmaurice / Pitchfork:
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Deadline.com:
CNN's Piers Morgan Vows Format And Other Changes To Beat Fox News …
Discussion: TV Squad and Fancast News
Celebslam:
Kristina Shannon is one classy skank
TMZ.com:
Octomom Offered On the Job Porn Training
Discussion: Crazy Days and Nights
In Touch Weekly Magazine:
Christina Applegate is having a girl!
Discussion: Pop Crunch
TMZ.com:
‘Dexter’ Star Sues — Medical Prop Almost Killed Me
Discussion: The Stir and Perez Hilton
Eileen Finan / People.com:
Carrie Underwood Calls Hubby the ‘Missing Piece to My Puzzle’
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price”

Josh Ye / Reuters:
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$22.1B and online ad revenue up 26% YoY to ~$3.66B driven by upgraded ad infrastructure and WeChat Video Accounts

Sarah Basford Canales / The Guardian:
An Australian court sentences ex-army lawyer David McBride to five years and eight months for stealing Afghanistan war docs and leaking them to Australia's ABC

 
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