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4:05 PM ET, October 8, 2010

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TMZ.com:
Jealous Woman Attacks Kim Kardashian  —  Kim Kardashian got drenched by a drink and Khloe almost lost her big fat wedding ring last night ... after a jealous woman went nuts in NYC.  —  The Kardashian clan was at Juliet last night, when a male fan asked for a pic with Kim.
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X17 Online:
X17 EXCLUSIVE - The Kardashians Get Into A Wild Drunken Fight At NYC Bar
Discussion: Extra and I'm Not Obsessed!
PopEater:
Anderson Cooper Blasts New Vince Vaughn Trailer  —  Anderson Cooper won't be seeing ‘The Dilemma.’  —  In a discussion with Ellen DeGeneres, Cooper took issue with the movie's trailer, in which Vince Vaughn's character uses the word “gay” in a derogatory fashion, although he never named the actor or the actual film.
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Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Universal Under Pressure Changing “Gay” Trailer For Ron Howard-Vince Vaughn Pic  —  2ND UPDATE 10:40 AM: In Hollywood, so the saying goes, you can know that someone is lying because their lips are moving.  Universal has now told me twice this morning that it sent an advance copy …
Penelope Cruz / CBS News:
Eminem: Profanity?  Not In My House!  —  In A Rare Interview, He Also Shows CNN's Anderson Cooper His Artistic Process Of Rhyming  —  (CBS) Eminem, the rapper whose R-rated lyrics could make a drill sergeant blush, tells CNN's Anderson Cooper the harsh language is for his art, not for his home.
Discussion: Idolator.com
Matt Kane / GLAADBlog.org:
After Consultations with GLAAD, Universal Pulls Trailer for Vince …
TMZ.com:
‘Two and a Half Men’ — Kid Scores MASSIVE Contract  —  While most 16-year-olds are scrounging around for minimum wage jobs ... the kid from “Two and a Half Men” just locked up a brand new contract worth $300,000 per episode ... TMZ has learned.  —  Angus T. Jones — who plays Charlie Sheen's …
Us Weekly:
Gwyneth Paltrow “Shocked” After Director Offers Sex for Role  —  For Elle's annual Women in Hollywood issue, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Hilary Swank grace three different November covers and open up about their past showbiz struggles and where women stand today.
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Fashion:
GWYNETH PALTROW  —  Q. Have you ever had a casting-couch experience?  —  A. Yup.  When I was just starting out, someone suggested that we finish a meeting in the bedroom.  I left.  I was pretty shocked.  I could see how someone who didn't know better might worry, “My career will be ruined if I don't give this guy a blow job!”
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
MPAA Gives Ryan Gosling-Michelle Williams Drama ‘Blue Valentine’ NC-17  —  EXCLUSIVE: In a surprising development, the MPAA ratings board has slapped an NC-17 rating on Blue Valentine, the Derek Cianfrance-directed drama that is creating Oscar buzz for the performances of Ryan Gosling and Michelle Willams.
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Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Sundance Fave ‘Blue Valentine’ Slapped with NC-17
Discussion: PopSugar
ComingSoon.net:
First Look at Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe  —  Trademark Films and The Weinstein Company announced today that principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn for 7 weeks at Pinewood Studios and on location in and around London.  Michelle Williams plays the iconic Marilyn Monroe alongside …
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Tim Adler / Deadline.com:
Julia Ormond And Dougray Scott Round Out Cast Of ‘My Week With Marilyn’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Julia Ormond is playing Vivien Leigh after Catherine Zeta-Jones dropped out, and Dougray Scott is playing Arthur Miller.  Filming starts today in London on the feature, which is shooting for 7 weeks at Pinewood and on location in and around the city.
Clemmie Hoodie / Mirror.co.uk:
Kanye West on Lindsay Lohan, Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson  —  EXCLUSIVE HE TELLS ALL ON NIGHT WITH 3AM  —  On a night with Kanye West we got the lowdown on LiLo, an update on his Taylor Swift spat and why he's Wacko about Jacko.  Phew!  —  There was no subject off limits when we met the rap megastar …
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New York Post:
Rehab cuts Lindsay Lohan's phone, e-mail, Twitter use
Discussion: TheFABlife and Urlesque
Bob Marshall / Prefix:
Shelved Iggy Pop Biopic Would Have Starred Elijah Wood, Iggy Wanted Lindsay Lohan
Discussion: Cele|bitchy, ABC News and Dlisted
PopEater:   Lindsay Lohan Denied Phone, Twitter Access in Rehab
Choire / The Awl:
It's Tina Fey's Book, “Bossypants”!  —  Currently being pimped/celebrated at the Frankfurt Book Fair: it's a terrifying poster for the Tina Fey book of funny essays for which Little, Brown may have paid millions.  Aiee, the man arms!
Discussion: New York Magazine and Splitsider
Us Weekly:
Jersey Shore Star The Situation Defends His Snooki “Love Tap”  —  Another Jersey Shore scandal.  —  On Thursday's episode of the hit MTV show, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino raised his hand to Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi when she refused to leave the club.  “Don't f—ing slap me in the face …
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X17 Online:
Halle Berry Takes New Boyfriend Olivier Martinez To Meet Her Parents!  —  Halle Berry stepped out with her new boyfriend, Frenchman Olivier Martinez, today, after he arrived in LA just yesterday from France.  The pair jumped in Oli's vintage Aston Martin and headed to a hip West Hollywood art gallery.
Discussion: CONCRETELOOP.COM, omg! and Perez Hilton
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INF Daily:
Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez Leave a Doctor's Office Together
Discussion: X17 Online
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Source: Teen Mom Star Amber Isn't Dating Sex Offender  —  Chalk it up to a case of mistaken identity.  —  Though it was reported Thursday that Teen Mom's Amber Portwood is dating convicted child sex offender Christopher Glen Hossman, a source tells UsMagazine.com that the man “is not the ‘Chris’ featured on Teen Mom.”
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Brooks Barnes / ArtsBeat:
Al Pacino to Take On Phil Spector in HBO Movie  —  LOS ANGELES — It's not quite a monster movie, but it has some of the same elements: an outsize character, a mysterious death, plenty of metaphor for mankind's destruction.  And lots and lots of excessively teased hair.
Discussion: The Wrap, The Playlist and TV Squad
PopEater:
A Curvy Halloween as Rachael Ray Dresses Up as Jessica Rabbit  —  Rachael Ray is serving up quite a spicy dish on an upcoming edition of her talk show, dressing up as iconic 'toon Jessica Rabbit for a Halloween episode.  —  The TV cook transformed herself into the cartoonishly-curvy star …
Erik Pedersen / E! Online:
Ozzy Osbourne “Disgusted” By Anti-Gay Church Using His Music  —  Ozzy Osbourne sounds ready to bite somebody's head off.  —  The British rock god released a statement saying he was “disgusted” by a Kansas-based church's choice to play his music on the steps of the United States Supreme Court today.
Gregg Kilday / Hollywood Reporter:
Warner Bros. axes new ‘Harry Potter’ in 3D  —  ‘Deathly Hallows Part 1’ will now only be released in 2D  —  Warner Bros. has scuttled plans to release the new “Harry Potter” in 3D.  —  In a statement released Friday, the studio said that when “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I” …
Daily Mail:
Sarah Jessica Parker is looking Sexy in the City in nude dress at New York City Ballet gala  —  Sarah Jessica Parker put on a little red carpet performance of her own as she gave a twirl in her stunning nude dress at the New York City Ballet 2010 fall gala last night.
Daulerio / Deadspin:
Brett Favre's Cellphone Seduction Of Jenn Sterger (Update)  —  In the video here (parts of which are NSFW due to penis photos at 2:08 mark), you'll see and hear all the strange messages Jenn Sterger received from someone she was led to believe was Brett Favre.  —  This is the evidence she told us about last February.
Jon / Egotastic!:
Jessica Alba Pictures From GQ Are Unfairly Hot  —  These are the ridiculously sexy Jessica Alba pictures from our friends at GQ UK magazine that we saw screen capped earlier in the week from the smoking hot promotional video.  Yeah, that video.  Perhaps the sexiest we've ever seen Jessica Alba …
Doug / RADAR:
Jodie Foster left a Los Angeles teenager battered, bruised and scarred after she allegedly clawed his arm during a confrontation in a Los Angeles parking lot.  —  And while the City Attorney's office declined to prosecute the two-time Oscar winner, RadarOnline.com has exclusively obtained …
Roger Ebert / Roger Ebert's Journal:
Secretariat was not a Christian  —  Andrew O'Hehir of Salon is a critic I admire, but he has nevertheless written a review of “Secretariat” so bizarre I cannot allow it to pass unnoticed.  I don't find anywhere in “Secretariat” the ideology he discovers there.  In its reasoning, his review resembles a fevered conspiracy theory.
Discussion: Salon, The Wrap, Big Hollywood and Movieline
 
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