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12:40 AM ET, August 5, 2014

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Deadline.com:
‘Big Bang Theory’ Stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki & Kaley Cuoco Close Big New Deals  —  EXCLUSIVE: CBS' The Big Bang Theory is a big step closer to making the new August 6 production start date for Season 8 — I've learned that stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco have agreed to new three-year contracts.
Pasadena Star News:
Police: Man bites off other man's fingertip during Beyonce-Jay Z concert at Rose Bowl; 10 other arrests reported  —  PASADENA >> Police arrested 11 people Saturday night during a Beyonce and Jay Z concert at the Rose Bowl, including a man accused of biting off the tip of another man's finger …
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Debbie Meron / CBS Los Angeles:
Police: Man Gropes Woman, Bites Off Her Boyfriend's Finger Tip At Beyonce-Jay Z Concert
Discussion: Us Weekly and Bossip
Dorothy Pomerantz / Forbes:
Sandra Bullock Tops Forbes' List Of Highest Earning Actresses With $51M  —  On paper, the movie Gravity seemed like a crazy risk.  The effects-heavy movie cost upward of $100 million to produce and instead of comic book heroes duking it out, the film featured one woman floating in space for almost the entire 90-minute running time.
Discussion: PopWatch and The Moviefone Blog
Michael Ausiello / TVLine:
Vince Vaughn Circling True Detective Season 2 Lead Role  —  The True Detective Season 2 rumor mill has churned out another name: Vince Vaughn.  —  TVLine has learned exclusively that the Swingers actor is in preliminary talks to play one of the three leads in the HBO drama's upcoming second season.
TMZ.com:
Michael Johns — Autopsy Does NOT Reveal Cause of Death  —  AUTOPSY DOES NOT REVEAL CAUSE OF DEATH  —  EXCLUSIVE DETAILS  —  The autopsy on former “American Idol” contestant Michael Johns has been completed, but the medical staff at the Orange County Coroner's Office is deferring the cause of death ... pending toxicology results.
Discussion: PerezHilton and Yahoo Health
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Mary Margaret / People.com:
How American Idol's Michael Johns Possibly Died from a Simple Injury
Discussion: Reality TV Magazine
Allison / Dlisted:
Tara Reid Was Afraid That Starring In “Sharknado” Would Kill Her Career  —  National treasure and master thespian Tara Reid, star of such critically acclaimed works of direct-to-DVD greatness as The Crow: Wicked Prayer and Unnatural Causes, told Access Hollywood (via Metro) …
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Metro.co.uk:
Actress Tara Reid reveals she thought Sharknado would end her career
Discussion: Us Weekly and The Blemish
TMZ.com:
CNN Sued Over Correspondent Who Bit EMTs in Drunken Rage  —  CNN is being sued by 2 EMTs who claim one of the network's reporters bit them in a drunken rage.  —  Arwa Damon — the Beirut-based senior international correspondent for CNN — was in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad back in July.
Discussion: Us Weekly
Deadline.com:
Sony Launches Female Superhero Movie Mining Spider-Man Universe  —  EXCLUSIVE: Having pushed the next installment of its Spider-Man franchise out of 2016 and into 2018, Sony Pictures is doing a top-to-bottom revamp of its most important property, insiders say.
Jen Ortiz / GQ Magazine Online:
The GQ Punch List: 6 Things You Need to Watch, Hear and Read this Week  —  Listen to Ninja Rap 2.0 with Vanilla Ice.  That cartoon about crime-fighting mutant turtles eating pizza you loved as a kid is now, again, a live action explosionfest.  And in the grand tradition …
Discussion: Bossip and The Wrap
The Superficial:
That's Gwen Stefani's Nipple  —  While breastfeeding her son.  Should I have mentioned breastfeeding her son upfront?  That's Gwen Stefani's nipple while breastfeeding her son.  Now you sit there staring out the window thinking about how that didn't even stop you.  You barely hesitated.
Discussion: DrunkenStepfather
Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter:
Sylvester Stallone Wants Sigourney Weaver to Star in ‘The Expendabelles’  —  Stallone and several other stars of the upcoming action threequel attend the world premiere at London's Leicester Square, where producer Avi Lerner revealed that “The Expendabelles” would begin production early 2015.
Discussion: The Moviefone Blog
TMZ.com:
Chris Brown — Karrueche Didn't Dump Him ... He Dumped Her.  —  Karrueche Didn't Dump Him  —  HE DUMPED HER  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Chris Brown — NOT KARRUECHE — is the one who did the breaking up, because she was a crass opportunist ... so say people in Chris' camp.
Bill Swift / Egotastic!:
Chloe Moretz Bikini Pictures Lighting Up the Internet with Little Black Bikini Frenzy  —  Star of everything these days, teen actress rising star Chloe Moretz made a rare appearance in a rather tiny bikini over the weekend in Miami causing the entire paparazzi world to freeze for a moment in time.
Discussion: DrunkenStepfather
Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Zooey Deschanel Splits From Boyfriend Jamie Linden After Two Years Together  —  New Girl, old news.  Zooey Deschanel has split from her boyfriend of two years, Jamie Linden, multiple sources close to the actress confirm to Us Weekly.  —  PHOTOS: Celebrity splits of 2014
Discussion: Just Jared
Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
Anwan Glover, Star of TV's ‘The Wire,’ Stabbed at D.C. Nightclub  —  Actor Anwan Glover, who appeared in the film “12 Years a Slave” and the TV series “The Wire,” was stabbed and beaten at a D.C. nightclub early Sunday morning.  —  Glover told police that he was on the second floor …
Discussion: Digital Spy
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Tim Swift / Baltimore Sun:
‘Wire’ actor stabbed inside Washington nightclub
Discussion: WJLA-TV and Gawker
 
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Allison / Dlisted:
Two Dumb Skanks Reunited In Ibiza On Friday Night
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Allison / Dlisted:
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Selena Gomez / TMZ.com:
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Discussion: Digital Spy
Bryan Alexander / USA Today:
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Discussion: The Wrap and The Moviefone Blog
Rachel McRady / Us Weekly:
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Metro.co.uk:
Taylor Swift singing with a little boy in hospital may be the cutest thing you see, like, ever
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Nickelodeon Orders Live-Action ‘School of Rock’ Series (Exclusive)
Discussion: I Watch Stuff and Just Jared
Anya Leon / People.com:
Susan Sarandon's Manhattan Apartment Burglarized, Laptop and Jewelry Stolen
Discussion: PerezHilton
Madeline Boardman / Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian Wants to Adopt Young Girl During Kardashian Family Visit to Thailand Orphanage
Discussion: POPSUGAR Celebrity and Just Jared
TMZ.com:
Michael Strahan — Blindsided by Timing of Break Up Announcement ... Amid Hall of Fame Ceremony
Discussion: Bossip
Bruce Jenner / TMZ.com:
Jay Z PHYSICALLY ATTACKED by Beyonce's Sister Solange
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD reports a $86M profit in Q1 for its DTC unit, which includes streaming, up from $50M in Q1 2023, and 99.6M streaming subscribers, up from 97.7M in Q4 2023

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Vice Media plans to create a joint venture with Savage Ventures, which will invest “tens of millions of dollars”, to relaunch its sites, including Vice.com

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett fires an experienced editor overseeing 26 community newspapers for “sharing proprietary information” with a “competing media company”, which was Poynter

 
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