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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart”  —  An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked.  —  Danny Moloshok / Reuters  —  Before Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal attended …
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New York Times:
Sony Hack Reveals Email Crossfire Over Angelina Jolie and Steve Jobs Movie  —  LOS ANGELES — Salaries of its top executives.  Unpublished scripts.  Sensitive contracts.  Aliases that stars use to check into hotels.  —  Those are just some of the disclosures from a devastating hacking attack on Sony's movie studio last month.
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Scott Rudin Apologizes After Leak Of Sony's Hacked Racially Insensitive E-Mails On Barack Obama  —  EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin has issued a public apology for the racially insensitive comments that surfaced last night in an exchange of hacked private e-mails between him and Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Amy Pascal.
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race  —  In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony this week, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin riff on what President Barack Obama's favorite movies could be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.
Discussion: Sandra Rose
Madeline Boardman / Us Weekly:
Angelina Jolie Blasted as “Minimally Talented Spoiled Brat” by Producer Scott Rudin in Leaked Sony Emails
Discussion: PerezHilton and Business Insider
Beverly Johnson / Vanity Fair:
Bill Cosby Drugged Me.  This Is My Story.  —  Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture.  He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched.
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Daniel Gates / Gossip Cop:
Ariana Grande NOT “Carried Like A Baby” By Staffers, Despite Insane New Rumor  —  Ariana Grande does NOT demand to be carried around like a baby when she's tired, despite a new tabloid report that's testing Gossip Cop's patience and sanity.  It comes from In Touch, an outlet that's constantly shrieking …
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Lifestyleweekly / Life & Style:
Ariana Grande's Craziest Diva Demand Yet: She Wants to Be Carried Everywhere! … Ariana Grande is known for being a diva, but her latest demand has taken her behavior to a whole new level!  —  Life & Style has learned that the pop star is insisting on being carried when she's too tired to walk.
Kirthana Ramisetti / NY Daily News:   Ariana Grande demands to be carried ‘like a baby’ when she's tired: report
Cindy Clark / Entertain This!:
Kim Kardashian blames pregnancy weight on God, says it was punishment  —  She must be joking, right?  —  At least, that's what we hope after reading Kim Kardashian's theory on why she gained so much weight while she was pregnant:  —  “I'd think God was doing this for a reason,” she tells Elle U.K, reports Entertainment Tonight.
Discussion: Celeb Gossip …
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Timfxplant / Hollywood Life:
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West: Why He's Refusing To Have Sex With Her
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Bossip
Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Kim Kardashian Blames God for Her Pregnancy Weight Gain: He Was Like “Look What I Can Do to You”
Discussion: Page Six, Dlisted and Vibe
TMZ.com:
Mama June — Warning All U Girls ... Sugar Bear's Still a Cheater  —  Warning All U Girls  —  SUGAR BEAR'S STILL A CHEATER  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Mama June is back on the attack against Sugar Bear, claiming he's still on the prowl for women ... lots of them.
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Madeline Boardman / Us Weekly:
Anna “Chickadee” Shannon: Mama June “Lied My Entire Life”
Discussion: PerezHilton
Jarett Wieselman / BuzzFeed:
Why Nick Jonas Is Proud To Play Gay  —  All season long on DirecTV's MMA drama Kingdom, something has been eating away at up-and-coming fighter Nate Kulina (Nick Jonas), something that kept him at arm's length from nearly everyone in his life.  Then, in the season finale, everything finally came to light: Nate is gay.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Keira Knightley expecting her first child  —  Keira Knightley is winning plaudits, including a Screen Actors Guild best supporting actress nomination for her role in “The Imitation Game” — but the British star is also celebrating because she is more than three months pregnant, Page Six can exclusively confirm.
Katie Hind / mirror:
Download our FREE mobile and tablet apps  —  “Ecstatic” Zoe Saldana gives birth to twins
Rachel McRady / Us Weekly:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Toni Garrn Split After More Than a Year of Dating  —  Ladies, there's still a chance!  Leonardo DiCaprio and his model girlfriend of more than a year, Toni Garrn, have officially split, a source confirms to Us Weekly.  The couple has been privately dating since May 2013, never walking a red carpet together.
TMZ.com:
Floyd Mayweather Tells Cops ... I Heard the Murder/Suicide  —  TELLS COPS I HEARD THE MURDER/SUICIDE  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Floyd Mayweather finally sat down with the LAPD for a 2-hour interview Wednesday, telling detectives he desperately tried talking his good friend, rapper Earl Hayes, out of killing himself.
Discussion: Page Six and The Hollywood Gossip
Allison / Dlisted:
Derek Hough And Kate Hudson Were Caught “Making Out”  —  Well, if it isn't the PR train, right on time!  No - that's unfair.  I'm sure this is a totally real relationship that wasn't cooked up in the office of two half-drunk publicists named Carol and Sheila.
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Stephanie Webber / Us Weekly:
Kate Hudson, Derek Hough Caught Making Out Days Before Split News: They “Were Totally Kissing”
 
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