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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.  UPDATE: Both Rudin and Pascal have apologized for the emails.  —  Danny Moloshok / Reuters
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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.
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  Unpublished scripts.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.
Yaron Steinbuch / Page Six:
Sony emails reveal racist slams on Obama
Discussion: Bossip and The Wrap
Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race
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.
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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Kirthana Ramisetti / NY Daily News:   Ariana Grande demands to be carried ‘like a baby’ when she's tired: report
PerezHilton:
Kim Kardashian Has A Huge Surprise For North West On Christmas Day!  What Could It Be?!  —  North West has had a pretty AH-Mazing 2014.  —  She had an awesome Kidchella-themed birthday party, and now, according to her mother, Nori is going to get the best Christmas gift EVER!  —  But there is one catch...
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Cindy Clark / Entertain This!:
Kim Kardashian blames pregnancy weight on God, says it was punishment
Discussion: Celeb Gossip …
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
Meg Wagner / NY Daily News:
‘Sons of Anarchy’ actor skins, cooks, eats ex-girlfriend's pet rabbit: cops  —  Professional bad guy Dimitri Diatchenko faces felony counts of animal cruelty and making threats after he allegedly ate his ex-girlfriend's bunny and sent her threatening step-by-step photos of the sick meal.
Discussion: The Blemish
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Associated Press:
‘Sons of Anarchy’ actor busted for eating ex's pet rabbit
Discussion: PerezHilton
Katie Hind / mirror:
Download our FREE mobile and tablet apps  —  “Ecstatic” Zoe Saldana gives birth to twins
Gina Bacchiocchi / RADAR:
The Battle Is Over!  Leah Messer & Ex Husband Corey Simms To Share Custody Of Twins … Leah Messer may be experiencing very public marital problems with husband Jeremy Calvert, but at least her custody crisis has been resolved.  —  RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal that the Teen Mom 2 star …
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
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Gina Bacchiocchi / RADAR:
Jeremy Calvert Knew All Along That Wife Leah Messer Cheated— And He Has Proof!
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
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.
Allison / Dlisted:
Someone Is Suing Zooey Deschanel Because She Allegedly Broke Their Horse  —  Vintage come-to-life dollhouse figurine Zooey Deschanel (seen above wearing my 94-year-old neighbor Mrs. Lee's favorite errand-running visor while riding on a pony) has apparently found herself on the receiving end of a law suit claiming she broke a horse.
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TMZ.com:
Zooey Deschanel Sued — You Broke My Horse ... Now Pony Up!!!
Discussion: Gawker and Oh No They Didn't!
TMZ.com:
Mama June — Warning All U Girls ... Sugar Bear's Still a Cheater  —  Mama June is back on the attack against Sugar Bear, claiming he's still on the prowl for women ... lots of them.  —  June vented on her personal Facebook page ... complaining she's taking all the heat for dating Mark McDaniel …
TMZ.com:
‘Real Housewife’ Vicki Gunvalson — Sorry for my Topless Instagram Pic ... That Damn Reflection  —  Sorry for my Topless Pic  —  THAT DAMN REFLECTION  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Vicki Gunvalson's topless Instagram photo was inadvertent ... so she claims.
Discussion: PerezHilton
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.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Wahlberg gets his pardon from the only person who matters - the VICTIM: Man he beat and racially abused says he forgives star and reveals he had no idea who his attacker was until now  — He was teenager in Boston when he punched Johnny Trinh in the eye and beat another Vietnamese man around the head
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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Nadia Khomami / NME:
Marilyn Manson clarifies involvement in controversial ‘Lana Del Rey rape video’
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TMZ.com:
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Rick / Hollywoodtuna:
Kat Torres' Body Is Out Of This World
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Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:
Sony hack: Next Bond movie is WAY over budget
Discussion: Oh No They Didn't!
Jesse Spero / Access Hollywood:
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Daily Mail:
Lance Bass and Michael Turchin make TV history by broadcasting their wedding for E! special …
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons Set to Star in ‘Fargo’ Season 2
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Just Jared
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Nielsen launches The Media Distributor Gauge, showing TV usage ranked by company: Disney accounted for 11.5% of TV viewing in April, YouTube accounted for 9.6%

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year

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”

 
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