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TMZ.com:
Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Pearl Oscar Dress — STOLEN!!!  —  $150K PEARL OSCAR DRESS ... STOLEN!!!!  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Lupita Nyong'o's now-famous Oscar dress — adorned in pearls — was stolen right out of her hotel room ... TMZ has learned.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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Michael K / Dlisted:   Paging Detective La Toya! Lupita Nyong'o's Oscar Dress Has Been Stolen!
Raakhee Mirchandani / NY Daily News:
Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Oscar dress stolen from Academy Award-winner's Hollywood hotel room
Discussion: Sandra Rose
Britt AboutalebManaging / Yahoo Style:   Someone Stole Lupita Nyong'o's $150K Oscar Gown
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Kardashians sign massive $100 million deal with E!  —  Khloé, Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Kylie and Kendall  —  The Kardashians have signed a record-breaking, $100 million-plus deal to remain with E! for another four years, sources have exclusively confirmed to Page Six.
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Rachel McRady / Us Weekly:
Kardashians Sign $100 Million, Four-Year Deal With E!, After Threatening to Leave the Network  —  Don't expect the selfies, belfies, or drama to stop anytime soon!  The Kardashian family has signed a new $100 million deal with E! to stay with the network for four more years, sources confirm to Us Weekly.
Discussion: Page Six and New York Post
People.com:
Bobbi Kristina Brown Suffers ‘Violent Seizures’ After Being Taken Out of Coma  —  Bobbi Kristina Brown was taken out of a medically induced coma, but she did not have the response her family had been praying for.  —  “She was taken off the drugs, but she began having violent seizures,” a family source says.
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TMZ.com:
Bobbi Kristina — No Signs of Improvement ... Still in a Coma
Discussion: CNN, Page Six and PerezHilton
Tara Fowler / People.com:
Mark McGrath on Death Hoax: ‘I Knew Nothing About It’  —  No, Mark McGrath is not dead, despite an Internet hoax claiming he was shot to death.  —  “Final word on the death hoax thing,” the singer Tweeted Thursday afternoon after a rumor spread that he'd been killed in dramatic fashion on the set of his TV series.
Discussion: Stereogum
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Alyssa Toomey / E! Online:
NEWS/ Mark McGrath Is Alive and Well: Sugar Ray Singer Apologizes After Death Hoax
Discussion: PerezHilton and Just Jared
TMZ.com:
Jennifer Lawrence and Harvey Weinstein — Showdown with Famed Director David O. Russell  —  Famed director David O. Russell went on a tear against Jennifer Lawrence and Harvey Weinstein during the filming of the movie “Joy” ... this according to an eyewitness on the set.
Tim Stack / EW.com:
FOX CONSIDERING AN EMPIRE CONCERT SERIES  —  Could Cookie be headed to Madison Square Garden?  —  EW has learned that Fox is considering staging Empire concerts, the same way it did a Glee tour for two summers.  “We are thinking about what the future is of the brand,” explains Dana Walden, co-chair and co-CEO of Fox Television Group.
Mirror.co.uk:
VIEW GALLERY  —  Most women mark their 40th birthday with a luxury holiday, an indulgent trip to the spa or an expensive piece of jewellery.  —  But the only diamond Tanya Phillips had her eye on was the one at the end of a tattoo needle.  —  To celebrate her big day she embarked upon …
Discussion: dailyrecord and PerezHilton
Tim Nudd / People.com:
Drew Barrymore Writing a Book About Her Life  —  Life has certainly been a long and winding road for Drew Barrymore.  And now, she's putting it all down on paper.  —  The actress, who turned 40 this week, has signed a deal with Dutton to publish an collection of autobiographical essays, the publisher tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Discussion: Dlisted
Stephen Thompson / NPR:
First Listen: Purity Ring, ‘Another Eternity’  —  Another Eternity  —  When Purity Ring released its debut album Shrines back in 2012, it came bundled with some of the most ill-defined genre signifiers imaginable, from chillwave to the band's self-deployed “future pop” to the even-less-meaningful “witch house.”
Discussion: Stereogum
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Richard Linklater in Talks to Direct 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' (Exclusive)  —  Richard Linklater might be moving from one unconventional family narrative to another.  After spending 12 years shooting the Oscar best picture nominee Boyhood, the director is in talks to helm Where'd You Go, Bernadette for Annapurna Pictures.
Discussion: I Watch Stuff
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Arrow/Flash Superhero Team-Up Spinoff In Works At CW; Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Wentworth Miller, Caity Lotz Star  —  EXCLUSIVE: DC Comics superheroes are uniting in a potential new drama series at the CW, a spinoff from hits Arrow and The Flash that will feature several fan-favorite recurring actors/characters from both shows.
Discussion: Variety
TMZ.com:
Dez Bryant's Mom — Detailed 2012 Fight with Dez ... In Police Video  —  DETAILED 2012 FIGHT WITH DEZ  —  ... In Police Video  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Dez Bryant's mom sat in front of a camera and told cops the NFL star roughed her up, threatened her and ripped her shirt during a 2012 incident in Texas …
Daily Mail:
Married TV actor wakes up to find his testicles have been STOLEN after he is drugged in Russian bar by attractive blonde working for organ traffickers  —  Police in Russia are tracking a gang - apparently including a doctor - who drugged a TV soap actor and removed his testicles.
Discussion: World of Wonder
Rebecca Macatee / E! Online:
NEWS/ Kim Kardashian Says It's Not “as Easy” Getting Pregnant With Baby No. 2: “We're Working on It”  —  Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have been eager to give North West a sibling for a while now.  —  As it turns out, though, conceiving baby No. 2 is easier said than done.
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Yahoo:
Johansson: Nothing ‘creepy or inappropriate’ about Travolta
Discussion: Us Weekly
Madeline Boardman / Us Weekly:
Bill Cosby Says He's “Far From Finished” in New Statement As More Women Come Forward
Discussion: PerezHilton, Gawker and Sandra Rose
Milton Keynes Citizen:
‘Fifty Shades of Grey Faces’ at cinema stench
Discussion: Dlisted
Cynthia Letson / ABC News:
Real-Life ‘Notebook’ Couple Dies Hand-in-Hand
Todd Van Luling / The Huffington Post:
Here's What Really Happened To The Cars From ‘Pimp My Ride’
Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Tracy Morgan Wants to Return to Work, Shows Improvement Eight Months After Severe Car Crash: New Photo
Discussion: PerezHilton
TMZ.com:
Jas Prince — You Only Get ONE Warning, Birdman ... Pay Up My Drake Fee Now!
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Eun Kyung Kim / Today:
Robin Williams' daughter Zelda on life without dad, continuing his charity work
Discussion: Us Weekly
Access Hollywood:
'AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL'S' MIRJANA PUHAR KILLED; TYRA BANKS ‘DEEPLY SADDENED’
Discussion: Just Jared
 

 
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

New York Times:
Sources: in a revised bid, Skydance offered Paramount shareholders a larger stake in the combined company and a $3B cash infusion to pay debt and buy back stock

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Meta confirms it has started testing a limited-time invite-only bonus program for creators on Threads in the US

 
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