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10:10 PM ET, February 7, 2023

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Angela Andaloro / People.com:
Maria Menounos Expecting First Baby with Husband Keven Undergaro After Decade-Long Journey  —  Maria Menounos and husband Keven Undergaro will become first-time parents in 2023  —  Maria Menounos is going to be a mom!  —  The TV host, 44, and husband Keven Undergaro are expecting their first baby …
Allie Jones / New York Times:
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt's Picture-Perfect Life  —  The author has long been surrounded by fame.  Still, she keeps some things private.  —  LOS ANGELES — Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt has no complaints.  —  If you ask the oldest daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger about her life …
Discussion: Us Weekly, Vanity Fair and Just Jared
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Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
‘La La Land’ Broadway Musical In The Works  —  EXCLUSIVE: A Broadway musical take of the six-time Oscar-winning, $472 million worldwide-grossing movie La La Land is in development, Emmy- and Tony-winning producer Marc Platt said Tuesday.  —  The show, based on the Damien Chazelle-directed movie …
Discussion: Just Jared, UPI and POPSUGAR
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Emma Baty / Cosmopolitan:
Madelyn Cline's Hot Streak  —  When you go from trying to find work to bona fide star in just three years, it might feel like you got a lucky break.  Unless you're her.  —  “I've always read other people's cover stories that start like this.  ‘Having lunch with so-and-so at somewhere.’ Like, ‘She sits across from me and....’”
Benjamin VanHoose / People.com:
Brendan Fraser Compares a Golden Globe Award to a ‘Hood Ornament’: Not ‘Meaningful to Me’  —  “Get it or don't get it, doesn't matter.  What does matter is that it would mean nothing to me.  I don't want it,” he said of a Golden Globe trophy  —  Trending Videos
Discussion: Howard Stern, Variety and Rolling Stone
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Angela Andaloro / People.com:
Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional as He Talks About Son with Autism: 'Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way'
Discussion: Page Six
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Charlie Thomas, a Drifter Nearly All His Life in Song, Dies at 85  —  He was heard on hits like “There Goes My Baby,” “Under the Boardwalk” and “Up on the Roof.”  He kept singing them for decades.  —  Charlie Thomas, who recorded memorable songs like “There Goes My Baby” and “Under the Boardwalk” …
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Caitlin Lent / Interview Magazine:
Lea Michele on Glee, Growth, and “the Hardest Fucking Role in New York”  —  By Jeremy O. Harris arrives at New York City's August Wilson Theater, the site of his Tony-nominated production Slave Play.  He's there to interview Lea Michele, the showstopping star of the newly revived 1964 musical Funny Girl.
Lisa Rosen / Los Angeles Times:
Even with MS, Christina Applegate wraps ‘Dead to Me’ with help from her loving co-star  —  The dark comedy “Dead to Me,” which completed its third and final season on Netflix, is a riot of heartbreak, comedy, mayhem and wild plot twists.  Star Christina Applegate can relate all too well.
Christine Rendon / Daily Mail:
What Jennifer Lopez said to Ben Affleck in tense Grammys exchange  — Jennifer Lopez and her husband of six months, Ben Affleck, were caught on camera snapping at each other at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night  — Lopez, 53, can be seen telling a sour-faced Affleck to ‘look motivated’
TMZ.com:
Priscilla Presley Hangs Out with Bam Margera  —  PRISCILLA PRESLEY HANGING OUT WITH BAM MARGERA  —  In what many may consider a bizarre pairing, Priscilla Presley has ties to the ‘Jackass’ world — in none other than the troubled Bam Margera.  —  Elvis' ex-wife — and the mother …
Discussion: Daily Mail and New York Post
Cori Murray / Ebony:
How Ant-Man and Creed III Star Jonathan Majors Became Hollywood's Most Wanted Actor … For actor Jonathan Majors, no matter how repetitive, mundane or grand life's tasks are, he completes each gesture with divine reverence.  “[With] a sense of occasion is kind of how I move through the world,” Majors says.
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TMZ.com:
Leonardo DiCaprio Not Dating 19-Year-Old Model Eden Polani  —  Leonardo DiCaprio absolutely has a thing for women many years his junior, but his latest reported romantic link, a 19-year-old model just ain't legit ... TMZ has learned.  —  Rumors about Leo and Eden Polani started to fly …
Jem Aswad / Variety:
Michael Jackson Estate Nearing Music-Catalog Sale Worth $800-$900 Million (EXCLUSIVE) … The Michael Jackson estate is in the process of selling half of its interests in the legendary singer's music catalog in a deal in the $800 million-$900 million range, three sources confirm to Variety.
Discussion: Daily Mail, UPROXX and ET Canada
Mark Olsen / Los Angeles Times:
Michelle Yeoh says she finally gets to be herself: ‘Thank you for seeing me’  —  Academy Award nominee Michelle Yeoh has been a worldwide movie star for decades, known for action-packed roles in films such as “Supercop” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and as a Bond girl in “Tomorrow Never Dies.”
Sarah Grossbart / E! Online:
Why Meghan Trainor Worried She Was Experiencing Pregnancy Loss With Baby No. 2  —  Dear Future Baby, you gave Mom Meghan Trainor quite the scare.  Now expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara, the singer shared with E! News why the first few weeks were so “tough.”
TMZ.com:
'That's So Raven' Star Orlando Brown to Get Mental Evaluation After Arrest  —  “That's So Raven” star, Orlando Brown is going to get his head checked to see if he's fit to stand trial in his Ohio criminal case ... opening the door to a possible plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Discussion: RADAR, Page Six and ET Canada
 
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Marc Malkin / Variety:
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Nika Shakhnazarova / Page Six:
Armie Hammer rape accuser brands him ‘manipulative’: He's trying to ‘shut me up’
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Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Brandi Glanville touched Caroline Manzo's ‘vaginal area’ while filming ‘RHUGT’
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Prince Andrew's Infamous Newsnight Interview Is Being Made Into A Film
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Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to ChatGPT and more via Reddit's Data API, bring new AI tools to Reddit, and make OpenAI a Reddit ad partner

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Memo: Gannett is adding AI-generated summaries to the top of some stories, with a disclaimer at the bottom; some USA Today stories already show the summaries

Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman:
The California Senate Appropriations Committee approves a bill imposing fees on Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to pay for local news through employment tax credits

 
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