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12:00 PM ET, November 13, 2006

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Emily Smith / The Sun:
Borat spanked by angry Yank  —  BORAT star Sacha Baron Cohen was beaten up by a passer-by after he tried to play a prank as his alter ego.  —  He approached the man and said: "I like your clothings.  Are nice!  Please may I buying?  I want have sex with it."  —  But the bystander didn't see the joke.
Discussion: The DarkHat and Best Week Ever
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Daily Mail:
Borat star attacked in street by man who didn't like his jokes  —  Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen was punched by a man who didn't like his jokes, it emerged.  —  Cohen approached the passer-by in a New York street and said in the style of his Kazakh alter ego: "I like your clothings.  Are nice!
Daily Mail:
Borat film 'tricked' poor village actors  —  When Sacha Baron Cohen wanted a village to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat, he found the perfect place in Glod: a remote mountain outpost with no sewerage or running water and where locals eke out meagre livings peddling scrap iron or working patches of land.
Discussion: WOW Report, Towleroad and Blowing Smoke
New York Post:
CANDID CAMERA  —  KEVIN Federline has come up with new way to make money now that Britney Spears has derailed his gravy train and crowds are staying away in droves from his $20 concerts.  Fed-ex, who made a cool $2 million selling home videos for the show "Chaotic," is trying to sell footage from cameras he installed in his car.
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Susan Hatch / The National Ledger:
Britney Spears Homemade Sex Video For Sale?  —  Britney Spears may have a sex video floating around and many are speculating that soon to be ex-hubby Kevin Federline is willing to sell it.  One report is claiming that the Kevin Federline has been touting the four-hour tape for sale and has already …
Discussion: Hollywoodtuna and The DarkHat
Reuters:
Tom Cruise arrives in Rome ahead of wedding  —  ROME (Reuters) - Tom Cruise flew into Rome on Monday ahead of his wedding to actress Katie Holmes this weekend in Italy, an airport official told Reuters.  —  The "Mission: Impossible" star, presumably in town early to wrap up last-minute details …
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New York Post:
CASTLE DATE FOR TOM AND KATIE  —  THE Tomkat's out of the bag as to where Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes will tie the knot.  They'll swap vows Saturday at picturesque 15th-century Castello Odeascalchi, which overlooks Lake Bracciano north of Rome, according to Italy's Il Messaggero newspaper.
Discussion: MollyGood and celebrity nation
New York Post:
Eatery King Kicks The Critics  —  DANNY Meyer, owner of the popular Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern, titled his new HarperCollins book, "Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business" - but he's anything but hospitable to many of the city's most influential food writers.
NY Daily News:
If playing the sands,  —  Bush jokes are sheik  —  Qatar may be one of America's strongest allies in the Arab world, but that doesn't mean its emir can't laugh at a good Bush joke.  —  Recently, we visited the desert kingdom of Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani for the second annual benefit …
Discussion: TMZ.com
Ruth Ryon / Los Angeles Times:
Beverly Hills will be Aniston's next pit stop  —  LOS ANGELES—Jennifer Aniston has made her first home purchase since she and Brad Pitt parted ways.  —  The Emmy-winning actress is buying a house in Beverly Hills for $15 million (all figures U.S.).  The home, designed in the early 1970s …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
New York Post:
HUNGER PANGS  —  NO wonder Katie Holmes had to take a break from her new best friend, Victoria Beckham - she was starving.  The super-skinny soccer wife had been helping Holmes lose her baby weight, but it seems Beckham's dietary rules were too much.  A spy said, "Victoria maintains …
People.com:
Tobey Maguire Is a Dad  —  Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and his fiancée, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, welcomed the birth of their first child, a daughter, on Nov. 9 in Los Angeles, a source close to the couple confirms to PEOPLE.  —  "Let's just say this is truly the best time of my life …
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NY Daily News:   Call Tobey 'Spider-Dad'!
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CRUISE AND HOLMES' BIZARRE VOWS  —  Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)  —  TOM CRUISE will be told to provide future wife KATIE HOLMES with a "cat" and a "comb" during their scientologist wedding service next weekend (17-19NOV06).
Andrea Vance / News of the World:
POSH pop star James Blunt cheated on his supermodel girlfriend when he took a sexy student nurse Back to Bed.  —  Just weeks after the upper crust chart-topper announced he's a one woman man we can reveal he had a highland fling with Jenna MacDonald after a concert.
Discussion: The Corsair
David Bauder / Associated Press:
25 years later, Luke and Laura wed again  —  NEW YORK - It's been an eventful 25 years for Laura Spencer since marrying Luke in a fairy-tale wedding seen on television by 30 million people.  —  She died, and was brought back to life.  She killed her stepfather.
Discussion: Celebrity Gossip …
Associated Press:
Denise Richards tosses laptops from balcony  —  Actress knocked paparazzo's laptops off a ledge 'to protect her safety'  —  RICHMOND, British Columbia - A spokeswoman for Denise Richards blamed aggressive paparazzi for a run-in that prompted the Hollywood actress to toss a pair of laptops from a balcony …
New York Post:
JUST ASKING  —  WHICH singing icon, whose husbands tend to be gay, has gotten very close with a never-married brunette on a network news magazine?  The relationship is said to be causing anguish to the TV correspondent's longtime gal pal who launched her career . . . WHICH former TV squawker's husband …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
 
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The Sun:
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Michelle Caruso / NY Daily News:
They'll 'do' it in Italy  —  Tom, Katie to tie knot at mountain castle
 

 
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