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10:55 AM ET, July 24, 2006

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Reuters:
Miss Universe Passes Out Post-Pageant  —  Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza  —  PHOTO BY: MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS / LANDOV  —  Forty minutes into her reign as Miss Universe, Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza collapsed during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed offstage on Sunday night.
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Beth Harris / Associated Press:
Miss Puerto Rico crowned Miss Universe  —  LOS ANGELES - An 18-year-old from Puerto Rico who hopes to someday star in U.S. and Latin American films was crowned Sunday night as Miss Universe 2006.  —  Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza shared a nervous emotional hug with first runner-up, Kurara Chibana of Japan …
Discussion: Hollywoodtuna
Marisa Guthrie / NY Daily News:
Tina Fey leaving 'SNL' to go solo  —  PASADENA, Calif. - "Saturday Night Live" executive producer Lorne Michaels is losing a head writer and a star.  —  After nine years on "SNL," Tina Fey has left to focus on her new sitcom, "30 Rock."  —  Michaels has yet to replace Fey in the writers' room …
Discussion: Jossip
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Associated Press:
Fey, Dratch leaving 'SNL' for '30 Rock'  —  PASADENA, Calif. - Tina Fey is leaving the anchor chair at "Saturday Night Live."  —  Fey says she's quitting the show after six seasons as head writer and co-anchor of the "Weekend Update" fake news segment to focus on her new NBC prime-time series, "30 Rock," which debuts Oct. 11.
New York Post:
LEO HELPS WHEELCHAIR DUO  —  July 24, 2006 — LEONARDO DiCaprio, who plays the hero in movies, was a real hero to two wheelchair-bound Madonna fans the other night.  Francesco Clark, 28, - who worked at Harper's Bazaar until a car accident left him a quadriplegic and now runs …
Associated Press:
'American Idol' finalists headed to the White House  —  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — President Bush is about to come face-to-face with the one man who has his voting record beat.  —  Bush plans to host American Idol Taylor Hicks and the other Top 10 finalists next Friday in the Oval Office.
Discussion: reality blurred
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Washington Post:
The Reliable Source  —  Think blind dates are a wasteland of dashed expectations?
Discussion: Wampoon and OH NO!!
NY Daily News:
Tommy can Google her, but he can't ogle Storm  —  If Tommy Lee was trolling the Internet for a certain babe the other night, he could have been stunted by his own show's rules.  —  The Motley Crue drummer, who recently got the news that ex-wife Pamela Anderson will marry Kid Rock …
NY Daily News:
'Queer' ducks Cruise jokes  —  VViacom insisted that Tom Cruise wasn't getting special protection when its Comedy Central subsidiary yanked a "South Park" episode mocking his sexuality.  —  But the company's movie arm, Paramount - which makes Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" franchise …
People.com:
Matthew Perry & Aaron Sorkin Joke About Drugs  —  PHOTO BY: MARIO ANZUONI / REUTERS / LANDOV; REED SAXON / AP  —  Crack cocaine and Vicodin aren't the typical topics of conversation at a Hollywood TCA (Television Critics Association) panel to introduce new Fall shows, but when the event …
Discussion: Wampoon
NY Daily News:
Prepville gets crass course on H'wood  —  Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel - the brash, crass, fast-talking model for the brash, crass, fast-talking character in the HBO hit "Entourage" - has been ruffling feathers this summer in the understated little beach community of Watch Hill, R.I.
Associated Press:
Doherty cancels concert, returning to rehab  —  Star has been publicly battling addiction to heroin, cocaine and other drugs  —  LONDON - Pete Doherty has canceled a concert and is returning to treatment in a drug rehabilitation clinic, his tour's concert promoter said Friday.
Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:
EXCLUSIVE: Jake Gyllenhaal Wants To Play Lance Armstrong in Sony Bio-Pic  —  Yes it's true — I'm told Jake Gyllenhaal and Lance Armstrong are hanging at the Tour De France together because the actor is the leading contender to play the cyclist in a Sony bio pic being quietly developed.
Neville Thurlbeck / newsoftheworld.co.uk:
GEORGE'S SEX SHAME  —  News of the World investigators caught the singer red-handed and red-faced as he emerged from the bushes after cavorting with a pot-bellied, 58-year-old, jobless van driver.  —  When challenged George, 43, was wild-eyed and trembling.  Trying to hide his face under a baseball cap, he screamed:
Associated Press:
Family vows to battle Anna Nicole Smith  —  DALLAS - A month after the death of E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with Anna Nicole Smith over his father's oil fortune, his family says they are more committed than ever in their legal battle against the former Playboy playmate.
Discussion: popbytes
Emily Nash / Daily Mail:
X-Files star Gillian Anderson pregnant, months after leaving husband  —  X-Files star star Gillian Anderson is pregnant just three months after splitting from her husband.  —  The actress, 37, has told friends she is expecting a baby following her separation from documentary-maker Julian Ozanne, her second husband.
Discussion: Celebitchy and Celebrity Baby Blog
X17online.com:
Can You Hear Me Now?  —  What does a hot dad of three with a domineering baby's mama do on his day off?  — He drives his motorcycle to a parking lot and chats on his cell phone.  —  Seems he had just come from a flight lesson at Santa Monica Airport today when he pulled in to the hamburger joint across …
Discussion: MollyGood and Brad Pitt News
NY Daily News:
Now it's H'wood's affair  —  Casting has already begun for the film version of the latest Christie Brinkley divorce saga — at least in the minds of some Hollywood producers.  —  Hamptons insiders say the family of 19-year-old "other woman" Diana Bianchi is already being targeted by "book, TV and movie offers."
NY Daily News:
'Hip-hop cop' dishes on J.Lo's night in jail  —  An exclusive sneak peek at tell-all memoir 'Notorious C.O.P.' … As soon as he heard my voice, he started bellowing, "Derrick, Derrick, Derrick, I gotta talk to you, man" as I approached his cell.  —  "Hey, Parker - what's going on?" he asked, obviously concerned.
Discussion: Hollyscoop
 
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