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1:30 PM 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: The Superficial and Hollywoodtuna
X17online.com:
Matthew Bitch Slaps a Pap, Then Chills With Yoga  —  Matthew McConaughey has gotten WAY more press since biking with Lance and Jake than he ever did with Penelope and since his first outing with those guys, we've seen pictures of Matt pretty much ever day, right?
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 …
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
Jossip:
Dessarae Bradford's Version of Her Colin Farrell Accosting  —  Rather than let Colin Farrell's PR team spin what happened during Thursday's Tonight Show taping, Dessarae Bradford is holding a presser this morning to explain her side of things.  You see, she wasn't looking to accost Farrell on stage …
Discussion: MollyGood
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 …
Associated Press:
Carol Burnett Honored by TV Critics  —  Actress-comedian Carol Burnett, whose long-running variety show became a TV classic, received a career achievement award from the Television Critics Association.  —  "Does this mean I'll never get another bad review?"  Burnett joked Sunday as she accepted the honor.
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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
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.
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.
New York Post:
WHO'S THE DAD?  —  July 24, 2006 — DID Linda Evangelista have a date with the turkey baster?  Word is the veteran supermodel, whose pregnancy (first reported by Page Six a few weeks ago) is in its sixth month, underwent artificial insemination.  Didier Fernandez, her agent at DNA Models …
Discussion: Dlisted
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.
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Washington Post:
The Reliable Source  —  Think blind dates are a wasteland of dashed expectations?
Discussion: Wampoon and OH NO!!
Miuvonf / A Socialite's Life:
George Michael Caught In Park Sex Tryst With 58-Year-Old Pot-Bellied Man  —  Geez.  You can't even go to a park for anonymous sex without the paparazzi finding out these days.  Poor George Michael.  Just when I thought he may be on the road to becoming scandal-free, George decides to frolic in the woods.
Discussion: Queerty
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
Ananova:
Kim Too Saucy For Kiwis  —  We all remember how much of a minx Kim Cattrall was in Sex And The City.  —  Some episodes were enough to make us turn a deep shade of beetroot.  —  Well Kim, who played sex-crazed Samantha Jones in the series, has seen her recent Nissan car ad pulled in New Zealand after an influx of complaints.
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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 …
 
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Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

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