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2:00 PM ET, March 9, 2007

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Pete Norman / People.com:
Salma Hayek: Engaged and Pregnant!  —  Double the good news for Salma Hayek: The actress is engaged to businessman boyfriend François-Henri Pinault - and she's pregnant.  —  "Businessman, François-Henri Pinault, and his fiancée, Salma Hayek, are happy to announce …
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PerezHilton.com:
Salma Hayek: Pregnant AND Engaged!  —  Ay Dios mio!  —  Two scoops in one!  —  Yup, it's true - actress, producer and sexy mami Salma Hayek is preggers with her first child, and our dear friend Ben Widdicombe was the first journalist with exclusive confirmation of the baby news.
Star:
Salma Hayek: Pregnant & Engaged!  —  A rep has confirmed to Star that Salma Hayek is pregnant and getting married.  She and her fiancé, businessman François-Henri Pinault, are expecting their first child.  —  Hayek, 40, has kept her relationship with Pinault relatively low profile.
TMZ.com:
Salma Hayek: Pregnant Betty!
Discussion: The Evil Beet
Cate / Star Trip:   Salma Hayek engaged and pregnant!
Celebitchy / cele|bitchy:
Kim Kardashian's sex tape is going to be released on March 21 (NSFW or under-18)  —  Paris Hilton's on and off BFF, stylist Kim Kardashian, shot to fame last spring when she dated newly single Nick Lachey briefly.  Everyone wanted to know more about the exotic-looking daughter of deceased O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian.
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TMZ.com:
Lawsuit Be Damned — Kim K. Sex Tape to Be Released!  —  Despite Kim's pending lawsuit, Vivid Entertainment is going forward with a March 21 release of "Kim Kardashian Superstar" — the sex video Kim made with then-boyfriend, Ray-J.  —  Steven Hirsch, Co-Chairman of Vivid, told TMZ …
Summer / Us Weekly:
US TV: Kim K's Sexy Fitness Video  —  Here it is.  The video we've all been waiting for!  Kim Kardashian has made a sexy exercise video with celebrity fitness trainer Kathy Kaehler.  "The Kim Kardashian Workout for Your Mind, Body and Spirit" is a five minute downloadable must-have, available at www.officialkimkardashian.com.
Discussion: Best Week Ever
Leo DiCaprio / NY Daily News:
All's Fair as editor gets roasted  —  Wednesday night's meat locker weather was an inconvenient truth for climate change crusaders at the Natural Resources Defense Council gala.  But impish friends of honoree Graydon Carter treated the Vanity Fair editor to some global warming of his very own.
TMZ.com:
Why Reese Bailed on "Bunny" Film  —  Reese Witherspoon has backed out of a big movie in which she was slated to star and produce.  Now TMZ knows why Reese bailed.  —  The movie, "Bunny Lake Is Missing," was to be a remake of Otto Preminger's 1965 film about a woman whose daughter disappears from a nursery school.
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J. Harvey / A Socialite's Life:
Reese Bails On Film Project  —  Reese Witherspoon abruptly pulled out of a film re-make that she was also supposed to be producing.  The film, "Bunny Lake is Missing", was supposed to shoot this summer.  Reese bailed because there wasn't a finished script.
TMZ.com:
Eddie Van Halen Checks Into Rehab  —  The long awaited Van Halen reunion tour will be even longer-awaited — Eddie Van Halen has checked himself into alcohol-related rehab.  —  In a statement to TMZ, the rock legend explains why he's determined to clean up his act:
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Mike Bruno / EW.com:
Former Madonna Nanny Pitching Tell-All Memoir  —  EW.com has seen a proposal for a book revealing intimate details about Madonna's children, husband, and the controversial Malawi adoption  —  A woman claiming to be a former nanny for Madonna is currently shopping a tell-all memoir detailing …
New York Post:
SUGE SET TO BURY DEATH ROW  —  THIS could be the death of Death Row Records, which launched the West Coast hip-hop sound of Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.  —  In an exclusive interview, Marion "Suge" Knight, 42, told Page Six he's ready to pull the plug on the label he founded in 1991.
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Michael Jackson 'wouldn't change' career  —  TOKYO - Amid a lavish party filled with fans, impersonators, orphans and handicapped children, Michael Jackson said Thursday that he wouldn't change the path of his career, despite "deliberate attempts to hurt me."
Discussion: A Socialite's Life and Metadish
NY Daily News:
Foxy gets slapped with 2 Florida raps  —  Hot-tempered hip-hop diva Foxy Brown has two more misdemeanors on her rap sheet.  —  Prosecutors in South Florida formally charged the rapper on Wednesday for her latest outburst - allegedly rumbling with the owner of a beauty supply shop three weeks ago.
Discussion: Str8 Outta NYC
Starpulse:
Health of Johnny Depp's Daughter Is Improving  —  Johnny Depp's young daughter is "doing much better" after being struck down by an undisclosed illness, according to the star's representative.  British newspaper Daily Mirror reported yesterday that Depp's seven-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
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Allisonc / Us Weekly:
Idol Mystery Solved: Why Paula Went MIA  —  On Wednesday night's episode of American Idol, it wasn't the female singers who made news at the top of the show, but rather the always unpredictable judge Paula Abdul.  —  When host Ryan Seacrest welcomed the audience to the second performance show of the week …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
popbytes:
PORTIA DE ROSSI - HEADED FOR A RELAPSE?  —  good evening ladies & gents!  everyone i know totally loves ellen degeneres including my mom!  ellen's girlfriend funny gal portia de rossi is the coolest!  (she rocked on both ally mcbeal and arrested development) i think they make an amazing couple …
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Kate Walsh Says She's a 'Late Bloomer' in Love  —  As her 40th birthday approaches in October, Grey's Anatomy's Kate Walsh says she is only now ready to get her love life in order.  —  "I'm a bit of a later bloomer," the actress, who plays Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd on the ABC hit, tells Best Life in its April issue.
Variety:
Eastwood, Jolie catch 'Changeling'  —  Grazer, Howard to produce pic  —  Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment are fast-tracking "The Changeling," with Clint Eastwood looking to direct and Angelina Jolie in talks to star.  —  Scripted by J. Michael Straczynski …
 
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From Mediagazer:

Josh Rubin / Toronto.com:
Major Canadian news organizations, including Torstar, Postmedia, and CBC, sue OpenAI, alleging breach of copyright and terms of use

Amy Hawkins / The Guardian:
China sentences journalist Dong Yuyu, an ex-Nieman Fellow whose work has appeared in Chinese editions of the NYT and FT, to seven years in prison for espionage

Scott Jennings / @scottjenningsky:
Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings says he is joining the LA Times editorial board, as owner Patrick Soon-Shiong works to add “balance” to the board

 
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