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8:35 PM ET, January 15, 2008

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TMZ.com:
Brad Renfro Dies  —  TMZ has learned actor Brad Renfro is dead.  —  The 25-year-old actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home this morning.  The cause of death has not been determined, however, Renfro had a history of drug abuse.  —  Sources tell us Renfro, who had starring roles in …
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Gwyneth Paltrow Admitted to New York Hospital  —  Gwyneth Paltrow was admitted to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday afternoon, Usmagazine.com has learned.  —  “She was slumped over in a wheelchair pushed by [husband] Chris Martin,” an eyewitness tells Us.  “She looked not well.”
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Libby Keatinge / PageSix.com:
Last Photo of Gwyneth Before Her Hospitalization
Discussion: omg! and Wizbang Pop!
In Touch Weekly:
Britney's suicide note  —  The warning signs were there — but few knew the extent of Britney Spears' anguish, until now.  Days before Britney was rushed to the hospital on January 4, she left a suicide note, In Touch has exclusively learned.  According to the insider …
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X17 Online:   Britney Leaves A Suicide Note?!
Jarett Wieselman / PageSix.com:
Tom's Scandalous Scientology Schpeel  —  Tom Cruise.  Sitting in front of a camera.  Speaking about his beliefs.  —  Who'd have thought what started as a simple promotional campaign would atom bomb into something this huge over the last two days?  The video was originally posted on the Church …
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Mark Graham / Defamer:
The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video Scientologists Don't Want You To See  —  Didn't get a chance to watch the terrifyingly creepy Tom Cruise video yesterday before Scientologists pulled it off YouTube?  Well, we've managed to get our hands on a copy and now we'd like to invite you to watch in all its technicolor glory.
TMZ.com:
Zac Stars in High School Medical Emergency!  —  TMZ has confirmed that “HSM” star Zac Efron was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center today suffering from appendicitis.  Oh no, Troy Bolton!  —  His rep tells us “He had his appendix removed and is recuperating."  —  Story developing ...
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
K-Fed: I Understand Why People Are Obsessed With Britney and Me  —  Kevin Federline says his post-marital woes with Britney Spears are just like those of any recently divorced couple.  —  “Even though everything is so publicized and everybody is looking at it, it's normal for us,” he says in February's Interview magazine.
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Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Book Claims Tom Cruise Once Hit on Jennifer Garner  —  Before his worldwide whirlwind romance with Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise tried wooing Jennifer Garner, according to a new book by Andrew Morton.  —  As Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now, Tom Cruise …
New York Post:
SECRET IS OUT  —  IT looks like Victoria's Secret angel Alessandra Ambrosio won't be strutting down the runway in her skivvies anytime soon.  The Brazilian beauty, 26, is pregnant with her first child.  “She's a few months along,” said our insider.  Ambrosio is thrilled...
MSNBC:
Actor Brad Renfro dead at 25  —  Cause of death hasn't been determined for ‘The Client,’ ‘Ghost World’ star  —  LOS ANGELES - Actor Brad Renfro is dead, the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed to “Access Hollywood."  —  According to the coroner's office, a Brad Barron Renfro, with the same date of birth as the actor, died today.
Discussion: X17 Online and goldenfiddle
People.com:
Songwriters ‘Completely Exonerate’ Avril Lavigne  —  Two songwriters who had accused Avril Lavigne of plagiarizing their song now say she did nothing wrong.  —  Tony Dunbar and James Gangwer had filed a lawsuit claiming the hit “Girlfriend,” by Lavigne and writing partner Luke Gottwald …
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Alli Sims Lashes Out on Britney's Photog Boyfriend  —  It's one Britney confidant sounding off on another!  —  Alli Sims is speaking out for the first time about her cousin Britney in Us Weekly, and she reveals she's not fond of Britney's new boy toy Adnan Ghalib, saying;  —  “I don't know him.
Discussion: X17 Online and OH NO!!
Richard Simpson / Daily Mail:
Revealed: Photo of Katie Holmes aged 2...and guess who she looks like  —  They could be identical twins.  In fact these two are mother and daughter - and famous ones at that.  —  These astonishing pictures show just how identical little Suri Cruise is to her mother Katie Holmes when she was the same age.
Don Kaplan / New York Post:
‘VIEW’ RINGS 'BELLE  —  'VIEW" co-host Sherri Shepherd went flat- earth again yesterday.  Seems she forgot that legendary soul singer Patti LaBelle is black.  —  During yesterday's talk-around - the first few minutes of “The View” where the show's co-hosts chat about the news of the day …
Discussion: A Hot Mess! and Dlisted
Daily Mail:
Amy's producer Mark Ronson carries cash, a bottle of Coke and a very suspect package  —  Mark Ronson flashed the cash as he paid for a cab to Amy Winehouse's east London flat last night - and he showed off a little more than perhaps he wanted to.  —  Fresh from his three nominations …
William Booth / Washington Post:
A Puff of Fresh Air  —  Opinionated Hollywood Star Katherine Heigl Is Really Smokin'  —  She enters the room in a knit that fits, the kind of dress with a place for everything.  Lipstick the color of a valentine.  The doors to the balcony are thrown open and she exhales, “Great, I can smoke …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump sues CBS News in a Texas court, claiming CBS engaged in election interference “through malicious, deceptive” editing of its 60 Minutes Harris interview

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