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5:15 PM ET, March 5, 2008

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National Enquirer:
NATIONAL ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE: PATRICK SWAYZE HAS 5 WEEKS TO LIVE  —  Patrick Swayze has five weeks to live, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has learned.  —  In a shocking world exclusive, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has uncovered the devastating news that the beloved Hollywood actor and dancer …
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Kcampbell / PageSix.com:
Patrick Swayze Has Cancer  —  Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and might only have weeks to live, a rep for the star said today.  —  The 55-year-old star's publicist confirmed to Page Six that he's suffering from pancreatic cancer …
Richard Simpson / Daily Mail:
Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze ‘diagnosed with cancer with just five weeks to live’, claims U.S. magazine  —  Patrick Swayze is close to death with pancreatic cancer, it is reported.  —  The 55-year-old actor, most famous for roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has as little as five weeks to live.
Discussion: Bumpshack.com and CelebWarship
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Matthew McConaughey Launching Surf Line  —  The next time Matthew McConaughey bares his bod at the beach, he may be wearing his own designs.  —  Us Weekly has learned exclusively that the sand-and-surf-loving star, 38, is developing his own line of swim apparel named j.k. livin …
New York Post:
JUST ASKING  —  WHICH actress went into rehab only after she suffered a miscarriage?  She was on a four-day cocaine bender when she lost the baby she didn't even know she was carrying . . . WHICH aging actress was the celebrity guest for a fashion function and made...
OK! Magazine:
New Couple Alert: Keanu Reeves & Parker Posey?  —  On Feb. 25, an eyewitness spotted Matrix hunk Keanu Reeves cozying up to the queen of indie films, Parker Posey, at swanky L.A. hotel the Chateau Marmont.  —  “They were sharing a seat and sitting very, very close,” the source tells OK!.
Marc Malkin / E! Online:
Lindsay Lohan is in.  Britney Spears is out.  —  I hear Lindsay will likely be replacing Spears as host for next week's Scandinavian Style Mansion gala in Los Angeles.  —  Spears was originally asked to host the soiree, which promotes high-end Scandinavian fashion, but organizer Claus …
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
On The Charts: Janet Jackson Wrestles Top Spot from Jack Johnson  —  The Big News: Janet Jackson's Discipline debuted at number one, selling 181,075 copies and ending Jack Johnson's three-week reign atop the charts.  Johnson fell to three, with Erykah Badu's first album in five years …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life and Dlisted
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Pernilla Cedenheim / People.com:
Britney Spears Earns Raves as a Dance Teacher  —  Britney Spears headed back into the dance studio Tuesday night to teach a class of 15 children.  —  And her pint-sized pupils are singing her praises.  “I like Britney,” 5-year-old Elissa Bouganim, who has taken three classes with the pop star, tells PEOPLE.
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Pop Tarts: Jenna Jameson Gets Kinky for the Camera Dressed as Bettie Page  —  LOS ANGELES — She may recently have gotten rid of her fake breasts, but former porn princess Jenna Jameson is more than happy to wear (and promote) “fake” flesh.  —  Jameson is set to unveil …
Discussion: THE RAD REPORT and lalate news
Michael Musto / Village Voice:
MICHAEL MUSTO as LINDSAY LOHAN as MARILYN MONROE  —  Heath Ledger died in the nude, but most of today's young female stars live in the nude, albeit while teetering on the precipice of oblivion and trying to join him there.  Whereas yesterday's sexpot Jane Fonda had to apologize just for saying the word c**t …
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Salma Hayek: I Wanted to Have a Boy  —  Sure, Salma Hayek is thrilled with her 6-month-old daughter, Valentina.  —  But the new mom, 41, says in the new issue of Glamour, “I have something to confess, I wanted a boy.”  —  Why?  —  “Probably because I was afraid,” she says.
Liz Smith / Variety:
ABC wants Crawford for ‘Good,’ ‘View’  —  New DVD features rare ‘Hush’ footage  —  ABC IS HOT on Cindy Crawford.  They want her as a regular on “Good Morning America” and “The View.”  She did a great job last week on ABC and nobody can believe this beauty has turned 42.  Well, 40 is now the new... 25. ...
Michael K / Dlisted:
The Perfect Party Trick!  —  Amy Wino's rep blamed her swollen and bruised cheek on impetigo.  The Sun thinks otherwise.  They said Wino went all hardcore and stubbed a ciggie on her cheek.  Wino was smoking in a restaurant when a waitress told her three times that smoking wasn't allowed.
Star:
Mary-Kate: Flirting With Disaster  —  Only weeks after the overdose death of her secret boyfriend, Heath Ledger, Mary-Kate Olsen has moved on to another troubled drug abuser: Italian playboy Lapo Elkann, who — with his wild hair, eccentric fashion sense and party lifestyle …
Discussion: popbytes
 
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AfterElton.com:
Alec Baldwin delivers verbal noogie to less gay-friendly younger brother
Daily Mail:
Jordan comes out to play for a racy lingerie launch
Hollywoodtuna:
Eva Mendes' Breasts Are Mysteriously Perky
In Touch Weekly:
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New York Post:
CELEB ANTICS ON THE MENU?
TMZ.com:
“Millionaire Matchmaker” Is the New Heidi Fleiss
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USA Today:
If the title says ‘Porno,’ will moviegoers say ‘no thanks’?
Hollywoodtuna:
Samantha Fox's Enormous Bra Can Be Yours!
Discussion: Gone Hollywood
Nturitz / PageSix.com:
Nothing Comes Between Her and Her Calcium
3am:
Grease star Jeff Conaway pulls a knife on Noel Gallagher
Simon Reynolds / Digital Spy:
Kirsten Dunst finds love in rehab
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
See Christina Aguilera's New Jewelry Ad
People.com:
Brooklyn Beckham's Star-Studded B-Day Bash
New York Post:
ONE-INCH RULE  —  KIMORA Lee Simmons is a nonsinging diva.
 

 
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Ann Telnaes / Open Windows:
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer-winning WaPo editorial cartoonist since 2008, quits after she says her cartoon criticizing CEOs currying favor with Trump was killed

Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles

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Apple offers Apple TV+ for free to anyone with an Apple ID this weekend, the first time it has offered such a promotion

 
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