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9:50 AM ET, April 19, 2008

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Anemona Hartocollis / City Room:
CNN Reporter Faces Drug Charge  —  Richard Quest, a reporter and business travel specialist for CNN International, is being arraigned today on a misdemeanor charge of drug possession after the authorities said he was found with methamphetamine in Central Park.
Jawn Murray / Black Voices Blogs:
All Falls Down: Kanye West Ends Engagement To Fiance Alexis  —  By Jawn Murray, BlackVoices.com  —  I broke news this morning during my segment on the nationally syndicated ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show’ that rapper Kanye West and his fiancé Alexis Phifer have called it quits.
Mike Fleeman / People.com:
Lindsay Lohan to Dad: Stop Talking to Reporters  —  Lindsay Lohan has heard just about enough from her father.  —  “I just wish that he wouldn't go and talk to the media,” she said Friday on radio's The Billy Bush Show.  “It's not attractive to me, it really upsets me and I wish he would stop. ...
Phil / Egotastic!:
Zoe Kravitz's Nipples are Showing  —  Here's Zoe Kravtiz.  And here are Zoe Kravitz's nipples.  If she looks or sounds familiar, that's because Zoe is the daughter of Rocker Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet from the Cosby Show.  Apparently, Zoe's also an actress and already has four credits to her name on IMDB.
Michael K / Dlisted:
Rudy Got A Job  —  This is not a sentence I thought I would ever write: Rudy Huxtable will play a stripper in the new Tyler Perry movie.  Keep your chonies on, Rudy!  —  Keshia Knight Pulliam will star as a jailed hooker in “Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail.”  Guess what the plot is?
Discussion: ComingSoon.net
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Gregg Goldstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Keshia Knight Pulliam in ‘Madea’ caper
Discussion: Defamer
The Sun:
Madonna £12m for two gigs  —  MADONNA is to sign the most lucrative contracts of her career - playing two gigs in Dubai for £12.5MILLION.  —  It's the kind of money that makes DAVID BECKHAM look like a YTS boy at LA Galaxy.  —  The Queen Of Pop is finalising negotiations …
Discussion: Dlisted
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Contactmusic.com:
GARY BUSEY - BUSEY EVICTED  —  Actor GARY BUSEY has been evicted from his Malibu, California home for failing to pay his rent.  —  The Point Break star allegedly owes $50,000 (GBP25,000) in back rent and he's refusing to pay up because he claims “unclean air conditioning vents” were posing a health risk.
Discussion: Best Week Ever and WOW Report
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Gary Busey Is Homeless
Discussion: Gabby Babble
Starpulse:
Gary Busey Evicted
Tiffany McGee / People.com:
Foxy Brown's Emotional Release from Prison  —  After eight months in prison - including 40 days in solitary confinement - rapper Foxy Brown was released Friday.  —  Brown, 29, left the Rose M. Singer facility at Rikers Island Correctional facility in New York at 12:05 p.m. …
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Reuters:   Foxy Brown freed from prison in New York
People.com:
Eddie Van Halen Returns to the Concert Stage  —  Six weeks after postponing a slate of shows while guitarist Eddie Van Halen underwent medical tests, the reunited rock band Van Halen performed in Reno, Nev., Thursday night.  —  “Better late that never!” singer David Lee Roth proclaimed from the stage.
Just Jared:
Evan Rachel Wood Gets the Woody Allen Treatment  —  Evan Rachel Wood shoots scenes for her new romantic comedy in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood on Friday.  —  Woody Allen is directing it and details are under wraps.  It's temporarily called “Woody Allen's Summer Project”.
E! Online:
Lowe's Nannygate Goes to the Videotape  —  Rob Lowe...Video...Uh-oh.  —  No, the former West Winger doesn't have a new sex-tape scandal on his hands.  Rather, the lawyer representing his former nanny is turning up the heat on the star, demanding videotaped depositions of Lowe and his wife …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Lifeline Live
cityrag:
Celebrities Smoking Joints  —  A little warm up for 420 festivities this Sunday - celebrities that support pot smoking! click the pics for more...  Lindsay Lohan Gets Blunted  —  Celine Dion on the Pot  —  Happy Weed Day!
Just Jared:
Shia LaBeouf Punches Cate Blanchett  —  Shia LaBeouf whacks Cate Blanchett in the face in this new movie still for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  —  In the movie, Blanchett, 38, plays villainous Russian agent Irina Spalko.  LaBeouf, 21, plays Mutt Williams, a motorcycle-riding greaser and Indiana's sidekick.
Discussion: The IESB and Cinematical
Daily Mail:
Sexy schoolgirl Geri Halliwell gets top marks for hilarity with her Friday Night Project  —  The Friday Night Project boys are nothing if not persuasive.  —  Comedy duo Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr managed to fulfil a few male fantasies by convincing this week's guest host Geri Halliwell …
Discussion: OH NO!!
 
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San Francisco Chronicle:
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TMZ.com:
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Reuters:
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People.com:
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