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12:40 PM ET, April 19, 2008

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 Top News: 
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.
The Gossip Girls / Celebrity Scandals:
Suri Cruise'S 2nd Birthday Party: An Inside Look  —  As could be expected, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes helped celebrate daughter Suri's 2nd birthday in style - throwing a shindig for family and friends with a barbeque and childrens party.  —  Held on Friday evening (April 18) …
Michael K / Dlisted:
Halle Berry Wants Another Oscar  —  Halle Berry popped out baby Nahla Areola (it's Ariela, but I like Areola better) a little more than a month ago and she's already getting back to work.  Somebody's got to pay the bills around there.  Halle will produce and star in the psychological drama “Frankie & Alice” reports Variety.
RELATED:
Dave McNary / Variety:   Halle Berry set for ‘Frankie and Alice’
Access Hollywood:
Lindsay Lohan On Her Dad's Media Moments: ‘I Wish He Would Stop’  —  Living life in the public eye has been an everyday occurrence for Lindsay Lohan since she was a child, but one thing she still hasn't gotten used to is hearing her father talk about her in the press.
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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. ...
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
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.
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.
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
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”.
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!
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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E! Online:
Lowe's Nannygate Goes to the Videotape
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Lifeline Live
Andrew Wallenstein / Reuters:
CW plugs “Gossip” stream
San Francisco Chronicle:
HILTON DEFENDS HER BREASTS
Los Angeles Times:
Live: Kanye West's Glow in the Dark tour
Just Jared:
Shia LaBeouf Punches Cate Blanchett
Discussion: The IESB and Cinematical
 Earlier Picks: 
Tiffany McGee / People.com:
Foxy Brown's Emotional Release from Prison
Michael K / Dlisted:
Gary Busey Is Homeless
People.com:
Eddie Van Halen Returns to the Concert Stage
TMZ.com:
Jenna Jameson: Shuck It, Slurp It
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James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Deadliest Catch’ caught in fishy editing
 

 
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Joel Simon / Columbia Journalism Review:
As part of a settlement with journalists, the NYPD must stop kettling and expand its definition of “press” to include those without city-issued press passes

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