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5:40 PM ET, November 17, 2008

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Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Scarlett Johansson Opens Up About Feud With Lindsay Lohan  —  Scarlett Johansson tells December's Allure she doesn't know why Lindsay Lohan doesn't like her.  —  “I really don't know that person.  I only met her, like, three times,” says the actress, 23, who lost the lead role in The Parent Trap to Lohan when she was 13.
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Jesse Curti / People.com:
Scarlett Johansson Inspires ‘I Kissed a Girl’  —  Some stars get fan mail.  Scarlett Johansson got a platinum-certified single.  —  When told that her lips inspired Katy Perry to pen her hit “I Kissed A Girl,” Johansson, who recently married Ryan Reynolds, tells December's Allure, “That's flattering, but my lips are kind of taken.”
Rachel Paula Abrahamson / Us Weekly:
Tyra Banks Surprises Contestant With Sex Change Operation  —  Tyra Banks surprises Isis King, the first transgender contestant on America's Next Top Model, with sex reassignment surgery in an episode of her talk show to air Tuesday.  —  “This is not happening!”
Ken Lee / People.com:
Heather Locklear Formally Charged With DUI  —  Heather Locklear has been formally charged with driving under the influence of drugs in connection with her September arrest, the Santa Barbara, Calif., District Attorney's Office said Monday.  —  The misdemeanor charge filed by the DA's office specifies …
Discussion: The Superficial
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Access Hollywood:
Heather Locklear Charged With DUI
Discussion: X17 Online
Daily Mail:
Battle of the bikini babes: Kim Kardashian kicked off Miami beach to make way for Victoria's Secret models … Kim Kardashian's moment in the sun was abruptly cut short on a visit to Miami beach over the weekend.  —  The reality television star was lapping up the paparazzi attention as she hit …
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Hollywoodtuna:   Kim Kardashian Lets Her Ass Out
Claire Hoffman / New Yorker:
SOUP WITH PRINCE  —  The thirty-thousand-square-foot Italianate villa, built this century by Vanna White's ex-husband, looks like many of the other houses in Beverly Park, a gated community in L.A., except for the bright-purple carpet that spills down the front steps to announce its new tenant: Prince.
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Brooke Shields: Lipstick Jungle Isn't Canceled  —  Despite reports, Brooke Shields says her NBC drama Lipstick Jungle hasn't been scrapped.  —  “They thought that because My Own Worst Enemy has been shut down that the same thing had happened to us, and it's not true,” she told reporters at Sunday's Kidsfest in NYC.
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Michael K / Dlisted:   Lipstick Jungle: The #1 Show In Brooke Shields' Head
Eunice Oh / People.com:
Reese Witherspoon: How Ryan and I Share Custody over the Holidays  —  Reese Witherspoon  —  As the holidays approach, Reese Witherspoon faces a dilemma familiar to countless divorced parents - how to share custody of her young children on those special days.
Michael K / Dlisted:
What.  The.  F**k.  —  While most of you were spending your Sunday at church (HA!), Courtney Love was furiously posting 60 posts on her MySpace Blog. 60 posts in a matter of just a few hours.  This is why doing meth while blogging is never a good idea.  Actually, this is why doing meth …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and thelondonblog
TMZ.com:
Cops: “Bachelor” Gal Fought Squad Car, Lost  —  The season six winner of “The Bachelor” continued her losing streak with law enforcement this weekend — after cops say she unleashed a drunken, unprovoked attack on an innocent cop car.  —  Mary Delgado — who was arrested last year …
OK! Magazine:
Source: Britney to Light Rock Center Tree  —  Talk about a turnaround — Britney Spears started 2008 barricaded inside her L.A. home with her son while the police and ambulances waited outside.  And now, less than 11 months later, she's got a hit single, an album ready to drop in two weeks …
Discussion: The Superficial
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X17 Online:
Britney To Light The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree!
Daily Mail:
Kelly Osbourne ‘to marry her 18-year-old boyfriend’ … Wildchild Kelly Osbourne has become engaged to her 18-year-old boyfriend just six months after they first got together, it has been reported.  —  Kelly - daughter of rocker Ozzy and former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne - has been dating model Luke Worrall since May.
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Pete Wentz: The Baby's “Not Here Yet!”  —  Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz aren't parents ... yet.  —  Though the Internet was buzzing this weekend that Simpson went into labor, her rocker husband phoned into TRL's finale on Sunday and assured fans that the baby's “not here yet!”
Just Jared:
Angelina Jolie is a Billion Dollar Babe  —  Angelina Jolie happily gazes at partner Brad Pitt as they leave their London hotel on Monday.  —  The couple headed to a photocall for her new film Changeling at the Curzon Cinema Mayfair (pictured below).  —  It was recently reported …
Discussion: OH NO!! and Perez Hilton
Michael K / Dlisted:
Russell Gets A Peek  —  The most flexible turtle on the planet Russell Simmons played a little game of peek-a-booby with some busted Tatum O'Neal look-alike in Miami yesterday.  Actually, I think he was just trying to find her titty.  It doesn't look like he had any luck.
Discussion: Gone Hollywood
NY Daily News:
Side Dish: Day-Lewis can't shake his character  —  It's happened again: Daniel Day-Lewis is locked in a character and can't get out.  This time, we hear, the Oscar-winner is imprisoned in Guido Contini, the skirt-chasing director in the movie musical “Nine.”
Michael Ausiello / EW.com:
Exclusive: Bruno (a.k.a.) Sacha Baron Cohen Disrupts ‘Medium’  —  Allison DuBois' psychic powers apparently don't extend to rooting out serial practical jokers.  —  On Nov 7, production on NBC's Medium was temporarily shut down when an extra kept interrupting a tense courtroom scene involving series star Patricia Arquette.
Discussion: Seriously? OMG! and Lifeline Live
 
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Courtney Hazlett / MSNBC:
Scoop: Palin book deal could rake in $7 million
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Ex Dancing With the Stars Contestant Charged With Insider Trading
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New York Post:
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Extra:
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 Earlier Picks: 
Us Weekly:
Stars Say Farewell to MTV's TRL
Discussion: X17 Online and CONCRETELOOP.COM
Maysa Rawi / Daily Mail:
She's lovin' it: Katherine Heigl channels old-school glamour …
Discussion: Lifeline Live and L.A. Rag Mag
 

 
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the NFL's two Christmas Day games that streamed on Netflix averaged 24.2M US viewers, peaking at 27M for Beyoncé's Ravens-Texans halftime show

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

New York Times:
Sources: after Trump's election win, NPR is preparing for a variety of funding possibilities, including that government money will be clawed back immediately

 
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