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8:45 PM ET, November 17, 2008

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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 …
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TMZ.com:
Heather Locklear Charged with Crime  —  Heather Locklear has just been charged with one count of driving under the influence of drugs....prescription medications.  —  No alcohol and no illegal narcotics were found in Heather's system.  —  Santa Barbara County Deputy District Attorney Lee Carter tells us …
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!”
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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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.
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 …
ETonline:
BREAKING NEWS: CLORIS LEACHMAN HOSPITALIZED  —  ET breaks news that actress and former “Dancing with the Stars” competitor Cloris Leachman recently fell ill, but is now on the mend.  —  Sources tell ET that last Thursday, Cloris was in the car with her son George, heading home …
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Seriously? OMG!
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
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
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 …
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X17 Online:   Britney To Light The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree!
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.
Hollywoodtuna:
Sophie Monk In A Bikini And Bent Over  —  I never saw Date Movie and I hardly even remember it being released in 2006, but Sophie Monk is in it.  Here she is spoofing Paris Hilton and doing many other things sure to move your extremities.  So what if I'm 2 years late posting this?
ComingSoon.net:
First Look at Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter?  —  Here is your first glimpse at what appears to be Johnny Depp as he'll look in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.  Depp is playing the Mad Hatter and he'll appear alongside co-stars Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Sheen, Mia Wasikowska …
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!”
Jarett Wieselman / POPWRAP:
‘South Park’ Creators Take on Salt Lake in New Mormon Musical!  —  It's a good thing Trey Parker and Matt Stone like controversy because it sounds like they're in for quite a lot of it with their newest project - a Broadway musical based on the lives and loves of Mormons!
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Defamer
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.
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.”
 
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She's lovin' it: Katherine Heigl channels old-school glamour …
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Richard Deitsch / New York Times:
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches

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

Reuters:
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed five journalists from Al-Quds Today; the Israeli military called the five “operatives posing as journalists”

 
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