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11:30 AM ET, January 20, 2009

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 Top News: 
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Obama Girls Go Nuts for Miley Cyrus, Jonas Bros at Inaugural Concert  —  The night before becoming America's next first daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama got toasted by tweens.  —  Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato and the Jonas Brothers were among the acts that performed at the Kids' Inaugural Concert …
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Michelle Tan / People.com:
Queen Latifah, Rosario Dawson to Party at Kids' Inaugural Concert
People.com:
Marcia Cross's Husband Is Battling Cancer  —  Tom Mahoney (left) and Marcia Cross  —  Marcia Cross's husband, stockbroker Tom Mahoney, has been diagnosed with cancer, PEOPLE exclusively confirms.  —  “He is currently under treatment and is responding very well,” the actress's rep Heidi Slan says.
TMZ.com:
Miss USA Drops the Soap — Takes Up Porn  —  She's already nailed the cheesy dialogue — and now former soap opera villain Kelli McCarty has decided ... she just wants to be nailed.  —  The former Miss USA 1991 — yeah, she was a frickin' beauty queen — has quit the mainstream acting biz …
The Sun:
Brit too rude  —  But after a very public meltdown at the beginning of 2007, the troubled pop princess has got herself back on track and is currently preparing for her world tour where she'll be hoping to prove to everyone that she's better than ever.  —  So Brit could have done with a controversy-free 2009.
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Chris Evans, Brandon Routh join ‘Pilgrim’ pic  —  Brie Larson also cast in Uni's graphic-novel film  —  Chris Evans, Brandon Routh and Brie Larson have joined the cast of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Edgar Wright's adaptation of the cult favorite Oni Press graphic novels for Universal.
Fox News:
Aubrey O'Day Does Playboy, Gets Mad at the Mormons  —  Aubrey O'Day wasn't up to Diddy's standards (hence she was booted from his girl group ‘Danity Kane’ last year) but it definitely sounds as though she's good enough for Hugh Hefner who is putting the aspiring pop star on the cover of Playboy's March issue.
Discussion: Celebrity Scandals
Nellie Andreeva / Reuters:
Fox lands squadron of pilots  —  LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Fox network has green-lighted seven pilots for development — four comedies and three dramas.  —  Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said last week that he planned to order five comedy pilots and at least five drama pilots …
Discussion: TV Envy and TV Squad
Hollywoodtuna:
Brooke Hogan's Legs Can Crush You  —  These pictures of Brooke Hogan out exercising her massive legs aren't all that special, you'd think she'd at least flash us some sports bra or something.  I don't want to say anything too insulting, I'm pretty sure she could suck the life out of me with those legs.
Discussion: Celebslam and OH NO!!
People.com:
Jennifer Lopez Starstruck by Barack Obama  —  Even celebrities get starstruck.  Just ask Jennifer Lopez.  —  At the Latino Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C. on Sunday evening, the singer-actress said even with all of Hollywood flocking to the city for the inauguration …
Discussion: CelebWarship
Howard Breuer / People.com:
ER' s Parminder Nagra Weds Longtime Boyfriend  —  Parminder Nagra  —  Parminder Nagra and her longtime boyfriend, celebrity photographer James Stenson, were married Saturday afternoon in Hollywood, the actress's rep confirms to PEOPLE.  —  Nagra, 33, who plays Neela Rasgotra on NBC's medical drama ER …
Discussion: Lifeline Live
New York Post:
PARIS IS STAR OF DUMB-DANCE  —  SUNDANCE has gone from being a classy Independent-film festival to a week full of D-listers making fools of themselves.  —  Paris Hilton, who seems to have no interest at all in movies, is even being shunned by her sister.  “Nicky can't stand Paris' new BFF …
Discussion: Socialite Life
Ree Hines / MSNBC:
Tidbits: Paris, Angelina have ‘a lot in common’  —  Plus: Neeson bucks Baldwin's horse stance; DiCaprio on Winslet  —  What do Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie and attention-seeking reality TV regular Paris Hilton have in common?  It's hard to say, but according to Hilton, they have their similarities.
Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:
Ben Affleck: I Will Camp Out at the Inauguration!  —  Ben Affleck is determined to get a good seat at the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday.  —  “I'm going to camp out,” the star told Usmagazine.com at his Feeding America hunger rally on Monday in Washington, D.C. “I'll bring a tent — and a heater!”
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ETonline:
OPRAH'S ‘TOP SECRET’ DINNER WITH BARACK OBAMA
Discussion: Perez Hilton and X17 Online
Associated Press:
Tom Cruise ‘always wanted to kill Hitler’  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Tom Cruise says playing an anti-Hitler plotter in his latest movie “Valkyrie” fulfilled a childhood fantasy.  —  In real life, the American actor says he harbors feelings similar to his German character, who led a failed plot to assasinate the Nazi leader.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Rules For Interviewing Tom Cruise
Discussion: Cele|bitchy
 
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Brad Pitt, at 45, not worried about old age
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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