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Ken Lee / People.com:
Is Britney Spears Trying to End Her Father's Control? — Sam Lutfi and Britney Spears in October 2007 — It seems Britney Spears's life has gone from soap opera to spy novel. — Sam Lutfi's younger sister Christina testified in a Los Angeles court Wednesday that she recently snuck …
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Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Lawyer: Britney Spears Compares Dad's Control to “Prison” — Britney Spears' life under her dad's conservatorship is like “prison,” a lawyer for her former manager, Sam Lutfi, charged today in a hearing at L.A. Superior Court. — John Anderson testified he was contacted by another lawyer …
Tatiana Siegel / Variety:
‘INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS’ INVADES CANNES — Quentin Tarantino war film to compete at fest — Quentin Tarantino's WWII epic “Inglourious Basterds” is headed to the French Riviera. — The Brad Pitt starrer, set in Nazi-occupied France, has been invited to play in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Keira Knightley Gets Beaten in Shocking Domestic Violence Ad — Keira Knightley is brutally attacked by her boyfriend in a shocking new domestic violence ad for the charity Women's Aid. — The two-minute clip, which debuts April 6 in movie theaters, opens with the actress, 24, heading home from a long day of filming.
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People.com:
Keira Knightley Beat Up in Anti-violence PSA — Two months after news broke of the alleged violent fight between Rihanna and Chris Brown, a PSA about domestic violence starring Keira Knightley is set to debut in theaters. — The two-minute clip, which will start airing April 6 …
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Johnny Dodd / People.com:
Seventh Octuplet Leaves Hospital — Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman was headed home Wednesday afternoon with yet another addition to her family bundled up in blankets in the backseat of her car. — Josiah Angel Suleman, who at 4 lbs., 8 oz., was deemed healthy and heavy enough to be released …
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NEWS.com.au:
Octuplet mum hires security after baby seat hurled at car — Attack ...octuplet mum Nadya Suleman hires guards after a baby seat was hurled into her car / AP — OCTUPLET mother Nadya Suleman has hired security guards the day after someone hurled a baby seat through the window of her car which was parked outside her home.
Courtney Hazlett / MSNBC:
Chris Brown hopes to rehabilitate his image — Plus: Jessica Alba's strict diet; Dina Lohan wants people to recognize her — Chris Brown may not be making statements about the incident with Rihanna, but he has started making public appearances. — Slideshow — Rihanna and Chris Brown
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New York Post:
A HILTON WHO'S AIMING HIGH — UNLIKE his celebutard sister Paris, Barron Nicholas Hilton is determined to become famous for actually doing something. Hilton, 19, who has thus far been mainly a tabloid fixture in London, is giving up the party life to pursue a career in music.
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E! Online:
Lindsay Still With Sam: “We Aren't Broken Up” — Lindsay Lohan is still very much part of a twosome. — When asked whether there's any truth to the breakup rumors dogging her and Samantha Ronson these days (pick a day, any day), the 22-year-old actress answered unequivocally. — “Those rumors aren't true.
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Rep: Travis Barker, Shanna Moakler Split — Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler have split again, their reps confirm to Usmagazine.com. — The couple — who divorced in 2004 but reconciled last September after Barker's near-fatal plane crash — called it quits “after a nasty fight broke …
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Monica Rizzo / People.com:
Kathy Ireland's Shocking Weight Gain (and Loss) — As a top model, Kathy Ireland is used to seeing pictures of herself that have been retouched to hide her flaws. But when the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover girl saw a photo taken by her son as she baked cookies …
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Matt McDaniel / Yahoo! Movies:
‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ Robots Revealed — Excitement around “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the sequel to the enormously successful 2007 movie, has been building steadily since we got our first glimpse of the action in the ad that played during the Super Bowl.
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Michael Fleming / Variety:
Trio in talks for ‘Inception’ — Cotillard, Page, Murphy look to join DiCaprio — Warner Bros. is in talks with Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page to join the cast of “Inception,” which Christopher Nolan wrote and will direct as his next film. — Leonardo DiCaprio has already been set to star.
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BBC:
FBI called in over Wolverine leak — The FBI are investigating the online leak of an almost finished copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a month before the film's cinema release. — The Hugh Jackman film was downloaded an estimated several 100,000 times from file sharing websites on Tuesday.
Daniel Frankel / Variety:
TLC locks pilot documentary — Cabler flies with US Airways' Sullenberger — TLC has secured what it said are the exclusive authorized documentary rights to the story of U.S. Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who became a national hero when he successfully landed a crippled passenger jet …
Hollywoodreporter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Megan Fox will be Mickey Rourke's angel — Can Megan Fox save Mickey Rourke? — The “Transformers” actress is attached to play an angel opposite Rourke in “Passion Plays,” an indie drama that Mitch Glazer is writing and directing. — Here's the skinny on the project …
People.com:
Caught in the Act! — • Robert Pattinson, mingling in the VIP room at a party following the Juno Awards (the Canadian Grammys) at Vancouver's Velvet Room inside the Opus Hotel. The Twilight star arrived after the Universal Music bash was in full swing, then grabbed a martini and some food …
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Jennifer Lopez: The Twins Are “Babbling a Lot” — Don't ask Jennifer Lopez about how fast her 1-year-old twins, Max and Emme, are growing unless you've got some time to kill. — “Oh God, I could talk for a year about that!” she told reporters at a launch party for Kate Moss' Topshop in NYC on Wednesday.
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Katherine Thomson / The Huffington Post:
Scarlett Johansson's Sexy New Moet Ads (PHOTOS) — Scarlett Johansson is the new brand ambassador for champagne Moet & Chandon. The newly-brunette bombshell was the guest of honor last week at a Moet party in London, and now ads of her promoting the bubbly are out, taken while she was still blonde.
Lane Brown / New York Magazine:
Vulture Previews the Poster for Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience — Shot in just 21 days with a mostly amateur cast (including New York's own Mark Jacobson!), Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, due on May 22, stars popular pornography actress Sasha Grey as a high-end prostitute pondering the state of her life.