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1:30 PM ET, April 2, 2009

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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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Former Attorney For Jamie Spears Testifies Britney Wanted Ex-Manager Jailed
Discussion: X17 Online
Associated Press:   Sam Lutfi's sister says Britney wanted help
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:
Brad Pitt's Going Back to Cannes  —  Brad Pitt is going back to Cannes.  —  His upcoming WWII epic Inglourious Basterds (directed by Quentin Tarantino) will compete at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 13-24, Variety reports.  (The movie — which centers on a group …
Peter Mikelbank / People.com:
Brad Pitt to Compete in Cannes - Again
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and New York Magazine
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.
Discussion: X17 Online, Hollywood Dame and iVillage
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People.com:
Keira Knightley Beat Up in Anti-violence PSA
Discussion: Bumpshack.com
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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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.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Lifeline Live
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 …
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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Anthony Breznican / USA Today:
First look: Robo-brawlers big, small in new ‘Transformers’
Discussion: Cinematical, FirstShowing.net and /Film
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.
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.
Discussion: Socialite Life
Nellie Andreeva / Hollywood Reporter:
AMC renews ‘Breaking Bad’  —  Move comes four episodes into the second season  —  Four episodes into the second season of “Breaking Bad,” AMC has picked up Vince Gilligan's drama series for a third cycle.  —  Following a well-received first season that earned the series a Peabody Award …
Discussion: TV Squad, EW.com and New York Magazine
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 …
Discussion: Just Jared
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 TV Watch:
New York Housewives Bethenny & Kelly Sound Off on Their Feud  —  Call it the rumble in the lipstick jungle: When Kelly Bensimon finally confronted Bethenny Frankel about the tense state of their relationship on last night's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City …
Discussion: Backseat Cuddler
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 …
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.
 
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