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2:10 PM ET, April 4, 2009

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Marisa Laudadio / People.com:
Rihanna Jet-Setting, Chris Brown Seeking Counseling  —  Rihanna and Chris Brown  —  With Chris Brown due in court next week for the alleged assault on Rihanna, the singers have kept their distance from each other, with Brown quietly holed up in his hometown with family and old friends …
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Dad: Rihanna's “Back to Herself Again”  —  Rihanna's jet-setting continued this week.  —  After hitting Hawaii and New York City in the same week, the singer, 21, returned home to her native Barbados on Friday.  She is helping her grandparents celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
Associated Press:
Anti-Chris Brown Song Hits Radios  —  NEW YORK — A song criticizing Chris Brown is getting air play.  —  The song is called “My Flow So Tight” by a little-known dance group called Smoke Jumpers.  It features the repeated line: “Chris Brown should get his ass kicked.”
Discussion: Bitten and Bound and lalate news
Tim Nixon / The Sun:
Rihanna ‘toasted Brown break-up’
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and The Superficial
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Josh Hartnett Feeling Fine After Leaving Hospital  —  Josh Hartnett has been released from L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since Monday for a gastrointestinal problem.  “He's fine,” his rep Susan Patricola tells PEOPLE.  “They are running tests …
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Josh Hartnett / The Superficial:
Josh Hartnett's stomach is doing just fine  —  I don't know if this qualifies as news, but Josh Hartnett was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center yesterday, where he had been hospitalized since Monday for a gastrointestinal problem.  People reports: … Sucks for Josh Hartnett, though I can't relate.
Alissa R / Us Weekly:   Josh Hartnett Leaves Hospital
OK! Magazine:
OK!  Exclusive: Sam Bars Lindsay from Party  —  It looks like Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson's latest break-up might just be the real thing.  —  There was major drama in L.A. late Friday night at Bar Marmont, where Sam was DJ-ing at a party for her fashion designer sister, Charlotte Ronson's I Heart Ronson clothing line for JCPenney.
Simon Perry / People.com:
Thousands of Fans Gather for Jade Goody's Funeral  —  Thousands of fans and well-wishers gathered outside an English church about 20 miles northeast of London to pay their final respects to U.K. reality TV star Jade Goody on Saturday.  —  Like the final weeks before her death …
Discussion: Hollyscoop and EW.com
Laura Kalnicky / Life and Style:
Life & Style EXCLUSIVE: Trista and Ryan have a baby girl!  —  **UPDATED**  —  Trista and Ryan Sutter welcomed a baby girl, Blakesley Grace Sutter, at 1:23 p.m. today in Colorado, where they live.  —  “She's healthy.  Everything is really good,” an exhausted Trista tells Life & Style exclusively.
Associated Press:
Robert De Niro Nanny Sues For $40,000  —  NEW YORK — A nanny who was fired by Robert De Niro has sued the actor for more than $40,000 in overtime pay.  —  Alexis Barry says in court papers that she was never paid for more than 750 hours of overtime and never took 10 vacation days.
OK! Magazine:
OK!  Exclusive: Jay-Z Playing Cupid for Khloe Kardashian  —  Hip-hop entrepreneur Jay-Z is a platinum-selling recording artist, club owner, producer, co-owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball team — and now a matchmaker.  —  OK! has learned exclusively from pals of the Grammy winner …
 
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From Mediagazer:

Paul Vieira / Dow Jones Newswires:
Netflix, Disney, and other US streaming companies ask a Canadian court to block imposition of a fee of 5% of sales to help finance local news and other content

Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
Germany's government pledges to add a 30% film/TV production tax incentive, effective as early as January 2025; Australia raised its rebate to 30% on July 1

Samantha Waldenberg / CNN:
ABC News plans to air an interview with President Biden “in its entirety as a primetime special”, at 8pm ET on July 5; a transcript will also be available

 
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