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1:45 PM ET, April 4, 2009

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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.
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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 …
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
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
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 …
Discussion: The Superficial
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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.
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.
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 …
Associated Press:
Nanny says Robert De Niro owes her over $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.
Agence France Presse:
Demi Moore credited with saving suicidal woman  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Actress Demi Moore may have had a role on Friday in thwarting a possible suicide attempt after a woman sent a message to her on micro-blogging service Twitter indicating she planned to harm herself.  —  “Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp.
Discussion: Videogum
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Kate Schweitzer / Us Weekly:   Demi Moore Saves Life of Suicidal Woman With Twitter
Agence France Presse:
George Harrison to get star on Walk of Fame  —  LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood's glittering Walk of Fame is to get a new star with late Beatle George Harrison being added posthumously to the famous walkway.  —  A star bearing Harrison's name will be added to the famous sidewalk in a ceremony …
Discussion: EW.com
Dave McNary / Variety:
New Line finds its Freddy Krueger  —  Jackie Earle Haley joins ‘Elm Street’  —  Jackie Earle Haley is going to Elm Street, signing to star as iconic killer Freddy Krueger in New Line and Platinum Dunes' relaunch of “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”  —  Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay …
Discussion: /Film
 
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