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Taylor Swift Speaks Out on Kanye Incident — After Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards - during which Kanye West brazenly interrupted Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech to say that Beyonce deserved to win - the 19-year-old singer spoke to reporters about the incident.
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Kanye West Crashes VMA Stage During Taylor Swift's Award Speech — Kanye continues his history of onstage award-show rants. — This year, Kanye West picked the beginning of the Video Music Awards to deliver one of his famous rants. — The rapper stormed the stage just after the first award …
Iamkelly / random thoughts by me:
Kanye West — What happened to you as a child?? Did you not get hugged enough?? Something must have happened to make you this way and I think we're all just curious as to what would make a grown man go on national television and make a talented artist, let alone teenager, feel like s**t.
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Jayson Rodriguez / MTV:
Kanye West Asked To Leave VMAs After Rant Against Taylor Swift — West was photographed holding a bottle of Hennessey on VMA red carpet. — Kanye West was asked to leave Radio City Music Hall not long after he crashed the MTV Video Music Awards stage during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for Best Female Video.
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Jayson Rodriguez / MTV:
Beyonce Brings Taylor Swift On VMA Stage After Kanye West Rant — Swift gets another shot at an acceptance speech after West interrupted her first attempt. — In a classy display of selflessness, Taylor Swift got a do-over at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Beyoncé brought …
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:Kanye West Storms the VMAs Stage During Taylor Swift's Speech
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Us Weekly:
Kate Gosselin: “I've Lost Control in My Life” — Kate Gosselin wishes she could go back to being a regular mom. — At Ohio's second annual Cleveland Women's Show on Friday, the reality mom of eight, 34, told a crowd of mostly women, “I've lost a lot of control in my life.”
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Mark Dagostino / People.com:
Ethan Zohn: ‘My Cancer Is Back’ — Just last month, for the first time since being diagnosed with a rare form of Hodgkin's disease in April - followed by three months of intense chemotherapy - Ethan Zohn was finally feeling good. — “I was off chemo,” he says.
Liz Berman / People.com:
Elton John Cannot Adopt Ukrainian Orphan — The Ukrainian orphan Elton John wants to adopt will not go home with the singer and his longtime partner David Furnish, a Ukrainian family minister said Monday - citing a national law that prohibits unmarried couples from adopting, the Associated Press reports.
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Emily Nussbaum / New York Magazine:
High-Wire Act — Neil Patrick Harris used to be an underage doctor on TV. Now he's another Hollywood first: an out gay actor who can host award shows, play a womanizer, walk the red carpet with his boyfriend, and then get cast in movies as a straight dad. Neat trick. … (Photo: Art Streiber)
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Rennie Dyball / People.com:Neil Patrick Harris: 'We'd Make Very Good Parents'
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Harrison Ford Cracks the Whip on Indy 5 — Shia LaBeouf (left) and Harrison Ford — Dust off the fedora and clear out the snakes - Indiana Jones is ready to ride again. — Harrison Ford, 67, says he's already ready for the globe-trotting archaeologist's next adventure …
Kaiser / Cele|bitchy:
Is Sylvester Stallone's face melting? — Sylvester Stallone was in attendance for the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, and his appearance is “raising some eyebrows”. I say it this way to be snarky, because it seems Stallone has gotten himself some kind of epic facelift, and his eyebrows are ridiculous.
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
Christoph Waltz Is Villain In ‘Green Hornet’ — EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that ICM's actor Christoph Waltz who won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds (and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination) has now been cast as villain Chudnofsky in Sony's …
People.com:
Couples Watch: Drew Barrymore & Justin Long, Reese & Jake . . . • Justin Long treated Drew Barrymore to an authentic Indian dinner at Brick Lane Curry House in New York's East Village. The couple walked in without a reservation and went unrecognized in the restaurant, clearly enjoying each other's company.
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William Grimes / New York Times:
Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60 — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60. — The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former wife.
