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Kanye West Steals Taylor Swift's Spotlight And Gives Praise To Beyonce  —  Are U guys watching the MTV VMAs?  —  The adorable Taylor Swift just won Best Female Video, beating out Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, and Beyonce to name a few.  —  But as the young Swift took the stage …
Discussion: omg!, Associated Press and TMZ.com
Popeater:
Kanye Being Kanye: Rapper Interrupts Taylor Swift's VMAs Win  —  Kanye West is known for speaking his mind and early on during the VMAs, he didn't disappoint.  —  When Taylor Swift won Best Female Video for ‘You Belong With Me,’ Kanye jumped onstage, grabbed the mike from the country singer's hands and did what he does best.
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Kanye West Storms the VMAs Stage During Taylor Swift's Speech  —  Leave it to Kanye West to produce one of the most infamous moments in VMAs history before the 2009 show was even an hour old.  It happened after Taylor Swift's victory in the Best Female Video category for “You Belong With Me …
Discussion: Right Celebrity and Hollywire.com
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.
Associated Press:
Madonna to speak before MTV Jackson tribute
Discussion: X17 Online and Popeater
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.
Us Weekly:
Colin Farrell Confirms He'll Be a Dad Again  —  The actor confirmed that he and girlfriend Alicja Bachleda were expecting their first child together at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday evening.  —  Farrell, 33, and the Polish actress, 26, began dating earlier this year.
Jessica Herndon / People.com:
Lionel Richie: ‘Sparrow Looks Just Like Harlow’  —  “I am so proud of Nicole and Joel,” boasted second-time grandfather Lionel Richie, at the UNSF's An Evening of Stars Saturday, honoring the legendary singer, just days after his daughter Nicole Richie, 27, and Joel Madden, 30, welcomed son Sparrow into the world.
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Blog
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Us Weekly:   Lionel Richie: Sparrow Looks “Just Like Harlow”
NY Daily News:
Bondy: Williams' exit no cause to cheer  —  So we are all supposed to rejoice today because Kim Clijsters, nice person and new mother, defeated Serena Williams, dilettante and tantrum thrower.  It happened Saturday night at Ashe Stadium, 6-4, 7-5, in a circus finish to a semifinal that really didn't represent closure at all.
Michael K / Dlisted:
Everyone Hates Megan Fox  —  Three crew members who worked on both Transformers movies sent in an open letter to Michael Bay's official site (via ONTD) where they shat all over philosopher and feminist Megan Fox for calling Michael “Hitler” in an interview.  —  The three unnamed crew members …
Discussion: Gawker and Jezebel
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WORLD PREMIERE!  SuBo Does The Stones!!!!  —  This is kinda awesome!  —  The first single off Susan Boyle's debut album is a somewhat unexpected choice.  —  The Britain's Got Talent runner-up and Internet phenomenon has done a cover of the Rolling Stones classic, Wild Horses, and it sounds gorgeous.
Discussion: omg! and Mirror.co.uk
omg!:
Madonna: We “Abandoned” Michael Jackson  —  Madonna delivered a touching tribute to Michael Jackson at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in New York City.  —  Taking the stage at the beginning of the show, the 50-year-old singer - wearing all black - stated how they were both born in August of 1958 to large families in the mid-West.
Discussion: Popeater
PEOPLE TV Watch:
Tim Gunn Reveals Winning Runway Dress Was Dyed in the Toilet!  —  Some designs on Project Runway are so bad they belong in the trash, but one dress has actually been in the toilet.  —  Designer Ra'mon-Lawrence Coleman, 31, dyed his winning neon green neoprene avant-garde dress in the toilet …
Discussion: Evil Beet Gossip
Brenda Rodriguez / People.com:
Travoltas Make First Public Appearance Since Son's Death  —  Kelly Preston, Ella Bleu Travolta and John Travolta  —  Nine months after the death of their 16-year-old son Jett, John Travolta and Kelly Preston - with their daughter Ella Bleu - made their first public appearance together …
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Lady GaGa's VMAs Date: Kermit The Frog!
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Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

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A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

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