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Shaheem Reid / MTV:
Exclusive: Lil Mama Apologizes For Crashing Jay-Z's VMA Performance — ‘I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys,’ 'America's Best Dance Crew' judge says in statement. — If it wasn't for a guy named Kanye West, Lil Mama might have dominated Monday's headlines with her …
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Us Weekly:
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.
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.
MTV:
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 …
Jayson Rodriguez / MTV:
Kanye West Asked To Leave VMAs After Rant Against Taylor Swift
Kanye West Asked To Leave VMAs After Rant Against Taylor Swift
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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Kate Gosselin Admits She Had a Meltdown This Weekend — It took Serena Williams's meltdown at the U.S. Open over the weekend to bring the Hot Topic around to Kate Gosselin - discussing a meltdown of her on own on The View, where she served as a guest co-host Monday.
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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.”
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.
Popeater:
Whitney Says Bobby Brown Spit On Her — As the world waits to see Oprah Winfrey's two-part interview with Whitney Houston, the first details of it are coming out ... and boy are they disturbing. During the interview, Houston says that during her drug-filled marriage to Bobby Brown, he was emotionally abusive and spit on her once.
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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 …
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)
People.com:
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 …
Mark Dagostino / People.com:
Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten Has Lung Cancer — Kathryn Joosten, a two-time Emmy winner for her role as feisty neighbor Mrs. McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, has lung cancer - and she plans to do everything she can to fight it. — “I've got a little hang-up here,” …
The Cheese / Hollywoodtuna:
Mariah Carey's Fat Cleavage — Here's Mariah Carey and her big fat cleavage at a Toronto International Film Festival cocktail party before the screening of some movie called ‘Precious’. I don't really give a s**t about the movie but I'm glad that Mariah managed to stuff those big things …
ComingSoon.net:
Exclusive: Who is Michael Sheen Playing in Tron Legacy? — Welsh-born Michael Sheen has long been one of ComingSoon.net's favorite actors to talk to and when we learned that he was going to be in Toronto for his new football (soccer) biopic The Damned United—his first time at the Toronto …