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Eunice Oh / People.com:
Bret Michaels Plans to Attend Celebrity Apprentice Finale — Bret Michaels's road to recovery includes more than just returning to the stage. — He's sitting down to talk with Oprah Winfrey and hoping to attend the live Celebrity Apprentice finale on May 23, his rep said Friday.
Lynette Rice / Hollywood Insider:
‘Heroes’ canceled by NBC — It seemed inevitable but the news is nonetheless shocking: NBC's drama Heroes won't be back for a fifth season. The beleaguered drama only averaged 6.5 million viewers this year. It last aired on Feb. 8, when it only brought in a mere 4.4 million.
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Official: NBC cancels ‘Heroes’ — It's official. NBC has cancelled “Heroes.” — The network seriously mulled bringing back “Heroes” for a shortened final season to wrap up the serialized show, possibly as a two- or four-hour movie. — In the end, given the fairly high cost of the drama …
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Karen Nickel Anhalt / People.com:
Claudia Schiffer Welcomes a Baby Girl — Claudia Schiffer gave birth to her third child, a girl, on Friday in London. — The baby joins Caspar, 7, and Clementine, 5, Schiffer's children with husband Matthew Vaughan, a film producer whom she married in 2002.
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Tom Cruise Approves of Suri's Expensive Wardrobe — $850 Ferragamo bags? $635 dresses? $27 Chanel lip gloss? All par for the course for 4-year-old Suri Cruise — and her famous daddy has no problem with it. — “Whatever she wants to wear, she wears it,” Tom Cruise said of his daughter …
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Tom Cruise Returns to Oprah's Couch, Doesn't Jump — After Tom Cruise's 2005 couch jumping incident on Oprah (yes, it's infamous enough for its own subheading on Cruise's Wikipedia page), it was a surprise (relief?) to see the actor keeping his feet on the floor and his hands off the host today.
Cara Lynn Shultz / People.com:
Is Ashton Kutcher's Reign as Twitter King Ending? — There's twouble in the Twitterverse! — After famously beating CNN to 1 million followers last April, Ashton Kutcher has been the undisputed king of Twitter, gaining more followers than anyone else on the micro-blogging site.
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
New Victim Accuses Roman Polanski of ‘Sexual Abuse’ — Actress Says Director Abused Her When She Was 16, He Was on The Lam — A British actress who starred in a Roman Polanski film charged today that the director “sexually abused” her when she was 16 years old in his Paris apartment.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
CANNES: Bruce Willis Plays Mature Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Time Travel Pic ‘Looper’ — EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Willis is joining the cast of Looper, a science fiction time travel tale that reunites the Brick team of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and writer/director Rian Johnson. The Terminator-esque action film has a clever premise.
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Kate Gosselin on Raising Out-of-Control Kids: “Help Me!!!!!!!!” — Time out! — Kate Gosselin blogs that she's more like a referee than a mom because her eight kids can get so out of control. — After describing fights over the bathroom, who's staring at whom and the kids smacking each other, she writes, “Help!
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Megan Fox Is One Uber Sexy Corset Wearing Super Hottie! — Here's a brand spanking new promo photo of Megan Fox from her upcoming and highly anticipated comicbook movie, Jonah Hex, and I know I don't have to say it, but I will anyways... hoochie mama! Good lord, does Megan look drop dead sexy in that corset, or what?
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Dano Books ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ — Last time we saw Paul Dano on the rough frontier, his whiny preacher character was being clubbed to death with a bowling pin in There Will Be Blood. Dano is back in period mode, this time armed, playing a cowboy who takes on extraterrestrials in Cowboys & Aliens …
