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Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing — Hail Angie: Was Cleopatra really a beauty? Most of us probably picture Elizabeth Taylor at her most voluptuous. In her forthcoming biography of the Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown, November), author Stacy Schiff points out that …
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Cele|bitchy, Gossip Cop, Hollywood Life, Latino Review, Cinematical, Just Jared, The Playlist and New York Magazine
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Jeff Sneider / The Wrap:
Angelina Jolie to Play Cleopatra — Now here's a casting match made in movie heaven. — Oscar winner Angelina Jolie is attached to star in the “Cleopatra” movie that Oscar-winning producer Scott Rudin has been developing since 2006, according to USA Today.
Thetiffster / RADAR:
PHOTOS: Miley Cyrus Continues Controversial Sexy Transformation — Miley Cyrus is still months away from legal age but she's continuing her eyebrow-raising transformation from teen queen to sexpot. RadarOnline.com has the latest photos from Cyrus' recent shoot during which she pranced around …
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Daily Mail:
Miley Cyrus reveals her lingerie in a transparent dress as she shoots new video — Miley Cyrus put on a display of sheer daring while shooting a video clip in LA yesterday. — The 17-year-old star was spotted running barefoot around a car park in a transparent sundress that revealed her cream bra and knickers.
Lindsay Lohan / TMZ.com:
Lindsay Lohan's Assistant — I QUIT!!! — Lindsay Lohan needs all the assistance she can get ... no, really ... her assistant just quit. — Sources tell TMZ Lindsay's right-hand woman, Elinore, quit Wednesday. Elinore only lasted a few months and we're told she was “exhausted” and “had enough of Lindsay's demands.”
TMZ.com:
Danielle Staub — I Can Outsell Kendra — “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Danielle Staub claims her sex tape will move more copies than Kendra Wilkinson's — because it's got one thing Kendra's tape doesn't......herself! — Her opinion .... not ours. — More Danielle Staub
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Tracie / Jezebel:
Lady Gaga Throws Fit, Flips The Bird At Mets Game [Baseballbuster] — Lady Gaga Throws Fit, Flips The Bird At Mets Game — Lady Gaga is currently at Citi Field, sitting in a luxury suite, and giving the middle finger to the paparazzi/crowd. She showed up—with “very little makeup and a skimpy outfit” …
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Allie Is Wired, Tabloid Prodigy, College Candy, New York Magazine and Oh No They Didn't!
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PopEater:
Lady Gaga Takes In a Mets Game, Salutes Fans — Lady Gaga showed up at the New York Mets game on Thursday, wearing just a leather jacket over a bikini. Not surprisingly, her random appearance at Citi Field drew the attention of fans, photographers and one confused bat boy, who all flocked to her premium seats near home plate.
Gawker.TV:
13 Year Old Girl Says “C**t” on the Today Show — This morning, Meredith Vieira interviewed a thirteen year-old girl who is a possible accomplice in a beating that resulted from a text message war. She mentioned some of the language used, including one word not appropriate for television.
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Marcus Barnes / Daily Mail:
How low can she go? Courtney Love posts provocative photos of herself on Facebook — She's become a controversial figure thanks to her inane internet ramblings, her apparent drug habit and, of course, the fallout after the death of ex-partner Kurt Cobain.
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Reuters, AceShowBiz.com, Socialite Life, TheFABlife, Right Celebrity, Pop Crunch, Oh No They Didn't! and The Frisky
RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Sorry Dina, Lindsay's SCRAM Bracelet Not Set Off By Spilled Alcohol — Dina Lohan says there's no way her daughter Lindsay could have consumed alcohol— despite her SCRAM bracelet reporting signs of alcohol after going off at an MTV Movie Awards party.
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Peter Sciretta / /Film:
Mean Girls 2 Greenlit, Plot Details and Director Revealed — Paramount Pictures has not announced an official sequel to Mark Waters' 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, but we've been hearing rumblings that production was set to begin on a sequel in Atlanta. And today we came across …
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PopWatch:
This week's cover: ‘True Blood’ heats up our list of Hot Summer TV — Summer is heating up and so will television screens with Sunday's return of HBO's sexy and scandalous vampire series, True Blood. We've got the scoop on the new season, which includes scary werewolves, even scarier new vampires, and the search for Bill Compton.
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Gina Serpe / E! Online:
Live Like a Real Housewife (Without the Bankruptcy Filing) for $3.99 Million! — My, how the table-tossers posers mighty have fallen. — It was only a matter of time before The Real Housewives of New Jersey's head guidette, Teresa Giudice, and occasionally intolerant hubby Joe were forced …
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Ken Lee / People.com:
Gary Coleman Wanted to Leave Toy Trains to Ex-Wife — Gary Coleman and Shannon Price had only been married a week when he signed everything over to her in the event of his death, according to a new will Price filed Thursday in a Utah court. — In making Price, 24, the sole heir to his estate …
Us Weekly:
Rep: Russell Crowe Is Not Dead — Russell Crowe is not dead. — A rep for the actor, 46, tells UsMagazine.com the rampant Internet and radio reports are “not true.” (One report said he fell 50 feet off a mountain in Kitzbuhel, Austria.) — New York City radio station Z100 reported Thursday morning …
Anthony Breznican / USA Today:
Next ‘Transformers’ is due for a switch — LOS ANGELES — The Transformers promise they can change, baby. — With shooting underway on a third movie and plans to debut next summer, Michael Bay and Co. acknowledge missteps with the last one and aim to upgrade the shape-shifting robot franchise …
TMZ.com:
Shawn King Depression Triggered by Alleged Affair — Sources tell TMZ Shawn King's depression started, continued and never stopped over Larry King's alleged affair with Shawn's sister. — We're told Shawn has been “extremely depressed” for more than five years ... and the trigger …
Daily Mail:
The Hills star Kristin Cavallari shows off her Dirrty side in magazine shoot — Throwing her head back in apparent ecstasy, it looks like Kristin Cavallari hasn't a care in the world. — The Hills star showed off her impressive figure in a shoot by photographer Elias Tahan for French fashion magazine Dirrty.
New York Post:
Renee Zellwegger and Bradley Cooper getting married? — Clues point to an imminent wedding for Bradley Cooper and Renée Zellweger. First, Zellweger was photographed last week by Star magazine at the Carolina Herrera boutique in West Hollywood, where a big rack of wedding gowns was wheeled by.
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Celebrity Gossip …, E! Online, Socialite Life, The Blemish, Perez Hilton, Cele|bitchy and Dlisted
The Superficial:
January Jones is My Kind of Girl — Here's Mad Men star January Jones doing the ol' walk of shame yesterday after being spotted in the same clothes she wore to the Oceana World Party the night before, and you gotta respect a woman stumbling her way out of a taxi after a night of drunken, promiscuous sex.