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8:25 AM ET, August 27, 2010

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Huffington Post FULL OF S**T?  (Yes!)  —  Ahh, Huffington Post, the internet Death Star.  The world's first spectator banking website.  Come watch a site's intelligence move in and out like bellows of accordion depending on whether or not there's ad dollars to be sucked out of any willing orifice.
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The Huffington Post:
John Mayer & Jennifer Aniston BACK TOGETHER?  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Are John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston back on?  Mayer seemed to indicate they might be when he spoke in front of a crowd of 18,000 at his concert on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl in LA.  —  “I believe in second chances!” he said.
Kristin Dos Santos / E! Online:
Exclusive: Bristol Palin Is Coming to Dancing With the Stars  —  It's the Dancing With the Stars casting that no one saw coming!  —  We can report to you exclusively that Sarah Palin's 19-year-old daughter Bristol Palin has been cast on the 11th season of DWTS, set to premiere Sept. 20, according to sources.
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Michael K / Dlisted:
The Rumored “Dancing With The Has-Beens” Cast Is A Mess  —  Bristol Palin, The Hoff, Mop Head, The Situation and Ceiling Eyes all sitting in a room together wearing enough sequins to make Johnny Weir's sparkly fart bubbles feel inadequate.  No, I did not just to describe a scene to you from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan.
X17 Online:
X17 EXCLUSIVE - Lindsay's Assistant Picks Up Meds Less Than 48 Hours After Lohan Leaves Rehab!  —  I know Lindsay Lohan has already paid her debt to society after going to jail (followed by some time in rehab at UCLA), but it's been less than two days and the 24-year-old is back behind …
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Jessica Wedemeyer / People.com:
Machete Costars Predict Lindsay Lohan Will Reactivate Career
PopEater:
PICS: Heidi Montag's Face Returns to Normal  —  Heidi Montag is beginning to look like herself again.  —  The reality starlet, who underwent two rounds of plastic surgery including more than 10 procedures, frolicked on the beach in Costa Rica with a face that reminded us of the Heidi we first met as Lauren Conrad's BFF on ‘The Hills.’
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Laura Kalnicky / Life and Style:
Heidi Montag's nose tape explanation: 'I don't want my face to fall off'
Discussion: TVgasm
TMZ.com:
Heidi Montag Sends Mixed Messages on Sex Tape
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip and Starpulse
PopEater:
Original Blue Power Ranger Reveals He Was Taunted on Set for Being Gay  —  Almost two decades after leaving ‘Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,’ one of the most popular children's shows in TV history, the original Blue Ranger reveals it was behind-the-scenes taunting about his sexuality …
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Brad Wete / PopWatch:
Original Blue Power Ranger reveals that he was harassed on set for being gay
Discussion: Bumpshack.com
Just Jared:
Blue Power Ranger David Yost: I'm Gay
Discussion: Queerty and Gawker
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Will Forte Is Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  It looks like MacGruber has accidentally detonated his last explosive device for now.  Will Forte, the longtime “Saturday Night Live” cast member who portrayed that incompetent adventurer, among a wealth of other eccentric characters …
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Albert Brooks Plays Badass Role In ‘Drive’  —  This is a seminal year for Albert Brooks.  After completing an ambitious science fiction novel 2030: The Real Story of What Happens To America and setting it to be published next May by St. Martin's Press, Brooks has signed on for his first screen turn as a truly dangerous badass.
Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
Third terror suspect was ‘Canadian Idol’ contestant … OTTAWA— Two people were arrested Wednesday afternoon and a third terrorism suspect- one who moonwalked across a Montreal stage during an audition for Canadian Idol - was detained early Thursday, the Star has learned.
PEOPLE TV Watch:
Bachelorette Star Ali: Roberto and I Want to Elope  —  Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez aren't concerned with having an elaborate wedding: They just want to be husband and wife — ASAP.  —  “Planning a wedding is a lot, and we don't want to go through all the motions,” …
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Picks 'Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner To Co-Star With Tom Cruise In ‘Mission: Impossible 4’  —  BREAKING: So Paramount Pictures won't be screen-testing any young actors to star opposite Tom Cruise after all.  I've learned that the studio has just chosen Jeremy Renner to infuse …
Us Weekly:
Mariah Carey Speaks Out on Pregnancy  —  Is she, or isn't she?  —  Mariah Carey — rumored to be expecting her first child with husband Nick Cannon — won't say yet.  —  “I appreciate everyone's well wishes.  But I am very superstitious,” she wrote on her website Wednesday.
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Jersey Shore's Snooki: 25 Things You Don't Know About Me!  —  Snooki, 22, (who is seen on Jersey Shore on MTV Thursdays at 10 P.M.) shares the 25 things you don't know about her in the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now).  —  1. I was treasurer of my class.  —  2. I loved acting in plays in my English class.
ComingSoon.net:
First Look at Paul W.S. Anderson's Three Musketeers  —  ComingSoon.net has received the first photos from the Bamberg, Germany set of Paul W.S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers.  You can check out Mads Mikkelsen as Rochefort, Logan Lerman as D'Artagnan and Anderson in the photos below.
Discussion: AceShowBiz.com
New York Magazine:
Steven Spielberg Gives Star Writer Alex Kurtzman His First Directing Gig  —  Boy, when Steven Spielberg says he likes you, he really puts his money where his mouth is.  Just three days after hearing that DreamWorks TV would be teaming with screenwriters-of-the-moment Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci …
Discussion: Heat Vision
TMZ.com:
Judge: Chris Brown Doing a ‘Great Job’  —  Chris Brown just got a huge pat on the back from the judge in his felony abuse case ... including a “great job” for following the terms of his probation so well.  —  During the brief hearing, the judge reviewed the progress report document turned …
Discussion: Bossip.com and Associated Press
TMZ.com:
Octomom: I Was Born to Dance  —  Octomom Nadya Suleman may have been a stranger to the rhythm method in the past, but now she's embracing it for a shot at “Dancing with the Stars.”  —  Octomom's legal eagle, Jeff Czech, tells TMZ, “Nadya is in top physical shape.  She has been working out for months.
Discussion: Perez Hilton
People.com:
Hot New Couple?  Glee's Dianna Agron & Alex Pettyfer  —  When it comes to dating rumors surrounding the Glee cast, it seems like the show's stars are only associated with each other.  But in the case of Dianna Agron, it looks like she's found a match in a costar from a different project.
Discussion: PopEater
X17 Online:
Buffy Reunites With Her Sister Dawn!  —  Awww, isn't this sweet!  Sarah Michelle Gellar (aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer) reunited with Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Bufffy's younger sister Dawn for a shopping trip in Beverly Hills!  The screen sisters headed to children's boutique Eggy …
Discussion: Perez Hilton
Matt / Warming Glow:
Tori Spelling Has Never Looked So Good  —  One of my favorite things on the Internet is the epic feud that happened between FilmDrunk and the simple-minded owners of a Neverending Story-themed van.  It's the first thing I thought of when I saw this “Beverly Hills, 90210″-themed trailer that's supposedly in Prague.
Jim Lockwood / New Jersey Online:
Remy Gonzalez, ‘Cake Boss’ brother-in-law, is charged with sexually assaulting teen in N.J.  —  The brother-in-law of “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro, and a main character in the TLC show based on Carlos Bakery in Hoboken, has been arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a teenager in Morris County, authorities said.
Discussion: lalate news, The Dish Rag and TMZ.com
 
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