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12:30 PM ET, March 12, 2011

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Sarah Michaud / People.com:
David & Victoria Beckham Expecting a Girl  —  The Beckhams are thinking pink.  —  The bundle of joy David and Victoria expect this July is a baby girl, PEOPLE has confirmed.  —  The soccer star, 35, announced the news Friday afternoon at an L.A. Galaxy fan luncheon, ESPN reports.
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Scott French / ESPN:
David Beckham, wife expecting baby girl  —  LOS ANGELES — David Beckham's three sons are getting a little sister.  —  Beckham told a gathering of Los Angeles Galaxy fans Friday afternoon that his and wife Victoria's fourth child, due this summer, will be a daughter.
Discussion: Pop Crunch
Perez Hilton:
David Beckham Announces He And Victoria Are Expecting Their First Daughter!!!  —  Hooray!!!  Finally!!!  A little lady is joining the Beckham boys!  —  A source reveals exclusively to PerezHilton.com that David and Victoria Beckham are having a baby girl!  This will be the couple's fourth child, but first daughter!
TMZ.com:
Pregnant Jewel Involved in NASTY Two-Car Crash  —  Jewel — who announced she was pregnant two months ago — was involved in a two-car collision this morning in Texas ... but thankfully, we're told the singer — and her baby — are doing fine.  —  Sources at the scene tell TMZ …
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Marla Lehner / People.com:
Jewel Hit by a Fire Truck
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Scoop
TMZ.com:
Mel Gibson Pleads No Contest — NO JAIL  —  Mel Gibson just entered a plea of no contest to a charge of simple battery ... and with a little community service and counseling ... it's like nothing ever happened.  —  Mel's no contest plea relates to a domestic situation in which the alleged victim had a child with her.
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TMZ.com:
Mel Gibson — Community Service at Wife's Charity
TMZ.com:
Olivia Wilde Files for Divorce  —  Olivia Wilde has filed for divorce ... TMZ has learned.  —  Wilde filed the papers last week in L.A. County Superior Court — citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the divorce.  —  The 27-year-old “House” actress and her husband Tao Ruspoli have been married for eight years.
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Us Weekly:
Olivia Wilde Files for Divorce
Christine Fenno / PopEater:
Alec Baldwin Tells Charlie Sheen: ‘Take a Nap, Get a Shower, Sober Up’  —  Alec Baldwin may play one of TV's top executives on ‘30 Rock,’ but he harbors a profound disdain for them in real life.  —  And his certainty that network suits are power-hungry, lying “scumbags” …
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Nicole Eggenberger / OK! Magazine:
Charlie Sheen Reacts to Police Raid: “It Wasn't Even My Machete”
TMZ.com:
Nicki Minaj Video Star — Demoted After Tweet  —  A guy who appears in an upcoming Nicki Minaj video claims he was demoted from the lead role to a face in the background ... all for revealing top secret information about the project on Twitter.  —  The guy with the six-pack is Toyin Koyejo …
Discussion: Bossip and Bitten and Bound
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Variety:
Jennifer Lawrence tapped for ‘Hunger Games’  —  Thesp close to offer for Lionsgate franchise  —  Exclusive: Jennifer Lawrence is close to getting an offer to star as Katniss in Lionsgate's “Hunger Games,” Lionsgate's bet on the next “Twilight"-sized young-adult franchise.
Discussion: The Moviefone Blog
Jada Yuan / New York Magazine:
Baz Luhrmann Says He'll Direct The Great Gatsby, But ‘Not Right Now’  —  Like The Hobbit, another highly anticipated book adaptation from Down Under, the rumor mill has been working overtime on The Great Gatsby.  It's going to star Carey Mulligan!  And Leo DiCaprio and his BFF Tobey Maguire!
Discussion: PopBytes and Movieline
Us Weekly:
PIC: Katherine Heigl Chops Off Her Hair  —  Now that's major surgery!  —  Following the leads of Ashlee Simpson and Jennifer Aniston, Katherine Heigl, 32, is the latest A-lister to lop off her long locks.  —  The Grey's Anatomy alum debuted her short platinum do in L.A. on Thursday.
Discussion: Crushable
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Kiki Von Glinow / PopEater:
Katherine Heigl Sports New Androgynous 'Do
Discussion: E! Online and X17 Online
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Lionel Wigram Taps Comic ‘RASL’ For Film  —  Lionel Wigram, who famously hatched a graphic novel version of Sherlock Holmes before setting that franchise up at Warner Bros., has tapped into another comic for a feature film project.  Wigram Productions has acquired rights to RASL …
Discussion: IGN, AintItCool, /Film and The Daily BLAM!
TMZ.com:
Lohan Evacuates Condo After Tsunami Warning  —  Lindsay Lohan isn't taking any chances with the tsunami warning issued for Southern California — TMZ has learned she's evacuated her Venice condominium and is heading for higher ground at The Peninsula Hotel.  —  We're told Lindsay …
Nellie Andreeva / TVLine:
Pilot Scoop: Eddie Cibrian Scores Playboy Lead  —  The lead in the NBC drama pilot Playboy has been recast: CSI: Miami alum Eddie Cibrian is in and Jeff Hephner, who landed the part last week after a marathon of auditions, is out.  —  The decision was made after the pilot's table read.
Discussion: Perez Hilton and TV Fanatic
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Eddie Cibrian To Play The Lead In ‘Playboy’
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Taylor Lautner & Kristen Stewart Evacuated in Tsunami Warning  —  With Hawaii and the North American West Coast placed on tsunami advisories early Friday after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck in Japan, the Vancouver Island beach area in British Columbia where Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart …
Michelle R. Smith / Associated Press:
‘Survivor’ winner Hatch gets 9-month prison sentence  —  Season 1 champ violated probation by failing to refile taxes  —  Below:  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Reality TV star Richard Hatch has ordered back to prison to serve a nine-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million …
Producer / The Superficial:
John Travolta's Baby Will Destroy Us All  —  At only two months old, John Travolta and Kelly Preston's new baby Ben was already flying planes back in January.  Since then he's taught himself the piano and will probably move on to advanced military strategies if I'm reading this right.  Extra reports:
Discussion: Hollybaby and Celebrity Baby Scoop
 
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Andy / Hollywood Life:
Kristin Kreuk Reveals Why She Won't Be Watching The ‘Smallville’ Series Finale!
TMZ.com:
Jack Black Sends School Band To Disneyland!
Discussion: Perez Hilton and I'm Not Obsessed
Kevin Frazier / New York Post:
Sitch bombs at Trump roast
Discussion: Socialite Life and The Stir
Jo Piazza / PopEater:
Tsunami Survivor Petra Nemcova Monitoring Situation in Japan
Discussion: omg!
Cristina Gibson / E! Online:
Ryan Phillippe Proud His Daughter Doesn't Have Bieber Fever
PopSugar:
Which New Movie Will You See This Weekend?
Discussion: BuzzSugar
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Cele|bitchy:
Enquirer: Beyonce wants to take Lady Gaga down, finds her “tacky”
Discussion: Celebrity Gossip …
Alison Schwartz / People.com:
Japan Tsunami: Lea Michele, Paris Hilton Reach Out on Twitter
Jstime / RADAR:
AUDIO: Jersey Shore's Angelina: The Situation Is ‘In The Closet’ & Snooki Is ‘Drunk’ And ‘Fat’
Discussion: Queerty
Us Weekly:
EXCLUSIVE: Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn “All Over Each Other” in Mexico
Marco / X17 Online:
Ryan Steps Out With His Golden Goddess Julianne
Discussion: Perez Hilton
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Peter White / Deadline:
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

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
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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