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2:35 PM ET, May 6, 2011

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Alison Schwartz / People.com:
Paul McCartney, Nancy Shevell Are Engaged  —  Paul McCartney and his girlfriend of four years, Nancy Shevell, are engaged to be married, sources tell PEOPLE.  —  “Nancy and Paul are getting married,” a source close to Shevell, 51, a New York businesswoman, tells PEOPLE.  “Ring and all - very exciting.”
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Jessica / INF Daily:
Paul McCartney Gets Engaged To Nancy Shevell!  —  Love is blooming again for Paul McCartney, and this time it's sure to work out better than the last.  The former Beatle just announced that he is engaged to girlfriend Nancy Shevell, who he has been quietly dating for four years.
Discussion: Reuters, omg! and TMZ.com
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Us Weekly:
Angelina Jolie: I Hate the Sound of My Own Voice
Discussion: Hollywood.com
Fay Schlesinger / Daily Mail:
Waitrose-y Katie goes down the aisle again - at the supermarket: Proves she has the common touch as she pushes her own trolley  —  She is the newest and most glamorous member of the royal family, and one of the best-known women in the world.  —  But a dressed-down Duchess of Cambridge …
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Rennie Dyball / People.com:
Kate's Royal Grocery Run - Her First Newlywed Outing in Wales  —  Duchess in aisle three!  —  Less than a week after the “wedding of the century,” a far more casual Duchess Catherine hit her local Waitrose grocery store on the island of Anglesey, in North Wales.
Discussion: PopSugar
Perez Hilton:
Stevie Nicks To Perform On American Idol Finale!  —  Thank our lucky stars!  —  This is literally a gift from the heavens!  —  As we've reported, Lady GaGa is set to perform during the finale of American Idol - and now, we have ANOTHER performance over which we'll be losing our shiz during …
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Jennifer Still / Digital Spy:
Latest ‘American Idol’ result revealed
Discussion: X17 Online, omg!, PopEater and Perez Hilton
Lara Martin / Digital Spy:
Jordin Sparks, Steven Tyler video for ‘Idol’
Discussion: X17 Online and CONCRETELOOP.COM
Perez Hilton:
Legendary Writer/Broadway Director Arthur Laurents Dies At 93  —  Sad.  —  Broadway writer and director Arthur Laurents has passed away at age 93.  —  Laurents wrote the two Broadway hits West Side Story and Gypsy and directed the Tony award-winning play La Cage aux Folles.
Discussion: omg!, Broadway.com and Reuters
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Robert Berkvist / New York Times:
Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
R.I.P. Arthur Laurents
Discussion: CNN, Queerty, Oh No They Didn't! and Gawker
People.com:
Nikki Cox & Jay Mohr Welcome a Boy  —  It's a happy Cinco de Mayo for Jay Mohr and Nikki Cox, who welcomed their first child together on Thursday, their rep tells PEOPLE.  —  Cox, 32, gave birth to a baby boy, Meredith Daniel Mohr, who weighed in at 6 lbs. 7 oz.
Alex Winehouse / Entertainmentwise:
Lindsay Lohan Turns To Scientology?  —  John Travolta lands another celebrity...  How they manage to do it is beyond Entertainmentwise, but the Church of Scientology seems to have claimed another celebrity, this time in the form of Lindsay Lohan.  —  LiLo, whose recent life has resembled …
Discussion: Dlisted and The Blemish
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Contactmusic.com:
John Travolta - Lindsay Lohan Finds Scientology With Travolta
Marisa Laudadio / People.com:
Bryan Adams Is a Dad!  —  Bryan Adams is in heaven.  —  The rocker-photographer and co-founder of his foundation, Alicia Grimaldi, welcomed a daughter last month, his rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.  —  “I'm really proud to announce on 22 April, Mirabella Bunny was born,” says Adams, 51.
PopEater:
Video: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Channel ‘Jersey Shore’  —  New Jersey invaded ‘Late Night,’ along with several of Jimmy Fallon's former ‘Saturday Night Live’ castmates.  It was a veritable reunion of some of the late-night sketch show's power women with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch all making cameos.
Discussion: TV Squad and The Frisky
TMZ.com:
Nic Cage Dodges Bullet In Drunken New Orleans Arrest  —  Nic Cage will not be charged with a crime for allegedly attacking his wife during a drunken argument in New Orleans last month ... TMZ has confirmed.  —  The New Orleans District Attorney's Office tells us ... investigators …
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
ABC Plotting Abbreviated Final Season Of ‘Brothers & Sisters’ With Less Calista  —  With Desperate Housewives' renewal assured after the series' stars have have been re-signed, Brothers and Sisters remains the only veteran ABC series not picked up for next season.
Nicole Sperling / 24 Frames:
Joel Edgerton signs on for Kathryn Bigelow's Bin Laden movie  —  As “The Hurt Locker” team of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal continue to work on their Osama bin Laden movie, they've signed up their first actor.  —  Australian Joel Edgerton will play a special operative in the picture …
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Hollywood Reporter:
ABC Bleeps Osama bin Laden Joke From ‘Happy Endings’ But It Airs in Canada (Video)
Sarah Durham Wilson / People.com:
Emma Bunton ‘Happy & Excited’ over Birth of Her Son  —  Baby Spice had another baby!  —  Emma Bunton gave birth to her second child, son Tate, on Friday, who weighed in at 7 lbs.  “Both mother and baby are doing well,” her rep says in a statement, “and the family are over the moon …
Sarah Bull / Daily Mail:
All eyes on Katie Holmes in a low-cut dress as husband Tom Cruise is honoured by Jewish human rights organisation  —  It can be difficult to stand out when your husband is a world-famous action movie star.  —  But last night Katie Holmes managed to take centre stage as Tom Cruise …
Discussion: Socialite Life
Bedhead / Cele|bitchy:
Tara Reid partied so hard that her tooth fell out  —  In the past year, a few stories have indicated that Tara Reid has fallen off the sobriety wagon in a very spectacular way despite a 2009 rehab stint that was supposed to put her back on track to a career “comeback.”
Discussion: The Blemish and Celebs.com
Cele|bitchy:
Alicia Keys on loving Swizz Beatz: “I feel so open now, everything is going to be fine”  —  Alicia Keys is on the cover of Essence Magazine next month, and she looks so pretty with understated hair and makeup and her hair slicked back.  Alicia is of course married to music producer Swizz Beatz …
Discussion: coverawards.com
Katie Henry / PopSugar:
See Jane Krakowski's Newborn Son Bennett!  —  New mom and 30 Rock star Jane Krakowski bundled up her infant son Bennett Robert Godley and ventured out for a stroll around their NYC neighborhood yesterday.  Jane gave birth to Bennett on April 13 and it looks like she's already showing …
Discussion: INF Daily
Sarah Durham Wilson / People.com:
George Clooney's 50th Birthday Eve Dinner with Elisabetta Canalis  —  Looking for birthday boy George Clooney?  —  On Thursday night all you had to do was follow Kirstie Alley on Twitter - or have a reservation at Mr. Chow.  —  The actor - who turns 50 on Friday - had a early celebration …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Pop2it
TMZ.com:
Eddie Cibrian to Ex: Keep Our Kids Off ‘Housewives’  —  Eddie Cibrian is adamant he does not want his ex-wife Brandi Glanville to put their kids on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — and we're told he's ready to go to court over it.  —  TMZ broke the story ... Brandi will star …
Jay Bobbin / Zap2it:
After 10 years, ‘Smallville’ flies out of The CW's lineup  —  DISCUSS THIS STORY NOW  —  “This was not a show about Superman.”  —  That's what star Tom Welling says about “Smallville,” which has spent 10 years charting Clark Kent's progression from his teen years into young adulthood …
Discussion: Just Jared and Splash Page
Tim Nudd / People.com:
Franklin Mint Unveils Kate Royal Wedding Doll  —  She was a doll on her wedding day in that stunning Alexander McQueen wedding gown.  And now, Duchess Catherine literally is a doll - the Kate Middleton Royal Wedding Doll, created by the Franklin Mint.  —  It features an exact replica …
Discussion: Perez Hilton
 
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