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6:50 PM ET, December 6, 2013

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Matt Webb Mitovich / TVLine:
Ratings: NBC's Sound of Music Live!  Does Something Very Good; Glee and Grey's Eye Lows  —  How do you solve a problem like a boorish, overly snarky Twitter feed?  By hushing the haters with huge numbers.  —  Facing off against 100-percent original broadcast competition throughout …
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Tom Gliatto / People.com:
Sound of Music Live Without Much Life, Says PEOPLE's TV Critic  —  NBC's Sound of Music Live!, starring country star and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood as trilling, hill-hiking governess Maria von Trapp, was like a snow globe with scarcely any flakes.
Discussion: The Wrap and Style News
TIME:
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Carrie Underwood?  —  9 things that went wrong, 6 things that went right, and 4 people who should've played Maria instead  —  By Charlotte Alter @charlottealterDec.  06, 2013  —  An imposing Austrian manly-man falls for the nanny even though he is attached …
Discussion: Right Celebrity
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: NBC's ‘Sound of Music Live’ Sings With 18.5 Million Viewers
Discussion: Defamer
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
‘Sound of Music Live!’ Review: The Hills Are Barely Alive
Discussion: The Wrap
Marc Bernardin / Hollywood Reporter:
The Sound of Music Live!: TV Review
Discussion: PopCrunch and Variety
TMZ.com:
Amanda Bynes — Life After Rehab — Enrolls In Fashion School  —  Life After Rehab  —  ENROLLS IN FASHION SCHOOL  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Amanda Bynes is wasting no time trying to rebuild her life after rehab ... and plans to hit the books at a private design school because she wants to become a fashion designer, TMZ has learned.
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Nicole Eggenberger / Us Weekly:
Amanda Bynes Walks Dogs With Her Parents After Leaving Rehab  —  Amanda Bynes is back and looking good!  The 27-year-old actress has been reunited with her family after completing several months of inpatient treatment for mental illness.  She went for a walk with her parents, Lynn and Rick …
Perez Hilton:
Amanda Bynes Is On Track To Recovery! Enrolls Herself At FIDM!
Cele|bitchy:
Amanda Bynes is out of rehab, living with her parents and enrolled in fashion school
Alicia Dennis / People.com:
Jen Arnold, Star of TLC's The Little Couple, Reveals She Has Cancer  —  Jen Arnold, star of the hit TLC series The Little Couple, is battling a rare form of cancer.  —  The Houston-based neonatologist, 39, and her husband Bill Klein, 38, are parents to son Will, 3, whom they adopted from China …
Discussion: The Wrap and Oh No They Didn't!
TMZ.com:
... I'm Cool with Mine  —  Jennifer Lopez only wants one thing out of her divorce from Marc Anthony — which is still going more than 18 months later — and that's ... her old name.  —  J.Lo just filed her legal response to Marc's petition, and according to the docs her legal name …
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Allison Takeda / Us Weekly:   Jennifer Lopez Files New Documents in Marc Anthony Divorce Two Years After Initial Split: Report
Morgan Jeffery / Digital Spy:
Nelson Mandela: BBC One, ITV change schedules for tribute programming  —  UK broadcasters have altered tonight's schedules following the news of Nelson Mandela's death.  —  It was announced last night (December 5) that the African leader had passed away following a long illness.
Discussion: X17 Online
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Nicole Eggenberger / Us Weekly:
Kelly Clarkson Talks Pregnancy Morning Sickness on Ellen: “I Vomit a Good Dozen Times a Day”  —  Pregnancy has been rough on Kelly Clarkson.  During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Friday, Dec. 6, the 31-year-old singer vented to host Ellen DeGeneres about how “miserable” …
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NY Daily News:
EDITORS' PICKS  —  Nausea has officially set in for pregnant Kelly Clarkson.
Discussion: VH1 Celebrity
TMZ.com:
Paris Hilton's Brother Barron — Lindsay Lohan's Thug BEAT MY FACE IN  —  (New information bolded)  —  Paris Hilton's little brother Barron Hilton was jumped this morning — and beaten to a pulp — and he claims Lindsay Lohan masterminded the attack, TMZ has learned.
Cavan Sieczkowski / The Huffington Post:
Kim Zolciak Tweets About Being A Size 4 Just 9 Days After Giving Birth To Twins  —  Kim Zolciak posed for a selfie and tweeted about being a size 4 just days after giving birth to twins.  —  On Wednesday (Dec. 4), Zolicak retweeted a photo posted by her daughter, Brielle …
Discussion: X17 Online and Bossip
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TMZ.com:
Paul Walker Death — Alleged Porsche Wreckage Thieves Arrested
Discussion: PerezHilton
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
New ‘Terminator’ TV Series in the Works  —  “Thor's” Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller will pen the script for the project, from Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures, that will be a companion piece to the rebooted film.  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator”
Discussion: The Moviefone Blog
Sheila Cosgrove Baylis / People.com:
Madonna's Son Rocco Ritchie, 13, Is All Grown Up  —  Rocco Ritchie, Madonna's son with Guy Ritchie, isn't a little boy anymore.  —  The 13-year-old's Instagram account provides a snapshot into his life, which is filled with travel, parkour and participating in philanthropic projects.
RADAR:
Victory For Gwyneth Paltrow!  ‘Vanity Fair’ Takedown Piece Turns ‘Soft’  —  Can Gwyneth Paltrow claim victory over Vanity Fair?  —  RadarOnline.com has learned that the famed magazine, which had planned a scathing take-down piece on the actress, is making it much softer.
Daily Mail:
Are you fur real?  Beyonce makes for an unconvincing vegan as she steps out for lunch with Jay Z on new plant-based diet  —  He recently vowed to stick to a plant-based diet until Christmas Day.  —  And by the looks of it his wife Beyonce is supporting husband Jay Z in every way except for her wardrobe.
Discussion: Dlisted
 
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Allison Takeda / Us Weekly:
Jennifer Aniston “Very Into the Holiday Spirit” While Shopping for Christmas Trees With Justin Theroux
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Megan / Dlisted:
Rashida Jones Is Still Sick Of The Vaginalization Of Pop Music
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Access Hollywood:
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People.com:
Jessica Biel ‘Definitely’ Wants to Have Kids with Justin Timberlake
TMZ.com:
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Michael K / Dlisted:
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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber — Detained In Australia — During Airport Drug Search
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Drake — Bails on Grammy Nomination Concert
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From Mediagazer:

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, sets out on a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered

Committee to Protect Journalists:
At least 128 journalists and media workers, all but five of them Palestinian, have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in the year since the October 7 attack

 
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