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Sam Kashner / Vanity Fair:
Meghan Markle, Wild About Harry! — Battered by the tabloids—to the point where her boyfriend, Prince Harry, issued a statement defending her—actress and activist Meghan Markle has largely ignored the media storm. And as Markle tells Vanity Fair about her bi-racial background, her romance …
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Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Meghan Markle on Dating Prince Harry: 'It's Really Simple. We're Two People Who Are Really Happy and in Love'
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Life & Style, Cele|bitchy and Yahoo Celebrity
Christopher Rosen / EW.com:
Jennifer Lawrence's ‘WTF’ mother! hailed in first reviews — Critics to Darren Aronofsky: You crazy for this one — mother! mercy. — Jennifer Lawrence's latest film, the Darren Aronofsky horror film mother!, debuted at the Venice Film Festival on Monday and left critics reaching for their WTFs.
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IndieWire and People.com
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Jessica Kiang / The Playlist:
‘mother!’: Darren Aronofsky's Scorchingly Brilliant Thriller Is Visceral, Go-For-Broke Madness [Venice Review]
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Variety and Oh No They Didn't!
Owen Gleiberman / Variety:
Venice Film Review: Jennifer Lawrence in ‘mother!’
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Cele|bitchy, Vanity Fair, I Don't Like You In That Way and Telegraph
Kevin P. Sullivan / EW.com:
Rami Malek is Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody first look — There are few people in music history as recognizable as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury — and not just his face, but his four-octave voice and flamboyant physicality. Rami Malek is well aware of that fact.
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TMZ.com:
Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes Finally Out in Public As a Couple — Until now, seeing Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes out together as a couple was as common as a Bigfoot sighting or riding a unicorn ... but not anymore!!! — It took 4 years, but Hollywood's most top secret couple finally packed …
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Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter:
At Home With George Clooney in Italy: Amal, the Twins, Politics and an Incendiary New Movie — On Lake Como with the ‘Suburbicon’ director and his family as he revels in a new life off-camera ("I'm a very good diaper guy"), swaps texts with Obama, reveals how he'll spend a $200 million tequila windfall …
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People.com and Celebrity Baby Scoop
Crystal Bell / MTV:
Ed Sheeran Knows His Game Of Thrones Character Was No Match For Drogon — He probably didn't survive Season 7's loot train attack (if he was even there) — It's safe to say that the internet wasn't prepared for Ed Sheeran's prominent cameo in the Season 7 opener of Game of Thrones.
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Us Weekly, People.com and Page Six
Entertainment Tonight:
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift to Perform During Halftime of College Football National Championship, Source Says — Taylor Swift is gearing up for a huge performance. — A source tells ET that the 27-year-old singer will be performing at the College Football National Championship in Atlanta …
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Cele|bitchy, Vulture and Page Six
Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
Can Netflix Crash the Oscars With Dee Rees' ‘Mudbound’? — “Mudbound” had hit a raw nerve. On the afternoon Dee Rees' operatic drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last January, it was met with rapturous reviews and Oscar buzz. Surely, distributors would be duking it out for the rights …
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People.com and AOL
Meg Swertlow / E! Online:
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Reunite on the Beach Over Labor Day Weekend — They're back to the beach! — After reuniting at the beach in California over the Labor Day holiday, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom just added some serious fuel to the rumor that's the pair is back together.
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Megan French / Us Weekly:
‘Dancing With the Stars’ Anna Trebunskaya Gives Birth, Welcomes Second Child With Nevin Millan — Her tiny dancer has arrived! Dancing With the Stars' Anna Trebunskaya welcomed a baby boy, Kaspyan, with boyfriend Nevin Millan, Us Weekly can exclusively confirm.
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Auburn Seminary:
Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV Statement On Leaving His Church After Speaking Out Against White Supremacy at MTV Video Music Awards — I'm writing this statement to make sure that people are able to read in my own words what has happened to me over the last three weeks so that the events …
Gary Trust / Billboard:
Taylor Swift's ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Leaps to No. 1 on Hot 100 With Top Streaming & Sales Week of 2017 — YOUTUBE — Swift scores her fifth Hot 100 No. 1 and breaks the weekly streaming record for a song by a woman. “Look” also stops the record-tying 16-week reign of “Despacito.”
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