Monday, July 4, 2011

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Calls Out Manny Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather Jr. wore his promoter’s hat at the recent press conference in Los Angeles for his upcoming fight with Victor Ortiz. No doubt Floyd is taking his match with Ortiz seriously, but he did look into the future a bit when he said: “We only want to fight the biggest and the best out [...]

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds' Divorce Finalized

Putting an official end to their under-the-radar romance, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds's divorce became final on Friday, after an out-of-the-blue split late last year.

The final divorce documents were filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, according to E!.

The pair discreetly dated before exchanging vows in rural wedding outside Vancouver in 2008. They have no children.

"Irreconcilable differences" were cited in court papers, and both have said very little to the press to shed additional light on their relationship or breakup.

While Johansson, 26, rebounded this year with a short-lived fling with Sean Penn, Reynolds insisted in a recent interview, "The media was not invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce." And the 'Green Lantern' star, 34, did concede, "I don't think I want to get married again."


"Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain, but you come out of it," Reynolds added. "I'm not out of it yet. At all. But I sense that as I do come through it, there's optimism. How can there not be?"

He explained, "Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up. I gotta say, I'm a different person than I was six months ago."

While the partnership did not result in any children, the former spouses did produce a unique collaboration: A new documentary about a lost orca whale found in a British Columbia waterway, and the contentious debate among locals about the affectionate animal's fate. You can catch a glimpse of 'The Whale' -- executive-produced by the couple, and narrated by Reynolds -- via the trailer, available on the movie's official website.

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Halle Berry called it quits with her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, ending their five-year relationship. The couple has a 2-year-old daughter, Nahla Ariel Aubry.

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Tony Parker Is Dating A 20-Year-Old While Eva Longoria Enjoys Her Vacation [PHOTOS]

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Wants Proposal From Prince Harry

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?Transformers 3? actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has quite a crush on Prince Harry and jokes she is awaiting his proposal.

The ?Transformers: Dark of the Moon? beauty reveals that Prince Harry is her ideal guy.� We?re certain her current boyfriend, actor Jason Statham, loves to hear that!

Rosie told Vogue magazine that she informed Prince Harry of her obsession with him, stating, ?I?m waiting for my proposal.I keep writing. I think he knows how obsessed I am. Well, he does now. He?s so handsome.?

The model/actress even prompts Prince Harry to pop the questions, sending him the message, ?Come on Harry!?

Whiteley also said she has problems keeping her hands off her handsome co-star, Shia LaBeouf.

Rosie said she needed a chastity belt to avoid Shia?s charming ways.� The actress said, ?It was tough. I mean I really had to tie myself into my trailer. I really had to restrain myself for seven months of shooting.?

LaBeouf recently revealed he hooked up with Megan Fox on the set of the movie, possibly while she was dating her now-hubby, Brian Austin Green.

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Happy 25th Birthday, Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan turns 25 years old today, and what a year she's had. Make that: What a 25 years she's had. Right now, she's free to celebrate wherever she likes, since her house arrest ended on June 29 (her first night out already triggered a paparazzi frenzy).

A year ago, on her last birthday, LiLo could hardly have predicted the legal sagas that would unfold in the months ahead.

Back in July 2010, just a few days after turning 24, she was sentenced to 90 days in jail, followed by 90 days in rehab, for probation violation stemming from her 2007 DUI. (Lohan's profane manicure made headlines during that court appearance.) She moved into a sober living facility as the start of her jail stint loomed.

She wasn't behind bars long: Booked into jail in handcuffs on July 20, 2010, Lohan was released less than two weeks later and ordered to begin rehab at UCLA Medical Center. But she only served a fraction of that sentence as well, completing treatment in just 23 days. Less than a month later, she was headed back to court, tweeting, "Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test..."


She was booked into jail again on Sept. 24, 2010, but a judge overturned the decision, and she left jail the same day when she was granted $300,000 bail. That same month, she settled a lawsuit she'd filed against E-Trade over a commercial in which a baby named "Lindsay" was called a "milkaholic."

Days after getting bailed out of jail, Lohan entered rehab at Betty Ford. In late October, she was ordered to remain in rehab until Jan. 3, 2011. While she was in treatment, 'Inferno' director Matthew Wilder announced Lohan would no longer star in his Linda Lovelace biopic.

In December 2010, less than a month before her release from rehab, Lohan got into a scuffle with Betty Ford staff member Dawn Holland (who was eventually fired for talking to the media, and withdrew her request to press charges).

While she walked out of rehab on schedule, Lohan soon walked right into trouble again when a Venice, Calif., jewelry store accused her in January of stealing a necklace, claiming they had surveillance video of the actress sneaking out of the shop wearing their merchandise. On Feb. 9, Lohan was charged with felony grand theft and pleaded not guilty.

On March 10, 2011, her ninth court appearance in ten months, Lohan was given two weeks to choose between a plea deal or a trial; she soon rejected a plea bargain.

In late April, her theft charge was reduced to a misdemeanor -- she pleaded no contest -- but the actress was given 120 days in jail and 480 hours of community service for probation violation (for being charged with theft in the first place). She posted bail and left the detention center within hours, and due to overcrowding, her sentence turned into house arrest.

During her house arrest, she shot a commercial and hosted a roof party, and then news broke in June that Lohan had tested positive for alcohol. But she was quickly let off the hook on a technicality (she was only supposed to be tested for drugs).

Could the troubled starlet's quarter-century birthday finally mark the beginning of the end of her legal woes? Lohan surely hopes that this year's theme, instead of jail and rehab, will be her long-anticipated career comeback, as she prepares for her role in the John Travolta movie 'Gotti: Three Generations'.


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Macaulay Culkin Does It 'My Way'


Macaulay Culkin hit up The Red Door Lounge in Billings, MT last night where he did a fantastic rendition of the classic song, "My Way" -- but did he do it as well as our own Harvey Levin did?

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Now HL's version, slightly more produced and with the help of Paul Anka.

So the question is ...� UPDATE: From our bitter boss ...�

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Prince William & Kate Middleton Sail Into Quebec City

After spending the night sailing along the scenic St. Lawrence Seaway aboard a Canadian navy frigate, Prince William and Kate Middleton made their grand arrival in Quebec City on Sunday (July 3).

First partaking in an interfaith prayer service on the deck of the HMCS Montreal, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge proceeded to disembark the sea vessel while once again facing French-speaking separatist protests as they spoke briefly with Grand Chef (Grand Chief) of Wendake, Konrad Sioui.

From there, William and Kate were taken to meet with residents of La Maison Dauphine, a center that helps homeless youths, which was to be followed by a military ceremony and the 375th-year celebration of the city of Levis.

Once finished up with the Quebec City duties, the royal newlyweds will be heading to Prince Edward Island - which happens to be the locale in which Miss Middleton's favorite childhood book, "Anne of Green Gables," is based.

Meanwhile, Prince William is said to be looking forward to the July 4th stop thanks to plans to partake in a search and rescue demonstration.

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Cannon?s Countdown: The Top 30 Pop Tracks For The Week Of July 1, 2011

Our friend Nick Cannon just rolled out the latest episode of Cannon’s Countdown, and we’re airing it here! Check back each weekend for the Countdown in full and be sure to check out his site for daily updates on everything you need to know. We’re knee deep in summer, Ballers. I’m kicking off this three [...]

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Magneto and Professor X Had Sex at the Movies This Summer?Did You See It?

If the subtextual homoerotic love affair between Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Professor X (James McAvoy) in the X-Men saga wasn't established canon beforeX-Men: First Class, well...it is now.

For anyone remotely paying attention, it's pretty clear that the primary story arc of the summer blockbuster is how much Erik and Charles are madly in love, and how it all goes horribly wrong due to a combination of external forces and internal character flaws.

Our own E! Online reviewer appeared to have no idea this all went down, so are we just seeing things because we want to? And what does this turn of romantic events mean for the future of the franchise? Let's discuss:

READ MORE: What were the five biggest movie letdowns of the summer?

Xavier's X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants have long represented�conflicting approaches to race relations in America, with�Xavier standing for a conciliatory integrationist Martin Luther King Jr.�approach, and Magneto taking a more militant or separatist�Malcolm Xapproach.

But circa 2011, cultural divisions over race have been supplanted in the popular American consciousness by a debate over gay rights, and the latest X-Men film has updated Professor X and Magneto's adversarial relationship thusly. Sure, a lot of stuff blows up, so it's partly just a summer popcorn movie. But the film can also be easily read as a gay pride allegory, as well as a story of true love gone horribly wrong.�(Among other things, by the end of�First Class, Professor X affirmatively chooses to stay in the closet and not frighten the straights, while "mutant and proud" Magneto embraces the "drag" of a flamboyant costume.)�

Now, about that sexual business in the storyline of the film.�Don't fight it, folks. It's there, and it's real, and even James McAvoy is in on it.�He told the�Daily Telegraph, "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends."

To double-check our level of crazy fangirling on this topic, we turned to William Earnest, an assistant professor of communication at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, who contributed a chapter called "Making�Gay�Sense of the�X-Men" to the textbook Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguiseedited by Barry S. Brummett. He says, "I think the movie would be less interesting, and much less fun, without [the romantic throughline]. I'm not sure, however, that the majority of moviegoers necessarily recognize the gay love affair, coded as it is, but I do think they'd notice its absence. The late, great Vito Russo (The Celluloid Closet) would probably agree with this assertion, seeing as he found these kinds of coded gay relationships informing so many mainstream films over the decades."

So, if you�are�inclined to read the film this way (and we so are), what is there to see?

The two leads of�X-Men: First Class�meet cute when Charles Xavier saves Erik Lehnsherr from drowning during a revengey assault on a evil overlord's yacht, and in their first exchange Erik confesses, "I thought I was alone," while Charles reassures, "No, you're not?I'm like you." Sure, they're�officiallytalking about the whole mutant thing, but the language also transfers perfectly to what two closeted males�in the 1960s�might say to each other as they experienced the gaydar ping of their lives.

Shortly thereafter, Erik and Charles set off to adopt a brood of X-babies they can raise at Xavier's mansion, during which Hugh Jackman's Wolverine makes a brief cameo appearance and encourages the future superhero and supervillain to "go f--k yourselves." Sure, you could say that the line is simply Wolverine being his usual bitchy self, but we say the line was planted to hint that Charles and Erik then quite literally go f--k each other.

Throughout the second act of the film, not only do the two share a bed in a strip club, share a mind meld so powerful they're both brought to tears, and�co-parent the X-babies�in preparation for the battle against Shaw (Kevin Bacon), they somehow find time to loll around together on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial while "playing chess" and gazing at the oh-so-phallic Washington Monument.�No, seriously, "playing chess" is obviously PG-13 movie code for "And then Magneto and Professor X did it...again."

Professor Earnest also notes, "With this not-always-subtle subtext established, finding ways to play with it is easy?a task made even easier by the fact that it's homoerotic, not homosexualin the literal sense, so it's about desire, tension, and, above all, unrequited love. No clothes have to come off, and so far as we know, they don't. But there are looks, body language, conversations, and above all,intimacy...The chess scene aside, from the standpoint of sexual imagery, I think the 'satellite dish' [scene] is the film's richest. Charles even asks Erik's permission to penetrate him! So polite. And then they meld each other's brains out."

Of course, in the tradition of all the best romantic tragedies, by the third act our heroes end up facing off in the climactic final battle, and their fundamental divisions ruin the whole beautiful thing. Bullets are taken, brain-slicings are suffered, and hearts are broken all over the place.

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Say that it's mere "brotherhood" or "friendship" if you will. But when the Bad Thing (sob) happens at the end of�X-Men: First Class, Erik doesn't respond exactly like a buddy. He passionately drops 500 missiles, clutches Charles to his chest, homicidally freaks out at everyone else on the beach and then basically proposes marriage ("I want you by my side")?all while looking like he�wants to kill�himself.

They are in love, and that's that.

They�shouldbe�married and living happily ever after, but Erik's rage issues make him an unsuitable daddy for the X-babies, so Charles divorces him on the beach, and they'll spend the rest of their lives in miserable devotion to each other, facing each other from across the line, instead of living together in Westchester mansion splendor, "playing chess" until they too old and creaky to "move the pieces."

In the end, adding the romantic throughline to the film is a masterstroke. The "X-Men: First Love" approach�elevates the otherwise absurd comic-book goings-on. And the narrative heft of the storied mutant war to come elevates the potentially trite romantic arc.

For that matter, the romance somewhat rationalizes the random insertion of the Cuban Missile Crisis plotline. Professor Earnest observes, "It's the decade of the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall, so the cultural backdrop is custom-ordered to support a burgeoning, forbidden love affair. And certainly their relationship mirrors these struggles.

"The ?60s were also the height of the Cold War, which of course provides the historical template for the storyline. In addition, the Cold War gives us an additional metaphor for star-crossed love. Here are two men who have much in common and, deep down, rather fancy one another. You'd think they'd hit it off famously?and for awhile they do. But eventually political differences drive them apart. Not entirely unlike the�United States�and the Soviet Union."

Fassbender, McAvoy and Vaughn all deserve special credit for their individual collective contributions to the achievement that is this film. Vaughn deftly centers the story on Erik and Charles' relationship while making sure the fanboys also have plenty to play with. Fassbender absolutely kills it as an emotionally wrecked abuse survivor whose romantic principles are something like "Cruel to be kind, means that I love you." McAvoy, meanwhile, deftly keeps Charles' fluttering (and later broken) heart in his eyes, as the future superhero follows that well-trodden path of falling for a hot bad boy whose powers and flaws are both terribly grand and terribly dangerous.

The smouldering "bromance" in�X-Men: First Class�is wall-to-wall coded passion?and sometimes not so coded?and if you think they're not having sweaty mutant sex during the entire movie, you just weren't paying attention. To clear up any confusion, we recommend you go see it again...and again...and again, just to catch the finer points. (Not least because higher box-office returns mean increased chances of a sequel.)

So?your thoughts on Charles-Erik? Are we crazy or is this canon now? Hit us back in the comments.

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Shore Leave? Has Vinny Bailed on Jersey Shore?

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Monaco's Prince Albert has another wedding

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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Cannon?s Countdown: The Top 30 Pop Tracks For The Week Of July 1, 2011

Our friend Nick Cannon just rolled out the latest episode of Cannon’s Countdown, and we’re airing it here! Check back each weekend for the Countdown in full and be sure to check out his site for daily updates on everything you need to know. We’re knee deep in summer, Ballers. I’m kicking off this three [...]

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Nadya Suleman Says She Hates Her Babies & Older Six Are ?Animals?

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Nadya Suleman, aka ?Octomom? is mother to 14 kids, after giving birth to octuplets.� But Nadya tells In Touch magazine she is disgusted by her babies and thinks her older children act like ?animals?.

?Octomom?, 36, had a very disturbing interview with In Touch magazine, which should have child services taking a good look at the situation.

?I hate the babies, they disgust me,? Suleman told In Touch magazine. ?My older six are animals, getting more and more out of control, because I have no time to properly discipline them.?

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Suleman seems discouraged, saying, ?The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet?.

She said she has even considered committing suicide.� ?Octomom? stated,� ?Some days I have thought about killing myself. I cannot cope.?

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Nadya realized her comments about her children weren?t sounding very good and insists she loves her children.

??Obviously I love them ? but I absolutely wish I had not had them,? she said.

Nadya is also in a bad way financially.

?My bank account is overdrawn by $300 and I have no money to pay for the children?s school, food or the mortgage.?

Suleman, who is currently receiving public assistance, has found a way to boost her income.� And of course it doesn?t entail getting a real job.

The mom of 14 recently filmed an episode for a new celebrity dating show called ?Celebridate?.

Suleman says she has been celibate for 12 years, only having slept with an ex-boyfriend.� But she feels she has a way with men.

Nadya said, ?Ever since I was little, I was aware that men wanted me and the hardest thing was keeping them away.?

Umm? ok, if you say so Nadya!

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Daniel Radcliffe Dishes on the End of Harry Potter

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There are just a couple of weeks left until the last Harry Potter flick is released (sad, we know). But, before the wizarding world comes to an official end, Daniel Radcliffe sat down with us to dish on life as Harry Potter (and if a kiss between Rupert and Hermione finally comes to fruition).

So, what did Radcliffe have to say about the end of the Potter era?

MORE: Daniel Radcliffe on Last Day of Potter Filming: "I Wept Like a Child"

When asked if there really would be no more Harry Potter films, Radcliffe quipped, "It's really coming to an end. I'm kind of waiting for somebody to graffiti ?at last' or something next to it."

The convo wasn't all jokes for the 20-year-old thesp, however. Radcliffe took a serious turn, noting that his experience on Potter has been a very beneficial one for him as an actor.

"I feel like It's been a huge learning curve and I've been fortunate enough to work with some of the best actors in the world," Radcliffe said. "I feel like to a certain extent that I've been in the best film/drama school that anyone could wish for because there's no better way to learn something than by doing it."

As for his thoughts on the outcome of the film series' last flick...

"I was actually really pleased," Radcliffe said with a smile. "I was very nervous going in because had I not been pleased then I probably would've been in a downward spiral and I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy it as much. But thankfully I was just delighted and so proud, and it's a very good film. I do think Alan Rickman gives the film performance of his career in this movie."

And while Radcliffe didn't give away any of the film's surprises, he did touch upon Ron and Hermione's kiss in the movie.

"What's nice is that it's there but it's not lingered on," Radcliffe said. "I'm sure Ron and Hermione will get a big applause from the audience, and they should, they've been waiting long enough to see that happen. But what's lovely is the part after they break up and start laughing, I can see that it's just Rupert and Emma."

Since the trio has grown up together, we couldn't help but to ask him what his favorite moment was while playing the precocious wizard.

"I think for a while I took for granted that I was playing an action hero," Radcliffe said. "I've had to remind myself that it's not very often in an actor's career that you get to play action heroes, and there was a moment on the second film that I got to burst through the water into a ring of fire, and I actually did that. And I thought, if my career continues for another hundred years, I probably won't get to do that. So, that was pretty cool."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two hits theaters July 15.

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Summer Blockbuster Hunks [PHOTOS]

If the movie doesn?t look good enough to see, these sexy bods will for sure get you in the theater?Beat the heat and enjoy all that is sexy!

Theres a little bit of everything this summer. Blow off some steam with your choice of hilarious comedies. Love drama when its not yours? Take a trip to the movies to see all scandals on the big screen. There?s even a variety of superheroes!

From superheros to funny guys, there?s a sexy man for everyone in our collection of �hunks who are gracing the silver screen. Here?s a peek of all the abs, arms, chests and chiseled faces.

PHOTOS: Sexy ?Glee? Guys Go Shirtless

In the group are some new hunks mixed in with the ol? reliable sex icons. �Heres hoping the newbies will have a very long, and hopefully shirtless career.

Launch the gallery and enjoy all the man candy!

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Prince William And Kate Middleton Celebrate Canada Day With Fireworks

Ever since Prince William and Kate Middleton boarded their flight to North America, things have just been all kinds of exciting in Canada. Kate made sure to pack a killer wardrobe, wore another awesome hat in the parade and attended an authentic Canadian BBQ. What a busy week! But their arrival at Parliment Hill for fireworks on Canada Day was by far their biggest event.

?William and Kate clapped along to the music, and the band soon had the couple on their feet, leading the rest of the VIP section to get up, too. They ended their 10 minute set by chanting, ?Welcome to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge; welcome to Canada,? said a source from People.

PHOTOS: Newsweek Inappropriately Puts The Late Princess Diana On Their Cover With Kate Middleton

Seen here, the Duchess of Cambridge attends the Evening National Canada Day Celebrations on day 2 of the Royal Couple?s North American Tour on July 1st in Ottawa, Canada. Classy Kate wore a deep purple wrap dress with a maple leaf brooch on loan from her new mother-in-law Queen Elizabeth. She looks stunning as usual.

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Courtney Love is addicted to Etsy

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Courtney Love just can't kick her latest addiction ? the handmade design site Etsy.

The discombobulated diva has a jones for expensive handmade items but has some trouble paying for them.

Love, who uses the handle "cherryforeverreturns" left a characteristically garbled note on her profile page warning vendors that her "checks are on a wierd [sic] sahcedule [sic] so bear with? plus my paypal account has had wierd stuff happen eg salaries and theft, so im very persnickity [sic] about it, but if I really like it, youll get paid."

The sometime singer has a bad history Etsy.�

Love recently had to fork over $430,000 after she was sued for defamation by designer Dawn Simoranghir.�

She had accused the designer, who sold clothing on Etsy of being an "a**wipe nasty lying hosebag thief," and "drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery."

Still, Love just can't keep away.

"My cpa hates the word 'etsy,' she declared on her buyer profile. "but theres vendors on here i adore nd i always discover new inspiring stuff."

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4th Of July 2011: Drinking For American Heroes (VIDEO)

Comedian Aaron Glaser recently decided to honor the 4th of July by exclusively drinking in honor of great American heroes. While he didn't include William Katt, the Greatest American Hero, his list is otherwise fairly exhaustive. And majorly intoxicating.

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Claudia Winkleman: Babies are small so they can fit in drawers

The TV presenter on Strictly, turning 40 and why she's superstitious about her pregnancy

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Claudia Winkleman is 7 months pregnant

Claudia Winkleman is expecting her third child at 39 and is really enjoying her pregnancy.

'I absolutely love it,' she tells us. 'The beginning bit, particularly the throwing up, I found quite tricky but I'm so excited that I never get angry.

'The baby can do whatever it wants. I'm quite superstitious, though, so I won't have a feeding bottle or cot or anything in the house until it arrives.

'That does mean, however, that when you come home from the hospital you don't know where to put the baby.

'Luckily, babies are quite small, so they can fit in the drawers.

'I'd like two more but I've had to sign something for my husband [film producer Kris Thykier, 39], which says that this will be the last one.'

Claudia doesn't know if she's having a boy or a girl.

'My son Jake [eight] says he wants a brother and my daughter Matilda [five] wants a sister, so I had to sit them down and say: "Hey, here's the good news: either will rock."

'After all, it's not like we're getting a cactus!'

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Hemingway Death: How The Author Unraveled After Leaving First Wife Hadley Richardson

chicagotribune.com:

One afternoon in the late winter of 1961, while Hadley Richardson was vacationing at a ranch in Arizona with her second husband, she got a call from her first husband, Ernest Hemingway. Though the writer had spoken to Richardson rarely since their divorce in 1927, and seen her just once in 22 years, she remained his most enduring muse -- the model for the alluring but wounded Hemingway heroine -- and recently, he'd been thinking about her a lot.

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Cheryl Cole: Birthday Party Time in London!

Having a fun-filled night to look forward to, Cheryl Cole was spotted arriving at her birthday party in London, England on Friday (July 1).

The former US ?X Factor? judge dazzled in a flirty white dress and heels and was all smiles as she made her way inside.

With a new, shorter, light-colored ?do, celebrity hair stylist, Andrew Barton, weighs in on the change, telling, "It?s something women do when they go through big upheavals in their lives, whether in their job or personal life ? and, let?s face it, Cheryl?s had both.?

He added, "She?s obviously making the most of this opportunity for change because she?s had a good chop as well.?

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Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Sexy For Vanity Fair (Photo)

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Gwyneth Paltrow showed off her trim figure in a topless photo for Vanity Fair magazine?s August issue, wearing Louis Vuitton jewelry.

Actress and singer Gwyneth Palrow, 38, looks gorgeous in August?s Vanity Fair magazine?s Louis Vuitton ad.

Paltrow is wearing fishnet tights and Louis Vuitton jewelry, but little else.

The actress, who regularly gets up at 4:30 a.m. each morning to exercise, is known for her healthy eating habits and workout with celebrity trainer, Tracy Anderson.

In a recent interview, Gwyneth revealed, ?I?m really not a morning person at all. It is just sheer determination. I?m very strict with myself. When I practice six days a week and eat clean food, I feel much better.?

Gwyneth, who is married to Coldplay?s frontman Chris Martin, has two children, daughter Apple, seven, and a five-year-old son, Moses.

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Kids' cable punches it up with film, game tie-ins

Kids' programmers are ramping up with tunes, toons and movie spinoffs. In their new and upcoming lineups, they're emphasizing ties to movies and games from their corporate siblings.

  • The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra is a spinoff from the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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    The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra is a spinoff from the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

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The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra is a spinoff from the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

"Programming is more competitive than it's ever been," says Margaret Loesch, a veteran of kids' TV who runs the new kid on the block, The Hub, a joint venture between Discovery Networks and Hasbro. "What I'm getting as feedback from kids and advertisers is consistent: They're looking for more choices."

Most of the kid-targeted cable networks are up this year in the ratings, with Disney XD, Disney Channel and Nick Jr. leading the increases. Leader Nickelodeon is down slightly, and third-place Cartoon Network, up 1%, is seeking a boost by "trying to refresh; they're trying to be more Adult Swimmish," says Amy Sotiridy, senior VP at ad firm Initiative, referring to that channel's successful (and far edgier) late-night block.

What's on tap:

Nickelodeon

On Friday Nick launches Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures (8 ET/PT), a buddy comedy about two surfer dudes. But the network is putting its biggest emphasis on animation, where SpongeBob SquarePants, which premiered in 1999, remains unrivaled. Some will be spinoffs, including The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. This fall, look for a new version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the self-explanatory newcomer Robot & Monsters. In live-action, Nick will take a page from Disney next year with How to Rock, a music-based series starring rapper Master P's daughter, Cymphonique Miller.

Disney Channel

Bidding farewell to a trio of hits, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place and Suite Life on Deck, Disney is eyeing recent addition Shake It Up (Sundays, 8 ET/PT), a dance-fueled buddy comedy, as the next franchise for tween girls. (It's the top-rated series among that crowd.) Animated hit Phineas and Ferb, which plans an Aug. 5 movie, will serve as a platform to expand more deeply into animation, including next summer's Gravity Falls, in which twins visit their great-uncle's weird town. New live-action A.N.T. Farm (Fridays, 8:30 ET/PT), about an 11-year-old musical prodigy, will be joined this fall by Jessie, an ambitious teen from rural Texas who moves to New York to become a nanny. On Disney XD, look for animated spinoffs Ultimate Spider-Man and Tron: Uprising in 2012.

Cartoon Network

After years of working at arm's length from corporate sibling Warner Bros., Cartoon is now embracing the studio and its DC Comics label. New programming block DC Nation will showcase projects such as Green Lantern: The Animated Series, coming next year. Ratings for a revamped Looney Tunes Show (Tuesdays, 8 ET/PT) have been solid. Cartoon is gearing up for Level Up, a 2012 live-action series (a movie is due this fall) about three gamer pals who enter a real video game; the return of ThunderCats July 29; a new version of Ben 10; and How to Train Your Dragon, based on the DreamWorks film. Goofy toon Adventure Time is its top-rated series, and overall, there's a "shift in emphasis," says chief content officer Rob Sorcher: "The stuff that's really worked is at its core a comedy."

The Hub

A new joint venture between Discovery Networks and Hasbro, The Hub this fall will give The Aquabats, a "super-hero" rock band, a new platform in The Aquabats Super Show, from the creators of Yo Gabba Gabba. Investor Warren Buffett is behind Secret Millionaire's Club, a series of animated specials that will teach "business principles." And a pint-size riff on American Idol is due in Majors & Minors, in which 16 singers are mentored by X Factor's Leona Lewis and Idol winner Jordin Sparks for the chance to win a record deal and concert tour. And while The Hub downplays its role as promotional vehicle for Hasbro products, the channel is mining the toymaker's vaults with shows pegged to Clue, The Game of Life, Scrabble, Transformers' Rescue Bots and trading-card game kaijudo.

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Lennon's Rep: John Was NO Reagan Supporter!!


One of the closest people in John Lennon's life is calling B.S. on Lennon's former assistant ... claiming John believed in the message of "Imagine" until the day he died ... and was NOT a Ronald Reagan fan.

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TMZ spoke with Elliot Mintz (pictured left) -- Lennon's former publicist and close friend for nearly ten years -- who told us Fred Seaman's claim that Lennon was "embarrassed" by the lyrics to "Imagine"... is pure nonsense.

Mintz explains, "From the time I met John in 1971, until the end, all of those things he expressed in 'Imagine' were part of his belief system until the last breath of his life."

"If you listen to the last recorded interviews that were done with John, you'll hear him express in his own words ... his own beliefs ... which are virtually identical to the beliefs he held in '71."

As for Seaman, Elliot jabbed, "Apparently his memory was refreshed at the same time his documentary's release date was imminent ... Fred Seaman has a distorted revisionist view of history."

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Another Media Acquisition: Australian Kidspot is sold to Newscorp for $45 milllion

Media companies are hot property again. News Corp has purchased female web entrepreneur Katie May's online parenting portal Kidspot for an estimated $45 million.

Kidspot is only six-year-old and it's value is in its strong community, including related websites as Birth.com.au, Kidspot.co.nz, The Spot, SheSpot, Research Studies, Mums Say and Baby and Kids Market.

According to Smartcompany, The KidSpot group is currently turning over about $7 million a year, with annual growth at nearly 70%, and counts more than 1.3 million unique visitors a month. Katie May is a real Female Internet Hero, a serial entrepreneur, who previously co-founded Seek.com.au.

Kidspot has grown over the last year and a half, by building partnerships with some of the better brands in Australia. According to the founder, It's a much tougher race now ? far more aggressive ? and to have muscle behind the website is a good thing, and it will allow the company to try new projects with corporate backing.

News Limited chief John Hartigan said in a statement Kidspot was attractive partly due to its 31,000 fans on Facebook, representing one of the largest, "most active" fan bases of any Australian media group.

"This deal makes us the leading player in the highly valuable online parenting market and, by combining Kidspot with the most dominant food vertical, Taste.com.au, and the most aspirational fashion vertical, Vogue.com.au, we now have an unrivalled presence in the online market for Australian women," Hartigan says. "By delivering exactly what advertisers want ? an engaged, loyal and targeted audience ? the Kidspot team have built a profitable, rapidly growing, digital business."

The deal is a testament to significant growth in the online community space, with media giants eager to appeal to the large number of mothers who have more time to research parenting information online.

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Atheist Billboard Removed From Church Land In Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A billboard supporting atheism has been taken down from property owned by an Ohio church after the pastor complained.

The ad put up in Columbus by the Freedom From Religion Foundation featured the beaming face of a local nonbeliever and the man's message: "I can be good without God."

The sign had upset Rev. Waymon Malone of Christ Cathedral Church. The church owns the land where the billboard went up. Malone was unavailable for comment, but his mother-in-law told The Columbus Dispatch on Tuesday that the pastor ordered the ad be removed.

Account executive Jay Schmidt with Matrix Media Services calls the billboard's placement "an unfortunate oversight." The ad agency says the sign came down days after it was installed last week and is back up at another site.

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'Papa' Hemingway still casts a long shadow

By Craig Wilson, USA TODAY

Ernest Hemingway has been called many things. Dull isn't one of them.

  • This photo of Ernest Hemingway was taken in Malaga, Spain, where he wrote The Dangerous Summer, a non-fiction account of the brutal 1959 bullfighting season and a rivalry between two bullfighters.

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    This photo of Ernest Hemingway was taken in Malaga, Spain, where he wrote The Dangerous Summer, a non-fiction account of the brutal 1959 bullfighting season and a rivalry between two bullfighters.

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This photo of Ernest Hemingway was taken in Malaga, Spain, where he wrote The Dangerous Summer, a non-fiction account of the brutal 1959 bullfighting season and a rivalry between two bullfighters.

The Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author died 50 years ago this weekend, killing himself at 61 (on July 2, 1961) with a gunshot, a violent end to what can only be described as a turbulent, hard-driving and over-the-top life. Four wives, seven novels, six short-story collections and enough booze to float his beloved boat, Pilar. Throw in a few bullfights for good measure.

Not that he's really dead.

This summer he's "co-starring" in a hit movie, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris; plays a major role in a best-selling novel, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain; and is the subject a number of other new books, including Hemingway's Boat, which follows the writer's life on his 38-foot motor yacht, out in September. There's even a laugh-out-loud parody, just published, called The Heming Way.

"I think Hemingway still captures people's imaginations for different reasons," says Corey Stoll, who plays the writer in Midnight in Paris. Three, to be exact.

"On the level of style, it seems like he's pretty much unequaled in his influence on 20th-century American writing," Stoll says. "In terms of speaking to our celebrity culture, he was a master of shaping and spreading the larger-than-life image he projected. And in terms of masculinity, I think some men are nostalgic for his apologetically macho stance. And some women, even ones smart enough to know better, find that attractive."

Ernest Hemingway published 15 books in his lifetime and six books posthumously. In Our Time marked his American debut. He had published two books before this in Paris: Three Stories and Ten Poems (Contact Publishing Co., 1923) and In Our Time (Three Mountains Press, 1924).

In Our Time (1925)
Torrents of Spring (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Men Without Women (1927)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
To Have and Have Not (1937)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
A Moveable Feast (1964)
Islands in the Stream (1970)
The Dangerous Summer (1985)
The Garden of Eden (1986)
True at First Light (1999)
Under Kilimanjaro (1999)

Stoll's Hemingway character is exaggerated in the movie, speaking in terse minimalistic staccato sentences. Hemingway style.

Hemingway became famous for his distinctive delivery, a style that influenced other writers of 20th-century fiction. His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926, became an instant classic. It was followed by A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea and, posthumously, A Moveable Feast, the tale of his life in 1920s Paris among what Gertrude Stein called "The Lost Generation."

McLain, whose The Paris Wife is based on Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and their life during that much-romanticized period in Paris, realizes Woody Allen's film is a comedy, but she says the real Hemingway is lost in the process.

"The simplest version of Hemingway is definitely the funniest," McLain concedes. "'Who wants to fight?' he barks (in the movie) to everyone and no one at one point. But the real man was infinitely complex, with 'more sides to him than any geometry book could ever chart,' as Hadley once said."

Was he misunderstood?

Hence the never-ending intrigue that still follows the man's man. Books about "Papa" abound, and scholars continue to analyze Hemingway's literary treatment of women, gays, blacks and Jews. And what was all that violence about?

Was he a first-class jerk? Or just misunderstood? Maybe a bit of both.

Paul Hendrickson, author of Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961, out this fall, thinks much of our view of who Hemingway was has more to do with us than with the man. Hemingway makes us uneasy.

"Namely, that his life, which is to say the way he lived it, or our perception of the way he lived it, has always had the capacity to stir up complex things, to make us uneasy, defensive, secretly troubled about our own far less glamorous and more sedentary selves," Hendrickson writes.

Hemingway remains misunderstood, Hendrickson says in an interview. "Under all that bravado was a very tortured writer, and that makes him far more compelling. Things were not necessarily as they seemed."

Hendrickson credits Hemingway scholars for enlightening him about the writer's treatment of women. Many of those scholars are women.

"He had a much more sensitive appreciation for women than we've ever given him credit for. If you burrow down into the prose, you find it," says Hendrickson, a former Washington Post reporter.

Sandra Spanier, a professor of English at Penn State University in State College, Pa., and in charge of the Hemingway Letters Project there, is one of those scholars. (The first volume of the Hemingway letters housed at Penn State will be published this fall by Cambridge University Press, covering his early years from 1907 to 1922. There will be 16 volumes in all.)

"Hemingway's public persona can get in the way of understanding his work," Spanier says. "But many of his women characters show grace under pressure, they seize the day, they teach us on how to survive in a violent world."

Does Hemingway resonate anymore? Depends whom you ask. Craig Warren, president of the College English Association, contends Hemingway isn't as widely included in introductory English courses today as he was a few decades ago, perhaps because of his treatment of women and Jews.

A writer to emulate, in style

Warren says, however, that Hemingway remains popular in writing classes.

"Creative-writing instructors still prize Hemingway's work for what it can teach students about the craft of fiction," says Warren, chairman of the English department at Penn State University-Erie. "Hemingway showed that sparse prose can convey a great depth of emotion and meaning beneath the surface of the page."

And he's still selling. In 2010, Hemingway's publisher, Scribner, sold well over 350,000 copies of his works in North America alone. In addition, no author in the publishing house's hardcover Scribner Classics line has more titles in print. Some 24.

"While we don't have an overall sales number to provide, what's more important to us is the consistent strength and vitality of his sales we see year after year," says Brian Belfiglio, director of publicity for Scribner.

Susan Wrynn, curator of the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, just returned from a Hemingway colloquium at Hemingway's Cuban retreat, Finca Vigia, and believes Hemingway is still relevant.

"And one of the reasons is that he continues to be taught in high schools," says Wrynn, countering Warren's argument.

"Students continue to have an interest in him, read him and then look further," she says, adding that the JFK library hosts dozens of high school classes who want to know more about Hemingway. She also says both John McCain and President Obama cited Hemingway as their favorite writer during the last presidential campaign. They even agreed on the book: For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Josh Silverstein, webmaster of TimelessHemingway.com, a site he founded in 1998, was seduced by Hemingway's style early on. But not immediately.

"I was a junior in college when I first heard the closing line of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises," he says on his website blog. "A charismatic literature professor holding a Diet Coke in one hand and a piece of literary Americana in the other stood in front of a class of 30 students and said, "Isn't it pretty to think so?? perhaps the greatest closing line in all of literature.' I remember being more taken by his seemingly sweeping statement than by the sentence itself."

What makes him great

He told the professor he thought an 8-year-old could have written it. The professor said that was precisely why it was so great. Silverstein soon asked the same professor to be his senior honors adviser. "And I began work on The Importance of Being Ernest: Hemingway's Truth in Fiction and His Fiction in Truth," he says.

All this Hemingway analysis aside, the writer has also turned into a cottage industry since his death. The Soviets named a minor planet after him. There are a number of Hemingway restaurants, plus a proliferation of bars called Harry's, homage to the bar in Across the River and Into the Trees. The most famous is in Venice, Italy.

There is also a line of Hemingway furniture, safari clothes, vests, hats and eyeglasses. There are even Hemingway fountain pens, from Mont Blanc. And, of course, cigars.

Appropriately, there is no Hemingway soap. The man who favored T-shirts and baggy shorts held up with rope was not known for good hygiene. "Ernest was extremely dirty, one of the most unfastidious men I've ever known," said his third wife, Martha, who took to calling him "the pig."

It's all just part of the Hemingway package.

Marty Beckerman, who wrote the parody The Heming Way, thinks today's politically correct crowd should relax and enjoy life. Just as his hero Hemingway did.

"Most of us can't fish, hunt, start a fire or build shelter. We know less than the average Cub Scout," says Beckerman. "Men are going to yoga studios and cupcake shops instead of butchering animals and drinking ourselves into comas. It's pathetic, and it's time for us to study the manly lessons that Hemingway taught."

One can see Hemingway raising a glass.

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