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Oscar-winning actress and longtime activist Elizabeth Taylor passed away last Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 79.
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It's no secret that celebrities' bodies are under constant scrutiny. If tabloid covers aren't gasping over a star's weight gain, they're blasting a thin figure for being too skinny.This week, Us Magazine posted a picture of a frighteningly skinny LeAnn Rimes out for a shopping date with fianc
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I'll come right out and be honest: I love celebrity gossip. I know, brand new information, right?
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In a week full of pop music craziness-Christina's arrest, Britney's marketing binge, GaGa in general-and big-name award shows, one celebrity is topping every gossip blog headline: good ol' Charlie Sheen.Charlie's been in the news a lot lately, thanks to his well-known partying habits and addiction struggles, but this week took the cake.
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Sometimes celebrities in political offices do good things while they are there. Sometimes they have very successful terms and set great examples for future political hopefuls.
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I've never been a fan of people who let their televisions do their parenting for them. I'm even less of a fan of people who let their televisions do their parenting and then blame television for their children's inappropriate actions.This week, the Parents' Television Council, an organization devoted to "promoting and restoring responsibility and decency to the entertainment industry" (from their website-I can't make this stuff up), petitioned the attorney general's office to open an investigation into whether local cable and satellite providers have violated state and local laws by airing MTV's Skins, a show based off the British series of the same name.Skins is a show about a group of teenagers who, like most TV kids, lead incredibly interesting lives full of sex, drugs, alcohol and-well, frankly, more sex.
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Well, kids, I hate to disappoint, but this was a pretty dull week in celebrity news. Half of this week's tabloid cover stories were about either The Bachelor or Teen Mom.
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This week in pop culture, one celebrity surprised gossip readers with baby news, and gossip readers surprised a celebrity with baby news!
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Kids, I have to be honest with you. A whole bunch of stuff happened over winter break. So much, in fact, that there really isn't room to squeeze it all into one itty bitty column.
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Celebrity gossip magazines are hardly known to be particularly reputable sources of facts. More often than not, those big, juicy headlines are the product of semi decent Photoshop and great imaginations.This week, though, Star Magazine published an outrageous article claiming that Britney Spears had called her ex-husband, Jason Alexander, and accused her current boyfriend and agent, Jason Trawick, of beating her.
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