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HOWARD K STERN HEARING

Oct 29, 2009 9:37 AM CDT

2nd Doc Hooked Up With Anna

Sandeep Kapoor wrote in diary about tryst with Anna Nicole Smith

(Newser) - Just in case anyone thought the Anna Nicole Smith hearing couldn't get any kinkier: It can, and it did. An investigator testified yesterday that Smith physician Sandeep Kapoor—who is facing charges along with psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich and lawyer Howard K. Stern—had a less-than-professional relationship with Smith, "making...

Teen
Angelina
Slept With
Mom's Beau

Oct 28, 2009 3:26 PM CDT

Teen Angelina Slept With Mom's Beau

Star stole mom's lover at age 16, says new book

(Newser) - Angelina just can’t catch a break: unauthorized biographer extraordinaire Andrew Morton is pushing a new book and dangling the revelation that she slept with her mother’s live-in boyfriend when she was just 16. Angelina apparently confessed the affair to her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, much to the detriment of...

Meet
Hollywood's
New 'It Girl'

Oct 28, 2009 1:09 PM CDT

Meet Hollywood's New 'It Girl'

Carey Mulligan's role in An Education reminiscent of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

(Newser) - Thanks to her lauded role in An Education, Carey Mulligan is Hollywood's latest "It Girl," poised to join the ranks of Julia Roberts and Audrey Hepburn. "She has fragility, she has humor, she can be very moving, she's bright, and she's great to look at," says...

Highest Earning Dead Celebs

Oct 28, 2009 12:19 PM CDT

Highest Earning Dead Celebs

Michael Jackson, predictably, made the list—but not at No. 1

(Newser) - The stars on Forbes ' annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities number, appropriately, 13. To make the list, a "deleb" must have brought in at least $6 million in the past year. This year's list is notably missing former mainstays Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Steve McQueen, and...

Jay-Z Cleans Up
'Empire' for
World Series

Oct 28, 2009 12:05 PM CDT

Jay-Z Cleans Up 'Empire' for World Series

Rapper will keep his language PG while performing for Yanks

(Newser) - The lyrics to Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" are sometimes as raw as New York, but it looks like the rapper will clean things up when he performs his city anthem at the World Series. A source close to the rapper says Jay-Z won't utter curses or other raunchy...

Tell-All Unravels
Brangelina Fairytale

HINT: SHE'S CRRRRRAZY

Oct 28, 2009 10:14 AM CDT

Tell-All Unravels Brangelina Fairytale

Brangelina Exposed promises to reveal the reality of Pitt-Jolie pairing

(Newser) - Ian Halperin is at it again. The investigative journalist who has released sordid books about Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, and Celine Dion, among others, is adding Hollywood's power couple to the list. Brangelina Exposed, out Dec. 1, will reveal the reality behind the "glamorous fairytale" the public has been...

Miley Cyrus:
2009's Worst
Celebrity
Influence

WORSE THAN BRITNEY

Oct 28, 2009 9:58 AM CDT

Miley Cyrus: 2009's Worst Celebrity Influence

Hannah Montana star gets nearly half of votes—from fellow kids

(Newser) - Even her fellow teens and tweens are sick of Miley Cyrus' slanty-eyed pictures and pole dancing hijinks. The Disney starlet was voted Worst Celeb Influence of 2009, winning out over drunk-driving Shia LaBeouf, racy-photo-posing Vanessa Hudgens, Taylor-Swift-interrupting Kanye West, and the self-explanatory Britney Spears. Cyrus got an impressive 42% of...

Pop: Lilo Could Be Dead in Year

DOTING DADDIES

Oct 28, 2009 9:22 AM CDT

Pop: Lilo Could Be Dead in Year

Lindsay Lohan probably wishes, as does the world, dad would stop talking

(Newser) - Michael Lohan just refuses to budge from the D-list spotlight. His latest bout of look-at-me-I'm-Lindsay's-dad verbal diarrhea, courtesy of the Daily Mail : Lindsay could be "dead in a year," he tells Grazia. "I fear the worst. Look at Elvis, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger—who was a...

Swayze Widow:
I'll See Him Again

CaLIF. WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

Oct 28, 2009 8:00 AM CDT

Swayze Widow: I'll See Him Again

Lisa Niemi, Elizabeth Smart, Maria Shriver take part in Women's Conference

(Newser) - Just six weeks after losing her husband, Lisa Niemi spoke publicly for the first time about Patrick Swayze's death at yesterday's Women's Conference in California. "I am so grateful for what I had and my connection to him, and part of me believes that I will see him again,...

This Is It Proves
King of Pop
Still Rocked

REVIEW ROUNDUP

Oct 28, 2009 7:38 AM CDT

This Is It Proves King of Pop Still Rocked

Michael Jackson was in surprisingly good shape in dazzling footage

(Newser) - Michael Jackson didn't live long enough to take the final bow he had planned in London, but critics agree This Is It is a fitting swan song, proof that the King of Pop really did have a comeback in him:

"This Is It is quite extraordinary. If there was

...

Blackmailer Read
Letterman All Wrong

BEHIND THE SCENES

Oct 27, 2009 4:44 PM CDT

Blackmailer Read Letterman All Wrong

He's notoriously private, but don't cross him

(Newser) - When Robert Halderman asked David Letterman for $2 million, he probably assumed the notoriously private Letterman would pay him off to avoid public embarrassment. But "all Dave cares about is his career," a source tells New York in a lengthy look at the host and the scandal. "...

At Last, Rockers
Shut Up and Sing

VIRGINIA M. MONCRIEFF

Oct 27, 2009 12:30 PM CDT

At Last, Rockers Shut Up and Sing

Really, it's about time rockers made concerts all about the music

(Newser) - Bono—he of the eons-long concert diatribes about everything from Burma to the whales—has done the unthinkable. "Bono has started editing himself," Virginia M. Moncrieff realized during U2's Rose Bowl concert. And it's about time: Though Moncrieff admires their causes, she has reached the age where the...

Kathy Griffin: I'm
Having Levi's Baby

JUST LIKE BRISTOL

Oct 27, 2009 11:50 AM CDT

Kathy Griffin: I'm Having Levi's Baby

Comedian's Tonight Show appearance full of fun Johnston anecdotes

(Newser) - Kathy Griffin was on the Tonight Show yesterday to promote her new book Official Book Club Selection—or, rather, to discuss her "Brangelina situation" with Levi Johnston, as she described it to Conan O'Brien. "I am in a serious, committed relationship with Levi Johnston, and I resent that...

Ex-Staffer:
Letterman
Environment
'Demeaning'

NELL SCOVELL

Oct 27, 2009 9:50 AM CDT

Ex-Staffer: Letterman Environment 'Demeaning'

But not just because of sexual politics: It's time to hire female writers

(Newser) - Nell Scovell walked away from her dream job on Late Night with David Letterman thanks to the "hostile work environment" created by high-level male staffers having sex with their female employees. She writes about her experience in Vanity Fair—not to name names, but to point out the underlying...

Rosie: I Almost Dated Angelina

MENTAL WEDGIE

Oct 27, 2009 8:56 AM CDT

Rosie: I Almost Dated Angelina

O'Donnell also talks Kelli Carpenter, and whether Oprah Winfrey is gay

(Newser) - Rosie O'Donnell finally discussed her relationship problems on yesterday's The Howard Stern Show, but let's just skip right to the best part of the interview: Rosie's almost-date with Angelina Jolie. "She gave me her phone number," O'Donnell says. "There was a tentative plan to have dinner that...

Jacko's
This Is It
Is...What?

A SORT-of Sneak Peek

Oct 26, 2009 12:35 PM CDT

Jacko's This Is It Is...What?

It's not a concert film—but King of Pop 'very much alive' for 111 minutes

(Newser) - This Is It opens this week, but most, if not all, fans still have no idea what to expect of the Michael Jackson film, which has not been aired for critics. It’s not a concert film, says director Kenny Ortega, who also choreographed Jackson’s ill-fated London shows, but...

Bob Dylan's
Xmas Album
'Sort of Insane'

MUSIC REVIEW

Oct 26, 2009 11:13 AM CDT

Bob Dylan's Xmas Album 'Sort of Insane'

Even so, the 'beloved iconoclast' puts together an interesting collection

(Newser) - With the announcement of Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart, “smirkers got smirkier”—you try picturing Dylan singing the lyric, “How’d ya like to hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?” without smirking—but in the end, the collection is interesting, if a...

Miley's Little
Sister Dons
'Dominatrix'
Costume

Oct 26, 2009 10:30 AM CDT

Miley's Little Sister Dons 'Dominatrix' Costume

Noah Cyrus, at 9 years old, is already dressing like a dominatrix

(Newser) - Noah Cyrus is already taking after her pole-dancing, racy-picture-posing older sister, Miley. The 9-year-old star of her own YouTube reality show was photographed over the weekend in an ill-advised Halloween costume that Australia’s News Network compares to a dominatrix outfit (helpfully offering two examples it found of similar adult...

Jude Law's
Lovechild
Debuts
in Hello!

CELEBU-SPAWN

Oct 26, 2009 10:03 AM CDT

Jude Law's Lovechild Debuts in Hello!

Samantha Burke introduces daughter Sophia Lee to everyone except Jude

(Newser) - Jude Law has yet to meet his newest child, but the rest of the world was introduced to her thanks to today’s Hello! cover story. Babymomma Samantha Burke shows off five-week-old Sophia Lee—proved by DNA tests to be the result of what the mag generously terms her "...

Winehouse Back to Blake

SAYS FACEBOOK

Oct 26, 2009 9:00 AM CDT