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Cate Blanchett Delivers Third Son

  • Actress Cate Blanchett had her third son, Ignatius Martin, with husband Andrew Upton. Ignatius was born in Sydney. [People]
  • Britney Spears rear-ended someone on the freeway and proceeded to dinner. The singer's ex, Adnan Ghalib, got stabbed and returned home from the hospital.
  • Sting paid $27 million for his second apartment on Central Park West. The singer's new place is on the 16th floor of 15 CPW. [P6]
  • Pete Doherty gets his own cell and a special mattress in jail after missing repeated drug tests. The other prisoners are pissed because they have to earn those privileges, but the junkie singer gets them for being famous. [Sun]
  • According to Alicia Keys, the U.S. government invented gangsta rap to get black people to kill each other [Sun]

5:14 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Ryan Tate
678 views, 33 comments

Latest by annasballs: I think a first edition of Confederacy of Dunces would be a nice baby present, don't you? Although--let's hope none of the kid's schoolchums will have read it. more »

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Dove Abandons Real Women For Alicia Keys

Remember that whole "Campaign For Real Beauty" by Dove that was all about showing that real, non-model women can be pretty too? Well, they're moving on from all that. They have a new, more fitting face now: beautiful, famous, shapely singer Alicia Keys. Screw you, real women! Dove is sponsoring a new "micro-series" called "Fresh Takes" starring Keys. It will air, appropriately, during The Hills on MTV. They've also used research to uncover this critical fact: "96 percent of women in their twenties say their inner voice speaks to them on a typical day." Psychosis? From the looks of the preview, this show will be stilted and terrible; the trailer, after the jump. More »

4:05 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,022 views, 31 comments

Latest by roodles: @VirusWithShoes: (ahem) so what does your girlfriend have to say about that? ::flutters eyelids and drops hanky:: more »