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MC Lyte's Diary Among Hip-Hop Relics
(AP) 
AP - MC Lyte's diary has been donated to the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a turntable, vinyl records and other memorabilia from her fellow hip-hop pioneers, for a collection that will trace the history of the Bronx-born music genre.
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Farewell to Fife, Furley: Don Knotts Dies
(E! Online)
E! Online - It took a strong actor to play jittery Barney Fife, jumpy Mr. Furley and wimpy Mr. Limpet. It took Don Knotts.
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"McCloud," "Gunsmoke" Star Rides Into Sunset
(E! Online)
E! Online - Given the breadth of Dennis Weaver's resume--Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger, McCloud--there wasn't a range, or a metropolis, that the actor didn't ride.
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The Handwritten Note Gains Currency
(AP)
AP - Melissa Walker follows a ritual when she opens her daily mail. She goes through all the bills and the boring printed stuff first. Then, if it's one of the lucky days, she takes a deep breath and savors the prize: a handwritten, hand-addressed note from her dear friend in Wisconsin.
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Howard Stern Claims CBS 'Bullying' Him
(AP)
AP - Shock jock Howard Stern claimed that his former employer CBS Corp. is "bullying" him and threatening to sue him for financial damages.
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Diddy likes prostitutes
Diddy is enjoying Carnival in Brazil, where he was spotted slipping into a Rio hot spot known for its low-priced call girls. “The name of the place is ‘Help’ and the girls there are supposed to be the cheapest prostitutes in the city,” says a source. “According to the local press he was annoyed when he saw the photographers and arranged to get in through the garage ...
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Jessica Simpson is deep
Jessica Simpson has composed another encouragement-crammed, proverb-packed message to her fans. "You guys, there are blessings all around us just waiting to be noticed," she writes from Santa Fe, N.M., where she's filming Employee of the Month . "Today, find the simple things we all take for granted ...
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The Simple Life 4 Begins Filming
The Simple Life 4 Begins Filming Socialites and ex-best-buds Paris Hilton , 25, and Nicole Richie , 24, didn't speak a word to each other while filming on "the set" of the fourth season of The Simple Life ...
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Avril's Acting Debut
Avril's Acting Debut Singer Avril Lavigne , 21, will soon be flexing her acting chops in three upcoming films -- Over The Hedge, The Flock and Fast Food Nation . Over the Hedge (Release Date :: May 19th, 2006) has Avril lending her voice talent as Heather the possum, daughter to Ozzie the Possum (voiced by William Shatner ) ...
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UK singer Doherty held in drugs and car theft probe
(Reuters)
Reuters - Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of stealing a car and possessing illegal class A drugs, a police source said on Tuesday.
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Brad and Angelina all set for a summer wedding
According to a Tiffany’s registry, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have a wedding in the works. Under the names Angelina J Voight and William B Pitt, the expectant couple are listed for the swanky store's wedding registry ...
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Jossip Juxtaposition: Jennifer Aniston has gone from DIY bikini waxing bitch to just plain bitch
• Maybe those noises coming from Jude Law and Jessica Simpson ’s room weren't the result of "hot and heavy” lovin’. It was probably just a hard core game of charades. [ The Sun ] • Only in the world of
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OK! magazine disappears from mailboxes
Writes in a concerned reader (that just made our day, and possibly our week): I heard that the American version of OK Magazine has been having lots of financial problems. Do you know if they have gone out of business? I didn't recieve this week's issue in the mail. Do you know how I can get in touch with OK? Fortunately, this reader is in luck ...
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The FTC battle to declare Clay Aiken gay
Even we were reluctant to believe the gay sex scandal surrounding Clay Aiken was going to affect his sophomore album, despite our own published report . Then came news that a small sect of Claynation is filing a complaint with the FTC over what can only be labeled a "misrepresentation" of the American Idol wonder ...
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The Economist braves the lowbrow act of browsing newsstand tabloids
The nerdy kids over at The Economist face their worst fears and hit a newsstand in search for tabloids. Their goal? To discover the dark underbelly behind the gloss of these quote-unquote "trashy magazines" of American Media Inc. (known to most as necessary gym gear and subway literature). According to these investigatory journalists, the tabloids are victims of their own sales secrets ...
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Josh Duhamel fights 'Mr. Fergie' rep with PR flackdom
If we were sleeping with Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas , we'd be making an effort to hide it too. Which explains the flack attack from Josh Duhamel 's camp when Fergie's team was readying a press release to announce her Mardi Gras appearance ...
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Simon says (er, slurs) "apologize"
Many of us think about getting wasted, grabbing our shot-guns, and going Cheney on a fair amount of people in the media industry. (We are also positive that we've been on the other end of that shooting fantasy at some point ...
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And they said newsprint was doomed
A newspaper with circulation on the rise? That's not the only surprise. The real kicker: The "staid" paper isn't the New York Daily News ...
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Media Blitz: Cooking Light brings more food to our nation's fattest city
• We thought the Vanity Fair Oscar party was the best party in world, but, apparently, there is a whole week's worth of parties that are not likened to a "Hollywood Prom." [ NYT ] • Pausing for thought on the life of Otis Chandler — in our version of Heaven, the Daily News is replaced by infinite copies of the Los Angeles Times . [ LAT ] • Cooking Light opens a restaurant ...
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New York for New Yorkers: The most disturbing magazine of the week
This week's issue of New York hit the web a little later than usual today (so, sorry for the late report). But, honestly, we are sort of relieved we didn't read this first thing in the morning or we would have had to double our Valium intake just to get through the morning, and would likely be drooling on the apartment floor at this point. Let's call it "the disturbing issue ...
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The metaphorical genius of NYC's free paper
The only thing that would make sense about this cover is if these were the computers the staffers at AM New York are working on ...
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And the ASNE for column writing goes to the guy who's columns you can't actually read
Congrats to Nicholas D. Kristof , New York Times columnist and recipient of the 2006 ASNE award for Commentary/Column Writing. Wow, Column Writing. What a category. Well, since he was the only guy to win anything from the New York Times (or any New York newspaper at that) we guess "column writing" is as good a category as any ...
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More of Cindy Adams' particular brand of crazy
Cindy Adams has some fightin' words for Anderson Cooper today. Not that we could find a hint of her name, (or Emeril Lagasse 's name) in any CNN web articles from the last few months, but apparently in the fifteen minutes we stopped watching Coopster in New Orleans yesterday, he attacked Crazy Cindy. Y'know, or she had an imaginary conversation with her television ...
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On That Note: Don't blame Beyonce — she has 30 assistants for a reason
• When Kate Moss is in the room, Strokes guitarists demote their fiancees to "someone." Well, it's not like Kate's going to pay attention unless he's got some serious skiing skills anyway. [ Page Six ] • Poor Farnsworth Bentley has been scarred for life by his umbrella-holding, Diddy ass-wiping past ...
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Cheney ruins Mardi Gras, the New Yorker, and pretty much everything he touches
We all know that our government is doing jack shit to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. But apparently, that's not enough for Dick Cheney . He had to go and smuggle his way onto a New Yorker cover that was supposed to pay homage to the first post-Katrina Mardi Gras, too ...
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Jiblets: Brad Pitt tells his new kid that Jennifer Aniston is a nobody
• Longtime Rolling Stone staffer and famed music critic Joel Levy gets promoted to executive editor at the mag. Hopefully he won't get drunk on power and hit on the interns. [ Media Week ] • David Beckham is a complete and total moron. Which doesn't matter because he's really hot, and uses his head to hit soccer balls, but still ...
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Tyler Perry "Madea" Few Million Bucks Last Weekend
Scott Weinberg writes : " Tyler Perry 's follow-up to " Diary of a Mad Black Woman ," " Madea's Family Reunion " had no trouble leaping to the top of the box office in its first weekend, handily satisfying its target demographic (and without any help from the film critics, tyvm). The flick snagged an estimated (and rather impressive) $30 ...
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"Prison" Star to Get "Primeval" with Giant Reptiles
Scott Weinberg writes : ""Prison Break's" Dominic Purcell has been tapped to star in a new monster movie called "Primeval." It's a giant-croc chiller from a first-time feature director and the scribes who gave you " Terminator 3 ...
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DiCaprio Gets Attached to "Kite"
Scott Weinberg writes : " The Hollywood Reporter brings news of another percolating project for actor/producer Leonardo DiCaprio . This one's a prison drama called "Kite" that aims to take you inside the harsh world of a maximum security prison in California ...
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