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It was bound to happen sooner rather than later. Miley Cyrus simply wasn't going to be on Hannah Montana forever.

Of course, most people thought the wig would have come off by now.

Alas, Disney Channel has released a statement officially admitting that the network's biggest attraction will be coming to an end following the conclusion of the upcoming fourth season.

And, as far as we can tell, pole dancing, short skirts and boob tattoos had nothing to do with it.

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We tend to focus on the young and beautiful when it comes to gossip, but this week it was all about the older and beautiful making news.

Sharon Stone starts things off with a total backhanded compliment to Meryl Streep.

"I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to," she tells Tatler magazine. "I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills—that looks like me in real life.' Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true."

Oh yes, Sharon Stone, the only reason Meryl Streep gets more jobs than you is not because of her talent but because of her looks. And they're plain looks, at that! Good thinking!

Next up: Cher!

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Faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, the stage musical Mary Poppins is quickly becoming a big hit with celebs.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes took daughter Suri to see the Disney show at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A. on Wednesday, making it the second time their little one has spent time with everybody's favorite nanny. She previously saw the Broadway production with mommy last summer.

And of course, when your folks are TomKat, it's a lot easier to get backstage access—the famous family met up with Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, who play Mary Poppins and Bert. 

Other stars who've caught either the L.A. or Broadway versions recently include David Beckham, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as well as Amy Adams, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett. 

Looks like there really is something about Mary. At least this particular one.

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Check out other celebrities spending quality time with their kids in our Famous Families gallery.

Here's hoping Artie Lange does as great a job in his role as recovering patient as he did playing sidekick to Howard Stern.

The King of All Media's court jester has been released from Jersey City Medical Center after undergoing surgery in the wake of a suicide attempt, the details of which have finally been confirmed by police.

"Mr. Lange was found by his mother at 9:36 a.m. on Saturday," Hoboken Police Det. Lt. Mark Dompetello told E! News. "She called 911 when she found him in a pool of blood. He was semiconscious [and] then became unconscious.

"Our medics came. Apparently he had nine self-inflicted knife wounds, and it was ruled to be an apparent attempted suicide. There's no active criminal investigation."

Lange's family has yet to remark on the funnyman's condition, standing by their comment earlier this week that the traumatic incident was "a family matter."

But Lange's other family hasn't kept as quiet on their feelings—mostly anger—on the situation.

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We can't help but be a little inspired by Elin Nordegren.

She may not have filed for divorce or pulled a Brooke Mueller just yet, but here she is, once more, going about her day with her two kids as if nothing ever happened.

Even though Tiger Woods' wife is wearing a hat and shades and is surrounded by security guards, she's certainly not playing the victim and holing up at her Florida home.

Speaking of holing up, seriously, where is Tiger?! He's been in hiding ever since the Thanksgiving incident that launched a gazillion mistresses, and we haven't heard a peep from him since he declared his "indefinite break" from golf.

While we know he's supposedly been spotted in New York City and we've seen his boat, Privacy, leaving the dock, we have yet to see photographic proof.

Until then, we'll just have to applaud Elin's tenacity and fabulous taste in sweaters.

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Those alleged mistresses have been keeping pretty quiet these days as well. Here's your refresher course. Can you still name them all?

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Looks like James Cameron is the King of Middle Earth, too.

With $1.14 billion worldwide and counting, Avatar has now overtaken the $1.1 billion raked in by 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to become the second-highest-grossing film in history.

In fact, Avatar is going so strong that what once seemed an out-of-this-world impossibility now seems within the realm of (virtual) reality. If the 20th Century Fox movie, which screens in both 2-D and 3-D formats, keeps up its current pace, it could catch the $1.8 billion in global ticket sales tallied by the Oscar-winning filmmaker's own Titanic.

It that wasn't enough (and it never is in Tinseltown), Fox's FX cable network has reportedly paid upward of $25 million for the TV rights to Avatar, which will premiere in 2012.

And that makes Cameron's blue folk even more green.

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Get all the scoop on Avatar's shot at Oscar's top prize here.

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Roman Polanski's latest movie might be released before he is.

The Oscar-winning director remains under house arrest in Gstaad, Switzerland, awaiting possible extradition to the U.S. for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor in 1977. And while he waits for a decision, his latest film, The Ghost Writer, will be hitting theaters on Feb. 19.

The political thriller stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Wilkinson and Kim Cattrall.

Considerably less thrilling is Polanski's wait. While we're at the movies, the 76-year-old is writing thank-you notes to well-wishers as he passes the time until his Jan. 22 hearing, which may determine whether or not he'll be sentenced long-distance or if he'll be extradited back to the United States.

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Did someone say Ewan McGregor?! He's handsome. We wish we had the opportunity to write about him more often. Well, there's always this.

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Lady Gaga is getting ready to shake it like a Polaroid picture creative director.

That's right, the woman who brought us "Paparazzi" has signed on to play muse to the instant-camera folks, assuming the role of "creative director and inventor of specialty products," as well as, for all intents and purposes, the face (and hat) of the company.

She always did strike us as an instant-gratification kind of girl...

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