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If you've got some Benjamins riding on a David, be warned: Only one of them is Cooking. At least according to the bookies.

The online oddsmakers at BetCRIS.com have unveiled the favorite to take the American Idol crown...let's just say Papa Archuleta may have to be restrained.

Former bartender and Missouri's favorite rocking son David Cook is the odds-on pick to succeed Jordin Sparks on next week's finale, given a 74 percent chance of winning the whole shebang, per the online bookies.

Despite starting the season as the overwhelming favorite, tween dream David Archuleta has just a 32 percent possibility of becoming Simon Cowell's newest protégé, per the betting line.

Of course, last we checked, Gambling 101 was not a part of a grade schooler's course load, meaning the actual voting demographic might not jibe with the oddmakers' pick and it still could be anybody's contest.

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Lauren Lee Smith can see dead people.

At least beginning this fall.

Looking to fill the void left by the departures of Gary Dourdan and Jorja Fox, The L Word veteran is joining CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as a series regular, the network announced today.

The 27-year-old Smith will play Bryce Adams, described as a "smart, flirtatious and witty nonconformist" obsessed with the underbelly of society, who got into police work to rebel against her disapproving psychiatrist father. She joins Gil Grissom's crack squad working the night shift.

The Vancouver-born thesp had a recurring stint on Showtime's The L Word as sous chef Lara Perkins. Her film credits include last month's thriller Pathology, as well Art School Confidential and alongside Casey Affleck and Zach Braff in The Last Kiss. She teams up with Ashley Judd and Goran Visnjic in the drama Helen, due out in October, and will appear in next year's horror anthology Trick or Treat.

Fox and Dourdan both decided not to reup with CSI after failing to hash out new contracts. With Smith in place, producers still must fill the role of Ray Santoro, billed as a "handsome, smart and athletic" CSI who takes on the graveyard shift at the crime lab.

It's probably safe to assume this is not part of a new Disney ad campaign for the happiest place on earth. It's probably a lot closer to the strangest place on earth.

"Rehab" crooner Amy Winehouse and equally troubled pal Pete Doherty appear in this disturbing new collaboration. But it's no music video, despite a feeble attempt to improvise a little ditty. Instead, the trainwreck twins pick up a container of newborn mice and put on a creepy little show, giving each of them a "voice"—including one with a message for Amy's Blake Incarcerated.

Yeah, this is all gonna end well.

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It’s time to sing another chorus of “America the Beautiful (And Eva Ain’t Too Shabby Either”). Ugly Betty star America Ferrera continues to contradict her Ugly series moniker (shown above before an appearance on Letterman) while making herself nearly as glamtastic as Eva Longoria Parker (seen on the red carpet at the Golden Globes).

If you ask us, it’s time for these twin sisters of different mothers to star in crossover episodes­—or maybe even a new hybrid show: Ugly Housewives. Oh, the sweet irony.

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T.I. may want to start saving up for some therapy sessions right about now.

The hit-making hip-hopster and girlfriend Tameka "Tiny" Cottle (formerly of the R&B vocal group Xscape) welcomed their second son together at the stroke of midnight this morning.

"God has blessed us with another miracle," T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, told People. The rapper, who is facing prison time after pleading guilty in March to federal weapons charges, celebrates the birth just months before he drops another baby: his new album, Paper Trail, is due Aug. 12.

The baby is his second with Cottle and his fifth offspring overall.

Checking in at 5 pounds, 15 ounces, the newborn was christened Major Harris—not so unusual in the greater scheme of celebrity baby names, but a far cry from his royally named big brother, King Harris.

At least he won't have to worry about suffering from delusions of grandeur.

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When it comes to pumping iron, this Iron Man star definitely doesn't hide it—although she probably wishes she had.

Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Robert Downey Jr.'s gorgeous confidante, Pepper Potts, in the box-office smash, is spotty, er, spotted in London Thursday leaving the same gym where Madonna is also known to work up a sweat.

But at the risk of sounding like a shallow Hal, Gwyn, we do admit you've been looking absolutely amazing lately, and the proof is in the pudding.

Or in this case, the pores.

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Millions will vote for the latest American Idol. Only nine will spend the summer with him.

Tickets for this summer's annual American Idols Live! Tour are set to go on sale Saturday for the more than 50 stops on the North American trek.

The top 10 contestants will all be hitting the road July 1, with the two finalists, Davids Cook and Archuleta, leading the way.

Fellow also-rans Syesha Mercado, Brooke White, Carly Smithson, Chikezie Eze, Jason Castro, Kristy Lee Cook, Michael Johns and Ramiele Malubay will make up the numbers for the stage extravaganza, which fans will no doubt get a taste of next Wednesday. Producers historically put their show ponies to work in several cheesily staged group numbers, aka filler, on the two-hour finale show.

Full itinerary after the jump.

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Ian Ziering's got a new ZIP code on MySpace.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum is teaming up with the social networking giant to develop original webisodes based on his short film Man vs. Monday, which he directed, produced and starred in two years ago.

The new series, in the vein of Mike Judge's 1999 cult classic, Office Space, finds Ziering's cubicle drone facing a seriously bad case of the Mondays after a wild weekend.

"In the entertainment industry there remains one constant: change," Ziering, 44, said in press-releasespeak. "I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity."

Ziering, who hoofed it up on last season's Dancing With the Stars, will next appear on the big screen opposite Heather Graham and Jerry O'Connell in the comedy Baby on Board.