rise 'n' shine (25 posts)

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All that's left for Blake Lively is the Filet-o-Fish at McDonald's.

The rail-thin actress shockingly went on a nearly two-week seafood bender, hitting 12 restaurants in 13 days in New York City, according to the New York Daily News, sometimes even hitting two fish houses in a matter of hours.

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This is just not funny.

Anchorman 2 is not going to Pleasure Town anytime soon.

Adam McKay, Will Ferrell's production partner who cowrote and directed the 2004 comedy, tweeted the terrible news yesterday.

"So bummed. Paramount basically passed on Anchorman 2," he said. "Even after we cut our budget down. We tried."

He even clarifies by explaining that Paramount owns the rights to Anchorman, so they can't take it to another studio.

The sad report has us in a glass case of emotion!

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At least we have the fun Tribeca Film Festival gallery to numb the pain.

We get that not all of you love Taylor Swift.

When a star ascends to her level of fame, there are bound to be lovers and haters. But really, when she does cute stuff like this, how can you diss?

Back in January, Auburn University students Michael Wekall and Ryan Leander began a quest to get a little lovin' from the country cutie and started the website A Hug From Taylor Swift to show their determination. They posted videos and such with pleas for a squeeze.

In March, Swifty caught wind of it and posted a video of her own, challenging the Alabama boys to do good deeds like help old ladies cross the street to earn the hugs. Wekall and Leander took to Facebook and Twitter and created a video of people all over the world providing such chivalry on their behalf.

She played hard to get and challenged them again...

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In some sort of fantasy land, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake would reunite, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey would be celebrating their eighth year of marriage right now and Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe would be living happily ever after.

Alas, that's not reality.

But the people who live in that fantasy land still give Phillippe a hard time and he's really sick of it, he whined to Howard Stern on Sirius XM radio yesterday.

"I've been dumped on in the press for relationship stuff since Reese and I divorced," he complained. "I'm tired of getting s--t on. I don't feel like I deserve it. Things happen!"

He finds it especially annoying given the current state of their relationship…

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Courtney Love and Jessica Simpson may seem like an unlikely duo, but then again, Courtney Love paired with just about anyone can seem unlikely.

The Hole singer took to her Twitter account over the weekend to gush about her new, "hawt as hell" gal-pal. "'SExual Napam' BONDED!" she declares.

Not surprisingly, Jess, who doesn't much care for being referred to as "sexual napalm," hasn't responded.

"Hopefully I won't say anything stupid but I have a serious ?," Courtney writes in a direct tweet. That's when things start to get Love-ly (read: weird)...

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Remember when Susan Boyle busted into "I Dreamed a Dream" on Britain's Got Talent and shocked the world?

That was so five minutes ago!

Meet Lin Yu Chin, a contestant on Taiwan's Super Star Avenue, the nation's equivalent to American Idol. What he lacks in visual appeal—assuming a harsh bowl haircut and red bowtie aren't your thing—he makes up for in soul.

Boy's rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" kills!

Needless to say, the rising YouTube star is still in the running for the $1 million prize.

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Remember when Susan Boyle competed in the Biathlon?

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You might not like the Hulk when he's angry, but Ricky Gervais is really funny.

The Invention of Lying star is hopping mad over being misquoted in a British GQ magazine article.

"We talked for some time. The journalist even taped it. What could go wrong?" the comic writes in his blog. "I'll tell you what can go wrong."

He quotes the article's opening line: "Ricky Gervais once said, 'I came to this business uneducated, 5'6", dyslexic, with a face like a squashed cabbage. And they welcomed me with open arms.' "

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David Cook inspired young ladies in the United States to pick up the phone and dial when he won the seventh season of American Idol. Now he's working on empowering the women of Ethiopia.

The crooner is currently in the African country on a mission on behalf of the United Nations Foundation. He's visiting their Biruh Tesfa (Bright Future) Project, which works to educate and inspire girls in the hopes of putting an end to poverty and women winding up in sex trades.

"This has been one of the most enlightening and fulfilling experiences I've been able to be a part of," he says in a conference call from the school. "You realize very quickly that it's not that hard to want to help...Maybe just looking at this problem a little differently would be a major inroad."

His visit, which will be featured on the Idol Gives Back special on April 21, included getting to know some of the girls at the school. He clearly was moved by a certain 7-year-old living whose parents had both passed away.

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Sleeping through a Masters program at Columbia University simply wasn't enough for James Franco.

Following up his undergrad degree from UCLA, the Milk actor is currently finishing up an MFA program at the New York City school, where he infamously dozed off in the middle of class. Now he's been accepted into the Ph.D. program at Yale, the Yale Herald reports.

That's right—he could be Dr. Franco to you.

But don't go signing up to audit classes in Connecticut just yet. The star's manager, Miles Levy, told the Yale Daily News that his client hasn't officially signed on the dotted line.

"[James] loves Yale and it is more than likely his first choice," he said.

Who isn't impressed with the hottie becoming the king of the postgraduate Ivy League? He brings new meaning to higher learning!

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Keep up with James' unpredictable antics, like guest starring on General Hospital, right here.

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Something tells us Kim Kardashian didn't expect her girls' night to turn into a serious moral debate with Demi Moore on Twitter.

The E! star began her Sunday night online festivities innocently enough, posting a picture of herself with Kelly Rowland, Serena Williams and LaLa Vazquez in Miami. "Big pimpin w @SerenaJWilliams, @LaLaVazquez @Kelly_Rowland Love u girls!" she shared.

That's when Demi took offense!

"Are you using the word 'pimpin' as in pimping?" @MrsKutcher asked. "No disrespect I love a girls' night out but a pimp and pimping is nothing more than a slave owner!"

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