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What has more potential explosions than a Tom Cruise movie? A Tom Cruise office building, it turns out.

For the second time this week, Los Angeles' MGM Tower, a professional complex housing the production companies of both Cruise and Salma Hayek, has been hit with a security threat, this time over an anthrax scare.

Sources confirmed exclusively to E! News that a building-wide memo has gone out informing all tenants of an anonymous threat phoned in to the building's main switchboard stating the deadly virus would be placed into the building's ventilation system, starting on the 20th floor.

The Cruise-run studio United Artists is housed on the tower's 11th floor; Hayek's Ventanarosa production company is located on the second.

It was not immediately clear whether either star was at the office building today.

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Shane Kilcher, Jewel's brother, says he "kind of knew" his sis and Ty Murray (see photo) were engaged, but he didn’t know they got married, since he’s been traveling a lot.

“Cool, congratulations to them,” Kilcher told E! News when we broke his sister's elopement news to him.

Jewel may have tried to give Shane the heads-up, but he thinks he missed her call:

"Odd, I got a call from an international number. It might have been them."

Hey, we've got superpowers! Faster than a speeding phonecall, it's E!

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Wouldn't it be grand to hang out with George Clooney in Europe? Well, now you can—but it'll cost you a grand (plus airfare).

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Some wars just never end. No, not Iraq. We're talking about Star Wars. As long as there's a geek in an Imperial Storm Trooper costume, George Lucas will keep making more. After six movies (and an animated one in theaters this month), Lucas is bringing the galaxy far, far away to a television in your living room.

Down the road, Lucas is developing a live-action TV Star Wars series. First, however, there's the animated show, The Clone Wars, starting later this year on Cartoon Network. Honestly, do you need a Star Wars fix so bad you're going to watch a cartoon every week? George says yes.

"This is bigger, and we get to go more places," Lucas says from his ranch in Northern California. "We're allowed to go and do stories about clones. We get to know them and find out what they do for recreation and what Jabba the Hut's family is all about, do all kinds of things that don't have anything to do with the main character."

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Nikki Blonsky's dad is in for a rather long layover...in police custody.

A judge in Providenciales Magistrates' Court in Turks and Caicos denied Carl Blonsky bail during a hearing this morning, ordering the actress' father to remain behind bars until his Aug. 19 trial.

The elder Blonsky was arrested on charges of assault and inflicting grievous bodily harm back on July 29 for his role in a bizarre airport brawl that involved his Hairspray-starring daughter, onetime America's Next Top Model contestant Bianca Golden and Golden's mother, Elaine, who wound up being airlifted to a Florida hospital as a result of the altercation.

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Taylor Swift just secured her high school diploma. Come this fall, expect her to be matriculating to the top of the charts.

The 18-year-old country wunderkind, whose eponymous debut is the Energizer Bunny of the Billboard 200, announced today that her follow-up album, Fearless, will drop Nov. 11.

Swift wrote or cowrote all of Fearless' 13 tracks, including the Colbie Caillat collaboration "Breathe," the coming-of-age scorcher "Fifteen" (first heard at the Country Music Hall of Fame last fall) and "Change," which will be in heavy rotation the next couple weeks—Team USA and NBC selected it for use in the daily Summer Olympics highlight reels.

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Reality TV dingbat and self-proclaimed nonvoter Brooke Hogan is sort of like the Matthew McConaughey of Miami beaches.

Granted, the things that come out of her mouth aren't quite as entertaining as Matty's maxims. (Remember how he described birth as getting "tribal on it"? Classic.)

However, we're just as likely to find Brooke showing off the girls in Miami as we are to run into a topless Matthew surfing in Malibu.

So who else have we run into without many clothes on? Check 'em out in our Summer Skin gallery.

Awww...You can't help but feel all fluffy watching Joshua Allen process his big win on So You Think You Can Dance, just moments after it happened. There isn't an insincere bone in this kid's body, apparently. Check it out for yourself in the video above, which also has a cute little sparring match between Josh and Katee over his true romantic intentions for her. (OK, so I totally instigated it. But I couldn't help myself! They are too sweet together...And though our editor didn't include the footage, he did say, "It could happen!" about a possible romance and talked about how hot Katee was looking...so I'm just sayin'.)

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