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Maybe 50 Cent should change his name to Cinquenta Centavos.

The rapper has scored a Latin Grammy nod for Best Urban Song for his work with Wisin y Yandel on "Mujeres in the Club."

Nominations for the 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were announced this morning at the Conga Room in Los Angeles by Andy Garcia and Jimmy Smits, among others.

Calle 13 leads with five nominations, while Ruben Blades, Caetano Veloso, José Feliciano and both Daddy Yankee and former New York Yankee  Bernie Williams were also among the notable nominees.

The ceremony is set for Nov. 5 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and will be broadcast live on Univision. Check out the complete list of nominees at LatinGrammy.com.

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The folks in the Big Picture gallery are lookin' muy caliente!

• Why hire a Candy Girl when you can have Rihanna? Kanye West gets his embattled pal to writhe around and drive angry in his new video for "Paranoid."

• A tiny camera attached to a writing utensil only results in images of Ben Affleck's hairy arms.

• Hayden Panettiere's tattoo has a typo. What is that, a tat-o?

• Apparently there's still such thing as the cover of a single even though CD singles seem to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Anyway, someone put a target on Britney Spears' face for "Radar."

• Be wary of text messages from Josh Lucas.

• Dear Tyrese: Thanks for forgetting to put license plates on your fancy new car. We needed a good laugh this morning. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Those ladies of the Gratuitous Gallery of the Gorgeous Gals of Summer sure do sizzle.

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Ol' Blue Eyes and young red hair are returning to the big screen—separately, that is.

Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct and produce a biopic of none other than Frank Siantra.

Sinatra, the first big-screen film on the entertainment legend, will touch on his love affairs and marriages (two of his four wives were Mia Farrow and Ava Gardner), his friendships with John F. Kennedy and the rest of the Rat Pack, his singing and acting career and, of course, his possible Mafia ties.

No actor is attached to the film, though Scorsese's go-to guy, Leonardo DiCaprio, is already being touted as a possible frontrunner. Universal has secured the rights to Sinatra's back catalog, so the lead won't need to sing, just lip-sync along with the classics.

Meanwhile, Lindsay Lohan has finally managed to land a gig, and 50 Cent, Forest Whitaker, Mark Ruffalo, Ray Liotta and Mila Kunis are also hopping on the casting couch.

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Forget da club. 50 Cent is in the clear.

Or is he?

The hip-hopster, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has announced on his community blog, ThisIs50.com, that he is no longer a suspect in the 2008 blaze that gutted his New York mansion and nearly killed his former girlfriend and their then-10-year-old son.

"The police department and insurance investigators ruled that there is absolutely no proof or evidence suggesting that Curtis Jackson or any affiliated parties were involved," the statement reads. "Curtis Jackson has just been cleared of all the accusations. The investigation will continue until the guilty party is found."

Not so fast, say the Long Island cops. A spokesman for the Suffolk County police says the case remains open and no one has been declared beyond suspicion.

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Rick Ross may have learned the trick to beating Hannah Montana: start a fight with 50 Cent.

The Miami rapper ruled the charts with Deeper Than Rap, but Ross didn't topple the Hannah Montana soundtrack alone. The self-proclaimed boss reached No. 1, selling 158,000 copies to Hannah's 104,000, per Nielsen SoundScan, with help from his red-hot feud with 50 Cent.

The origin of the feud is fuzzy—one day Ross claims Fiddy gave him a funny look at the BET Awards, the next day he says Fiddy dissed an associate—but Ross certainly fired the first musical salvo last January with "Mafia Music." 50 responded with "Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)" and "Tia Told Me" and charged that Ross was a former correctional officer that fabricated his coke-dealer past.

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•  According to Star, Reese Witherspoon arrived at a photo shoot wearing an engagement ring from boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, but took it off shortly after she got there. Funny how she hasn't worn said sparkler anywhere else.

•  Justin Timberlake may be doing tequila. He'd probably do Pee-wee Herman's dance pretty well, too.

•  This sounds a lot like a country song. Given that it involves LeAnn Rimes, we shouldn't be surprised.

•  One of Oprah's adopted puppies died last week. Sad.

•  How does 50 Cent bring heat to a big rivalry? With porn, of course!

•  Alanis Morissette is such a turn-off.

•  Bob Dylan is kind of a stinky neighbor.

•  If Mel Gibson ever sends you dessert, we recommend you refuse it.

•  Dear James Franco: Can we get a sip of your Diet Coke? You It looks delicious and refreshing. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant bring the Hollywood heat to NYC in the Big Picture gallery!

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He's baaaaaaack.

Eminem, with assists from high-powered pals 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, has landed at No. 1 on the charts—and in the record books—with his latest single, "Crack the Bottle."

The track was (legally) downloaded a record 418,000 times in its first week and easily bounced Kelly Clarkson's "My Life Would Suck Without You" from the top slot on Billboard's Hot 100.

It marks his second No. 1, after 2002's "Lose Yourself." For Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, it's trips three and four, respectively.

"Crack the Bottle" is the lead single from Em's forthcoming Relapse album, but it's also likely to appear on Fiddy's own Before I Self Destruct, out next month, and Dre's Detox, also expected shortly. ("Crack the Bottle," Relapse, Detox, Before I Self Destruct…we sense a pattern here.)

The "three-headed monster," as Fiddy calls the trio, previously collaborated on 2004's "Encore," the title track from Em's last studio album.

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As far as 50 Cent's baby mama is concerned, the rapper's money train has left the station.

A Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice today dismissed a $50 million lawsuit brought against the artist by former girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins, who was attempting to obtain half of 50 Cent's assets after claiming the rapper promised to take care of her for life.

Justice Carol Edmead dismissed all 15 claims brought by Tompkins, with whom he has an 11-year-old son, calling the case "an unfortunate tale of a love relationship gone sour."

"I'm very thankful for this decision," 50 Cent said. "I knew that once the facts were heard that justice would prevail. I hope now that we can put this behind us and move forward with our lives."

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Taco Bell is using fightin' words in its latest beef with 50 Cent, calling him out as "a self-described former drug dealer and hustler" and otherwise faux gangsta.

In July the rapper, otherwise known as Curtis Jackson, sued the fast food chain for $4 million for trademark infringement after the company wrote an open letter asking the star to find a little loose change and make his name 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent for one day in honor of Taco Bell's value menu. In return, the chalupa slingers would send $10,000 to Fiddy's favorite charity. 

Now the burrito bunch is filing a federal lawsuit of their own, calling the previous suit "another of Jackson's attempts to burnish his gangsta rapper persona by distorting beyond all recognition the bona fide, good faith offer that Taco Bell made."

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