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Natalie Portman is a sole sister no more.

Proving that not even celebrities are immune to the country's economic crisis, the actress' vegan shoe line of less than a year, the Natalie Portman Collection for Té Casan, has closed up shop, making it even more of a limited-edition than expected.

The critter-free line of footwear, announced by the longtime vegetarian back in January, was launched in February of this year to the delight of animal-loving fashionistas but not so much to the credit-crunched masses—each pair retailed on average for $200.

However, Portman's line didn't fail on its own merits, instead was a casualty of the folding of its parent company, Té Casan, which closed up shop for good last month.

The company's website, too, has wasted no time in closing down. It's unclear whether Portman will seek to continue her vegan venture with another partnership.

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• We agree. The report that Miley Cyrus is pulling a Jenny Humphrey and divorcing her parents is completely ridiculous.

• Speaking of divorce, Britney Spears' first husband, Jason Alexander, had to watch that Good Morning America performance from behind bars.

• Hungry? The stuff Louis Vuitton is serving Madge looks delicious.

• Paris Hilton would like Disney to sprinkle a little fairy dust on her.

• That bounce in Robbie Williams' step comes from smokin' rubber.

• Dear Steve Guttenberg: Thank you for your positive spirit, but your name has no place among the likes of Johnny Depp, Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Love, Rise 'n' Shine

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Coldplay, the Jonas Brothers and Lil Wayne go together like, well, Grammy nominees, of course.

The acts all scored top nominations tonight for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.

Coldplay and Lil Wayne notched Album of the Year nods for Viva La Vida and Tha Carter III, respectively. Ne-Yo (Year of the Gentleman) and fun-music couple Alison Krauss and Robert Plant (Raising Sand) also were nominated. Radiohead rounded out the category with a nod for In Rainbows, thus potentially causing Grammy-scoring headaches for people who think Radiohead is Coldplay or vice versa.

Lil Wayne led all artists with eight nominations. Coldplay scored seven. And not that Kanye West pays attention to such things, but he did well to pick up six, as did Ne-Yo and Jay-Z.

The Jonas Brothers made their mark in the Best New Artist category.

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John Mayer has a reason to get a date (like he needs one). Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus have a shared reason to grouse. Jennifer Hudson has a reason to smile.

We've outlined the top Grammy nominations. Now we're going to sort through all the Grammy nominations—the noteworthy, the weird, and, yes, the snubs. Here goes:

• Mayer earned his annual ticket to the Grammy party with five nominations, including one for his non-euphemistic duet with Alicia Keys ("Lesson Learned," up for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals), and one for his artistic contribution to The Bucket List ("Say," up for best song written for a movie).
• Swift cohosted the "nominations concert," watched ex-Joe Jonas and his brothers score a Best New Artist nod—and got nothing. Not a single nomination. (Her just-released album Fearless wasn't eligible, but some of her earlier released songs were.)
  

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It will be a big night for hip-hop, with Lil Wayne leading the pack heading into the 51st Annual Grammy Awards with eight nominations, including Album of the Year for Tha Carter III. Coldplay is right up there with seven nods, while Jay-Z, Kanye West and Ne-Yo each scored six.

The Grammys will be handed out Feb. 8 in Los Angeles.

Here's the complete list of nominations:

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The Grammy season officially kicked off with a Christmas gift from Mariah Carey, who donned go-go boots to sing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," thereby also giving a little holiday cheer to Phil Spector, one of the writers of the tune.

Hosted by Taylor Swift and LL Cool J, the show featured a mix of performances from the Foo Fighters, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion and more, as well as awards and the kind of awkward banter usually reserved for actual award shows.

Did you watch? Read our recap, scan the list of nominations and check out our gallery of performers and nominees. Then sound off in the comments.

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Anne Heche may not have Men in Trees but she has babies coming out of the woodwork.

The 39-year-old actress, fresh from a rather nasty custody battle, is expecting her first child with boyfriend James Tupper, 43, according to Heche's rep, who told Us Weekly the couple "are thrilled."

Each was still married when they met in 2006 on the Vancouver set of ABC's Men in Trees, which lasted two seasons. They debuted as a couple shortly after Heche filed for divorce from her hubby of more than five years, Coley Laffoon, in February 2007.

Before finally settling their differences in June, the estranged exes traded barbs galore as they fought over custody of their now 6-year-old son, Homer, with Laffoon objecting to the boy spending too much time in Vancouver with mom and her new beau.

When asked last year whether she was open to having more children, Heche told Extra, "Gotta leave it open, ya know what I'm saying?"

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Romancing Pam hasn't been the only activity keeping Jim busy after hours.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, the writing-directing debut of The Office star John Krasinski, has been announced as one of the 64 films screening in competition next month at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

The dark comedy about a scorned anthropology student's quest to figure out why her latest boyfriend dumped her, based on a book by the late David Foster Wallace, stars Krasinski, Timothy Hutton and Julianne Nicholson.

Like the rest of next year's competition lineup, Brief Interviews will have its world premiere at Sundance.

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