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When Angelina Jolie — actress, humanitarian, one half of the most scrutinized couple since Sam and Diane — announced earlier this week that she had undergone a preventative double-mastectomy, a strange thing happened. The Internet, the great and terrible sea of bile, was nice. Of course the period of civility won't last long.
Actress Angelina Jolie has added a new cause to her long list of humanitarian efforts, but the latest is her most personal one of all.
Today in celebrity gossip: Jennifer Aniston delays her wedding because of Angelina, J.Law and N.Hoult might be back together, and Naomi Campbell doesn't have a Russian billionaire anymore.
Mind you, the stuff is already growing on the schmancy chateau they own in Correns, France, but this thing is going to be big
Today in celebrity gossip: Brand and Angie's kid is making big bucks, Justin and Jay-Z head out on the road together, and Kim & Kanye sorta party with Will Smith.
Today in celebrity gossip: The Brangelina nuptials are nigh, Justin Bieber is getting sued for noise, and The Hunger Games takes a turn for the worse.
Today in showbiz news: Two more of Angelina Jolie's kids are going into the family business, CBS and NBC make surprising choices about some new shows' futures, and Al Pacino is going to be a rock star.
Today in celebrity gossip: LiLo is in financial trouble again, Prince Harry might not be in as much trouble as we thought, and Matthew McConaughey sure is skinny.
Today in celebrity gossip: The Prince Harry scandal may not have run its course just yet, Snooki is home with her brand new baby, and Rachel Zoe is in trouble.
Today in celebrity gossip: Katie Holmes makes a career advancement, the Prince Harry fallout continues, and Kristen Stewart is seen publicly after her grand shaming.
Rumors are swirling that Brad and Angie might finally tie the knot at their French chateau this weekend. Elsewhere in celebrity gossip: Heir and blog mogul Jay Penske's wild night in Nantucket, Mischa Barton has a royal-ish friend, and Lindsay Lohan mellows out.
Today: Angelina makes her witchy debut, General Wesley Clark does the unthinkable, and AMC might have a dead body on its hands.
Today: A zombie movie is in trouble, Angelina Jolie might be into bondage, and a Stephen King classic gets another look.
Swift and Mayer almost face off, Jada Pinkett eats weird, and Karl Lagerfeld has a cat.
CNN wants Jake Tapper, another day, another masseur problem for John Travolta, and Angelina Jolie bought Brad Pitt a chopper.
Bret Easton Ellis hasn't forgotten witnessing a near-threesome with John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter in the 1980s, Jennifer Aniston would just as soon not talk about Brad Pitt, and Calvin Klein's boyfriend does not attract a media circus en route to rehab.
Pippa Middleton spent the night before her semiautomatic unpleasantness with dwarves, strippers, and fire-eaters, Julian Schnabel and Rula Jebreal call it quits again, and another Kennedy is born.
This is as official as it's probably going to get with these two: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, or Brangelina if you must, will be gettin' hitched, though their publicist says there's no hard date, just "a promise for the future."
Today in publishing and literature: A beautiful children's book by Saul Bass is finally back in print, why J.K. Rowling's new book might be a mystery, and Victor Cruz is the first member of the Giants to land a post-Super Bowl book deal.
A new trailer for a strange new movie, Jamie Lannister meets Tom Cruise, and Jennifer Aniston is in trouble in London.
Also: An update on Tracy Morgan's Sundance collapse, Eric Holder had to see Red Tails like a regular paying customer, and Angelina Jolie was very mean to George Clooney's new girlfriend.
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Salman Rushdie makes a hasty offer of marriage to the one that got away, Eddie Murphy is rumored to be starting in a Marion Berry biopic for HBO, and Fabrizio Moretti resurfaces to kiss more ladies.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
The Players: Angelina Jolie, Hollywood mega-star who making her upcoming directorial debut in the Bosnian war movie In the Land of Blood and Honey; James Braddock, a Croatian journalist accusing Jolie of stealing his story.
Today: Justin Bieber might still be a daddy?; the royals get flirty and foody; America has a new dance champion.
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