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.
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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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