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So apparently the Miss USA pageant was held last weekend on some basic cable channel that no one watched. Or at least, I didn’t watch, because I didn’t know Katie Stam from Indiana had been crowned Miss America until these bikini pictures of her showed up on the Internet. And yes, I’m pretty sure that [...]

Danity Kane's Dawn Richard told MTV News that the band is over, since Shannon Bex has not turned up for this season's taping. 'Making the Band' returns on February 12.

Front Page: Threat of strike still alive at Guild -- Despite the firing of Doug Allen and Tuesday's resumption of contract talks with the congloms, the Screen Actors Guild's threatened strike remains alive -- at least on SAG's website, which still sports a list of 6,000 members who support a strike authorization.

If you don't want your image of the perfect Disney stories shattered, stop reading now, but if you are curious, keep reading.Content Producer: Bob SmithePublished: Jan 28, 2009

Liz Smith: Actress honored by A-listers -- In Hollywood Harvey Weinstein and Salma Hayek honored their friend, the Oscar-nominated Penelope Cruz (for 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona') at an all-movie star party in Salma's white wood, jewel of a little house in Bel Air. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, who she once played in a film where she should have won the Oscar, hang Salma's walls with paintings. Her windows overlook L.A. The decor is stunning, contemporary and tastefully bright. The hostess received in a black cocktail dress wearing five-inch heels and carrying her baby, Valentina, in her arms. Some guests? Colin Farrell, Brett Ratner, Josh Groban, Prince, Scarlett Johansson, Ryan Reynolds, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Quincy Jones, Drew Barrymore, Penny Marshall, Bob Balaban, Adrien Brody, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones who say they're moving back East.

A day after Donny Osmond said he'd be on Dancing with the Stars 8, he now says he's not on the show after all--and he may not have even been asked.'I'm definitely not doing this upcoming season. If there was an offer on the table, I'd do it in the fall. I would make room for it. Absolutely!' he told Entertainment Tonight. That 'if' sounds like either a hypothetical, because he hasn't yet been asked, or coy statement, as if he's just covering his ass because he wasn't supposed to talk about being cast.Either way, he basically lied during his appearance on the Bonnie Hunt Show Tuesday. On that show, he said, 'I am seriously considering doing it, let's put it that way. I guess I just let the cat out of the bag.' But he also said, 'That's why I'm doing it' and said appearing on the ABC reality show 'is going to be very difficult because I am going to be doing Vegas on top of doing 'Dancing with the Stars.''Donny Osmond Won't be on Next season of 'DWTS' [Entertainment Tonight]>> share,

John Updike was so productive for so long that it's hard to believe even death will put an end to his torrent of novels, stories, poems, book reviews and essays. For anyone born in the 1950s or later, Updike was simply always there, dispensing even-handed judgments and adulterer's wisdom with a persona as loveable as Robert Frost's - the smiling public face of big-league american writing.Updike was American to such an extent that even his contradictions sometimes seemed scaled-down from the wider culture. A Christian (in spite of some anguished wrestling with Kierkegaard and other heavyweight thinkers in the 1960s), he made the joys of extramarital sex and material overabundance into signature themes. Determinedly non-metropolitan in outlook and residence, he was nonetheless a mainstay of both the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Above all, he used his effortlessly fluent, polished and mellifluous writing style to chronicle a world that had increasingly little use for

SEAN COMBS' pop band DANITY KANE is no more, according to DAWN RICHARD - one of the only two remaining members.The group, put together by Combs for his reality TV series ...

There's been a lot of buzz over recent pictures of country singer Jessica Simpson in newspapers and on the Internet showing a little weight gain.