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May 21, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Kanye West has had an active couple of weeks, no matter how you slice it. His head, that is, which he dinged (dung?) when he walked into a stop sign during an evening perambulation with his pregnant amourette, Kim Kardashian . A paparazzo snapped a snap of the man-sign interaction, and Kanye ended up ranting in the street. Meantime, his Lamborghini got scraped up, awww, when Kim's gate closed a little too quickly on it as a repair guy delivered it after servicing. Meantime , Kanye has dropped his new album, Yeezus , with dark, twisted new tunes.
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May 11, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Prince Harry on Friday injected his latest American visit with gravitas and style. The royal, who last year was caught on camera frolicking with babes in Vegas, met with wounded veterans at the U.S. military's Walter Reed medical center in Washington. Dressed in uniform, the British Army captain, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, also visited Arlington National Cemetery, wreath in hand. "To my comrades-in-arms of the United States of America, who have paid the ultimate price in the cause of freedom.
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May 3, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
Falling star Lindsay Lohan is telling friends her rehab assignment in New York may be a no-go if the Seafield Center, where she's bound, won't let her smoke, reports celeb website TMZ. Sources say LiLo doesn't think she can go 90 days cig-free, so her lawyers are asking the Long Island rehab to lighten up. That hasn't worked so far, Sources tell TMZ, so the lawyers are now trying to get her back into Morningside Recovery in Newport Beach, Calif.,...
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May 1, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Sex, love, art, subatomic particles (well, not so much them) - Miley Cyrus talks about it to Elle UK. She has strong feelings about nudity. "A star is someone who doesn't have to take her clothes off to be sexy because you naturally have star power," Miley, 20, says. "I don't want to be a glorified model. They just talk on stage and it's all about their clothes - or lack of clothes. " Ouch! Miley dismisses reports that her four-year romance (she was, like, 16 when it began)
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April 24, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Khloe Kardashian has been kashiered, kanned, kicked to the kurb. The producers of Fox's The X Factor announced Monday that they had pink-slipped Khloe as kohost, confirming a rumor that had been noised about for the last two months. "We really enjoyed working with her and wish her all the best in her future endeavors," the official statement bleated politely. No warning about watching out for the screen door. Khloe's cohost Mario Lopez survived to host another day and will be back to welcome viewers to the show's third season in the fall.
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April 21, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Philly guy Bradley Cooper visited Boston Marathon bomb victim Jeff Bauman , recovering from amputation surgery, Thursday. Bauman's family has Philly and South Jersey roots. Celeb split-ups galore! Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne , now noisily separate in various posh L.A. sites, deny - Deny! - that they will reconcile. At last! On Friday, Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries signed a divorce agreement. K-Hump wanted an annulment cuz K-Kard married him for P.R. purposes only ( perish the thought!
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April 13, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Before the first one even went on sale, the Rolling Stones have added a second Philadelphia show to their 50 & Counting tour, which will now play the Wells Fargo Center June 18 and June 21. Tickets go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. via ComcastTix.com. - Dan DeLuca Kardashian konflict Kris Humphries is after blood in a big way. Kardashian blood. Any doubts that the NBA player wants to drag his wife of 72 days, Kim Kardashian , through a public divorce trial were put to bed Friday when he failed to show up for a mandatory pretrial court date set by the judge as a last-ditch effort for the couple to reach an out-of-court settlement.
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April 10, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Roger Ebert , who died Thursday at 70 after an 11-year battle with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands, was laid to rest Monday after a service at Holy Name Cathedral, a few blocks away from the Chicago Sun-Times, where the film critic worked for four decades. "He didn't just dominate his profession, he defined it," said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel . Ebert's stepdaughter, Sonia Evans , spoke of his dedication to his readers: "He realized that connecting to people was the main reason we're all here and that's what his life was all about," she said.
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March 21, 2013 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Y'know this book, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Life of the Stars ? Right up there on the New York Times best-sellers lists? By Scotty Bowers , 88, it's all about Scotty's adventures in the Hollywood sex trade of the 1940s and '50s. Says he either personally served or set up clients such as Spencer Tracy , Cary Grant , Katharine Hepburn (150 women!), James Dean , and the Duke of Windsor . J. Edgar Hoove r comes for a date in drag. So is this Bowers guy lying?
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March 15, 2013 | BY LAUREN McCUTCHEON, Daily News Staff Writer mccutch@phillynews.com, 215-854-5991
SO, THE BIG NEWS in the world Wednesday was, obviously, Kim Kardashian 's bangs. Double-K, who is pregnant with Kayne West's baby, got a dramatic new 'do a coupla months ago. But ever since her sister Kourtney showed off fresh wisps and highlights several days ago, Kim's been thinking of treating herself to another follicle pick-me-up courtesy of celeb stylist Philip Wolff. The elder Kardashian tweeted that she wanted a blunt look, but, to be honest, in her Instagram photo, her over-forehead hairs look suspiciously wispy.