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-Photo by Getty Images-At a private ceremony held in Chicago, to mourn the loss of her mother, brother and nephew, Jennifer Hudson spent a few minutes by each of their caskets before leaning down and kissing her mom goodbye.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Jennifer was joined at the service by fellow American Idol contestant Fantasia Barrino, who dedicated the gospel song “Your Grace and Mercy” to Jen and her family.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley also attended, both speaking at the memorial for Darnell Donerson, Jason Hudson and Julian King. And, when the funeral had ended, a horse-drawn carriage led the procession to the cemetery.
Now comes the even harder part for Jen, as she has to figure out how to go back to her normal life, without the people she loved most. Our thoughts, prayers and love go out to her and her family.

Original post by TheAuthor

Today is Election Day here in the US and altho many States have allowed their citizens the ability to vote early, the first Tuesday in November of a Presidential Election Year is the official Election Day. At 12AM ET, the small hamlet of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire was the “first in the nation” to open their polls and allow their citizens to vote. Because of the small number of voters there, the results were made known mere moments after the voting opened. Altho Dixville Notch is traditionally heavily Repbulican the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama, won by a landslide … at least by Dixville Notch standards:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. People in the village in New Hampshire’s northeast corner voted just after [...]

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Ready for another day of work on her hit NBC show, Hayden Panettiere was spotted on the Manhattan Beach, California set of “Heroes” on Monday (November 3).
The 19-year-old toted around her juice drink as an on-set worker kept the young actress covered with an umbrella prior to the day’s filming.

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First things first — this is a ridiculously gorgeous photo of Carrie Underwood on the cover of the new issue of Elle.
Okay, now for the juice — Carrie says that she’s sorry for making Jessica Simpson mad by telling the world that Jess’ boyfriend/Carrie’s ex Tony Romo still calls the American Idol winner.
“It was something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or stir up anything, because I’m just not about drama…at all,” Carrie told the mag.
Jessica reacted by saying that there was no way her man was calling Carrie — and that she had looked at his call log to find out the truth.
And Carrie says she gets why Jess was pissed at her. “I might be mad too if somebody said my boyfriend was calling some other girl,” she said. “So I can definitely see where she would be [...]

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Looking ever the dapper Hollywood hunk, Hayden Christensen was spotted filming on the set of his new movie, “Bone Deep,” in Los Angeles on Monday (November 3).
Co-starring Paul Walker, Chris Brown and T.I, the film is about “a group of bank robbers finding their $20 million plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.”

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Showing off two sexy looks, Paris Hilton was out for an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman” in New York City on Monday (November 3).
Recently returned from a long stay in London, the hotel heiress visited Dave to promote her new movie “Repo! the Genetic Opera” - which hits theaters this Friday (November 7).

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-Photo by Getty Images-I almost feel like I’ve been broken up with.
Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas has done the unthinkable (in my mind, anyway) and broke off her engagement to snowboarder Jesse Csincsak.
Jesse opened up to Extra, in video that will break your heart, about how DeAnna did the dumping.
“We took time apart… She came back to Colorado and told me, ‘I love you, but I’m not in love with you.’ …I picked her up from the airport and she told me while I was getting her bags.”
Deanna had picked Jesse to spend her life with at the end of her time on the reality series, and the couple had talked about getting married in the Bahamas, but Jess says DeAnna just gave up on him.
“DeAnna said, ‘I’m not willing to try anymore.’ She had a different idea. I can’t argue with her feelings… She’s the only one who knows how she [...]

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Stepping out for the day, Kate Winslet was spotted hailing a cab in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan on Monday (November 3).
The award winning actress is currently enjoying a little downtime before she gears up to promote “Revolutionary Road” alongside co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in a few short months.

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Spotted out on the Washington DC set, Sarah Jessica Parker was busy chatting with a production member while working on the new HBO show “Washingtonienne”.
The “Sex and the City” star is the executive producer of the the Mark Mylod directed show about “a low-level employee of a Washington Senator who talks about her sexual encounters on Capital Hill.”

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Taking their pooch out for a little exercise, Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson and Josh Duhamel were spotted out for a stroll in Los Angeles earlier this morning (November 3).
Decked out in sportswear, the cute couple walked their pup up a hillside in a canyon park area, getting quite the workout themselves.

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Rumored to be in the midst of troubled times with Balthazar Getty, Sienna Miller was spotted out on Monday (November 3) enjoying the company of a male friend in London, England.
The “Factory Girl” actress and her guy pal happily chatted it up, taking a smoke break outside the Cow Pub amidst a few other stops.

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newVideoPlayer(”/true_blood_steak.flv”, 506, 423,”"); · “Now you listen here, mister. You get your teeth out of my Sookie this instant, or there will be Hell to pay! OK then, don’t say I didnt warn you!” · Eater LA has a list of all the local restaurants and businesses offering Election Night specials to anyone wearing a “I Voted!” sticker · Here’s a gallery of spooks and ghouls spotted around town on Halloween. Next year we’re definitely going as Shirtless Food Grilling Hunk! · EW.com reports one half of Grey’s Anatomy’s only gay couple, Dr. Erica Hahn (aka actress Brooke Smith), has been ordered removed from the series by ABC, who “‘had issues’ with…the explicit direction” her relationship was taking. · Assault and battery claims leveled against Keanu Reeves by an allegedly squished paparazzo have been tossed, but the photographer can still pursue a negligence claim.

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Original post by Seth

Director Baz Luhrman’s historical epic/romance/tourism ad Australia is set to premiere Nov. 19 in its home country before opening wide here Nov. 26. It has a press junket in LA scheduled in between. And as of this writing, it has Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and $130 million worth of Fox’s Oscar hopes tied up in an unfinished bundle in Luhrmann’s editing bay. No one has seen much more than a couple stirring trailers and, according to Anne Thompson, an unfinished print that screened without effects for a lucky Oprah Winfrey audience (none of whom, of course, were critics). So with less than three weeks before the studio expects to introduce it to the world, what’s taking so long?
Last month Luhrmann told The Age that he was expecting to hand the 170-minute film to Fox one reel at a time while he tightened “mechanics of storytelling.” (The Kidman/Jackman romance, though? Totally [...]

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· To promote the new Indy 4 tie-in pizza at Papa John’s: Veggie Lovers!
· As research for his upcoming drama Organic, in which Ford plays a gruff macrobiotic dieter who rescues his kidnapped children with the money quote, “Not in my eco-friendly vegan cafe!”
· That’s isn’t a peapod — it’s a green, pustule-covered pointer finger.
[Photo Credit: Flynet]

Original post by Kyle Buchanan

A reader sent Towleroad this snapshot of the sky above Warner Bros. in Burbank, probably the largest and most nausea-inducing “Yes on 8″ sign yet erected in the ongoing, Mormon-underwritten campaign to strip gay Californians of their Constitutional right to marry. Luckily, God got one look at the message and blew it away:
“Just now, leaving work at Warner Brothers in Burbank, CA, I was horrified to see a plane scarring the sky with a ‘vote yes on prop 8′ message, prefaced with something about traditional marriage that was already illegible.

It’s a breezy day out here, so the message was hardly readable for more than a minute or so. Let’s hope the proposition doesn’t even last that long tomorrow morning.”

We’re hearing reports of similar messages appearing in the skies above the Westside, too. As a counterpoint, we offer some blurry footage taken by Defamer video editrix emeritus Molly McAleer of Zooey [...]

Original post by Seth

Enjoying the brisk fall weather, Jessica Alba was spotted pushing her daughter Honor Marie’s stroller around the Soho district of New York City earlier today (November 3).
The “Good Luck Chuck” babe was definitely dressed for a chill, donning a light tan duster sweater jacket with a multi-colored scarf, jeans, a red wool hat, and tan flats.

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Flanked by scantily clad showgirls, actress Amy Smart was all smiles as she hosted an evening at LAVO Nightclub in Las Vegas on Saturday night (November 1).
According to an event attendee, the party was held as a last-minute reminder to residents and visitors in Sin City to use their votes in the forthcoming presidential election.

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When it was announced that Don Cheadle would be taking on Terrence Howard’s role in Iron Man 2, a simple explanation of “financial differences” (as well as an inability to get the War Machine costume sufficiently baby-wiped) was all that was forthcoming from the filmmakers’ side. Then, Howard spoke to NPR and compared the Marvel braintrust to a non-singing network of pimps, forcing the filmmaking team to take the gloves off. Now, in a discussion with EW, sources close to Marvel and director Jon Favreau leaked the real details behind Howard’s firing, and they involve bad acting and one very surprising salary:
Those with intimate knowledge of the situation suggest a far more dramatic backstory: Howard was the first actor signed to the film and, on top of that, was the highest-paid. That’s right: more than Gwyneth Paltrow. More than Jeff Bridges. More than Robert Downey Jr. And once the project [...]

Original post by Kyle Buchanan

Looking very much like they’re giving their romance another shot, Salma Hayek was spotted getting cozy with ex-fiancé/babydaddy Francios-Henri Pinault at a soccer game yesterday (November 2).
The “Fools Rush In” babe watched Pinault’s home team Rennes play against Sochaux while looking quite comfortable in each other’s presence.

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Over the weekend, Joaquin Phoenix was spotted hamming it up at the 2008 AFI Fest held at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
The “We Own the Night” stud was all-too-happy to reiterate his claims that he’s done with the whole acting thing, in favor of pursuing his musical career.

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· Election Eve Music Round-Up: Weave! at the Echo, Lykke Li at the El Rey, Mado Diao, We Barbarians, and The Capshuns at The Troubadour. · Comics Brently Heilbron and Liz Feldman, with specials guests Janeane Garofalo, Jen Kirkman, Erin Foley and Seth Morris, perform what might be the last thing you ever laugh about again: It’s Don’t Fuck This Up Election Eve Show, at Tangier. · Sergio Leone’s 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West screens at the Hammer Museum, with film preservation expert Barry Allen on hand to discuss the restoration of the spaghetti western classic.

Original post by Seth

Having a hit network television sitcom is hard work!  And this past week, America Ferrera was spotted on the New York City set of her show “Ugly Betty” putting in some weekend hours.
The “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” cutie looked hilarious as she filmed scenes for an upcoming episode, sporting an awkward yellow wool topcoat overtop a multi-colored silk printed dress with purple stockings, brown boots, an orange scarf, and powder blue gloves.

Original post by TheAuthor

You’ll be sitting on your hands all night, bristling with excitement for Tuesday’s big event: The launch of the new Blackberry Bold! Wait, no, it was something else, something with that black guy and all that hope and something about Tina Fey. (We haven’t recovered from pumpkin-shaped jello shots.)
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