Saturday, January 31, 2009
Angelology, Annie Awards and Britters Prayer Room

Guy Ritchie has agreed not to oppose ex-wife Madonna's plans to take their family to live in America.

It was revealed Friday that Madonna, 50, had been given temporary permission to remove the estranged couple's two sons - Rocco, 8, and adopted David Banda, 3 - from Britain.

The agreement is to made permanent in a fortnight, and Ritchie, 40, will not fight it for the sake of the children.

Wow. I understand doing something for the sake of your children, but I don't think I could be separated by that much distance from my kids. Maybe he'll end up moving, too.

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Miley Cyrus never has to worry about embarrassing paparazzi pictures if her dad is around - because he is always sure to see off shifty snappers.

The Hannah Montana star, 16, says her country music star father Billy Ray Cyrus loses his rag when he spots a paparazzo trying to get sneaky pictures of her.

Miley says, "He is protective of all of us, because he loves us. He particularly gets upset when paparazzi always try to get my picture.

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Britney Spears will have a private prayer area backstage at every gig when she embarks on her Circus world tour.

Although Britney is seemingly on the road to recovery, her management team are desperate to ensure the Toxic singer doesn't succumb to any of her demons of last year, so have arranged for the star to have a small area where she can gather her thoughts.

Good for her!

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'Wall-E' goes home empty handed -- "Kung Fu Panda" kicked considerable butt at the 36th annual Annie Awards on Friday night, shutting out the competition to win every feature-related category the international animation society ASIFA offers.

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Book adaptation deal reaches seven-figures -- Sony Pictures Entertainment came out on the side of the angels late Friday, winning a multiple studio bidding battle for "Angelology," a first novel by Danielle Trussoni (pictured here) that sold for high six-figures this week to Viking.

The project will be a co-production between Will Smith and James Lassiter's Overbrook and Marc Forster, the Quantum of Solace director who will produce through his Apparatus banner.

The story is described as a cross between The Da Vinci Code and National Treasure. Trussoni is definitely writing one sequel book, and possibly two.

Sounds fantastic to me!!!

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Linkin Park is teaming up with Social Vibe and Music for Relief to offer YOU a chance to meet the band. About the partnership, David "Phoenix" Farrell said:

"We're helping to ensure that they're better prepared to deal with future hurricanes and floods. In addition to collecting funds, we're using a site called SocialVibe for the first time to earn money for the food and clean drinking water that the people of Haiti so desperately need."

Here's how it works: simply add socialvibe.com/musicforrelief to your webpage (myspace, facebook, etc.) and you will help contribute by earning donations for the charity. Whoever adds the most friends by April 24th wins a trip to hang out with the band in the studio. Pretty easy, right?

The goal is to raise $25,000 for clean water, food and reforestation in effected areas.

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Alyson Hannigan is finding that being pregnant not only gives her cravings – but makes her feel like a stoned Koala bear.

"I get tired a lot and I have pregnancy brain, which I never realized was a thing but it is," the expectant mom said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. "I sort of feel like a Koala bear where I'm slightly stoned all the time and I'll say the wrong word.

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