Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Entertaining tidbits for your New Year's

Miley Cyrus is demanding more money from her parents!

The 16-year-old star has been getting around $100 a week to spend on incidentals like magazines and coffee, STAR reports. "Her parents take care of all the normal expenses," a source says. But ever since she started dating 20-year-old model Justin Gaston, Miley's been dishing out more of her own dough, and she wants her allowance to upped to $1,000 per week!

I remember when getting $5 a week seemed like a good deal for my chores. I wonder what Miley is doing around the house to earn her allowance.

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Nicole Richie intends to give her almost-one-year-old daughter Harlow a sibling sometime in the near future.

Nicole reportedly started taking vitamins, eating healthy, and designed a maternity wear line all in preparation for her second child with Joel Madden.

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From New York to Los Angeles, Viacom channels like Comedy Central are set to flicker off cable systems in the first minute of 2009. Sumner Redstone's desperation finally impacted your life!

Apparently Viacom and Time Warner Cable have been negotiating over fees for months, and haven't been able to reach a deal. Viacom said it wants an increase of somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 cents per month, per subscriber across all channels, including Nickelodeon, VH1 and MTV. That's pretty bold given the state of the economy, and given that Viacom this year moved more of its content onto the internet, where it can be watched for free, arguably undermining cable subscriptions.

But Time Warner is still jacking up rates in some areas, despite the economy. And Viacom overlord Redstone holds company stock as collateral for personal loans he is desperately trying to renegotiate. Staring down the longest advertising decline since the Great Depression, he's got to be eager to wrangle (for Viacom) whatever revenue increases he can get his hands on.

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The Jonas Brothers have prompted officials at the New York Police Department to bolster security before the trio takes over Times Square on New Year's Eve, fearing the band will draw a "mob scene."

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have dismissed reports they are on the verge of divorce just two months after renewing their wedding vows - insisting the reports have "no merit."

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After having a stroke four years ago, TV icon Dick Clark tells ET about his excitement to be back at Times Square for another New Years Eve special on ABC. And host Ryan Seacrest weighs in on having Clark on the big show this year!

Clark, 79, tells ET his scheduled appearance on the "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2009" is something he looks forward to and "not a job."

"I am one of the fortunate ones who survived and have been minimally impaired, so I'm just thankful I'm still able to enjoy this once-a-year treat of bringing in the New Year," Clark says about surviving a stroke.

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    Monday, July 28, 2008
    More twins and baby shark drama

    The Happening star Mark Wahlberg revealed to Usmagazine.com that he and his fiance, model Rhea Durham, will be expecting their third child, a boy, "around the third of September."

    The couple are already parents to 4-year-old Ella and 2-year-old Michael.

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    Ryan Seacrest was bit by a shark this past weekend.

    We're told that the Idol host was at a nearby beach in the L.A. area when he was bit by a baby shark on his foot.

    The sea creature even left a little tooth behind as a souvenir.

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    More celeb baby twins...

    Congratulations to Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connel!

    The couple, who got married last summer, are expecting their first children together.

    It was confirmed this morning that they are going to be having twins.

    The babies are due this winter.

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    Shia LaBeouf is in trouble again. He was arrested for suspicion of DUI after crashing his pickup into another car early Sunday morning. His two passengers suffered minor injuries while Shia required surgery on his hand at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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    "The Dark Knight" continues to obliterate box office records, crossing the $300 million mark in just 10 days.

    I saw it yesterday with my hubster and it is an amazing flick. I loved every minute of it, darkness and all.

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