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Playboy Model Turns Indie Film Maker Spotlights Three Beverly Hills Projects

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Zombies and Rollergirls to Make Moviegoing Fun Again

Maybe we used up all our bile last weekend, but no one is more shocked then we are to find ourselves actually looking forward to the movies this weekend. Maybe we’re getting old…It can’t be Hollywood’s getting better, can it? WHIP IT The Story : A Texas teen (Ellen Page) gives up a life of beauty pageants to fight it out in the roller derby rink

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Kanye West, Lady Gaga Release Provocative Promo For Fame Kills Tour

West posted the clip, which features a topless Gaga, on his blog. By James Montgomery Kanye West and Lady Gaga Photo: Jordan Strauss/ WireImage In the aftermath of his outburst at the MTV Video Music Awards , Kanye West went on “The Jay Leno Show” and said he was planning to keep a low profile in the coming months, both to deal with personal matters and to let the media firestorm he created subside.

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Jay-Z Has Friends Everywhere

Jay-Z is proving that it’s not a hard-knock life out there for a rap mogul. We snapped him here at the Northhampton home of BBC Radio One presenter Jo Whiley.

Jay-Z: Kanye West is Just "Passionate"

The only person yet to weigh in on Kanye West’s Taylor Swift ambush at the MTV VMAs has finally said his piece, thanks to a BBC Radio 1 DJ who got ahold of him. “It’s an awards show,” Jay-Z said, dismissing the controversy surrounding his collaborator and good friend Kanye. “He’s just a super passionate person.” That’s a nice way of saying ” jackass .” Jay-Z, the husband of Beyonce, who Kanye was giving props to during his rant on stage, did acknowledge that, “Of course it was rude, it was her moment.” But, “that’s the way he felt .

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Jack White Reveals His Favorite Beatle

‘The Beatles: Rock Band’ hits stores Wednesday. By Kyle Anderson Jack White Photo: MTV News While the Beatles had incredible chemistry together, they each had particular personalities that made them unique

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Google’s search engine pinpoints extinction

Thanks to the BBC for a link to this paper describing how Google's algorithm for ranking web pages could determine what species are most critical for sustaining ecosystems. The authors write in PLoS Computational Biology that their version of PageRank could ascertain which extinction would likely lead to ecosystem collapse. Species are embedded in complex networks of relationships

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Best News Blooper Ever

Punctuation is your friend, Jonathan Charles of BBC News.

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Lily Allen Twittering Angers Sam Cooper

Might Miley Cyrus have competition as the world’s most annoying Tweeter?

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Lockerbie Bomber freed for oil deal….?

Downing Street today came under further pressure to explain the circumstances surrounding the release of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing amid reports that a decision that could have paved the way for him to serve his sentence in Libya was approved by No 10.

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