One night someone at HBO had a fever dream: What if the next hot mixtape to hit the "streets" had a handful of the hottest hip-hop stars rapping about Game of Thrones? Today that dream has come true. Introducing Catch The Throne.
News has emerged that Philip Seymour Hoffman just got out of detox last Friday after a 10-day stay to kick an addiction that started with prescription drugs and culminated in snorting heroin.
In a promotional clip from MTV's special Restore the Shore, Snooki faces the destruction at Seaside Heights, the Jersey Shore crew's stomping grounds, for the first time. "Oh my god," she says. "This really sucks. The whole pier is just gone."
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Oprah Winfrey, Doyenne of Daytime, Queen Of Everything, is entangled in a bitter feud with her stepmother Barbara over her dad Vernon Winfrey's Nashville barber shop, which Oprah purchased after it went into foreclosure last week. Barbara accuses her stepdaughter of using her power to take over the barber shop…
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Today in Tweet Beat, some celebrities feel weird that people are partying so hard over someone's death. Other celebrities are making stupid jokes about it.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Michael Lohan shares a personal photo from the halls of televised rehab. Plus, is Britney Spears performing with Pauly D this weekend?
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Today in Tweet Beat, Raven-Symoné is upset that people are saying that she's naked in a picture and that she's gay as it caused her mother to call her up and give her shit about it.
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Today in Tweet Beat, celebs like Eli Roth, Pauly Shore and Big Boi are psyched to be at Comic-Con. Meanwhile, Josh Groban was not psyched to run into Michael Lohan at the deli.
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Today in Tweet Beat, celebs like Questlove, Bob Saget, and Taraji P. Henson celebrate 4/20; you can spend the holiday with Snoop; and Sherri Shepherd is blazing up something completely different.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Elle's Creative Director Joe Zee is offered a rice cooker, Real Housewives' Alex McCord has published a book with husband Simon Van Kempen, and Lindsay Lohan doesn't want 2010 to begin with rumors.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Scott Baio hates on Lady GaGa, Kate Major says she knows Jon Gosselin is a good person, and Lisa Rinna posts a picture sans makeup.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Nicole Richie makes a confession, Jon Gosselin snarks about Kate's big interview, and Lindsay Lohan wants to be on True Blood.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Chris Brown still misses Rihanna and dishes out advice to men, Jenna Jameson wants everyone to know she didn't turn her back on porn, and Kendra Wilkinson is writing a book.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Lindsay Lohan wants to know why she's not allowed to have some off-the-record fun with the hardworking people in Singapore, Fred Durst cares about genocide in Israel, and Courtney Love's kidneys hurt.
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Today in Tweet Beat, Adrianne Curry professes her love of vibrators, Joan Rivers is annoying Melissa, and OutKast's Big Boi is a U2 fan.
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Earlier, we posted about the lack of black people in the UK ballet. But here in the US, OutKast's Antwan "Big Boi" Patton has collaborated with choreographer Lauri Stallings on a production called "big." The ballet is a "marriage of artistic aesthetics" that will, at one point, feature Verdi's "La Traviata"…
