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● Josh Brolin can officially rule out a role in Mission: Impossible 5, after telling The New Yorker that Scientology is "really fucking bizarre." [The New Yorker] ● Watch B.o.B deliver a meta-performance of his hit "Airplane" on an airplane, giving new meaning to the term "in-flight entertainment." Get it?! [YouTube] ● Lady Gaga tweeted that her new single, "Born This Way," will be out this Friday. Then her boyfriend tweeted how proud of her he is. Then I sneezed. [Lady Gaga/Twitter]

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● AOL's Tim Armstrong and Huffinton Post's Arianna Huffington jack-knifed post-Super Bowl talk last night by announcing AOL's $315 million acquisition of the Huff Po. How about that Groupon commercial? [AllThingD's] ● Lil Wayne helped the Wall Street Journal live blog last night's game from the endzone, while Birdman made a milli. [WSJ/HipHopDX] ● LCD Soundsystem is bowing out, just like frontman James Murphy said they would, but not until they complete a three hour victory jam at Madison Square Garden. All guests are asked to wear white and/or black. Should be special. [Pitchfork]

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Over the last two decades, Maxim has featured a bevy of beauties on its covers, from Hollywood starlets to sexy female sports stars. But like the unfortunate souls found on Playboy's worst cover-girl list, Maxim does suffer the occasional miscast. Although it may be interesting to see Fergie in a bra, even the mag's target audience might think twice about incorporating her into one's genteel nighttime fantasies. But Fergie's hardly the only gal who maybe didn't turn in her best work fronting for Maxim.

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The New York Daily News gossip page doesn't need jokes, because this is a real headline: "Stripper cheating allegations behind them, Fergie and Josh Duhamel renew wedding vows." [Daily News] ● Comedian Aziz Ansari sent a Facebook message to a girl who called him a "giant douchebag" in a Twitter update. "Are you basing this on characters I play on TV?" he asked. "That is pretend." [ONTD] ● Yankees star Derek Jeter will marry actress Minka Kelly on November 5th. A New York Post "reporter" scored the scoop by sneaking into the "reception palace" pretending to be a bride-to-be. Is that journalism or Drew Barrymore movie? [NY Post]

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And as much as we'd like to deny it, rarely has the phrase "like a house afire" -- as in two people who get along incredibly well, like fire on dry timber, in fact! -- ever been so promising. The last time the phrase was used with such verve, sources remarked about Leona Lewis and Stella McCartney getting along house-burningly well. And those rumors turned out to be true. So here we are, with rumors about one of the grand dames of Hollywood taking part in this unlikely collaboration. All because Dench and Fergie got along, "like a house on fire" while filming Nine together.

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Twihards who don't want to be tasked with stepping on one side of this epic Team Edward-Team Jacob debate can heave a sigh of relief next February, when the Jacob Black doll bows and their collection is complete.[EW] • Known internationally as the talent show that foisted Leona Lewis on us, UK's X-Factor was graced by a pineapple-donning Calvin Harris who decided to offer us a reprieve during this dreadful Sanjaya-esque moment. [Digital Spy] • Ahem, Fergie would like more gay love, please. [Queerty]

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● Kanye West can be blamed for a lot of things, but spreading homophobia in hip hop is not one of them. According to Fergie, West is “completely gay-friendly ... he did a great thing for hip-hop and made it very mixed and open." [MTV] ● Robert Pattinson is embarrassed about those Megan Fox dating rumors because the fake details of their date were so “cheesy.” [OK] ● Ashlee Simpson-Wentz is taking a page out of her sister’s handbook and starting a clothing line that will show off her “preppy and punk rock” style because she thinks she can “really succeed in fashion.” [DigitalSpy]

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● In light of infidelity claims, Fergie says in this month’s Cosmo that husband Josh Duhamel loved the extra weight she put on for her role in Nine. [Us] ● Levi Johnston is steaming mad at Conan O’Brien -- or at least his manager is -- over the William Shatner sketch mocking Johnston and his supposed Twitter account, claiming they will sue if the show doesn’t retract the sketch. [TMZ] ● Busy Phillips called out Chad Michael Murray as a “douche" at the Paley Center event for Dawson's Creek, adding that “she’s not worried about burning bridges with CMM." [zap2it]

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● That report of Lindsay Lohan and Gerard Butler getting it on in Morocco was shot down by Lohan, and Butler is threatening legal action against the British papers who printed the story. [GossipCop] ● Where do you go after getting publicly fired from your show? Disneyland! Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and husband Pete Wentz took little Bronx to the happiest place on earth to lift her spirits. [PopSugar] ● Rihanna says of all the media attention she received after the Chris Brown incident: "I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears." [USA]

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I think Havelock Ellis had it right when he said “The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw," but that still doesn't stop bloggers from rating and ranking celebs into categories of babes and butterfaces. For those of you who are a little out of touch with the meme, it's a woman (or a man) who has a beautiful body, though her face is anything but. In other words: everything looks good but her face. Banned in Hollywood is garnering some attention for their recent list of internet butterfaces, and Complex and Gunaxin have a couple of curated lists as well, though Gunaxin's list seems to be a product of personal taste (Uma Thurman has an ugly mug?). Obviously, an exploration of this concept proves that these lists are simply a matter of taste, with people grouping Leonardo DiCaprio and Penelope Cruz in the category. Beauty should remain in the eye of the beholder, but forum addicts, commenters and personal blogs all try to gain some consensus, debating who should reign supreme as the unfairest face of them all. Although none can agree on one, there are several that seem to top every butterface list.

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