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Tom Gabel, the singer from the punk band Against Me!, is transgender, and will soon begin the process of becoming a woman by taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis, he tells Rolling Stone.
Gabel, 31, tells the magazine that he has dealt with gender dysphoria for years; he will eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace and [...]

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And… we have a new box office champion.
The Avengers earned a mind-boggling $200.3 million on Friday and Saturday, blowing past Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ($169.2 million) for the biggest opening weekend in Hollywood history.
Backed by incredibly positive reviews – as well as successful quasi prequels such as Iron Man and last summer’s Captain [...]

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Carrie Underwood may always look/seem perfect, because she’s very conscious of how she’s portrayed in the media. still, after four albums and numerous hits, the star is really trying to loosen up.
OMG reports that Underwood learned fast about how she presented herself on her season of American Idol.   “It seemed like every single solitary [...]

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It’s third time’s a charm for Neil Diamond as he reportedly weds Katie McNeil, who is 30 years his junior.
The Daily Mail is reporting that the music legend who is 71, tied the knot yesterday to Katie, 41, who acts as one of his managers.
The couple met when blonde Miss McNeil was the executive producer [...]

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First Published: April 6, 2012 10:24 AM EDT Credit: Access Hollywood
Caption one Direction chats with Access Hollywood on the set of ‘Saturday Night Live’ in New York City on April 6, 2012
NEW YORK, N.Y. — despite the reports – and the hopes and dreams of millions of fans – Justin Bieber and British boy [...]

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EmailShigeki KikkawaAcclamation is scheduled to make his first start of 2012 in the April 27 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park.
Acclamation, the champion older male of 2011, is likely to make his 2012 debut in the $100,000 Inglewood Handicap over 1 1/8 miles on turf at Hollywood Park on April 27, trainer Don Warren said.
Acclamation worked [...]

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Selena Gomez is presently en route to a Florida beach town to start filming the movie Spring Breakers. she hopped a flight at LAX on Monday afternoon, bound for Tampa/St. Petersburg.
According to a report from Hollywood Life, Selena was spotted dining in a Mexican cafe inside the airport before boarding her flight to the Sunshine [...]

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Javier Bardem produces and narrates “Sons of the Clouds: the last Colony,” a documentary about a war among Morocco, Mauritania and a liberation group for control of Western Sahara.
The film is an extension of Bardem’s reputation as an activist, which “is not something you choose,” he tells the Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s not something you carry like [...]

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Conservative internet publisher and avid blogger Andrew Breitbart died yesterday. He was 43. Friends and acquaintances described the big Hollywood founder as intense – a passionate conversationalist who never left work no matter where he went.
But Breitbart was hounded by health problems and high blood pressure. The intensity of his personality was matched only by the [...]

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"you feel sad because that's how it feels when you lose someone you love," Keys said from the stage at the Beverly Hilton. "Then you think back to how much this person has touched your life."
STORY: Whitney Houston Death: Hollywood Reacts on Grammy Weekend
Keys, 31, grew up listening to Houston and has spoken often of [...]

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