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Self-confessed bad cook Angelina Jolie will try her hand at whipping up Christmas dinner for boyfriend Brad Pitt and their brood today - but she'll have a fallback option so the fam won't be famished if she happens to mess up.
The Jolie-Pitt domestic array is celebrating Christmas - or, as Angelina calls it, "the festive period" - at their $3.5 million manse in New Orleans, a city that Pitt has been trying to help get back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina by backing an effort to rebuild housing in the city's Lower Ninth Ward.
"I've never really cooked before," Jolie tells the Sunday Express of London. "But this year, I'm going to try to cook a turkey with the kids. In case it doesn't work out, we'll have a pizza waiting."
The children of the household have made their Christmas wishes known in a letter to Santa Claus written by Jolie's eldest son, Maddox, 6, on behalf of himself and his sibs: Pax, 4; Zahara, 2; and Shiloh, 18 months.
A source tells OK! magazine, that Maddox requested "an Elf DVD and remote-controlled cars for Pax because his brother loves cars. Shiloh is getting a doll and a couple of books.
"Zahara wants princess dresses and a crying doll. Maddox has no idea why Z would want her toy to cry," the source says.
"Maddox really wanted a remote-controlled dinosaur. He asked Grandma Jane [Pitt] for one, but he isn't sure if she is going to buy it for him."
All I want for Christmas Paris Hilton, that Simple Life girl, has a simple, one-item Christmas list. The heiress confided to London paparazzi that she just wants "a man to fall in love with, one for life, that I can start a family with."
Turning up the heat London's Daily Mirror reports that British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has afoul of the U.K.'s Food Standards Agency over the length of time Lawson says is required …

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ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Chris Jack in despair as the French celebrate their 2007 Rugby World Cup Quarter final win over the All Blacks in Cardiff.

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It was a year when we lost stuff - and it had started out with so much promise, says Greg Tourelle of NZPA, reviewing 2007.
We were going to win the rugby World Cup, yachting's America's Cup and the world netball championships - and of course, we were going to prosper.
But talk about pear-shaped.
We lost the rugby, yachting and netball, housing stopped booming, exporters struggled and politics was a mess.
The main news stories were the anti-terrorism raids that lost their terrorism component and the Louise Nicholas saga, resulting in assistant police commissioner Clint Rickards' resignation.
Other big stories included the release of David Bain from prison after his convictions for the murder of his family in Dunedin in 1994, with a retrial due to be heard next year, and the death of Folole Muliaga after a contractor turned the power off to her home, cutting off her oxygen machine.
The country spent much of the year talking about smacking - as in smacking children, but there were headlines too for much more violent offences against youngsters, none more so than when three-year-old Nia Glassie died in August, from appalling head and abdominal injuries. Two men have been accused of her murder and they and two others, one of them Nia's mother, are also accused of her manslaughter.
There were other sickening cases too, prompting marches against child abuse.
Before you reach for the valium, it was not all doom and gloom.
Valerie Vili claimed a world shot put title, Christchurch man Nigel Richards won the world scrabble title and Elliott Nicholls, a 17-year-old from John McGlashan College, took out a modern world record - for texting blindfolded.
Dairy farming boomed, …

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Paris Hilton was back out on Saturday night with her on-again off-again boyfriend Alex Vaggo, as the duo hit Hamburger Hamlet in Beverly Hills for a bite to eat.

For a weekend outing, Paris was rather dressed down, wearing a t-shirt and fleece pants. Alex, meanwhile, sported a t-shirt and jeans - the same outfit he wore to a lunch outing with another female friend earlier in the day.

A little bit later in the evening, the former Simple Life star took to Robertson Blvd for a little shopping with two of her puppies, creating a too good not-to-be-planned photo op.

In other news on the hotel heiress, Miss Hilton and sister Nicky are auctioning off a ticket for their New Year’s Eve party at Club LAX in Las Vegas on eBay - with the top bid already above $2,500.

Press reports tell, “The auction is just one the things being sold off to raise money for their mother Kathy Hilton’s charity auction benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.”

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Kathy Hilton is raising money for Make A Wish Foundation

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While many may shudder in disgust at the thought of their most intimate moments getting caught on tape, others willingly welcome cameras into their bedrooms with almost no hesitation at all.

Even celebrities — who spend countless hours in front of cameras — just can’t seem to get enough of the limelight.

But on more than one occasion these private tapes have been made public — from Paris Hilton’s infamous sex-tape scandal to the latest footage faux past: reputedly “raunchy” tapes made by celebrity ex’s Kate Moss and Pete Doherty.

Supermodel Moss is reportedly trying to prevent ex-boyfriend Doherty from releasing personal video tapes they filmed together before they broke up this past summer, according to the New York Post.

The paper reported that Moss said she’d be “horrified” if the tapes were leaked to the press, and added that she always thought the “raunchy” footage would be kept private.

Moss follows a long line of homemade celebrity pornography, such as Colin Farrell, who sued ex-girlfriend and Playboy playmate Nicole Narain after she attempted to release a sex tape of the duo.

And it’s hard to forget Paris Hilton, whose sex tape with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon is believed to have catalyzed the heiress’s present-day fame.

Despite such a likelihood that these private tapes will one day be made public — be it by a disgruntled ex or a YouTube-happy friend — both celebrity and noncelebrity couples still can’t help themselves from pressing “record.”

“There are more people than you would imagine who live next door to you or down the block that have at least taken pictures of themselves having sex,” said Judy Kuriansky, clinical psychologist and author of “An Idiot’s Guide to a Healthy Relationship.”

“It’s more common than you think.”

Making sex tapes isn’t anything new, said who said it’s been going on for at least 20 years, and even before then couples …

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Bros,

Indie vs. mainstream, populist vs. blog-snobby, funky vs. folky—don’t you feel like these dichotomies merge and morph every time we try to grasp them? Take a band you two happily disdain: mountain-man beard proponents Iron & Wine.

Bob, I’d especially expect you to despise Sam Beam’s spacey-fuzzy soundscapes, as they fall right in line with stuff we’ve been fondly disagreeing about for, gulp, nearly two decades. His whispering whines didn’t work for me either until he teamed up with Calexico and put a little spring in his step. But “The Shepherd’s Dog” hung around in my Rhapsody Sansa Player because it went way beyond moping: In his own postgraduate white boy way, Beam followed M.I.A. around the world, enriching his pup-tent ghost stories with Arabic handclaps, African guitar runs, and diasporic guitar that might have fit on that super Tinariwen record.

What Beam is chasing is pleasure—the blood rush that comes when some new wonder unfolds, whether it’s a love thing, a previously unexplored backroad, or (this is pop, after all) a new commodity. Pleasure became a problem for indie rock in the 1990s; blame Kurt, blame heroin, blame political correctness, whatever, never mind. But it’s totally back, from the silk-purse neo-hippiesms of freak folk (dudes, hippies get laid), to the roving house parties of CSS and Girl Talk (Paris Hilton jumped onstage during their Coachella sets—that’s hot!), to the superstoner subcult that produced Pitchfork’s 2007 No. 1, Panda Bear’s “Person Pitch,” an album that literally puts me to sleep.

And what values are expressed by the natty retro-soul scene that championed Amy Winehouse, if not the nightlife creed of boundaries crossed in the name of fun? At Winehouse producer/It Boy Mark Ronson’s El Rey show last fall, Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie hung in the VIP lounge Ronson’s interracial troupe laid down their rock-soul hybrids. Pitchfork hates Ronson, by the way—reviewer Adam Moerder …

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PAMELA Anderson has filed for divorce from her third husband after just two months of marriage.

The former Baywatch star, 40, above cited irreconcilable differences between her and Rick Salomon in papers filed at a court in Los Angeles.

The couple wed in Las Vegas in October.

Salomon, 38, is best known for his sex video Paris Hilton. He was also married before - to actress Shannen Doherty.

Anderson’s ex-hubbies are musicians Tommy Lee and Kid Rock.

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Former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson is divorcing husband Rick Salomon after just 72 days of marriage.

The former Baywatch babe filed for divorce on Friday from the man who infamously starred in the Paris Hilton sex tape, citing “irreconcilable differences”.
Pamela and Salomon were married in a quick-fire Las Vegas ceremony on October 6. The bride wore a white denim Valentino dress and tied the knot at the Mirage Hotel in between appearances in a Vegas magic show.
But almost immediately there were reports of the marriage hitting trouble, with Salomon said to be jealous of his new wife’s fame.

Pamela told how they hooked up after she accepted Saloman’s offer to pay off a poker debt with sexual favours.

She told US chat show host Ellen DeGeneres: “I paid off a poker debt with sexual favours, and I fell in love.”
The telly pin-up gushed: “It’s so romantic. It’s romance.”

Pamela recently boasted the newlyweds hardly ever went out because they were too busy having sex.

The pair had been long-term friends before romance blossomed and have both starred in home-made sex tapes that sent the internet into meltdown.

Salomon was hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s co-star in “One Night In Paris”, while Pam was caught on tape romping with ex-husband Tommy Lee.

Pam and Salomon have both been married three times. Pam’s second marriage to rocker Kid Rock lasted three months.  Salomon was previously married to Beverly Hills 90210 actress Shannen Doherty.

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Lindsay Lohan has said she can see a very clear difference in herself since leaving rehab.

Lindsay spent two months at the Cirque Lodge facility in Utah after being stopped for her second DUI in two months at the end of July. After leaving the centre in October, she stayed in nearby for a couple of weeks before returning to Los Angeles to start rehearsals for her new film Dare to Love Me and work on her new album - but has steered clear of the partying circuit.

She told a Las Vegas radio station on Friday: “I think my life is different now, and it’s changed, and I’m growing up,”

“It was time to grow up. I’ve gone through a lot, and I’m just a different person now. It’s amazing, everything’s going so well.”

“I’ve been in the studio [recording tracks for the album], and it’s going really well, and I’m really excited, because it’s going to be more urban pop. It’s good to be back in the studio.”

And like when Paris Hilton left jail, she’s pledged to do more for charity in the future and also like Paris, is planning a humanitarian trip to Africa: “I really love children and it would be nice to give back.”

Lindsay gave the impromptu interview after the Mix 94.1FM, offered to give away Miley Cyrus concert tickets to people who got celebrities to call into the station.

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Google is to go head-to-head with Wikipedia, the web’s largest reference work, in a clash of two of the internet’s most powerful brands.

A new Google service, dubbed knol, will invite “people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it”, Udi Manber, a Google engineer, said.

Like Wikipedia, articles in knol (the name derives from “knowledge&rdqu will be free to read online. In a departure from the nonprofit Wikipedia model, however, knol’s authors will be able to attach advertising to their work and take a share of revenues.

“The goal is for knols [individual articles] to cover all topics, from scientific concepts to entertainment,” Mr Manber said. The project is the latest to distance Google from its roots in internet search and pitch it against well-established rivals in a new sector. The company recently squared up to the mobile phone industry by unveiling its own operating system for hand-held devices. It is also set to bid for a portion of America’s airwaves that it could use to build a wireless broadband network.

The creation of knol, at present in an invitation-only test phase but likely to be open to the public within months, will set two of the web’s titans against each other.

In October, Wikipedia, which relies on donations for funds, was visited by 107 million people, or a third of the “active global internet population”, according to Nielsen Online, the analyst. That made it the eighth most-visited online destination.

Google’s search engine was the world’s most popular site, with more than 260 million users, although its own reference work, Google Scholar, was only fifteenth in its class, with about 4.5 million users. Google, which says that it exists “to organise the world’s and make it universally useful and accessible”, suggested that knol was designed to stamp out the …