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Lindsay Lohan Makes 'Amazing' Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Originally posted 11/25/2009 11:50PM
Lindsay Lohan is coming home for the holidays – and her family is putting her to work!
Although Lindsay usually gets VIP treatment, while in Long Island, N.Y., with her family – including mom Dina, sister Ali, and two brothers – the Mean Girls actress will be busy in the kitchen.
"Lindsay is making the garlic mashed potatoes. They are amazing!" Dina Lohan told PEOPLE while taking a break from serving a Thanksgiving lunch to autistic and special needs community members at the Harbor Links Country Club in Long Island, N.Y. on Tuesday.
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Obama Girls Spare Life of Thanksgiving Turkey
Originally posted 11/25/2009 04:15PM
A turkey named Courage has Malia and Sasha Obama to thank this Thanksgiving.
President Obama announced Wednesday at the White House that he would grant a pardon to the turkey that might otherwise have served as his dinner.
"I was planning to eat this sucker," the President joked.
"Thanks to the interventions of Malia and Sasha," he said, "Courage will be spared this terrible – and delicious – fate."
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New Moon Stars Tweet Thanks to Fans
Originally posted 11/25/2009 03:25PM
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner have taken to Twitter to thank fans for the New Moon mania sweeping the country.
The eagerly awaited Twilight sequel took top box office honors last weekend, pulling in a whopping $140 million – which could make it the top-grossing film of 2009.
Pattinson, 23, who plays sexy vampire Edward Cullen, gave a shout out to fans on Twilight's Twitter page, writing, "Thank you for making NEW MOON #1," It's very exciting to be a part of something embraced by so many people."
Pattinson adds: "I hope you are looking forward to ECLIPSE as much as I am."
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Rihanna Shows Up Fashionable – and Fashionably Late – for Album Party
Originally posted 11/25/2009 02:05PM
Life doesn't get much sweeter for Rihanna.
The singer got a black-and-grey cake from the Cake Boss at the New York City launch party for her new album, Rated R on Tuesday night. The cake was decorated to match her chosen "dark" theme, and included mannequins, barbed wire, and two televisions with images of art from her album. It was all crowned by a silver "R."
Of course, Rihanna's lucky she got a piece at all. She showed up three hours late to the party, though she made her usual splash in a short, gold-sequined dress by noir jewelry for The Blonds, dazzling the likes of Diddy, Jay-Z, Fabulous and Christian Siriano.
• Reporting by AMY ELISE KEITH and DEBRA LEWIS-BOOTHMAN
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Tara's Biggest Loser Blog: Obesity Stats Make You Think!
Originally posted 11/25/2009 02:00PM
A visit from Suze Orman gives the contestants (past and present) lots to chew on
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PHOTO: George Lopez Gives Sandra Bullock a Makeover
Originally posted 11/25/2009 01:25PM
Comedian George Lopez gave pal Sandra Bullock an unusual gift this year – a hilarious new look.
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Lindsay Lohan to Remain Artistic Adviser at Ungaro
Originally posted 11/25/2009 01:00PM
Despite harsh words from the fashion house's founder, the embattled star is keeping her title
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Roman Polanski Makes Bail – But Release Delayed
Originally posted 11/25/2009 12:45PM
A Swiss court granted Roman Polanski a $4.5 million bail on Wednesday – but the director won't walk free quite yet.
He'll have to remain behind bars while the Swiss government decides whether it wants to appeal the decision. It has 10 days to file the necessary papers.
Under the agreement with the court, the 76-year-old would wear an electronic monitoring device on his ankle and remain under house arrest at his family chalet in Gstaad while the U.S. and Switzerland work out his extradition for sentencing on his decades-old guilty plea for sex with a minor.
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Brad and Angelina Are $7 Million Givers
Originally posted 11/25/2009 12:00PM
Big-name stars? Definitely.
But big givers? Of that, there is even less doubt.
Angelina Jolie, 34, and Brad Pitt, 45, gave a whopping $6.8 million to charities in 2008, the Hollywood Reporter says.
That was the amount given to various groups through the philanthropically minded couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which donated about half of the $13 million it raised last year to nonprofits like Global Health, Human Rights Watch, the Armed Services YMCA, and Pitt's own Make It Right Foundation, dedicated to rebuilding New Orleans. Another $1 million went to various causes in Cambodia, home country for their son Maddox.
– Michael Y. Park
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13-Year-Old Lost in NYC Subway for 11 Days
Originally posted 11/25/2009 11:40AM
They say New York's a gentler, safer city nowadays, but it's not any less confusing – especially to a 13-year-old runaway.
Francisco Hernandez Jr., who has the form of autism known as Asperger's syndrome, spent 11 days lost in the labyrinthine tunnels of the New York City subway system despite a search by his family, police and the Mexican consulate. He was finally found by a transit cop at the Coney Island station on Oct. 26, the New York Times reports.
Hernandez's odyssey began last month after he got in trouble at his middle school in Brooklyn. He called his mom, who said she wanted to have a serious talk with him. But instead of going home, the boy removed the battery from his cell phone and, with $10 and a subway pass in his pocket, headed for a nearby station. "I didn't want anyone to scream at me," he told the newspaper.
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