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Chuck Palahniuk's Choke Hits The Big Screen

2008-08-25T14:30:46Z

Choke Hits The Big Screen" width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" />Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of the best-selling Chuck Palahniuk novel, arrives in theaters on September 26. A wickedly colorful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks, Choke stars Sam

O'Reilly to Address Inside Edition Meltdown on Tonight's Factor

2008-05-14T16:59:36Z

Inside Edition Meltdown on Tonight's Factor" width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" />Well, now that everyone and Stephen Colbert (above) has taken his turn on Bill O'Reilly's classic meltdown clip, the one that has hung in there, in part, because of YouTube's diligent efforts to take it down eight hours after it went up, O'Reilly himself

Rediscover Dina Lohan, 'Top Mom'

2008-05-07T13:50:52Z

Dina Lohan, the slinky 45-year-old mother and manager of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan, doesn't exactly embody responsible parenting. But that didn't stop the Long Island-based Mingling Mom organization from bestowing upon Dina its first-ever "Top Mom"

Heidi Fleiss' Vice: Ice, Vikes

2008-04-24T20:00:52Z

Former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss is entering Dr. Drew Pinsky's Celebrity Rehab next season—filming starts the second week of June. Her poison? Vicodin and meth, she tells Radar exclusively. "If I want my Vicodin I'm going to take my Vicodin. And

Tina Brown to Partner with Barry Diller on News Aggregation Site

2008-04-02T18:54:57Z

Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown has more than her much-ballyhooed bio of Bill and Hillary Clinton coming down the pipeline: Radar has learned that the erstwhile "Queen of Buzz" is partnering with InterActiveCorp honcho Barry Diller to

Over 100 Staffers Leave Newsweek

2008-03-30T17:14:02Z

Newsweek" width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" />The staff of Newsweek will shrink dramatically, after 111 staffers on its news and business sides accepted a buyout last week. Among those leaving are some of the magazine's best-known, most-admired and longest-service critics, including David Gates,

25-Year-Old Afghani Army Supplier Also a Songwriting MySpace Sap

2008-03-27T19:58:59Z

In case you missed it, a stunning New York Times story details how the military has outsourced a $300 million arms contract, the linchpin in its support of the Afghani Army and police, to 22-year-old Miami Beach resident Efraim Diveroli and his wild-eyed

On Accused Tania Hollander's MySpace Page, She Plays Not a Madam But a Guru

2008-03-12T11:00:33Z

Tanya Hollander, the woman charged with arranging prostitutes for the Emperor's Club VIP, appears to have been leading a secret double life as both a hippie-ish holistic healer and a power broker's madam. Tanya, as the media has been spelling her name, is

Margaret Seltzer Honed Her Homegirl Hosejob on AOL, Borrowed Real Gangster ID

2008-03-06T14:45:48Z

SoCal Valley Girl turned 'straight from the hood' faux memoirist Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer has been perfecting her homegirl game for quite some time now, Radar has learned. By the time Seltzer set about hoodwinking her editor at Riverhead, Sarah McGrath,

Boy Band Svengali Lou Pearlman Cops a Plea, Speaks Out

2008-03-04T15:05:34Z

Lou Pearlman, the now jailed, corpulent hustler behind *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, has cut a deal with federal prosecutors and confirms to Radar exclusively his role in one of the largest, longest running Ponzi schemes in U.S. history. Writing in the