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Christina Milian's Bikini Body

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Christina Milian has shared her new year's resolution -- she wants a toned tummy in 2013!

"The Voice" co-host, 31, posted a photo of herself in a teeny bikini on Twitter, writing, "This will be my body by spring! You ready?! #tbt."

"So... The bikini picture I posted was from last July," she added, "So not gonna be too long till I'm back. Gotta stay in the zone...!"

Milian, who has an almost 3-year-old daughter Violet with ex-husband The Dream, is ready to get back in swimsuit shape and is determined to shed some pounds with a little help from her workout buddies.

"#FitFreshFly we're ready! This is a #lifestyle and we have to stay motivated!" she tweeted, "I'm making a goal to be EEExtr."

Check out Christina's goal bikini body below:

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The Surprising Inspiration For Jenny McCarthy's New Show

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PASADENA, Calif. — Jenny McCarthy says she's looking to Hugh Hefner's old "Playboy After Dark" as an inspiration for her new talk show.

The actress and former Playboy Playmate will host a late-night talk show Fridays on VH1 starting Feb. 8. After years of being tied up in unproductive development deals, McCarthy said Saturday she came to realize the best character she could play was herself.

She's looking for a party atmosphere. One segment she plans with celebrity guests is the "groundbreaking interview," which is talking to guests while both are lying on the ground.

McCarthy also plans a game, "Drunk, Dumb or Both," asking men outside a bar questions like, "what color is a red boat?"

Steve Karras: Gilda Radner Remembered

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In late November a newspaper reporter phoned Gene Wilder to tell him that a Wisconsin chapter of Gilda's Club -- the renowned cancer support center named for the original Saturday Night Live cast member Gilda Radner who lost her battle to ovarian cancer at 42 -- is changing its name to accommodate younger patients unfamiliar with the organization's namesake.

The legendary actor managed a gracious, on-the-spot-response, despite his utter shock that the club's banner meant to bear his late wife's name for time immemorial would be renamed Cancer Support Community Southwest Wisconsin. But when Wilder hung up the phone he realized there was much more to say.

"[The reporter] told me about the name change and I said, 'I had no idea.' Then I pictured that Gilda was hearing it too and that she was really sad and asking me, 'How could they do that?' She would have cried," Wilder recently told us.

"As her husband I could have told [Gilda's Club of Madison] that 'I think it would hurt Gilda's feelings terribly if she were watching what you're doing and that there's no reason to hurt her or those who love her. There are millions of people who still love her."

Gilda Susan Radner was born on June 28th, 1946 in Detroit. Her mother Henrietta was a housewife and her father Herman was a successful and gregarious hotelier who exposed his youngest daughter to show business. He took her to Broadway musicals in New York and shows in nightclubs around Detroit. And though she showed an early talent for singing and dance, Gilda's early performances were relegated mostly to the living room where she entertained company.

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With father Herman Radner


"I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to what this annoying little kid in my house was doing," Gilda's older brother Michael Radner said. "She was a little ham though."

The bond between brother and sister became stronger in the years following their father Herman Radner's death in 1960 and Michael became Gilda's greatest champion.

"We had this deal that she could call me no matter where she was or how late and I would come and get her," Radner said.


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Michael Radner and Gilda


At the Liggett School in Detroit Gilda was an enthusiastic member of the drama club and was later accepted into the theater department at the University of Michigan in nearby Ann Arbor. She honed her acting chops in school productions, learned improvisation and then chose to follow a boyfriend to Toronto in 1969 instead of graduating. She eventually auditioned for and landed a part in the Toronto production of the musical Godspell.

"She knocked everybody out with her personality that day, singing 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,' the simplest of songs, giving her 110 percent of cuteness and personality," said Paul Shaffer, the musical's conductor who auditioned Gilda that day in 1972.

Fellow Godspell cast member Dave Thomas, still a student at the time, was no less captivated by the lanky Jewish girl from just south of Windsor who seemed to burst at the seams with the kind of laughter and energy that invariably left instant admirers in the wake of meeting her.

"She was just so delightful and charming. She had those chocolate drop eyes and kind of reminded me of a young Judy Garland," Thomas told us.

Toronto in the early '70s was a breeding ground for a generation of actor/comedians that not only made up the future pantheon of sketch comedy gods, but where relationships, both personal and professional, were forged and continue to last to this day.

"It was a real confluence of talented people at the same place and same time and I think everybody knew that we all kind of stumbled on something special. Marty [Short] was dating Gilda at the time when I first met her and they were living together. It was a fairly significant house over the course of Godspell and Second City -- a real who's who of comedy: Marty, Eugene [Levy], Paul [Shaffer], Danny [Akroyd], Gilda, myself, John Belushi, and Bill Murray," said Thomas.

Musician Paul Shaffer was no exception to the regular goings at the infamous house at 1063 Ave Road in Toronto, and was inseparable from the group.

"We were all so close and would congregate at the house every Friday night," Shaffer said. "We called it Friday night services just to make each other laugh. Gilda laughed harder than anyone else, appreciating everyone else's humor. There was nobody like her."

Much of the Godspell cast, including Gilda, Eugene Levy, and Andrea Martin stayed in Toronto and joined the ranks of the Second City.

Then in 1974, another Canadian named Ivan Reitman invited Gilda to New York to join the National Lampoon Radio Hour, made up of future SNL cast mates Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and John Belushi.

"The first time I met Gilda was when Ivan put together a cast called The National Lampoon Show (a sequel to Lemmings) in a basement of the Time Life Building on 52nd Street," said Anne Beatts, then a writer for the Lampoon Show.

"She used to do a bit where she played a Mary Tyler Moore type, only she was blind. She would flat out walk into a wall every night and fall down which I thought was pretty gutsy. She probably bruised the hell out of herself but she kept doing it. And it was funny, no matter how many times you saw it. She was very daring."

That same year, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson decided he no longer wanted to film the show on weekends and NBC executives scrambled to fill the important Saturday night time slot. The network chose to develop Lorne Michaels' brainchild: a weekly variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, and political satire performed by a cast of unknowns, all of whom in a year's time would become the darlings of late night television.

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Paul Shaffer and Gilda


Saturday Night Live was born in 1975 and Gilda was the first of the show's "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" Michaels decided to hire.

"We both came to Saturday Night Live at the same time, her as a cast member and me as the pianist and other sundries," said Shaffer. "She even typed my immigration application for me when I had to get a new visa to work on the show."

For the next five years, Gilda exploded on television and into American homes every Saturday night, stealing the hearts of millions with her host of brilliantly eccentric characters -- now indelibly etched into modern memory -- like Lisa Loopner, Emily Litella, and the ornery Italian news commentator Roseanne Roseannadanna, widely known for her dubiously conciliatory catch phrase, "It's always something!"

"There were so few of us women and 'the girls' as Jane [Curtin], Laraine [Newman] and Gilda were referred to as, shared one dressing room for two or three years," said SNL writer Beatts, who along with Rosie Shuster (Lorne Michaels' then wife) rounded out the largely male staff of writers and cast members. "But everyone there became family -- sometimes a dysfunctional family but a family."

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"The Girls" Jane Curtain, Laraine Newman, and Gilda (L to R)

As expected, a very proud Michael Radner looked forward to his weekly ritual of catching the show on TV from his home in Detroit and then talking to his sister (she would always call) on the phone after each show and offering her his notes.

"It was surreal watching [Gilda] live on television every Saturday and knowing exactly where she was and where she stood on the stage," said Radner. "I also worried about whether she was going to get home safely."

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The Not Ready For Prime-Time Players

Gilda left the show in 1980 to concentrate on other artistic ventures such as stage, film and TV and made over 10 movies as well as appearing on many TV shows, including The Muppet Show, which she received an Emmy award for in 1978. She opened a successful one-woman Broadway show Gilda Radner -- Live From New York, incorporated the talents of SNL's Paul Shaffer, Don Novello, GE Smith (her first husband), and writers Anne Beatts, Alan Zweibel, Michael O'Donoghue, and Rosie Shuster.

Her next date with destiny came when actor/director Sidney Poitier was planning his next feature film, Hanky Panky in 1982 and cast Gilda opposite Gene Wilder.

"On the first night of filming near the Hudson River she looked at me and started to cry," Wilder said.

"I asked, 'why are you crying?' and she said, 'because I know I'm going to marry you.' I said, 'we're going a little fast here.' She was just so active about everything and the way she felt -- her crying, her laughing, everything. Then when the film was over and she was going to fly back home she kissed me and then said, 'if you ever want to get in touch with me tell my manager Bernie Brillstein, the ducks are in the pond.' When I got back home I suddenly dropped to my knees and started weeping that she wasn't there. So, I called Bernie and told him 'the ducks are in the pond.' He said, 'Ok, I understand' and we were together for a long time after that."

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Gilda and Gene Wilder

Wilder and Radner married in France in 1984 and then went on to star in two other films together, Woman in Red and Haunted Honeymoon. Then sometime in 1986 she started experiencing fatigue and sharp pain in her upper thighs.

"Well, the doctors said, 'she's very excitable, a little neurotic, and it will go away,' Wilder told us.

"Then 10 months later she was given a blow, stage IV ovarian cancer."

After receiving chemotherapy and radiation treatment Gilda was told that she was in remission. She then seized the opportunity to write a memoir titled It's Always Something, chronicling her life and struggle with cancer. She appeared on various talk shows including Late Night with David Letterman and guest starred on Garry Shandling's It's Garry Shandling's Show to positive reviews.

"I think she did a lot for the fight against cancer by being so public about it. It was proactive and helpful," Beatts said.

"At the time [Gilda] was given this clean bill of health I was at the party at Laraine's that Gilda came to and Bill Murray jokingly carried her around and presented her to people. It was really funny."

The remission turned out to be a false diagnosis and in May 1988, doctors found that Gilda's cancer had spread to other areas of her body. Still, she and her loved ones remained positive.

"No matter what people said, no matter what doctors said, I said, 'she's going to make it," Wilder said.

She was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California on May 17, 1989 for further tests and a CAT scan, despite her extreme fear that she might not come out of the hospital. To calm her down doctors gave her a sedative and she passed into a coma. Gilda Radner passed away on May 20th, 1989.

Her dying wish was to create a center for people with cancer to receive the kind of emotional and social support she received when she had cancer. And through the efforts of Gene Wilder and Joanna Bull (Gilda's psychotherapist), the first Gilda's Club was opened in New York City in 1995 -- its watchword "No one should have to face cancer alone."


"It took Joanna and I four and a half years to get the first one in New York going. It took a long time time to raise the money and get people to know about it," Wilder said. "I had originally thought 'Well, I could take a year out of my life' to do this but it took four years. But we had people from all over the world to help us."

Wilder remained active in cancer-related causes and helped found the Gilda Radner Ovarian Cancer Detection Center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Then while preparing for his role as a deaf man in See No Evil, Hear No Evil he met Karen Webb, then a clinical supervisor for the New York League for the Hard of Hearing and a relationship developed between the two.

"We've been married for 21 years -- happier than I've ever been -- and we talk about Gilda a lot because [Karen] never met her," said Wilder. "Talking about Gilda as much as I wished hasn't bothered her."

For Paul Shaffer, whose 2009 autobiography We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swinging Show Biz Saga featured a chapter called, "Loving Gilda" he has never stopped talking about her.

"Gilda seemed to know exactly where I was at. We bonded over everything," Shaffer said. I often think about a song I co-wrote with her, very early in Saturday Night Live. It was a number for Gilda, Laraine Newman, and Jane Curtin to perform in the style of The Supremes -- we both loved the Supremes so much and Gilda, like them, was from the Detroit area, too. We performed the song at dinner for the International Radio and Television Society Foundation and afterwards on the way out, Gilda paused to me at the piano and said, 'I did it for Flo,' which meant [Supreme] Florence Ballard whose death at too young an age we used to commiserate about a lot. What more can I say? She's missed. None of us have forgotten her, she's with us, just not here on a physical plane."

Of the 23 active Gilda's Clubs in the U.S. and Canada most have retained their original names, despite a 2012 merger with The Wellness Community, another popular cancer support center. And like the Gilda's Club in Madison, Wisconsin, other affiliates have also chosen to adopt the name Cancer Support Community in recognition of the merger.

"For someone known for making people laugh and helping with their emotional healing the name change is sad because it takes away her story and her legacy," said Michael Radner.

"But if you think about it, this couldn't have been a better publicity stunt because it's got people talking about her."

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LISTEN: New Music From Nelly

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Good news for Nelly fans!

The prolific artist has just released another song.

Called "Hey Porsche," the song is a modern sound for Nelly, with a club beat and poppy vocals. Nelly sings over much of the track, highlighting vocals reminiscent of his 2010 hit, "Just a Dream" and his 2002 collaboration with Kelly Rowland, "Dilemma."

The lyrics are far from poetic as Nelly croons in the chorus, "Hey little Porsche, I wanna try ya / Crazy baby girl, there ain’t nothing like you. Hey little Porsche, so right I had to get ya / B-b-back it up, let’s roll, roll, roll."

Many have been quick to point out the obvious similarities between "Hey Porsche" and Flo Rida's "Whistle" -- take a listen below.

The good news for Nelly is that if the success of "Whistle" is any indication of what works on the radio, "Hey Porsche" will likely hold a spot in the Top 40 for weeks.

Nelly's latest album, "M.O." will be his seventh studio album. The rapper released his debut album, "Country Grammar," in 2000.

Cher Is Heading Back To TV

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Cher is heading back to the small screen.

The music legend, who last starred on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour"40 years ago, is working on a TV pilot. The gay icon is in development with Logo, an LGBT-centric cable channel, on a period drama, set in 1960s Hollywood.

Cher is working with veteran TV writer Ron Zimmerman on the show and while she is currently attached as writer, she may also co-star.

Logo's Senior Vice President of Original Programming Brent Zacky made the announcement about Cher's potential show at the 2013 Television Critics Association Press Tour on Saturday.

"We read some of the stuff that Cher and Ron had written and it was really terrific," Zacky told The Hollwyood Reporter. "The deal is brand-new and we're just getting started on the project ... We're very carefully and hopefully diligently taking a few shots in this arena and we'll see how it pans out. We're certainly excited to be in business with an icon like Cher."

For more on Cher's potential return to TV, click over to The Hollywood Reporter.

SNEAK PEEK: The All-Stars Claws Are Out For 'Celebrity Apprentice'

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"Celebrity Apprentice" is back with what is sure to be an explosive all-star season.

NBC released a trailer for the "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" installment at the 2013 Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour and it is chockfull of drama.

Lisa Rinna vs. Gary Busey, La Toya Jackson vs. Omarosa and many more showdowns are in store when "Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars" premieres on Sunday, March 3 at 9 p.m. EST on NBC.

Check out the trailer below and check out all the all-star contestants here.

Courteney Cox: 'I Still Love David Arquette'

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No bad blood here!

Courteney Cox and David Arquette amicably separated in Oct. 2010 and officially filed for divorce in June 2012. But the former couple is still as close as ever.

"He's my best friend in the world," Cox, 48, admits on an episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" airing Jan. 7, (via People). "I love him."

Cox, who supported Arquette, 41, through his treatment in rehab and his comeback on "Dancing With the Stars," says she and her ex are a great team and simply grew apart over their 11-year marriage.

"I appreciate David more now than I ever did. I mean ... it's hard. I don't recommend divorce in general, but, you know, he is my best friend and we've both grown and changed," the "Cougar Town" star, who shares custody of their 8-year-old daughter Coco, explains, adding, "I think we both appreciate each other more. I hope he does. I do."

Arquette is currently dating "Entertainment Tonight" correspondent Christina McClarty, while Cox is enjoying her single life.


A Big Surprise At The Box Office

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Big-budget Oscar contenders "Django Unchained" and "Les Miserables" were in for a big surprise this week. The critically acclaimed movies were beat out by the Lionsgate horror flick "Texas Chainsaw 3D."

"Texas Chainsaw" took the number one spot at the box office this weekend, earning $23 million across 2,654 theaters. "To reach this level is a very pleasant surprise," Lionsgate President of Domestic Distribution Richie Fey said, THR reports. One of the major reasons for the film's success is R&B singer Trey Songz. One in three moviegoers cited the artist's appearance in "Texas Chainsaw 3D" as the reason to see the movie.

Jamie Foxx, an Oscar winning actor who also moonlights as an R&B singer, took second place with "Django Unchained." The film, directed by Quentin Tarantino, made $20 million across 3,010 theaters, bringing its total gross to $106.3 million. With a $100 million budget, "Django Unchained" has now earned a profit.

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" continued its successful box office run, taking the number three spot. The J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation made $17.5 million this weekend, bringing its total domestic gross to $263.8 million.

The film adaptation of "Les Miserables," starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Amanda Seyfried dropped to number four this week. The movie made $16.1 million across 2,904 theaters. "Les Miserables" has made $103.6 million since its Dec. 25 release.

The latest comedy from Bette Midler, "Parental Guidance," edged in at number five. The movie, which also stars Billy Crystal, made $10.1 million this weekend, bringing its total gross to $52.7 million.

Mariah Carey's First Husband Takes Credit For Her Career

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Mariah Carey's ex-husband, record executive Tommy Mottola -- who she says was a "controlling" man who "mentally and emotionally" abused her during their four-year-marriage -- is speaking out.

Mottola, who is 20 years Carey's senior and married her when she was just 23, is clearing the air in his new memoir "Hitmaker," saying he might have been demanding, but he's the reason for her worldwide success.

"If it seemed like I was controlling, I apologize," he writes in his book, available on Jan. 15. "Was I obsessive? Yes. But that was also part of the reason for her success."

According to the New York Post, Mottola, who divorced the mother of his two children to be with the singer in 1993, explains that because he didn't let Carey take a break early on in her career, she became a superstar.

"My feeling was that there’d be plenty of time for Mariah to celebrate just a little ways down the road," the 63-year-old, now married to singer Thalia, writes. “I’m not talking 10 years, just a few."

But the music mogul is not taking full responsibility, adding that Carey's talent is untouched.

"An unbelievable energy was running though me, screaming, ‘Turn the car around! That may be the best voice you’ve ever heard in your life,'" he reportedly writes of when he first listened to Carey's demo.

Still, the "American Idol" judge has persistently dismissed Mottola's claims, calling their marriage a "private hell" and saying in an interview, "I came to him with the voice that I have. I came to him with the songs that went on to be Number One records."

Globes And Oscars Contenders Talk Awards Season

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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — The Award Season Express made its first stop of the new year in the middle of the desert a couple hours east of Hollywood at the annual Palm Springs International Film Festival gala.

A blast of Golden Globe nominees and Oscar hopefuls walked the press gauntlet Saturday night, including Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Helen Hunt and John Hawkes ("The Sessions"), Ben Affleck ("Argo") and "Arbitrage" star Richard Gere, who received the night's so-called Chairman's Award.

"Great," Gere noted with more than a touch of sarcasm. "That's better than the Governors Award?" he inquired with a chuckle. "What's the pecking order of these awards? I want to know. Am I getting the best award? I'm not going in unless I'm getting the best award!"

Though the 63-year-old Gere has never received an Oscar nomination, there were previous Academy Award winners aplenty at the Palm Springs gala. Among them, Sally Field, the night's honoree for career achievement, including her hard-won role of Mary Todd in director Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln."

"I still can't believe I got the role," Field replied, cracking a smile. "Did I get it."

Turning serious, Field told the black-tie audience she was proud to be part of the film and happy to still be working. "I'm very lucky. ... Next year it'll be 50 years that I've been in the business as a professional. It's been a wild ride," she said.

This upcoming week, the Awards Season Express has a bit of a wild ride itself, with the People's Choice show, two critics awards ceremonies and Thursday morning's Oscar nominations.

So how does the phrase "Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper" sound to the "Silver Linings Playbook" actor?

"That would be incredible," Cooper answered, explaining that he just may sleep through the pre-dawn nomination announcements. "Yeah, I'm sure I'll get up, but maybe I'll be asleep. I don't know."

And just three days after the Oscar nominations, it's the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards – a "much, much friendlier" show, exclaimed "Hitchcock" nominee Helen Mirren.

"And it has to do with those tables in still quite a small room," she added. "They haven't allowed it to get enormous. ... Everybody table jumps and chats. It's always slightly naughty. The hosts are always naughty. I can't wait to have Tina Fey and Amy Poehler doing it. That's going to be such fun."

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Complete list of 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival honorees:

__"Argo's" Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin and Bryan Cranston received the Ensemble Performance Award.

__Bradley Cooper, the actor Desert Palm Achievement Award for "Silver Linings Playbook."

__Naomi Watts, the actress Desert Palm Achievement Award for "The Impossible."

__Helen Hunt, Spotlight Award for "The Sessions."

__Helen Mirren, International Star Award for "Hitchcock."

__Mychael Danna, the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing for "Life of Pi."

__Richard Gere, Chairman's Award for "Arbitrage."

__Robert Zemeckis, Director of the Year Award for "Flight."

__Sally Field ("Lincoln"), Career Achievement Award.

__Tom Hooper, the Sonny Bono Visionary Award for "Les Miserables."

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Online:

http://www.psfilmfest.org/index.aspx

Justin Bieber Grants 7-Year-Old Cancer' Patient's Wish

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SALT LAKE CITY — Millie Flamm was too sick to attend Justin Bieber's concert in Salt Lake City, but she got the next best thing: a visit from the pop star in her hospital room.

Bieber showed up in the 7-year-old leukemia patient's room at Primary Children's Medical Center before his concert Saturday night.

Her mother, Amanda Flamm, told the Deseret News () that Millie's mood brightened when Bieber walked into the room and gave her a big hug. http://bit.ly/SdSGQO

"He was so sweet to her," she said. "He walked in and her whole face just lit up."

Bieber sang a song while holding her hand and gave her his guitar pick.

"She is squeezing on to it with all her might and will not let it go," the mother said.

Bieber gave Millie a kiss on the cheek before leaving, prompting the girl to tell her mother, "You are never going to wash my face again."

Family friends launched an online campaign promoting the visit when a crushed Millie was forced to sell her concert tickets after suffering a relapse two weeks ago.

The family was not even sure Millie could meet Bieber because she had been running a fever and was on oxygen.

The visit will help Millie as she continues her cancer treatment, her mother said.

"It just has re-energized all of us," she told the Deseret News. "We are ready to keep going and fight harder with all this backing and this fun thing that has happened, and keep going and keep fighting."

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Information from: Deseret News, http://www.deseretnews.com

Larry King Will Guest Star On '1600 Penn'

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Larry King is heading to the White House.

The former long-running CNN host will make a guest appearance on "1600 Penn," NBC's new comedy about a fictional first family and their lives at the legendary Washington, D.C. address.

NBC announced that King was among a collection of real-life journalists who will stop by "1600 Penn" on Sunday at the 2013 Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. Joining King are Savannah Guthrie of "Today," NBC's Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd, and "Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.

On Sunday, Guthrie retweeted the news about her appearance on "1600 Penn," which sees Bill Pullman return to his POTUS position for the first time since the 1996 box office hit "Independence Day."

"1600 Penn" stars Pullman as Presiden Dale Gilchrist, with Jenna Elfman acting as First Lady Emily Nash-Gilchrist and step-mother to his children Skip (Josh Gad), Becca (Martha MacIsaac), Marigold (Amara Miller) and Zander (Benjamin Stockham).

No politicians have signed on for guest appearances as of now.

Watch an all-new "1600 Penn" sneak peek below!

"1600 Penn" premieres on Thursday, January 10 at 9:30 p.m. EST on NBC.

FIRST LOOK: 'Revolution's' Explosive Return

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"Revolution" doesn't return until March, but NBC has a sneak peek of what you'll see when Season 1 starts back up.

"We pick up exactly where we left off," "Revolution" Executive Producer Eric Kripke said at the 2013 Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour on Sunday, where the preview made its debut.

When "Revolution's" winter finale aired in November, Miles (Billy Burke) and Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) finally rescued Danny (Graham Rogers) and Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell), but the villainous Gen. Monroe (Giancarlo Esposito) had the electrical power and the fleet of helicopters to cultivate a high-tech military force.

In the two-minute preview below of what's to come when "Revolution" returns in March, there's a whole lot of kissing, punching and exploding. It all culminates in Rachel saying, "Monroe has power. Let's get some of our own."

Watch the "Revolution" preview below and tune in to NBC on Monday, March 25 at 10 p.m. ET for the rest of "Revolution" Season 1.

IT'S OFFICIAL

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin probably isn't over the moon about his recent divorce.

The 82-year-old -- who is best known as the second man to walk on the moon -- finalized his divorce from his third wife, Lois Driggs Cannon, on December 28. According to the New York Daily News, the former Mrs. Aldrin is reportedly walking away with nearly half of his fortune.

Cannon's settlement will reportedly include half of a $475,000 bank account and $9,500 per month in spousal support.

Aldrin filed for divorce in June 2011 after 23 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. He was previously married to Joan Archer and Beverly Zile.

The spaceman isn't the first high-profile person to call it quits with his spouse of many years later in life. Click through the slides below for six other Hollywood stars who did the same.

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15 Hilarious One Direction Animated Gifs

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One Direction's awesome -- and incredibly goofy -- new music video for "Kiss You" has finally arrived, after weeks of teasers were released for impatient Directioners.

And we all know that a new, extra-hilarious 1D video can only mean one thing on the Tumblr and Twitterverse: AMAZING animated gifs.

We've rounded up 15 crazy/incredible fan-made gifs from "Kiss You" in the slideshow below. (Obviously, this includes the many awkward shirtless dances of Harry Styles on a surfboard.)

Share your favorite One Direction gifs with us by tweeting @huffpostteen!

DJ Louie XIV: Not Every Song Sounds Like Madonna, Mom

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To the surprise of absolutely no one, my mom and I don't see eye-to-eye on all music. Of course, like all kids, she and my dad's musical taste has had a huge influence on me and we share an appreciation for certain things: The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson (duh), the first Alanis Morissette album and oddly enough, Ol Dirty Bastard (or as she lovingly refers to him, "rap's James Brown"). We used to dance around our living room to "Ice Ice Baby" and she and my dad took me to my first rock concert at age 7 (Alanis, again). And I really have to give her credit: this lady really does, unlike many of her contemporaries, stay current. She keeps up with new stuff and listens to everything I recommend to her (on Kendrick Lamar: "He's good, but I don't necessarily want to hear about him fucking the world with his giant penis"). She introduced me to Fun. before "We Are Young" blew up and she featured Theophilus London on her online magazine, StyleLikeU, long before I had fully caught on to his music.

One area where we do not share a meeting of the minds, though, is pop music. Her most common critique of any contemporary pop song she hears? "She's just copying Madonna." Literally every single female-led pop song. Doesn't matter if it's Britney or Robyn, Marina, Icona Pop, Gwen Stefani, La Roux, MNDR, Rihanna, whatever. And it's not that she's wrong, per se, but it's always bugged me to no end for a number of a reasons, which I will explore further momentarily.

However, it was her most recent accusation of Madonna-aping that pushed me over the edge and onto Microsoft Word to pen this little write-up. A couple weeks ago, I sent her a video of Solange performing her absolutely stunning new single "Losing You" on Jimmy Fallon. I forwarded this to her thinking she was totally gonna go for it: Here was an artist singing a extraordinarily well-written, true, honest and gimmick-free song about love and love-lost, complete with a funky, organic beat that manages the rare feat of sounding simultaneously vintage and forward-thinking (courtesy of Blood Orange's Dev Hynes). Furthermore, Solange writes her own lyrics, something my mom as a child of '60s and '70s ("real music with real soul") values highly, and, the crown jewel, she also doesn't insist on wearing a leotard and "dressing for men," something my mom also despises about our current batch of pop divas.

But low and behold, after much anticipation, all I got was the same old appraisal: "I like it, but the song is just copying Madonna." GRRRRRR. OK: Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. First-off, in the words of Madonna's most shameless spawn, Lady Gaga, there is no more adoring Madonna fan than me. I own every album, appreciate the deep tracks as much as the singles ("Keep It Together," anyone?) and even stuck by her through many of her more recent missteps (Though I'll admit I recently hopped off the blind-faith tour with Madge after her last album, which I think was pretty much an unqualified disaster). But Madonna's main talent, as has been well-documented and perhaps bares little repeating, is her ability to copy and copy well. Madonna made her name not as a virtuoso singing or dancing talent, not as a beauty, not even as a talented musician or songwriter. No. Madonna's talent was always her ability to cull influences and bring them forward into the mainstream. Sometimes, they were underground influences like "vogueing" and early house music at the beginning of the '90s, and other times she straight-up ripped off the work of mega pop stars before her: The beat of "Like a Virgin" is a famously blatant replica of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean."

Secondly, all art, whether we're talking about the work of Vincent Van Gogh or Bob Dylan, is merely a play off of what came before it (duh, again). Many art scholars believe the former spent his career attempting to emulate the essence of Rembrandt's work, and the latter openly admits that his entire early catalogue consists of song structures and themes aped directly from the folks songs of his childhood, with lyrics mimicking the the spirit and cadence of poet Dylan Thomas. Why should pop music, an art form which doesn't necessarily aim to be nearly as high-minded as the work of either of these aforementioned masters, be any different? Is Quentin Tarantino an "original" because he pairs so many disparate influences -- B-movies, spaghetti westerns, Blaxploitation films -- into one form, or is he a copy-cat for that exact reason?

And lastly, and pardon my French, but who the fuck cares? Fun is fun, and good music is good music, especially when it comes to pop. Whether we're talking about the Beatles singing "she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah," Michael Jackson wanting to rock with us *clap* all night, or Rihanna being bad, but perfectly good at it, these songs all share a certain familiar verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus structure, a lightness, a universal zeal, and are all great pop jams in their own right, despite the aspects they share with one another. If we spend our whole lives trying to deem how much of the art we consume is "original" and how much is not, doesn't that take all the pleasure out of the sheer immediate enjoyment out of that art? It's pop, Mom. Familiarity and accessibility is half the point.

So look, there is no question that Madonna was an original. But so is Solange. And I love you, Mom, but criticizing a pop song for "sounding like Madonna" is about as an airless a judgement as saying you don't like baked ziti because it "tastes like lasagna." Besides, "Losing You" gives me way more Neneh Cherry than Madonna, anyway.

Letterman: I See A Psychiatrist Once A Week

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PASADENA, Calif. — Three years after an extortion scandal that led him to bare his infidelities, David Letterman said he sees a psychiatrist once a week to try to be the person that he believed he was.

The late-night talk show host gave an extraordinary interview to Oprah Winfrey in which he talked about his feud with her and Jay Leno, and about his efforts to make amends for his affairs with "Late Show" staff members that became public in 2009.

"For a long time I thought I was a decent guy," Letterman said. "But yet, thinking I was a decent guy, I was still capable of behavior that wasn't coincidental to leading a decent life. That's what I'm working on. I want to really be the person I believe that I was. I wanna be a good person."

The interview aired Sunday on Winfrey's OWN network and will be repeated Jan. 20. It was recorded in November.

Letterman said his wife, Regina, has forgiven him, and he tries every day to regain her trust. He said he still hasn't forgiven himself.

Letterman said he went through depression that he described as a sinkhole that he thought he wouldn't come out of. But with medication, he said, he pulled through and told Winfrey he now has compassion for others who have gone through depression.

"I always thought, `Aw, you're depressed? Go do some push-ups and you'll feel better,'" he said. "But it's not that."

Details of the affairs emerged after a television producer threatened to unveil them if Letterman didn't give him money. The producer was later jailed for four months.

Letterman took control of the story in 2009 by coming clean about his affairs on his show before the details came out. He acknowledged before making the announcement that he had other motives.

"In the back of my mind – and this will give you the extent, the breadth and width of what a weasel I could be – I was thinking, eh, maybe I can make this, maybe I can get a little sympathy out of this deal here," he said.

Winfrey interviewed Letterman for "Oprah's Next Chapter" at Indiana's Ball State University, after being interviewed publicly by Letterman before students at the CBS comic's alma mater. They cleared the air on their own feud, which fueled Letterman's comedy for years.

Letterman said he believed it began when he called to ask Winfrey to appear on "Late Show" when he was going to do some shows in Chicago and Winfrey would not agree to appear.

Winfrey said she declined because she had been on Letterman's show before and there were drunk people in the audience who made it uncomfortable.

"I didn't want to have that experience again," she said. "That's really all it was for me."

Letterman said he didn't remember that appearance and was sorry for what Winfrey went through. He took her hand and kissed it. "I hope we can put this behind us, Oprah," he said.

"Let us do it, David," she said.

Despite Letterman's often withering comments about his NBC rival Leno, he said they were friends before Leno was picked over Letterman to be "Tonight" show host. Letterman believes they are still friends.

"He is the funniest guy I've ever known," Letterman said. "Just flat out, if you go to see him do his nightclub act, just the funniest, the smartest, a wonderful observationalist and very appealing as a comic. Therefore, the fact that he is also maybe the most insecure person I have ever known ... I could never reconcile that."

Letterman said some of the trash-talking between the two is simply the way comics often act toward one another.

Bruce Bobbins, a Leno spokesman, said Monday the NBC comic had no comment on Letterman's interview.

Inside Amber Rose's Baby Shower

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It was one bright baby shower for Amber Rose, who celebrated the upcoming birth of her first child on Sunday.

“We had a good ol down home baby shower today. No papz, no booshiness just fun, friends, family, food and good times,” Rose, who’s expecting a baby boy in February, Tweeted before sharing a few photos.

Ryan Lochte Gets An E! Reality Show

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Ryan Lochte has scored his own reality TV show on E!

The Olympic swimmer will star in "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?," a weekly series that E! says will "take viewers inside the unpredictable and offbeat life" of the sports star. The six-episode series will premiere in April 2013.

“Ryan Lochte captured everyone's attention at the Summer Olympics with his athletic prowess and his utterly unique and unaffected approach to life," E! Entertainment President Suzanne Kolb said in a statement. "He is an incredibly endearing personality who is sexy, entertaining and fun. Watching this show, I believe people will fall into three categories: They want to be him, sleep with him or mother him.”

The series will show Lochte hitting the local club scene of Gainesville, Florida, training with Gregg Troy and will also highlight his shoe collection of more that 150 pairs of sneakers. Lochte's family, including his mother Ike, younger brother Devon and older sisters Kristin and Megan, will be featured in the series.

Lochte had made it known he was looking at various TV projects after the 2012 Olympics. He made scripted acting appearances in The CW's "90210" and NBC's "30 Rock" and he'd been rumored to be in the running to be ABC's "Bachelor," but that title went to Sean Lowe.

In August 2012, Lochte's Sports Agent Erika Wright told The Hollywood Reporter, "I cannot tell you the exact shows, but two different reality show concepts have been offered and one additional is being discussed."

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