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Lindsay Lohan Finally Gives Up The Adderall?

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Lindsay Lohan has waved the white flag in her battle for Adderall ….. TMZ has learned.

Lilo has put up a tough fight to keep the Adderall train rolling in rehab.  First she threatened to boycott rehab unless she got the Rx drug, then she pitched a fit at Betty Ford when they took it away, but sources close to her tell us she's finally ok living Adderall-free in the new facility.


Jay-Z Unites Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Nas, Pharrell

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Jay-Z's next album, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," is quickly becoming a who's who of the music industry.

The 43-year-old rapper already publicized "Part II (On the Run)," a duet with his wife Beyonce, a track with Frank Ocean appropriately called "Oceans," and a mouthful of a song with Rick Ross called "FuckWithMeYouKnowIGotIt."

The latest track to be teased off of the upcoming "Magna Carta Holy Grail" features some of the biggest names in the business. Called "BBC," the song has Jay-Z collaborating with Nas, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Swizz Beats, Pharrell, and Timbaland. Hov, who is partnering with Samsung for the release of "Magna Carta Holy Grail," debuted the lyrics to "BBC" this week through a Samsung app. The company will provide early copies of the album to certain users of the Samsung mobile software.

“It’s Rat Pack-ing,” Nas told Vibe about the collaboration.“We were definitely recording. 'Magna Carta' was going down. Some Justin Timberlake new album stuff was in the next room. Timbaland. D'USSE. Hennessey. Good times.”

Due out next month, "Magna Carta" is Jay-Z's 12th solo studio album. The project includes 13 songs and two bonus tracks.

Check out the lyric sheet to "BBC" below.

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Julia Roberts' Kids Have Gotten So Big

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Julia Roberts' husband Danny Moder and the couple's three kids visited the Oscar-winning actress on the set of "The Normal Heart" yesterday (June 29) in NYC.

Twins Phinnaeus "Finn" and Hazel, 8, and their younger brother Henry, 6, stood close to their dad as they watched their famous mom prepare to shoot the TV movie, which co-stars Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons and Mark Ruffalo.

Can you believe how big Finn, Hazel and Henry have gotten?

See pictures below:

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Daily Mail's Alec Baldwin Story No Longer Up

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The Daily Mail story that led to Alec Baldwin's Twitter tirade was no longer up online on Sunday.

Baldwin unleashed a series of angry, homophobic tweets after the Daily Mail's George Stark accused Baldwin's wife Hilaria of tweeting while the couple was attending James Gandolfini's funeral. The story turned out to be incorrect, and could not be found on the Daily Mail's website, which showed the message, "Sorry...The page you have requested does not exist or is no longer available."

The Daily Mail said on Saturday that it had been wrong, and that Hilaria Baldwin had actually tweeted after the funeral. The tweets were actually sent out three hours after what the timestamps reflected.

"We accept Mrs Baldwin’s assertions that she did not Tweet from the funeral and apologise for any distress caused," a spokesperson for the newspaper said. "But this was a genuine misunderstanding caused by a baffling defect in the Twitter platform and we would also call on Mr Baldwin to withdraw his homophobic and threatening remarks."

Among Baldwin's tweets on Friday were, "I'm gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna fuck...you...up," and "If I put my foot up your f-cking ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much." Baldwin has since deleted his Twitter account, and issued an apology to GLAAD.

Miranda Priestly Taught Us SO Much About Fashion

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Can you believe "The Devil Wears Prada" turns 7 today? Our favorite film adaptation of a fashion book has taught us so much about the style world, we don't know how we survived without it.

While the fashions the film depicts may no longer be current, we've revisited the best style lessons Miranda Priestly (a.k.a. Meryl Streep) taught us. The icy editrix, rumored to be based on Vogue's Anna Wintour, could practically kill her peons with a simpering stare -- not to mention the fiery, dismissive, yet hilarious insults she dispels. Revisit Miranda's harshest moments with the GIFs below. That's all.

Remember: Having a little ego is accurate.

Caffeine keeps the fashion world alive.

Speed is the name of the game.

Don't even bother coming up with excuses.

Weather is irrelevant.

Honesty is the best policy. Don't worry about people's feelings.

Your boss is always right.

Don't even think about second-guessing her.

Radical ideas are the only ones that matter.

Fashion is no place for humor.

In this industry, everyone is fat.

And get used to hearing this word:

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Watch All Of Pete Campbell's Epic 'Mad Men' Rants

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Mad Men's Pete Campbell has always been a great ranter: haughty, aggrieved apoplexy is the longest arrow in his quiver. But this season, faced with obstructions from Don, his mother, and Bob Benson, he really turned the dials up to eleven. Foiled IPO? He'll get so heated he falls down the stairs, literally stumbling over his livid words. Mom disappeared from a cruise ship? He'll ream out the "Panamanian criminals" and the "Spanish fly" that might've had any hand in it. Secretary not quite getting office politics? He'll make sure she feels like she's worth less than the notepad on which she scribbled his missed phone calls. (Though it is a sign of his patrician aspirations that he stops short of actually foaming at the mouth.) Watch this supercut of Pete Campbell's epic, head-shaking, face-reddening season-six rants. It'll make you want to suck on an empathetic lozenge for Vincent Kartheiser.

Mariah Carey Reminds Us Once Again That She's '#Beautiful'

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Because the world can never have enough Mariah Carey, the songstress has remixed her hit single "#Beautiful" once again, this time with some help from rapper Young Jeezy.

Jeezy's remix is the latest iteration of Carey's hit single with Miguel. Originally released in May, "#Beautiful" will be remixed a total of five times. Last week, Carey debuted the first remix to "Beautiful," featuring A$AP Rocky. The song has also been edited for a dance version by Louie Vega and a Spanglish edition, dubbed "#Hermosa."

The remix to "#Beautiful" led by Young Jeezy maintains Miguel's contribution to the track while switching up the cadence of Carey's vocals and adding a rap lick from Jeezy. Take a listen to the remix above.

"#Beautiful" is the lead single off of Carey's upcoming album "The Art of Letting Go." While the album was originally scheduled to hit stores on July 23, it has since been delayed indefinitely. The 43-year-old singer took to Twitter last week to announce the delay, citing a need to do the album "justice."


Lauryn Hill Rants About Racism And The IRS

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Lauryn Hill took to her Tumblr page to rant about racism, slavery and the IRS in a lengthy open letter on June 28 -- one day before she was set to begin serving three months in prison for tax evasion. Hill was sentenced in May for failing to pay taxes on approximately $1.8 million in earnings.

The 38-year-old presumably pins her legal woes with the IRS on historical racism, beginning her piece by saying, "The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous."

Read her entire post below:

The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of the modern world was built on the forced free labor of black peoples. The African Slave Trade, the institution of slavery, colonialism, its derivative systems, and the multiple holocausts throughout history, where whites used race as the defining reason to justify their oppression, conquest, and brutal treatment of non-white peoples, are how race became such a factor to begin with.

The initial claim by the oppressors, followed a moral imperative (so they said) that people outside of Occidental and European birth were in savage and cursed conditions, and that God justified the captivity of these people, and the rape and pillage of their lands.

Ironically, these oppressors would try to discard this same God, who supposedly justified this brutality, in the name of Darwin, whose famous line ‘survival of the fittest’ was used to justify criminal behavior once the Bible could no longer be used as a hiding place for economic domination and evil intention.

Spirituality and morality were replaced by capitalism, and with it a conscious shift of focus toward the exploitation of the vulnerable.

In order to justify reverse racism one would have to first create an even playing field, undo the generations of torture, terror, and brutality, and then judge whether or not a non-white person is in fact a racist. This approach would require people to examine the need/addiction to feel superior to someone else for no justifiable reason, and the myriad policies: Spiritual, political and social, that it bore. True dominion is self evident and not the result of sabotaging another in order to achieve it. That would be an illegitimate as well as a fleeting position. The Universe, will eventually seek to right/balance itself.

Of course there are white people who live transcendent lives, not exploiting ill-gotten privilege or perpetuating the sins of their ancestors who used violence and deceit as a means to gain advantage over others. Humanity in proper order is obligated to acknowledge the Truth, whoever it comes from, be they Black, White or other. Righteous indignation is simply a response to long-standing evil.

Much of the world is still reeling from the abuses of Imperialist selfishness, misunderstanding, ignorance and greed. Black people remain in many ways a shattered community, disenfranchised, forcefully removed from context and still caged in, denied from making truly independent choices and experiencing existential freedom. Their natural homes, just like their natural selves, raped and pillaged of the resources and gifts God has given to them. Interpreted through someone else’s slanted lens and filter, they remain in many ways, misrepresented. Taxation without proper representation, might I remind you, was the very platform of protest that began the Revolutionary War, which gained this country its independence from England. Anger is not only the natural response to the abuse of power, but is also appropriate when there is no real acknowledgment of these abuses, or deep, meaningful and profound change.

If we took all of what we deem horrible regarding the criminal abuses that black people have committed over this country’s history, and add it all up, it still does not compare to the hundreds of years of terrorism, violent domination, theft, rape, abuse, captivity, and beyond that black people have suffered under the ideologies and systems of white supremacy, racism, and slave based paradigms. I say this only to say that abuse unresolved begets or creates abuse. How then does the chief offender become the judge? Might does not necessarily mean right. Right is right. People forcibly reduced to sub-human existences, so that they behave in sub-human ways, helps a system to justify itself or feel less guilty about its blood saturated foundation and gross crimes against humanity. People, like plants, grow where the light is. When you enclose a plant and limit its light source, it will bend itself toward the light, for the light is necessary for its survival. This same thing happens to people locked in communities where little light and little opportunity is allowed them, survival then forces them to twist and/or bend toward the only way of escape.

There is good. And I both acknowledge and encourage the good. Instead of throwing out the Baby with the bath water, we do well to expose the intentionally poisoned water the Baby has been forced to soak in since its origin in these lands. America’s particular brand of hypocrisy is gross (double entendre).

I shuddered during sentencing when I kept hearing the term ‘make the IRS whole’… make the IRS whole, knowing that I got into these very circumstances having to deal with the very energies of inequity and resistance that created and perpetuated these savage inequalities. The entire time, I thought, who has made black people whole?! Who has made recompense for stealing, imposing, lying, murdering, criminalizing the traumatized, taking them against their wills, destroying their homes, dividing their communities, ‘trying’ to steal their destinies, their time, stagnating their development, I could go on and on. Has America, or any of the nations of the world guilty of these atrocities, ever made black people or Africa whole or do they continue to sit on them, control them, manipulate them, cage them, rob them, brutalize them, subject them to rules that don’t apply to all? Use language, veiled coercion, and psychological torment like invisible fences to keep them locked into a pattern of limitation and therefore control by others. You have to remain focused to cease from rage.

The prosecutor, who was a woman, made a statement during sentencing about me not doing any charity work for a number of years during my ‘exile.’ A) Charity work is not a requirement, but something done because someone wants to. I was clearly doing charitable works way before other people were even thinking about it. And B) Even the judge had to comment that she, meaning I, was both having and raising children during this period. As if that was not challenging enough to do. She sounded like the echo of the grotesque slave master, who expected women to give birth while in the field, scoop the Baby up, and then continue to work. Disgusting.

When you are beaten and penalized for being independent, or truly self reliant, then you develop a dysfunctional relationship with self-reliance, and a fear of true independence. When you are beaten or threatened with death for trying to read a book, then you develop a dysfunctional relationship with education. When families are broken up by force and threat of violence, then the family structure becomes dysfunctional. When men who would naturally defend their women and families are threatened with castration and death, then this natural response also becomes dysfunctional. When looking at the oppressor is punishable by violence, then examination of him and his system becomes a difficult and taboo thing to do, despite every bone in your body demanding it. When questioning or opposing oppression is punishable by death, imprisonment, or economic assassination, then opposing systemic wrong in any or all of its meta manifestations is a terrifying concept. Anyone forced to live so incredibly diametrically opposed to that which is natural to themselves, will end up in crisis if they don’t successfully find a way to improve or transcend these circumstances! All of which require healing. It is only by the Grace of God and the resilience of the people that things haven’t been worse.

Much of my music, if not all of it, is about Love, a therapeutic resolve created in response to the lack of messages encouraging people like me toward free moral agency. Helping to ameliorate this condition has never been addressed through the political arena alone. It is a sacrificial work that doesn’t simply happen between the hours of 9 to 5 or Monday through Friday, but when inspiration leads us to avail ourselves for the Truth that needs to be said. Unlike the system too often contrarily demonstrates, we believe that people can be and should be helped, and that trauma should not be criminalized but acknowledged, healed and dealt with. This takes awareness, sensitivity and a level of freedom in my opinion the system lacks. And if we don’t know or understand how to do it, then we humbly refer to a higher authority.

We have no desire to create humanoids, turn people into machines, or dumb them down so that they remain dependent longer than necessary to an antiquated system in denial of its many inadequacies and need to evolve. Instead we seek to educate and shed light on the snares, traps, and enticements that people set up in the name of business that are intended only to catch the sleeping and/or uninformed.

Why would a system, ‘well intentioned’, wait until breakdown or incarceration to consider rehabilitation, after generations of institutionally inflicted trauma and abuse on a people? To me it is obvious that the accumulation of generational trauma and abuse have created the very behaviors the system tries to punish, by providing no sufficient outlets for the victims of institutional terror. Clearly, the institution seeks to hide its own criminal history at the expense and wholeness of the abused, who ‘acting out’ from years of abuse and mistreatment, reflect the very aggression that they were exposed to.


This Is Why Kerry Washington Never Checks 'Scandal' Ratings

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Playing crisis manager Olivia Pope on "Scandal" is no easy job, and there's no question that Kerry Washington pulls it off with flying colors. After all, she prevents disasters and carries on an affair with the president all while wearing stilletos.

But Washington -- who is also known for her roles in "Ray" and "Django Unchained" -- insists that checking "Scandal" ratings terrifies her.

"Looking at ratings is like stepping on the scales, and it's why I never weigh myself," she told The Guardian. "If the number is a number you don't want it to be, then you're miserable, and if it's a number you want it to be, you spend the rest of the day thinking, oh, I should never eat again so the number stays where it is, right? It's just better that I don't get on the scales."

Not that Washington has anything to worry about. In April, "Scandal" hit a series high and racked in more viewers than its biggest competition, Grey's Anatomy -- both shows are created by Shonda Rhimes -- with 2.8 million viewers in the coveted 18-49 demo.

Although "Scandal" is now one of ABC's biggest hits, its first season only had six episodes ... which worked out in the series' favor, according to Washington.

"We weren't sure if we were going to have a second season and our first season only had six episodes, which actually was really good because the writers said, 'if all we have is six, let's just put it all on the table, we don't wanna hold back,'" she told Ellen Degeneres. "So then the culture of the show became [that] we just go for it, we don't hold back, if we can do more, we do more -- our goal is to shock you."

Season 3 of "Scandal" will air on ABC in the fall.

MAN 'DOWN'

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LOS ANGELES — Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy brought "The Heat" against Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx at the box office.

The Fox action-comedy starring the funny ladies as mismatched detectives earned $40 million in second place in its opening weekend, topping the $25.7 million debut haul of Sony's "White House Down," according to studio estimates Sunday.

The Disney-Pixar animated prequel "Monsters University" remained box-office valedictorian in its second weekend, earning $46.1 million in first place.

As for "The Heat," employing two female leads to buck the male-dominated buddy-cop formula paid off in ticket sales.

"I think the fact that we have a female-centric movie standing out in a forest of giant tent-pole movies is phenomenal," said Chris Aronson, Fox's president of domestic distribution. "Audiences really responded. We positioned this to be a female event movie, and we got the opening that we were hoping for this weekend."

"White House Down," which features Tatum as a wannabe Secret Service agent and Foxx as the President of the United States of America, was inaugurated below expectations in fourth place. The film's White House takeover plot is striking similar to FilmDistrict's "Olympus Has Fallen," which opened in March and starred Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart.

"It turned out to be a very competitive weekend," said Rory Bruer, Sony's president of worldwide distribution. "We had hoped `White House Down' did better, just from the standpoint that we love this film, but I feel very hopeful that with the July 4th holiday coming up, it will be the perfect film for audiences, and it'll really add up for us."

Meanwhile, Paramount's globe-trotting zombie thriller "World War Z" starring Brad Pitt took another bite out of the box office in its second weekend with $29.8 million.

"I think the variety of films is what brought people out to the movie theaters," said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "There's a G-rated movie at the top of the chart and an R-rated movie in second place. That says a lot about the summer marketplace and how a unique slate of films can propel the box office."

Overall, Dergarabedian said revenue and attendance are now both down just 2 percent over last year, and this weekend's films grossed 8.5 percent less than last year when Universal's "Ted" opened with $54.4 million at the box office. He said those numbers could shift further next week when Disney's "The Lone Ranger" and Universal's "Despicable Me 2" debut.

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Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released on Monday.

1. "Monsters University," $46.1 million.

2. "The Heat," $40 million.

3. "World War Z," $29.8 million.

4. "White House Down," $25.7 million.

5. "Man of Steel," $20.8 million.

6. "This Is the End," $8.7 million.

7. "Now You See Me," $5.5 million.

8. "Fast & Furious 6," $2.4 million.

9. "Star Trek: Into Darkness," $2 million.

10. "The Internship," $1.4 million.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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Follow AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang on Twitter at . http://www.twitter.com/derrikjlang

Was 'Anna Nicole' A Success?

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"The Anna Nicole Story" aired on Lifetime last night, and critics and tweeters alike quickly took to the Internet to offer up their (very strong) opinions.

The biopic chronicles the life of Anna Nicole Smith (played by Agnes Bruckner), a woman formerly known as Vicky Lynn Hogan, as she transitioned into the spotlight and eventually into a sad mess of alcohol and drug abuse. So how did it go over?

"Anna Nicole is a cheap, trashy, melodramatic Lifetime original movie that's at times so absurd you can't help but laugh -- which perfectly evinces the campy essence of Anna Nicole Smith," Jezebel's Tracie Egan Morrissey wrote.

Zap2it's Geoff Berkshire didn't go quite as easy on the film, saying it "disappoints both as a campy guilty pleasure and a movie with a surprisingly solid pedigree," referring to the fact that Mary Harron ("American Psycho") directed it.

Twitter, of course, was overflowing with tweets about the biopic.

Did you catch "Anna Nicole?" What did you think?

Kristin Cavallari Shares Honeymoon Pics

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Wedded bliss!

Kristin Cavallari shared photos from her honeymoon with Jay Cutler on Instagram today, posting snapshots of her and the Chicago Bears quarterback cuddling up in Italy. "Honeymoon," she wrote alongside a picture of the pair heading out and about.

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Cavallari, 26, also tweeted a snap of her and Cutler kissing while taking in the gorgeous Italian landscapes.

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"The Hills" star and Cutler, 30, got married in Nashville on June 7 after getting engaged (for the second time) in Nov. 2011. They are the proud parents to 10-month-old son, Camden.

Lil Snupe Laid To Rest

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Hundreds of mourners gathered this weekend to pay their final respects to Lil Snupe, the promising 18-year-old rapper who was shot and killed earlier this month.

According to the Shreveport Times, the teen's funeral service was held on Saturday at Jonesboro-Hodge High School in Lil Snupe's hometown of Jonesboro, La.

Mourners reportedly began arriving three hours before the service began. Rapper Meek Mill, who had signed Lil Snupe (born Addaren Ross) to his DreamChasers record label last year, was among the many attendees.

“I saw something in him. His demo tape spoke to me. I saw myself in him,” Mill said Saturday, according to the Times.

(Go to the Shreveport Times for more on Lil Snupe's funeral service.)

Earlier this week, the 36-year-old man suspected of murdering the teen surrendered to Louisiana police. According to the AP, Tony Holden has been charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Since news of Lil Snupe's untimely death emerged earlier this month, many fans and musicians, including hip hop mogul Sean Combs, have taken to Twitter to express their grief.

Rest in peace, Lil Snupe.

When Will 'Mad Men' End?

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Since the very beginning of Mad Men, Don Draper has seemed doomed. From the show's opening-credit sequence, with a silhouetted suit falling helplessly from the Madison Avenue skyline, to this year's season premiere, which featured Don delving into a copy of Dante's Inferno, the future always seemed bleak for our dapper anti-hero.

Oblivious to the fact that he's always on the wrong side of history, Don began to wither. What seemed cool about him in the beginning -- his afternoon drinks and serial womanizing -- has devolved to pathetic.

Hugh Jackman Responds To Gay Rumors

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Hugh Jackman wants you to know he's not gay and he wishes you would stop asking.

In a recent interview with Australia's "60 Minutes," Jackman and his wife of 17 years, Deborra-Lee Furness, expressed frustration over the constant rumors about the actor's sexuality.

Jackman, who in the past has starred as the flamboyant lead of the Broadway show "The Boy from Oz," finds the accusations, as flattering as they are, frustrating. He also just feels bad for his wife.

"It's, to me, not the most interesting thing about a person, anyway," he said. "I do get frustrated for Deb, cause I see Deb go, 'Ah, this is just crazy!'"

Furness just finds the questioning "offensive."

"If he was gay, fine, he would say he's gay," she said. "It's annoying because it's not true."

This isn't the first time Jackman has spoken out about how the rumors affect his wife.

In February the actor told The Hollywood Reporter the speculation "bugs" his wife and he revealed she has a hard time ignoring whispers about his alleged homosexuality. "She goes: 'It's big. It's everywhere!'"

The "60 Minutes" interview also features adorable exchanges between Jackman and his wife who fell in love when they co-starred on the TV drama, "Correlli" in 1995. The couple discusses how their lives changed after the "X-Men" films, how their kids, Oscar and Ava, are not too impressed with superhero dad, and how much in love they still are after all of these years.

Jackman is currently reprising his role as Wolverine for both the new solo Wolverine movie, due out July 26, and the wildly anticipated X-Men sequel, "X-Men: Days of Future Past" due out in 2014.


PHOTO: Pregnant Jennifer Love Hewitt Goes For A Stroll

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A pregnant Jennifer Love Hewitt stepped out in Los Angeles Sunday with fiancé Brian Hallisay and a friend. In early June, the "Client Practice" co-stars confirmed they were engaged and expecting their first baby together, telling Us Weekly, "We're so thrilled and happy to start a family."

Hewitt and Hallisay, both 34, have been dating for a year and a half and became engaged while vacationing abroad in Europe. Hewitt is approximately four months along.

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PICS: Top Models In Crazy Costumes For Vogue Italia!

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Covers on covers on covers! For Vogue Italia's big, fat "25 Years of Fashion" issue, why stop at just one? Instead, the glossy prepped no fewer than six fold-out covers for the special edition. Each one bears the inscription "Revolution," and the magazine is nothing short of revolutionary.

"'If you think about all the [fashion] movements we have had in the years, they came from a situation that's social, economical and political. So why should we not reflect our time?" esteemed editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani asked the Telegraph last week. With this issue, Sozzani celebrates a quarter-century helming perhaps the most radical edition of Vogue. "Everything you would expect to be on the inside is on the outside."


The editor enlisted famed photographer Steven Meisel to stage large group portraits of supermodels like Gisele Bundchen, Linda Evangelista, Natalia Vodianova, Stella Tennant, Raquel Zimmerman, Cameron Russell and Amanda Murphy.

No strangers to button-pushing, the Italian image-makers have crafted dramatic covers sure to stand the test of 25 more years: one grunge-inspired, one S&M-influenced, one underwear-featuring and one portrait-based. Which of the six is your favorite?

PHOTOS:

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The end-all, be-all of cover girls:

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Oops! Selena Gomez Flashes A Bit Too Much Skin

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Selena Gomez showed a bit more skin than intended when she suffered a minor wardrobe malfunction while on stage in Boston over the weekend.

The "Slow Down" singer performed live at the 103.3 AMP Radio Birthday Bash, a free concert at City Hall Plaza, in Boston Sunday. While dancing on stage in a backless, chiffon ensemble, Gomez accidentally flashed her nude underwear when the thigh-high split of her skirt opened at the front. Despite the minor wardrobe mishap, the 20-year-old beauty went on performing like a champ, Rumor Fix notes.

Gomez was part of a lineup that included Jason Derulo and "Boston's Boy" Sammy Adams, according to Boston.com.

The former Disney star's debut solo album, "Stars Dance," is set to be released globally July 23. She will tour in Canada in August and Europe in the early fall before hitting the United States in October.

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Avery Stone: What If Paula Deen Had Called Someone a Fag?

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If you were at your computer at all last week, you probably heard the news: Paula Deen, formerly a beloved celebrity chef, admitted to using the "N" word. And, rightfully, it is ruining her career.

Right now, the damage done to Deen seems irreparable. Her publisher, Ballantine (an imprint of Random House), cancelled a five-book deal with her, including an upcoming cookbook that had soared to No. 1 on both Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com in advance sales. Additionally, multiple companies have cut ties with Deen, including The Food Network, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, QVC, J.C. Penny, Sears, and Walgreens. Overnight, the self-proclaimed "queen of butter" has lost her influence, many of her corporate partnerships, and her family-friendly reputation.

Now, step back from Deen for a moment. Have you heard the other news? Alec Baldwin, a still-beloved actor, tweeted homophobic slurs. And the effect on his career and reputation is, so far, absolutely nothing.

If you haven't read the tweets, here's what happened: Baldwin, in a heated online argument with British reporter George Stark (over whether or not Baldwin's wife tweeted during a funeral), lashed out on Twitter. Baldwin wrote, "I'm gonna find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and I'm gonna fuck...you...up." A minute later, he added, "I'd put my foot up your fucking ass, George Stark, but I'm sure you'd dig it too much." At first, Baldwin denied -- and then deleted -- his tweets. He has since apologized, asserting that he never meant to be homophobic.

Baldwin, an actor best known for his role in NBC's 30 Rock, and for his endorsement deal with Capital One, has not yet suffered any consequences for his violent, homophobic language. His endorsement deal remains intact. Media attention has been minimal, especially compared with Deen's. Unbelievably, Baldwin seems so far to have emerged from the incident largely unscathed.

There is something very wrong with this picture. Deen and Baldwin both used offensive language and demeaned whole populations of people. Why is there a vast disparity between how the public and businesses reacted? Why did Baldwin get off the hook while Deen is fighting to hang on to any semblance of dignity?

Last week, at my summer internship at the media company Condé Nast, I attended an informational lecture for interns. During the session, a woman from human resources cautioned us with an aphorism: It takes 20 years to build a positive reputation -- and five minutes to shatter it.

While I agree, I realize now that the issue is more nuanced: Different people are afforded different privileges when it comes to reputation. What gave Baldwin the advantage in this case? Is it the fact that he's male? Is it the fact that he's a prominent actor and corporate spokesman, while Deen seemed more expendable? None of it matters. In no case should the "N" word carry more weight than violent, homophobic language. Both are inexcusable.

Further, it is not just Deen and Baldwin who are at fault here. Blame also falls on the companies that are still allied with the two stars. So far, Capital One has refrained from commenting on Baldwin's offenses. This makes the company an active part of the problem. By letting Baldwin get away with homophobia, Capital One enables -- and even perpetuates -- a culture of discrimination. Bottom line: This is detrimental to anyone fighting for equal human rights.

So my question is this: What if Paula Deen had called someone a fag? Would she still have lost everything? My guess is no. And, even in 2013, when there is so much to celebrate in the vein of LGBT rights, these episodes show that it's still possible to get away with homophobia. And that's something to get angry about.

WATCH: Princess Diana Knew Just How To Get 'Revenge'

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The grace and elegance with which Princess Diana carried herself is largely unmatched to this day. Despite her tumultuous marriage and subsequent divorce, the "People's Princess" always managed to appear stylish and gracious.

Diana's separation from Prince Charles, arguably one of the most distressing times of her life, inspired one of her most iconic fashion moments: the so-called "revenge dress." In 1994, the royal attended a Vanity Fair party at the Serpentine Gallery not long after Charle's confession of adultery during a now-infamous interview. The off-the-shoulder number by Christina Stambolian she wore was an immediate show-stopper and ensured Diana would not be pitied.

InStyle's fashion director, Hal Rubenstein, put it best:

"Diana had bought this dress while she was still Princess of Wales, and she felt it was too sexy. But after her separation from Prince Charles, and after the fairytale crashed... Well, out came the dress and the highest shoes she could find. And who wound up on the front page the next day? It was Diana, rocking out."

In honor of what would have been Diana's 52nd birthday today (July 1), we're taking a look back at the late princess turning heads in this classic look.

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