Except for a few gorgeous magazine covers, Nicole and Joel pretty much kept Harlow under wraps for the first few months of her life.

But when they finally pulled back the blankie in public, we were just taken with this adorable little girl who looked like the best of both her parents!

With a name like Harlow (and a mom like Nicole), could she ever be anything but adorably cool?
Soo cute — we can’t wait to see how Harlow’s personality will develop in 2009!

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The adorable Kingston Rossdale and his nanny went to the park yesterday afternoon, and we snapped the celebritot as he took a spin on his new ride. Knowing Kingston, those training wheels will be off pretty soon!
Seriously, who’s cuter than Kingston?!

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From down under to down south, celebs will be ringing in 2009 from all over the world!

We already told you about Brit attending her brother’s New Year’s Eve wedding in Louisiana, and you probably already know about Paris hosting that New Year’s bash in Australia, but did you know that John Mayer will be joining Jennifer Aniston and her Friends Courtney Cox and David Arquette in Mexico?

People reports that John and his brothers arrived at a resort in Los Cabos on Saturday, and even though the musician and the “Marley & Me” star will be staying in separate residences, it looks like they’ll be just a short walk away from one another! Think we’ll be seeing more poolside action?

A source tells X17online that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are currently in Vail, and they’ll be ringing in the new year with plenty of snow and snuggle time. Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will be heating things up in Puerto Rico, and Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Donatella Versace, Russell Simmons, Richard Gere, Daniel Craig, Marc Jacobs and a few other celebs will be keeping warm in St. Barth.

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson will be at Mansion in Miami, and Puff Daddy Diddy, Molly Sims, and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine will also be in town to host separate parties at the swanky Fontainebleau resort.

Ashlee Simpson and hubby Pete Wentz will be raising their classes at midnight at Pure nightclub in Las Vegas, the Kardashian girls will host a bash nearby at LAX, and newlyweds Heidi and Spencer Pratt will be getting their party on at the Christian Audigier nightclub.

Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers will be causing quite a frenzy in Times Square, as they will be celebrating at The Big Apple’s annual ball drop, and according to Access Hollywood, the New York Police Department is expecting a possible “mob scene” tonight when the Jonas Brothers take the stage to perform on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
Which star would you want to party with?

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Bucking the baby-pimping trend most celebs take advantage of, Halle casually introduced the world to her adorable daughter while out at the Los Angeles Zoo on Labor Day weekend.

We haven’t seen much of her since, but her striking eyes and beautiful skin made such an impression on us that we just can’t get enough of these cute pix!
She’s probably even more gorgeous now!

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LOS ANGELES – Why not share a shot with Paris Hilton or boogie down with Pete Wentz to ring in 2009? This year, any regular Joe with dough (and no reason to sweat the economy) could party like — and with — a rock star, movie star or reality TV star on New Year’s Eve.

Here’s a look at some of the parties that were boasting famous names:

• Paris Hilton was to host the Bongo Virus party at the Trademark nightclub in Sydney, Australia. Tickets were 9.

• New York City’s biggest party was arguably the annual ball drop in Times Square. This year’s celebration was to feature performances by Lionel Richie, Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers, along with appearances by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. Admission was free. Meanwhile, Mario Lopez was to host a party at the Marquee nightclub (tickets: 5) and actress Emmanuelle Chriqui and blogger Perez Hilton were to host a party at Hotel Gansevoort (admission: 0).

• Lindsay Lohan was to helm the festivities as gal pal Samantha Ronson spun the tunes at Mansion nightclub in Miami. Admission was 0. Also in Miami: John Legend was to appear at Prive (tickets: 0); T.I. was to perform and Chloe Sevigny was to host at Gansevoort South (admission started at 5); Diddy, Molly Sims, Adam Levine and James Valentine of Maroon 5 were to appear at separate parties at Fontainebleau (admission: 0 for each event); and Busta Rhymes was to perform at the Shore Club (tickets started at 5).

• How much was it to party with a star in Las Vegas? That depends on your definition of a star. You could celebrate the New Year with new parents Ashlee Simpson- Wentz and PeteWentz at Pure nightclub for 0; share a toast with Kim Kardashian and her sisters at LAX for 0; or raise a glass with Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt at the Christian Audigier nightclub for 5. Also in Vegas: Usher was to appear at the Bank nightclub inside the Bellagio (tickets: 0), and Denise Richards and Lance Bass were to host as Run DMC provided the beats at Prive nightclub inside the Planet Hollywood hotel (admission: 0).

• Just months after surviving a fiery plane crash, Travis Barker and DJ AM (Adam Goldstein) were set to usher in the New Year at the Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles. Tickets were . Their performance was to be broadcast live online and at nine nightclubs around the country as part of the New Year’s Nation multicity celebration. Also in Los Angeles: Eva Longoria was to host a soiree at her restaurant, Beso; Robin Thicke was to perform at Area (admission: 0); Katy Perry was to perform at Paramount Studios (tickets started at 0); Xzibit was to perform at Apple Lounge (tickets started at 0); Moby, Paul Oakenfold and other DJs were to spin under circus-style tents downtown at Giant Maximus (tickets started at ).

I’m not sure why the article was written in this tense, but whatever.
Which one would you go to, ?
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ANTM winner McKey in Seventeen magazine.

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joslyn does not approve

eta: compared to whitney’s, this is good. But here are the other seventeen covers

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Each year brings the sad parting of notable figures who helped shape the world in which we live. Scroll through this gallery Click the cut to see some of the luminaries who passed away in 2008.

Sir Edmund Hillary
January 10

The New Zealand beekeeper became the first person to stand at the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, declaring to fellow countryman George Lowe that he and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay had “knocked the bastard off.” He later became a philanthropist noted for his work in remote Nepalese villages. He was 88.

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Brad Renfro
January 15

Renfro was best known for his roles in “The Client” and “Ghost World” and for his off-screen history of drug abuse, died of a heroin overdose in his Los Angeles home. Originally from Tennessee, he starred opposite Susan Sarandon in “The Client,” propelling him to a succession of other roles. In 2005, he was arrested as part of a prominent drug sweep on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He was 25.

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Richard Knerr
January 15

Knerr (right) was cofounder of Wham-O Inc., which unleashed the Hula Hoop on the world a half-century ago along with the Frisbee. Knerr started the company, named for the sound of their first product, the slingshot, with his boyhood friend, Arthur “Spud” Melin. They also launched the Superball, Slip ‘N Slide, Water Wiggle, and Silly String. He was 82.

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Bobby Fischer
January 17

The most powerful American chess player in history, Fischer emerged only briefly in 1992 from a mysterious seclusion that had lasted two decades. He defied an American ban on business in Yugoslavia to play against his old nemesis, Boris Spassky, whom he beat handily. He was 64.

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Suzanne Pleshette
January 19

The dark-haired, smoky-voiced actress played Bob Newhart’s sardonic and sexy wife, Emily Hartley, for six years on the ’70s sitcom “The Bob Newhart Show.” Called a “pro’s pro” by Newhart, the New York actress made her movie debut in the 1958 Jerry Lewis comedy “The Geisha Boy.” She was 70.

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Marie Smith Jones
January 21

Jones worked to preserve her heritage as the last full-blooded member of Alaska’s Eyak Indians and was the last fluent speaker of their native language. With the help of a linguist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she compiled an Eyak dictionary and grammar.

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Heath Ledger
January 22

Ledger, who went from teen idol in his native Australia to one of the most exciting actors of his generation, was best known for his Oscar-nominated role as a closeted gay ranch hand in “Brokeback Mountain.” His death, blamed on an accidental overdose, came as a shock, as his off-screen life wasn’t perceived as being as intense as his on-screen performances. He was 28.

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Roy Scheider
February 10

Scheider’s rangy figure, gaunt face, and emotional openness made him appealing in everyman roles, most famously as the agonized police chief of “Jaws.” In his first major film, “Klute,” he played a threatening pimp to Jane Fonda’s call girl, and he earned his first of two Oscar nominations as Gene Hackman’s police detective partner in “French Connection.” He was 75.

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William F. Buckley Jr.
February 27

The author, journalist, and polysyllabic television personality did more to popularize conservatism in the post-New Deal America than anyone other than Barry Goldwater or Ronald Reagan. Pat Buchanan called him the “spiritual father of the movement,” while left-leaning Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called him “the scourge of American liberalism.” Buckley took the jab as a compliment.

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Arthur C. Clarke
March 18

The world-famous science-fiction writer, futurist, and unofficial poet laureate of the space age co-wrote, with director Stanley Kubrick, the screenplay for “2001: A Space Odyssey,” regarded by many as one of the most important science fiction films ever made. A prolific writer, with more than 100 published books, he was praised for his ability to foresee the possibilities of human innovation and explain them to nonscientific readers. The most famous example is from 1945, when he first proposed the idea of communications satellites that could be based in geostationary orbits.

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Paul Scofield
March 19

Scofield, the great British stage actor, was the the film star who wasn’t. He was primarily about the stage, and even more fundamentally, about playing a role before a live audience. His signature role was as Sir Thomas More in 1966’s multiple Oscar-winner “A Man for All Seasons,” for which Scofield won best actor but didn’t bother to turn up for the ceremony. He was 86.

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Cachao
March 22

Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, was called a major influence in Cuban musical history, with his passing marking the end of an era. Born in Havana in 1918, he began performing with the Havana symphony orchestra as a teenager, and wrote hundreds of songs in Cuba for bands and orchestras. He was 89.

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Charlton Heston
April 6

Charlton Heston poses with his Oscar statuette at the 32nd Annual Academy Awards held at the RKO Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, California on April 4, 1960. Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid, and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, died Saturday April 5, 2008 according to a statement from the actor’s family. He was 86.

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Sydney Pollack
May 26

Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of “Out of Africa,” achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including “The Way We Were” with Robert Redford and “Tootsie” with Dustin Hoffman. At left, Pollack on the set of the 1999 film “Random Hearts.”

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Yves Saint Laurent
June 1

Saint Laurent reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed. At left, the designer held hands with model Laetitia Casta (left) and actress Catherine Deneuve at the end of his retrospective haute couture fashion show in 2002.

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Bo Diddley
June 2

Diddley was a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians. He was 79.

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Tim Russert
June 13

Russert pointedly but politely questioned hundreds of the powerful and influential as moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He was also a senior vice president at NBC, and this year, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was 58.

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Cyd Charisse
June 17

Charisse dazzled moviegoers in the 1950s with her dance numbers in classic musicals such as “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) and “Silk Stockings” (1957). In the ’40s, her dark hair and eyes helped her land roles as “ethnic-exotic” characters in B movies such as “Fiesta” (1947). Fred Astaire, her costar in several films, described her performances as “beautiful dynamite.” She was 86.

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George Carlin
June 22

Carlin repeatedly pushed the envelope in his comedy routines by breaching the accepted boundaries of comedy and language. He is best remembered for his “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” routine, which led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. On June 17, it was announced that Carlin would be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was 71.

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Jesse Helms
July 4

Helms (left) won election to the Senate in 1972 and rose to become a powerful committee chairman before deciding not to seek re-election in 2002. The former Republican senator from North Carolina was widely known for his unyielding conservatism and obstructionist tactics, which earned him the nickname “Senator No” during his five terms on Capitol Hill. He was 86.

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Isaac Hayes
August 10

Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless “Theme From Shaft” won Academy and Grammy awards, was found dead in his home. He was 65.

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Bernie Mac
August 9

Mac, an award-winning actor-comedian, died at age 50 from complications of pneumonia. He was 50.

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LeRoi Moore
August 19

Moore, an accomplished saxophonist and one of the founding members of the Dave Matthews Band died in Los Angeles from complications resulting from an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.

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Anita Page
September 6

Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles. She was 98.

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Richard Wright
September 15

Wright, a founding member of Pink Floyd whose piano and synthesizer work played a critical part in the pioneering rock band’s ethereal sound, died after a short battle with cancer. He was 65. Wright was the co-writer of several of the band’s signature songs, including “Time,” “Us and Them,” and “Shine On You Crazy Diamond.” He was 65.

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Paul Newman
September 26

The Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “The Color of Money,” died at age 83.

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Levi Stubbs
October 17

Stubbs (second from left and the frontman for the American pop group The Four Tops) died at his home in Detroit. He was 72. In this 1966 file photo are the Four Tops members: Abdul Fakir, Stubbs, Lawrence Payton, and Renaldo Benson. With Stubbs in the lead, the Four Tops sold millions of records, including such hits as “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch).”

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Madelyn Dunham
Nov. 3

Dunham, 86, was the maternal grandmother of president-elect Barack Obama. Dunham (pictured, left with her arms around Obama at his high school graduation in 1979) died following a battle with cancer, just a day before the election that elected her grandson the 44th president of the United States. Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, is at right.

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Michael Crichton
Nov. 4

Crichton, 66, a medical doctor turned novelist, sold more than 150 million copies of his books worldwide. He was best-known for his historic and prehistoric science fantasies like “Jurassic Park,” “Timeline” and “The Andromeda Strain.” Many of his books were made into major Hollywood movies. He also created the popular television series “ER.”

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Bettie Page
Dec. 11

Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died at 85.

Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.

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W. Mark Felt
Dec. 18

The most famous anonymous source in US history revealed himself just three years ago. W. Mark Felt, the man commonly known as “deep throat”, assisted in revealing the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.

Felt (right) with his daugher Joan. He was 95.

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Harold Pinter
Dec. 24

Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005.

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Eartha Kitt
Dec. 25

Kitt, a self-proclaimed “sex kitten” famous for her catlike purr, was one of America’s most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and getting a third nomination. She was 81.

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Delaney Bramlett
Dec. 30

Bramlett, a singer, songwriter and producer worked with famous musicians such as George Harrison and Eric Clapton and wrote such classic rock songs as “Let it Rain.” He was 69.

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Estelle Getty
July 22

Died three days before her 85th birthday of Lewy Body Dementia, which has similar symptoms to both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

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All in all, who ISN’T glad that 2008 is over? Here’s to a happy 2009!
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Rosario Dawson has urged Los Angeles motorists to take more care on the city’s roads because she’s tired of having to avoid airheads who swerve into her lane while painting their nails behind the wheel. The actress was taught the rules of the road by her motorcyclist father and she’s strict about what she does and doesn’t do when she’s driving - but is annoyed others aren’t as diligent.

She complains, “I moved to L.A. three years ago, so the whole driving thing is very new to me… I’m really not big on being on the phone in general, but I’m definitely not big on it in the car. I always take the opportunity to listen to music and look around me. I like driving a lot. I’ve been driving and there’s a woman wading into my lane and she’s painting her toe nails as she’s driving! People that are born in L.A. think they can drive with their eyes closed but you can’t. My dad’s a motorcyclist and I like riding motorcycles so I’m really aware of the road. I can’t believe there are still so many people on the phone, despite all the laws. I mean, ‘You can wait five minutes or go to a stop sign or pull over, or wait 20 minutes to get to the location to send a text?’”

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The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is an annual British television programme broadcast on the last Sunday of the year on Channel 4. The show takes the form of a game show, with three teams of celebrities asked questions relating to the events of the current year.

The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2008 aired on Sunday, December 28th on Channel 4 at 9pm.

omg completely new people & no goth detectives this year :(!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and NOTHING CAN TOP THIS:

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It was all eyes on the very reflective Paris and Nicky Hilton as the celebusisters arrived for world’s biggest on-line New Year’s Eve party at Trademark in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday night.

The human disco balls partied it up with fellow revelers while cameras streamed the event live over the internet via the multimedia site The Bongo Virus.

Partygoers had to fork over 9 a pop for a ticket to party with the Hilton girls.

Most of that went to Paris’ 0 000 appearance fee.

Happy new year, indeed!

Source: http://www.fadedyouthblog.com/73564/paris-rings-in-the-new-year-online/

 
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