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Morning Memo: Mariah Got Married! And Tom Cruise Banished the Body-Thetans That Ruined His Last Oprah Interview

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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon have reportedly gotten married after dating for about a month. [NY Daily News]

Project Runway is not just moving to Lifetime, but also Los Angeles for its sixth season. [EW]  read more »

The Week in Music: Madonna, Portishead, The Roots, Robyn, Constantines

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A curious (and perhaps shameful) thing has happened since Madonna's single, "Four Minutes to Save the World," off her new album Hard Candy (due out today), hit the Internet almost two months ago. At the time, in this same space, I wrote, "fans could be forgiven for cringing a bit at Madge's cool-as-a-cucumber delivery being drowned out by the 'urban,' brassy hip-hop beats. Was it Mommy telling us to turn the music down?" But then something happened ... Several weeks later in a store, I found myself resisting the urge to tap my foot, to shake my hips and bop my head. What is this song?, I thought. It sounds ... familiar. Oh, no. It then hit me like a bass-heavy chorus: I liked "Four Minutes to Save the World." Damn you Madonna!  read more »

Madonna Closes on Hard-Won $7 Million Central Park West Co-op

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No one gets in Madonna’s way, especially not some stuffy Central Park West co-op board. It appears the world’s most famous Anglophile pop star will get to expand her 6,000-square-foot fiefdom in the decidedly Victorian sounding building Harperly Hall.

The Material Girl has closed on the $7 million, 7th floor unit, according to city records published today, which will bring the swank duplex that has been her New York headquarters for the past two decades to positively palatial proportions.  read more »

Morning Memo: Blake Lively Is Just Like Us! Joan Rivers, Not So Much

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Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively is so just one of the people, while Helena Christensen is categorically not. Ms. Lively went to Café Habana over the weekend and waited in line! For more than half an hour! Meanwhile, Ms. Christensen walked up to the eatery but kept on walking when she saw there was a wait. [P6]  read more »