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    Lady Gaga, Taylor Kinney Have White Wedding Day (photos, video)

    Keith Girard
    Lady Gaga turned performance art into a dry-run for her wedding day with boyfriend Taylor Kinney standing in as the groom. The video, the fifth in her series of fashion films, is set to her song “You and I.” Move over Bride of Frankenstein. Gaga, 26, started out in bondage gear and ripped fish nets writhing on the floor and tossing her unwashed hair unrepentant. Then the scene cuts to Gaga in a white dress and back again to her leather straps, halter and ripped stockings. ...
    POP
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    Abraham Roentgen’s Royal Furniture at Met Museum (photos)

    Keith Girard
    Abraham Roentgen was known throughout Europe for fine cabinetmaking starting in the mid-1700s, when he established his shop in Germany. Today, Roentgen’s works are hailed as masterpieces, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art has gathered nearly 60 exquisite pieces, many of which have never been seen outside of Europe, for a special exhibition in New York....
    MUSEUMS
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    Green Day's 'Oh Love' Video an Ode to the Crotch (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Green Day caves in to materialism in its first video from rock trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! It’s fill with hot babes, eating hot pasta. Or is this just a parody? You never know with Billie Joe Armstrong. Just call the video an ode to the crotch. The band, so long identified with hard rock and revolution for the hell of it, offers a taste of sartorial splendors in the clip for single “Oh Love.”...
    ROCK
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    Lady Gaga Dishes Up Raw Meat for Animal Rights Activists

    Keith Girard
    Lady Gaga is the new poster girl for anti-fur activists. Move over Kim Kardashian. The 26-year-old singer, who professes to be a humanitarian, apparently draws the line at skinning animals alive. Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta,, scolded animal rights activists, calling them "childish" and even gave a shout out to Kardashian....
    CELEBRITIES
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    Nicki Minaj Battles Vocal Cord Injury to Appear on Today (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Nicki Minaj talked about her alter-egos, Barbie and Roman, on NBC’s the “Today Show” this morning, but it was all Nicki on stage. She belted out “Starships” and what she described as a “grittier” song. Minaj also revealed that she is suffering from a bruised vocal cord. “Doctors orders. Out for the count now,” she tweeted....
    R & B

    Beth Stern Hosts Get Wild Summer Gala in Southampton (photos)

    Keith Girard
    Beth Ostrosky Stern, wife of radio shock jock Howard Stern, co-chaired the “Get Wild” Summer Gala for the The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons, drawing on the summer redoubt’s residents for the event at Dune Beach in Southampton. Christopher Obetz and Ellen Scarborough co-chaired the event for the center, which rescues and preserves Long Island’s native wildlife....
    LIVING
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    Adam Lambert Crafts New Look, Stunning Tattoo (photos!)

    Keith Girard
    Adam Lambert has always had a flair for the flamboyant, to say the least, and he’s ever experimenting with his look. He showed off two different styles on twitter just this week, plus a new tattoo. Lambert, 30, who was the runner up on American Idol’s eighth season in 2009, finishing behind Kris Allen. Some critics say his over-the-top gayness cost him the crown....
    POP
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    Frank Ocean European Tour Sidelined by Vocal Problems

    Keith Girard
    Frank Ocean has been forced to curtail his European tour, including a much anticipated paring with British band Coldplay, because of unspecified vocal problems. Ocean worked as a songwriter for such artists as Brandy, Justin Bieber and John Legend before launching his own career in 2010....
    HIP-HOP
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    Jaden Smith Skates Through 'Pump Up Kicks' Video (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Jaden Smith does a little shopping for skateboards with a posse of friends in the new video for his song “Pumped Up Kicks (Like Me),” which can only be described as pop hip-hop, much the same musical style of dad Will Smith. He samples Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” in the rap. Sister Willow Smith has been carrying most of the load for the family musically. She’s dropped videos for her debut “Whip My Hair,” “Do it Like Me (Rockstar)” and “I Am Me.”...
    HIP-HOP
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    Marvin Hamlisch, Award Winning Music Composer, Dies at 68

    Keith Girard
    Marvin Hamlisch, whose distinctive music style earned Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize over his career for such hits as A Chorus Line, and songs “Life Is What You Make It” and “The Way We Were,” has died. He was 68. Hamlisch died Monday (Aug. 5) in Los Angeles after a brief illness, said Jason Lee, a spokesman for the family. No other details about his death have been released....
    CELEBRITIES
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    Jennifer Lopez Boy Toy Dogged by Gay Rumors, Again

    Keith Girard
    Jennifer Lopez’s hot boy toy Casper Smart may be batting for both teams. The 25-year-old backup dancer was reportedly spotted ducking into a gay-oriented peep show the day before Lopez’s 43rd birthday. It’s not the first time. Joshua Lee Ayers, also a dancer and a reported friend of Smart’s, wrote on Twitter in June that Smart was gay and was only using JLo to help further his career....
    CELEBRITIES
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    Gore Vidal, a 20th Century Literary Lion, Dies at 86

    Keith Girard
    Gore Vidal, one of the last true men of letters, a wit, prolific writer and bon vivant, who move easily in political as well as celebrity circles, has died in Los Angeles after a long illness from pneumonia. He was 86. Nephew Burr Steers said Vidal died at his Hollywood Hills home yesterday (July 31) in the early evening. Vidal had been in failing health for "quite a while," he said....
    ArtBOOKS
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    Rita Ora, UK's Hot Sex Bomb, About to Hit U.S. (video!)

    Keith Girard
    Rita Ora is fast becoming the next big import in the new British Invasion. She has an even more exotic background than Rihanna and her hip-hop style recalls old school rappers like Missy Elliott, with looks rivaling her Barbadian colleague. Ora, 21, debuted in Las Vegas last night hosting Stereo Saturdays at Lavo Nightclub in the ritzy Palazzo Hotel-Resort Casino. It’s part of a whirlwind tour leading up to the release of her first album....
    HIP-HOP