People magazine won the bidding war for the first pics of Bristol Palin's baby -- for a $300K price tag, reportedly.
According to one source, bidding for the baby photos began at $100,000. People won out in the end, but In Touch was the only other weekly to make serious bids, according to several sources involved in the process.
The price didn't soar immediately, according to the sources, because Sarah Palin stories just didn’t sell all that well for the weeklies on newsstands.
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Take that, Benjamin Button!
Marley & Me topped the box office at $36.3 million this weekend, while Benjamin Button fell to the #3 slot (behind Bedtime Stories). It's notable that Button is longer than Marley and showed in about 500 fewer theaters, but Marley still had a higher per-screen take ($10,450 to $8,987).
Looks like theater-goers would rather get their holiday cheer from a desperate and childless bachelorette and a suicidal alcoholic, just so long as they're aging in the right direction.
Congrats to Jen and O...
There had been rumors that she was dating Benji Madden -- which I didn't report here, because they were bullshit -- but now we have some more dirt on Britney's love life. The British tabs are reporting that Britney has been hooking up with Indian hottie Sandip Soparrkar, who choreographed her Womanizer video.
Britney, 27, even flew to Jodhpur for a romantic three-day Christmas break with Sandip who is a pin-up in his native India.
The couple, who have been dating for three weeks, exchanged ...
I love Samuel L. Jackson.
Here he is at the Capri Film Festival with his wife, LaTanya Richardson, whom he met in college and married in 1980. The two have been together ever since. Not only is he still married to the woman, but he takes her all around the world with him to his promotional events. Nearly thirty years later and he still wants her around, despite the fact that his fame and his money mean he could easily flit off to Capri by himself and bed a different supermodel each night...
Her personal life may not have had a record-setting year, but Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour was the highest-grossing North American tour of the year, bringing in $105.3M. Second place went to Celine Dion with $94M, and The Eagles took third with $73.4.
Country music star Kenny Chesney ($72.2 million) and rock band Bon Jovi ($70.4 million) came in fourth and fifth.
The top ten was rounded out by Bruce Springsteen and the E street band ($69.3 million), Neil Diamond ($59.8 million), Rascal Flatts ($55.8 million), The Police ($48.0 mil...
On Monday, I got to celebrate my grandfather's 82nd birthday with him. "Do I get to be on your blog?" he asked. "If I'm on your blog, am I automatically an A-list celebrity?" I told him that this was not exactly the case, but that I would do what I could for him. At 82 years old, my grandfather is a daily reader of The Evil Beet and my Twitter feed. ("He doesn't know how to get started with the computer," says his wife, "but once I get him all set up he reads it for hours, and he clicks on all...
Frankly, I'm torn between the auto-play music (Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry") or the fact that his logo looks a lot like Perez Hilton's did a few years back. I'm also terribly disappointed that I haven't been added to his blogroll yet. It may be related to the scathing email I sent him after he emailed me to let me know he launched a new blog to be mean to his own daughter (he didn't respond). Come on, Mike, give Evil Beet some blogroll love. We'll link back! You have no idea how many people would ...
Everyone's getting in their Christmas proposals.
Up now: Love of my life Zooey Deschanel, who got engaged to Death Cab for Cutie lead singer Ben Gibbard over the holidays.
I had no idea the two were together.
I saw Ben perform live at a Rhapsody party this summer. I would have been waaaay more interested in him if I'd known he were dating Zooey. Luckily, his good pal John Krasinski showed up to support him that night, so I had someone to swoon over. ...
How gorgeous does Cate look in the pages of this month's Vanity Fair?
She was photographed for the mag by Annie Leibovitz.
And she's wearing more clothes than Miley Cyrus was!...
Congrats to Woody Harrelson, who finally tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, Laura Louie, on Sunday in Maui.
The couple have three daughters, Makani Ravello, 2, Zoe Giordano, 12 and Denni Montana, 15.
Guess which one was the accident....
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