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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Strollerderby : celebrity news</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/celebrity+news/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: celebrity news</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Poll - Portia and Ellen Most Trusted Moms</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/05/08/poll-portia-and-ellen-most-trusted-moms.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:202833</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=202833</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/05/08/poll-portia-and-ellen-most-trusted-moms.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/01-07/amd_degeneres.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/01-07/amd_degeneres.jpg" alt="Portia De Rossi - oh, sorry, DeGeneres" align="right" border="0" height="311" hspace="4" width="186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ParentDish did a Mother&amp;#39;s Day poll. Over 10,000 people voted. (For an Internet poll, that&amp;#39;s a lot, trust me. Or as Paris Hilton might say, &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.shabooty.com/2009/04/21/paris-hiltons-new-saying-thats-huge-huge-paris-on-twitter.php" target="_blank"&gt;huge&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first question on the poll was the following: &amp;quot;Which celebrity would you most feel comfortable leaving your kids with?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know who won? Drum roll, please...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With 31%, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi took the top spot. Rounding out the list were Jennifer Aniston (22%), Rachel Ray (20%), Angelina and Brad (18%) and coming in last was Oprah Winfrey with 9%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The results are interesting. I probably would have put Rachel Ray first, and Ellen and Portia second. (Carrie Prejean, methinks, would put Ellen and Portia dead last.) Putting Jennifer ahead of Angie and Brad seems odd, but I guess that&amp;#39;s the way the celebrity winds are blowing this week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obviously the fact that the top choice was a same-sex couple is worth mentioning. Or is it? Have a majority of us progressed past the point where we care what sort of family we would leave our kids with? (In theory of course -- as far as I know, none of the famous folks in this poll are offering babysitting services.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Out of this group, who would you leave your kids with? Would the sexual orientation of the parents factor in to your decision? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.parentdish.com/2009/05/07/the-results-of-our-mothers-day-poll/" target="_blank"&gt;ParentDish &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;image: &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/27/2008-06-27_portia_de_rossi_will_take_degeneres.html"&gt;Daily News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/13/homebirthing-advocate-s-baby-dies-during-homebirth.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Homebirthing Advocate&amp;#39;s Baby Dies During Homebirth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/04/19/american-incest-dad-gets-109-years-in-jail.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;American Incest Dad Gets 109 Years In Jail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/05/07/did-this-woman-commit-suicide-because-she-couldn-t-breastfeed.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Did This Woman Commit Suicide Because She Couldn&amp;#39;t Breastfeed?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=202833" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Celebrities/default.aspx">Celebrities</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/celebrity/default.aspx">celebrity</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/parents/default.aspx">parents</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/angelina+jolie/default.aspx">angelina jolie</category><category 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Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=188425</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/23/morning-news-the-obama-bracket.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/obama-ncaa-bracket.gif"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/obama-ncaa-bracket.gif" alt="President Obama&amp;#39;s NCAA Bracket" align="right" border="0" height="210" hspace="4" width="315" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebigchill/mondaymonday.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Monday Monday… Can&amp;#39;t trust that day…&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually, you kind of can trust Monday. It&amp;#39;s fairly reliable in that it always comes after Sunday. I don&amp;#39;t think that&amp;#39;s what Mama Cass and Co. were talking about, but then again, it was the 60&amp;#39;s, so who knows?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyone make an NCAA bracket? I did. I know nothing about college
basketball, and my picks are proving it, especially in the Midwest
Conference. At least there&amp;#39;s no money at stake for me. &lt;a href="http://news.lalate.com/2009/03/19/obamas-ncaa-brackets/" target="_blank"&gt;President Obama
made one&lt;/a&gt;, which
is being resoundingly mocked by many. Some were &lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/18/march_madness_at_the_wh_obamas.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank"&gt;upset that he even took
the time to make his picks&lt;/a&gt;, which is hilarious if you consider the amount of
vacation time that former President Bush took while in office. (I know,
it&amp;#39;s a cliché, but it happens to be &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/politics/uwire/main3927378.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;true&lt;/a&gt;.) Taking a few minutes to fill
out a bracket is a pleasant distraction from the day&amp;#39;s events for
everyone, Leaders of the Free World included. If people want to
complain about Obama&amp;#39;s policies, fine, but his bracket? Let it go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Damn those blasphemy laws -- a Pennsylvania man tried to register a limited liability company called I Choose Hell Productions, LLC but was told &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/21religion.html?em" target="_blank"&gt;he had to pick another name&lt;/a&gt; because PA has an anti-blasphemy law on the books preventing such things. The laws were common the 19th century, but this one was enacted in 1977 when someone tried to register God Damn Gun Shop. The ACLU is suing the state. Heh heh. God Damn Gun Shop... (NYT)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A revival of &amp;quot;West Side Story&amp;quot; opened on Broadway with some of the songs translated into Spanish. Interesting idea but I can&amp;#39;t imagine that makes the songs better. Frank Scheck of the Hollywood Reporter &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSTRE52K0P920090321" target="_blank"&gt;saw the show and agrees&lt;/a&gt;, as did many other critics. (Note: I haven&amp;#39;t seen this production. I&amp;#39;ll probably stick with &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000AM6IY/?tag=Babble.com-20" target="_blank"&gt;the movie&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The post office &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvD0qQotLe1U8Hu9gvOZsUH2dY8QD972B8BO0" target="_blank"&gt;is in trouble&lt;/a&gt;. They lost almost 400 million dollars last quarter and are offering early retirement to 150,000 employees, in addition to staff cutbacks and location closures. Not enough people mailing letters I guess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susan MacDougal (remember her?) &lt;a href="http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/17733" target="_blank"&gt;can&amp;#39;t have the transcript of her own testimony&lt;/a&gt; in the Whitewater trial. She was hoping to use it for a novel or screenplay. Whitewater looks pretty damn tame compared to all the nonsense going on these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some governors, including &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/21nevada.html?hp" target="_blank"&gt;Nevada&amp;#39;s Jim Gibbons&lt;/a&gt;, are turning down federal money to beef up their unemployment funds because they don&amp;#39;t like the &amp;#39;strings&amp;#39; that are attached. The thing is, those strings disappear when the federal cash runs out. (This according to a &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/opinion/21sat3.html?ref=opinion" target="_blank"&gt;New York Times editorial&lt;/a&gt;.)&amp;nbsp; Nevada will run out of unemployment money by the end of the year if they don&amp;#39;t take the government cheese. (Nose, you don&amp;#39;t mind if I cut you off to spite my face, do you? Cool, thanks.) You can&amp;#39;t play games like this when people are out of work. And unemployment money gets taken out of your check every week for a reason. You get it back if you&amp;#39;re unemployed. Hence the name. So it&amp;#39;s not unreasonable for people to expect to receive that money if they lose their jobs. In other Republican Governor news, Alaska&amp;#39;s Sarah Palin (perhaps you&amp;#39;ve heard of her?) is &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_qYftLxkozZUF01FT28aWT_kFCQD972B7AG0" target="_blank"&gt;only accepting Federal money&lt;/a&gt; for projects that are truly &amp;quot;shovel ready.&amp;quot; Alaska Democrats are not happy, saying that she is playing politics with state residents. There&amp;#39;s definitely a shovel needed for what&amp;#39;s coming out of the mouths of both Republicans and Democrats these days, but it&amp;#39;s not the kind you use to fix roads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eliot Spitzer is &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/03/18/2009-03-18_eliot_spitzer_takes_shots_at_andrew_cuom.html" target="_blank"&gt;talking smack about Andrew Cuomo&lt;/a&gt;. Hey! Here&amp;#39;s an idea, Spitzy. Shut up. You have no credibility anymore. Sorry. You screwed up. Apologize and go away. Although maybe you can &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart" target="_blank"&gt;blog for Huffington Post&lt;/a&gt; like Gary &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.americanheritage.com/people/articles/web/20070508-gary-hart-donna-rice-george-mcgovern-democratic-presidential-primary-political-scandal.shtml" target="_blank"&gt;Monkey Business&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; Hart. (&amp;quot;G&amp;#39;head! Follow me! You won&amp;#39;t find anything! Wait, you thought I meant that? I was only kidding! Aw, crap…&amp;quot;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responding to &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/20/open-letter-to-the-woman-who-pushed-me-while-i-was-picking-up-my-kid.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Sheri&amp;#39;s comment&lt;/a&gt;: I hadn&amp;#39;t heard about what the President said on TV, so I looked it up. Seems that while being interviewed by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, President Obama said of his bowling skills, &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s like the Special Olympics or something.&amp;quot; He apologized to the President of the Special Olympics before the show aired. Comments at &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7129997&amp;amp;page=1" target="_blank"&gt;ABC News&amp;#39; web site&lt;/a&gt; range from &amp;quot;who cares?&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;see? I told you he was an idiot.&amp;quot; (I&amp;#39;m paraphrasing.) I can&amp;#39;t say I agree with those who say that this is somehow on the same scale as other &amp;quot;gaffes&amp;quot; spoken by Republican politicians, or even &amp;quot;gaffes&amp;quot; from Democrats. Personally, I think the President is a little bit too much of a regular guy, at least in the way that he sometimes speaks in public. It was a dumb joke but hardly the worst thing ever. He also invited Special Olympians to the White House to do some bowling. There&amp;#39;s one Special Olympic bowler who has three perfect games to his credit, so maybe he can give the Prez some pointers. By the way, &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/5025638/Sarah-Palin-Barack-Obamas-Special-Olympics-gaffe-on-Leno-was-degrading.html" target="_blank"&gt;Sarah Palin weighed in&lt;/a&gt; on the President&amp;#39;s comments, because she&amp;#39;s not all about politics like some politicians. This issue really effects Alaska, hence her very public reaction. Also: the President of the Special Olympics is Tim Shriver, Maria&amp;#39;s brother, and therefore Ah-nuld&amp;#39;s brother-in-law. That has nothing to do with anything except that I think it would be fun to have Arnold Schwarzenegger as your brother-in-law.&amp;nbsp; The Governator, by the way, &lt;a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/03/schwarzenegger_backs_obama_spe.html" target="_blank"&gt;supports Obama&amp;#39;s stimulus plan&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tuesday, Tuesday… I trust that day… &lt;/i&gt;Nah, doesn&amp;#39;t have the same ring to it. I guess &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Phillips_%28musician%29" target="_blank"&gt;John Phillips&lt;/a&gt; knew what he was talking about. See you tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Image: &lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/images/brackets2009c.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;WhiteHouse.gov&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/18/march_madness_at_the_wh_obamas.html?hpid=topnews" target="_blank"&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/20/morning-news-iphone-gets-feature-other-phones-already-have.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Morning News - iPhone Gets Feature Other Phones Already Have&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/morning-news-natasha-richardson-dies.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Morning News - Natasha Richardson Dies (UPDATE - Autopsy Information)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a 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Feature Other Phones Already Have</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/20/morning-news-iphone-gets-feature-other-phones-already-have.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:187901</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=187901</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/20/morning-news-iphone-gets-feature-other-phones-already-have.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/WozDWTS-02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/WozDWTS-02.jpg" style="width:292px;height:245px;" alt="Woz on DWTS" align="right" border="0" hspace="4" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Updating &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/morning-news-natasha-richardson-dies.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;yesterday&amp;#39;s Natasha Richardson story&lt;/a&gt;: an &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_natasha_richardson" target="_blank"&gt;autopsy&lt;/a&gt; reveals that she died of bleeding in the brain and &amp;quot;she might have survived had she received immediate treatment.&amp;quot; The thing is, people with this sort of injury typically feel fine at first. So sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NBC is &lt;a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article2329184.ece" target="_blank"&gt;launching a show&lt;/a&gt; to compete with &amp;quot;American Idol.&amp;quot; Simon Cowell probably thinks this is a &amp;quot;horrible&amp;quot; idea. (&amp;quot;Horrible&amp;quot; is one of the words he uses a lot, right?) On &amp;quot;Idol&amp;quot;, &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509763,00.html" target="_blank"&gt;Alexis Grace went home&lt;/a&gt;. She was shocked. &lt;i&gt;Shocked.&lt;/i&gt; Why are they always so surprised? I guess you have think you&amp;#39;re a major talent to get on TV and sing like that but just once it&amp;#39;d be fun to hear someone say, &amp;quot;Yeah, I suck. It was only a matter of time before I got the boot.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is Steve Wozniak on &amp;quot;Dancing With The Stars&amp;quot;? Based on this quote from his website, I guess the reason is &lt;a href="http://www.woz.org/Features/dance/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;because people said&lt;/a&gt; he wouldn&amp;#39;t be able to do it. I wonder if Apple fans will keep voting for him the way football fans did with Jerry Rice. Woz has definitely been &lt;a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;amp;articleId=9130050&amp;amp;intsrc=news_ts_head" target="_blank"&gt;keeping in touch&lt;/a&gt; with his audience, accusing &amp;quot;Dancing&amp;quot; producers of rigging the voting in order to goose the ratings, then apologizing, all via his Facebook page. If this keeps up, I might actually have to watch the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of Apple, the new iPhone software will include bleeding edge features like &lt;a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/iphone_3_0_details/" target="_blank"&gt;the copying and pasting of text&lt;/a&gt;. What&amp;#39;s that, your phone has been able to do that for years? Mine too. The iPhone is nifty but certain omitted features prove that Steve Jobs could probably sell water to a drowning Apple fan if it had that logo on it. (Personally, until the iPhone has an actual keyboard, I won&amp;#39;t even consider buying one.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Financial news update: &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/19/aig-treasuries-nokia-markets-transcript-aig.html" target="_blank"&gt;stocks tanked&lt;/a&gt; and it wasn&amp;#39;t CNBC&amp;#39;s fault. Are you happy, &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/morning-news-natasha-richardson-dies.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Jeff Zucker&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Austrian monster dad Josef Fritzl &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/evil-father-goes-on-trial.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;was sentenced to life in a psych hospital&lt;/a&gt;. Life in prison would be better, but even though he could be paroled in 15 years, it&amp;#39;s not likely to happen. The speed of the trial was kind of impressive; in the U.S., these things seem to take a lot longer. I&amp;#39;m sure there&amp;#39;s a reason for that but I don&amp;#39;t know what it is.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And finally, there were &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/new-baby-boom.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;a heck of a lot of babies born in 2007&lt;/a&gt;. Madeline points out that it wasn&amp;#39;t &lt;a href="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/15/jimmy-kimmel-and-the-octomom.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Octomom&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s fault -- &amp;quot;she only gave birth to one baby that year.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s all for now. Have a great weekend and we&amp;#39;ll see you on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Image: Woz.org&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/morning-news-natasha-richardson-dies.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Morning News - Natasha Richardson Dies (UPDATE - Autopsy Information)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/new-baby-boom.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;New Baby Boom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/18/morning-news-march-madness-or-march-sadness.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Morning News - March Madness or March Sadness?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a 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xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=187535</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/morning-news-natasha-richardson-dies.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2009/04/natasha-richardson-skiing-accident-liam-neeson-vanessa-redgrave.jpg" style="width:178px;height:249px;" alt="Natasha Richardson has died" align="right" border="0" hspace="4" /&gt;Starting on a sad note -- Natasha Richardson &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2009/03/18/Natasha-Richardson-Dead.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;has died&lt;/a&gt;. UPDATE: according to &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_natasha_richardson" target="_blank"&gt;this AP report&lt;/a&gt;, an autopsy revealed that &amp;quot;&lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1237510039_0"&gt;Richardson&lt;/span&gt; died from bleeding in her skull caused by the fall she took on a &lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1237510039_1"&gt;ski slope&lt;/span&gt;...The &lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1237510039_2"&gt;medical examiner&lt;/span&gt; ruled her death an accident, and doctors said she might have survived had she received immediate treatment.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#39;s one of those actresses that everyone seemed to absolutely adore on and off stage. I saw her perform in &amp;#39;Cabaret&amp;#39; just before the show opened to rave reviews; she was amazing to watch. An appreciation of her life &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2009-03-18-richardson-appreciation_N.htm" target="_blank"&gt;is here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pope Benedict XVI has folks up in arms because, speaking about the AIDS epidemic in Africa, &lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-18-pope-africa-wednesday_N.htm" target="_blank"&gt;he said&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;quot;You can&amp;#39;t resolve it with the distribution of condoms. On the contrary, it increases the problem.&amp;quot; Cathy Lyn Grossman at USA Today has an &lt;a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/03/64286027/1" target="_blank"&gt;intriguing post&lt;/a&gt; in their Religion section titled, &amp;quot;Could choosing condoms mean choosing life?&amp;quot; Interesting idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way everyone is carrying about the Jon Stewart / Jim Cramer &lt;a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kerfuffle" target="_blank"&gt;kerfuffle&lt;/a&gt; (and really, what is it if not a kerfuffle?) you would think that their &amp;quot;feud&amp;quot; actually had some effect on the world at large. Or that more than 2.3 million people &lt;a href="http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/03/stewart-cramer.html?iid=top25-%27The+Daily+Show%27%3A+Jon+Stewart-Jim+Cramer+showdown+nets+big+ratings" target="_blank"&gt;actually watched it&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;#39;m not saying that&amp;#39;s not a good number, but it&amp;#39;s not exactly Earth shaking. Anyway, Jeff Zucker, the head honcho of NBC Universal, is &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1835152820090318" target="_blank"&gt;all up in Jon Stewart&amp;#39;s grill&lt;/a&gt;, saying that Jon is like, being unfair and stuff when he blames the financial crisis on CNBC&amp;#39;s reporting. (That&amp;#39;s not an exact quote; you can read Zucker&amp;#39;s full quote &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1835152820090318" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.) The thing is, that&amp;#39;s not really what Stewart was saying. To me, the most important line from the interview he did with Cramer was, &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s not a f**king game, man.&amp;quot; Cramer seemed to be telling Stewart that it was perfectly OK to say something under the guise of financial advice that wasn&amp;#39;t entirely accurate as long as it was entertaining. Frankly, that pisses me of as well. For Stewart to question the worth of a network&amp;#39;s reporting is a good thing, or it should be. Disagreeing with him is fine as well. Sing it with me now -- ain&amp;#39;t that America, you and me… Also, if Jeff Zucker wants to yell at someone, it should probably be Cramer. He&amp;#39;s the one who turned a bit on The Daily Show into something that has dominated news cycles for several days now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuing with financial news, the Fed is doing more things that I don&amp;#39;t entirely understand. This time they&amp;#39;re buying &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H5YE20090318" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;long-term U.S. government debt.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; (Someday someone will explain to me why anyone would want to buy debt.) This causes many things to happen, including wailing and gnashing of teeth. One possible good outcome of whatever-this-is is that mortgage rates will be vewy, vewy low for now, so if you need one, this is a good time to get it. Also on the good news front: &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/18/consumer-price-inflation-markets-economy-cpi.html" target="_blank"&gt;fears of economic deflation have decreased&lt;/a&gt;! Why? Because the Consumer Price Index rose by .04%! Whoo-hoo! (Disclaimer: If you are getting your financial news from me, stop. Right. Now.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last but not least (if you&amp;#39;re into college basketball), the NCAA Tournament, aka March Madness, starts today at noon. You can watch every game online at &lt;a href="http://www.cbssports.com/" target="_blank"&gt;CBSSports.com&lt;/a&gt;, which is good for fans who will be stuck in an office all day. Of course, these people should probably be, you know, working. But who are we to judge?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s all for today, back on Friday. Quick, fill out your bracket!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Image: &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2009/03/18/Natasha-Richardson-Dead.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Famecrawler &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/18/morning-news-march-madness-or-march-sadness.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Morning News - March Madness or March Sadness?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/16/morning-news-cheney-duct-tape-outer-space.aspx"&gt;Morning News - Cheney, Duct Tape, Outer Space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/16/gma-tweets-details-on-levi-johnston-and-son.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;GMA Tweets Details On Levi Johnston And Son&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/15/jimmy-kimmel-and-the-octomom.aspx"&gt;Jimmy Kimmel And The Octomom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/13/oprah-gets-it-right-on-chris-brown.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Oprah Gets It Right On Chris Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2009/03/18/Natasha-Richardson-Dead.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Natasha Richardson Dead&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=187535" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/news/default.aspx">news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/sports/default.aspx">sports</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/internet/default.aspx">internet</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/media/default.aspx">media</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/barack+obama/default.aspx">barack obama</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/basketball/default.aspx">basketball</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/economy/default.aspx">economy</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/obama/default.aspx">obama</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/recession/default.aspx">recession</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/March+Madness/default.aspx">March Madness</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Brett+Singer/default.aspx">Brett Singer</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/NBC/default.aspx">NBC</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/celebrity+news/default.aspx">celebrity news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/jon+stewart/default.aspx">jon stewart</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/ncaa/default.aspx">ncaa</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/morning+news/default.aspx">morning news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/finance/default.aspx">finance</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/the+daily+show/default.aspx">the daily show</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/president+obama/default.aspx">president obama</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/natasha+richardson/default.aspx">natasha richardson</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/jeff+zucker/default.aspx">jeff zucker</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/deflation/default.aspx">deflation</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/jim+cramer/default.aspx">jim cramer</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/natasha+richardson+dies/default.aspx">natasha richardson dies</category></item><item><title>Morning News - Watchmen, Wiper Fluid and the World Wide Web</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/17/morning-news-watchmen-wiper-fluid-and-the-world-wide-web.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:186611</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=186611</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/17/morning-news-watchmen-wiper-fluid-and-the-world-wide-web.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/03/Artists-impression-of-a-4-010.jpg" alt="Fossil hunters have found a new dinosaur" align="right" border="0" height="148" hspace="4" width="247" /&gt;Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday! (You need to hear that in the voice of a 1980&amp;#39;s era &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_truck" target="_blank"&gt;Monster Truck&lt;/a&gt; radio ad announcer. That reference either makes sense or it doesn&amp;#39;t. Apologies if it doesn&amp;#39;t.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quick comment: I have to say that when I said I would fill in for Madeline for a few days, the last thing I thought I would be writing about was former &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/27/george-w-bush-visits-texas-elementary-school.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;President George W. Bush&lt;/a&gt;. Not that I mind, but it seems strange. I had &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/16/morning-news-cheney-duct-tape-outer-space.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;an item about him&lt;/a&gt; yesterday, and there&amp;#39;s one today. I&amp;#39;m not looking for them, believe me. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And now -- the news!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update from &lt;a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movies/box_office.php" target="_blank"&gt;Nerdy Movie Land&lt;/a&gt; (which, surprisingly, is not located at my house): &amp;#39;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/09/letting-kids-see-watchmen.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Watchmen&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39; dropped to &lt;a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movies/box_office.php" target="_blank"&gt;second place&lt;/a&gt;, losing the top spot to &amp;#39;Race to Witch Mountain.&amp;#39; Proving... nothing, really. Personally, I want &amp;#39;Watchmen&amp;#39; to do well so that studio executives keep greenlighting superhero movies. So far it&amp;#39;s made about $85 million, which is pretty good for two weeks. Unfortunately, there are reports that many people are &lt;a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/mass-watchmen-walkouts,24907/" target="_blank"&gt;walking out&lt;/a&gt; of the film before it&amp;#39;s over, which doesn&amp;#39;t really help with that whole word of mouth thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The guy who pretty much invented the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee, not Al Gore – once &lt;a href="http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2238573/berners-lee-defrauded-online" target="_blank"&gt;got scammed&lt;/a&gt; online when buying a Christmas present. He&amp;#39;s also &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52C55820090314" target="_blank"&gt;warning people&lt;/a&gt; against &amp;quot;website snooping&amp;quot; and talking about keeping your personal data safe. Good idea, Tim, but if even you got scammed, what hope is there for the rest of us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Campbell&amp;#39;s Soup is &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/FoodandAgriculture09/idUSTRE52F3X420090316" target="_blank"&gt;not planning to cut their prices&lt;/a&gt;. Got that? How is this a headline? Seems that the company feels that prices are low enough, and sales are growing anyway. Hence, no price lowering. I repeat -- why tell anyone this? I prefer the organic stuff, myself, and my kids wouldn&amp;#39;t eat soup if they were starving, so it doesn&amp;#39;t affect me. But if I did eat Campbell&amp;#39;s Soup, hearing this might make me NOT buy it. Just saying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Barack Obama &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/us/politics/17obama.html" target="_blank"&gt;wants to block&lt;/a&gt; bonus payments to AIG execs, and NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo &lt;a href="http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/cuomo-seeks-aig-bonus-information/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;wants to know&lt;/a&gt; who is getting the money. This is not going to end anytime soon, methinks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other financial news, former White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says that &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/27/george-w-bush-visits-texas-elementary-school.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;her former boss&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.wowowow.com/politics/dana-perino-claims-bush-deserves-credit-wall-st-rise-video-238372" target="_blank"&gt;deserves some of the credit&lt;/a&gt; for a recent bounce in the stock market. I didn&amp;#39;t realize that being a Presidential flack was a lifetime position.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lindsay Lohan will NOT, repeat NOT, &lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/16/lindsay-lohan-off-the-hook/" target="_blank"&gt;be arrested&lt;/a&gt;. C&amp;#39;mon, you know that makes you happy. Her arrest warrant was recalled and she &amp;quot;enroll in a new alcohol education program.&amp;quot; TMZ reports that she had a &amp;quot;personality conflict&amp;quot; with the program she was in before. What does that mean, that she wanted to drink while she was there? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The kids who &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/13/daycare-mistakes-windshield-wiper-fluid-for-kool-aid-kids-sick.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;drank the wiper fluid&lt;/a&gt; are OK, &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_us/windshield_fluid_sickness" target="_blank"&gt;which is good&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;#39;m still not clear on why this stuff tastes good. Wouldn&amp;#39;t that flavoring have to be an additive of some kind? And if it is, why include it? Is it possible that wiper fluid just tastes sweet naturally? That would be, as my son might say, weird.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/16/new-dinosaur-discovery.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Shannon tells us&lt;/a&gt; about a new dinosaur, more specifically &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/16/jurassic-sea-monster-pliosaur-fossil"&gt;a new species of pliosaur.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; The photo (above) is just flat out cool. Apparently this particular pliosaur was &amp;quot;more powerful than T Rex, with a head twice its size, a set of 12-inch teeth, and a weight of about 45 tons.&amp;quot; Yowsa. Show this one to your kids, unless you think it&amp;#39;ll give them nightmares. Heck, it might give &lt;i&gt;me &lt;/i&gt;nightmares. Look at those teeth...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s all for today - more tomorrow...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Photo: Guardian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/13/morning-news-3-charged-in-anna-nicole-smith-s-death.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Morning News: 3 Charged in Anna Nicole Smith&amp;#39;s Death&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/16/superman-comic-sells-for-over-300k.aspx"&gt;Superman Comic Sells For Over 300k&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/16/morning-news-cheney-duct-tape-outer-space.aspx"&gt;Morning News - Cheney, Duct Tape, Outer Space&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/15/evil-father-goes-on-trial.aspx"&gt;UPDATE - Austrian Incest Dad Pleads Guilty To Some Charges&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=186611" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Movies/default.aspx">Movies</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/news/default.aspx">news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/drinking/default.aspx">drinking</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/internet/default.aspx">internet</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/science/default.aspx">science</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/barack+obama/default.aspx">barack obama</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/nerds/default.aspx">nerds</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/lindsay+lohan/default.aspx">lindsay lohan</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/geeks/default.aspx">geeks</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/economy/default.aspx">economy</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/obama/default.aspx">obama</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/dinosaurs/default.aspx">dinosaurs</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/president/default.aspx">president</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/Brett+Singer/default.aspx">Brett Singer</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/celebrity+news/default.aspx">celebrity news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/george+w.+bush/default.aspx">george w. bush</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/morning+news/default.aspx">morning news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/finance/default.aspx">finance</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/president+obama/default.aspx">president obama</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/watchmen/default.aspx">watchmen</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/wiper+fluid/default.aspx">wiper fluid</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/world+wide+web/default.aspx">world wide web</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/tim+berners-lee/default.aspx">tim berners-lee</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/nerdy+movies/default.aspx">nerdy movies</category></item><item><title>Suri Cruise: Most Powerful Child On The Planet</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/19/suri-cruise-most-powerful-child-on-the-planet.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:148161</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=148161</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/19/suri-cruise-most-powerful-child-on-the-planet.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/11/16-22/26244pcn_suri02.jpg" alt="I AM SURI CRUISE... AND I... HAVE... THE POWER!!!!!" align="right" border="0" height="161" hspace="4" width="107" /&gt;This is such an odd piece of news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom &amp;quot;Who Needs Doctors When You Can Take Vitamins&amp;quot; Cruise and Katie &amp;quot;Is She Being Held Prisoner&amp;quot; Holmes has been declared &amp;quot;most influential celebrity kid&amp;quot;. Now what is the source of this important ranking? Us Magazine perhaps? The National Enquirer?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. Forbes magazine. Malcolm must be spinning in his grave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What method did they use? According to MyHollywood.com, &amp;quot;financial investigators studied Internet presence and press clippings for more than 50 A-list offspring aged five years younger over the course of the last year…used a market research company to gauge the awareness of the kids and consumer-appeal of their celebrity parents.&amp;quot; Suri won, with appearances in &amp;quot;more than 2,000 articles over the course of the year.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&amp;#39;s the top ten if you&amp;#39;re curious:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Suri Cruise&lt;br /&gt;2. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt&lt;br /&gt;3. Zahara Jolie-Pitt&lt;br /&gt;4. Pax Jolie-Pitt&lt;br /&gt;5. Sam Alexis Woods&lt;br /&gt;6. Cruz Beckham&lt;br /&gt;7. Matilda Rose Ledger&lt;br /&gt;8. David Banda&lt;br /&gt;9. Sean Preston Federline&lt;br /&gt;10. Sam Sheen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way, I had to look up Sam Sheen (that&amp;#39;s the offspring of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen). So I feel slightly better about myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a thought. Why would a celebrity parent want their child to get this much exposure? Is it at all possible to keep kids out of the papers when you&amp;#39;re this famous? In the case of a Suri Cruise or any of the Jolie-Pitts, wouldn&amp;#39;t it be safer to lay low a little bit? Or does it matter in the age of social networking, photo sharing, and MyFaceSpaceBook?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus, this idea of &amp;quot;influential&amp;quot; seems questionable. Would you buy something because Suri Cruise endorsed it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is a cute little girl though. Maybe she could do Gap ads or something.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/11/16-22/1suri%20cutie.jpg" alt="Hi, I&amp;#39;m Suri. Would you buy stuff? Come on. I&amp;#39;m really cute." align="" border="0" height="427" hspace="4" width="322" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last thought: How would you handle this sort of thing if you were mega-famous? I&amp;#39;m not sure what I would do, although it&amp;#39;s not likely to be a problem in my life. My movie career began and ended when I auditioned for &amp;quot;Adventures in Babysitting&amp;quot; in the 80&amp;#39;s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source/Images: &lt;a href="http://www.myhollywood.com/news/2008/11/18/suri-cruise-is-the-most-powerful-baby-in-the-world/"&gt;MyHollywood&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/11/19/hottest-hollywood-tot-miss-suri-cruise.aspx"&gt;Famecrawler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read more:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/17/alex-rodriguez-writing-love-poems-to-madonna.aspx"&gt;Alex Rodriguez Writing Love Poems To Madonna&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/11/matt-lauer-talks-to-sarah-palin-in-the-kitchen.aspx"&gt;Matt Lauer Talks To Sarah Palin In The Kitchen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/15/world-famous-atheist-to-write-children-s-book.aspx"&gt;World Famous Atheist To Write Children&amp;#39;s Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/11/18/how-do-we-love-michelle-obama-let-us-count-the-ways.aspx"&gt; How do we love Michelle Obama?  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src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/08/08-15/matthew-mcconaughey-placenta-burial.jpg" alt="Matthew McConaughey will bury Levi&amp;#39;s placenta" align="right" border="0" height="200" hspace="4" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When I first saw the headline, &amp;quot;McConaughey plans placenta burial&amp;quot;, I thought, &amp;quot;Ah. A new high/low in celebrity wackiness.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It turns out, though, that &lt;a href="http://www.hip-chick-pregnancy-guide.com/placenta.html"&gt;burying the placenta&lt;/a&gt; is a not uncommon practice in some cultures. In fact, you can even purchase a &lt;a href="http://explorasia.org/collections/singleObject.cfm?ObjectId=8897"&gt;Placenta Burial Jar&lt;/a&gt; online. So making fun of it would be, at best, culturally insensitive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, I have questions. Like, where do you keep the placenta until the burial? In a jar? In the fridge? What does it smell like? And &amp;quot;burial&amp;quot; seems like a morbid term to me, even though that is, literally, what you are doing. And do you visit the site of the burial? Matt says that he was inspired by a &amp;quot;placenta tree&amp;quot; he saw in Australia, so maybe he hopes a tree will pop up where little Levi&amp;#39;s former food supply is put in the ground. 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Voight</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/15/no-twin-visits-for-jon-voight.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:109691</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=109691</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/15/no-twin-visits-for-jon-voight.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/08-15/jolie-voight.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/08-15/jolie-voight.jpg" alt="Father and daughter, when she was still speaking to him" align="right" border="0" height="400" hspace="4" width="276" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Usually the birth of a child can bring a family together. But whatever is going on between Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie must be pretty bad. According to &lt;a href="http://www.eonline.com/"&gt;E!&lt;/a&gt; (that&amp;#39;s hard to type – the !) Voight says, &amp;quot;I was just as excited as everybody else&amp;quot; about &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/13/20-mil-for-pics-of-twins.aspx"&gt;the birth of the twins&lt;/a&gt;. (Maybe, &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m more excited than everybody else&amp;quot; would have been a better choice of words?) As for actually seeing them in person, &amp;quot;If I&amp;#39;m asked, I&amp;#39;ll find a way but I haven&amp;#39;t been asked.&amp;quot; Here&amp;#39;s the REALLY LOUD CELEBRITY NEWS VIDEO FROM E!ONLINE(!!!!!):&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;It&amp;#39;s kind of sad news -- grampa not allowed. But here are some facts about their relationship (in this case, &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; means stuff I read on the Internet that could be true):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie#Early_life_and_family"&gt;Jolie&lt;/a&gt; was raised by her mom, and officially changed her last name from Voight to Jolie in 2002. (I don&amp;#39;t remember her ever being known as Angelina Voight, but who knows, maybe I was just busier back then.) She did this about a month the Midnight Cowboy said, on television, that his lovely daughter had &amp;quot;serious emotional problems.&amp;quot; Nice! Here&amp;#39;s the quote that seems like there&amp;#39;s more here than meets the eye: &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;My father and I don’t speak. I don’t hold any anger toward him. I don’t believe that somebody’s family becomes their blood. Because my son’s adopted, and families are earned.&amp;quot; She stated that she did not want to publicize her reasons for her estrangement from her father, but because she had adopted her son, she did not think it was healthy for her to associate with Voight.&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.premiere.com/features/1894/angelina-jolie.html?print_page=y"&gt;Premiere Magazine&lt;/a&gt;, via &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie#Early_life_and_family"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking that quote at face value, it makes a certain amount of sense. She&amp;#39;s adopted, what, about 47 children at this point? She wants them all to feel loved. I would imagine that anyone who adopts a child would say the same thing. (I have no idea if this is true, but it seems like a good thing to feel.) Plus, dad wasn&amp;#39;t around for her when she was growing up. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe she&amp;#39;s just annoyed at this line from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Voight"&gt;Voight&amp;#39;s own&lt;/a&gt; Wikipedia page that talks about Angelina and her brother, James Haven: &lt;i&gt;Both children would go on to enter their father&amp;#39;s business, James as an actor and assistant director, and Angelina as a major Oscar-winning movie star in her own right.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In her own right? Is that a joke? How often do you hear about what &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369754/"&gt;James Haven&lt;/a&gt; is up to? I think the last time was when everybody thought he and Angie were a little tooclose, if you know what I mean. Oh, he played an usher in 2003&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Hunter of Man&amp;quot;. Didn&amp;#39;t see it? Maybe you were sick that day. No disrespect to James, but whoever wrote that needs to get out more. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyway, bummer for Jonny V, but based on my potentially inaccurate information, it sounds like Angelina has a right to be pissed off. 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twins</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/13/20-mil-for-pics-of-twins.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:45:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:109098</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=109098</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/13/20-mil-for-pics-of-twins.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/08-15/babyMoney.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/08-15/babyMoney.jpg" alt="Big money for Jolie-Pitt baby pics, not yours, yours only valuable to gramma" align="right" border="0" height="250" hspace="4" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;OMG! Magazines might be paying $20 million for pics of twins! &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/01/screw-twin-earth-i-m-going-to-mars.aspx"&gt;Quick&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/28/want-to-know-about-the-twin-earths-ask-people-with-twins.aspx"&gt;Everyone&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/09/Lesbian-Mama-Pregnant-With-Twins-and-so-is-her-parnter.aspx"&gt;with&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/05/28/identical-twin-discovered-in-a-spanish-clothing-store.aspx"&gt;twins&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/27/from-leashes-to-crib-tents-acceptable-methods-to-tie-down-your-toddler.aspx"&gt;hurry&lt;/a&gt; and get some shots taken!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, wait. Not YOUR twins. The &lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/13/brangelina-s-twins-have-arrived.aspx"&gt;Jolie-Pitt twins&lt;/a&gt;. OH. Sorry. Didn&amp;#39;t mean to get your hopes up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Associated Press (via &lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_en_tv/france_jolie_twins_photos;_ylt=Ahw7D48cQaEvBBqTcmjcXlqs0NUE"&gt;Yahoo! News&lt;/a&gt;) quotes Darryn Lyons of the photo agency Big Pictures in London, as saying that the &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; photos of the most famous pair of rugrats on the planet could fetch between $15 and $20 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does this compare to previous bambino/bambina windfalls? &lt;a href="http://money.aol.com/forbes/general/most-expensive-celebrity-baby-pix"&gt;AOL Money&lt;/a&gt; says that Jennifer and Marc Lopez (let&amp;#39;s face it, she&amp;#39;s the one with the career) received $6 million for photos of Max and Emme in March of 2008. They also received sighs of relief from millions when they gave the kids normal names. But Shiloh Nouvel, Brad and what&amp;#39;s-her-name&amp;#39;s first non-adopted child, snagged $4.1 million in June of 2006. So the $20 million figure is probably not far off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quote of the day: &lt;i&gt;The only other photos that &amp;quot;would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien,&amp;quot; [said Lyons.] &lt;/i&gt;I&amp;#39;d pay a couple of bucks to see that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;image: &lt;a href="http://jewels-whatevah.blogspot.com/2007/03/liams-loaded.html%20"&gt;jewels-whatevah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/13/brangelina-s-twins-have-arrived.aspx"&gt;Brangelina&amp;#39;s Twins Have Arrived!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/07/10/angelina-s-due-date-got-it.aspx"&gt;Angelina&amp;#39;s Due Date - Got It!!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/07/09/angelina-jolie-and-brad-pitt-s-baby-names.aspx"&gt;Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt&amp;#39;s Baby Names!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/01/screw-twin-earth-i-m-going-to-mars.aspx"&gt;Screw twin Earth, I&amp;#39;m going to Mars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/28/want-to-know-about-the-twin-earths-ask-people-with-twins.aspx"&gt;Want to know about the twin Earths? 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game</title><link>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/03/mrs-and-mrs-degeneres-and-a-male-perspective-on-the-name-game.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">42a08a39-daf3-4129-8a63-8a27b879cc03:106255</guid><dc:creator>Brett Singer</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=106255</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/03/mrs-and-mrs-degeneres-and-a-male-perspective-on-the-name-game.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/01-07/amd_degeneres.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2008/07/01-07/amd_degeneres.jpg" alt="Portia De Rossi - oh, sorry, DeGeneres" align="right" border="0" height="311" hspace="4" width="186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You won&amp;#39;t have Portia De Rossi to kick around anymore – well, you will (although why you would want to kick her, I have no idea), but she&amp;#39;ll have a new name. According to the &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/27/2008-06-27_portia_de_rossi_will_take_degeneres.html"&gt;Daily News&lt;/a&gt;, Portia will take DeGeneres&amp;#39; last name when they officially tie the knot. (I guess that clears up any question about who the &amp;quot;man&amp;quot; in that relationship is, right?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I do wonder how a gay couple makes this decision. Ellen definitely makes more money, and she is older. She also never wears dresses. OK, maybe in their case it wasn&amp;#39;t that difficult. I&amp;#39;ll be curious if other gay couples make name-changes as they (hopefully) continue to get legally hitched. (If this issue has come up for any readers, let us know in the comments.)  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Interestingly, many women in heterosexual marriages don&amp;#39;t change their names, at least judging from the reactions to Adrienne&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/24/a-rose-is-a-rose-unless-she-s-a-smith-rose.aspx"&gt;recent post&lt;/a&gt; on the subject. Of course, some women did make the switch, for various reasons: &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#39;t have any special attachment to my original name&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#39;t want to change my name, but my husband really wanted me to&amp;quot; are two of the comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The subject of names didn&amp;#39;t come up when I got married, but it&amp;#39;s clearly an issue. I know I wouldn&amp;#39;t want to change my name, and I&amp;#39;m not sure how I would have felt about it if my wife had wanted to &amp;quot;keep her name&amp;quot; (a phrase I think sounds odd, although I admit that I don&amp;#39;t have a better one – yet). I&amp;#39;m not a fan of the hyphen-name, mostly because usually it&amp;#39;s only the mother who uses it; the husband and children use the man&amp;#39;s name. If everyone in the family went hyphen, I think that would be different. One consideration that rarely gets discussed is what a woman has to do in order to change her name; if my wife&amp;#39;s experience is any guide, it can be a lot of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So guys, if your wife-to-be doesn&amp;#39;t want to &amp;quot;take your name&amp;quot; when she takes your hand in marriage, try this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Grrr! Ugg want you change name! Make Ugg feel manly! Now get Ugg dinner!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, that&amp;#39;ll work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;image: &lt;a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/06/27/2008-06-27_portia_de_rossi_will_take_degeneres.html"&gt;Daily News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Related posts:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/24/a-rose-is-a-rose-unless-she-s-a-smith-rose.aspx"&gt;A Rose is a Rose Unless She&amp;#39;s A Smith-Rose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="BlogPostHeader"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/25/man-dresses-up-as-a-woman-to-marry-a-man.aspx"&gt;Man dresses up as a woman to marry a man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/06/17/and-now-the-gay-brain.aspx"&gt;And Now - The Gay Brain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;h4 class="CommonSearchResultName"&gt;&lt;a href="http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2008/07/17/john-mccain-doesn-t-quot-believe-in-quot-gay-parents.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;John McCain Doesn&amp;#39;t &amp;quot;Believe In&amp;quot; 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in France. The twins join their four other siblings: Zahara, Pax, Maddox, and Shiloh.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp; boy-girl twins join other celebrity twinnies, including:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/02/22/breaking-news-jennifer-lopez-gives-birth-to-twins.aspx"&gt;Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony&amp;#39;s boy-girl twins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2007/07/19/marcia-cross-at-the-farmer-s-market.aspx"&gt;Marcia Cross and her girls&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/05/30/angelina-jolie-do-we-have-babies-or-what.aspx"&gt;Famecrawler isn&amp;#39;t sure if this announcement is real&lt;/a&gt;, so hang tight for more news...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Related Posts:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/05/30/angelina-jolie-do-we-have-babies-or-what.aspx"&gt;Babies, or What?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/05/30/breaking-news-angelina-jolie-gives-birth-to-twins.aspx"&gt;Angie Had Her Babies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2007/07/19/marcia-cross-at-the-farmer-s-market.aspx"&gt;Marcia Cross does the Farmer&amp;#39;s Market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/archive/2008/02/22/breaking-news-jennifer-lopez-gives-birth-to-twins.aspx"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jennifer Lopez has her babies&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.babble.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=97764" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/twins/default.aspx">twins</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/brad+pitt/default.aspx">brad pitt</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/multiples/default.aspx">multiples</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/famecrawler/default.aspx">famecrawler</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/France/default.aspx">France</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/breaking+news/default.aspx">breaking news</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/celebrity+multiples/default.aspx">celebrity multiples</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/angelina+jolie+has+twins/default.aspx">angelina jolie has twins</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/angie+and+brad/default.aspx">angie and brad</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/angie+has+more+kids/default.aspx">angie has more kids</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/angelina+has+her+babies/default.aspx">angelina has her babies</category><category domain="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/tags/celebrity+news/default.aspx">celebrity news</category></item></channel></rss>