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28 Jan, 2008

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matthewMcConaughey appears on the cover of People after learning that his wife is pregnant with their first child.

Camila and I made a baby together … it’s three months growin’ in her womb. We are stoked and wowed.

21 Jan, 2008

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britneySpears appears on the cover of People after she refused to hand her children over to their dad for visitation. Spears locked herself inside her home to prevent her children being taken. Any ambulance was called and Spears was transported to the hospital for a possibly bipolar disorder. Source:

The images of her from the ambulance startled everyone who knows her. She looked manic. Her family is terrified. Everyone has been worried for some time. Her world has been crumbling around her.

10 Jan, 2008

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Samberg talks about his approach to comedy:

I think the goal of most comedy, just like most movies or television, is an escape from the mundane stuff in our life, and I’ve always found it worthwhile to make something completely stupid just to prove that you can. People in general are too stressed-out, even though most things are pretty ridiculous.

1 Jan, 2008

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Washington speaks to Oprah in an interview for O Magazine about his role in The Great Debaters. 

Man, it just moved me. I felt an emotional connection. What I learned while doing research for the film is that many black colleges, like Wiley and Morehouse, opened during the decade following the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. That’s because education was believed to be the way out, so when millions of black people were finally let go after almost 250 years, boom, we opened schools. And that’s partly why Melvin Tolson’s debate team was able to beat these other national teams in the ’30s: Great thinkers such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Melvin B. Tolson couldn’t teach at schools like Harvard or Columbia. But the film is really about the kids and the journey of one boy in particular.

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zac-efron-details-january-2008Efron appears on the cover of the January/February 2008 issue of Details magazine. He talks about photos of him at the beach, the paparazzi, and Seventeen being created for him.

At that point it was inconceivable. I had no idea that anyone could ever care. That happens to, like, big stars. I woke up and my dad told me that I was in a newspaper on the beach—he made fun of me, he said I was ‘frollicking.’

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Washington talks about his reaction when reading the script for the movie The Great Debators:

The reaction you had in the screening room is the one I had. Man, it just moved me. I felt an emotional connection. What I learned while doing research for the film is that many black colleges, like Wiley and Morehouse, opened during the decade following the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

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121cover_slideshow_l1Barton appears on the cover of the January 2008 issue of Maxim magazine.

17 Dec, 2007

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hewittHewitt appears on the cover of People to discuss her feelings after being called fat. She was spotted on the beach with her fiance when it happened.

They could not have looked happier, holding hands, kidding around the whole time. Jennifer was just there to relax and have some fun. She looked on top of the world.

13 Dec, 2007

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After demanding a trade in May, Bryant now says he is glad he wasn’t traded from the Lakers:

I’m happy to be here. My guys and I — we have such a tight bond. Business and basketball sometimes can cloud things, but when you get here in your element and you’re around your teammates and just having a good time with them and thinking about them and not about the business of the game, that’s when it becomes fun.

12 Dec, 2007

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angieJolie appears on the cover of People after her mom dies after battling cancer for 7 1/2 years.

There are no words to express what an amazing woman and mother she was. She was our best friend.

7 Dec, 2007

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Depp talks about working on the set of the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

We were doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and I was on the set. We were shooting, working, working, working. All great. Everything’s cool. One of my pals comes up and says, Helena [Bonham Carter, Burton’s partner] just called. When you get a moment, she’d like you to give her a call back. Okay, I say. As soon as I’m done on set, I’ll go back to my trailer and give her a call. So I go back to the trailer, call Helena, and say, Hey, what’s going on? I thought maybe Helena had a question about little boys because Billy was a little baby then and I’ve got two kids. So I say, Is everything all right? And she says, Billy’s fine. Everything’s fine. But, well, you know how Tim is.

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Branson gives his thoughts on founding Virgin Airlines:

I was young and inexperienced. At first I wasn’t even allowed to register the business name because the word virgin was thought to be rude. I had to sit down and, in my best 15-year-old penmanship, write a letter to the registry office that began, Surely the word virgin is anything but rude; it’s the opposite of rude. They eventually relented.

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120cover_slideshow_l1Gellar appears on the cover of the December 2007 issue of Maxim magazine. The cover photo is shot by Nino Munoz.