Style Stealer: Get Reese Witherspoon's Purple Passion

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Reader vbllgal told us she loved the purple look Reese Witherspoon wore on her Avon Believe tour, and we have to agree. The purple looks great with Reese's light blond locks, and the shape flatters lots of different figures. We thought we'd try stealing Reese's style, and we've given you not one, but three perfectly purple ways to get Reese's look—and at three different price points. Check 'em out after the jump!

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'Kumar' Actor's Gun-Toting Robber Pleads Guilty

Filed under: Kal Penn, Celebrity Justice

Kal Penn -- aka Kumar from the White Castle movies -- has the taste of sweet justice on his lips ... because the dude who robbed him at GUNPOINT last year just pled guilty to the crime.   According to court documents filed in D.C., Marcellus… Read more

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Sarah Michelle Gellar & Charlotte Grace Return Home To SoCal

Last month we saw photos of mama/actress Sarah Michelle Gellar and her beautiful daughter Charlotte Grace on the NYC set of SMG‘s new TV pilot Ringer but today we get to see new photos of mother and daughter as they made their arrival back home in SoCal yesterday. SMG has been in NYC for the [...]

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Britney Spears: The Origin Of The Super-Pop Species

With her new album sitting at #1, Bigger Than the Sound looks at Britney's unprecedented career.
By James Montgomery


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By the time you read this, Britney Spears will have scored her sixth #1 debut with Femme Fatale, her latest installment of supersonic, stealth-fighter pop, a collection of songs equipped with laser-guided, heat-seeking hit missiles. In fact, Femme Fatale is more like an F-22 Raptor than an album.

Maybe I shouldn't be amazed that Brit finds herself atop the charts once again, but don't we live in austere times? Aren't Odd Future the only thing that matters these days?

I'm only sort of kidding. Because, frankly, each and every time Britney lands another #1, it's kind of like we've traveled through a wormhole and ended up in 1999, a time when the industry was still flush with cash and Lou Pearlman still lumbered the land. This was only 12 years ago, but it may as well have been 12 million.

These days, we still have plenty of pure pop stars, though none of them are quite like Britney. Lady Gaga is into performance art. Katy Perry is the California Gurl. Pink is the punky older cousin with a ton of tattoos. As is often the case with evolution, they have each developed specialized traits in order to survive. Britney is, in a lot of ways, the origin of the species (for simplicity's sake, I'm just ignoring Madonna, who basically did everything before any of this generation's stars were even teething). She was — and, I suppose, still is — the music industry's first attempt to promote a star that is everything to everyone. And each and every time she surfaces with a new album in tow, it signals the return of pop's Mesozoic era. For all intents and purposes, she may spend her time between albums trapped in amber, waiting to have her DNA extracted by some scientist.

This is by no means meant to come across as a slight against Spears. I fully understand why her fans love her the way they do, not to mention the fact that Femme Fatale is a heck of a pop record, a starry shadowbox of the coolest sounds you're likely to hear all year. It's more me simply marveling at the way she operates — in the cockpit of a high-powered fighter, making glossy, big-budget videos, putting on full-scale pop spectacles. There truly, honestly isn't anyone else like her.

We should take this opportunity to appreciate what Britney Spears — and her album — represent. She is the last super-pop star left standing. There was a time when everyone did things this way; now it's her and her alone. Spears is still everything to everyone, in a time when all we hear about are "niche markets" and "splintered genres," and for that alone, the success of Femme Fatale is noteworthy. Can she continue to survive among her more specialized peers? She's certainly earned the right to, though one gets the feeling she's probably not too worried about that fact. The thing about being the first is that there isn't really anything — or anyone — to compete against. So let others sweat the small stuff; Britney's only concerned with being Britney. Now and forever.

What do you think is the secret to Britney's success? Let us know in the comments!

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Dancing With the Stars Elimination Night WTF: What Are People Thinking?!

DWTS, Kirstie Alley, Maksim ChmerkovskiyHow tiring was last night's Dancing With the Stars? From Kirstie Alley's fall-heard-round-the-world to the staggering weight of all the emotion that went into those tell-a-story...


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Heidi Montag, Jake Pavelka & Danielle Staub Starring In A Reality Show. Like, Together.

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So, Heidi Montag, Jake Pavelka, and Danielle Staub walk into a bar. No, sadly, this is not a joke. Apparently, this is a new reality TV show. The three were in Los Angeles filming the series today and were photographed around a lunch table together. We have no idea what exactly the show will be, especially considering that the only thing uniting these three is that fact that they were controversy lightening rods on "The Hills," "The Bachelor," and "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" respectively. Maybe they'll team up to fight crime? Or perhaps this is a new-fangled "Three's Company"? Or a porno? Your guess is as good as mine. But, gulp, we will be watching. [Hollywood Hiccups, Daily Mail]

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Gwyneth Paltrow & Matthew Morrison's Night Out in London

Enjoying a night out together in London, England, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matthew Morrison were recently spotted living it up in the UK.

The ?Country Strong? singer and her ?Glee? pal did their best to avoid the paparazzi attention, but the sneaky photogs caught up with them anyway throughout their night out on the town.

Aside from the enjoyable London outing, Miss Paltrow is reportedly in talks to launch a magazine based around her love of food.

Insiders told the New York Post?s Page Six that Gwyn is currently in negotiations with publishers Heart Corporation to expand her brand into the ?literary world.?

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