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One Year Older

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Happy Birthday | Janice Min, who recently stepped down as the editor of Us Weekly, is celebrating her 40th birthday today. Martha Nelson, the woman who oversees People, is turning 57. Weatherman Sam Champion is 48. Sebastian Stan of Gossip Girl is turning 26. Danny Bonaduce is 50. Author and screenwriter Tom Perrotta is turning 48. Agnes Gund, the former president of the Museum of Modern Art, is 71. Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders is turning 76. And ex-Cuban president Fidel Castro turns 83 today.

Media

TMZ Only Covers the Important Stuff

137885Much has been made in recent weeks about TMZ's decision to focus its attention on the financial crisis and corporate misbehavior. When the site revealed that the bank Northern Trust had hosted a golf tournament and a series of splashy parties even after receiving $1.6 billion in taxpayer money, editor Harvey Levin told the Times it was "the most important thing" TMZ had ever done, and one of the site's photographers said that while "Britney is fluff," stories about "Northern Trust, Madoff, and politicians in D.C. really have an impact on the country." It's nice to see TMZ's dedication to hard-hitting investigative journalism continues. Today a TMZ cameraman ambushed Chris Cuomo and Sam Champion outside a juice store near the offices of ABC News did his best to get Champion to utter the world "fruit" on camera. Now they just need to start gay-baiting the sons of disgraced Wall Street execs and they'll get the mix down perfectly. The video of the Cuomo/Champion encounter is after the jump. More

Gossip

Lizzie Impregnated, Ivanka Plays Beer Pong

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  • Lizzie Grubman is spawning once again: She and husband Chris Stern are expecting twins. [P6]
  • In other family news, Deborah Grubman is putting Tommy Hilfiger's Plaza duplex on the market for $50 million. [P6]
  • A flight attendant is now suing both Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony after she was allegedly bitten by their guard dog on a private jet flight. [NYDN]
  • In what must come as a huge surprise to all, doctors say that Amy Winehouse may now be suffering from brain damage. [NYDN]
  • Helen Mirren was "date raped more than once" and once "loved" coke, she tells the British edition of GQ. [People]
  • Katie Lee Joel taught Ivanka Trump how to guzzle beer through a funnel this past weekend and then played beer pong with Howard Stern. [R&M]
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One Year Older

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Happy Birthday | New York City's favorite gay, orange-hued weatherman Sam Champion, turns 47 today. Us Weekly editor Janice Min is also celebrating. It's her 39th birthday today, which makes her approximately 25 years older than the average Us reader. She isn't the only magazine star who will be munching on cake in the office today: Martha Nelson of People is 56. Other birthdays: Fidel Castro is 82, Danny Bonaduce is 49, and art maven (and heiress) Agnes Gund turns 70. And actor Sebastian Stan, who may be better known as Leighton Meester's boyfriend, turns 25.