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Bona fide hottie Emile Hirsch accepted the award for Best Feature for Sean Penn’s moving film “Into the Wild” at the 17th Annual Gotham Awards in New York City. This early awards show honors the best of the year’s independent features. Director Penn was not in attendance - Hirsch accepted the award along with producer William Pohlad.

Other big winners at Tuesday night’s show included 20-year-old Juno star Ellen Page (X-Men: The Last Stand, Hard Candy), who took home the Breakthrough Actor award, and Michael Moore’s health care documentary Sicko, which won for Best Documentary Feature. Check out the story from The Hollywood Reporter here.

Awards season is now officially under way…so what’s on the forecast for the coveted Golden Statues? Transformers for Best Picture!

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Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban arrived in style at the world premiere of The Golden Compass in London. Mrs. Urban wowed the crowd in a cream silk and brocade dress by Balenciaga, while Keith played perfect arm candy in a standard black tux. What do you think of Keith and Nicole as a couple?

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Rumored Drew Barrymore paramour Justin Long got his Alvin and the Chipmunks on at MTV’s TRL Studios in New York City. What do you think of Justin and Drew as a couple?

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You can’t keep a good woman down! Breast cancer survivor Kylie Minogue wowed the crowd at the album launch for X at the Virgin Megastore in Paris. With a hot new video for her first single “2 Hearts” and a documentary film White Diamond, chronicling the Australian superstar’s “Showgirl Homecoming Tour”, the ultimate showgirl shows no signs of stopping after 20 years in the music business. She said of her return to the stage, “‘Showgirl’ is not only a celebration of [my] pop songs and my career, but of a long time relationship with my audience. This is my way to say thank you and to share some of the most important moments of my journey so far.”

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David Beckham met some his little fans while making an appearance in Beijing. Who else would make such a handsome man blush?

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“No woman can make herself chic if she is not chic herself,” said the late Cristobal Balenciaga, one of the greatest courtiers of the 20th century. With the installment of artistic director, Nicolas Ghesquière in 1999, the house is still flourishing with impeccable style stars such a Lindsay Lohan, who carried Balenciaga’s black and white striped ‘city’ bag while shopping in New York City. Want to see other Balenciaga babes carrying and wearing the esteemed Parisian brand? Click here!

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The intrepid Nikke Finke over at Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that a back-door source indicates the Writer’s Guild strike may be ending sooner than expected. More than likely not before Christmas, but this is good news nonetheless - more weeks without 30 Rock and someone will have to pay, Death Wish-style.

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With Hollywood on strike and the box office plummeting, analysts were bracing for one of the worst Thanksgiving showings in history. But you can’t keep bored families away at the holidays, apparently. The Thanksgiving box office met last year’s numbers to everyone’s surprise, fuelled by the muscular #1 bow of Disney’s Enchanted and the eye-opening results of second place finisher This Christmas. Once again showing how Hollywood is clueless about the power of African-American audiences, the family dramedy raked in a terrific $27.1 million over the 5-day holiday frame. Beowulf continued to disappoint (it may not reach $100 million), while Hitman opened to decent numbers for a video game adaptation and Miramax’s No Country for Old Men held up well in national release. Todd Haynes’s mega-hyped Bob Dylan fantasia I’m Not There was solid in its first days of limited release, if a bit underwhelming.  

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Lindsay Lohan’s new boyfriend Riley Giles, Dina Lohan and LiLo herself (not facing camera) dined at Cipriani Downtown in New York City. Lindsay will be visiting her mother’s Long Island home for Thanksgiving and is rumored to be taking meetings with Universal Music Group. The mega-label distributed Lohan’s first two studio albums Speak and A Little More Personal. What do you think of Lindsay as a musical artist?

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Dr. Jan Adams, the plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, the day before she died left the set of Larry King Live abruptly in respect to the West family. Adams began the program by stating, “I had come here to talk about things in the press that aren’t accurate about me…but I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for the West family. They asked me not to go on.” During the program, it was revealed that Adams had received a letter from the West family’s lawyers asking him not to appear on the show – and threatening to ask the Medical Board of California to decertify him if he spoke about the case. “When they are comfortable, then I will be comfortable [speaking out],” Adams elaborated to King. “If they are never comfortable, then I will never be comfortable.” The doctor then removed his ear piece and walked off stage while the program immediately cut to a commercial break. Getty Images caught the controversial doctor leaving the studio with a large travel bag in tow. What do you think about Dr. West’s abrupt departure?