Hollywood lost both Sandra Dee and John Raitt this weekend.

Sandra Dee, who at the height of her fame in the 1960s was arguably the biggest female teen idol of her time, has died, leaving a legacy of film roles that includes "Gidget" and "Tammy and the Doctor."

"She was Gidget, and she was Tammy, and for a time she was young America's ideal," film historian Leonard Maltin once said of her. Dee later married another pop icon, singer Bobby Darin.

Though in his later years he joked that he had become best known as singer Bonnie Raitt's father, John Raitt was famous in his own right as the robust baritone who livened musicals such as "Carousel" and "The Pajama Game."

Raitt died Sunday of complications from pneumonia at his Pacific Palisades home, said his manager, James Fitzgerald. Raitt was 88.

--I think Dee's best film was "Imitation of Life." It's an amazing movie and if you haven't seen it, you should check it out. As for Raitt, he was fantastic in "Carousel." After being cast in that show in high school, our director made us watch it. He captured the multi-dimensional character of Billy Bigalow quite well.

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Madonna is planning to play a transvestite in a new Hollywood film.

And according to The Sun, the singer is so keen to take on the part that she's agreed to do it for free. The paper reports that the Queen of Pop has signed up to play Candy Darling, who starred in a series of Andy Warhol's experimental films in the 1960s. She was the inspiration behind the Velvet Underground classic Candy Says and Lou Reed's solo hit Walk On The Wild Side.

A source told the paper: "Madonna has been desperate to make a film where she can earn respect for her acting abilities.

--Sorry, M. But it will never happen.

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Fashion superstars Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who have been sharing both their label and their bed for nearly 20 years, are no longer a couple.

"On a professional level we are still together," Dolce told Italian daily Corriere della Sera yesterday, acknowledging their romantic relationship is at an end. "We work together wonderfully well; we have a very strong understanding," he said, adding that Gabbana will always be "the most important person of my life."

Dolce, 46, and Gabbana, 42, have both been seeing other men, the paper reports, and now live in separate apartments in the same Milan building. Asked whether they were likely to ever get back together, Gabbana replied, "Never say never, but, really, I don't think so." Gabbana also said his mother was horrified when news that they were lovers as well as business partners was first reported in the press.

--Although they say it won't change, I'll be interested to see if their business relationship can withstand this.

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It takes a certain kind of woman to play the mother of the beautiful yet quirky Teri Hatcher, but, according to Variety, ABC has found her in actress Lesley Ann Warren.

Warren, who starred as Maggie Gyllenhall's mother in the acclaimed indie 'Secretary,' will visit the "Desperate Housewives" of Wisteria Lane in the role of Sophie Bremmer.

As the high-maintenance mother of Susan (Hatcher), she shows up unexpectedly, seeking boyfriend advice from her equally baffled daughter. Although Warren is currently scheduled for only one episode of the hit show, it seems more than likely that Susan will get a visit from her mother again in the future.

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David and Victoria Beckham are celebrating the birth of their third son - named Cruz.

The baby was born by caesarean in Madrid at 10:40am local time.

"We've got a baby boy. His name is Cruz," a beaming David Beckham said outside the hospital. "He is beautiful. He is in there with his brothers now and he is very happy."

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A masked armed robber who may be a sex maniac took four cartons of condoms, Dunhill cigarettes and cash from the 7-Eleven convenient store at Damai, Luyang, early Friday.

He also took two boxes of candles.

--I think it's fair to classify this under "WTF."

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A new breast cancer awareness campaign may cause some twitters or giggles, but that's the idea.

Leigh Hurst was a 33-year-old marathon runner in good health when she got devastating news about a breast lump, reported WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pa. "I found out that it was actually stage 1 cancer," Hurst said. It's been almost a year since Hurst was diagnosed, and she just got a clean bill of health.

Hurst is now alerting other young women about the importance of breast self-examination. Her campaign uses three words that grab your attention.

"It says, 'Feel Your Boobies,'" Hurst said. "Our main goal is to raise awareness. 'Feel Your Boobies' is all about targeting a population that doesn't think too much about breast cancer."

With help from her father, Hurst sells T-shirts, hats and other items with the slogan. The proceeds have gone to breast cancer research.

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Jessica Simpson unveiled her new clothing line (as modeled on a catwalker, right) at MAGIC, the fashion industry trade show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Newlywed star's sportswear collections – Sweet Kisses, the JS Collection, and Princy – will be available next fall.

--She's clearly excited. And her lips seemed to be "pumped up" as well. I think someone got some collagen injections.

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It got ugly when the five stars of "Desperate Housewives" gathered in L.A. to pose for Vanity Fair the other day.

"There was a hissyfit," confirmed an insider. "Tensions are high because castmates think it is becoming 'The Teri Hatcher Show.' " Marcia Cross, the perfectionist redhead whose husband likes to be dominated, was so unhappy that her publicist, Heidi Slan, supposedly jumped in front of Mark Selinger's camera at one point. "I didn't jump in front of the camera," says Slan. "On these shoots, people get moved around a lot, but they all get along great."

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Destiny's Child star Michelle Williams has ditched her fiance - because God told her to.

The 24-year-old singer broke off her engagement to her anonymous beau of three years after seeking spiritual advice on their relationship. She says, "I was close to marriage. I prayed and said, 'God, you have to show me. If it ain't right, let me know'. All of a sudden, red flags started popping up."

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1 Yep, I've heard the "God told me to" thing when someone broke it off with me. Apparently, God really is all about love.

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Beacause it wouldn't be a TGIF celebration at MP&S without a pic of Brit looking hungover and messy:

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John Travolta fears he'd lose many of his adoring female fans if they really knew what he was like away from the cameras - because he's a terrible perfectionist.

The movie star admits he can be "anal" when it comes to making plans and getting things right. He explains, "I have a little bit of a perfectionist thing with machines and cleanliness. I like it to work and be neat. I still get knee-jerk reactions to things when they go off center.

"If there's a plan of some sort and it goes slightly off-kilter I get a little nutty. "If an employee gets it wrong I get a little anal. I think I'm a little bit of a pain in the a*s that way. That'll help to turn the women away from me."

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Christina Aguilera says she was shocked when a Valentine surprise turned into a marriage proposal. The 24-year-old pop diva says music executive Jordan Bratman, her boyfriend of two years, popped the question at Big Sur, Calif., last Friday after recreating a romantic dinner the two had while touring India in the fall.

"It was unbelievable," Aguilera told Us Weekly magazine. "Every cute thing he did, I totally thought was just a Valentine's Day surprise - he got me!" "He sent me on a scavenger hunt," she said. "My mom used to do scavenger hunts for me when I was a kid, so it had sentimental value. Each clue was a poem - and in the final clue he proposed!"

The 26-year-old Bratman gave Aguilera a 5-carat diamond ring designed by jeweler Stephen Webster, who also made wedding bands for Madonna and Guy Richie.

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Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, tagged as an imperious diva on "The Apprentice," criticized the NBC reality show for stereotyping her and other black contestants.

"Once you start looking at how all the black men are lazy and laid-back and nonassertive and nonaggressive and all the black women are quite the opposite, I think there is a pattern," she said Wednesday.

Speaking at an NBC teleconference for another reality show, Manigault-Stallworth said she wasn't "sassing" executive producer Mark Burnett but contended that the show's editing was to blame.

Burnett fired back when asked to respond. "How insulting to other African-Americans," Burnett told The Associated Press. "What African-American man have we shown to be lazy? None of them. Kwame almost won the whole thing."

--Does she ever stop whining and bitching?

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Former Cheers star Shelley Long is set to make a guest appearance on ABC's Boston Legal, her first role since being hospitalized for a bad reaction to a painkiller.

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Before he goes into hiding for good, pop star George Michael has managed one last catty comment... this time taking a swipe at Kylie Minogue.

In recent months, George has let rip at Elton John, Will Young, Robbie Williams and George Bush. Talking about his lack of style back in his Wham! days, George, 41, said: "I was guilty of some major fashion crimes. "I dressed terribly but it was because I didn't have a decent shag, like Kylie until she met Michael Hutchence. Before that, she was clueless - then it all changed."

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Annie Lennox, Brian May and India Arie will perform at Nelson Mandela's next concert to raise awareness about the AIDS pandemic.

The March 19 event in the Eastern Cape city of George, to be hosted by actor Will Smith, will highlight the plight of women and girls, who are six times more likely than men to become infected here, Mandela said Thursday.

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After working together on the set of their upcoming movie 'Sahara' sparked romance between Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz, the new Hollywood couple is all set to launch into another big-screen project together.

According to Variety, the actors will star in a love story called 'The Loop.' Based on author Joe Coomer's novel, the story follows a lonely highway patrolman who is inspired by a beautiful librarian to search for his long-lost family. The new flick is expected to begin filming in September. Meanwhile, 'Sahara' is scheduled to hit theaters nationwide on April 8.

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Oh sure--it's not you, it's your shoes!!

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1 Oh, I thought it was the leather office chair!

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Gawker releases pics of Brit and Kev on their honeymoon:

--Nothing out of the ordinary here: scrunchies, booze, and trucker caps.

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