In the last year, Oprah Winfrey has had Narciso Rodriguez, Tory Burch, and Valentino on her show. After a summer off, the queen of daytime television is apparently craving another fashion fix, and who better to feature than Donatella Versace?

Winfrey is said to be in the planning stages to dedicate an entire hour-long episode to Versace, which would air sometime in November. Among the serious topics the two powerhouses are said to be openly discussing on the show are the history of Versace and DonatellaÂ’s recent personal comeback after having been a gossip-page fixture for, among other things, her stint in rehab.

In addition, a camera crew is also being planned to tape segments from VersaceÂ’s upcoming spring/summer 2006 ready-to-wear show in Milan, though it remains unconfirmed as to whether or not Winfrey herself will be in the front row. A Versace spokesperson said nothing is confirmed yet. The 2005-06 season marks the 20th anniversary of The Oprah Winfrey ShowÂ’s debut in national syndication.

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Fargo star William H. Macy thought he was being tricked when prop managers on the set of new low-budget movie Edmond appeared to lose the key to his handcuffs during an embarrassing nude scene.

The actor was left standing wearing nothing but a "sock" to cover his genitals during a prison scene in the new David Mamet film.

He says, "They marched me down this long hallway... I'm buck naked. I'm manacled behind my back and my feet are manacled. I do the scene four times and the property guy comes up and says, 'OK, we got it.' He says to the actor, who is playing the cop, 'Gimme the key,' who says, 'I don't have the key.' There's no key. They've lost the key. I'm buck naked... I said, 'Oh, that's really funny, you've lost the key.' The prop guy said, 'No, it isn't funny, this is really serious.' (Eventually) they found the key. I tell ya, low-budget is not for sissies."

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Pop-punk trio Green Day led MTV's 2005 Video Music Awards nominations Monday, scoring eight nods, while Gwen Stefani and Missy Elliott nabbed six each.

Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and the Stefani's "Hollaback Girl," will go head-to-head in the video of the year category. Also in the running is Coldplay's "Speed of Sound," Kayne West's "Jesus Walks" and Snopp Dogg and Pharrell's "Drop It Like It's Hot."

U2 was nominated five times, while Coldplay, Jennifer Lopez, the Killers and My Chemical Romance each received four nods. Nearly 20 other performers received multiple nominations, including Destiny's Child, 50 Cent, the White Stripes, Eminem, Kelly Clarkson and Usher, among others.

The VMAs, which will be hosted by P. Diddy, will air Aug. 28 from Miami (which happens to be the height of that city's hurricane season). Appropriately, the show's theme will be water, and the nominees will perform at the AmericanAirlines Arena, which overlooks the Biscayne Bay.

Like last year, celebrities will pull up to the bayfront arena in gleaming yachts, but this time some stars will arrive in souped-up cars for an auto show on the red carpet. MTV also is planning a water show designed by the company that created the Bellagio Hotel and Casino's water fountain in Las Vegas. "Every year we have to outdo ourselves," MTV President Christina Norman said, according to the Associated Press. "This year is no exception."

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Beyonce is hoping to take some "take off" in 2006.

The singer also revealed she hopes one day to be married and have children. The 23-year-old Destiny's Child singer, who is dating rapper Jay-Z, told the New York Post she "might take some time off" after she films Dreamgirls which begins shooting in January.

"One day, hopefully, we'll all be married. We've talked about being in each other's weddings," said Beyonce when asked if she or her bandmates, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland had any marriage plans. "We always said we want to have kids at the same time, so they're all the same age and would be able to grow up together."

Beyonce, who will shortly be seen in The Pink Panther, is currently on tour with Destiny's Child. Earlier this year the group confirmed they will split after the tour when ends in Vancouver on September 10. A Destiny's Child greatest hits album and a DVD is planned for later this year.

Beyonce added: "I know we say we're breaking up, but I'll never say never about getting back together because we're such good friends. "They're part of my life. I'd never say 'no' if someone said, 'Ladies lets sing Say My Name again."

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Joss Stone has reportedly been axed as the face of Gap because of her affair with an older man. Sources claim the teenage soul singer was dropped by the fashion giants because she was romancing 25-year-old music producer Beau Dozier.

The star sparked controversy across America when she moved into her lover's Los Angeles home when she was just 17 - below California's age of consent. It meant Dozier could have faced charges of statutory rape if he was sleeping with Joss. Although the star is now 18, she was recently snapped smooching Dozier, which didn't impress Gap bosses, according to a Britain's Mail on Sunday.

An insider revealed: "People take things such as the age of consent extremely seriously in America. "It is all good and well to have glamorous celebrities endorsing the clothes but the backbone of Gap's business is in small towns in Middle America where people are very, very conservative, especially in the Bible Belt.". The source added: "As a result, I think they have made it pretty clear that Stone's association with the company is over".

Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams will replace the teen singer in the ad campaign, while Gap bosses have denied Joss's relationship with Dozier was the reason she was dropped.

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Mel Gibson is planning another historical epic. And like "The Passion of the Christ," it will be shot in an archaic tongue. The writer-director plans an October starting date to shoot "Apocalypto," set 500 years ago in Central America, his spokesman, Alan Nierob, said Monday.

Dialogue will be spoken in an obscure Mayan dialect, in the same way Gibson used Aramaic and Latin for his religious blockbuster "The Passion."

Also like "The Passion," Gibson will bankroll "Apocalypto" himself. Disney has signed on to release it domestically for a fee, similar to the deal Gibson struck with Newmarket Films to distribute "The Passion," one of 2004's top hits with $370 million in domestic revenues.

"We couldn't be more excited about working again with Mel and his team," said Dick Cook, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, whose previous collaborations with Gibson include "Signs" and "Ransom." "This is one of the most original and unique scripts we've ever had the opportunity to read recently, and we plan for this to be an anchor of our summer schedule."

Due out next summer, "Apocalypto" will feature a cast of unknowns native to the area in Mexico where the film will be shot, according to the Hollywood trade paper Variety. Gibson will not appear in the film, and he's keeping the plot under wraps.

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Your Power Color Is Magenta

At Your Highest: You energize yourself and push others to suceed. At Your Lowest: You feel frustrated and totally overwhelmed. In Love: You are suprised by who you attract. You're a love magnet. How You're Attractive: Open and free spirited, people want to explore the world with you. Your Eternal Question: "What is my next source of inspiration?"

--HA! Yeah, that's me alright. The "love magnet."

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Britney Spears' hubby, Kevin Federline , skipped the first birthday party of son Kaleb, one of his two kids with ex-gal pal Shar Jackson.

A spokeswoman for Jackson claims that little Kaleb's birthday last Wednesday "came and went without a visit, present or phone call from Kevin or Britney." Jackson, who has previously accused Federline of stiffing her on child-support payments, celebrated Kaleb's big day with her and Federline's 2-year-old daugher, Kori, and other family members, though her boyfriend, Quentin Tarantino, was not present.

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Matt Damon is heading the pack in the race to play cycling champion Lance Armstrong - even the Tour De France hero wants the actor to play him.

The Bourne Supremacy star is a lifelong cycling fan and has become a friend of Armstrong's in recent years.

The cyclist, who won his seventh Tour De France victory, says, "I've had the chance to get to know Matt Damon. He is a fan of cycling. He has expressed an interest in the role."

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Jessica Simpson is worried.

The star is nervous that just because she's known as a singer, she might not be taken seriously as an actress.

Jess is stressing that her new movie, The Dukes Of Hazzard, will be a flop at the box office because people see her as a pop star and not a movie one. She plays the sexy, hotpant-wearing Daisy Duke in the film and had to battle it out with fellow pop star Britney Spears for the part.

"I don't want people walking out of a movie thinking I was trying to act or be some movie star," IMDB reports her as saying. "I want them to think, 'That might make me like Jessica a little bit more'."

--Like most people are going to be listening to one thing that comes out of your mouth, Jess. That's not why you were cast.

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Pop star Hilary Duff has hit back at cruel students who taunted her plans to take online classes at Harvard University.

The 17-year-old "So Yesterday" singer was desperate to become better educated but didn't have time to sign up for a proper university course. But some students took exception to their absent celebrity scholar and poked fun at her in campus newspaper The Crimson.

She says, "They wrote that Hilary Duff is a loser and a chicken for taking online classes, because she didn't want to take the prerequisites to get accepted.

"First of all, I have a full-time job. Second, I would like to know if the thousands of other people taking online classes are chicken too, or just me?"

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Jenny from the block is moving to State Street.

Jennifer Lopez's first U.S. boutique is set to open on State Street in Chicago Sept. 22.

Jennifer Lopez has selected Marshall Field's store on State Street as the first U.S. store to house a boutique for her JLo line of products. The first JLo boutique opened in Moscow last year. Electric-pink cargo pocket knit pants, a faux crocodile leather clutch purse and a wild rose camisole with a removable garter belt are among items likely to be featured at the singer-actress' store within a store. Planning with the Minneapolis-based Field's began in March.

"We kind of approached each other," explained Andy Hilfiger, president and co-founder of JLo parent company Sweetface Fashion and brother of designer Tommy Hilfiger. "Our long-term plan is to open concept shops in many stores, but Chicago is such a brilliant start."

Lopez, who began her design career in 2001, is set to open the Field's boutique on Sept. 22, when she'll also attend a fashion show highlighting her clothing. The event will benefit Children's Memorial Hospital. Hilfiger said he hopes to open boutiques in department stores in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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Singer Shakira says she she has no time for fashion and is most comfortable when she's naked.

Asked if she enjoyed picking new outfits, the 27-year-old replied: "Not at all - it bores me. I only got a stylist when my family were astonished to see me in the same evening dress three Christmases in a row."

"If I could I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise."

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Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has shrugged off being snubbed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in this year's Emmy nominations.

"I'm new. I just arrived. I didn't expect at all to be in the minds of the Academy," she said.

Three of the ABC show's stars, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross and Felicity Huffman, were nominated for best comedy series actress. (Also overlooked was Nicollette Sheridan, who had gotten a Golden Globe supporting-actress nomination for the show.)

"I was disconnected from newspapers," says Longoria, who was in China when the nominations were announced last week. "I didn't experience the hoopla."

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Authorities have accused an East Rutherford woman of amassing more than $12,000 in free merchandise by claiming she was an assistant of celebrity Jessica Simpson.

Courtney Handel, 23, was arrested Friday and charged with theft by deception. By Sunday, she had been released from the Bergen County Jail after posting bail. Police say Handel sent e-mails and faxes to companies in which she posed as Simpson assistant CaCee Cobb. Handel told the companies that Simpson, who is playing the movie version of Daisy Duke, had expressed interest in their product lines.

But Handel used her own address, and when police detectives arrived Friday, they found Handel's home full of merchandise. "As we were standing outside, UPS pulled up with 12 more packages. We turned to each other and said, 'If only all our cases could be this easy,'" Detective Sgt. Jeff Yannaconi said.

Among the items Handel collected were PH Advantage cosmetics, Pagliei jewelry, Ted Rossi handbags, Peter Thomas Roth skin care and Fake Bake Tanning Products. Frye sent seven pairs of boots

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Huey Lewis is coming to Broadway, starring as rapscallion lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running revival of "Chicago."

Lewis, lead vocalist and founding member of Huey Lewis and the News, starts performances in the Kander-and-Ebb musical on Nov. 1.

The group is best known for such rock hits as "The Power of Love," "The Heart of Rock and Roll," "Stuck with You," "I Want a New Drug" and "Workin' for a Livin'. Lewis has appeared in such movies as "Sphere," "Shadow of a Doubt" and "Duets," and television series "Just Shoot Me" and "One Tree Hill."

Brooke Shields joins "Chicago" as Roxie Hart on Sept. 9, appearing in the show through Oct. 30.

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After having completed renovations to its floors on the second, third, fourth, and sixth levels, Tiffany & Co. has turned its attention to its Fifth Ave. façade. The company famous for its robin’s egg blue box is installing adjacent doors to its current revolving door on the legendary Fifth and 57th St. flagship, and moving the revolving doors further in. Once completed, it will offer greater access to the store, but that meant shuttering its Fifth Ave. doors through September.

In lieu of standard construction scaffolding, Tiffany’s enlisted friend and artist Ruben Toledo to create a façade that would be digitally transformed from his canvas onto the large pieces of plywood. The result is three versions of Audrey Hepburn’s character, Holly Golightly, from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, all of which went up right after July 4. Women wearing little black dresses, a man taking a photo of two tourists in front of the Tiffany’s sign, and even Robert Rufino, Tiffany’s creative director, and his Jack Russell terrier, Windsor, are included in the design. “It’s his vision of what the sidewalk would typically look like outside the store,” said a company rep. “And of course, to no one’s surprise, everyone is carrying a Tiffany’s bag.”

While the Toledo art is certainly a novel and artistic approach, whatÂ’s more significant is the actual construction itself: itÂ’s the first time the doors are being altered since the store opened in 1940.

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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has been named the world's sexiest vegetarian by PETA.

Chris and his wife Gwyneth Paltrow are strict vegans. A PETA spokesperson said: "Martin and Paltrow are known for their love of vegan cuisine and they made international headlines recently when they gave daughter Apple a vegan birthday cake."

Joss Stone came second in the PETA poll reports The Sun. Other celebrities on the list include David Duchovny, Tobey Maguire, Prince and Alicia Silverstone.

More than 13,000 people were surveyed for the poll.

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The third annual Paul ReubensÂ’ Day was held on Saturday July 23rd, 2005 in San Francisco, California.

To honor the three years of Pee-wee mayhem this yearÂ’s Paul ReubensÂ’ Day boasted three phases of Pee-wee debauchery, including and encouraged by a partnership with the Center for Sex and Culture.

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Sorry, folks. It's a busy morning. Here's a quiz to keep you busy.

Take the The Ultimate 80's Quiz.

I'm a master!

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1 My results said that I blocked out an entire decade!! I think I was too busy being a mom.

Posted by: Lester at July 22, 2005 10:21 AM (bUhwz)

2 And the result of that endeavor is sheer perfection... HA. I make myself laugh sometimes.

Posted by: Lawren at July 22, 2005 10:40 AM (bJB+W)

3 "You definitely don't dwell on the past. Of course, we're sure you could belt out a rousing rendtion of 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' if your life depended on it." if this were 90's trivia, no question I would get 100%. I just don't enjoy anything about the 80's, other than "Rain Man" and the "Rocky" movies, to be honest.

Posted by: Iceman at July 22, 2005 11:23 AM (EOL0C)

4 I don't need to take the quiz. Lived it, loved it, and remember most of it. Have a great weekend!

Posted by: Nanc' at July 22, 2005 01:42 PM (Ailrt)

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