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Bitter Celebrity Custody Battles

AmyandNancy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James have been splashed all over the news lately. It seems that Jesse's ex-wife, Janine Lindemulder, is battling him for custody of their daughter, Sunny. Now that Janine's out of the slammer for tax evasion, the former adult film star wants her kid back. And she's dragging "The Proposal" actress into the fight. Jesse is trying to keep Sandy out of it, but with such a high-profile star, that's not always easy to do.

Sadly, as in many of these disputes, it's the children who suffer. But this is not the first time celebrity custody fights have made headlines. Here are a few other knock-down, drag-out battles over the kids of the stars.

Oprah's Love Couch Confessions

AmyandNancy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

Ellen DeGeneres certainly doesn't shy away from talking about her personal life these days. We're happy for the once romantically challenged talk show host who finally seems in love and at peace with her wife, Portia de Rossi. So it's not surprising that last week Ellen poured her heart out to everyone's favorite confidante, Oprah Winfrey, on the original Queen of Daytime's talk show.

Ellen, who was on the show promoting their four different shared covers of O Magazine, told Oprah, "I'm going to be with [Portia] until the day I die." DeGeneres is not the first star to bare her soul to Lady O. Here are some other celebrities who have shared their innermost feelings during an Oprah Love Couch Confession.

Movember is for Moustaches

GetBack — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0800

What is simply November to you is so much more to so many men around the world. Sorry ladies, you don't want to be a part of this one. Leave Movember to the men. For once all the "trick or treaters" are tucked in bed and the clocks have fallen back, lots of bold gentleman are going to embark on a follicle adventure, celebrating the most versatile of facial hair - the moustache. According to the official Movember website the rules (oh yes, there are rules) are simple:

1. Once registered each Mo Bro must start November 1st with a clean shaven face. 2. Then, for the entire month of Movember each Mo Bro must grow and groom a moustache according to these rules: 1. There is to be no joining the Mo to the side burns - that's a beard. There are no beards. 2. There is to be no joining of the handlebars on the chin - that's a goatee. 3. A small complimentary growth under the bottom lip, aka a tickler, is allowed.

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Celebrities Sued By Neighbors

AmyandNancy — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:00:00 -0800

We've lived in downstairs apartments, and we've been plagued by inconsiderate upstairs neighbors who always seemed to find a reason to rearrange the furniture at odd hours of the night. We've also had building mates who just didn't seem to know how to take off their shoes when walking across the hard wood floors at 6 a.m.

So we feel bad for the residents who live below Madonna in her New York flat. According to them, Madge is a noisy neighbor. But they claim it's not just the usual sounds of daily life that are bugging them. In a recent lawsuit, neighbor Karen George complained that "Madonna and one or more of her invited guests repeatedly dance and train... to unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music, causing noise and vibration to pour through the walls, ceilings, and radiators." Bummer.

While the Material Girl waits to see if she's going to be evicted from her Manhattan home, we take a look at other celebrities who've been sued by their neighbors.

When Real-Life People Become Sitcoms

AmyandNancy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:30:00 -0700

When we heard the news last week that Wilmer Valderrama of "That '70s Show" fame is going to star in a new sitcom based on the life of "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan we thought, "Really? Why not just watch the real thing?" But then we started looking back at all the shows that have been based on the lives of actual people, and we began to warm up to the idea.

While we wait to see how Wilmer handles being thrown to the dogs, here are a few other sitcoms based on real-life people, including the biggest hits and misses through the years.