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Music industry guru and American Idol judge Simon Cowell has a little bit of advice for American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson on her recent feud with music-industry executive Clive Davis:

Kiss and make up, decide what’s best, get on with it! Clive Davis, at 80, is better than 99 percent of the people in the music business in their 20s, 30s and 40s. And he’s not 80, he’s less than 80.”

“(Kelly) is one of the best and she always will be, (but Clive) is the boss of the record company… It’s his job to advise.”

Cowell’s response comes after Clarkson shot off her mouth in August’s issue of Blender magazine about tracks that she wrote for her new album My December, which were rejected. She said,

(I told Davis) I don’t know you very well, and I am not a [bleep]. I get (that) you don’t like the album. You’re 80; you’re not supposed to like my album.

“I literally got told to my face that it wouldn’t sell more than 600,000 copies. And I got lied to. One reason I don’t like working with people at the label is that they lie. … If you’re going with the flow and not fighting, that’s settling. I can’t take that. Life is just too short to be a pushover.”

Simon is completely right. This girl is pissing off the wrong people. If she thinks she can survive in the industry by being a diva before she actually has the status of Madonna, she’s mistaken. If she doesn’t watch herself, it’s just going to be her and Paula Abdul thrown out to the curb, tripping over their pet chihuahuas.

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Seinfeld creator Larry David said that he “went home and turned all the lights on” after splitting from environment activist wife Laurie David, just what you imagine might happen on an art-imitating-life episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. When asked at Thursday’s Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills what he would put into his act if he ever did stand-up comedy again, he said that he wouldn’t be able to resist putting the divorce in.

It would probably be about the divorce. If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

And what about the rumors that the fame and passion Laurie got while on her whirlwind global-warming awareness tour with Sheryl Crowe caused the split? Larry dismisses it.

No, no, no, she’s been that way throughout. That’s nothing new.”

Well, I still think Laurie might have fallen for the illustrious and passionate ex-Vice President Al Gore. She was a producer of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and all of the Seinfeld money in the world couldn’t compete with such an environmental rock star.

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry premiered last night at Universal Studios, and Jessica Biel was looking radiant. Biel plays an attorney representing firefighters Adam Sandler and Kevin James, who are pretending to be gay in order to get domestic partnership benefits. Although the movie looks pretty amusing, with a run-time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, this had better be one fantastic Happy Madison comedy.

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This has got to be the most publicized move in history and hopefully it’s finally coming to an end. David and Victoria Beckham were photographed at Heathrow today as they made their big move to Los Angeles to bring soccer to the masses and embrace American life. Victoria said, “We are so excited about America. We want to embrace the culture with open arms.” That’s fine and dandy, but Posh doesn’t realize that hanging out with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and probably becoming a Scientologist is not what most American culture is about. I’d love to see her hang around in Mississippi or Oklahoma, and then I’d believe that she wants to experience the culture. By the way, where’s Paul Revere when you need him?

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Britney Spears can’t decide whether she’s coming or going. That’s a surprise. She’s trying to get rid of her Malibu pad, and now she’s put her Beverly Hills mansion back on the market. It was for sale pre-rehab, but she decided to move back in after she got out. But this time, in order to expedite the sale, she’s offering to include all of the furniture.

I don’t get it. That’s supposed to be appealing? Who in the market for a $7 million Beverly Hills mansion would want Britney’s skanky, smoke infested furniture? Plus the furniture that she had in the Malibu place during the Matt Lauer interview looked like my mom’s flowered couch from 1985.

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Ever since My So Called Life, I’ve had an affection for Claire Danes. Sure, I realize that I identified with the character, Angela Chase, the angry teenager, but still Danes herself resonated with me.

Danes has chosen interesting roles in her career following the short-lived series. She played Juliet in the modern-day Romeo and Juliet, was in the fantastic little film Igby Goes Down, and was lucky enough to be picked by Steven Martin to play Mirabelle in the movie adaptation of Martin’s book Shopgirl.

Now, Danes is taking her career to another level by playing Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion starting in September on Broadway. Danes will play a Cockney girl who becomes the subject of a bet trying to turn her into a refined lady. Sounds interesting, and I’d love to her hear pull off the accent.

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Brittany Murphy sported a short haircut while around town, and it looks like she went to Katie Holmes‘ stylist. It’s fitting, I think, each crazy in their own way, sharing the same haircut. Plus they share the commonality of having extremely shady husbands.

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Boobalicious Jessica Simpson says that her big breasts are real. In fact, she claims that she’s never had plastic surgery of any kind. But Jessica hasn’t ruled it out completely. She says,

But maybe after having kids, if my boobs dropped down to my belly button, I would get them lifted. … Maintenance. But you know, my boobs are real.”

Nice image…Jessica Simpson, boobs, belly button. Well, little sister Ashlee can probalby recommend a surgeon if Jessica actually can stick with a man long enough to have a baby.

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Former Charles in Charge actor and heartthrob Scott Baio, who has a new reality show on VH1, has revealed that he and Happy Days co-star Erin Moran lost their virginity to each other. He said, “Joanie did love Chachi!” Eww, I think part of my Arnold’s burger just came up.

In case you’re interested in Baio’s new reality TV endeavor, the concept is that Baio is 45 and single, and he wants to find out why. He visits past girlfriends throughout the series to find out why things didn’t work out, all the while remaining celibate. Entitled Scott Baio Is 45…& Single the first episode, airing Sunday, will show him visiting an ex that he dumped for a Playboy Playmate. Now this is desperation.

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Prince Harry, England’s most mischievous royal, says that he gets crap from people for being redheaded, according to 14-year-old Maxine Broadfoot. She received an award at the Concert for Diana for being a peer counselor and said Harry “asked if he could come and get some counseling from me because he gets bullied for being ginger.”

Hm, sounds like a come-on to me. What does this little Maxine Broadfoot look like? I bet she’s a real hottie.

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Yes, we know, David and Victoria Beckham are moving to America. How many magazine covers, interviews, and reality shows do we have endure until they are confident that we haven’t forgotten? Does this mean we’re going to start watching soccer? Hell, no.

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R&B singer Usher and pregnant stylist-turned-girfriend Tameka Foster may wed as early as this month to prevent the dreaded bastard-baby syndrome. No word on whether Usher’s mother and ex-manager Jonetta Patton will be attending, but I’m thinking no. Mom and Fiancee have been at odds since Patton fired Foster the stylist. Now reports are saying that Foster had been the one pushing Usher to fire his mother as manager. Foster is 10 years older than Usher which also angered Patton as well as those rumors that the baby may not even be Usher’s but Foster’s ex-husband’s. Whew, another show-biz marriage destined to fail. Who can keep up?

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Denise Richards wants us to know that she’s happy about the engagement of ex-husband Charlie Sheen and real estate investor Brooke Mueller. She told People,

I am genuinely happy for the two of them. In fact, I sent them flowers to congratulate them both. I’ve spent time with her, and my girls really like her. That’s all that matters to me.”

Aw, that’s sweet. Apparently that restraining order that she got against the Two and a Half Men star has been lifted. Maybe they will follow the lead of Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, and Ashton Kutcher and be one big happy family.

Why was 19-year-old actress Evan Rachel Wood first attracted to 38-year-old rocker Marilyn Manson? Was it the forbidden lust of going after a married man? No, Wood says that Manson was already separated from wife Dita Von Teese when she eyed him at Chateau Marmont. It was the eyeliner! Apparently, Wood has a fixation on eyeliner, and anyone who’s ever gone out with her has worn it, even that sweet Billy Elliot actor, Jamie Bell. Well, she’s found the ultimate man to put make-up on. I just hope a good stick of Urban Decay is enough to overcome the partying and the girls.

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It’s no secret that the CBS Evening News has tanked since much-hyped Katie Couric took over. Couric’s frustration is showing. This week, New York Magazine did a profile on her in which she talks about and sometimes doubts her decision to leave the Today Show for prime time. She says,

I have days when I’m like, ‘Oh my God, what did I do?’ But for some weird reason, they don’t happen that often.

Her frustration hit a boiling point last month when she got so angry with news editor Jerry Cipriano for inserting the word “sputum” without her knowledge into a tuberculosis story that she bitch slapped him. The magazine reports: continued…