CNN's Anderson Cooper Signs Daytime Talk Show Deal - ABC News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper has signed a deal to host a syndicated daytime TV talk show in the fall of 2011, while keeping his job as host of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."

Warner Bros. domestic television distribution and Telepictures Productions announced the deal Thursday, and said the daytime show would cover social issues, pop culture, and human interest stories.

Cooper, 43, will also conduct undercover investigations using hidden cameras, and hold town hall meetings on topics like race, infidelity and Internet predators, Warner Bros. and Telepictures said.

The untitled show will fill a gap in the daytime TV talk landscape left by Oprah Winfrey, who is ending "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in May 2011 after 25 years to launch her cable network OWN.

Cooper, who joined CNN in 2001 and has reported on the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, said in a statement that daytime TV was "fun and interesting" and he was looking forward to showing another side of himself.

"The format is unique and you can really go in-depth on a wide range of fascinating and compelling stories. With this new program I hope to relay important information and relate to people and the audience in a completely different way," said Cooper, the son of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt.

Under the deal, Cooper will continue to anchor his CNN nightly show.

CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton said Cooper's new venture would be "good for Anderson, good for CNN and good for Time Warner."

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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Source: Lindsay Lohan 'Really Needs Help from Professionals' - People Magazine

Lindsay Lohan

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Over the years, Lindsay Lohan has undergone rehab at Promises, Wonderland, Cirque Lodge, UCLA Medical Center and now, according to sources, the most famous treatment-center-to-the-stars of them all.

The actress, 24, checked in earlier this week at the venerable Betty Ford Center, near Palm Springs, where she plans to stay until an Oct. 22 hearing to answer to a failed drug test while on probation in a DUI case, sources tell PEOPLE.

A legal source close to Lohan says that although the move could affect how harshly the judge punishes her, Lohan entered the 30-day program "out of a recognition that she really needs the help from professionals and great medical care to help her rebuild her life."

The source adds there's no guarantee Lohan can avoid jail time despite how well she does at Betty Ford or how long she stays. But even if the judge sentences her to 30 days in jail, as he has threatened to do, Lohan may serve less – or no – time because of overcrowding.

Still, another source close to Lohan tells PEOPLE, "She's trying to help herself and she knows the severity of this."

The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, 100 miles east of Los Angeles, has treated a who's who of celebrities with addiction problems, with recent patients including Keith Urban, who was visited by wife Nicole Kidman during his stay, to the newly named American Idol judge, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.

Other famous faces include Elizabeth Taylor, Kelsey Grammer and Liza Minelli and Lohan's own father, Michael Sr.

Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, says she doesn't know what the office will ask for at the Oct. 22 hearing or to what extent the stay in rehab will influence the prosecutor or the judge.

Robison notes, however, that some of the work that Lohan will do in rehab will help fulfill previous requirements by the court. Lohan was ordered Aug. 25 to attend two behavioral therapy sessions a week, have seven contacts per week with a counselor for chemical dependency issues, attend 12-step classes five days a week, and attend four psychotherapy sessions a week.

• Additional reporting by ELIZABETH McNEIL

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Jamie Lee Curtis: My Dad Leaves Behind Devoted Family and Fans - People Magazine

Tony and Jamie Lee Curtis

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Jamie Lee Curtis says her late father, Tony Curtis, who died Wednesday in Las Vegas from cardiac arrest, will be remembered as both a screen legend and family man.

"My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages," the actress, 51, said in a statement Thursday.

"He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. He also leaves behind fans all over the world," added Curtis.

The star was 85 and also suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Jamie Lee, the daughter of Curtis and his first wife, actress Janet Leigh, was previously estranged from her father for a period of time but later reconciled.

Curtis also had five other children between his five marriages.

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Rutgers Student Commits Suicide After Secret Sex Tape - People Magazine

A body found in the Hudson River has been identified as Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who committed suicide after his roommate allegedly secretly filmed him having sex.

Tyler, 18, who jumped off the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 22, died from drowning and blunt force trauma, according to the New York Medical Examiner's office. The body was recovered Wednesday.

"Tyler was a fine young man, and a distinguished musician," says the Clementi family's attorney, Paul Mainardi. "The family is heartbroken beyond words. They respectfully request that they be given time to grieve their great loss and that their privacy at this painful time be respected by all."

Authorities say Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, set up a camera in their room and remotely turned it on without Clementi's knowledge. He also tried to stream it live on the Internet.

"Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay," Ravi wrote on his Twitter page Sept. 19.

Three days later, Clementi committed suicide. "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry," he wrote on his Facebook Page, New Jersey's The Star-Ledger reports.

Ravi and another student, Molly Wei, 18, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy after police learned the camera had been placed in the room without Clementi's permission, Middlesex County prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan says.

If convicted, they face up to five years in prison for the charges.

"If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity," Rutgers President Richard McCormick said in a statement. "Our university community feels the pain of his loss, and I know there is anger and outrage about these events."

Reporting by NICOLE WEISENSEE EGAN

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Ex-Angels Quiz: Heidi Klum … or Satan? - Vanity Fair

Heidi Klum photo from PatrickMcMullan.com.Today Heidi Klum announced her withdrawal from the Victoria’s Secret Angels, a ragtag team of lingerie salesladies with whom Heidi has been aligned professionally for the past 13 years. “All good things have to come to an end. I will always love Victoria and never tell her secret. It’s been an absolute amazing time!” Klum told Modelinia.com of her departure. The German model joins an illustrious lineage of fallen angels, including, most famously, Lucifer, who gained international notoriety under the stage name “Satan.” Lucifer, like Klum, was once an angel, although his retirement was significantly more tumultuous. “How you are fallen from heaven/O Day Star/son of Dawn!/How you are cut down to the ground/you who laid the nations low!” Isiah 14:12, a sort of Modelinia of its time, dished about the incident. Are there any other similarities between the two ex-angels? Take our quiz and find out!

Can you guess which descriptions refer to Heidi Klum or Satan, Prince of Darkness?

A. In a former life, this fallen angel was a Babylonian king!
B. Catchphrase: “Auf Wiedersehen.”
C. Catchphrase: “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
D. Calls “ever-burning sulphur unconsumed” home, according to 17th-century English poet John Milton.
E. Has a reputation for being an “infernal serpent.”
F. “My husband is what I always wanted and never thought I would have,” this fallen angel told Us Weekly.
G. Is quite tall.

Answers:
Heidi Klum: B, F
Satan, Prince of Darkness: A, C, D, E
Both: G

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