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Flotsam & Jetsam

Leonardo DiCaprio Just Can’t Stop Kicking Supermodels To The Curb

9:40PM the cajun boy | Leo the Great dumped Bar Refaeli, Britney Spears is banging her agent at William Morris, Miley Cyrus dumped her boyfriend and is after Nick Jonas, Lauren Conrad’s new novel will be horrendous, and David Carradine bought lots of sex toys. More »
Online

Google’s Newspaper That Wasn’t

8:36AM Ryan Tate | Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt now says the internet company thought about buying a newspaper but rejected the idea as “crossing the line” between technology and content. The real message for newspaper hacks: You’re just not profitable. Compared with, say, TV and movies. More »
People

Assistant Sadness: The William Morris-Endeavor Merger

6:30AM Foster Kamer | Two of the world’s largest, most storied baby-eating factories talent agencies in the world are merging. But sometimes, in order to birth a monster, the assistants must suffer. We have a few firsthand accounts. More »

Britney Spears Does The Unthinkable: Looks Gorgeous, Laughs, And Dates A Normal Human Being

6:05AM Molly Friedman | There’s nothing better than returning from a long weekend to discover not one but two incredibly positive stories about Britney Spears. Not only has the singer finally managed to make a public appearance looking downright hot, but she’s also begun dating a very eligible, scandal-free bachelor — William Morris agent Jason Trawick. As you may recall, Trawick was the mystery man splashing around Mel Gibson’s Costa Rica retreat with Britney last week, and reportedly has been looking after Britney ever since the beginning of her American Tragedy downfall. As a source tells OK!, “Britney totally trusts him and she has very deep feelings for him. It’s now got to the point where Britney wants to be with him full time.” And after seeing these pictures of the pair, who went public at an Ed Hardy party over the weekend, we can’t help but notice a very sober-looking Britney appearing genuinely happy for the first time in…ever:

Screenwriter Agency-Hopscotch For Visual Learners

4:25AM Seth | Were you, like us, rendered an incapacitated, drooling mess after trying to slog through Variety’s report on the agency-defection madness currently gripping the screenwriting trade? Perhaps you are simply a visual learner, in which case we’ve drafted for you a handy pictorial guide to the recent comings and goings of the Bedhopping Six. (We managed to find photos of all them, save the Google Image-shy husband-wife team of Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, the National Treasure writers instead represented by Nicolas Cage wielding a torch inside Mt. Rushmore’s Teddy Roosevelt nostril.) More »