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We started today with a “predictions” open thread, so let’s wrap it up with an open thread dedicated to the actual results. UPDATE: Here are the winners.

Source. (Tipped by JMG reader bstewart23)

What a shocker. Soul Train creator Don Cornelius has apparently committed suicide at the age of 75. Here’s what little is known so far. “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius was found dead at his Sherman Oaks on home Wednesday morning. Law enforcement sources said police arrived at Cornelius’ home around 4 a.m. He apparently died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, …

The seizure that sent Demi Moore to the emergency room was reportedly triggered by inhaling nitrous oxide. I hadn’t heard of Whip-Its in twenty years.

Amazing considering that most captive chimps only live to be about 35-45. More here. Cheetah the chimpanzee, who acted in classic Tarzan movies in the early 1930s, died of kidney failure Saturday at Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, a sanctuary spokeswoman said. Cheetah was roughly 80 years old, loved fingerpainting and football and was soothed by nondenominational Christian music, …

Perhaps due to his recent embarrassment with American Airlines, Alec Baldwin says he’s no longer interested in being mayor of NYC. “I’ve lost my appetite,” Mr. Baldwin said on his weekly podcast on WNYC radio, “Here’s the Thing,” when the person he was interviewing, the director Stephen Daldry, suggested that he run for mayor. Mr. Baldwin partly blamed the current …

You probably know him best as Col. Sherman T. Potter. Unless you’re my age, in which case he’s Detective Bill Gannon. Morgan’s ability to play a variety of roles, dramatic and comedic, made him an actor in demand for half a century. He starred in about a dozen U.S. TV series starting in the 1950s and appeared in movies with …

An unnamed actress is suing Internet Movie Database for revealing her true age, a fact which she had successfully shielded for years. The suit was filed against Amazon, the site’s parent company. According to the actress, who says she since been denied roles, the site learned her true age by using the credit card information she provided as a subscriber …

“What are you so afraid of? That’s my question. Gay people getting married? What is so scary about that? It’s complicated. You grow up in a religion like that and you try to pray the gay away. I feel sadness for people like that. This is where people start short-circuiting—instead of being brave and questioning their beliefs, they are afraid …

Yesterday Neil Patrick Harris received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. After Elton has more photos at the link.

“These people who are making a big deal about gay marriage? I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of. Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.” – Clint Eastwood, speaking to GQ …

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A 1965 reel of Roddy McDowall’s silent home movies has been made public. Featured in the clip: Christopher Plummer, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood, Juliet Mills, others. (Tipped by JMG reader Chev)

Sixteen year-old aspiring country singer Courtney Stodden has married actor Doug Hutchinson, 51, whom you may recall played the weasely Percy Wetmore in The Green Mile. The happy couple plans a champagne toast to their nuptials in five years when the bride reaches drinking age. (Tipped by JMG reader Blair)

Matthew Rettenmund reports at Boy Culture: Duke Mason is the son of Morgan Mason, who served in Ronald Reagan’s State Department, and singer Belinda Carlisle, as well as the grandson of film star James Mason. But he’s also a vocal proponent of LGBT rights—and he’s not letting his acting aspirations silence his advocacy. Mason has founded the Trailblazer Campaign. Modeled …

The U.S. Senate has passed a Boxer/Feinstein-sponsored resolution honoring Elizabeth Taylor. It reads, in part: Whereas Elizabeth Taylor used her fame to raise awareness and advocate for people affected by HIV/AIDS;Whereas, at a time when HIV/AIDS was largely an unknown disease and those who were affected by HIV/AIDS were ostracized and shunned, Elizabeth Taylor called for and demonstrated compassion by …

Most of Elizabeth Taylor’s massive fortune will go to the two AIDS charities with whom she was most famously associated. Screen queen Elizabeth Taylor has left behind a fortune worth at least $600 million, much of which is expected to go to the AIDS charities she championed for decades. Her famous jewelry collection, valued at an eye-popping $150 million in …

Lindsay Lohan would like you to know that she is dropping her family name and will join the tiny galaxy of megastars known only by one word. “So many of the greatest people in showbiz are known by just their first name. Look at Oprah and Beyonce. Now you can add Lindsay to that list,” a family friend tells me. …

Last night Joy Behar spoke to Fred Phelps’ estranged son about Westboro and Elizabeth Taylor.

Perhaps to thwart the Westboro Baptist Church, who yesterday vowed to picket her funeral, Elizabeth Taylor will be buried today at the famed Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the final resting place of many Hollywood stars. I just checked the Twitter feed of Margie Phelps, who doesn’t yet seem to be aware of the speedy service. Story developing… UPDATE: E! Online …