'Twenties Girl': It's Kinsella, with a mystical weave

While Kinsella has promised to continue the best-selling disasters of Becky Bloom wood with a sixth Shopaholic book, it's most likely for the best that she is taking a breather from the credit-crunched crumpet. Indulging playful spending habits and glorifying sticker-shock apparel feels too rude right now.
But, as she has shown before with other titles, this is a chick-lit maven with more than one delightful modern-day heroine up her stylish sleeves.
In Twenties Girl, Kinsella manages to conjure a more grounded, less flibbertigibbet-y London-based working gal who is also worthy of BFF status. That the author does so with one of her more outlandish premises speaks to her strengths as a storyteller as she continues to tickle funny bones and touch hearts.
The plot goes Swayze-crazy à la Ghost when Lara Lington, a 27-year-old novice headhunter left in the lurch by both her dream beau and her best pal/business partner, is suddenly haunted by her just-deceased great-aunt Sadie.
Happening in the guise of the willful, party-hearty flapper she once was instead of her ancient withered self, Sadie demands that her grandniece track down her precious beaded necklace. She also is openly scornful of Lara's way of life — or lack thereof, especially in the story section.

Royal Ballet in Havana

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CBS News' Portia Siegelbaum reports on the welcome arrival of the Royal Ballet at Havana's Garcia Lorca theater, allowing Cubans the chance to witness highly acclaimed performances.

Nicolas Cage vs. Seth Rogen: Who prevails?

Nicolas Cage has been a Ghost Rider, a Lord of War and even a little Bangkok Dangerous, but now he could be ready to take on his toughest adversary: Seth Rogen.
Variety reports Cage is in talks to play bad guy to Rogen's hero in director Michel Gondry's Green Hornet film. There were few details, but considering all the idiosyncratic talents involved, well, it's just better that way.
Stranger still, Cameron Diaz is in talks to play the film's love interest, which presumably means she must choose between Cage and Rogen.

Broadway bolt from the blue

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Only On the Web: What, at first, come into view as a fight on the streets of Time cube in fact come out as a blow song and dance routine by the "Break Out in Song" team.

Harry Pothead Actor's open Time departs Up in burn

Stipulation botany hasn't already been detached from the prospectus over at Hogwarts, now might be a good time.
Jamie Waylett, the Harry Potter terrorize twisted small scale marijuana cultivator, was vindicated this morning to 120 hours of society service for his illicit green thumb. Draco Malfoy's wingman could have faced up to 14 years behind bars after pleading guilty last week to growing 10 cannabis plants in his mother's home.
Nancy Botwin he's not.
through the 15-minute hearing, the judge said he decided against sending the actor—who has come out in all six Harry Potter flicks, including the reigning box-office champ—to jail, as the makeshift farm was done on a "small scale" and Waylett himself was quick to cop to the error of his ways.
"I give you credit for pleading guilty at the earliest opportunity, your cooperation with police and the fact that you are, until now, a man of good character," Harry potte the judge tutted.
Outside the courthouse, Waylett, who celebrates his 20th birthday today, was quick to make amends with both his fans and employers. (Incidentally, how much you wanna bet he opts for a quiet night in?)
"I extend my sincere apologies to the producers, cast and crew and all at Warners and most especially to all Harry Potter fans," he said.
The next time Vincent Crabbe wants to get high, he may want to stick with his magic broomstick.

I See Farrah every Day :Ryan O'Neal

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Ryan O'Neal has had a jagged couple of years.
While proof in the Emmy-nominated Farrah's Story, for almost three years, he managed with sharing the hand of his longtime love, Farrah Fawcett, as she battled cancer. And for the past month since her June 25 death, he has been coping with life without his angel.
On the Today show this morning, the 68-year-old actor told Meredith Viera of his final conversations with the beauty—as well as his current conversations with her.

J. Gosselin WITH HOT JOURNO AT Night

J .Gosselin's newest fling is a hard-partying charmer who will do anything it takes to get a story -- but she completely denies she did a recent stint in rehab.
Star magazine reporter Kate Major -- who was out to dinner with the recently separated star of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" at Third Avenue eatery Accademia di Vino Saturday night -- went into rehab in May, a friend of hers claimed to Page Six.
According to the friend, top Gosselin was Major's first assignment when she returned to the celebrity weekly after the alleged rehab hiatus. But Major denied that she was in rehab and called the story "absolutely false."
Major, who hails from LA, was on staff at In Touch before getting hired as a senior reporter at Star.
"She's a crackerjack reporter, very talented, very good-looking," said one of her bosses. "Sure, she uses her charms to get stories. Don't we all?" Major has previously been able to get close to people like Britney Spears' ex J.R. Rotem and Lindsay Lohan