Tina Fey Reveals How She Got Her Scar

When Tina Fey was 5, a stranger approached her in her front yard and slashed her face — hence the scar that runs down the left side of her face.

In the January issue of Vanity Fair, Fey says the experience didn't hold her back. "I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid. It's really almost like I'm kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera," says Fey. (She is frequently shot from the right on 30 Rock.) Nevertheless, she did get some unsettling news from her therapist about the incident.

"Supposedly, I will go crazy," she says, adding that her young daughter, Alice, may inadvertently trigger the reaction. "My therapist says, 'When Alice is the age that you were, you may go crazy.'"

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Simon Says "Mouthy" New Judge Knows Her Stuff; Plus More Season 8 Changes!

With the eighth season of American Idol now just six weeks away, comments from Simon Cowell and a network exec — as well as a new promo — offer a peek at how things might be just a bit different this time around, especially in the wake of last winter's nine percent dip in the key demos.

Speaking about Kara DioGuardi, the singer-songwriter who will join him, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson on the dais this year, Cowell tells TV's Extra, "She's mouthy, this girl. I'm beginning to warm to her." The sometimes bratty Brit then heaps on the most pertinent bit of praise, saying, "I think she knows what she's talking about."

As for broader changes being made to the top-rated program that sends rivals quaking in their boots, Mike Darnell, Fox's president of alternative programming, tells TV Week that this cycle will be "more intimate" and "more raw" than last. "It's going back to ... seeing more of [the contestants'] reality ... a little more of their emotional state," he says.
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Mario Lopez Hosts Miss America

After a year off, Mario Lopez of Extra returns to host the Miss America pageant, to be televised live from Las Vegas.

Lopez, 35, who emceed the show in 2007, follows last year's host Mark Steines of Entertainment Tonight.

The Miss America pageant airs Jan. 24 on TLC.

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Clay Aiken a Total Hands-On Dad

Settling into his role as a doting dad, Clay Aiken says he's been a complete hands-on parent. "It was probably a week before [the baby's mother] had to change a diaper at all!" the American Idol favorite tells Entertainment Tonight. "I'm trying my best to be the one who doesn't always let him get what he wants, but he own us."
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Courteney Cox Arquette Scrubs Up to Play Doctor

Scrubs gets a new network and a sexy new chief of medicine – Courtene Cox Arquette– and PEOPLE has the first-look photo.

The long-running NBC comedy is now on ABC, with the Friend-turned-MD appearing in the season-eight premiere on Jan. 6 as Dr. Maddox in the first of three episodes.

Also look for her onetime costar Matthew Perry to show up on Scrubs later in the season.
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Miley Cyrus Would "Love to Work With" Topless Photographer Again

Miley Cyrus doesn't regret her controversial, semi-topless Vanity Fair spread shot by Annie Leibovitz earlier this year. In fact, she says the pictures inspired her to want to be a photographer.
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Gossip Girl's Kelly Rutherford Pregnant!

Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford, 40, and her entrepreneur husband, Daniel Giersch, are expecting their second child in June, her rep said in a statement Monday.

The couple are already parents to two-year-old son, Hermès.

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Arrest in Jennifer Hudson Family Murders

William "Flex" Balfour was arrested Monday on charges in the Oct. 24 shooting deaths. of Jennifer Hudson's mother, Darnell, brother, Jason, and 7-year-old nephew, Julian.

Balfour, 27, has been in custody in Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, on a violation of parole stemming from an attempted murder conviction in 1999. He was transferred to Chicago police custody after police served a warrant for his arrest Monday. According to the paper, he was transported to the Wentworth Area, where he will be held pending charges approved by the Cook County State's Attorney's office.

Balfour is the estranged husband of Hudson's sister, Julia.
The couple had had screaming matches and had "been having problems, but I never expected anything like this," neighbor Angela Russell recently told Us Weekly.

(Balfour's mother had insisted her son "had nothing to do with this.")

At a private service for her slain family members in Chicago on Nov. 3, Hudson kissed her mother goodbye.

"She is doing very, very well. She's very strong," Vogue editor Andre Leon Talley recently told Usmagazine.com of his friend. "I think that she has such strength. There's so much strength within her that she's going to be okay. The message that she sent to me is that she appreciates all the messages of love that come from all the fans."
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Britney's Children Arrive In NYC

Britney's sons Jayden James and Sean Preston arrived in Newark Airport on Sunday, November 30. The boys are gearing up for moms big comeback tomorrow when the release of her new album Circus hits stores.
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Madonna And A-Rod Head To Meixco City

Madonna and Alex Rodriguez were both spotted in Mexico City last weekend. The two have not confirmed their romance. But they reportedly had their public "coming out" Nov. 26, when, according to E!, the Yankees third baseman handed Madonna a water bottle during her Miami concert.They also apparently met up on Thanksgiving, after Rodriguez fulfilled his family obligations.

When asked what he thought about being in the capital city the same time as his rumored paramour, the baseball star would only say it was "very good," the Associated Press reports.

The 50-year-old Madonna – whose divorce from Guy Ritchie was finalized just days ago – was in town to perform a pair of concerts on her "Sticky & Sweet" tour.

Rodriguez, meanwhile, was invited to inaugurate a new sports complex in the city, and spent two hours on Sunday teaching kids to bat. "It's a pleasure to talk about baseball, to talk about the importance of keeping children off the streets, out of drugs and out of all the bad things that there are in this life," the 33-year-old said in Spanish.
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