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Check out Travis Barker in Malibu with Landon and Alabama...
Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin and their two kids...
Not to mention Carrie-Anne Moss with her two kids - but where's hubby Steven Roy?
And finally, Jay Leno! We know he's not a dad, but we'd still like to wish him a Happy Father's Day!
Hope your dad had a great day!
Peter Olson—widely reported to be stepping down from Random House after a debilitating bout of pneumonia—doesn't get much sympathy in the publishing industry. Here's how the publishing giant's chief executive will be remembered: as a money-minded philistine who's fallen victim to the same financial accountability he tried to instill at Bertelsmann's US book producing factory. But there is one endearing angle to Olson's comeuppance: his departure may have been dictated less by Bertelsmann's Teutonic board members than Olson's formidable wife, Candice.
The New York Times reported the 58-year-old Olson had been "distracted and unavailable" since falling ill in November. But the newspaper didn't explain quite why he couldn't be reached. Candice Olson—known as Candice Carpenter when she ran the iVillage website for women—commandeered all his communication devices, according to a friend. After she left the internet business, Candice Olson decided that she wanted to do something else with the rest of her life. ''I personally came to the conclusion that being a C.E.O. is hell,'' she said in an interview. By some combination of poor results at Random House, pneumonia and a domineering wife, Olson has had the same decision made for him.
The Olsons have five children, two adopted from Eastern Europe; and Candice was still attempting another natural pregnancy at the age of 50. This is the couple's first-encounter story. When Candice met the Random House chief executive in 2001 at a party—only three months before marrying—he heard her explain what she was doing after retiring from business. Mrs. Olson recounted to the New York Times: "I said I was trying to be the best mommy on Park Avenue. That's what captured Peter's attention.'' So the clichéd explanation for so many corporate exits—the desire to spend more time with one's family—may actually hold true in this instance.
But that's quite enough generosity for the departing executive, who acknowledged himself that he was a "pariah" in the literary reaches of the publishing industry. His critics remembered smirking relish with which he fired Ann Godoff and other editors who viewed publishing as an art rather than a business. Wandering around a book fair at the time, he told an interviewer: ''I recognize hundreds of people here. Many of them worked for me. Many of them I fired personally.'' He did not seem upset by this; in fact, he seemed amused, observed the Times' Lynn Hirschberg ''I fired him,'' Olson said as two men passed by. ''There are so many people here that I've fired that we could have a reunion.''
This is funny. Before she was on Dancing with the Stars she was Dancing on the Pole. Who knows if Carrie Ann Inaba wanted these pictures leaked or not. These days a nude photo or a sex tape is standard PR. CLICK HERE to see the NSFW unedited pictures.
Portfolio assistant managing editor Ann Powell is leaving the magazine. Her job was basically to nag writers to file their stories, which was especially miserable at Portfolio with the whole newspaper people not knowing how magazines close thing. Word is that she's going to Reader's Digest. How old school! The magazine also did not renew the contract of contributing editor Nancy Hass, despite the fact that she's married to senior editor Bob Roe. It's just like that Patty Smyth song, but with nepotism instead of love.
Yet more video has surfaced from Harry Shearer's magic satellite dish, the one that catches only feeds of television people engaging in embarrassing behavior just before they go on air. This installment begins and ends with brownshirt-friendly controversialist and faghag comedienne Ann Coulter politely requesting that someone cut up a line of Nicorette for her to snort, and in between we visit angry right-wing pundit Bill O'Reilly and scarf-obsessed network anchor Katie Couric. And more! Mildly unsettling clip embedded after the jump.
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They may not be at the tip-top of their careers but all of these women are pretty damn cute in their own way -- which one do you like and why?
Here's "Dancing With The Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba celebrating her 40th birthday at Les Deux with Mario Lopez and others. Her new show "Dance War: Bruno Vs. Carrie Ann" just hit the airwaves, and what else could a woman want besides all this dance craziness? A baby! Carrie has been dating dancer Artem Chigvintsev, 25, for a year and wants to have his progeny. "I would love to have a show like this and to have a child in one year. It would be too much to ask for. But it would be amazing. But, you know, you have to wait for God to bless you." Or a turkey baster. If he won't give up the sperm, go buy some. Follow your dreams. Hell, ask AC Slater over there. He's hot and probably willing to sire a child. He does a lot of ABC Family movies lately and might want to take a timeout to have a kid and re-evaluate things.
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9 more photos from Carrie Ann Inaba attending her birthday party hosted by PAMA at Les Deux featuring Mario Lopez and Artem Chigvintsev are after the jump.
"They said the unholy union" between Ann Coulter and Dem former City Council president Andrew Stein—first reported and possibly invented by Page Six—wouldn't work. And "they" were right! The pretend relationship is over. He just wasn't her type, in that he is not a half-dozen gay dudes. [NYP]

Mann Coulter needs to stir up some shit fast. Her new book is dying a quick death.
The latest tome by right-wing scribe Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans, hasn't caught fire with book buyers.
The title spent just four weeks on The New York Times' best-seller list—compared with 12 for her previous book—and has sold 97,000 copies in the last 10 weeks, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70% of the market.
Ms. Coulter's last effort, Godless, sold 233,000 copies over the same time span, according to BookScan.
If the conservatives no longer love Mann, what's left for her??????
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Feast your eyes and ears on 7-year-old Anthony, whose parents are doing their best to see that their son's considerable singing talent morphs him into some horrifying amalgamation of Haley Joel Osment and Clay Aiken. This morning, Anthony made his television debut on the Today Show, singing "Let It Snow" in the kind of voice that would have completely blown us away if we weren't so creeped out by his striking resemblance to Liza Minnelli (minus the drugs, extra weight and makeup). As it happens, his absolutely adorable dimples really don't compensate for the fact that he's doing a spot-on imitation of an ecstatic Chorus Line wannabe in his very first high school musical. Even Ann Curry looks weirded out, and that's saying something. Who in God's name gave him that hair-fluffing-move and will someone make sure they're never again allowed near children?
We caught The Matrix' Carrie Anne Moss tackling some Christmas shopping yesterday afternoon. Hopefully neither of her sons are X17 readers - we'd hate to ruin the surprise!
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Did you know that Carrie and her husband Steven Roy have deliberately kept their sons' names secret? That's certainly a different approach from other Hollywood parents!

Mann Coulter has convinced Palm Beach officials to removed her home address from county property records.
Seems like the political pundit has been had one too many people come and harass her at home.
She had one lovely greeting card dropped off, which read, “The only things left after a nuclear war are you and cockroaches” and had “Go fuck yourself” printed on its face.
Another visitor wasn’t as polite and started shouting “Ann Coulter is a big asshole” from outside her house.
Since the writers are striking, they should come up with more clever things to say outside Mann’s home!
Click here to read the police reports filed after Mann’s most recent unpleasant incidents.
P.S. Coulter turns 46 in two weeks.
Happy birthday! You’re almost 50!
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On Friday, the Los Angeles Times fussbudget columnist Joel Stein announced that he's "horribly jealous" of conservative pain-in-the-ass Ann Coulter—"After all these years of Coultering, people still get riled up over her obvious attempts to make us mad," writes Joel, obviously pissed off that his own attempts to piss people off haven't delivered to him an iconic reputation such as the one Coulter has, for better or worse. He tests his theory that anything she might say would tick people off like so: "I developed the Ann Coulter Mad Libs™." Now, because someone already did it a month ago, bloggers are calling for his head over the column. We don't know enough to judge—but anything that might prevent Joel from writing is fine in our book!
Hateful propagandist and raging faghag/camp icon Ann Coulter has shocked and appalled some HuffPo blogger by, well, existing. And dining at a gay restaurant with all her gay friends in gay West Hollywood. She's not allowed to have gay friends! She was mean to John Edwards! She has blood on her hands! [Towleroad]
Ann Coulter sticks her very conservative foot in her mouth.

29-year-old debut novelist Porochista Khakpour had her book party last night at her friend Sarma Melngailis's raw food restaurant, Pure Food and Wine. It was also Sarma's 35th birthday, so the party contained an oddly wonderful mix of raw food-loving celebs—Carol Alt! Ann ... Curry?—and literary types. Laurel Ptak took the glamourshots.
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Porochista's book, about a family of Iranian immigrants dealing with the aftermath of 9/11 in poignant and funny ways, is getting raves all over the damn place, which has Porochista sort of flummoxed. "I never expected this to happen to my little book. I almost cried the first time I saw it in a bookstore," she told us. She's not being false-modest, either: her book is published by indie stalwart Grove/Atlantic, which doesn't have the cash money to give a new title a Kunkelian marketing push and must instead rely on its authors to generate their own buzz.
However, some of the celebrities at the party last night didn't seem to quite know what they were celebrating. "This is a book party?" Ann Curry asked us when we interrupted her conversation to ask if we could get a picture. "And what are these pictures for?"
We told her.
"Gawker? What's that?"
She was told it was, uh, a media gossip blog.
"What does that mean?" asked Ann's friend Babs.
"Which part, 'media gossip' or 'blog?'"
"Media gossip," said Babs. "Like, does that mean you'll be gossiping about us tomorrow?"
I didn't even bother to hedge. "Uh, probably."