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On New Year's Eve, it's not only joy that filled the places all over U.S., but also music stars as well for they have already showed up to participate in various shows for the coming of the year 2006. Black Eyed Peas, Death Cab For Cutie, and The Crystal Method joined forces to appear on Giant Village 6 in L.A. while John Legend along with Brian Setzer warmed up the House of Blues at West Hollywood and Anaheim. Following their fellow artists, Kanye West and Fantasia Barrino celebrated the event with the crowd in Las Vegas, Motley Crue in Detroit, Soul Asylum in Chicago and Tracy Lawrence in Dallas.

For those who chose to stay at home, TV networks satisfyingly have provided some fabulous programs with popular singers just as ABC has done through its "New Year's Rockin' Eve" which presented Mariah Carey, Sugarland, The Bangles and 3 Doors Down. Fox featured Nick Cannon and Tyler Hilton in its special show hosted by Regis Philbin while MTV proudly invited Fall Out Boy and Shakira to welcome the New Year together with its audience.

Back then to the recent car crash happened to teen actress Lindsay Lohan involving a photographer that at last prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign into law a measure allowing celebrities to collect large damage awards from paparazzi who harass them. The decision concerning the case has been made.

Galo Cesar Ramirez, the related photographer accused of crashing his minivan into Lohan's Mercedes-Benz, is freed because there was no evidence of it. "Based upon the damage sustained to both the victim's and the suspect's cars it appears that, although the suspect was most likely driving carelessly when he collided with the victim's car, it was not an intentional assault," Deputy District Attorney William Hodgman said.

After the many rumors inundating her with false wedding date report, Hollywood actress Katie Holmes finally breaks her silence. It is a known fact that Holmes has been reported to wed Tom Cruise before she gives birth to their child next year.

As a matter of fact, Holmes insists to won't get married while pregnant because she wants to look her best on her big day. She says, "All these rumors that we're getting married this week or next, they're just not true. I won't be waddling into my wedding with a big bump."

After series of investigations, the New Jersey medical examiner's office has determined comedian Mitch Hedberg died of an accidental drug overdose. Previously, it was believed that the comedian had died from heart failure, considering the fact that he was born with a congenital heart defect and experienced chronic heart palpitations.

Though, the report obviously revealed that traces of cocaine and heroin were found in Hedberg's body after his death on March 30 in Livingston, N.J. Based on such fact, authorities then come to a conclusion that Hedberg died of an accidental drug overdose.

Hollywood actor George Clooney has provoked rumors mentioning that he's romantically linked to actress Lucy Liu. The twosome has been spotted enjoying a night out at an exclusive club in New York City.

More than that it is reported that Clooney and Liu, who are said to have briefly dated by 2000, also enjoyed a passionate kiss in the back of his limousine following an evening at Downtown Cipriani. "She looked like she was going to devour him." So an onlooker revealed. Keep it here for more on them.

Michael Jackson has yet lose his charm as the King of Pop and as celebrity as well. Approvingly, the pop superstar has been named the Top Newsmaker for 2005 by US TV show Access Hollywood. It is a known fact that Jacko has during the first half of the year dominated the news due to his legal battle with a child molestation trial, which he at last emerged as the winner.

Such phenomenon leads Jacko to beat off the likes of Eva Longoria, Britney Spears, Tom Cruise and Jessica Simpson, all of whom named the 2nd to 5th Top Newsmakers in a row. The No. 6 to 10 in succession is Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Aniston and Oprah Winfrey, and Angelina Jolie.

Travis Barker, the drummer of Blink-182, experienced double happiness and joy on Dec 24th. Besides celebrating Christmas, the day when Jesus Christ the Savior was born, he and actress-model wife, Shanna Moakler, welcomed their second child.

A daughter, the newly born was given the name of Alabama Louella Barker. The baby was born at 12:22 p.m. and weighed in 7 pounds, 1 ounce. The couple has had a two-year-old son together named Landon, while Shanna also has a six-year-old daughter, Atiana, with her ex-fiance, boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya.

No joke, Tori Spelling is engaged for the second time. The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star reportedly has engaged to her new boyfriend, actor Dean McDermott just months after separating from her first husband Charlie Shanian.

McDermott, who has been dating Spelling for several months, proposed on Christmas Eve in Toronto. Per Us Weekly and People, McDermott popped the question Christmas Eve while the couple was in Toronto with his family. It happened during an evening horse-drawn carriage ride and was sealed with a diamond and sapphire ring.

He's 56 years old now. But, Don Johnson will be a dad again. The actor and wife Kelly Phleger are expecting their third child together due around May next year. "Both, needless to say, are thrilled," Elliot Mintz, Johnson's publicist, declared.

The couple, who tied the knot in 1999, already has two children. The first is a daughter named Grace, while the second is a 3-year-old son, Jasper.

Hollywood couple, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, has made donation to a political campaign. The "Daredevil" co-stars have written $500 checks each to help fund Massachusetts governor-hopeful Deval Patrick's campaign to represent the Democrats in the gubernatorial elections.

Affleck who is believed as a true democrat decided to make the donation after previously talked to her mother Chris, who co-hosted a fundraiser for Patrick in October 2005. In related news, Garner reportedly has officially taken her hubby Affleck's name and changed her name to Jennifer Affleck. The actress even has, in the recent donation made by Patrick, signed her name as Jennifer Affleck.

"This is not a totally unusual thing. We see these things pretty frequently." So Santa Barbara Fire Department spokesman John Ahlman said commenting on the after Christmas incident happened to talk show queen Oprah Winfrey. Monday Dec 26th, the private jet of the star was forced to return to a Santa Barbara, California airport after colliding with a bird.

After spending Christmas in her 42-acre seaside estate in nearby Montecito, Oprah and her longtime beau, Stedman Graham, boarded her Gulfstream jet to fly to the east coast. Unfortunately, shortly after taking off, a bird struck the windscreen, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at 12:30pm local time. Luckily the two persons are okay.

Kevin Federline, the man better known as the husband of pop diva Britney Spears, has launched his own Web site, at http://www-dot-KevinFederline-dot-com. The site's introduction shows tabloid articles reporting trouble in his marriage with Spears, while Federline raps, "Keep messin' with my family and you're through."

It then ends with a screen that says, "Now that I have your full attention, never judge a book by its cover." With the unveiling of the Web site Federline hopes fans or other people could get the opportunity to know who he really is.

Saturday Dec 24th was a bad day for San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker as he was fined by San Antonio police for impeding traffic and failing to show a U.S. driver's license. The Christmas Eve incident happened about 12:45 a.m. when a bicycle officer saw a car stopped and said it was impeding traffic.

Yet, the car didn't move that the police then rapped the hood with the palm of his hand. Parker who was driving at that time quickly questioned why the officer touched the car, before he and girlfriend Eva Longoria who happened to be inside that car "began screaming in a verbally abusive and demeaning manner," police said.

Newlyweds, Elton John and David Furnish, are enjoying their new status, husband-and-wife. The happy couple was spotted honeymooning in Venice shortly after they tied the knot Dec 19th during the first week of legalized civil unions in the United Kingdom.

John and Furnish reportedly arrived in Venice Thursday Dec 22nd and were staying at John's home on Giudecca, one of the islands of Venice's lagoon. There they took a water taxi to St. Mark's Square, lunched at Harry's Bar and shopped in the romantic canal city. Hopefully their marriage will last forever.

She has both inner and outer beauty. Gaining success in music scene doesn't make her arrogant. Instead, the more she gets the more she becoming a humble person. That's the picture of country crooner Carrie Underwood.

Those qualities she possesses indeed attract Oklahoma Today magazine to pick her as Oklahoman of the Year. The Checotah native is claimed to encompass all that makes the state great and has the character and humility to be so honored.