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Anyone hoping that Katie Price and Simon Cowell would take their rumored-fling and make it into something more are going to be disappointed, because it appears that the UK glamour model/reality fixture has become engaged for the third time…to her Argentinian model boyfriend, Leandro Penna!

The pair were spotted out and about in London this past week, with Jordan wearing a massive pink engagement ring, and her spokesman confirms:

“It’s true — they are engaged. Leandro proposed to Katie while they were away skiing recently — and she said yes. They told her children but had intended to keep it secret for a while. No wedding arrangements have been made and they are both quite relaxed about that for the time being.”

Well of course no arrangements have been made – she still isn’t completely divorced from her second husband, Alex Reid!

But hey! If they’re happy – and don’t mind exchanging vows with translators – then who are we to judge?

Congratulations, you two! All the best!

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Is it true that every single one of Tom Cruise’s exes divorced him when they were 33? What’s up with that?
—Cinders, Iowa, via the inbox

Yep: Nicole Kidman, Mimi…

Down-to-earth star Naomi Watts looked like any other cute mom on the town when she and longtime love Liev Shreiber took sons Samuel and Alexander out for a walk in NYC yesterday. The fair-haired bunch was dressed in their seasonal finest; Liev and Naomi in his-and-hers trench coats and the boys in dark pants and on-again-off-again light fall jackets.

Like any mom, Naomi couldn’t resist stopping to pick up her little guy, Samuel, and later planting a kiss on Alexander’s forehead. The group smiled and held hands as they strolled through the city streets. You can tell just by looking at the couple that this family is one tight pack. We love it!

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Not surprisingly, the main sticking point with why my friends are divided over the mind-bending sci-fi thriller Looper is the time travel. (Warning: major spoilers herein!) The friend I saw it with and I both totally bought into the logic that Young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) had to kill Old Joe (Bruce Willis) in order to be able to become Old Joe… but then once he was older and had lost his wife to the mob, he was going to go try and kill the little kid who will grow up to become the mob boss The Rainmaker.

It also made (enough) sense that the only way Young Joe could prevent Cyd from being traumatized enough to grow up into this psychopath was for Young Joe to murder himself so he never grows up or has any reason to come back into the past. Sure, suicide in time travel is an overused trope, but it was effective in this story which has already laid the groundwork for commentary on self-destruction in the beginning with Joe’s hedonistic lifestyle and drug habit.

Well, one of our mutual friends derided this “twist” as a narrative cop-out, mostly because he didn’t think it made sense for Young Joe to narrate the whole movie and then say, “And then I killed myself.” This didn’t really bother me, but I couldn’t articulate why. The best argument I could make was for parallel plotlines, but it wasn’t until I saw this infographic from Noah Iliinsky that it made sense.

Iliinsky is an expert in data visualization and drew up this nifty diagram for Wired, showing all of the various paths for each of Looper‘s main characters. As he explains it, time travel stories deal with time in two ways:

1) Immutable past: What’s happened in the past can’t be changed, which makes the future inevitable.

2) Malleable history: Commonly known as “the butterfly effect,” where your actions in the past change the future. If I might add, in these stories people still know what that future is, often because it’s the reason they went back in the first place.

But in Looper, we see both in effect:

Again, it’s tied up in the basic premise: The only way for Old Joe to live his happy life and then have it ripped away from him is to — as Young Joe — kill his older self as a looper. But once he gets caught up in the consequences of Old Joe going after Cyd and his mother Sara (Emily Blunt), Young Joe realizes that if Old Joe kills Sara, Cyd will become The Rainmaker. Of course, I’ve seen arguments that he could’ve just shot Old Joe in the hand… except that Old Joe would’ve still found a way to kill Sara and/or Cyd, because he loved his wife that much. In this way, Young Joe — who’s never been happy, who’s always been looking forward to his post-looper retirement as the prize for his ugly job — has to rob himself of all happiness by killing himself.

But he doesn’t realize this until he sees Old Joe live out the thirty years that were supposed to belong to him. Like I said, parallel plotlines! Without them, we wouldn’t have any emotional depth.

Of course, I still kinda wish the movie had ended with Cyd becoming The Rainmaker anyway. Because for a five-year-old, he’s got plenty of emotional baggage even with a living mother to take care of him. You don’t make someone explode in your living room and escape from that without some sort of complex, whether it’s self-loathing or thinking you’re God. I think that would’ve been a great nudge to us, additionally, a way of saying, “No matter what drastic measures you take, some events are fated to happen.” As Iliinsky points out, there’s a chance that still could’ve happened after the credits started rolling. That’s up to us to decide.

[via io9]

Photos: Alan Markfield/Looper, LLC and Noah Iliinsky

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Not one, but two couples exited the ballroom on Tuesday’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

The “All Stars” season held its first double elimination, dramatically sending home two pairs based on the judges’ scores and viewers’ votes.

So, which dancers got the boot?

Shockingly, season 2 winner Drew Lachey and partner Anna Trebunskaya were the first to be eliminated.

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The surprises continued when season 5 winner Helio Castroneves and Chelsie Hightower were also kicked off.

It marked the first time former winners were let go, following Pamela Anderson and Joey Fatone’s eliminations earlier this season.

Lachey, however, was in the bottom two when Anderson exited in week one, and Castroneves found himself there as well last week with Fatone.

What do you think of tonight’s double elimination, and who are you rooting for to go all the way?

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“I have no judgment about it. That’s why I can sit there and have such a great time with her because I do all my interviews with no judgment whatsoever. If that’s how you choose to lead your life, that’s really okay.”

– Either Oprah Winfrey really means what she says when she was asked about her thoughts on Chris Brown and Rihanna getting back together or she just doesn’t want to get a public lashing from Chris on Twitter. It’s no secret that the boy doesn’t take criticism well!

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