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Victoria Beckham has had it up to here with tabloids trying to get the skinny on her figure.

The glamorous Brit is reportedly gearing up to sue the U.K. magazine Now over an article that claimed she was "hooked on sex and diet pills," which has since mysteriously vanished from the rag's website (though search results confirm the story once existed).

"The accusation is dangerous, defamatory and blatantly untrue," Beckham's agent, Jo Milloy, said Monday, referring to the latter half of that statement.

"Victoria takes her position as a role model to young women very seriously and is horrified by this hurtful, fabricated story. It is now with her lawyers."

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Mark Spitz has been vanquished. But not so Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia.

Michael Phelps' Spitz-sinking swim on Saturday elevated NBC to its best ratings on the once-mighty, now-dead night in about a generation.

Still, the golden boy of the Beijing Games couldn't topple The Golden Girls, which held on to its title as NBC's most-watched Saturday-night show of the last 18 years.

Overall, NBC's first full week of Olympic action was ratings gold, with the network scoring the most lopsided Nielsen wins in more than 20 years.

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Maybe the Olympics have instilled a little patriotism in Joe Francis. How else to explain why the Girls Gone Wild founder has stepped up to take one for the team, filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his onetime Florida captors, all in the name of American justice?

Francis filed the paperwork in Los Angeles Superior Court today, alleging that the federal judge and opposing attorneys in a 2003 case in Panama City had illegally imprisoned him, worked together to all but hold him ransom in jail while denying him bail and otherwise bilking him into settling several pending legal actions while behind bars.

All told, his legal actions against city officials seek $300 million in compensatory damages.

The breast-happy entrepreneur is also petitioning the court to trash the settlement he reached with two women who sued him in Florida over their allegedly underage participation in a GGW video, contending that the ladies purposely lied about their ages to get on camera.

"They kept me in jail for 11 months for a civil case. This may be justice in Panama City, but it’s not American justice. This doesn’t make any sense," Francis told E! News Tuesday.

"I am suing to protect everyone else, so this type of thing never happens again."

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Finally, a Fonzie that's incapable of jumping the shark. If only he existed 30 years ago.

A statue of Arthur Fonzarelli was unveiled to a Happy Days-loving crowd on Wisconsin's Milwaukee River today, commemorating the 10-year run of the classic sitcom and its most iconic character in the city where the series was set (but, alas, never shot).

Fonzie alter ego Henry Winkler was on hand for the invite-only occasion, as were show creator-director-producer Garry Marshall, stars Anson Williams (Potsie), Don Most (Ralph), Marion Ross (Mrs. Cunningham), Tom Bosley (Mr. Cunningham) and Erin Moran (Joanie), as well as Laverne & Shirley leads Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams. Ron Howard was on location and unable to make the unveiling.

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Who will watch Watchmen? Nobody, if 20th Century Fox gets its way.

After a major court victory, the studio has announced a bid to block the release of Warner Bros.' anticipated adaptation of the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Fox originally tried to develop the project more than a decade ago, but didn't manage to get the film off the drawing board. The studio claims Warners never properly acquired the rights to Watchmen, and, in a major twist, instead of seeking a share of the would-be blockbuster's box-office gross, Fox is seeking to kill the flick entirely before it unspools in theaters March 6.

Cue the agonized cries of fanboys everywhere.

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UPDATE: Christina Applegate revealed today on Good Morning America that she is "absolutely 100 percent clear and clean" of breast cancer after undergoing a double mastectomy just three weeks ago.

"I'm clear," she told cohost Robin Roberts, herself a cancer survivor, in an interview taped Monday. "It did not spread—they got everything out, so I'm definitely not going to die from breast cancer." (Watch the entire interview here.)

Applegate said that while cancer was only found in one breast, the choice to have both removed was the best one for her.

"My decision, after looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy," she said.

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Our neighbors to the north are readying one heck of a welcome wagon next month, when some of Hollywood's finest are set to hit the red carpet—and debut a movie or two—at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival.

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Canada's own Rachel McAdams are among the latest crop of A-listers set to make the Gala scene during the fest, which runs Sept. 4-13.

Booked to appear, though not to premiere films, at the fest are Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Julian Schnabel who, along with several other Industry vets, will appear on the fest's Mavericks roster, giving informal talks throughout the week on their filmmaking experiences.

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Michael Phelps is one proud young man and rightfully so. The 23-year-old graces the cover of the upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated, showing off his toned bod and those eight Olympic gold medals he scored in Beijing.

And given the super swimmer's newfound star power, ladies all over the world are aching to know about more than just his sporting stats.

Rumored to be dating either fellow breaststroking babe Amanda Beard or model Lily Donaldson, Michael stays mum when questioned about the issue.

"My private life is my private life. I have to keep something private. You guys know everything else," the Olympian tells Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM show.

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Apparently, Chris Kattan's marriage is a not-ready-for-prime-time player.

The former Saturday Night Live star and his wife, model Sunshine Tutt, have split just eight weeks after their wedding.

"They are separated for the moment, but are working on it," a rep for the funnyman tells E! News.

However, there are no immediate plans for divorce, according to Life & Style, which first reported the marital rough patch.

Kattan, 37, and Tutt, 31, began dating in 2005 and swapped vows June 28 in Yosemite, Calif., with onetime SNL castmates Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jimmy Fallon looking on.

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Two McLovin-loving frat brothers, a former NFL player and his estranged wife (awkward) and a pair of honey-making hippies are among the competitors set for a globe-trotting spin around the world on the upcoming 13th season of the Amazing Race.

CBS has announced the 11 two-person teams set to compete on the Emmy-magnet reality show when it kicks off Sept. 28.

Phil Keoghan is again back with the best job in the world, lording over the global go-round as the teams traverse more than 30,000 miles in 23 days, vying for the $1 million prize.

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Tom Cruise is striking while the Iron Man—and Batman—is hot, and eyeing a comic book adaptation to call his own.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the box-office superstar has teamed up with Spider-Man director extraordinaire Sam Raimi to develop DC Comics' Sleeper at Warner Bros., with Cruise attached to star in the would-be flick.

The comic book—a spinoff of a spinoff—is not nearly as steeped in tradition and lore as its box-office predecessors, having run from 2003-05.

It would, however, see Cruise take on a role that's not so far from his usual onscreen persona (balding, nearly unidentifiable film moguls notwithstanding).

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