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Bullock is currently in talks to star alongside Tom Hanks in the 9/11 drama, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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She will sit down with Today’s Matt Lauer in New Orleans.

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In April — months before finalizing her divorce from James, 40 – she announced that she had adopted a baby from New Orleans: 3 ½-month-old son, Louis.

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Days after winning her Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side,Giorgio Armani, the actress,Tommy, 46, was blindsided when news broke that her husband of five years had an affair.

She and a pal went outside and waited for their car to be retrieved from valet.

Girardi didn’t make a fuss.

“I told her that the After the Final Rose,Billabong, or whatever that was, was riveting,” Griffin, 49, later told UsMagazine.com. “I stand by my statement that it was riveting. And I said that it didn’t matter if public opinion went her way, I was on her side. However, I’m not willing to wear a ‘Team Vienna’ T-shirt or put on a warm-up suit, which she is in, or run a marathon on her behalf. However, it does appear that Jake would be a douche!”

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When Vienna Girardi tried to enter the Audi & Chopard Emmys kickoff party Sunday at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood, she was turned away at the door.

The 24-year-old former Bachelor star — dressed in jeans and a sweat suit-like top — wasn’t on the list. The doorman told her they were “at capacity.”

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While waiting, Kathy Griffin went over and started talking to her.

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US: Your last album really hit it big. Did you expect that kind of success?

MF: All the time. One time I was doing this interview at VH1 and this woman said, “Michael, I noticed you don’t have a wedding ring on.” I said, “Yea.” She said, “Is that because you don’t wear shoes?” People often come up to me on the street and say, “You know you’re not wearing shoes?” People have questions and it’s just something I’ve grown to be really comfortable with.

MF: Most of this new record was written after my experience of being in the hospital. Everyday I’d look out the window and see if the sun was shining, and if it was, I’d get this optimism that it would be a great day. I wrote all these songs about that feeling and seeing the sun for the first time, of being around family, being around friends and finding ways to get through difficult times.

MF: We’ve been out most of the summer and we just had four days off at home. But we’re really excited because we have a new record that comes out on September 21, so it’s fun to be out on the road and play all these new songs for people who have never heard them before.

UsMagazine.com: You formed your band Spearhead in the mid-’90s. You’ve gone from a punk band to hip-hop. What would you classify it as?

US: How did you initially hear about Soles4Souls?

US: How do you think that experience affected how you view things now?

MF: I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad for Iraqi civilians. I’d also play for U.S. soldiers at night when they were off duty in the bars. Then I would talk to people and I would film them and ask them about their life and the conflict. I also went to Israel and the Palestinian territories and Gaza and talked to people on both sides of that conflict and what their life is like there.

Franti also chatted with UsMagazine.com about his new album (The Sound Of Sunshine, out September 21) and his lack of footwear.

MF: Really excited. We’ve been playing music as a band since 1994 and we’ve never had a song in the top 40 or maybe even the top 40,000, and then last year we had a hit with “Say Hey (I Love You)” and this summer it’s “The Sound of Sunshine.” We feel really grateful to be at this stage of our career, having songs that people want to hear on the radio everyday.

US: Your single,Ed hardy Shoes, “The Sound of Sunshine,” is already moving up on the charts. How do you feel about that?

MF: In Bali, I travel there a lot. I just opened up a yoga retreat center in Bali. In Jamaica, we’ve been working on the last three records with this great production team of Sly and Robbie. It’s really great recording in Jamaica because the studio door is always wide open and people will come in off the street and you’ll see immediately their response to the song.

Remember that video for “Say Hey (I Love You)” last year where Michael Franti runs through the flavellas in Brazil spreading his message of oneness? Well, the singer, who hasn’t worn shoes in 10 years, is now doing it on the road as he launches his The Sound of Sunshine Tour and partners with Soles4Souls on 9 of the dates. Hoping to reach the goal of sponsoring 100,000 pairs of shoes and marking the 10 millionth pair of shoes the org has given to people in need (check out how here).

MF: Not at all. We put the record out in September of 2008 and it already had a little run at radio and it kind of went away. And then in the summer of 2009, while we were starting to record a new album, the single “Say Hey” went into the Top 40. It was actually the same week that my appendix ruptured and I ended up in the hospital having surgery. That hit songs are great but my health and my family and the people that I love and who are around me are really the most important things in my life.

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US: You’ve been going without shoes for 10 years and they are just celebrating giving away their 10 millionth pair. What do you think about the significance of all that?

US: You’ve done a lot of humanitarian work and you have an award-winning documentary I Know I’m Not Alone. Tell me about your experience with that.

US: Is there anything else I should know?

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US: What do you think makes your upcoming album different than all the other work you’ve done?

US: I read that you would record songs and then play them for your audiences later. How do you think that affected how your album turned out?

MF: When I heard that they were giving away their 10 millionth pair, I thought, “This is really good synchronicity.” I’ve always been quite quiet about the fact that I’ve been barefoot, but since it was 10 years I was thinking maybe we’ll do a special show and raise some money for shoes.

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US: Do you think that’s inspired you in any way in your upcoming album?

MF: I read a story about it and we’d been looking for a way to do what they were doing on our own. When we discovered them I said, “Let’s create a partnership here.” I’m really excited because in addition to being a group that provides shoes, they partner with different aid organizations in developing countries. The goal is not just to hand out shoes to people who need them, but to help people break the cycle of poverty.

MF: This album is much more upbeat than anything that we’ve ever done. There are songs about overcoming hard times but they also go into what it feels like to be down. The music is really optimistic and will hopefully help people get through their day.

US: You’ve recorded in different places, like Jamaica and Bali. Why those places?

MF: I saw people on all sides: Iraqis, U.S. soldiers, Israelis and Palestinians who are all willing to take incredible risks to achieve peace. My perception before going there was that I was going to meet people who hated each other. And everywhere I went I met people who said, more than anything else, “We want to achieve peace and we want to live side-by-side.” I was really encouraged by that.

MF: We have a kind of informal “Spearhead Idol” competition that we do where we invite fans to write to us on Facebook a song that they’d like to sing on stage before our show. Every night, we have five fans come up before the show and sing a cover song and then we video tape them. We’re going to be putting them up on our website so people can vote for the winner.

US: Do you come across people who question why you aren’t wearing shoes?

Michael Franti: I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it. I’d play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn’t wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that would be following me barefoot, I would take off my shoes and they would all laugh at me because I couldn’t go three steps without wincing. I decided when I got home, I was going to go three days to see if I could toughen up my feet. Those three days have now stretched into 10 years of being barefoot, apart from hotel lobbies, planes and restaurants.

MF: We would play songs live on stage and then we’d watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren’t, then we’d go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas and we’d change the songs right there. We’d rerecord them and  set up the drums in the shower rooms of the Chicago Bulls or something and we would record the beat of the song there. The fans had a real direct influence on this record.

US: Are you getting excited for touring again?

“It was a totally amicable agreement,” an insider says. “They love each other very much and knew this was just a technicality.”

“We both have busy jobs,Juicy Couture tracksuits, and we’re both very focused people, so that helps,” she told Us. Said Comrie, “We have fun. We both live such different lives, but it’s always fun to support each other and spend time when we get to.”

Shortly after they began seeing each other in 2007, he surprised her with a Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV as an early 20th birthday gift.

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Comrie’s dad is the founder of a Canadian appliance and furniture empire, worth an estimated $500 million.

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Duff’s engagement ring also is worth a reported $1 million.

Duff, 22, and Comrie, 29, who met at an Idaho resort, have dated since 2007 (before he popped the question earlier this year).

Despite his money, Duff told UsMagazine.com they have a surprisingly “natural” relationship.

Before wedding hockey player Mike Comrie this past weekend in Santa Barbara, Calif., Hilary Duff signed a prenup, reports the New York Post’s Page Six.

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While dating Duff, Comrie wasn’t shy about dropping bucks.

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Opens: Friday 8/13

Supernatural Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson, who also scripted) civilizes five cousins in rural England during World War II, while a rosy-cheeked,Tiffany, cardigan-wearing Maggie Gyllenhaal goes against type as a struggling housewife. The charming family film is best when the magic prevails: Piglets do synchronized swimming and naughty children spank themselves!

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– Oprah Winfrey better protect her fortune! One of her former employees filed a lawsuit in L.A. Friday alleging that she was “subjected to a hostile work environment” while working on Winfrey’s OWN network. Catherine Dunn — who started as an assistant with the network in 2008 — also claims that while she was on stress-related leave, she was replace by “a non-disabled and younger employee.” [Wonder Wall]

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– Former supermodel Molly Sims slams pop star Britney Spears’ style in the September issue of Health magazine. “I mean, that girl is so cute,” Sims, 37, complains. “I would take away the boots, the tank tops. She’s so pretty — she just needs help with dressing. She gets too many trends going at once.” [Just Jared]

– Former Hills star Stephanie Pratt sure is a fast-talker! In an upcoming episode of When I Was 17, the 24-year-old reality star recalls sneaking into L.A. clubs — while she was still in high school! “When I was 17, all of my friends were 21 and going out to clubs on school nights, and I obviously wanted to go with them. So, I’d get to clubs, and I had such a baby face at 17, and [bouncers would] be like, ‘There’s no way you’re 27.’ I had borrowed my mom’s cocktail ring and I used to wear it on my wedding finger and say to the doorman,Louis Vuitton, ‘You are just such an angel, I’m actually married!’” Pratt says. “And they’d be like, ‘Oh, well…in that case, come right in.’” [MTV]

– Actress Laura Linney tells the September issue of More that unlike some actresses, she’s excited about the prospect of aging naturally. “I feel like I’m getting better looking as I get older. It’s true,” the Big C star, 46, says. Now that she’s older, the actress says she appreciates her looks more than she did in her youth. “I’m sort of trying to be friends with it and say, “Look, there’s a bit of my grandmother there.’” [Style List]

– The search for the lead role in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is finally over! Rooney Mara — who beat out Harry Potter’s Emma Watson for the part — will play Lisbeth Salander in the big screen adaptation of the bestselling novel. The young actress will star opposite Daniel Craig and Robin Wright in the film,NBA, due out in December 2011. [Huffington Post]

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Pratt, 26, wed Montag, 23, in April 2009 in a ceremony taped for The Hills,Primp, the MTV reality show that made them stars.

A source close to the couple told Us that Montag initiated the split because “she had lost contact with her friends and family.”

Jodeane Farrell, Montag’s lawyer, confirmed to TMZ that Pratt has signed paperwork confirming that he was served with divorce papers on August 13.

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How’s this for romantic: barring any dramatic reconciliation, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s divorce will become final on February 14, 2011.

According to California law, Montag must wait 6 months after Pratt was served in order for their divorce to be finalized — thus making next Valentine’s Day their official split date.

Montag filed for divorce on July 30, citing irreconcilable differencea. Of his wife’s move, Pratt quipped to UsMagazine.com, “Heidi couldn’t handle King Spencer’s fame so she got out of the marriage.”

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On the day Pratt was served with his wife’s divorce papers, she wrote optimistically on Twitter: “cleaning house and getting rid of my old life, it feels good to live fresh.”

CUPERTINO, Calif. – Verigy Ltd. reported a third-quarter profit Thursday as sales of its semiconductor testing equipment rose.

The company said that product revenue more than doubled to $122 million, while services revenue increased 10 percent to $32 million.

Revenue jumped 77 percent to $154 million, beating analyst expectations for $147.6 million in revenue.

Verigy shares rose 22 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $8.95 in after-hours trading,Victorias Secret, having finished regular trading up 6 cents at $8.77.

When excluding $1.6 million in restructuring and manufacturing transition charges, Verigy earned 23 cents per share — much higher than the 16 cents per share analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected.

Analysts are looking for adjusted earnings of 22 cents per share on $157 million in revenue.

For the current quarter, Verigy expects a profit of 22 cents to 27 cents per share, or 24 cents to 29 cents on an adjusted basis,The North Face, on $157 million to $167 million in revenue.

For the quarter that ended July 31, Verigy earned $13 million, or 21 cents per share, compared with a loss of $21 million, or 36 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter.

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