While a lot of wealthy celebs find it tacky to accept swag bags, don’t count Paris Hilton among them. According to Reuters News service, the heiress princess dropped by the Sundance Film Festival (it’s not like she has a film out or anything) to help herself to not one or two, but 30 free gift bags.

Reuters reports thusly, that: “Paris Hilton left the Hollywood Life House gifting suite with 30 bags — 30 bags — stuffed full of free merchandise from Whiting & Davis. Even the publicity people representing the Hollywood Life House seemed aghast, noting in a press release that the Hilton hotel heiress did it, ‘without shame.’”

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This is how lame the 81st Annual Academy Awards will be this year: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” has been nominated for 13 Oscars, including Best Picture! The nominations for “Benjamin Button” – a beautiful but slow moving picture – included a best actor nod for Brad Pitt.

“Milk, “Slumdog Millionaire”, “The Reader” and “Frost/Nixon” round out the top 5 nominees for best picture. This year’s awards show is going to be a snoozer!

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Eva Mendes has been named the “Most Desirable Woman of 2009″ by AskMen.com, which released its annual list of the 99 hottest women in the world on Wednesday. ‘Transformers’ star Megan Fox came in at No. 2.

The Desirability ranking is not just based on looks. The readers also made their picks according to personality and character, as well as intelligence, humor, charisma, and ambition. The majority of 10 million voters say Eva has it all!

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Courtney Love offered up some good First Class gossip on Paris Hilton when she visited the socialite’s house. Courtney says she was shocked when she saw that Paris displays hundreds thousands of photos of herself. The Hole singer revealed that there are pictures of Paris all over the house, including in the bathroom.

Courtney tells Heeb magazine, “I like Paris, she’s funny… but what’s weird is that Paris had so many pictures of herself everywhere. I mean, she has not only got a grand piano with – I swear to God – maybe a thousand pictures of herself, but I was in the bathroom, and there were pictures of her everywhere.”

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Stepford Wife Katie Holmes is reportedly not a happy camper with her derailed career. She was actually doing better and landing good roles before she married Tom Cruise.

According to reports, when Tom began to date Katie almost 4 years ago, he allegedly told her that he had the power and influence to make her a big movie star, and would get her the dream roles she wanted. But when his own career imploded, it took hers down too.

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Kimora Lee Simmons and actor Djimon Hounsou are expecting their first child together. The couple, who meet in February of 2007, have faced rumors before that the fashion diva was pregnant, but a source assures Usmagazine.com that it’s for real this time. But the couple themselves have not confirmed it.

Still, Kimora Lee is ready to start a family with her new man. “I have someone who has the heart, the soul, and the hotness,” she says.

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Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th President of the United States at noon EST today, the first black man in history to hold the office. Visible nervous, and with his wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia at his side, the normally smooth Obama mangled his swearing-in oath but went on to deliver an inspiring speech to the throngs that attended the ceremony in a very chilly Washington D.C.

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Ashton Kutcher got together about 50 of his celebrity friends to make a MySpace video pledging support to President Barack Obama that they will do stuff to help change the world. Caught up in the euphoria of the Obama inauguration, Kutcher and the stars are vowing some lofty ideals – like ending the world wide epidemic human trafficking (slavery) and child sexual exploitation.

Great if unrealistic goals, Ashton, but why not a pledge to your country instead of a man, and why not start that ’stop the exploitation’ thing in …say… Hollywood films?

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Jeremy Piven has come out and defended himself against the rumors of why he walked away from his Broadway gig, sayig it was because he “was fighting mercury toxicity” from eating a whale of amount of sushi.

Producers of ”Speed-the-Plow” have filed a grievance against the Entourage star with the Actors’ Equity union, even though Piven claims the fish poisoning “brought him to his knees.”

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Rock royalty offspring Kelly Osbourne was arrested for an August 2008 incident in which she allegedly slapped a gossip columnist (Sharon must be so proud!) for insulting her fiance Luke Worrall.

The daughter of Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne stands accused of attacking Sunday Mirror gossip columnist Zoe Griffin at the London nightclub Punk over a comment Griffin wrote about dim-bulb model Worrall not knowing what causes earthquakes.

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