If you won’t believe Entertainment Tonight, might you believe French magazine Closer that Angelina Jolie has given birth? They’re reporting the twins were born Wednesday morning after Jolie went into labor Tuesday night (mind the time difference!). Who knows if it’s true! But maybe ET will finally be able to return the headline to its homepage.

Don't expect to see many black models at Paris Fashion Week. Top designers, who are doing some preemptive damage control, say so themselves. They blame the agencies, which they say have a limited selection of models and color and an overwhelming number of Eastern Europeans.

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Sunday marked the twentieth year that Anna Wintour has been editing Vogue. Ex-staffer Robin Givhan sent up her former boss, reporting said the editrix was celebrating the milestone “by doing . . . nothing.”

Twenty years atop a magazine is an astonishing feat by itself; that Wintour, seen here in 1988 and 1989, has spent it running Vogue, the fashion bible, is even more impressive. And while she’s weathered more than one scandal, plenty of nasty gossip column items, and the refusal to acknowledge the word “blog,” there’s one thing that, in two decades, hasn’t changed. And the photo pictorial to prove it is below.

Her hair. May we present: Twenty Years of the Anna Wintour Bob.

From left to right, then moving to the next line (also L-R): 1990, 1990, 1991, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2006, 2007, 2007, 2008

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Women-hating British newspaper The Daily Mail calls supermodel and Celebrity Circus contestant Rachel Hunter a heifer, then compliments her by reminding readers Playboy just named her one of the best ever Bunnies. [Daily Mail]

That’s what Washington City Paper Angela Valdez is asking to mostly deaf ears. The National Enquirer ran with a story about CBS star Lara Logan having Baghdad romances with CNN’s Michael Ware and U.S. State Department contractor Joe Burkett, and the New York Post picked it up from there. The story even made it to Howard Kurtz’s CNN show Reliable Sources (video here), where he played Jossip’s favorite game: Cover the gossip by reporting on the coverage of the gossip, and asking whether we should be reporting on this at all. Well, perhaps somebody like Kurtz shouldn’t be wasting air time with it, but the Enquirer has a history of reporting on our news men and women; it just so happens that Logan’s story involves sex, with multiple partners, and she’s a pretty lady. So should we be upset by it? Maybe — it’s likely Logan got heavier treatment because she’s a woman, while plenty of male on-air sex trysts go unreported. But also: She’s a high-paid attractive public figure who brought together the words “sex” and “Iraq” for the first time since this war began, and shouldn’t the gossip industry be celebrated for that?

Rupert Murdoch is upset that his BSkyB has to compete in Britain with the BBC on bids for American programming, and wants the publicly funded channel to be banned from the practice. [Variety]

January’s return of American Gladiators on NBC was supposed a signal a sea change of American television viewer interest: Sitcoms out, reality competitions in! Actually, Gladiators‘ arrival wasn’t so much a sea change as a recognition, or a last ditch effort to turn the tide, that very little is pulling in the mega ratings these days. The show had the bonus effect, though, of employing former porn stars (semi-NSFW), and if there’s one cause we can get behind … well. But you know what Gladiators, a supposedly steroid-free show, also did? It made outlandish, possibly illegal claims about its stars! At least one inquiring (blog) mind wants to know how NBC gets away with naming Gladiators things like “Venom,” for whom “there is no known antidote for Venom” and is “lethal in any dose.” Did the suits test this girl in a lab?

Television Without Pity asks the hard questions about the Lycra-clad muscle men and women responsible for keeping you from crossing through the Gauntlet.

Justice

We get it: Justice has “a very long arm,” like the long arm of the law, and “the scales always tip in his favor,” like the scales of justice. Funny. But just because he’s got a pretty good reach and weighs almost 300 pounds, that doesn't make what he does justice. If we could punish our criminals by pulling them off a climbing wall into a swimming pool or hitting them with giant foam mittens, our legal system would be a lot less crowded and a lot more fun to watch. Also, we doubt that Justice would actually “pursue his adversary to the ends of the earth.” Maybe to the end of the Skytrack…

Recommended Alternate Names: Mo’hawk, Wedgehead, Buff Enough

Madonna has been in this industry long enough to know that she should have fueled divorce speculation back when her album was coming out, because she is getting more attention now than she has in a long time. The latest rumors to hit Madge involve a certain Yankees baseball player, who has been making late-night visits to her NYC apartment while soon-to-be-ex Guy Ritchie is away.

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Republicans Larry Craig and David Vitter made headlines last week after cosponsoring a Senatorial act "protecting" marriage from the vile homosexual beasts.

This is hilarious, of course, because the men both had extramarital excursions last year. Seizing the absurd moment, Patriot Boy mocked up these faux ads mocking the hypocritical politicians.

Brilliant!

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While reporting on apartment-jumping Russian model Ruslana Korshunova, who reportedly committed suicide on Sunday after leaping to her death, Fox News broke what most media types would argue is an ethics commandment: Thou shalt not show the dead. This tenet falls somewhere next to “Thou shalt not show sex abuse victims,” though clearly on the other side of “Thou shalt be OK if you show a dead Saddam Hussein hanging from the rafters.” Now, following its various apologies to Obama’s camp, FNC is apologizing for broadcasting Korshunova’s corpse, lying partially covered by a sheet on the street.

Weekend programming exec producer David Clark said, “It was a producer error and we deeply regret it.”

Indeed they regret it — especially the fallout part, where everyone with a blog has been calling for their head on a stick. And, perhaps, rightly so: One does not stamp “Exclusive” on the footage, and have Geraldo Rivera saying “These are the last images of her broken body being lifted off the Manhattan sidewalk, where shocked and sickened witnesses watched her smash onto the concrete,” if it was simply a “mistake” — the shots were very obviously used for sensational affect, and the cable network was proud to be the only ones to have them. (TVNewser has the video.)