Show sources are telling People magazine that the “Atlanta” cast’s leading divas are demanding more money to return for Season 3. Whatever. Fans of the show know hell will most certainly freeze over before either of them quits this cash cow. Even Big Poppa can’t buy that kind of exposure. (Christopher Polk / Getty Images)
Industry stalwart Daily Variety got a new editor, Leo Wolinsky, familiar to L.A. Times readers for his 31 years of service to the paper in varying roles. Not to be outdone in making the news, a few other well-known chroniclers, The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard Magazine, were finally sold out from under the Nielsen Company to e5 Global Media. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
Alexa Ray Joel (right, with mom Christie Brinkley) made headlines last weekend when she tried overdosing on pills after a breakup with her boyfriend Jimmy Riot. It turns out the pills were actually a homeopathic anti-inflammatory with ingredients like echinacea and St. John’s wort. In this case, it really was too much of a good thing. (Julie Jacobson / Associated Press)
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What do supermodel Gisele Bundchen, Hugh Hefner‘s ex-girlfriend Kendra Wilkinson and “18 Kids and Counting” star Michelle Duggar have in common? Babies, of course. The three women all welcomed bundles of joy this week. Bundchen and Tom Brady welcomed a little boy in Boston, while Wilkinson and Hank Baskett did the same in Indiana. Meanwhile, Duggar delivered her little girl Josie Brooklyn (baby 19) three months premature in Arkansas. We wonder if Duggar and her husband Jim Bob picked out a new name for their reality show too. (Beth Hall / Associated Press)