Ringo Starr celebrates getting his Hollywood Walk of Fame star, surrounded by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villarraigosa, musicians Ben Harper, Don Was and Joe Walsh and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president Leron Gubler. (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)

A star for former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday evening during a whimsical ceremony that also marked the 50th anniversary of the sidewalk attraction’s groundbreaking.

Starr’s name was the 2,401st to be unveiled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“This is the start of the next 50 years of stars,” he said outside the Capitol Records building. “I’m proud to be the first one.”

The Walk of Fame also includes individual stars for the drummer’s former bandmates John Lennon and George Harrison, as well as the likes of musicians Roy Orbison and Ozzy Osbourne.

“It’s cool to get one at night,” said Starr. “I don’t know about you, but where I live, the stars come out at night.”

The Beatles as a group were given a star in 1998.
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Nickelodeon star turned teen mom, Jamie Lynn Spears has split from her baby’s father, Casey Aldridge, reported People.

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Spears moved out of the Mississippi home she shared with Aldridge, 20, whom she was engaged to but never married, about six weeks ago with her 19-month-old daughter, Maddie.

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“She’s going through a lot of changes,” said a Spears family friend. “It has been painful. She’s a young mother and struggling in a lot of areas.”

The 18-year-old has been living with her mother, Lynne Spears and has reportedly been linked to 28-year-old businessman James Watson, who owns a multimedia company close to Kentwood, La.

Spears, kid sister of pop star Britney Spears and the former star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101, shocked fans when she became pregnant at 16 with then-boyfriend Aldridge.

Kate Gosselin would like to chalk up her third New York Times bestseller.

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The reality TV star and mother of eight is set to release her third book, I Just Want You to Know: Letters to My Kids on Love, Faith and Family on April 13. Gosselin, who finalized her divorce with Jon Gosselin in December, says she felt compelled to write the book for her kids, according to MSNBC.

“Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised,” Gosselin said. “I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally. I don’t want them to grow up and wonder; I want them to know without a shadow of a doubt how much I love them and how much every sacrifice made was worth it for them.”

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The former star of Jon and Kate Plus 8 penned two other bestsellers, Multiple Blessings and Eight Little Faces. Gosselin is also at work on a new reality show for TLC.

NEW YORK (AP) — Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.

The 22-year-old wife of tennis star Andy Roddick said being chosen for the front is “the news of a lifetime.”

The cover photo of Decker smiling in a yellow bikini is a departure from the more sultry look that SI had gone for the past few years, she said. She compared it to covers from the 1980s or ’90s, when Elle Macpherson won her covers with a friendly, sun-loving look.

SI keeps the cover photo a secret – even from the models – until less than 24 hours before it’s revealed. Decker said now the mad dash was on to find outfits for TV appearances that will come with the gig. (Her closet of swimsuits wasn’t right for winter, she joked.)

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Michael Jackson’s doctor returns to court in April to find out the date for the next major step in the case – a proceeding that will reveal for the first time the evidence the prosecution believes will show his “gross negligence” was the direct cause of the pop star’s death.

Dr. Conrad Murray pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and a judge released him on $75,000 bail.

Superior Court Judge Keith Schwartz ordered Murray to turn in his passport and said he could travel within the U.S., but not to any foreign country. The prosecutor had suggested he might flee to his native Grenada or to Trinidad where he has a child.

Murray was ordered to return April 5 to have another date set for his preliminary hearing. That proceeding, a virtual minitrial, will disclose the evidence prosecutors maintain will demonstrate Murray’s “gross negligence.” Read the full story

Miley Cyrus has organized an online auction to benefit the relief effort in Haiti, and Britney Spears, Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Julianne Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Lovato and others will donate items and experiences.

Cyrus is donating several items, including the Herve Leger dress she wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards. Fans can also bid on Spears’ 2008 MTV Video Music Awards dress, a set visit to Jackman’s new film, Lovato’s tour wardrobe and other items.

The auction runs from 7 p.m. PST on Monday through 7 p.m. PST on Feb. 18. All proceeds go to the American Red Cross.

You can find the auction at www.ebay.com/miley.

Dr. Conrad Murray is led into the Los Angeles Airport Courthouse by L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies. (AP)

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Michael Jackson’s doctor pleaded not guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the pop star at a brief hearing that had all the trappings of another sensational celebrity courtroom drama.

Dr. Conrad Murray appeared in court in a gray suit as Jackson’s father Joe, mother Katherine, and siblings LaToya, Jermaine, Tito, Jackie and Randy watched from courtroom seats behind prosecutors.

Neither Murray nor the Jacksons showed much emotion as Murray entered his plea through his attorney Ed Chernoff.

“We need justice,” Joe Jackson said outside court.
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More than a dozen television news vans and satellite trucks are lining a courthouse parking lot, in anticipation of the surrender of Michael Jackson’s doctor.

News crews began setting up operations at dawn Monday at the Los Angeles International Airport Courthouse, placing cameras along the entire entrance.

Meanwhile, Dr. Conrad Murray’s lawyer posted a brief statement on his Web site, saying the physician planned to surrender to authorities at the courthouse at 1:30 p.m. PST.

Murray’s lawyers have said they expect the doctor to be charged with a single count of involuntary manslaughter for administering a powerful anesthetic to Jackson before he died.

Twilight star Taylor Lautner has signed on to play Stretch Armstrong in a new film about the Hasbro toy.

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The 17-year-old teen heartthrob will play the rubbery hero in a 3D film set for release in 2012, according to MSNBC. “In the past two years, Taylor has emerged as a real star at the global box office. He brings the perfect balance of energy and athleticism to the role of an unlikely super hero with a fantastic super power,” Universal Pictures co-chairman Donna Langley said. “We couldn’t be more pleased that he has agreed to be our Stretch.”

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Lautner, who is also set to star as the title character in Max Steel, is one of the highest-paid teen actors in the world. He will earn $7.5 million for his role in the upcoming Tom Cruise flick Northern Lights, which tells the story of a young pilot at odds with his overbearing, billionaire father. He can next be seen among an all-star cast in the romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, due out in February.

Bill Murray might well be up for Ghostbusters 3. But apparently, he won’t be in it for long — at least, not the way he has been in the first two movies.

Murray revealed in a fun interview with British newspaper The Mail that he would do the film, but only if they kill off his character, Peter Venkman, right away:

I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.

Murray also talks about his golf game — one thing he’s never shy about discussing — and the fact that having the reputation of being a difficult actor isn’t bad at all:

At work I’m just nothing but trouble with anything I don’t want to do. And I fired my agents. I said I didn’t ever want to speak to them again, and I never did. It saved me money but mostly it stopped the irritation of the endless phone calls.

Sci-fi site io9 is among those saying Ghostbusters 3 will begin filming this summer.