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Angelina Jolie passed through London yesterday afternoon on her way from LA to Pakistan, where she was up this morning to meet with displaced people at the Kandaro II Camp in the country’s flooded northwest region. The actress is continuing her philanthropic efforts to help those who were forced to leave their homes due to rising waters, after she recorded a PSA with the UNHCR. She spoke today about the area’s problems, commenting, “From what I understand the situation is on a scale that we have not really seen the likes of. It’s on a huge scale. It is extraordinarily complex situation, it’s not just the floods.” Her partner Brad Pitt, meanwhile, has been active lately helping victims of a domestic natural disaster with his ongoing activism in New Orleans.

Distance seems to make the heart grow fonder for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.

She has been filming Arthur in New York, and he is set to begin promotion of his new film, The Town due in theaters Sept. 17, but the couple are making sure to get in some quality family time together.

Garner and Affleck, both 38, along with daughters Violet, 4, and Seraphina, 1, met up with Affleck’s brother Casey, his wife, Summer and kids Atticus and Indiana at The Huntington Gardens in Pasadena, Calif. on Thursday.

The adults, along with Affleck’s visiting parents, reportedly beat the heat as they lounged in the shade and watched as the little ones splashed around in the children’s garden. The brothers also had some fun laughing and playfully pushing each other. Ahhh, male bonding.

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No more interruptions: When Kanye West and Taylor Swift meet again at the MTV VMA Awards Sept. 12, he has a special gift for the singer – hopefully, she will let him finish.

“I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that’s so beautiful and I want her to have it,” he said on his Twitter Saturday morning. “If she won’t take it then I’ll perform it for her.”

Perhaps a sly nod to her pop anthem, “You’re Not Sorry,” which was released on her 2008 album Fearless?

Nearly a year since he first apologized to Swift, the hip-hop artist is still offering up I’m sorries, calling her “justa lil girl with dreams like the rest of us” on his Twitter.

“She deserves the apology more than anyone,” he Tweeted, before thanking the creators of Twitter for making a public platform for expression. “We’re both artist and the media and managers are trying to get between us. Everyone wants to capitalize off this some way.”

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When Paris Hilton was booked into a Las Vegas jail for possession of cocaine, she was rushed through the booking process in order to get her in and out as quickly as possible, a jail official acknowledges.

In fact, Hilton’s three-hour stay at the Clark County Detention Center was five to 21 hours shorter than that of someone else booked for the same offense.

Preferential treatment? Not necessarily. Was she treated differently from the average inmate because of her celebrity? Absolutely.

“Yeah, she was treated differently so I don’t have a disruption of my process here at the county jail,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Deputy Chief Jim Dixon, who runs the detention center, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “When you bring somebody in like that, everybody comes over and tries to look at them. I’d have officers attempting to keep inmates away from her. I’d have disruptions.”

Following her Aug. 27 arrest, Hilton’s booking process was expedited in order to get her into a separate room from other inmates and eligible to release.

“She was moved along out of the general area and put in isolation where nobody can actually get to her,” Dixon said, claiming that Hilton couldn’t be left alone with uncuffed inmates. “That wouldn’t be fair to her. It wouldn’t be fair to my officers. It wouldn’t be fair to the other inmates … To put Paris Hilton in an open dorm area with male inmates and female inmates would shut down my process.”

Hilton, 29, was moved to several rooms during the process of her stay, including an isolation room – also known as a “drunk tank” – and even a sergeant’s office.

The heiress was released on her own recognizance because she had no outstanding warrants and was determined not to be a flight risk. Also, prior to the Vegas incident, she had not been arrested for drug use in the United States – though she skirted drug accusations overseas in July.

An arraignment is set for Oct. 27 on the possession of cocaine charge.

If there’s one thing Levi Johnston could take back, it would be his public apology to Sarah Palin.
Johnston sat down with “The Early Show” correspondent Betty Ngueyn and told her, “I don’t really regret anything. But the only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done is to put out that apology ’cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I’ve never lied about anything. So that’s probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with.”

The father of Palin’s grandson also recently filed a letter of intent to run for mayor of Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, Alaska (where she also served as Mayor), and when asked if he’d make a better mayor, he said, “Let’s hope so. I can’t guarantee or promise you anything but I’m gonna try… that’s the goal.”

The exclusive interview will be broadcast Friday morning on CBS.

Jessica Simpson recently told Lucky magazine that she was on a curve kick. “We all obsess over looking like the perfect Barbie type, and that’s not always what’s beautiful,” the pop star said. “It’s about making peace with yourself.”

In an effort to practice what she preaches, the pop star is making sure more curves are coming to New York Fashion Week.

Simpson announced that she’ll be using “real women” to model her new clothing line.

“Jessica Simpson plans to unveil her latest collection for the media at New York Fashion Week in September, but there’s a twist,” a friend of the budding fashion mogul reportedly told Life & Style Magazine. “Instead of using super-skinny models to showcase her designs, Jessica has decided to send her best friends — real women in real sizes — down the aisle.”

Surprisingly, it was Simpson’s lack of curves that caused a stir earlier this month following the Lucky spread and interview. There were accusations that the photos of Simpson inside of the issue had been altered to play down her figure.

Simpson appeared to be aware of the practice even before the spread, telling the Huffington Post last winter, “I don’t look like the girl on the cover of the magazine. I do not look like my covers. My covers! They airbrush me.”

Two of Michael Jackson’s kids have taken a big step — leaving homeschool for one of the most exclusive private schools in the country. The Star News has learned 13-year-old Prince and 12-year-old Paris started at The Buckley School in the San Fernando Valley on Wednesday.

Family sources tell The Star News… Prince wanted to go to Buckley to have “a social experience.” Initially, Paris was reluctant but changed her mind in a big way.

As for 8-year-old Blanket — he’s still going to be homeschooled. Katherine Jackson feels he’s too young to venture out.

Among the alums — Matthew Perry, Alyssa Milano, Nicole Richie, Nicollette Sheridan and Laura Dern.

By the way, some other grads even went on to do sex tapes and became famous — Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.

Back on the outs yet again with the Palin clan, Levi Johnston – would-be Hollywood star and new candidate for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska – says Bristol Palin is just as hungry for the limelight as he is.

“I don’t think I’m any more obsessed with making a career out of this than she is,” the recent Playgirl model said in an interview that ran Friday on CBS’s Early Show. “Obviously she’s doing Dancing with the Stars. I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with any of it. I’m just taking it as it comes.

And as for that apology to almost-mother-in-law Sarah Palin? “That was something I did to make my fiancée happy,” he said.

Now Johnston, 20, is eyeing Sarah Palin’s former office as mayor of the town where he became father of Sarah Palin’s grandson Tripp. After an ugly split in which Johnston publicly badmouthed the former vice presidential candidate as a money-hungry diva, Johnston briefly reunited with Sarah Palin’s daughter. Bristol, 19 – only to end up calling off the engagement a second time, with Bristol saying Johnston was more interested in becoming a celebrity than in being a husband and dad.

Fears Sounding Like a Liar

“I don’t really regret anything,” he told CBS. “But the only thing I wish I wouldn’t have done is to put out that apology, ’cause it kind of makes me sound like a liar. And I’ve never lied about anything. So that’s probably the only thing. The rest of the stuff I can live with.”

Despite the fact he’s never graduated from high school and is taping a reality show that he is trying to pitch, Johnston insists he’d be a better mayor than Sarah Palin.

“I don’t think being mayor is about qualifications. I think it’s about people liking you and believing in you,” he said.

But he noted: “If we do win, I’m going to have to give up Hollywood for three years.”

Nancy Dolman, the wife of Father of the Bride star Martin Short, has died, a representative of the actor-comedian’s said Monday. Dolman, a former actress, was 58.

“Sadly, we can confirm that Martin Short’s wife did pass away,” said Camille Kuznetz, adding no further details about time, location or cause, CNN reports. “We do not have any other comment to make.”

Saturday morning, Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to an emergency call for medical help at the couple’s Pacific Palisades home, though no one was transported from the residence, said LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey.he couple, married 30 years, had three children: Katherine, 26; Oliver, 24; and Henry, 21.

Dolman and Short, now 60, met during the 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell, in which she was Gilda Radner’s understudy. In 1981, Dolman appeared in a recurring role on the primetime TV series Soap, though she retired in 1985 to raise her family.

In 1984, Short, then about to debut on Saturday Night Live, told PEOPLE about his early family life, in which his oldest brother was killed in an auto accident when Martin was 12, and both his mother, a violinist, and his father, a steel executive, died before he was 21.

“It sounds like a tragic family, but it really isn’t,” he said. “My mother had cancer, and she had been ill and then in remission since I was 13. She was a remarkable person; both my parents were. So I never looked at it as if it was a tragedy – that I didn’t have them my whole life. You learn some sense of priorities. Our whole family took the attitude that if you have wonderful moments, don’t second-guess them, just enjoy them.”