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November 20th, 2011

Ronan Farrow, the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, has been tapped to be a Rhodes Scholar.

The 23-year-old, who graduated from college at 15 and began Yale Law School at 17, is among 32 Americans who have received this year’s prestigious all-expenses-paid scholarship to study at Oxford University in England.

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November 15th, 2010

Carey Mulligan has been picked to play Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

The Oscar nominee beat out a number of other big name actresses rumored to be up for the role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic.

Baz Luhrmann, who will direct the new adaptation, has been doing readings of the material with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire. It is expected (but not confirmed) that DiCaprio will play Jay Gatsby, with Maguire as Nick Carraway.

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August 9th, 2010

Celebrities were pitted against each other in the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Monday when Mia Farrow challenged the veracity of Naomi Campbell’s testimony regarding alleged “blood diamonds” given to Campbell.

Last week, Campbell took the witness stand and claimed she’d received “dirty-looking stones” after a 1997 dinner party, but had no idea they were tied to Taylor or the violence behind diamonds-for-arms dealing in Africa.

Today, Farrow disputes Campbell’s claim of naivete, saying the supermodel knew full well the source of the “stones,” and even bragged about them the following morning.

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