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ACTRESS BARTON TURNS DOWN ‘GOSSIP GIRL’ ROLE

Some hot gossip: Mischa Barton won’t be joining the cast of CW’s "Gossip Girl."

TV Guide reported that Barton, 22, had been approached to play Georgina Sparks, an old friend of reformed party girl Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively).

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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died at age 53.