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Sick Brit Ditches Deposition

Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET

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• : The unpregnant Britney Spears skips out on her custody deposition, calling in sick to K-Fed's lawyer.

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• : A possibly false rumor has Johnny Depp lined up to star in a new film version of Pee-wee's Playhouse—hopefully with all the creepy sexual innuendo we were too young to get the first time around.

• : Mitt Romney threw $10,000 at a nonprofit group affiliated with the National Review before receiving the mag's endorsement.

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