Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth were on location in the real 90210 reprising their famous roles as Donna and Kelly.
The ladies headed to Rodeo Drive, shopping mecca to well-heeled tourists.
Committed to their work, the 90210 alums braved the rare rainy LA weather in heels.
Although we do have to say that Tori is looking a little too skinny these days!
[Image via WENN.]
We mentioned last year that Steven Spielberg and his “people” were working hard to make Dreamworks a totally independent studio. Things seemed to be going Steven’s way (i.e. a big Indian media company offered to back them with a few hundred million dollars)….until now. Dreamworks was going to have Universal Pictures distribute its movies, but as of Friday, that deal is dead in the water. And now, according to the New York Times, Steven Spielberg is talking with the Walt Disney Co. about a distribution deal. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal said, “Universal Pictures has ended discussions with DreamWorks for a distribution agreement. Over the past several weeks DreamWorks has demanded material changes to previously agreed upon terms. It is clear that DreamWorks’ needs and Universal’s business interests are no longer in alignment. We wish them luck in their pursuit of funding and distribution of their future endeavors.” Good luck with finalizing a deal in this crap economy, Mr. Spielberg. [Image via WENN.] 
Check out (above) U2’s just released video for their latest single, Get On Your Boots. Thoughts????
Is the world ending? Is the apocalypse upon us?????? Remember how we told you that Simon Cowell might have bailed Fantasia Barrino out of her foreclosure? Well, reports are now saying that Cowell did indeed lend the American Idol winner some financial aid. And not only that, but he wanted to keep the good deed a secret . It wasn’t even a publicity stunt! Awww, Cowell, we never thought we’d say this, but you warm our cold cold hearts! [Image via WENN.] 
It looks like Kid Rock hit the sauce hard at LA’s Villa nightclub on Thursday – HARD! Mr. Bouncer Man had to help him out to his ride. Do they serve a fancy moonshine at Villa? [Image via Pacific Coast News.]
On a rainy LA Thursday, Victoria Beckham was spotted jetting out of LAX. We’re assuming she was headed to Milan to see her sweet piece, David. Can’t leave a man like that lonely for too long, eh mami? We really really want to know if she changes into something more COMFORTABLE when she boards the airplane! [Image via Ramey Photo Agency.] 
Not a sore loser by any means, Oscar nominated Kate Winslet is keeping her fingers crossed that 2009 will be her year. The Susan Lucci of the Oscars, Kate has been up for the award six different times, and she’s hoping her performance as Nazi prison guard Hannah Schmitz in The Reader will win her the prize. If not, she will be the most nominated loser in the awards show’s history. Winslet explains, “I mean, it is hard to lose, actually. … But having been through it the times that I have done, I have known that I wasn’t going to win on those occasions … you can sort of feel it. You have a radar for it. But this year I would say I can’t actually tell… I’m tremendously lucky that in my life, I have received these nominations and got to play these extraordinary parts.” How humble! [Image via WENN.] 
By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large increases in tax credits to extend high-speed Internet to rural and other unserved areas are being proposed as part of the nearly $900-billion stimulus plan winding its way through Congress, according to a document obtained on Friday.
Sen. John Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, will offer an amendment boosting an earlier proposed tax credit to 30 percent, up from 10 percent, to encourage spending on broadband at current speeds in rural and other unserved areas.
Spending to provide super-fast speed broadband would be eligible for a 40 percent tax credit under the plan, up from an earlier 20 percent.
A Senate aide said the $9 billion in grants for building broadband in the current proposal could be trimmed, as the tax credits are beefed up.
AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc are most likely to gain from the tax credit approach, analysts said. Smaller telecom companies have promoted grants.
“We believe a shift to greater reliance on tax credits would be most helpful to Verizon as well as AT&T and other incumbents with taxable income,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast wrote in an investor note.
The effort is aimed at fulfilling the dual goal of President Barack Obama and others of expanding access to high-speed Internet, while creating jobs in the process.
The amendment also clarifies language that only spending in rural and unserved areas will be eligible for the incentives. Earlier drafts also included under-served areas.
Public interest groups fear tax incentives not backed up by accountability will fund investment likely to occur anyway.
Backers of Rockefeller’s approach said the new emphasis on areas will with no Internet options whatsoever will help alleviate that risk.
Internet service companies “have pretty much covered every place they’re going to cover,” where they can make money, said Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank that gets some telecommunications funding. “I don’t see how putting broadband into rural America is a waste.”
Wireless-only companies like Sprint Nextel Corp, satellite companies like DIRECTV Group and rural telephone companies like CenturyTel Inc may also be eligible for the grants and credits.
SPEED, JOBS
Current Internet speeds are defined as 5 megabits per second, while the “next-generation” speeds eligible for the larger tax credits are defined as 100 megabits per second, in the proposal.
Some have complained the 100 megabits per second bar is too high. Verizon Communications is the most obvious recipient of that credit, since its fiber-based FIOS system can handle that speed.
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Why not give up the fur line all together?! According to reports, Jason Wu, the guy who designed First Lady Michelle Obama’s inauguration night ball gown, has postponed the launch of his previously planned fur collection so he can focus on the increased demand for his ready-to-wear pieces, compliments of inauguration day exposure. The Humane Society of the United States’ fur-free campaign commented: “We are delighted that Jason Wu has put aside the cruelty of fur for now, and hope he will adopt a permanent fur-free policy. Michelle Obama set the sartorial tone for the new administration by choosing to not wear fur at the inauguration, and it’s wonderful to see Mr. Wu follow suit.” It’s just too bad the First Lady helped shine the spotlight on someone who supports fur. We really hope we won’t be seeing a fur collection from Wu in the future! [Michelle Obama image via AP Photo.] 
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