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Here's the Scoop...Billboard declares Taylor Swift its 2014 Woman of the YearRecording artist Taylor Swift is to receive Billboard's Woman of the Year Award for a historic second time. The magazine announced Friday it will present the seven-time Grammy Award-winner with the honor at the ninth annual Women in Music event, which is set for Dec. 12 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. The award recognizes a female artist who has "shaped and inspired the music industry with her success, leadership and innovation over the past 12 months," the publication said in a news release. Past winners include Pink, Katy Perry, Fergie and Beyonce.
Swift, 24, earned the accolade for the first time in 2012.
"As one of the most influential artists of her generation, Taylor Swift has seen incredible success on the Billboard charts," Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media's Entertainment Group -- which consists of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter -- said in a statement. "Over the course of her career, she's charted 60 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 -- the most of any female artist since her debut in 2006. We are tremendously excited to be honoring her as the 2014 Billboard Woman of the Year for the second time."
Amanda Bynes on involuntary psychiatric holdTroubled actress Amanda Bynes has reportedly been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold by doctors at a hospital outside Los Angeles. The former child star arrived Friday at Los Angeles International Airport and got into a car she believed to be taking her to The London Hotel for a meeting with her parents and their attorney, TMZ reported. However, the car was actually hired by her parents to take her to a Pasadena hospital. The car arrived at the hospital, where Tamar Arminak, a lawyer for Bynes' parents, was waiting with doctors to have her admitted. Bynes was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold, which allows her to be held for 72 hours with an option for doctors to extend the hold for up to 14 days.
TMZ said Bynes' parents are expected to seek another conservatorship during her stay in the hospital. The hospitalization came hours after Bynes posted a bizarre series of tweets that first accused her father of molestation before retracting the accusations and blaming them on a "microchip" she accused her father of having installed in her brain.
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Bill Murray says he is okay with being a bachelorBill Murray is okay with being a bachelor. The 64-year-old actor detailed his relationship status in an interview on The Howard Stern Show. Murray is twice divorced, and told host Howard Stern he is single but not lonely. "I do think about [why I haven't found a great love]," he admitted. "I'm not sure what I'm getting done here. I have kids that I'm responsible for. I don't think I'm lonely." Murray married Margaret Kelly in January 1981, and has two sons, Homer and Luke, by his first wife. The marriage ended in 1996 after the actor had an affair with Jennifer Butler, and he wed his mistress in 1997. He and Butler have four sons, Caleb, Jackson, Cooper and Lincoln, and divorced in 2008. "[It] would be nice to go to some of these things and have a date," he said of George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin's wedding. "But there's a lot that I'm not doing that I need to do... Just some things like working on yourself or self-development or something... becoming more connected to myself." Murray will next appear alongside Melissa McCarthy in St. Vincent on Oct. 24, and is also scheduled for Rock the Kasbah and HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge.
Anderson Cooper discusses mother Gloria Vanderbilt's past lovesAnderson Cooper dished on mother Gloria Vanderbilt's love life Wednesday on The Late Show. The 47-year-old journalist told host David Letterman his mother "hooked up" with stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. Cooper is the son of Vanderbilt and Wyatt Emory Cooper, and the conversation started after he denied Sinatra is his father. "Although, my mom actually dated Frank Sinatra," he acknowledged. "My mom, who's now 90... she wrote this book all about the guys she hooked up with." Vanderbilt was born the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt in 1924, and married her first husband, Pat DiCicco, in 1941. The couple divorced in 1945, and the heiress went on to marry Leopold Stokowski, Sidney Lumet and Cooper. She was involved with many other celebrities over the years, and detailed her love affairs in It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir. "My mom has no filter," Cooper related. "We were watching a movie when I was a kid -- I remember watching On the Waterfront with her, and I was like, 'Do you know Marlon Brando?' And she'd be like, 'Oh, yes.'" "It turns out my mom and Carol Matthau, who become Walter Matthau's wife... both saw On the Waterfront or A Streetcar Named Desire together, and they both decided they wanted to hook up with Brando," he continued. "Carol was the first one to do it, and then she set it up for my mom." Cooper listed actors Clark Gable and Errol Flynn as some of his mother's other lovers. Vanderbilt was most recently involved with photographer Gordon Parks until his death in 2006.