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11 Celebs Who Gave Babies Up for Adoption

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:00:00 CST

Sure, Angelina Jolie collects kids like baseball cards, but what about celebrities on the other side of the fence? In honor of National Adoption Month, Cafemom lists 11 who gave their kids up for adoption: David Crosby: Cros and a girlfriend gave up their baby boy in the early '60s;...

Bob Dylan's No Fake, Joni

Jane Yager — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:01:58 CDT

Sorry, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan's no more a phony than any other artist, historian Sean Wilentz writes for the Daily Beast . "The idea that Dylan is a faker, unless everything he wrote came out of his own imagination—word for word, note for note—is absurd," Wilentz writes. "By those...

Joni Mitchell: Bob Dylan Is a Fake

John Johnson — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:41:02 CDT

Safe to say that Joni Mitchell is not a big fan of Bob Dylan. In a long interview with the Los Angeles Times , she drops this bombshell on her fellow folk icon: "Bob is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about...

Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' Is About...

Evann Gastaldo — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:26:00 CST

For 38 years, jilted lovers everywhere have been singing along to “You’re So Vain” and wondering exactly who is so vain—and they may finally have an answer. Speculation has long centered on Carly Simon’s famous exes, including Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson, Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens, or James Taylor. But...

Joni Wows With Shine

Jonas Oransky — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:25:21 CDT

Joni Mitchell has dropped new material for the first time in 10 years, and Shine is wowing critics. It “isn’t a coffee table record,” raves AllMusic, in awarding it 4 of 5 stars; “it won’t attract record execs looking for a resurrection." That’s because it’s “unsettling” and darkly political. Rather...