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On Tuesday, Brad Pitt dropped major bucks at Art Basel, an international art show for modern and contemporary works in Basel, Switzerland.

The actor spent $956,000 on a Neo Rauch oil painting, entitled Etappe, according to Bloomberg. The 9-foot-wide painting, done in 1998, shows a swirling view of a driver behind a red racecar, with workers nearby carrying hoses.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Pitt eyed the painting for several minutes while rubbing his goatee and fidgeting with his tweed hat. He initially walked away. “He’s on the fence. Nothing wrong with that, I guess,” New York dealer David Zwirner said.

But within minutes, Pitt returned with Los Angeles collectors Eli and Edythe Broad and made the big purchase.

It wasn’t the first time Pitt splurged on art.

Last year, he bought a white marble table by a Dutch designer and an aluminum rug by a Colombian designer at the same show.

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AnnaLynne McCord enjoyed a 3 hour lunch today at Gjelina with Brad Furman in Venice Beach, California on June 09, 2009. Afterward the two left together in AnnaLynne’s new Mini Cooper!

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There’s going to be a baby next door. Kendra Wilkinson and her fiancé, NFL star Hank Baskett are going to become parents, she has confirmed.

The Girls Next Door E! reality star told E! News’s Marc Malkin, “Hank and I are thrilled to announce that we are expecting our first child together. We are touched by the outpouring of support by our family, friends and fans.”

In February, Wilkinson, 23, told PEOPLE: “We always talk about [having kids]. He wants kids so [badly], and I do, too.”

Wilkinson even went so far as to tell PEOPLE that she and Baskett, a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles, were already working on names.

“My first initial is K and my middle name is Leigh, so we were thinking of Kaleigh,” she said. “And he’s Hank Baskett III, so of course I’m going to have a Hank Baskett IV!”

Engaged since November, Wilkinson and Baskett, 26, plan to wed June 27 at the Holmby Hills, Calif., mansion of her former boyfriend, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

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Bradley is in town for the Dublin premiere of his new hilarious movie, “The Hangover”.

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In a final result that no one saw coming, Warner Bros.’ “The Hangover” edged out Disney/Pixar’s “Up” over the weekend. Final figures indicated that The Hangover raked in $44,979,319 to take the No. 1 position in the box-office rankings. “Up” fell to second place with $44,138,266. While “The Hangover” performed better than the studio had estimated, Universal’s “Land of the Lost” lost even more ground than the studio had thought, winding up with only $18,837,350. The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Box Office Mojo (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):

1. “The Hangover,” Warner Bros., $44,979,319 (New)
2. “Up,” Disney, $44,138,266, 2 Wks. ($137,210,701)
3. “Land of the Lost,” Universal, $18,837,350, (New)
4. “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” 20th Century Fox, $14,634,988, 3 Wks. ($127,326,188)
5. “Star Trek,” Paramount, $8,310,480, 5 Wks. ($222,712,175)
6. “Terminator Salvation,” Warner Bros., $8,248,387, 3 Wks. ($105,568,008)
7. “Drag Me to Hell,” Universal, $7,040,550, 2 Wks. ($28,233,230)
8. “Angels & Demons,” Sony, $6,550,282, 3 Wks. ($116,174,931)
9. “My Life in Ruins,” Fox Searchlight, $3,223,161, (New)
10. “Dance Flick,” Paramount, $1,958,725, 3 Wks. ($22,625,733)

I saw The Hangover on Saturday (my birthday!!) and I can’t tell you how much I loved this movie. It was unbelievably funny!  I think I laughed from the opening credits to the end.  I almost PEED MY PANTS with the photo’s that showed as the closing credits rolled.  Let’s just say – you don’t want to look, and yet you have to – and then you’re dying laughing!  It was perverse and hilarious, and the little baby “Carlos” nearly steals the show from my dreamboat, Bradley Cooper.

It’s vulgar – and crass – and absolutely BRILLIANT. Go see it!