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After kicking butt in “Tomb Raider” and taking names in “Wanted,” Angelina Jolie has shown that she can play the action game just as well as Hollywood’s A-list big boys. But with her latest thriller, “Salt,” she may prove that she can replace them, too.

Back in the summer of 2008, Salt was a script about a CIA agent who’s accused of being a Russian sleeper spy- a male Russian sleeper spy. At the time, Tom Cruise was attached to play lead. But as the script evolved into more of an on-the-run espionage thriller, Cruise began to feel that the character was a little too close to his “Mission Impossible” alter ego, Ethan Hunt. When Cruise bailed, Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal remembered a series of conversations she’d had with Jolie about creating a female James Bond-style franchise for her at the studio. And voila, the movie’s hero, Edwin Salt, was rechristened Evelyn Salt. “We tried to change the name to Edwina,” says Jolie, “but it didn’t quite have the same ring to it.”

Jolie says she wasn’t nervous about the role’s gender reassignment. After all, there’s a long history of Hollywood heroes swapping sexes, including the character of Ripley in “Alien.” “I was simply looking for the best action script that was going around,” says the 34-year-old star. With Jolie on board, director Phillip Noyce, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, and writer Kurt Wimmer flew off to Chez Brangelina in the south of France to retool the screenplay. But the process was a bit trickier than just changing the hero’s name and adding high heels. “In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt saves his wife, who’s in danger,” says Noyce. “And what we found was when Evelyn Salt saved her husband in the new script, it seemed to castrate his character a little. So we had to change the nature of that relationship.”

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What a load of tax day freebies for 2010! You can eat and drink away the pain of writing a check to Uncle Sam with these fantastic freebies and discounts.

Pick up a free taco from Taco Del Mar on April 15 when you share your name, email, and zip code. You can opt out of its newsletter if you want and still get the freebie.

Get a free cup of coffee at Starbucks when you bring in your own reusable mug on April 15.

Exclusive! Get a free 3-day trial VIP membership to Chemistry.com starting at 12:01 a.m. April 15, 2010. No credit card is needed to get the free pass. Set up your profile, make a date, and prepare to jump into a new tax bracket with someone special.

Maggie Moo’s is giving away free slices of its new Ice Cream Pizza from 3 to 7 p.m. April 15. Find a participating location near you.

Snag two free cupcake bites from Cinnabon from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 15. While supplies last.

Munch on a free cookie from Subway on April 15, reports NBC.

In the South, select Whole Foods stores are making April 15 a tax-free shopping day. So far stores in AL, GA, NC, SC, TN are participating. To find out if your Whole Foods is in on the deal, go to its Web site and scroll down to find your local store is in on the event for April 15.

In Baltimore, McDonald’s will be giving away free coffee drinks, reports the Baltimore Sun.

Tax Day Discounts

Get 15% off your food tab at P.F. Chang’s on April 15. Excludes alcohol and any happy hour deals. Join the restaurant’s warrior card program to get the deal.

McCormick’s and Schmicks has $10.40 dinner and drink specials on April 15, then a CPA appreciation event Friday, April 16.

Get $10.40 off a purchase of $100 or more at Kelly’s Running Warehouse on April 15, 2010.

In New York City, get a free lunch at the healthy fast casual eatery Energy Kitchen on April 15 when you buy any beverage. The deal lasts from noon to 2 p.m. on tax day. The free meals include Bison Cheesesteak Wrap, California Wrap or Buffalo Chicken Burger.

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Recently it was announced that Chace Crawford dropped out of the lead in the troubled Footloose remake. While everyone is mum on the reasons he quit, but sources say it was due to a filming conflict with Gossip Girl.

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Famously flat Kate Hudson showed up in Miami last week with larger titties (pic above is from 2006), which has the gossip world a’buzz.  (Go to Superficial to see the newly inflated boobs) Scroll down and you’ll see pictures of her dropping her son off at school this morning. Her chesticles are covered up…so it’s hard to tell if there is anything going on there.

“I have small breasts, obviously,” Kate Hudson proudly proclaimed at the 2002 Golden Globes. “It’s nice to be able to wear a plunging neckline and have it be elegant.”

Looks like Hudson had a change of heart. An insider says in the new issue of Us Weekly that a plastic surgeon performed a small breast augmentation on the actress, 31, in late March. And the mom to son Ryder, 6, looked noticeably fuller on top while poolside in Miami on April 9.

Explains another source, “Kate makes jokes about her boobs, but her chest has always been one of her biggest insecurities.”

Hudson’s rep did not return requests for comment.

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