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Flick brings Courtenay Semel to tears

Courtenay Semel,who dated tragic starlet Casey Johnson and called her “my true soulmate” after her death, cried at the other night’s American Express Tribeca Film screening of “TiMer,” a movie about a gadget called TiMer that counts down to the exact time people meet their soulmates. “Courtenay left in tears,” an insider tells us. When guests were given a replica TiMer at theafter-party, “Courtenay picked one that said her number was years away, causing her to tear up again,” continued our spy. Following Casey’s death, the lesbian daughter of ex-Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel has stayed single and focused on her career. The reality show socialite is finishing a book about growing up in Hollywood. Our spies at the party overheard Semel tell a friend that she’s “dying to make a cameo on ‘The Real L Word.’ ” Other celebrities who were moved by the film included Ryan Rottman, and starlet Brittany Snow.