A hug from the stage for grandma, who was celebrating her birthday with family. Enough wattage from his smiles to light a thousand rooms. An announcement that he recently got engaged, which drew as many boos as applause. A subsequent reassurance that he is not gay (but he would be proud to tell you if he were).
Activist shareholder Carl Icahn raised the stakes in his yearlong dispute with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. yesterday, launching an all-out bid to take over the movie studio following disagreements over its spending.
The elderly Texas billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith in the last year of his life never intended to leave the former stripper any portion of his vast fortune, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
Ive always wanted to believe that Americas tabloid stars spend only a small fraction of psychic energy on the paparazzi. That way, I could picture a pack of predatory werewolves with videocams stalking latte-carrying innocents in the TMZ Hollywoods Thirty Mile Zone.
Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man threatened to commit suicide.
In the next couple of months, SportsDesk, NESNs signature highlights program for nearly 20 years, will go off the air, replaced on the schedule by an issues-oriented show called NESN Daily.
Sandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was repeatedly anointed as Hollywood royalty this year, sweeping awards season and capping it off with an Oscar for her role as a devoted mom in "The Blind Side."
Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. He even teared up when she went on stage to accept the Oscar.
Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms Thursday to fight piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets.
Stravinsky once quipped that composers commit fewer musical sins in church. Yes and no, in the case of Rossinis Stabat Mater. Rossini began his setting of these medieval Latin lamentations not long after his early retirement from opera, and what he produced is hardly the kind of buttoned-down, somber affair we might expect for these wrenching portraits of Marys grief ...
Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.
LOS ANGELES Time Warner Inc. is considering a bid of $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. film studio, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions, as second-round offers come due today.
NEW YORK Britt Daniel cant resist some dry humor when asked what it means to him that his band, Spoon, sold out a gig at New Yorks prestigious and spacious Radio City Music Hall weeks in advance.
Jesse James said hes sorry for the pain and embarrassment hes caused his wife, Sandra Bullock , and his children from previous relationships. James told People magazine in a statement yesterday that he showed poor judgment and I deserve everything bad that is coming my way. Internet reports alleged Wednesday that James had cheated on Bullock, whom he married in ...
Everybody grab something weird! The call goes up, a voice rising from the rubble and bubble of activity swirling around the center of a living room decadently decorated with just about everything imaginable: umbrellas hanging upside-down like rain-repellent chandeliers; bicycle tires tangled into elaborate wreaths resembling demented birds nests.
The faces of the young singers say it all. Attention fixed on the dreadlocked muse bobbing and weaving in front of them, they appear both captivated and joyful, conscious of the fact that they are locked into a volatile experiment yet thoroughly at ease within the unmapped world of vocal textures their masterful conductor coaxes them to create. The result ...
The song begins, My love, if I die and you dont . . . Penned by poet Pablo Neruda and set to music in 2005 as the last of the Neruda Songs, the words became a foreshadowing of a tortuous journey for composer Peter Lieberson, taking him from the death by cancer of his acclaimed singer wife, to his own ...
The rules of the wild are simple, narrator Oprah Winfrey intones in the second episode of Life, the extraordinary 11-part series that starts Sunday night on the Discovery Channel. Find something to eat, pass your genes along, and, above all, dont get eaten.
Telegraph.co.uk Swiss Catholic Church investigating 10 .. - Telegraph ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss Catholic Church is investigating around 10 allegations of abuse by clergy, including some acts committed since 2001, making Switzerland the latest country to be hit by a wave of scandal sweeping Europe.
The Malaysian Insider Election For MCA Presidency Is .. - Themalaysianinside KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 (Bernama) -- MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said the election for the MCA presidency was not a contest of personalities.
ABC News Who Is Michelle McGee, Jesse James' Alleged .. - Abcnews Michelle Bombshell McGee is shown in this file photo."I grew up Amish but left the church when I was 16?I never looked back. I moved to LA and got tattooed," she says.
Boston Globe Wal-Mart pushing store remodeling in area - Boston Wal-Mart Stores Inc. isn't planning to add any stores in Central Ohio this year, but a third of its area stores will sport updated looks and layouts by the end of 2010.
MSN Singapore SUTD holds its first student admission .. - Sg By Saifulbahri Ismail Posted: 20 March 2010 2313 hrs SINGAPORE : The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) held its first student admission exercise on Saturday.
Rediff Our critics' selections - Movies ... by its ace compression, and by the scarily good Noomi Rapace as Larsson's heroine, the multi-pierced, punk cyber- hacker Lisbeth Salander. ...
CNET Message from the grave, straight to your cell .. - Cnet Visitors simply snap a picture of the code with their mobile phone , and voila, instant access to the deceased's photos and profile. Going one step further, ...
Reuters South Africa Egypt to host Dutch solar .. - Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is to host a factory producing raw materials and gas used to generate solar energy, with $460 million of investments in total, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
Real Bollywood (blog) Breast Cancer Awareness Low .. - Realbollywood KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 (Bernama)-- Breast cancer awareness among Malay and Indian women is still low as compared to Chinese women, said Dr Dalila Kamaruddin, the head of the Women's Cancer Detection Centre of the National Cancer Society of Malaysia ...
Cat-calling men give all men a bad name? - Yahoo Reuters - Men who harass women with cat calls and sexual comments are actually harming their whole gender, a study has found.
