Reuters - Top black performers paid high tribute to fallen pop star Michael Jackson at Sunday's BET Awards where his sister Janet Jackson and father Joe Jackson made their first public appearances since the singer's death. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 29 Jun 2009 | 11:25 am
Reuters - Top black performers paid high tribute to fallen pop star Michael Jackson at Sunday's BET Awards where his sister Janet Jackson and father Joe Jackson made their first public appearances since the singer's death.
AP - After just five days, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is halfway to $400 million domestically, a box-office milestone only eight other movies have reached. If it climbs that high, the "Transformers" sequel will be by far the worst-reviewed movie ever to make the $400 million club.
In the brief, electric prime of Michael Jackson, millions danced to "Billie Jean," "Beat It" and other songs so propulsive it almost didn't matter what they actually said. But the lyrics Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 29 Jun 2009 | 10:46 am
A lawyer for Michael Jackson's doctor said his client never gave or prescribed Jackson the painkillers Demerol or OxyContin, and denied reports suggesting that the doctor gave the pop star... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 29 Jun 2009 | 10:11 am
AP - A lawyer for Michael Jackson's doctor said his client never gave or prescribed Jackson the painkillers Demerol or OxyContin, and denied reports suggesting that the doctor gave the pop star drugs that contributed to his death.
AP - Some of the biggest stars on the planet turned back into gushing Michael Jackson fans at the BET Awards, donning single gloves, swapping stories about their idol and singing The King of Pop's standards. One person who perhaps knew him best, though, brought the night into perspective: his sister.
Mourning Michael Jackson fans around the world awaited word Monday on the possibility of a global memorial to the King of Pop. Jackson died Thursday in Los Angeles, where his supporters... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 29 Jun 2009 | 10:06 am
(Reuters) Reuters - TV studios plan a strong presence at Comic-Con, the annual fan convention that seems to feature a greater number of series each summer. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 29 Jun 2009 | 6:39 am
AFP - A group of Chinese companies are in talks for a possible takeover of the brand name of French fashion giant Pierre Cardin, a company official has said.
Senator Chuck Schumer, Mayor Bloomberg, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Governor David Paterson all joined the thousands of marchers in Sunday's gay pride parade in Manhattan. The annual march also marked the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which are credited with starting in earnest the gay activism movement in America, and, to a certain extent, worldwide. Intel Editor Chris walked the parade route for the first time ever, with the Empire State Pride Agenda, and it's fair to say that while he may not be more gay than he was at the beginning of the day, he is at least better versed in the lyrics of the late Cher canon, and the Glee version of "Don't Stop Believing," which is basically the same thing. Herein are some of the best images that were shot on Sunday.
Related: Read Mark Harris' account of the gay generational divide 40 years after the birth of LGBT activism.
Had the United States defeated Brazil to win the Confederations Cup, it surely would have been the biggest soccer victory in U.S. history. And they were close. The United States, thanks to a fortunate goal from Clint Dempsey nine minutes in and a thrilling breakaway goal from the much-maligned Landon Donovan 26 minutes in, led 2-0 at halftime and inspired perhaps the sporting world’s first metaphoric erection from analyst Alexi Lalas at ESPN’s studio show. (International competition is the only time sports analysts are allowed to drop their pretend impartiality and just let it fly.) The U.S was halfway to a historic upset. But in the second half, Brazil, a dramatically more talented team, dominated every aspect, and by the time they tied it up 74 minutes in, and then took the lead 85 minutes in, it was clear that this wasn’t going to be this year’s version of the Miracle On Grass.
That the United States finished second is a monumental achievement, I suppose, if you are one of the people who knew what the FIFA Confederations Cup was in the first place. The problem, of course, is that most Americans don’t, and wouldn’t have whether the United States had won or not. For about two hours yesterday, many American sports fans with little interest in soccer but who happened to be indoors or at a bar rooted for America, because it’s fun to root for America (who doesn’t root for America? Yeah!). And then, when the United States lost, they moved on with their lives. They won’t think about soccer again until next June at the World Cup. And then, most of them will just complain about how South African fans blow those awful horns all game.
One game is not a referendum on the state of soccer in this country. Brazil is not that into baseball, China is not that into football, Norway is not that into water polo. America is not that into soccer. The U.S. men’s soccer team just had the best week in its history. Good for them. Those who care are thrilled, those who don’t have already forgotten about it. There’s nothing wrong with either perspective. We will always like our team more than your team, and our sport more than your sport. That is how it should be. Sports is not a movement. It’s just entertainment. Go U.S.A.! Aw, they lost. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Blur’s joyous reunion, swinging into gear this week with sold-out arena shows all over England, reminds us that not all band reunions are awkward money-grabs. But most are! We’ve seen such a deluge of rock-and-roll reunions over the last decade that it’s hard to keep them straight, so in order to help you figure out just who’s actually psyched to be sharing a stage again and who’s riding to the venue in separate limos, we’ve rated ten recent comebacks on Vulture’s one-and-only Band Reunion Hate-o-Meter.
My Bloody Valentine Reunited: 2008
The beef: When the band signed to Island after 1991’s universally acclaimed Loveless, lead Valentine Kevin Shields began receiving a 5,000 pound monthly stipend. According to Shields, “when you’re getting that much money a month for so long, it allows you to live in the la-la land that I was in.” In 1995, with Shields deep in the midst of the obsessive, interminable recording process for the (never-completed) follow-up, bassist Debbie Googe and drummer Colm Ó’Cíosóig took off, effectively breaking up the band.
Where they stand: Rapturous reviews of the reunion shows suggest that the bad blood has passed. Although, Googe was supposedly driving a cab for a while during all that downtime — surely she must be holding a grudge?
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
Led Zeppelin Last reunited: 2007
The beef: Zep broke up in 1980 when drummer John Bonham died, which was the only decent thing to do. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have toured and recorded as a duo but the band has technically only reunited four times, including the 1995 Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony when bassist John Paul Jones – feeling slighted by his exclusion from the Plant/Page team-ups – quipped “I'm glad my friends finally remembered my phone number." 2007’s much-praised Ahmet Ertegun-tribute show led to tour rumors: supposedly, Page and Jones were ready to go but Plant “doesn’t want to make loud music anymore.”
Where they stand: Jone’s brief testiness and Plant’s newfound wussiness aside, we’re still crediting the lack of a full-fledged reunion to the fact that — hello — John Bonham died.
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
Blur Reunited: 2009
The beef: Perpetually dour guitarist Graham Coxon left Blur in Marrakesh, Morrocco during the recording of 2003’s Think Tank, the band’s last album, after his band mates told him he was temporarily “no longer welcome in the studio.” There was speculation that Coxon had issues with the album’s producer (Fatboy Slim) and direction (weird electronic world music), but his alcoholism surely didn’t help (Coxon: “I think Blur thought I'd had enough chances and weren't willing to give me any more”).
Where they stand: The rare reunion that seems spurred by the band mates actually patching things up. Says Albarn: “The main thing is that it's really nice to know that I can call Graham and he'll pick up the phone, and it's all cool, you know?"
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
Rage Against the Machine Reunited: 2007
The beef: Bassist Tim Commerford climbing the stage during the 2000 MTV Movie awards was apparently the last straw for front man Zach de la Rocha — a month later, he broke up the band, explaining that RATM’s deteriorating decision-making process “has undermined our artistic and political ideal." When they reunited for Coachella in 2007, guitarist Tom Morello credited it to the “right-wing purgatory” the nation had slid into. The band has no plans to record. (Morello has also formed a new band, Street Sweeper Social Club, with Coup rapper Boots Riley. Their album just debuted at No. 37 on Billboard’s Top 200.) They’re clearly more interested in cashing big-festival checks than working on that communication breakdown.
Where they stand: There’s a slim possibility that de la Rocha altruistically reunited the band in order to save the world from more Audioslave music.
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
Blink-182 Reunited: 2009
The beef: Guitarist/co-vocalist Tom Delonge quit the band right before a 2005 benefit show for South Asia tsunami survivors. According to drummer Travis Barker, “Tom didn't call, but his manager did, and he said that Tom couldn't contain his shit long enough to play a song for people who were suffering.” Delonge claimed he left the band to spend more time with his family but then immediately formed Angels & Airwaves, a wannabe arena-rock act that he declared was not only better than Blink but better than anything, ever. Barker and bassist/co-vocalist Mark Hoppus, as +44, addressed the split on “No It Isn’t”: “Please understand / This isn't just goodbye / This is I can't stand you.”
Where they stand: Barker’s 2008 plane crash made the guys see the big picture — life is too short to stay mad/not make more masturbation jokes.
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
The Police Reunited: 2007
The beef: Before breaking up in 1983 the band was notorious for the control clashes between drummer Stewart Copeland and Sting, which manifested themselves in “friendly tiffs” like the time Copeland accidentally broke one of Sting’s ribs with his knee. According to Copeland, after the breakup, “we discovered we can be good friends — as long as no one mentions music.” The 2007 reunion dredged up the old conflicts. In his memoir, Copeland recounts saying to Sting during an early rehearsal, “Do not even make eye contact with me, let alone make another suggestion about how I should play my drums … you fucking piece of shit!” The drummer also had to apologize to his band mates after writing a supposedly funny review of their second reunion show that included the line “The mighty Sting momentarily looks like a petulant pansy instead of the god of rock.”
Where they stand: Friendly as long as they don’t have to work together. According to Copeland, “Couple of days in the studio and one of us is going to have mallets sticking out of his neck.”
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
Pixies Reunited: 2004
The beef: After years of tension with bassist Kim Deal, who was always struggling to get more of her songs on their records, front man Frank Black (then Black Francis) famously broke up the band via fax. Reunion offers were too generous to turn down, though — guitarist Joe Santiago once pleaded with Deal to go along by saying the few shows then scheduled would change “where I can put my daughter into school” — and they’ve toured on and off since. Despite rumors, there are no immediate plans to record -- according to Deal, a potential new Pixies’ album is “something to bring up whenever [Black] needs press.”
Where they stand: They haven’t exactly mended their rifts: On 2006 tour doc LoudQUIETloud, Black admitted, “We don’t talk to each other very much.”
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
The Jesus and Mary Chain Reunited: 2007
The beef: The legendarily contentious, drug-fueled relationship between brothers Jim and William Reid bottomed out during the recording of 1998’s Munki, when the two literally refused to be in the same room together; the subsequent tour lasted a few gigs before the bank broke up in Los Angeles. They supposedly didn’t speak after that disastrous L.A. show until 2006. But when Coachella “made them an offer they could not refuse,” the brothers reunited. Their first practice nearly ended in a fistfight.
Where they stand: Have made it clear that if it wasn’t thanks to the “persistence” of the Coachella folks, the reunion never would have happened. The current bond seems to rely on the brothers not speaking too much. Says Jim: “I know exactly how to get on his nerves and he does me because we used to take some sort of perverse pleasure doing that. But now you think, well what’s the fucking point? If I say this then I know there’ll be an explosion so let’s not say it and get on with the music.”
Hate-o-Meter Reading:
Smashing Pumpkins Reunited: 2007
The beef: When he revived the Smashing Pumpkins name for 2007’s Zeitgeist, Billy Corgan was rebuffed by James Iha (who later said “I’m not really answering too many questions about the Pumpkins [reunion]… I just want to keep it positive as far as being proud of what we accomplished”), bassist D’arcy and even D’arcy replacement Melissa Auf der Maur. According to Corgan, “We put out the feelers that the door was open and we were sort of met with a dull thud.” Original drummer Jimmy Chamberlin did return, but not for long: earlier this year he quit, saying “I won’t pretend I’m into something I’m not … I can’t just, ‘cash the check’ so to speak.” Unsurprisingly, Corgan has said he will continue under the Pumpkins name.
Where they stand: There is no “they” — only Corgan.
New York's fashion director Harriet Mays Powell sat down with Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci, the youngest couturier in history (he's 33) to talk about couture and his recent resort collection, which was based on Morocco and David Bowie. And couture, that decadently fabulous season (fall 2009 kicks off next week) is still going strong. "Women buy couture because it's very exclusive," he says. "When you sell a dress you can sell it once. So you are the only one person owning this dress in the entire world." Check out the spring 2009 dress that took seamstresses two and a half weeks to sew by hand (and costs 18,000 euros).
Most people know Michael Urie in his role of Marc, editrix Vanessa Williams' bitchy assistant on Ugly Betty. But Urie is also an accomplished stage actor, and he's showing off his theatrical chops right now in The Temperamentals, Jon Marans' moving, often hilarious play about the Mattachine Society, a gay-male activist group born in the closeted atmosphere of the early fifties. The show features Urie as Rudi Gernreich, an early founder of the group who left, before he could be outed, to become a fashion designer so influential he
href="http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1967/1101671201_4
00.jpg">made the cover of Time in 1967. Urie spoke to us about his character's future on Betty and why he's so private about certain issues.
Well, it's raining and my dog won't poop or pee in the rain, so generally what happens is, we both get drenched, then the second we walk indoors, shit just starts flying out of her ass. She's a Brussels Griffon. Her name is Sprouts. Her full name is Dame Lady Colonel Brussels Sprouts the First. She's a colonel because she fought in the dog-cat revolution of aught-four.
So she's a highly decorated vet?
She's a very decorated vet but we don't use the word V-E-T, because that means something else.
So who is your character to you?
He's an activist but also an artist, and oftentimes, artists have to be activists with their work rather than with their actions, and ultimately that's what he becomes. He paved the way for [fashion] flamboyancy of all kinds, and although he was never out publicly, he was a huge influence on the community and on freeing yourself. But this is also a love story, about how Harry and Rudi start in one place and, by the end of the play, are in very different places.
So in the context of this play, it's almost impossible not to ask
you about your own sexuality. You've never really publicly declared it, but on your own website, you identify yourself as "a member of the LGBT community" and say that organizations that help people with HIV/AIDS or people who are LGBT are "A-Number 1 in my book!" So what's the deal?
Well, that's my M.O. I'm interested in keeping — you know, actors have to be able to do lots of different things, and while I'd say there's an ongoing theme [to the parts I play], I'm also not interested in having any real publicity about who I am and what my private life is and things like that. I'm an actor and I don't want to be a [fill-in-the-] blank actor.
Do you really think that saying 'I'm gay' would stop you from getting an array of roles?
That's not really the point. By using publicity to say something like that, it could become a person's M.O, and I'm not interested in that. I really think this article should be about The Temperamentals. I understand where you're coming from and why you think this is important and that this is a play about being true to yourself. But artists and activists are not quite the same thing, and I feel like support can come from lots of different ways.
Do you get sick of reporters asking you about this?
They don't ask about it as much as you might think. Actually, it's been a long time since anyone asked it. I don't think it's really newsworthy if the gay guy from Ugly Betty is gay or not.
So speaking of the world of Betty, it looks like Marc's career at Mode hangs in the balance on the upcoming season, with Betty having beat him out for that editor's position.
Well, that's something that's great about TV. Characters change, but over the course of years. My character started off being a one-line bitchy gay assistant, and now we see he has career ambitions, love and affection for other people. I have a feeling there's going to be some serious rivalry between Mark and Betty this season. I've always thought of Ugly Betty as classical theater. The stakes are very high.
Taking time out from huddling with his family about preparations for Michael Jackson's funeral and the ongoing care of his children, father Joe Jackson turned up at Sunday's BET Awards and...
Bernie Madoff will appear in court downtown Monday morning, where he will read an apology, hear statements from eight very angry victims, be photographed from a bad angle many times, and ultimately be handed a prison sentence from judge Denny Chin that could last anywhere from 10 to 150 years. Madoff's last court appearance on March 12, at which he pleaded guilty, was somewhat anti-climactic. Sentencing this time probably won't be the Greatest Depression version of a public stoning, and it won't provide much closure either — the untangling of Madoff's assets, and lawsuits against him, will likely go on for years — but it should be a little more dramatic. Here's what to expect from the main players, including one victim's preview of his speech.
Bernie Madoff: Bernie's request to wear his own suit was a bad call. He should have gone with the standard prison-issue khaki jumpsuit, because that would make him look frail and vulnerable. Wearing a Savile Row tailored suit that his victims bought is not going to win him any favors, and his blindness to this obvious fact is telling. Madoff has also requested to make a statement, despite the fact that he already said he was "deeply sorry and ashamed" back in March. This could be the last time we hear from Bernie, unless he invites Diane Sawyer into his cell for a one-on-one, but it probably won't be on the level of a killer's confession from Law and Order. After he is taken away, he will be sent back to his cell for about a week while the Bureau of Prison officials assign him to a correctional institution. According to the Journal, he will likely end up at a low- or medium-security prison near New York, like Fort Dix, N.J., Otisville, N.Y., or Allenwood, Pa.
Ruth Madoff: On Friday, Ruth exchanged her claim to over $80 million worth of assets that were purportedly separate from Bernie's Ponzi loot for just $2.5 million in cash — which could be subject to victim claims. She will stay away from the sentencing, but according to her lawyer many release a statement after the fact.
The Sons: In other white-collar cases, family members have come forth to testify to the character of the person being sentenced prior to their crime. Considering Bernie's current relationship with his sons (Andrew reportedly has called the fraud "a father-son betrayal of biblical proportions" it's unlikely he or his brother Mark will appear in their BLM 1938 sweatshirts to declare him father of the year.
The Extended Family: Nor, we imagine, will the other members of his immediate family: His brother Peter is under investigation, and his sister-in-law Joan, who also lost her savings, apparently told her friends "Let [the judge and prosecutors] do what they want with [Bernie]."
The Victims: The testimony from the eight victims who have elected to address Madoff to his face will probably be the dramatic high point of the day. Real estate developer Burt Ross waxed literary in the letter he wrote Judge Chin requesting to speak ("Seven hundred years ago, the Italian poet Dante in the Divine Comedy recognized fraud as the worst of sins, the ultimate evil more than any other act contrary to god's greatest gift to mankind — love," it began.) His statement has since been lengthened and revised, he tells Daily Intel, and will run around three minutes. "I think I'll probably end up crying," he said. "I have difficulty reading it to myself in my living room without crying."
Ross, who with his wife lost $5 million, expects he'll be more moved by the stories of the other victims. "I have been able to contain my anger about myself," he says. "We were hoping to have a second home, and now we can't. That's nothing compared to losing your house." But he thinks the most difficult part will be having to hear Bernie explain himself. "I think it will be manipulative, not heartfelt. This is a man who ran a premeditated and calculated fraud for over 20 years. He goes into the slammer and decides it's not to his liking. And now he's sorry? I hope that will be the last time I ever see him," he said. "I assure you that in the afterlife I will not be where he is."
The Judge: The government and the victims want the maximum sentence —150 years — and then some (one victim who will be speaking requested Madoff receive "an eternity of solitude.") Madoff's lawyers want a light twelve years. It's up to judge Danny Chin, and as the Journal's Law Blog points out, he knows that unless Madoff shivs someone in prison, he will likely receive a 15% reduction for good behavior (which would reduce those twelve years to nine), and could even serve the last year of his term in home confinement. Expect the sentence to be closer to the government's end of the spectrum.
The Astor trial has been running for two months, but it feels like forever. Almost every day a horrifying new detail dribbles out like spittle over a demented centenarian's lip. It's like a Martin Amis novel or a Neil LaBute play: There are no redeeming figures, and even the deceased comes off poorly. (You know it's a bad scene when everyone is thrilled to see Henry Kissinger.) But it's real — the cruel things Brooke Astor, her son Anthony, and Anthony's wife Charlene said about one another; the greed; the disappointment; the loathing; the way-too-personal bathroom details. It looks to be some time before the jury is forced to decide whether Anthony took advantage of Brooke's Alzheimer's in order to get his hands on $60 million that was meant for charity. Here are the twenty most grimly fascinating moments so far.
May 4: Brooke Astor's doctor testifies that Astor told him she would rather spend Christmas with her two dogs instead of Charlene Marshall, whom she called "that bitch."
May 8: Charlene breaks down in tears at the beginning of the day's proceedings, because it is her and Anthony's 17th wedding anniversary.
May 11: Brooke Astor's social secretary testifies that Astor once reminisced about the time Bill Clinton grabbed her ass.
May 21: Graydon Carter tells the court about the time in the early 2000s when Astor asked him where Graydon Carter was — evidence, according to the prosecution, of her senility.
May 19: "The people take the position that dog feces should not be left on the dining room floor of Mrs. Astor when she should have been enjoying her golden years, when other things are being skimped on and Mr. Marshall is benefitting. Yes, that is part of the scheme to defraud." Such was the testimony the prosecution wished to introduce from Phillip Marshall, one of Anthony's sons. The judge barred the evidence on the grounds that dog feces were the province of Astor's staff.
June 2: An Astor estate lawyer testifies that Anthony "twisted his mother's arm" for $5 million in walking around money while she recovered from two broken hip surgeries.
June 5: "Do you want all of my money?" asked 101-year-old Astor of Tony in 2003, her third year of advanced Alzheimer's, according to her estate lawyer. He said she was being ironic. (The prosecution claims the lawyer was in cahoots with Marshall.)
June 8: Astor's former maid tells jurors that Marshall vetoed a safety gate at his mother's Park Avenue duplex, cancelled the annual summer rug cleaning, demanded that flower arrangements come from a Korean deli instead of Astor's more expensive standing order, and took two expensive paintings off the walls. (The maid ignored Marshall's flower edict, and admitted that Astor knew about at least one of the paintings.)
June 9: "[Astor] said [Charlene] had no class and no neck," butler Christopher Ely tells the jury.
June 9: The butler tells the jury that in 2002 Marshall tricked his mother, then 99, into thinking she was broke so she would sell her favorite painting. Marshall netted a $2 million commission. "Now can I buy dresses?" Astor reportedly asked her son when he called to report the sale.
June 9: By 2004, Astor was so out of it mentally that she was routinely calling Marshall "my husband," the butler said. "My husband wants to put me in an old lady's home," she once confided.
June 17: Prosecutors claim that Astor's night nurse will testify that she became afraid of lawyers in dark suits and began asking the nurse to check under her bed for "bad men."
June 18: Charlene and Tony kiss and cuddle for the courthouse paparazzi. Two days earlier, the court had parsed Astor's quip on the day she signed over $60 million to her son — "Are they happy in bed?" — for evidence of loopiness.
June 19: It is revealed that Anthony Marshall and his lawyers assigned his mother a hypothetical date of death on a draft estate-tax return, a year and a half before she actually died.
June 22: Anthony Marshall falls off his treadmill and is taken to the emergency room. "His brain is bruised," a weeping Charlene tells the Post. "It's swollen."
June 23: Charlene's neck comes up again when Astor's chauffer testifies that she once said "I don't want that woman to wear my jewelry because she doesn't have the neck to wear my jewelry." And: "Why did my son have to marry that woman? He can just SLEEP with her." The chauffeur added that Astor referred to Tony as "the man who wants to kill me."
June 25: Astor's doctor testifies that she once asked him, "Am I older than Tony or is he older?" Foremost on her mind the day she signed a codicil to her will that turned over $60 million to Marshall was "that she wanted to use the bathroom at home."
Hours after proclaiming Dr. Conrad Murray is nothing more than a witness to Michael Jackson's death, the physician's attorney is now insisting that the doctor did not give or prescribe the...
Susanna Hoffs, the petite rock singer/guitarist whose band the Bangles remains one of the most enduring all-girl groups in history, has always had an ear for a good cover.
Front Page: BET Awards gets overhaul in honor of King of Pop -- Celebs arrived on the red carpet at Sunday's BET Awards wearing white gloves in tribute to the late King of Pop.
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Billy Mays, the prominent face and boastful voice behind some of television's biggest products, was found dead in his Florida home Sunday morning.
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Ugly Betty star Ana Ortiz has an "absolutely beautiful" baby girl.
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AP - The French capital's spring-summer 2010 menswear displays wound down Sunday with a harder-than-usual silhouette from romantic label Lanvin, a retro rocker at British dandy Paul Smith and a sheer, shorn look at Dior Homme that sparked catty rumors about the possible departure of the luxury house's designer, Kris Van Assche.
A private funeral service for actress Farrah Fawcett will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, California, according to her publicist.
Fashion Wire Daily - If anything summed up the muffled mood of the economy it was the muted hues of the latest classic, yet faintly bohemian, Hermes menswear collection shown Saturday, June 27, in the Couvent des Cordelilers, an ancient convent in central Paris.
Actor Shia LaBeouf arrives at the premiere Of DreamWorks "Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen" at Mann Village Theatre on June 22, 2009 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. "Transformers: Revenge of the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 28 Jun 2009 | 7:45 pm
AP - Models at Paul Smith pulled out their best Michael Jackson moves on Sunday, shaking it to "Thriller" as they took a riotous final lap around the catwalk. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 28 Jun 2009 | 7:42 pm
AP - Dior Homme designer Kris Van Assche's spring-summer 2010 collection of sheer suits with fluttering raw seams and visible shoulder-pads had the star-studded fashion crowd at Sunday's show abuzz with rumors that it would be his last for the Paris-based luxury label.
Front Page: 'Transformers's' Kurtzman, Orci to produce pic -- Marking the first major acquisition for newly appointed Paramount Film Group prexy Adam Goodman, the studio has paid seven figures upfront for action-comedy pitch "License to Steal."
Front Page: Changes could have bigger implications -- It was a big week for Oscar, with two announcements on Friday of changes that might seem like minor tweaks at first glance but in fact have bigger implications.
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Michael Jackson's eldest son thought his father was joking around when he collapsed on the living-room floor but soon stood 'in a trance' as the King of Pop's personal doctor frantically tried to revive him, a family confidant told the New York Post. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2009 | 4:36 pm
The 11-year-old Brit boy who earned mad tabloid coverage when he was tragically snubbed when offering Megan Fox a rose after the London premiere of the new Transformers flick got a second chance....
Michael Jackson left us much too soon, but he wasn't the only pop icon to do so. Not by a long shot. Elvis. Tupac. Kurt Cobain. Selena. They all met untimely doom in the form of drugs, bullets...
Bobby Brown will reunite with New Edition to perform a Jackson 5 medley at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles tonight (June 28) to open the BET Awards, part of an extended tribute to Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson's former long-time nanny said she often had to pump the King of Pop's stomach after he swallowed too many prescription medications, the Sunday Times of London reports. Source: FOXNews.com | 28 Jun 2009 | 2:54 pm
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The news of Michael Jackson?s death has had particular resonance in London, where the singer was planning to make his high profile comeback. Fifty shows were planned for the capital?s giant O2 venue. In... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 28 Jun 2009 | 10:57 am
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Michael Jackson memorabilia is on display for sale at Times Square in New York City. The family of Jackson ordered a second autopsy of the tragic pop icon as associates told of mounting anger over "unanswered... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 28 Jun 2009 | 10:57 am
After three days to process the shock and grief, attendees at the BET Awards — a show thrown into "total overhaul" by the death of Michael Jackson — were preparing for what was sure to be a spectacular celebration of the King of Pop, put on by an dazzling collection of the artists he influenced most.
What's the hold up with Michael Jackson funeral arrangements? I am told that there is right now a discussion going on within his family and advisors about burying him at Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, California.
Taking time out from huddling with his family about preparations for Michael Jackson's funeral and the ongoing care of his children, father Joe Jackson turned up at Sunday's BET Awards and...
Hours after proclaiming Dr. Conrad Murray is nothing more than a witness to Michael Jackson's death, the physician's attorney is now insisting that the doctor did not give or prescribe the...
Billy Mays, the prominent face and boastful voice behind some of television's biggest products, was found dead in his Florida home Sunday morning.
Tampa police confirm to E! News...
Ugly Betty star Ana Ortiz has an "absolutely beautiful" baby girl.
The new mom and her hubby, musician Noah Lebenzon, welcomed their first child, Paloma Louise Lebenzon, in New...
The 11-year-old Brit boy who earned mad tabloid coverage when he was tragically snubbed when offering Megan Fox a rose after the London premiere of the new Transformers flick got a second chance....
Michael Jackson left us much too soon, but he wasn't the only pop icon to do so. Not by a long shot. Elvis. Tupac. Kurt Cobain. Selena. They all met untimely doom in the form of drugs, bullets...