President Barack Obama will pay a rare visit to Capitol Hill this afternoon to urge Senate Democrats to resolve their differences on health care reform. He'll attend a Democratic caucus... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 6 Dec 2009 | 1:10 am
AP - Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of pop star Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley, was hospitalized after taking eight pills at her Manhattan apartment, a law enforcement official said Saturday.
The woman purported to be Tiger Woods' fourth mistress has been identified as Las Vegas cocktail waitress and Trashygirls.com model (check back soon for exclusive pics) Jamie...
(AP)
AP - ABC says glam-rocker Adam Lambert will appear and perform on its daytime talk show "The View" on Thursday.
ABC says glam-rocker Adam Lambert will appear and perform on its daytime talk show "The View" on Thursday. The announcement comes almost two weeks after Lambert's racy performance on... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Dec 2009 | 5:11 pm
AP - One group of young Hollywood stars were in the spotlight Saturday — and it wasn't for getting into a fight outside a night club or being arrested for drunken driving.
Another day, another alleged Tiger Woods ladylove coming out of the woodwork (this makes four, if you're keeping track).
While details about the woman are still underwraps, E! News...
One group of young Hollywood stars was in the spotlight Saturday _ and it wasn't for getting into a fight outside a night club or being arrested for drunken driving. Five... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Dec 2009 | 4:51 pm
The Blind Side made the most money at the box office last night, beating New Moon, and nobody can really understand why, but one thing is certain: expect to see a flood of copycat heartwarmers next Thanksgiving. [MTV Movies Blog]
In an apparent consolation prize/PR move after this week's cries of homophobia directed at ABC for canceling multiple appearances by AMA ad libber Adam Lambert, the network announced today that Lambert will appear on it's daytime ladychat show The View on Thursday. Both Lambert's interview and performance will be pre-taped, and they say its because of a scheduling conflict, but maybe the network was afraid Adam would repeat his AMA performance as an f-you to the network -- which would basically be the most awesome pop culture event of this decade. Oh well. [LA Times]
"But what about Orlando?," we've all been asking this whole week. "Did Tiger have a very young cocktail waitress with whom to sleep when he visited the Magic Kingdom in O-Town?" According to reports, yes. A fourth woman has come forward (or is reportedly about to come forward) to say that she and Tiger had a relationship that started in 2004, when she was 20. The as-yet-unnamed woman has reportedly hired a lawyer in preparation for her impending notoriety. Maybe if we all say we had sex with Tiger Woods we can make this stop. [E!]
It's been a tumultuous couple of years for both Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel, respectively, but today, all eyes are on their daughter Alexa Ray Joel.
Joel, 23, was rushed to St....
The New York Postis reporting that Alexa Ray Joel, the 23-year-old musician daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, was found by her roommate this afternoon after an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. She was rushed to St. Vincent's hospital and is now in stable condition according to her publicist. The police are treating the incident as a suicide attempt. [NYP]
Despite his recent financial woes, the Oscar-winning thesp was honored by the United Nations for his philanthropic spirit Friday night, taking...
Nikki Finke reports that Taylor Lautner has been cast in the title role of Paramount's four-part action franchise Max Steel. But she's not surprised one bit, of course:
"The Summit Entertainment folks predicted to me a year ago that he'd end up in demand for this kind of role after he bulked up for New Moon."
One wonders other angle the Summit Entertainment folks might have taken in their prediction to an entertainment gossip reporter a year ago: that Taylor's career would be in the toilet after New Moon? But good for Taylor! All that work paid off!
Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories, one of the most consistently high-quality indie film distribution companies out there (Dear Zachary, The Messenger, Wendy and Lucy), announced that they're starting a subscription service: for $150, members will get their next 10 DVDs a week ahead of the release date (shipping included), and half off any DVD they want from the company's back catalog. We can think of at least five movie nerd pals for whom this would make the best holiday gift imaginable, not only for the deal itself but because it supports a really cool company. And who doesn't want to be part of a Beastie Boy's "Circle of Trust"? Adam Yauch's official statement is appropriately humorous:
"There's a real void in the marketplace since Columbia Record club is no longer active, so we're hoping to hire a staff of tens of thousands to call our valuable membership over and over again and harass them until they cry."
We're signing up, but, um, this time not multiply and under the names "Kelly Taylor," "Brenda Walsh" and "Andrea Zuckerman." Though it must be noted that Columbia Record Club never caught us for that.
In the grand tradition of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis, etc., here's the story of love, as told by Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn.
Starting off...
TMZ reports that Domino's Pizza has instructed their media buyers to pull all advertising from MTV's controversial Jersey Shore, releasing a statement saying "The content of this particular program is not right for Domino's Pizza." MTV has come back with their own statement: "Jersey Shore" may not be for every sponsor or advertiser and we understand that." In related news, Trojan has announced that after their commercials aired during Jersey Shore, they are now the most profitable company in the world.* You can now wear your "Avoid the Noid" T-shirt with pride.
* Trojan isn't currently a sponsor (though First Response pregnancy tests are), but they should probably consider it.
All fan hype aside, New Moon was bad. Real bad. Will that fact be taken into consideration at all while they make the next films of the franchise? Will they aim to improve?
—Pique...
When life gives a celebrity lemons, why wait for him to make lemonade when you can serve up a tasty schadenfreude shake? That's what some interweb beat jockeys decided, so they...
"To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.
The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads."
The balloons went up at 10am EST and will be taken down at 4pm. Right now, 206 submissions have already been made, but the internet is clogged with conflicting reports, so the winners could still be working it out. Most teams are hoping to split the money, but at least one, internet darlings John and Hank Green's massive Nerdfighters team, will be donating the money to charity if they win, making everyone else kind of look like jerks. May the best team win!
AP - A letter by George Washington has sold for $3,218,500 at auction in New York City, setting a world record for a letter by America's first president, according to Christie's.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The grandmother of a Russian cocktail waitress who is dating Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood has told him to leave her granddaughter alone after he was arrested on... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Dec 2009 | 11:04 am
No, you didn't miss the months and months of carefully planned build-up. In the two weeks since The Blind Side's surprisingly big box-office debut, Sandra Bullock really has come out of...
Amanda Knox and her boyfriend were found guilty on all counts yesterday by an Italian court. The ITN news service has released video of her family back in the US reacting to the announcement of the verdict. Knox's aunt, Janet Huff, said what a lot of us are thinking:
"In that country there's a lot of you have to save face, you have to do things so that you don't look bad and I think that if they admitted that she was not guilty then they would be admitting that they made a mistake in the first place, and that's not something they were willing to admit."
The New York Times today has the details of what many are concerned was an odd and unbalanced trial.
ROME - Italian tax police say they have seized a secret stash of masterpieces from the disgraced founder of a collapsed dairy company. Police in Parma seized 19 works belonging to... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Dec 2009 | 10:27 am
General view of the Louvre's "Cour Napoleon" taken in Paris. Tourists had to take pot luck again in seeing the sights of Paris as a strike by museum staff kept some major attractions closed while others... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 5 Dec 2009 | 9:34 am
In a disappointing turn of events this week, Tiger Woods turned out to be human, and life as we knew it based on what we learned from Wheaties boxes started to unravel from there...
1. A...
A spokesman for Senator Max Baucus, chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, revealed in an emailed statement today that Baucus nominated his girlfriend for a federal prosecutor position earlier this year. Melodee Hanes was on Baucus's staff at the time, and Baucus also recommended two others for the position. In his statement, Baucus's spokesman Tyler Matsdorf explained that Ms. Hanes changed her mind about the nomination:
"While her personal relationship with Senator Baucus should in no way be either a qualifier or a disqualifier for the position, during the nomination process and after much reflection, both Senator Baucus and Ms. Hanes agreed that she should withdraw her name from consideration because they wanted to live together in Washington, D.C."
And then, oddly because as far as we know nobody has asked, Matsdorf pre-emptively defended the relationship itself from criticism:
"Senator Baucus is currently in a mature and happy relationship with Melodee Hanes. They are both divorced, and in no way was their relationship the cause of their respective divorces."
Well, okay then! This "scandal" doesn't seem very scandal-y, once you take into account that a total of six names were submitted to an impartial reviewer, who chose Hanes for the final three independently, and the fact that she removed herself from consideration when, apparently, the relationship became more serious. But who knows, it might be a slow news week!
Two years ago, I was in Italy studying abroad in Florence. On the morning of November 1st, I awoke to the terrifying news that a British abroad student, Meredith Kertcher, had been brutally ...
The woman purported to be Tiger Woods' fourth mistress has been identified as Las Vegas cocktail waitress and Trashygirls.com model (check back soon for exclusive pics) Jamie...
Another day, another alleged Tiger Woods ladylove coming out of the woodwork (this makes four, if you're keeping track).
While details about the woman are still underwraps, E! News...
It's been a tumultuous couple of years for both Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel, respectively, but today, all eyes are on their daughter Alexa Ray Joel.
Joel, 23, was rushed to St....
In the grand tradition of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis, etc., here's the story of love, as told by Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn.
Starting off...
All fan hype aside, New Moon was bad. Real bad. Will that fact be taken into consideration at all while they make the next films of the franchise? Will they aim to improve?
—Pique...
When life gives a celebrity lemons, why wait for him to make lemonade when you can serve up a tasty schadenfreude shake? That's what some interweb beat jockeys decided, so they...
No, you didn't miss the months and months of carefully planned build-up. In the two weeks since The Blind Side's surprisingly big box-office debut, Sandra Bullock really has come out of...
In a disappointing turn of events this week, Tiger Woods turned out to be human, and life as we knew it based on what we learned from Wheaties boxes started to unravel from there...
1. A...
Two years ago, I was in Italy studying abroad in Florence. On the morning of November 1st, I awoke to the terrifying news that a British abroad student, Meredith Kertcher, had been brutally ...
