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Thousands flock to opening of Harry Potter theme park - BBC News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 20 Jun 2010 | 4:16 am Cricket-mad Indian touted as next Deutsche Bank CEO (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Jun 2010 | 4:03 am What makes Rivers tick - Philadelphia Inquirer
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 20 Jun 2010 | 3:39 am Juneteenth 2010: US celebrates 145 years of emancipation from slavery - The Money Times
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 20 Jun 2010 | 3:32 am Robert Pattinson Kisses Kristen Stewart - Eclipse Clip - BSCreview
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 20 Jun 2010 | 3:07 am Coney Island's Mermaid Parade shimmies along in Brooklyn - but some protest ... - New York Daily News
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 20 Jun 2010 | 2:23 am Hong Kong publisher halts Tiananmen memoirs (AP)AP - A Hong Kong publisher said he has scrapped plans to publish an alleged insider account of Beijing's decision-making behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown because of copyright problems.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:05 pm Hong Kong publisher halts Tiananmen memoirs (AP)AP - A Hong Kong publisher said he has scrapped plans to publish an alleged insider account of Beijing's decision-making behind the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown because of copyright problems.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:05 pm Asian filmmakers offered $100,000 grantsHollywood's leading industry group and an Australian film awards event have joined to offer grants for Asian filmmakers worth $100,000. The Motion Picture Association Asia Pacific is an...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:10 pm Asian filmmakers offered $100,000 grants (AP)AP - Hollywood's leading industry group and an Australian film awards event have joined to offer grants for Asian filmmakers worth $100,000.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:09 pm UNHCR goodwill envoy Angelina Jolie meets with Haitian, UN officials on low-profile visitPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Actress Angelina Jolie has quietly returned to Haiti for meetings with Haitian and U.N. officials. The weekend visit by the "goodwill ambassador" for the United...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:46 pm Is Lindsay Lohan's Tea Partying Sabotaging Her SCRAM? - E! Online (blog)
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:07 pm Is Lindsay Lohan's Tea Partying Sabotaging Her SCRAM? Rocking a SCRAM bracelet hasn't exactly been Lindsay Lohan's cup of tea. But, according to reports, her recent run-in with the law could have been due to her love for that particular...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 7:47 pm Angelina Jolie makes low-profile visit to HaitiActress Angelina Jolie has quietly returned to Haiti for meetings with Haitian and U.N. officials. The weekend visit by the "goodwill ambassador" for the United Nations High CommissionerSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 6:10 pm Showbiz news vet Rona Barrett returns to tell all (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:27 pm Showbiz news vet Rona Barrett returns to tell all (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:27 pm Parade of Duct Tape Floats Brought More Than Disco FeverSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:27 pm 'Toy Story 3' opens on pace for record - Hollywood Reporter
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:26 pm Amanda Bynes Done with the Whole Acting Thing, Announces Retirement We haven't seen much of Amanda Bynes since, ummm, her 2007 smash hit Sydney White (you saw it right?), but TV funnygal turned movie star turned Hills dude's girlfriend is bowing out of the...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:21 pm Cougar Town Star: Will Courteney Cox Really Change the Name of the Show?! Cougar Town may not be the right title for Courteney Cox's hit comedy, but so be it.
Despite all the chatter that the show will be renamed, costar Dan Byrd tells...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:15 pm Cameron Diaz: From Model to The Mask to Megastar Doing all the hard work needed to succeed but making it look utterly effortless, Cameron Diaz epitomizes the magic that is Hollywood. Yep, there's something about Camy! Improbably...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 4:03 pm Rand Paul Knows 'What a Pile On Feels Like' Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul won't go so far as to endorse Republican congressman Joe Barton's position that forcing BP to create a $20 billion trust fund for victims of the BP oil spill is a "shameful... shakedown," a position that caused an immediate, oppositional reaction from the White House and even from fellow Republicans. But Paul does see where Barton's coming from: "I don't want to pile on [Barton]. I know what that feels like. What I will say is I have never liked the tone of the president when he said things or his administration says things like he is going to put the boot on the throat of BP... If we put BP out of business, they can't pay for the cleanup."
What if it's just a little ass-kicking? Rand Paul Offers Sympathy For Joe Barton: I Know What A Pile-On Feels Like [HuffPo] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: rand paul, bp, cleaning up, joe barton, pile on
Source: Daily Intel | 19 Jun 2010 | 3:21 pm Is Megan Fox Willing to Go Fug? We're going to give Megan Fox the benefit of the doubt. We bet that behind her overexposed ('tho impressive) T&A there exist some acting chops that the babe should be using for more...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:59 pm Tina Fey vs. Jessica Biel: Which Dress Cost Less? Tina Fey and Jessica Biel prove that you can look just as chic in a jumpsuit as you can in a dress. The actresses knocked it out of the fashion park with their bow-adorned navy-and-black...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:33 pm Baghdad’s Hottest Club Cost $2.5 Million to Build The Lebanese Club on a slow night. Political instability and regional violence have never been enough to stop nightlife in its tracks, and now enterprising club kids and restaurateurs are making a go of it in Iraq's capital: "A slew of new restaurants have opened in [Baghdad] this year," the Times reports. "All boast of having thick shatterproof glass." Antoine al-Hage, in particular, a sort of Middle Eastern Paul Sevigny, opened the Beatrice of Baghdad last month, a Lebanese restaurant-lounge, the Lebanese Club:
Hage thinks there's money to be made in Iraqi nightlife now: "Simply put, for a decade, he has trailed America’s imperial pursuits. 'Wherever the Americans are, we are,' he said." The club cost $2.5 million to build, but investors expect to make that money back within the year. Certain safety exceptions are not even made for high-profile guests:
'Baghdad Nights Glitter, Behind Shatterproof Glass' [NYT] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: iraqi nightlife, antoine al-hage, baghdad, commerce, international economoy, iraq, the beatrice of baghdad
Source: Daily Intel | 19 Jun 2010 | 2:06 pm Mark Williams Steps Down As Chairman of the Tea Party Express Sacramento-based conservative-radio talk-show host Mark Williams is stepping down as chairman of the Tea Party Express so that he can focus on fighting the construction of a mosque near the site of ground zero in New York. Williams has already argued that the mosque could be used for "the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god." He has since sort of apologized for that remark, but he will now be devoting himself fully to opposing this cause. Well almost fully: He'll also be "leading a recall effort against some members of the Sacramento City Council and running for a spot on the local body himself after the council voted to boycott Arizona over its new immigration law." Williams told CNN he's "thinking globally and acting locally." Sounds like he's got his plate full of opposition! [Political Ticker/CNN, Atlantic] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: tea time, mark williams, monkey gods, tea party, tea party express, the tea party
Source: Daily Intel | 19 Jun 2010 | 1:47 pm Rob Pattinson is Still Tired of Talking about Twilight In yet another profile of Rob Pattinson in which he wears his weariness so well, the actor bemoans the Twilight phenomenon: "Mr. Pattinson was not particularly eager to chat for the quadrillionth time about Edward Cullen. 'It can get a little boring,' he said softly over coffee at the Four Seasons hotel, referring both to playing an unchanging vampire and to chewing over the Cultural Importance of It All. 'The good news is that the whole thing is done in seven months.'"
He's off by about a year, but Pattinson continues: "I’ve learned to let it go a bit, but I’m still really bothered by it ... The more you are exposed, the more people irrationally hate you." The Times then wonders: will Pattinson's super-stardom lead him the way of Leonardo DiCaprio... or Christopher Atkins? (Remember him? No? Exactly.) In any case, with Eclipse out June 30th, Pattinson had better get used to talking about vampires. 'His Cross to Bear: Heartthrob Vampire' [NYT] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: twi-hard, heartthrobs, rob pattinson, robert pattinson, rpattz, twilight
Source: Vulture | 19 Jun 2010 | 1:04 pm Vatican Deems The Blues Brother a ‘Catholic Classic’ In the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the 1980 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, The Blues Brothers, has been declared "a Catholic classic" alongside The Ten Commandments and The Passion of the Christ. L'Osservatore editor Gian Maria Vian, who doubles as its film critic, apparently, cited the film's plot, in which two brothers battle "cops, neo-Nazis and crazed country fans in a bid to save the Catholic orphanage where they were raised," as his explanation. The Vatican's official reading of the film is that, "For [the Blues brothers] this Catholic institution is their only family. And they decide to save it at any cost." Aykroyd told the New York Post: "As a former altar boy from age 6 ... but a somewhat lapsed Catholic, I was delighted with the endorsement." Official Catholic ruling on Caddyshack II is still pending. 'Mission accomplished: Vatican blesses Blues Brothers' [NYP] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: vatican-approved, blues brothers, dan aykroyd, john belushi, l'osservatore romano, movies, the blues brothers, the vatican
Source: Vulture | 19 Jun 2010 | 12:50 pm Bethenny Getting Married?: Get the Hell Out After Dinner You know that moment in a relationship when you suddenly realize the woman you're about to marry may in fact be a mannequin you stole from Macy's? No? Then you haven't lived hard...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 12:37 pm 'Jonah Hex' Star Josh Brolin Calls Horse-Mounted Gatling Gun 'Funny' - MTV.com
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 12:19 pm Milan menswear opens out, in anniversary mood (Reuters)Reuters - Designers such as Italian duo Dolce & Gabbana and Belgian Dirk Bikkembergs are hoping to lure crisis-hit shoppers back by staging fashion events in Milan's most popular squares.Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 19 Jun 2010 | 12:04 pm BP CEO Tony Hayward Gets His Life Back With a Yacht Race BP CEO Tony Hayward took some time off from cleaning up the massive BP oil spill today in order to fulfill some obligations on his social calendar: He spent the day rooting for his his boat "Bob" in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round of a posh yacht race off the British isle of Wight. "It's a well-known event in the British calendar," BP spokesman Robert Wine said, defensively. "He's entitled to private time with his family. He's continuing to work hard. You don't have to be physically in a location to remain in charge of the response." [NYDN] Previously: BP CEO Tony Hayward Does Not Want His Life Back Anymore Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: tony hayward, bp, cleaning up, oil spill, yacht races, yachts
Source: Daily Intel | 19 Jun 2010 | 11:29 am 'Toy Story 3' lives up to its buzz with $41 million on opening dayfor moviegoers as the animated sequel heads to a $100-million-plus opening weekend. The latest hit from Disney's Pixar Animation took in $41 million in its first day Friday, according...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:42 am Showbiz-reporting vet Rona Barrett returns to tell all in one-woman showLOS ANGELES, Calif. - She spent a career getting close to showbiz legends -- then became one herself. Entertainment-reporting veteran Rona Barrett is sharing that story with...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:41 am Not a Single Japanese Movie Theatre Has Screened The Cove Owing to "online slanders, intimidating phone calls and veiled threats of violence" from Japan’s nationalist fringe, not a single movie theater in Japan has screened The Cove, Louie Psihoyos's popular 2009 documentary about dolphin-hunting in Japan. The film, which depicts dolphins being harpooned to death in a private lagoon in Taiji as a result of the aquarium trade and local meat market, also warns of dangerously high levels of mercury poisoning in fish. According to the Times:
Of course, there's always the Internet: "The service company Niwango plans a free streaming of the film on Friday, though for only 2,000 viewers." But the film's distributor is pushing for a theater run:
Now there's fear that the film will never be officially screened in Japan, but the lengths to which some are going to make that happen should certainly pique more interest in it. 'Japan’s Far Right Blocks Screenings of 'The Cove'' [NYT] Related: The Legacy of Flipper [NYM] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: the cove, banned, japan, louie psihoyos
Source: Vulture | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:34 am 'Toy Story 3' huge on Friday: $41M - Entertainment Weekly
Source: Entertainment - Google News | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:33 am 'Toy Story 3' lives up to buzz with $41M opener"Toy Story 3" has become the favorite plaything for moviegoers as the animated sequel heads to a $100-million-plus opening weekend. The latest hit from Disney's Pixar Animation took in...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:25 am 'Toy Story 3' lives up to buzz with $41M opener (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:25 am 'Toy Story 3' lives up to its buzz with $41M"Toy Story 3" has become the favorite plaything for moviegoers as the animated sequel heads to a $100-million-plus opening weekend. The latest hit from Disney's Pixar Animation took in...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:23 am Joran van der Sloot’s Mom: This ‘Stinks’ "He is not the monster they like the world to see. He is traumatized, depressed and has an addiction. He is not a murderer. It stinks and feels like a big trap set up for him ... Joran is sick in his head, but he didn't want help." —Anita van der Sloot, mother of Joran van der Sloot, who confessed to the May 30 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, and remains a prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, in a statement to De Telegraaf and ABC News last night. She added that her son "displayed signs of paranoia and blamed himself for his father’s unexpected death earlier this year." Joran Van der Sloot's Mom: My Son Is Sick in the Head [Fox NY] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: joran van der sloot, anita van der sloot, natalee holloway, statements made by mothers of accused murderers, stephany flores
Source: Daily Intel | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:07 am Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a timeIn real life he's a pharmacist, a polite young man who dispenses antibiotics and advice in a tiny Jalalabad shop barely 40 miles (60 kilometers) from where Osama bin Laden disappeared into...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:01 am Week in Review: How About Emma & Twilight, Miley & Perez, Jeremy London & Kidnapping? You've heard of The Lost Weekend.
Well, call this one the lost week for celebs such as Perez Hilton, who forgot that posting compromising pictures of kids is a freakin' felony,...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 10:00 am News groups pull coverage of Swedish royal wedding (Reuters)Reuters - Three news organizations pulled coverage of the wedding of Sweden's heir to the throne on Saturday, protesting restrictions set by a Swedish state broadcaster.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:32 am Motorcycle-Riding Republican Prepares to Let the Subpoenas Fly No laughing matter. If Republicans regain control of the House in midterm elections this fall, California Representative Darrell Issa is promising to "hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators" to make good on the accusations of corruption he's thrown at the Obama administration.
Issa is seen as a "clownish figure" by Democrats and even a few Republicans, Politico reports, but "a clown with subpoena power is no laughing matter."
Burton, who once called Bill Clinton a "scumbag," seems happy to pass the torch: "I’ll take somebody like Darrell Issa to milquetoast any day." 'Darrell Issa has eye on subpoena team' [Politico] Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: subpoena machine, california, corruption, darrell issa, hershey park
Source: Daily Intel | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:08 am Will the Emmys See Glee as a Comedy and Drama? Could Jane Lynch get an Emmy nom for comedy, while the more-and-more gloomy Glee is nominated as a drama?
—Bastiaan
As they say, sadly, no. From the official Emmy...
Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 19 Jun 2010 | 9:01 am Kilmer ruffles feathers in northern New MexicoNo words were minced in the 1993 Western film "Tombstone" when Ed Bailey tells slick gambler and gunslinger Doc Holliday _ played by actor Val Kilmer _ to scram after their poker game went...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:16 am Jason Stackhouse’s Abs: An Investigation Doin' it for Bon Temps. Last week, Deborah Ann Woll, who plays True Blood's fiery new vamp Jessica, admitted that Jim Parrack, who plays Hoyt Fortenberry, is her favorite man on the show, and now People has posed the same who's-the-hottest question to Carrie Preston, better known as True Blood's lovable waitress Arlene. "They are all gorgeous," she says diplomatically, but People pressed forward. "We all kind of marvel at Ryan's body," Preston admits, referring to Ryan Kwanten, who plays Anna Paquin's character's (generally) loyal, lovable brother Jason Stackhouse. "Because nobody is quite sure how he gets that body." How very interesting: In our recent interview with him, Kwanten left his abs a mystery, too: "Let’s stick to the acting ... I was hoping to change the subject enough to get away from that," he told us. Now we learn that even his co-stars don't know how he got those abs! Though there are some clues:
A bit of Googling turns up a June 2009 Muscle & Body cover story in which the actor admits to late-night runs on the beach: "Even when I’m working, I’ll go home and run on the soft sand at two in the morning," he said. He also cops to being a yoga fiend and a regular hiker. So there's that. In other True Blood news, perhaps one more man will be added to the mix, because Ben Linus is married to waitress Arlene!
Did Maryann ever mention a long-lost cousin stuck on a mythological island somewhere ... ? True Blood Star Debates Hit Show's Hottest Guys [TV Watch/People] Previously: True Blood's Ryan Kwanten on Playing Dumb-Yet-Lovable Jason Stackhouse Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: true abs, arlene fowler, carrie preston, jason stackhouse, michael emerson, ryan kwanten, true blood
Source: Vulture | 19 Jun 2010 | 8:06 am Saramago's body taken to Portugal for funeral (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Jun 2010 | 7:16 am Spurned by Citi Field, Lady Gaga Now Dancing at Yankees Games Just last week the New York Mets had to apologize to Jerry Seinfeld for reseating attention-grabbing pop tart Lady Gaga in Seinfeld's posh box seats at Citi Field, and now the singer is hitting back where it hurts: showing up at Yankees stadium while the Bombers played the Mets last night. This time Gaga donned nothing but her black bra and panties covered by a Yankees jersey, and she danced kind of awkwardly/awesomely (see photo) in a suite above the third-base side. Maybe the Mets one-upped her by beating Gaga's team 4–0 right in front of her, proving that her ritualistic dancing couldn't secure a Yankees win, but who knows what comforting words Gaga had to offer A-Rod after the game, when they reportedly met briefly! Oh we'll see who's laughing last here, New York Mets. Read more posts by Mike Vilensky Filed Under: just pants, alex rodriguez, lady gaga, new york mets, new york yankees
Source: Vulture | 19 Jun 2010 | 6:44 am Jil Sander's Psychedelic Designs (Fashion Wire Daily)
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