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Angelina Back at Work After Bumping Noggin on Set

(Newser) - Angelina Jolie is back at work on the Long Island set of Salt after bumping her head and being rushed to the hospital this morning, People reports. "As a precautionary measure, Ms. Jolie will be taken to the hospital and examined," Columbia Pictures said in a statement. Jolie,...

Bitter Parker: 'I Was Goaded Into Nude Weeds Scene'

Producer insists it showed 'vulnerability'

(Newser) - Annoyed Weeds star Mary Louise Parker was "goaded" into a nude bathtub scene in the Showtime series about a pot-selling mom, she tells More. "I don't think I needed to be naked," she said. "I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter....

Farrah: 'It's Time for a Miracle'

(Newser) - Cancer-wracked actress Farrah Fawcett is praying for "a miracle" now that she has exhausted conventional medical treatments, reports the New York Post. "I want to stay alive, so I say to God, it is seriously time for a miracle," said Fawcett. "I know that everyone will...

Sykes, Wife Have Twins
 Sykes, Wife Have Twins 

Sykes, Wife Have Twins

(Newser) - Wanda Sykes is the talk of Washington after her gig at the White House correspondents dinner, but it turns out she's also a mom of newborn twins. Sykes' wife, Alex, gave birth to daughter Olivia Lou and son Lucas Claude on April 27. "All are happy and healthy and...

Fawcett: False Tab Reports Add Pain to Cancer

Actress describes sting designed to catch leakers to Enquirer

(Newser) - Farrah Fawcett’s battle with the prying media runs a close second to her battle with cancer. In an August interview with the Los Angeles Times published today, the actress slammed the National Enquirer’s often-inaccurate reporting of her condition and describes a sting she and her doctors designed to...

Winslet Sues Tabloid for Libel

(Newser) - Steaming over an article that called her "the world's most irritating actress," Kate Winslet has sued a British tabloid for libel, the BBC reports. The Oscar winner was "distressed and embarrassed" by the Daily Mail's coverage of an interview in which she discussed her fitness regimen...

'Imperious' Arthur Was a 'Thunderbolt'
 'Imperious' Arthur 
 Was a 'Thunderbolt' 
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'Imperious' Arthur Was a 'Thunderbolt'

Comedian broke new ground in Maude , Golden Girls

(Newser) - Bea Arthur may not have been television’s most iconic actress, “but no woman ever made so many people so happy by being so imperious, so decisive, so just plain bossy,” Ken Tucker writes in Entertainment Weekly. No one defied or upstaged her on Maude or Golden Girls,...

Golden Girl Bea Arthur Dead at 86

TV legend made a career out of playing acerbic heroines

(Newser) - Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girls, died today at age of 86. Arthur, who had cancer, died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side. “...

Bond Girl? No Thanks, Says Pinto

Role doesn't fit in-demand actress's image

(Newser) - Despite producers’ wishes, Freida Pinto won’t be 007’s next love interest, reports the Boston Globe, via Bang Showbiz. It’s “not the kind of image she wants to project,” a source says. “She's been inundated with offers following the success of Slumdog. Because of this,...

Richardson a Superb Artist of Own Making

Late actress commanded a presence that went far beyond mere inheritance

(Newser) - Natasha Richardson had the finest theater pedigree possible, but her stage presence owed itself to far more than her acting genes, Lisa Schwarzbaum writes in Entertainment Weekly. Her upbringing in the theater—and those famous Redgrave cheekbones—were plainly visible, but the late actress had an aura of competence and...

Richardson Dead at 45
 Richardson Dead at 45 

Richardson Dead at 45

(Newser) - Natasha Richardson, a gifted and precocious heiress to acting royalty whose career highlights included the film Patty Hearst and a Tony-winning performance in a stage revival of Cabaret, died yesterday at age 45 after suffering a head injury during a ski lesson. It was a sudden and horrifying loss for...

Richardson Off Life Support
 Richardson Off Life Support 

Richardson Off Life Support

(Newser) - Natasha Richardson's family has taken the actress off life support, the New York Post reports. Family members including husband Liam Neeson, her two children, and her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, were standing vigil by her hospital bedside. Richardson, 45, suffered a critical brain injury in a ski accident two days ago....

Mandy Moore Gets Hitched to Singer Ryan Adams

(Newser) - Mandy Moore and rocker Ryan Adams married yesterday at a small ceremony in Savannah, Ga., reports Perez Hilton. The 24-year-old actress confirmed her engagement to Adams, 34, just last month; they’d been dating about a year. In the April issue of Marie Claire, the License to Wed star calls...

America's Sweetheart Headed for Heartbreak
America's Sweetheart Headed for Heartbreak
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America's Sweetheart Headed for Heartbreak

Julia's box-office reign may be long gone

(Newser) - Mercy! Hollywood’s original Pretty Woman may already have her best days behind her, Ramin Setoodeh writes in Newsweek. After 5 years spent raising her children, Julia Roberts is returning to theaters in Duplicity, sporting her infectious laugh and adorably toothy smile. “But this may be the last time...

Gwyneth: Goop Haters Just Don't Get It

(Newser) - Back off, Goop detractors. Gwyneth Paltrow is tired of people sniping about her advice-dispensing website. "I think the people who are criticizing it or criticizing the idea of it, don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it," Paltrow tells People. The latest salvo came...

Winslet: No More Nudity
 Winslet: 
 No More Nudity 

Winslet: No More Nudity

(Newser) - Kate Winslet has never been shy about removing her clothes in film, from her breakthrough in Titanic to her current role in The Reader. But the 33-year-old tells Time that those days may be behind her. "I think I won't do it again," she says. "A) I...

Naked Stars Win 'Anatomy Awards'

Oscar-nominated Winslet, Tomei among winners

(Newser) - Forget the Academy Awards: Nominated actresses Marisa Tomei and Kate Winslet have already nabbed an Anatomy Award for their skin-tillating roles, the New York Daily News reports. Celeb nudity site MrSkin.com awarded Tomei “Best Oscar-Nominated Nudity,” while Winslet can boast the “Lifetime Skinchievement Award.” Other...

Dietrich Was Camelot's Other Woman



 Dietrich Was 
 Camelot's 
 Other Woman 
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Dietrich Was Camelot's Other Woman

Sex siren enjoyed long-running affair with Kennedys

(Newser) - Marlene Dietrich had a peculiar effect on many of the world’s most accomplished and respected men: She turned them into bumbling adolescents. But the German screen siren, who entranced everyone from Frank Sinatra to Adlai Stevenson, enjoyed a special relationship with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy when their families summered together...

Born In The Spotlight
 Born In The Spotlight 

Born In The Spotlight

Actor kids take up family biz

(Newser) - Some strive for the spotlight. Others are simply born into it. From Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s brood of young actors (daughter Kate Hudson and sons Oliver Hudson and Wyatt Russell) to Jane and Peter Fonda (spawn of Henry), the second-generation stars in this Vanity Fair collection were all...

Ay, Caramba! Bart Makes Robo-Call for Scientology

Actress who provides cartoon icon's voice uses it to plug controversial church

(Newser) - Actress Nancy Cartwright’s affiliation with Scientology has escaped public notice for the most part, but those days could be over. Cartwright, the voice of Bart on The Simpsons, is featured on a robo-call announcing a church event, the Village Voice reports. The actress peppers the invitation to the “...

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