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Kabbalah Centre at Heart of Tax Probe

Ex-CFO aims to 'bring down' operation

(Newser) - The Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles is taking center stage as details emerge on a federal probe involving two of Madonna’s charities . The IRS is investigating whether the family in charge of the organization used its nonprofit dollars for personal gain, sources tell the Los Angeles Times . The Berg...

Paul McCartney Engaged to Girlfriend Nancy Shevell
 Paul McCartney Gets Engaged 
May 6, 2011 12:10 PM CDT

Paul McCartney Gets Engaged

He pops question to longtime girlfriend Nancy Shevell

(Newser) - Paul McCartney is giving marriage another chance. He's now engaged to his longtime girlfriend , New York businesswoman Nancy Shevell, sources tell People . It's marriage No. 3 for the former Beatle, and the engagement comes about three years after his uber-nasty divorce from Heather Mills. McCartney's fashion designer...

Lindsay's New Guardian Angel: John Travolta?

Actor plans to make her a Scientologist

(Newser) - Just what Lindsay Lohan needs: a new religion! John Travolta has decided to take the troubled starlet under his wing and introduce her to Scientology, Showbiz Spy reports. Travolta and Lohan are both starring in an upcoming movie about the Gotti family , but LiLo only snagged her spot because Travolta...

Draft-Dodging Refaeli Poses Topless in Army Helmet

Israeli model's 'GQ' cover is kinda ironic

(Newser) - Bar Refaeli allegedly dodged the draft in Israel via a sham marriage —which makes her recent cover shoot for GQ Italia rather ironic. The Israeli model poses topless, wearing an army helmet, seven years after she escaped mandatory national service in the Israeli Defense Forces. The Daily Mail has...

James Dishes on Bullock ... as Lover

TMI alert: He's having more fun now

(Newser) - Leave it to Howard Stern to pull the really TMI remarks out of Jesse James. On his radio show yesterday, the shock jock asked James who's "more fun" in bed: James' wronged ex, Sandra Bullock, or new fiancée Kat Von D. "That one's an easy...

12 Famous May-December Couples

ScarJo, Sean certainly not the first

(Newser) - Scarlett Johansson's PDA-heavy romance with 24-years-older Sean Penn is making headlines, but it's far from the first May-December romance in Hollywood history. The Daily Beast rounds up 11 more:
  • Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart: Flockhart, 22 years younger than Ford, says she sometimes forgets their age difference: "
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Uma Films Really Bizarre Ad for Schweppes

She has to have Schweppes all the time

(Newser) - There's seemingly no end to the stream of strange commercials celebrities are willing to put out overseas. Jezebel calls this particular example—which features Uma Thurman talking about how she likes to have, ahem, Schweppes all the time, with strangers, at home, and in taxis—"just ... weird."...

Rob Lowe: I Flew on 9/11 Terrorists’ Dry Run

Actor was on DC-to-LA practice flight, noticed nothing awry

(Newser) - While Rob Lowe was playing Sam Seaborn on the West Wing, he found himself in a real-life DC drama—albeit unwittingly. Lowe often took the same flight from DC to LA, and 11 days before the Sept. 11 attacks, he ended up flying on a "dry run" with the...

How Did Ex-Playmate Turn Into a Mummy?

Arid climate, lack of moisture all helped

(Newser) - How did Yvette Vickers, former Playboy playmate and cult horror film star, turn into a real-life mummy ? After all, she didn't have anyone to wrap her in linen bandages. But mummification does not actually refer to the process undertaken by ancient Egyptians—it refers to the effect that...

Scarlett, Penn Can't Keep Hands Off Each Other

They reportedly go PDA crazy at correspondents dinner

(Newser) - The May-November romance of sexy celebs Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn is heating up. The two reportedly engaged in a slightly disconcerting super-hot make-out session smack dab in the middle of the White House Correspondents Dinner over the weekend. Scarlett, 26, couldn't keep her paws off 50-year-old Sean, even...

Tony Award Nominations Are Out, and Hollywood Got Snubbed
 Tony Awards Snub Hollywood 
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May 3, 2011 10:00 AM CDT

Tony Awards Snub Hollywood

Daniel Radcliffe, other big names miss out on nominations

(Newser) - Last year's Tony Awards saw a plethora of Hollywood winners— to the annoyance of some —but this year looks to be a different story. Quite a few big names were skipped over when nominations were announced today, most notably former frontrunner Daniel Radcliffe for How to Succeed in ...

Ex-Playmate Found in Home, Mummified

Yvette Vickers had apparently been dead for nearly a year

(Newser) - Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, was found dead in her Los Angeles home last week, the Times reports. A neighbor, concerned when she noticed yellowing letters and cobwebs collecting in Vickers' mailbox, found the 82-year-old woman's mummified body. Police say she could have been dead...

Celebs Walk Costume Gala Red Carpet

Sadly, no bunny ears in sight this year

(Newser) - Last year, there was a light-up dress ; in 2009, Madonna wore a kooky hat . From the looks of it, this year's Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala was not quite as crazy, but there were definitely some interesting looks. PopEater calls last night's fete "the year'...

Confederate Flag-Loving Kid Rock Wins NAACP Award

Members protest, but rocker accepts and insists, 'I love black people'

(Newser) - Despite his frequent use of Confederate flag imagery onstage, Kid Rock was presented with an award from the NAACP yesterday. The rocker accepted the Detroit NAACP's Great Expectations Award as 50 NAACP members picketed outside the awards dinner, Rolling Stone reports. Angry members urged a boycott and protest in...

Lady Gaga, Elton John, and More Famous Godparents

Really, just imagine having Gaga as a godmother

(Newser) - What with her meat dresses and egg chariots, Lady Gaga has all the makings of a kooky godmother. Gaga, who is exactly that to Elton John's son, is just one of the celebrity godparents rounded up in a Daily Beast slideshow:
  • Elton John: In a tight-knit circle o' godparents,
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Steven Tyler: Joe Perry and I Were ‘Snorting Everything’

But nowadays, all he needs is 'American Idol'

(Newser) - Steven Tyler graces two magazine covers this week, waxing nostalgic about "snorting everything" a few years back in Rolling Stone while telling People how he gets high nowadays, even without drugs. When Aerosmith tried to record a new album a couple years ago, Tyler and Joe Perry did drugs...

5 Bizarre Things Celebs Tussled Over in Divorce

Would you want Charlie Sheen's sperm?

(Newser) - Fighting over money and property is par for the course in a celebrity divorce. But these five couples, compiled by the Huffington Post , took things a step further:
  • Stephanie Seymour and Peter Brant: The nude bust they fought over was in Seymour's image, but it was commissioned by Brant.
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Terminator 5, Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? Maybe
 Coming Soon: Terminator 5? 
Apr 27, 2011 10:28 AM CDT

Coming Soon: Terminator 5?

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? He did say 'I'll be back,' after all

(Newser) - Terminator 5, starring the Governator? It's a possibility: CAA, which represents Arnold Schwarzenegger, is shopping around a package that includes rights to a new sequel, according to the Hollywood Reporter . The movie would be the fifth in the franchise and, in addition to starring Schwarzenegger, would be directed by...

Kate Hudson Engaged to Matt Bellamy
 Kate Hudson: 'I'm Engaged!' 
Apr 27, 2011 8:50 AM CDT

Kate Hudson: 'I'm Engaged!'

Apparently it took the media an entire week to notice

(Newser) - Kate Hudson is engaged to musician Matt Bellamy, and has apparently been able to hide her huge rock for an entire week. But she couldn't hide it on Today , where Matt Lauer finally noticed it nearly three minutes into their discussion of Hudson's pregnancy. "I'm engaged!...

Why We're Fascinated by the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton: Anne Applebaum
 Why Wills and 
 Kate Fascinate Us 
OPINION
Apr 26, 2011 1:45 PM CDT

Why Wills and Kate Fascinate Us

They're victims of an inescapable fate—but they seem happy anyway

(Newser) - Even to those of us with no plans to sit through the royal wedding, Prince William and Kate Middleton are intriguing. “My friend is not a royal watcher or a tabloid reader. Neither am I,” writes Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post . Yet both were familiar with Kate’...

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