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Kiefer Sutherland Stars in Hulu Thriller 'The Confession'

Kiefer Sutherland
Stars in Hulu
Web Thriller

Mar 31, 2011 3:21 AM CDT

Kiefer Sutherland Stars in Hulu Web Thriller

Online serial The Confession debuts

(Newser) - Kiefer Sutherland is starring in a new series, but you won't find it on traditional TV. The 24 star plays a hit man trying to save his soul in The Confession, an online serial that made its debut on Hulu this week, reports the Independent . The series—consisting of ten...

Paris Hilton: I've Achieved All My Professional Goals

Paris: I've
Achieved All
My Career Goals

Mar 30, 2011 10:48 AM CDT

Paris: I've Achieved All My Career Goals

How nice for her

(Newser) - Well, isn’t this nice? In a new interview with the AP , Paris Hilton says she has achieved all her professional goals, by the ripe old age of 30. "I have done everything that I wanted to do and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful...

Perez Hilton Writing Children's Book, 'The Boy With Pink Hair'

Perez Hilton
Writing a ...
Kids' Book?

Mar 30, 2011 10:00 AM CDT

Perez Hilton Writing a ... Kids' Book?

Apparently someone thought that was a good idea

(Newser) - Who better than Perez Hilton, famous conveyor of at least one underage upskirt photo , to write a children’s book? The gossip blogger’s The Boy With Pink Hair seems to be in keeping with his recent decision to start being nice : According to Penguin, the titular boy (who has...

Jon Stewart Slams President Obama's Libya Speech (Daily Show Video)

Stewart Slams
Obama's Libya Speech

Mar 30, 2011 9:24 AM CDT

Stewart Slams Obama's Libya Speech

What was up with the anger—and unanswered questions?

(Newser) - “Ten days after we started bombing Libya, President Obama took to the podium to convince Americans that we should … bomb Libya. Starting 10 days ago,” noted Jon Stewart last night. The speech may have been basically well-received , but not by Stewart: First of all, the president seemed...

Oprah Winfrey to Donald Trump: Let Me Give You a Makeover

Oprah to Trump:
Let Me Give You
a Makeover

Mar 30, 2011 8:47 AM CDT

Oprah to Trump: Let Me Give You a Makeover

Well, really, that hair...

(Newser) - What better way to end Oprah Winfrey’s show than by … giving Donald Trump a haircut! That’s what the talk show queen has in mind for one of her final episodes, the New York Post reports. In an emailed invitation to the Donald, Winfrey’s people reportedly promise...

Lowe: Charlie and I
Had Partying Contest

'vanity fair'

Mar 29, 2011 10:56 AM CDT

Lowe: Charlie and I Had Partying Contest

Guess who won...

(Newser) - Rob Lowe and Charlie Sheen were good buddies back in the '80s, so obviously the "winning" actor comes up during Lowe's Vanity Fair cover-story interview. Turns out they used to compete "to see who could play harder, then show up for work and still kick ass," Lowe...

Foxy Brown Booted From Cruise Over Manicure Meltdown

Foxy Brown Booted From Cruise Over Manicure Mess

Mar 29, 2011 9:10 AM CDT

Foxy Brown Booted From Cruise Over Manicure Mess

Rapper had to fly home from Cayman Islands

(Newser) - Foxy Brown does not have a good track record when it comes to beauty salons. The rapper was kicked off a Royal Caribbean cruise over a nail-related meltdown, TMZ reports. Brown, who had performed the day before the incident, showed up three hours late to a manicure appointment on the...

Stewart: No Taxes
for GE? I Give Up

Mar 29, 2011 5:58 AM CDT

Stewart: No Taxes for GE? I Give Up

Worse, President Obama doesn't seem to care, he notes

(Newser) - The GOP often argues that "we're making it harder and harder for good, honest corporate citizens to create jobs here" thanks to a stiff corporate tax rate, Jon Stewart noted last night . "Can you blame a company like GE for not wanting to do business in America when...

DWTS Host: I'd Better Not Interview Brown Tonight

Mar 29, 2011 5:24 AM CDT

DWTS Host: I'd Better Not Interview Brown Tonight

Tom Bergeron says he can't promise to avoid mentioning meltdown

(Newser) - Chris Brown will appear as planned on Dancing with the Stars tonight, but host Tom Bergeron says producers shouldn't expect him to interview the singer unless they want to see someone bust a window. Bergeron says he can't promise to avoid mentioning Brown's well-publicized temper tantrum following his Good Morning ...

Letters Spill
Details of
Liz Taylor's
First Love

Mar 28, 2011 7:57 PM CDT

Letters Spill Details of Liz Taylor's First Love

17-year-old was engaged to William Pawley

(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor is famed for becoming a bride eight times over, but more than 60 love letters reveal a romance that predated all of those: Unpublished letters written by a 17-year-old Taylor to her first fiance will be auctioned in May. The young starlet wrote to William Pawley on pale...

Black Swan
Drama: How
Much Did Natalie
Really Dance?

Mar 28, 2011 4:25 AM CDT

Black Swan Drama: How Much Did Natalie Really Dance?

Natalie Portman 'can't move,' squawks dancer-double Sarah Lane

(Newser) - Uh-oh. The black swan is emerging in the ballet dancer who doubled for actress Natalie Portman. Sarah Lane, a performer with the American Ballet Theatre, now says she performed some 95% of the "full body shot" dances in Black Swan. "I would say 5% are Natalie," says...

Europe
Censors
Simpsons
Nuke Gags

Mar 28, 2011 3:24 AM CDT

Europe Censors Simpsons Nuke Gags

Episode 'On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister' is yanked

(Newser) - European nations are beginning to yank any Simpsons episodes including nuclear gags in deference to the ongoing catastrophe in Japan. Broadcasters in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany are checking though upcoming episodes of the popular cartoon, which often features near-doomsday accidents at the nuclear reactor workplace of the series' beloved buffoon...

Hip Hopper DJ Megatron
Shot Dead in NY

Mar 28, 2011 2:42 AM CDT

Hip Hopper DJ Megatron Shot Dead in NY

BET regular was dissed online over unpaid debt

(Newser) - Rising hip hop star DJ Megatron was shot dead yesterday while walking to a Staten Island store to buy a cheap cigar. "It's earth-shattering," says his mom. "He was our golden child." Megatron, whose real name was Corey McGriff, got his start on local Hot 97...

Reese Walks the Aisle

Mar 27, 2011 5:25 AM CDT

Reese Walks the Aisle

Star of Legally Blonde married an a celebrity-filled ceremony

(Newser) - Reese Witherspoon walked the aisle for the second time yesterday, marrying talent agent Jim Toth in a ceremony on her ranch of Ojai, Calif. About 120 guests attended the wedding, including Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr, and Matthew McConaughey, as well as her two children with first husband Ryan Phillippe....

John Daly's Ex-Wife Dishes on Sex, Golf, and 16th Hole

Mar 26, 2011 8:14 AM CDT

John Daly's Ex-Wife Dishes on Sex, Golf, and 16th Hole

And you thought Tiger was a golfer gone wild

(Newser) - Hell hath no fury like a golfer's wife spurned, and Sherrie Daly has a new book out giving her philandering ex more than a little hell, reports the New York Post. The fourth ex-wife of hard-drinking, chain-smoking golfer John Daly dishes on the temptations of the PGA tour, their nine-year...

Lindsay Cutting
'Lohan' From
Her Name

Mar 25, 2011 9:48 AM CDT

Lindsay Cutting 'Lohan' From Her Name

LiLo becomes ... Li?

(Newser) - Is Lindsay Lohan about to join the ranks of Madonna, Cher, and Beyonce? If her mother is to be believed, yes. Dina Lohan has confirmed to PopEater that Lindsay intends to drop "Lohan" from her name and just go by Lindsay. "Plus, me and Ali will be officially...

In Death, Taylor Reveals James Dean's Dark Secret

Mar 25, 2011 9:20 AM CDT

In Death, Taylor Reveals James Dean's Dark Secret

Her close friend and co-star was molested as a child, she claimed

(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor knew a painful secret about close friend James Dean—but, in a 1997 interview with Kevin Sessums, she asked the journalist not to reveal it until after her death. In a column for the Daily Beast , Sessums recalls that interview for POZ, a magazine dedicated to AIDS activism....

Remember
Taylor as
She Was:
In Bed

OPINION

Mar 24, 2011 1:56 PM CDT

Remember Taylor as She Was: In Bed

Screen legend managed to be prostrate in nearly every movie

(Newser) - We remember John Wayne in the saddle, Brigitte Bardot on the sand—and as for Elizabeth Taylor, we’ll remember her on a bed, writes Tim Robey in the Telegraph . Somehow, she managed to sprawl over soft furniture in “most of her key roles,” he notes. “One...

Chris Brown:
'I Had to Release
the Anger Inside'

Mar 24, 2011 9:10 AM CDT

Chris Brown: 'I Had to Release the Anger Inside'

He apologizes ... which makes everything better, right?

(Newser) - Chris Brown is sorry for yelling, tearing his shirt off, and throwing a chair into a window after a Good Morning America interview on Tuesday. Of course, it's not all his fault he got so angry. ABC didn't stick to the "talking points" set forth by his camp, he...

Elizabeth Taylor:
Oh, Those Eyes

appreciation

Mar 23, 2011 12:52 PM CDT

Elizabeth Taylor: Oh, Those Eyes

Kenneth Turan: She mesmerized us from the get-go

(Newser) - For Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan, an indelible image of Elizabeth Taylor comes early in her career in A Place in the Sun, filmed when she was just 17. "The actress' face in huge close-up is so exquisitely, so heartbreakingly beautiful you never doubt that (Montgomery) Clift's...