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Mar 15, 2011 6:07 AM CDT

Bob Dylan Gets First Gig in Vietnam

Legend expected to sell out 8,000-seat venue

(Newser) - Decades after making his name with Vietnam-era antiwar songs, Bob Dylan is set to perform in Vietnam for the first time, the AP reports. He’ll play in an 8,000-seat university stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, and planners expect the show to sell out. “Bob Dylan is...

Gilbert Gottfried Fired as Voice of Aflac Duck

Gilbert Gottfried Fired
for Tsunami Jokes

Mar 15, 2011 4:00 AM CDT

Gilbert Gottfried Fired for Tsunami Jokes

Aflac ditches comedian after tasteless tweets

(Newser) - Gilbert Gottfried has quacked his last for Aflac. The comedian, who has provided the grating voice for the insurance company's trademark duck, was fired for tweeting more than a dozen jokes making fun of earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, Failure Magazine reports. Sample: "Japan is very advanced. They...

Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino Is Gay, Says Ex-Jersey Shore Cast Member Angelina Pivarnick

Ex-Jersey Shore
Cast Member:
The Situation
Is Gay

Mar 15, 2011 3:00 AM CDT

Ex-Jersey Shore Cast Member: The Situation Is Gay

He's in the closet, says former housemate Angelina Pivarnick

(Newser) - "Boy code" on Jersey Shore has suddenly taken on an entirely new connotation. Sulky former clan member Angelina Pivarnick is claiming that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is really gay, though he may not realize it. "I think he's gay because of the way he talks and the...

Larry King and Daily Show with Jon Stewart in Talks

Larry King's
Next Gig: The
Daily Show?!

Mar 14, 2011 2:37 PM CDT

Larry King's Next Gig: The Daily Show?!

CNN legend in talks with Jon Stewart's crew

(Newser) - The Daily Show's in talks to add a new contributor to its stable—and you just might have heard of him. Larry King has talked with Comedy Central about joining Jon Stewart's snarky faux-news show, sources tells the New York Post . "A single conversation has happened," says one....

Jake Gyllenhaal Gets in Urinal Brawl at SXSW Film Festival

Gyllenhaal in
Urinal Brawl
at SXSW

Mar 14, 2011 1:02 PM CDT

Gyllenhaal in Urinal Brawl at SXSW

Jake doesn't want his picture taken in the bathroom, OK?

(Newser) - Apparently the best story coming out of the SXSW Film Festival involves Jake Gyllenhaal, a somewhat too obsessed fan, and a urinal. Journalist Erik Davis was one of many who first tweeted the rumor about Gyllenhaal going “all badass” on the fan who tried to take a picture of...

50 Cent's Japan Earthquake Tweets Anger Twitter Users

Celebs Busy
Tweeting Bad
Quake Jokes

UPDATED

Mar 14, 2011 10:46 AM CDT

Celebs Busy Tweeting Bad Quake Jokes

50 Cent says 'ignorant' tweets are just for 'shock value'

(Newser) - Add Gilbert Gottfried to the list of people who thought it would be a good idea to respond to the Japan earthquake ... by making tasteless jokes about it. Over the past 24 hours the comedian has tweeted 12, er, zingers, TMZ reports, among them: "I f***ed a girl in...

Clint Eastwood
Tsunami Film
Yanked in Japan

Mar 14, 2011 4:30 AM CDT

Clint Eastwood Tsunami Film Yanked in Japan

Distributor calls 'Hereafter' 'not appropriate' now

(Newser) - Clint Eastwood's latest film, Hereafter, which has scenes of a tsunami destroying a Thai village, has been yanked from theaters in Japan following the nation's catastrophic earthquake. Hereafter opened in Japan late last month, and had been scheduled to play until the end of March. The film's distributor, Warner Entertainment,...

Alec Baldwin: Hey, Sheen, Beg for Your Job Back

OPINION

Mar 13, 2011 3:32 PM CDT

Alec Baldwin: Hey, Sheen, Beg for Your Job Back

Because when it comes to studio execs, 'you can't win'

(Newser) - Alec Baldwin has a message for recently fired Charlie Sheen: When it comes to studio executives, “You can't win. Really. You can't,” he writes on the Huffington Post . In light of that stark fact, he also has some advice for Sheen: “Take a nap. Get a shower....

Charlie Sheen
Takes Show
on the Road

Mar 12, 2011 8:47 AM CST

Charlie Sheen Takes Show on the Road

Crazyman has 'Violent Torpedo of Truth' for you

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen is testing out whether his particular brand of crazy is road-worthy: The warlock has announced two dates for "Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth" in Chicago and Detroit. Details are sketchy, reports the Chicago Tribune , but the "comedy" will set you back a minimum...

Charlie Sheen
'Wins' at Cooking

Mar 11, 2011 10:39 AM CST

Charlie Sheen 'Wins' at Cooking

Debuts Charlie Sheen's 'Winning Recipes' on Funny or Die

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen’s latest antics have expanded past "Sheen’s Korner" with his own cooking show on Funny or Die . On "Winning Recipes," Sheen wears an orange, tiger-striped chef’s hat and an apron emblazoned with "WINNING," and explains that he plans to be the...

Justin, Jessica Break Up

Mar 11, 2011 9:25 AM CST

Justin, Jessica Break Up

Reps confirm couple's split

(Newser) - Justin Timberlake is a single man: Reps for JT and Jessica Biel confirm the erstwhile couple is no more. A source had previously told TMZ the break-up was mutual and that JT and Jess, who had been together since 2007, still “love and respect each other.” In a...

Police Raid
Charlie Sheen's
Mansion

updated

Mar 11, 2011 1:45 AM CST

Police Raid Charlie Sheen's Mansion

Still 'winning,' Sheen tweets

(Newser) - Police raided Charlie Sheen's house last night after receiving an alarming tip that the troubled actor was armed and threatening to hurt himself, reports TMZ . Cops found a rifle from the 1800s and "a few bullets," according to Sheen's attorney. They confiscated the gun, but left without arresting...

Sheen Sues Lorre,
WB for $100M

Mar 10, 2011 1:48 PM CST

Sheen Sues Lorre, WB for $100M

Suit claims Lorre made Sheen a 'scapegoat'

(Newser) - Hell hath no fury like Charlie Sheen scorned —he's suing Warner Bros. and his arch-nemesis Chuck Lorre for the amount he and the crew would've made on the eight episodes of Two and a Half Men that had yet to be made—a whopping $100 million, TMZ reports. The...

Vivid to Sheen:
Make a Porno!

'TWO AND A HALF WOMEN'

Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM CST

Vivid to Sheen: Make a Porno!

Because the world needed this...

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen's big on pulling crazy crap these days, so why not add to his resume? Steven Hirsch of adult film factory Vivid Entertainment writes the actor/crazyman a letter saying, “We think it would be great if you would come in and direct" its next movie "within the...

It's Time for
Celeb Rehab
to Go Away

OPINION

Mar 10, 2011 11:19 AM CST

It's Time for Celeb Rehab to Go Away

Dr. Drew Pinsky 'is not helping anyone'

(Newser) - With the death of Mike Starr, a former Celebrity Rehab participant, the time has come to talk about why the show needs to be shut down. No, not because of Starr’s death—“If every recovery center had to close down after a former patient relapsed and died, we'd...

The Wire's 'Snoop' Busted
in Baltimore Drug Raids

Mar 10, 2011 10:09 AM CST

The Wire's 'Snoop' Busted in Baltimore Drug Raids

Along with 30 others; HBO actress has other arrests in her past

(Newser) - Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, best known for her role as a drug dealer's hitman on HBO’s The Wire, was arrested along with more than 30 others this morning during raids on a large heroin and marijuana operation in Baltimore. Police, DEA agents, and other officials carried out the pre-dawn...

Director Julie Taymor Booted From Spider-Man Musical

Mar 10, 2011 8:35 AM CST

Director Julie Taymor Booted From Spider-Man Musical

Official word is she's too busy, but friends say she was forced out

(Newser) - After days of rumors , the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark made the official announcement last night: Director Julie Taymor is out. The problem-plagued musical has also been delayed yet again, this time until “early summer 2011,” according to the show’s blog . Taymor has been replaced...

Daily Show:
Abortion Is Just
Like Slavery?

Mar 10, 2011 8:08 AM CST

Daily Show: Abortion Is Just Like Slavery?

Wilmore: If pro-lifers want to help black people, ban Tyler Perry

(Newser) - “The pro-life movement is using the black community to make their point, equating abortion with slavery,” noted Jon Stewart last night. Fortunately for Stewart, the Daily Show has the two perfect people to offer some perspective on the issue: “senior women’s affairs correspondent Kristen Schaal and...

Julianne
Moore
to Play
Sarah
Palin

Mar 10, 2011 4:21 AM CST

Julianne Moore to Play Sarah Palin

Moore playing Wasillan in HBO's Game Change

(Newser) - Maybe Tina Fey was busy. HBO has announced that it has signed Julianne Moore to play Sarah Palin in its upcoming film Game Change, based on the best-selling book that dished behind-the-scenes dirt on the 2008 presidential campaign. No word yet on who'll be playing John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary...

Charlie Sheen's Not Crazy— He Actually Liberated Us

OPINION

Mar 9, 2011 12:41 PM CST

Charlie Sheen's Not Crazy— He Actually Liberated Us

We should probably thank him for his 'astute analysis'

(Newser) - In between all the shouting about “tiger blood” and “Adonis DNA,” Charlie Sheen has also managed to spout off some “reasonably astute analysis” lately, writes Neal Gabler in the Los Angeles Times . Before you react with a shocked “wha huh?!” consider this: By revealing...