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Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dead at 64
Actor Pete Postlethwaite
Dead at 64
obituary
Jan 3, 2011 10:45 AM CST

Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dead at 64

Oscar nominee had been battling cancer

(Newser) - Pete Postlethwaite, who received an Oscar nomination for his role as Daniel Day-Lewis' character's father in In the Name of the Father, died yesterday at 64 after a long cancer fight. Most recently, the English actor had appeared in Inception and Ben Affleck’s The Town. He was also politically...

Meet the Justin Bieber Lookalike Storming the Web

Jamie Laou already has 50,000 Twitter followers

(Newser) - Apparently, all it takes to earn your very own set of tween groupies these days is an eerie likeness to Justin Bieber. That’s what 17-year-old Australian high school student Jamie Laou has going for him. Laou went from a random Twitter user in July to, this weekend, a worldwide...

Mila Kunis Splits With Macaulay Culkin

Sources say they broke it off a while back, kept it quiet

(Newser) - Wait: Mila Kunis and Macaulay Culkin were dating? And for seven years no less? Yeah, we had sort of forgotten about the couple, too—and now they're no longer a couple. The pair of former child stars have suffered an “amicable” split, a rep for Kunis tells the New ...

Zsa Zsa Gabor to Lose Her Leg
Zsa Zsa Gabor
to Lose Her Leg
Jan 3, 2011 6:26 AM CST

Zsa Zsa Gabor to Lose Her Leg

Cancerous lesion turned gangrenous, says husband

(Newser) - Zsa Zsa Gabor is back in the hospital—this time to have her right leg amputated below the knee. The actress, who was in and out of the hospital last year after a fall that led to hip surgery , has a cancerous lesion on her leg that turned gangrenous, husband...

Portman: I Thought Black Swan Would Kill Me

Grueling regimen just a taste of what real dancers go through

(Newser) - With her punishing schedule, 8-hour daily rehearsals, and 20-pound weight loss on an almonds-and-carrots diet, Natalie Portman feared her training for the critically acclaimed ballet film Black Swan might kill her, reports the Independent . "There were some nights that I thought I literally was going to die," says...

Chuck Berry Collapses at Concert
Chuck Berry
Collapses at Concert
Jan 3, 2011 2:22 AM CST

Chuck Berry Collapses at Concert

He tells fans he has no strength to continue

(Newser) - Rock-and-roll king Chuck Berry collapsed at a Chicago concert Saturday night and had to be helped off stage. Berry suddenly slumped head-first onto his keyboard mid-performance and didn't move for several minutes. Promoters said he was suffering from nothing more than exhaustion, but the rocker is pushing 85. The author...

Oprah Winfrey Network Is Same Old 'Reality TV Dreck'

The talk show queen missed a real opportunity

(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey is legendary—and considering she “literally changed the face of daytime television,” it’s really too bad that her new network serves up a bunch of “voyeuristic dreck,” writes Jennifer E. Mabry on The Root . Instead of “ambitious, adventurous, and creative” programming, we...

Oprah Winfrey Network Launches
The Oprah Winfrey Network
Is Here
Jan 1, 2011 2:34 PM CST

The Oprah Winfrey Network Is Here

But it's mostly previews until Monday

(Newser) - As the world battled its New Year’s Eve hangover , Oprah Winfrey celebrated 2011 by launching her highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey Network , or OWN. The Discovery Health Channel officially turned into OWN today at noon, the New York Times reports. Winfrey welcomed viewers and called it “very exciting” to...

Inside Hefner's Not-Exactly-Romantic Proposal

It involved ... a 'Little Mermaid' music box

(Newser) - The story of Hugh Hefner’s Christmas Eve proposal to 60-years-younger galpal Crystal Harris just keeps getting more and more romantic. Turns out he didn’t actually ask her to marry him, he just handed her a Little Mermaid music box (yep, really) that was holding the ring, and said,...

Michelle Williams 'Proud' of Oral Sex Scene

Original NC-17 rating felt like a 'slap'

(Newser) - Michelle Williams is pretty pleased with the oral sex scene that originally earned her film Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating . "I thought, 'I've never seen that before in a movie and I'm proud to be the first. Good on us for making that happen,’” she tells Reuters...

Rupert Everett Slams Jen's 'Tasteless' Rom-Com Flops

British actor doesn't see why she's still famous

(Newser) - Rupert Everett is not a member of Team Jen. Talking to the BBC, the British actor bemoaned the fact that Jennifer Aniston is still a Hollywood A-lister despite less-than-stellar films, Us reports. Aniston “will have one too many total flops, but she's still a member of that club,"...

30 Rock : TV's Least Ethical Show
30 Rock: TV's
Least Ethical Show
Dec 30, 2010 10:01 AM CST

30 Rock: TV's Least Ethical Show

Sitcom racks up 11 ethical violations per episode

(Newser) - If the employees on 30 Rock were real, they’d be in serious trouble. The NBC show is the biggest offender when it comes to depicting ethical violations in the workplace, CNN reports. Incidents like Alec Baldwin’s character referring to a “chick lawyer” who’s “asking for...

Jailed Teen Mom Makes How Much Money?!

Amber Portwood brings in $280K, shockingly

(Newser) - Welcome to the 21st century: Amber Portwood, the 20-year-old who got pregnant at 16, landed a reality show with her baby, and was recently jailed for allegedly beating her babydaddy , makes a lot more money than most of us will ever see. A judge ordered Portwood to reveal her annual...

'Oscar-Worthy' YouTube Snow Video Wows Roger Ebert

Crystalline film show 'extraordinary talent,' gushes critic

(Newser) - One of the gazillions of snow storm videos shot in New York is a crystalline standout that has won praise from none other than Roger Ebert as "Oscar-worthy." Indie cinematographer Jamie Stuart chronicled last week's record storm in his Queen's neighborhood, entitling the short film Idiot With a ...

Ashton Kutcher Thinks the End of Days Is Coming...

...or he punked interviewer about prepping for chaos with guns, fitness regimen

(Newser) - Ashton Kutcher, prepper ? Count the actor among those who believe Armageddon is close at hand. “It won’t take very much, I’m telling you,” he says in a Men’s Fitness interview excerpted by Just Jared . “The amount of convenience that people rely on based...

Sondheim: West Side Story Lyrics 'Embarrassing'
Sondheim: West Side Story
Lyrics 'Embarrassing'
INTERVIEW
Dec 29, 2010 10:46 AM CST

Sondheim: West Side Story Lyrics 'Embarrassing'

He should know ... he wrote them

(Newser) - When Stephen Sondheim thinks about the lyrics he wrote for West Side Story—for example, “It’s alarming how charming I feel”—he likes to “put my head under my wing and pretend I’m not there,” he tells Nightline . The universally beloved musical “embarrasses...

Clooney, Google to Become 'Anti-Genocide Paparazzi'

Actor launches satellite surveillance project in Sudan

(Newser) - As southern Sudan votes on a secession referendum Jan. 9, sparking fears of a new civil war with the north, someone will be watching: George Clooney. And the actor hopes you’ll watch, too, via his new Satellite Sentinel Project website, the AP reports. The idea: Train a bunch of...

Guess Who Made the Most Concert Money This Year?

Bon Jovi—and not just in North America

(Newser) - Yep, it’s definitely time to give Bon Jovi some respect : The band boasts the highest grossing concert tour of the year—worldwide. Pollstar ranks the top five touring acts of 2010, via the Los Angeles Times :
  1. Bon Jovi: $201.1 million.
  2. AC/DC: $177 million.
  3. U2: $160.9 million.
  4. Lady
...

Alanis Morissette Names Her Baby Boy...

Hint: She didn't go with 'John' or 'Bob'

(Newser) - Alanis Morissette and husband Mario "Souleye" Treadway got a pretty good Christmas present this year: a baby boy. And with names like Alanis and Souleye, you can bet the new parents didn't opt for a traditional name: The bundle of joy has been dubbed Ever Imre Morissette-Treadway, People reports....

The Decade's 12 Most Hideous Dresses

Is that a tutu, Lara Flynn Boyle?

(Newser) - The world has seen a lot of really horrible dresses since 2001. The Huffington Post runs down a dozen of them—click through a few in the gallery or click here for the complete list, including Britney Spears' dreadful matching denim ensemble with Justin Timberlake. In the mood for more...

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