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OPINION

Jun 4, 2010 10:57 AM CDT

Clearly, Charlie Sheen Is Invincible

How else could he get away with all his crazy?

(Newser) - What is the deal with Charlie Sheen? He can—and does—perform any number of “unforgivably stupid or impossibly sleazy” actions, the kind of things that would normally destroy a career…yet Charlie “does them about a dozen times a year and gets off clean,” writes Daniel...

Twins for Mariah and Nick: Tab

Jun 4, 2010 10:23 AM CDT

Twins for Mariah and Nick: Tab

They deserve an award for longest-running prego rumor

(Newser) - It's the rule of three in overdrive: First Kelly Preston, then Celine Dion, now Mariah Carey? Though the singer has yet to confirm or deny the never-ending pregnancy rumors, the National Enquirer (supposedly) knows what’s up: twins! The tab claims Carey used fertility treatments and is now preparing adjoining...

Gary
Coleman's Ex:
I Didn't Push Him

scary interview

Jun 4, 2010 9:50 AM CDT

Gary Coleman's Ex: I Didn't Push Him

Maybe not, but she's still kinda nutjobby

(Newser) - Apparently everyone thinks Shannon Price caused Gary Coleman’s fatal fall—and in her attempt to quash the rumors, she’s actually spreading them. “People are so cruel, and they don’t even know,” she says in an interview obtained by TMZ . “I was upstairs. He was...

NYT Corrects MIA Article

Jun 4, 2010 8:43 AM CDT

NYT Corrects MIA Article

Frygate 2010, sadly, goes unaddressed

(Newser) - You win this round, MIA: After the rapper posted secretly-recorded audio clips from her interview with Lynn Hirschberg, the New York Times Magazine added an editor’s note correcting Hirschberg’s article. “While MIA did make those remarks” in question, “she did not make the entire statement at...

Wife Blames
Film Co. for
Carradine's
Death

wrongful death suit

Jun 4, 2010 8:16 AM CDT

Wife Blames Film Co. for Carradine's Death

Anne Carradine files wrongful death suit

(Newser) - David Carradine’s wife alleges her husband wouldn’t have died if the production company he was shooting a movie with had taken better care of him. The assistant assigned to Carradine was supposed to get him to dinner with the film’s director on the night he died, but...

Miley Kisses a Girl—Almost

Jun 4, 2010 6:37 AM CDT

Miley Kisses a Girl—Almost

Does she even surprise us anymore?

(Newser) - Pole dancing, racy photo after racy photo…with Miley Cyrus, you’re always wondering what’s next. She answered that question for us last night by miming a lesbian kiss with one of her dancers while performing “Can’t Be Tamed” on Britain’s Got Talent. The Mail makes...

Rue McClanahan Dead at 76

Jun 3, 2010 11:06 AM CDT

Rue McClanahan Dead at 76

The actress suffered 'massive stroke'

(Newser) - Rue McClanahan died today, making Betty White the last living Golden Girl. The 76-year-old "passed away at 1am this morning" after suffering a massive stroke, her manager tells People . The actress who had a minor stroke earlier this year after her bypass surgery, "had her family with her,...

Penn: Robin Is 'a Ghost to Me'

vanity fair interview

Jun 3, 2010 10:52 AM CDT

Penn: Robin Is 'a Ghost to Me'

Actor opens up about his work in Haiti

(Newser) - For the past five months—with only brief breaks for fundraising, testifying on Capitol Hill, and of course attending the Oscars—Sean Penn has lived in a tent camp in Haiti. Douglas Brinkley, who volunteered with Penn in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, talks to him about his experience for...

McCartney Sings
'Michelle' to Michelle

Jun 3, 2010 6:39 AM CDT

McCartney Sings 'Michelle' to Michelle

Beatle is awarded Gershwin Prize at White House lovefest

(Newser) - Paul McCartney was honored last night with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and his evening at the White House was filled with reverent tributes, raucous performances, and a bit of humor. “After the last eight years, it's good to have a president that knows what a library is,...

Daily Show Tricks Larry Craig

Jun 3, 2010 6:21 AM CDT

Daily Show Tricks Larry Craig

Ex-senator goes on and on about 'perks' of the job

(Newser) - Larry Craig was so convinced he wouldn’t be discussing “the past” during his appearance on last night’s Daily Show, he had a former member of his staff send around an email saying just that. The appearance, part of a segment on retired senators, was supposed to be...

Nicholson Mourns
'Soulmate' Hopper

memorial service

Jun 3, 2010 5:15 AM CDT

Nicholson Mourns 'Soulmate' Hopper

Friends, family, and locals attend memorial Mass

(Newser) - Mourners including Jack Nicholson and Val Kilmer remembered Dennis Hopper yesterday at his memorial Mass. The actor was laid to rest in New Mexico, where he first went in 1969 while scouting locations for Easy Rider and lived for 12 years. Nicholson, who acted alongside Hopper in Easy Rider, called...

11 Possible Hobbit Directors

Jun 2, 2010 10:48 AM CDT

11 Possible Hobbit Directors

The movie is cursed, so surely the choice will be terrible

(Newser) - Now that Guillermo del Toro has quit The Hobbit, who will take over as director? Considering the movie is in jeopardy, since doomed MGM holds the rights, del Toro's replacement "has to be somebody who doesn't have much to lose in taking on a project with a 50% probability...

Why Katherine
Heigl Makes
$15M a Movie

the new julia?

Jun 2, 2010 10:41 AM CDT

Why Katherine Heigl Makes $15M a Movie

Ahead of her: Just Angelina Jolie and Sandra Bullock

(Newser) - Katherine Heigl has been murdered in the press for trashing her own roles (she called Knocked Up "a little sexist" and complained about her sub-par Grey's Anatomy material); she's been called difficult and was even fired by her own publicist—yet Heigl is the third highest-paid woman in Hollywood,...

Government Wants James Cameron's Help With Oil Spill

Jun 2, 2010 8:56 AM CDT

Government Wants James Cameron's Help With Oil Spill

Well, he did once make a movie about a boat...

(Newser) - The top kill didn't work, so the government apparently figured, what the heck, let's call James Cameron! Yes, James Cameron of Titanic and Avatar fame is among the experts who met yesterday to brainstorm ways to stop the BP oil leak...because apparently, as Matthew Daly writes for the AP...

Stewart, Colbert
Join Conan in
Epic Danceoff

Jun 2, 2010 8:18 AM CDT

Stewart, Colbert Join Conan in Epic Danceoff

Comedians join O'Brien on comedy tour

(Newser) - Conan O'Brien's good friends Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert made an appearance last night at the New York City stop of his comedy tour. For what purpose? A dance-off, of course. Back in 2008, the three comedians brawled over who made who—and the battle continued yesterday at the Radio...

Larry King Goes Gaga

Jun 2, 2010 7:28 AM CDT

Larry King Goes Gaga

The best moments from his interview with the Lady

(Newser) - As Mediaite notes, you probably heard the most "shocking" revelations from Lady Gaga's Larry King interview long before the interview actually aired last night: She tested "borderline positive" for lupus, she was set to open for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" tour, etc, etc. Watch the full...

Boyle's Now
a Prisoner of
Her Own Fame

OPINION

Jun 1, 2010 1:25 PM CDT

Boyle's Now a Prisoner of Her Own Fame

Singer can't fade into obscurity like author Harper Lee

(Newser) - It's been exactly 1 year since Susan Boyle's star-making turn on Britain's Got Talent , and the singer is now crazy famous—but she doesn't seem to be enjoying it much. Friends say Boyle's suffered a breakdown and doesn't enjoy her celebrity, writes Ben Macintyre for the Times of London . She...

Love Letters Shed Light on Taylor-Burton Romance

read a sample

Jun 1, 2010 11:15 AM CDT

Love Letters Shed Light on Taylor-Burton Romance

Read Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's romantic missives

(Newser) - Forget Brangelina, TomKat, and Speidi: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the celebrity couple. The July issue of Vanity Fair includes excerpts from the upcoming book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger, including never-before-seen love letters. A sampling,...

22 Horrible Movie Hairdos

Jun 1, 2010 10:58 AM CDT

22 Horrible Movie Hairdos

Gyllenhaal's 'Prince of Persia' coif is bad but far from the worst

(Newser) - If you found Jake Gyllenhaal's shaggy Prince of Persia mane amusing, great news: There's more where that came from. In the gallery, check out some of the 22 cringe-inducing movie hairstyles rounded up by Kate Ward of Entertainment Weekly . For the complete list, click here .

Charlie Sheen Headed to Jail

Jun 1, 2010 10:36 AM CDT

Charlie Sheen Headed to Jail

Plea deal will get actor out in time to film sitcom

(Newser) - Charlie Sheen will reportedly go to jail after a plea bargain reducing a felony charge stemming from his Christmas Day brouhaha with wife Brooke Mueller to a misdemeanor. "Charlie intends to go to court on June 7, plead to a misdemeanor, and immediately begin serving his 30 days,"...