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O.J. Simpson guilty on all 12 charges

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:08:20 GMT

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A Las Vegas jury found former football star O.J. Simpson guilty Friday on all charges in his armed robbery and kidnapping trial. The 61-year-old Simpson faces a prison sentence of 15 years to life.

The verdict was read aloud at around 10:50 p.m. PT in Clark County District Court.

Co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart was also found guilty on 12 criminal charges in the alleged gunpoint robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers in a casino hotel room last year.

The jury of nine women and three men deliberated more than 13 hours Friday.

Deliberations began 13 years to the day after Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.

Tags: celebrity, legal, oj simpson, robbery, crime

Clay Aiken: Yes, I'm gay

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:54:08 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.abcnews.com

Now that he's had a kid, Clay Aiken's coming clean.

The "American Idol" alum graces the cover of People magazine this week, new son cradled in hands, smiling wanly next to the headline "Yes, I'm Gay."

No details from the interview are available yet (the issue hits newsstands tomorrow) but according to the cover, Aiken decided to come out because he "cannot raise a child to lie or hide things."

Tags: gay, parenting, celebrity, music

The Sarah Palin Phenomenon Is Doomed

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:16:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

The primary reason why the Palin bubble will burst is that the media will decide that they are bored with her. They'll need to move to shine a light on a fresh issue or individual.

This is how the world works in the age of 24/7 news cycles. Whether the subject is Britney Spears, Michael Jordan or Sarah Palin, we inevitably raise stars to mythic levels, out of all reasonable proportions. Then we knock them down.

It isn't a case of quixotic behavior by reporters and editors. Internet sites, blogs and cable news operations all thrive on presenting fresh headlines and updated story angles as often as possible so readers think we're on top of things. The news world moves at warp speed.

I'll be interested to see how Palin -- not to mention McCain and the Republican campaign machine -- reacts when the media's disillusionment sets in for real. Their actions may determine the course of the 2008 race.

Tags: palin, mccain, celebrity, politics, media, internet

'Star Trek' Star George Takei Marries Longtime Partner

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:36:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

George Takei and his longtime partner, Brad Altman, have agreed to live long and prosper together.

Takei, 71, and Altman, 54, were married Sunday in a multicultural ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum that featured a Buddhist priest, Native American wedding bands, a Japanese Koto harp and a bagpipe procession.

The couple, both clad in white dinner jackets with black pants, made a grand entrance to the tune of "One Singular Sensation" from the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line." They stepped into a circle of yellow roses and lilies, where they shared a traditional Japanese tea ceremony and were wed by a Buddhist priest.

The couple, who have been together for 21 years, wrote their own vows.

"I can add 'my husband' to the list of things I call you," he said.

"I vow to care for you as you've cared for me ... and to love you as my husband and the only man in my life," Takei said as he held Altman's hands.

Tags: gay, gay marriage, star trek, celebrity

McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:18:02 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.

"Sa-rah! Pa-lin!" came the chant at a Colorado Springs rally on Saturday moments before Republican nominee John McCain took the stage with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a woman who was virtually unknown to the nation just a week earlier. The day before, thousands screamed "Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" at an amphitheater outside Detroit.

In the short time since McCain spirited the 44-year-old first-term governor out of Alaska and onto a national stage as his running mate, Palin has become an instant celebrity. And since her speech at the Republican National Convention, watched by more than 40 million Americans, she is emerging as the main attraction for many voters at their campaign appearances.

The excitement with which people are turning out to see Palin could complicate a key line of attack that the McCain campaign has been building against Democrat Barack Obama for months.

Tags: mccain, palin, politics, celebrity

Jennifer Love Hewitt: I Wish I'd Spent More Time Naked

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:02:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.people.com

Jennifer Love Hewitt is looking forward to turning 30 – but if she could turn back the clock, she would have spent more time showing off her figure.

"I wish I had been nude from the time I was 12 until I was 28. I looked great!" the Ghost Whisperer actress, 29, tells Health magazine in its September issue.

"I so wish I had listened to my mom and grandma when I was 18 and would complain about some little tiny bump or feeling bloated," says the star, who is engaged to Scottish actor Ross McCall. "I used to scoff and say, 'No, I feel fat today!' Now the joke's on me."

The next milestone for the actress is turning 30 this February – and she can barely wait. "I'm so excited! It's my dream age," she says. "I don't know why but, literally since my 12th birthday I've wanted to turn 30."

Tags: actress, hollywood, celebrity, body, woman, image

Phelps, schmelps! J.Lo’s also in training

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:39:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Courtney Hazlett

The Scoop

Poor Jennifer Lopez. The new mom is training for a triathlon, but everyone is too busy watching the Olympics to notice.

Lopez, who appeared on "Good Morning America" Aug. 18 to discuss her preparations for the Malibu Triathlon, was overheard saying after the segment that she “couldn’t understand why everyone is talking about that swimmer,” according to a GMA source. “She couldn’t come up with (eight-time gold-medal winner Michael) Phelps’ name, and then she yammered on about how she was the one training for a triathlon just six months after giving birth, and how that was the big story right now, not ‘the swimmer.’ ”

Tags: celebrity, olympics, ego, athete

Babe Ruth was cancer research guinea pig

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:39:36 GMT

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Clip Source: nbcsports.msnbc.com

The story of Babe Ruth's bittersweet farewell at Yankee Stadium has been part of sports lore for generations. Shockingly stooped and frail, the slugger came to the Bronx ballpark on June 13, 1948, to put on the pinstriped uniform a last time and hear the roar of the faithful once more.

He died only two months later, on August 16, at age 53, by most accounts of throat cancer, brought on at least in part by a well-chronicled fondness for tobacco and liquor. But that's all wrong, says a Westchester County, N.Y., dentist with a passion for baseball history. And he's trying to set the record straight.

Maloney uncovered little-known information about the experimental treatment that the doomed baseball titan agreed to take part in, the kindness Ruth showed toward medical staff during his difficult final days and the rare form of cancer he actually died from, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (it causes less than 1 percent of the cancer deaths in the U.S. today).

Tags: sports, cancer, celebrity, baseball, babe ruth, history, medical

The 25 Ugliest Celebrities

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:55:10 GMT

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Clip Source: campussqueeze.com

Who said you have to be hot to be famous? Below is the 2007 list of the Ugliest Celebrities!

Carrot Top looks like a real life hobgoblin … on steroids … with a perm … but less funny.

Tags: celebrity, celebrities, ugly, image, hollywood, fugly

Paul Newman tells loved ones he wants to die at home

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:33:35 GMT

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Clip Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Get out your Kleenex, people.

You're gonna need it.

According to new reports, actor Paul Newman has weeks to live and has told his family that he wants to die at home.

Newman has finished chemotherapy treatment for cancer and was photographed leaving a New York hospital in a wheelchair. He looks predictably frail and fragile. Click here to see the photo.

"Paul didn't want to die in the hospital," a source has said.

Newman has made only one public statement about his condition: that he is doing "nicely."

Which speaks volumes about this amazing and private man.

We're hoping for more word today on Newman's condition from his spokesman, Jeff Sanderson at Warren Cowan and Associates in Los Angeles.

Tags: actor, celebrity, hollywood, cancer

Paris Hilton's mom takes offense at McCain's humor

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:20:02 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Paris Hilton's mother doesn't share John McCain's sense of humor.

McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, said last week that his campaign ad mocking Democrat Barack Obama with images of Hilton and singer Britney Spears was part of an attempt to inject humor into the presidential race.

On Sunday, Hilton's mother, Kathy Hilton, a McCain donor, registered her disapproval.

"It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs," Kathy Hilton said in a short article posted on the liberal Huffington Post Web site. "And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next president of the United States."

Kathy Hilton, however, was unpersuaded, calling the ad "a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign."

Kathy Hilton and her husband donated a total of $4,600 to McCain's campaign earlier this year.

Tags: celebrity, politics, mccain, obama, paris hilton

Angelina Jolie reaches out to dad

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:47:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.hollywood.com

HOLLYWOOD - Angelina Jolie has offered to end her bitter estrangement with her dad, Jon Voight, stating she's hoping to communicate with the Deliverance star.

The couple has been estranged ever since she cut him out of her life for insinuating she was unbalanced in a tearful 2002 TV interview.

But it seems the mother of four, who lost her own mother to cancer in January, is now softening towards her father.

Tags: celebrity, angelina jolie, father, daughter, estrangement, movies

Associated Press working on Britney obit

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:09:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Usmagazine.com is reporting that The Associated Press has begun preparing Britney Spears’ obituary.

“We are not wishing it, but if Britney passed away, it’s easily one of the biggest stories in a long time,” AP entertainment editor Jesse Washington tells the magazine.

“I think one would agree that Britney seems at risk right now,” Washington says. “Of course, we would never wish any type of misfortune on anybody and hope that we would never have to use it until 50 years from now ... but if something were to happen, we would have to be prepared.”

It’s not uncommon for news organizations to have obituaries prepared for celebrities and other high-profile individuals, but they are generally much older than the 26-year-old Spears.

Tags: britney spears, media, obituary, death, celebrity

Suzanne Pleshette dies at 70

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:04:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at age 70.

Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and in Broadway plays including "The Miracle Worker," died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein, also a family friend.

Pleshette underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006.

"The Bob Newhart Show," a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients and neighbors. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.

In a 1999 interview, Pleshette observed that being an actress was more important than being a star.

"I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here," she said. "Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves."

Tags: actress, celebrity, tv, television, death

Sleeping With the Enemy: Britney’s “Stockholm Syndrome"

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:30:20 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

It's a well-documented phenomena that abducted hostages sometimes grow emotionally attached to their captors, despite the danger of the situation.

The condition is called Stockholm syndrome, and it was most famously used to explain the transformation of heiress Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by a guerrilla warfare group and later took part in a bank robbery with the gang in 1974.

Now some believe that Britney Spears may be experiencing a mild version of the disorder in her relationship with British paparazzo Adnan Ghalib.

"When you see her seeming like she's friends with the paparazzi, she's got, like Stockholm syndrome," actress Patricia Arquette told Contactmusic.com. "I mean she's becoming friends with her captors. She's being torn apart by this business."

Tags: mental, britney spears, psychology, celebrity