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

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:39:55 GMT

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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

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

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

DeGeneres & de Rossi set wedding date

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:02:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.woai.com

Talk show queen Ellen DeGeneres will reportedly marry her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi in California this weekend.

The pair are reportedly planning a small, intimate ceremony with only a few close friends and family, according to Usmagazine.com.

Previous reports claimed the pair, who have been dating since December 2004, were planning a lavish wedding in Palm Springs, California.

DeGeneres recently said of De Rossi, "I feel like I found my perfect fit. She's taught me lessons about myself, and I feel like I've taught her."

California lifted its ban on gay weddings in May.

Tags: celebrity, wedding, gay, gay marriage, lesbian

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 video response to McCain ad

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:44:23 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.abcnews.com

Paris Hilton has issued a response (kinda) to presidential hopeful John McCain's television commerial which lumps her together with Barack Obama and Britney Spears in the sometimes reviled celebrity category.

She continues, "But then that wrinkly white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means that I'm running for president."

And so, since Hilton has interpreted the comparison to Sen. Obama, D-Ill., as meaning that she too is qualified to be leader of the free world, Hilton, jokingly, lays out her campaign platform.

The video has some more tough words for the "wrinkly white-haired" Arizona Senator: "He's the oldest celebrity it the world, like super old. Old enough to remember when dancing was a sin and beer was served in a bucket.," a narrator says, with a picture of Larry King and then Yoda to drive home the age point.

The video is posted on the user-driven video site backed by Will Ferrel and Adam McKay, FunnyOrDie.com. Watch it HERE.

Tags: mccain, paris hilton, video, celebrity

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

Manson follower Susan Atkins being considered for release

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:10:26 GMT

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Authorities say Susan Atkins, a Charles Manson follower convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, could soon be released from prison because she is near death.

State corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton says the now 59-year-old Atkins is terminally ill and is being considered for so-called "compassionate release."

Thornton says the corrections department is reviewing the request, which would then be passed to a state sentencing court.

Thornton did not say what sort of illness Atkins has.

Atkins helped stab Tate, the pregnant wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski, 16 times during a 1969 rampage that saw six others murdered.

Tags: charles manson, murder, prison, death, celebrity

Jodie Foster and partner split

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:05:08 GMT

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Actress Jodie Foster has split with her longterm partner Cydney Bernard, according to tabloid reports.

The news comes just five months after the intensely private star paid tribute to her alleged partner of 14 years at an award ceremony.

An insider tells the National Enquirer, "Jodie breaking up with Cydney is shocking. Right now it's the best kept secret in Hollywood, and it's not just because Jodie is legend and an intensely private person, either."

"She and Cydney have been together for so many years and have two children together, the potential fallout and legal wrangling from this split could be monumental."

Tags: hollywood, celebrity, gay, actor

Newlywed Gary Coleman off to ‘Divorce Court’

Thu, 01 May 2008 05:11:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The honeymoon is over for Gary Coleman and his new bride.

The 40-year-old actor and his 22-year-old wife, Shannon Price, are set to appear on TV’s “Divorce Court” on May 1 and 2. The couple wed in August after meeting on the set of the 2006 comedy “Church Ball.”

“If he doesn’t get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old does,” Price says, according to a transcript of the show obtained by The Associated Press. “He like stomps the floor and yells, ‘Meehhhh,’ and starts throwing stuff around. He bashes his head in the wall, too.”

Tags: celebrity, hollywood, marriage, divorce

Scientology Is 'Brainwashing'

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:03:58 GMT

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Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Jason Beghe is the bravest actor in Hollywood. He’s come clean about his 14 years in Scientology, the religion that Tom Cruise reveres. He says the purpose of Scientology is to create a "brainwashed, robotic version of you."

He also says that he spent about $1 million to work his way up the Scientology ladder to become what’s known as an "OT5 auditor," or someone who listens to new members and teaches them the ropes.

He was so successful as a celebrity auditor, he says, that David Miscavige, the head of the sect, referred to him as "the poster boy for Scientology."

But now that Beghe and his wife have left the sect, the actor has concerns. They can be, he says, a vicious and vindictive group. When he asked for money back that he had banked for future study — some $60,000 to $70,000 — it was returned and he was banished.

"Once you ask for refund and repayment, that’s what it’s called, you’re not allowed to take another course or speak to another Scientologist ever again," Beghe says.

Tags: religion, faith, scientology, celebrity, brainwashing, sect

Scientology's Anonymous Critics: Who Are They?

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:54:19 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

The controversial group has been labeled secretive, inspirational, dangerous and misunderstood.

The Church of Scientology?

No, it's a mysterious group of masked men and computer hackers called Anonymous who say are committed to dismantling the powerful religious organization renowned for its celebrity members such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

Over the past few months, Anonymous has picketed and protested at Scientology centers around the world from Australia and Atlanta to Brussels and Boston. They've also hacked into the church's Web site, posted numerous videos on YouTube criticizing the church and have been accused of harassing church officials.

Now the church is fighting back with its own public relations onslaught, releasing a recent video titled "Anonymous Exposed,"

"Anonymous contains all kinds of individuals, academics, college students, members of law enforcement, media professionals and blue collar workers,"

We have no leaders and adhere to the true definition of a collective."

Tags: religion, scientology, critics, church

Obama in Senate: Star Power, Minor Role

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:22:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Senator Barack Obama stood before Washington’s elite at the spring dinner of the storied Gridiron Club. In self-parody, he ticked off his accomplishments, little more than a year after arriving in town.

“I’ve been very blessed,” Mr. Obama told the crowd assembled in March 2006. “Keynote speaker at the Democratic convention. The cover of Newsweek. My book made the best-seller list. I just won a Grammy for reading it on tape.

“Really, what else is there to do?” he said, his smile now broad. “Well, I guess I could pass a law or something.”

They were the two competing elements in Mr. Obama’s time in the Senate: his megawatt celebrity and the realities of the job he was elected to do.

“I think it’s very possible to have a Senate career here that is not particularly useful,” he said in an interview, reflecting on his first year.

“It’s sort of logic turned on its head, but it really is true,” said Tom Daschle

Tags: obama, politics, law, government

Beatles' Guru Yogi Dies At 91

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:40:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, has died at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said Tuesday. He was thought to be 91 years old.

Once dismissed as hippie mysticism, the Hindu practice of mind control that Maharishi taught, called transcendental meditation, gradually gained medical respectability.

He began teaching TM in 1955 and brought the technique to the United States in 1959. But the movement really took off after the Beatles visited his ashram in India in 1968, although he had a famous falling out with the rock stars when he discovered them using drugs at his Himalayan retreat.

With the help of celebrity endorsements, Maharishi - a Hindi-language title for Great Seer - parlayed his interpretations of ancient scripture into a multi-million-dollar global empire.

Tags: yogi, religion, meditation, music, beatles, hindu

Paparazzi admit pursuit of Britney has gone too far

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:31:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

The rapid downward spiral of Britney Spears' life marks perhaps the lowest watermark in our tabloid culture – an entire industry feeding off the misery of a former teenage idol turned very public basket-case.

Much of this has gone unquestioned, outside of some high-minded media discussion forums at the Los Angeles Times.

Now, though, even some of the photographers who make their living chronicling every step of her meltdown are beginning to examine their consciences, and their professional ethics. One British photographer based in Los Angeles, Nick Stern, became perhaps the first to make a public stand when he quit his job with the Splash news agency a few days ago because he could not bring himself to cover Britney another day longer.

"The Britney story is no longer about Britney," he said. "It's the media circus surrounding her... It's not journalism. Sooner or later, someone's going to get killed. Possibly Britney herself."

Tags: paparazzi, journalism, britney spears, tabloid, celebrity, hollywood, media, culture, music