ENTERTAINMENT
March 10, 2008 | By HOWARD GENSLER Daily News wire services contributed to this report
WHAT'S NEXT for Kathy Griffin, an Easter Mass? The acerbic comedian added a new line to her resume Saturday when she officiated at the New York wedding of two fans, Brian Anstey and Elka Shapiro. Griffin - who angered some Christians by joking about Jesus at the Emmy Awards in September - became ordained through an online church. "The request came in, and how could I say no?" Griffin told the New York Daily News. "I love that this couple just want to have fun. They're my kind of people.
NEWS
December 8, 2000 | by Mister Mann Frisby, Daily News Staff Writer
QUOTE "At our house, we serve the turkey with the head still on. Some people crack the wishbone - I rip the head off. " - Ozzy Osbourne, detailing his holiday traditions in Entertainment Weekly. Kathy Griffin might be a funny little redhead, but she might want to think twice about going toe-to-toe with one of North Philly's finest. The comedian had a heated exchange of words with hometown girl Pink backstage at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. The New York Post reports that Griffin felt snubbed when Pink spoke to Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake and ignored her. Keeping with her reputation as a wisecracker, Griffin said, "oh, don't say hi then, b----.
NEWS
April 20, 2012 | Tirdad Derakhshani
"I love the closeness," says Kelly Preston of the joy and love she feels when breast-feeding her "miracle baby," as she calls 16-month-old son Benjamin Hunter Kaleo, whom she delivered Nov. 23, 2010 at age 48. The bond forged through breast-feeding will be hard to sever, not just for the child, John Travolta's wife tells People mag. "When I stop, it's going to be really hard on me. I love nursing so much. " Kelly, who'll turn 50 in October, and John keep Ben close: He shares their bed, says Preston, who nurses him up to five times during the day and twice during the night.
NEWS
December 30, 2011
Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS3) - Actor Tom Hanks; My Morning Jacket performs. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC10) - Charlize Theron; Kevin Hart; Foster the People perform. Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:30 a.m., 6ABC) - Kathy Griffin; Jamie Bell; Young Jeezy performs.
NEWS
January 9, 2012 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
Blue Ivy Carter is the name of the baby girl that pop star Beyoncé , 30, and her music mogul husband Jay-Z welcomed into the world Saturday night, according to E! The singer gave birth at Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's upper East Side. A hospital employee told the New York Daily News that the couple rented out the hospital's entire fourth floor for $1.3 million. Box office scare The fright flick The Devil Inside scared up a monstrous $34.5 million opening weekend.
NEWS
July 27, 1998 | By Matt Stearns, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
Piled on the stage in the church hall at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church yesterday were your typical baby shower presents - diapers, stuffed animals, brightly colored little outfits. Not so typical was the mammoth maroon Dodge Ram 3500 van in the parking lot, gift-wrapped in pink and blue crepe paper. Or the five $10,000 life insurance policies that new mother Kathy Griffin clutched in her hand - a hand that still had five plastic hospital bracelets wrapped around the wrist for each of the five babies Griffin gave birth to in May. But a shower for quintuplets is hardly an everyday event.
ENTERTAINMENT
March 19, 2012
A COURTSIDE KISS between Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith was caught on the "kiss cam" at Friday's Sixers game at the Wells Fargo Center. The crowd cheered when the couple arrived during halftime of the Sixers/Miami Heat match-up with their two children, Willow , 11 (sporting green hair), and Jaden , 13. Will and Jaden are in town filming M. Night Shyamalan's "After Earth. " Friday at the Friars Birthday boy Jerry Lewis turned 86 in the Big Apple on Friday night, flying from his home in Las Vegas to celebrate at some of his favorite haunts, including the Friars Club in midtown Manhattan.
NEWS
August 30, 1998 | By Sonia Krishnan, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
To someone else, perhaps, it would have been a grand exit: the smiling people, videocameras, the incessant flare of flashbulbs. But 3-month-old Lindsay Griffin seemed unimpressed. Sitting quietly in her grandfather's arms, she yawned and looked wide-eyed into the cameras as though to ask what all the fuss was about. Yesterday's minor hoopla at Abington Memorial Hospital marked the departure of little Lindsay, the last of the Griffin quintuplets to go home after they were delivered in May by cesarean section, three months premature.