NEWS
May 25, 2012
Few gossipers have taken too seriously claims by various masseurs that John Travolta assaulted them with unwanted sexual advances. But the case took a strange turn Thursday, with a report that Travolta's lawyers offered the first masseur $125,000 to withdraw his federal sexual battery lawsuit. Citing Anonymous Insiders, the New York Daily News says the accuser, former U.S. Army medic John Truesdale, 40, refused the hush money. "That is completely false," Travolta's lawyer, Marty Singer, says in a statement.
NEWS
April 25, 2012 | Howard Gensler
The biggest story coming out of the Tribeca Film Festival – besides, of course, the U.S. premiere of Tattle's movie, "Hysteria – is the true-life tale of what happens when two Cuban actors on the way to the festival disappear en route to the film's premiere. Javier Nunez Florian and Analin de la Rua de la Torre disappeared in Miami during a layover on their way to see their film "Una Noche. " "Una Noche," written and directed by Lucy Mulloy, is about impoverished teenagers who decide to defect to the United States.
NEWS
April 24, 2012 | Molly Eichel
SNAPS AND CLAPS to E!'s Giuliana Rancic and hubs, former "Apprentice" champ Bill Rancic. They announced on the "Today" show Monday that they are expecting a baby via gestational surrogate. "To finally get that call from the doctor that you're pregnant and you're having a baby … ," Giuliana said. "It was just another world. " They know the sex of the baby but they're keeping it a secret. We're more excited for this baby bump than for other celebs', who seem to use children as a way to up their Q Score.
NEWS
April 19, 2012 | Howard Gensler
SOMETIMES THAT Bieber Fever makes you crazy. Authorities have accused a Lee Moir, of Toronto, of impersonating Justin Bieber. Although a 34-year-old man with facial hair pretending to be the Beebs should in itself be a crime, Moir was arrested for playing Bieber, and for allegedly threatening and sexually abusing a 12-year-old New Jersey girl on a video-chat site. Beeb's hit song is super-creepy when a grown-up sings it to a pre-teen: If I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go I can take you places you ain't never been before Baby, take a chance or you'll never ever know I got money in my hands that I'd really like you to blow Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray says Moir posed as the pop star on Facebook.
NEWS
April 19, 2012
Ted Nugent had to meet with the Secret Service on Thursday as part of its investigation into the rocker after he made heated comments at last weekend's National Rifle Association confab in St. Louis. Nugent, 63, urged the assembled to help oust President Obama and his "vile, evil, America-hating administration" in November. "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November," he added, "I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. " Democratic leaders have asked GOP candidate Mitt Romney to condemn Nugent's outburst.
NEWS
April 10, 2012 | Choose one .
The king of the Broadway jungle You got Leo, the MGM lion (Ars Gratia Artis!). You got Bubbles, logo of the Detroit Lions. You got the Cowardly Lion of The Wizard of Oz. You got Kimba, and Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion, and Kitty Kat (feline of the Addams Family). Now shove over for The Lion King!! The Broadway show, not the 1994 Disney flick. According to figures (unadjusted for inflation) released Monday, Lion padded past ThePhantom of the Opera last week to become Broadway's all-time top grosser, with about $854 million.
NEWS
April 7, 2012 | By Tirdad Derakhshani, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Vanessa Williams was molested by a woman when she was 10 years old, the Desperate Housewives star reveals in You Have No Idea, a memoir she cowrote with her mother, Helen. "She told me to lie down on the rug," Williams, 49, writes about the perpetrator, an 18-year-old family friend. "I was confused. Are we going to play a game? As I tried to make sense of it, pulled down the bloomers of my cotton baby-doll pajamas. 'What are you doing?' I asked. 'Don't worry,' . " In a passage excerpted by People, Williams says the incident drove a wedge between her and her parents.
NEWS
April 6, 2012 | Tirdad Derakhshani
Whitney Houston was lying face down in her bathtub of her Beverly Hilton room when she was discovered by her personal assistant on Feb. 11. This and other sometimes grisly details about the diva's death were revealed with the release of her official autopsy report by the Los Angeles Coroner's Office. Houston's cause of death remains the same: a combination of drowning, heart disease, and cocaine use. But the report suggests the cocaine, and other drugs, played a much larger part in her death.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 6, 2012 | By Howard Gensler
WHAT IS with all the Ks? Kim Kardashian , in the middle of kontentious divorce proceeding with Kris Humphries , may be hooking up with Kanye West . The Los Angeles Times reports that longtime pals Kim and Kanye are said to have taken their relationship to the next level. But are they sex-tape worthy? "Kim and Kanye have now just started dating," an anonymous source told People , adding that the duo are "keeping it light" and "seeing where it goes.
NEWS
March 21, 2012
Conan (11 p.m., TBS) - Actor Joel McHale; Sanjay Gupta; Birdy performs. Late Show With David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS3) - Debra Messing; Josh Hutcherson; Oberhofer performs. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC10) - Kim Kardashian; Sherri Shepherd; Tennis performs. Jimmy Kimmel Live (Midnight, 6ABC) - Don Rickles; Dave Franco; Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.