Dec 28, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Telegraph: In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation," wrote Polanski in a letter released online. The 76-year-old Oscar winner made his first public statement since his arrest in September in a letter to the French philospher Bernard-Henri Levy, ...
Continue ReadingDec 28, 2009 35 Comments ›› Erik Wong
I wanted to bang my head into the nearest hard, preferably flat surface upon reading this. I will not be held liable if you wind up with head trauma for having less self control than I do. Contact Music: American singer TORI AMOS has vowed to run for office if former U.S. Vice President candidate SARAH ...
Continue ReadingDec 27, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Australian News.Com: AUSSIE rockers AC/DC could have to cancel a sold-out concert because their big sound poses a danger to rare birds. Animal rights campaigners are threatening legal action if the veteran band goes ahead with a gig planned for Wels airport in Austria in May. Hans Uhl of BirdLife said birds nesting in the area at the ...
Continue ReadingDec 25, 2009 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
(CNN) -- Actor Charlie Sheen was released from a Colorado jail Friday after he was arrested on domestic-violence-related charges, Aspen police said. Sheen, 44, was charged with second degree assault and menacing, both felonies, and criminal mischief, a misdemeanor, police said. Additionally, Colorado law mandates a protective order between someone arrested for domestic violence and the ...
Continue ReadingDec 25, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A couple who said they were assaulted by Gene Simmons sued the KISS bassist for unspecified damages Thursday, court records show. Nathan Marlowe and his wife Cynthia Manzo said Simmons attacked them, threatened them and took their video camera at the upscale The Grove mall on Saturday after they started filming ...
Continue ReadingDec 21, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
He's still under house arrest in his lavish mansion though. What punishment. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California appeals court says it has rejected Roman Polanski's bid to have his sex case dismissed. The California 2nd District Court of Appeal announced Monday it had denied the petition. The court's Web site states an opinion was filed in the ...
Continue ReadingDec 7, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Even the most ardent fans of porn star Julie Meadows are unlikely, it seems safe to say, to have ever seen her like this. But there she is, the star of "Alice in Fetishland" and more than 200 other hardcore sex films, standing on a stage, dressed demurely in jeans, matching vest ...
Continue ReadingDec 4, 2009 26 Comments ›› Erik Wong
RealClearPolitics: As the news of golf superstar Tiger Woods' alleged multiple affairs spills all over the media, a fascinating - and disturbing - subplot to the story has become a revealing litmus test of societal attitudes toward gender and domestic violence. Persistent rumors allege that the November 27 car accident in which Woods hit a fire hydrant ...
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MSNBC Today: The most infamous party crashers in the world said Tuesday that they hate that label, denied they finagled their way into a White House state dinner and insisted that they were invited to the bash by a Washington law firm with ties to a senior Pentagon official. “This has been the most devastating thing that’s ...
Continue ReadingNov 30, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) - Workers plowed snow away from Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet on Monday, as Swiss authorities worked with the director's lawyers to meet the conditions of his $4.5 million bail and house arrest. The Swiss Justice Ministry wouldn't say when Polanski would be released from jail. Spokesman Folco Galli said there were still outstanding ...
Continue ReadingNov 23, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Now I know that none of you care... But never pass up an opportunity to laugh at a celebrity's misfortune.
Continue ReadingNov 23, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Deadline: EXCLUSIVE: If tradition stands, the details of the guest list will be revealed only a few hours before the Obama administration's first state dinner tomorrow. The welcome for India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the biggest social event of the Obama White House. Already the Washington DC press corp is buzzing about the "got-to-be-there" ...
Continue ReadingNov 20, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The only time I'll ever post something from HuffPo: Levi Johnston flew first class to LA for the party and calls himself "Ricky Hollywood," but he was barely noticed by the dozens of actual Hollywood celebrities inside GQ's "Men of the Year" party at Chateau Marmont Wednesday night. Levi, who had on a vest, yellow pocket square ...
Continue ReadingNov 20, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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