Celeb News Aggregate
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Christie Brinkley has vowed never to remarry after reaching a settlement in her high-drama divorce trial with Peter Cook.
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The Super Bowl is always cause for celebs to come out in the private-jet loads, but when it’s in Miami, Hollywood’s home away from home, the big game is but a limo drive away.
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Robert Downey Jr. Gets Divorced, Marcia Gay Harden Welcomes Twins, Elton John Thinks "American Idol" May Be Racist Charlize Theron Russell Crowe
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News, April 26: Billy Joel in Yet Another Car Crash, Don Johnson Files Bankruptcy, Estee Lauder Dies Sharon Stone Wanda Sykes Jennifer Lopez Monster In Law Jane Fonda Heather Locklear Hilary Duff Jason Biggs
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Touchstone TV, the producers of ABC's 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, has signed veteran actor James Garner as a regular to its sophomore comedy. Also: Maverick Films Michael Jackson ScriptShark Jerry Bruckheimer Grammys Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Awards Bruce Springteen Wah Ming Chang Lenny Bruce Peter Stormare Constantine
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Spider-Man star Kirsten Dunst and prankster Ashton Kutcher are set to star in Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown, which DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures are in final talks to co-finance. Also: The Osbournes Martin Scorsese The Twelve Keira Knightley Tulip Fever Queen Latifah Jada Pinkett Smith
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Shares of Marvel Enterprises fell sharply Monday because of what analysts called a disappointing opening weekend for The Hulk--the feature based on one of Marvel's comic-book characters. Also: Spike Jones TNN Diana Ross Monk Tony Shalhoub the Rolling Stones Matt Damon Paul Greengrass The Bourne Supremacy Jodie Foster A Very Long Engagement Jean-Pierre Jeunet Chris Kattan Parker Posey Adam & Steve Craig Chester
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Artists Cancel Concert Tours in Toronto; GLAAD honors "Will & Grace," "Six Feet Under"; Charlton Heston Steps Down From NRA Elton John Billy Joel Kelly Clarkson The Hours Six Feet Under Charlton Heston Madonna Jamie Foxx
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Christie Brinkley is worried about her daughter's safety driving with accident-prone Billy Joel. Peter O'Toole Matt Damon Steven Soderbergh A View From the Top Gwyneth Paltrow John Ritter Jimmy Kimmel Bruce Springsteen Norah Jones Faith Hill Nelly
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Billy Joel involved in a car crash over the weekend. Jude Law Ewan McGregor Christian Bale Britney Spears Peter O'Toole Cedric the Entertainer Suzanne Somers Zsa Zsa Gabor
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News Roundup: Sept. 16 "Magdalene Sisters" Wins At Toronto Film Festival; Son of the Beach gets canceled; Liz Taylor cured of skin cancer, more
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Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, P. Diddy, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw, the Backstreetboys, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg , Rip Torn, Jeffrey Archer, Russell Crowe, Ted Turner, Gods and Generals, Gettysburg.
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Following is a news roundup for December 20. Keywords are NBC Katie Couric Black Hawk Down Josh Hartnett CNN Jennifer Lopez Curt Cobain Krist Novoselic Dave Grohl Courtney Love Nicole Kidman Friends People Harry Potter New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani President George W Bush Steven Seagal Dick Clark National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Michael Greene American Music Awards Comcast Corp Variety Creed Missy Elliott Alejandro Amenabar Goya Academy Awards Recording Artists Coalition Sheryl Crow Billy Joel Elton John Eagles Grammys
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Two weeks after his succumbing to cancer, the secrecy surrounding George Harrison's last rites and the actual place of his death suggests a deliberate attempt to protect his dignity and prevent his final resting place from becoming a stop on tour attraction
George Harrison Julia Roberts Alanis Morissette Mariah Carey U2 Super Bowl XXXVI X-Men 2 Nirvana Krist Novoselic Dave Grohl Courtney Love Barbara Steisand Jesse Jackson Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Sugar Ray Leonard Chris Tucker Smokey Robinson Billy Joel MusiCares Foundation Grammys 2002 Joni Mitchell Al Green Perry Como Rosemary Clooney Count Basie Jean Richard
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"Concert for New York" CD to be released
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New York benefit concert, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, United We Stand concert in Washington, R.E.M., Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf, George Harisson, OJ Simpson, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Moulin Rouge, Star Wars: Episode 1--The Pantom Menace DVD, Jerry Springer, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Spice Girls, more.
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The music world came together Saturday for "The Concert for the City of New York" to benefit the Sept. 11 attack victims.
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The benefit TV show America: A Tribute to Heroes is being packaged into an album to raise additional relief dollars, organizers told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Nearly 60 million people across the United States watched Hollywood celebrities pay tribute to the heroes and the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, The Associated Press reports. Also Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Mariah Carey, U2, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Limp Bizkit, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, Meg Ryan, Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Whoopi Golberg, Sally Field, Reba McIntyre, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, more.
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America: A Tribute to Heroes struck a chord with America as celebs like got together for a solemn night of fundraising.
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Listen Up!: Jackson to record "What More Can I Give?"
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Singer Mariah Carey is expected to make a public appearance on Friday, when she will join a series of musical guests and actors on America: A Tribute to Heroes. Carey, who was hospitalized for a mental and physical breakdown in July, and relapsed in September, will sing her 1993 hit "Hero," a publicist for Virgin Records told Reuters.
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Following is a news story about the upcoming charity event for the terrorist-attack relief efforts. Mentioned names are Tom Cruise Faith Hill Julia Roberts Cameron Diaz Robin Williams Calista Flockhart Sela Ward Sheryl Crow Bon Jovi Billy Joel terrorist attack charity
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ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox confirmed reports Tuesday that they will jointly produce a two-hour, celebrity-studded telethon on Friday to benefit families of the victims of last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
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You thought his artwork was expensive? Andy Warhol's oceanfront estate recently went on the market for a mere $50 million.
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Thursday night marked the induction of singer-songwriters Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton into New York's Songwriters Hall of Fame. Also inducted were Grammy-winning songwriter Diane Warren, Oscar-winning composer Paul Williams and singer Dionne Warwick. Gloria Estefan received a lifetime achievement award. Whitney Houston and Elvis Costello were among the attendees.
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HOLLYWOOD, June 30, 2000 -- Is the supermarket checkout line going too fast for you? Well, don’t worry. Beginning this week and (for every Friday hereafter), we’ll comb the tabs for the sort of news you're either too ashamed and/or too cheap to buy (and read) for yourself.
Why will we do this? Quite simply, we have no shame.
Without further ado, here’s a rundown of this week's Top 10 tabloid tidbits (from the just-released editions of the National Enquirer, the Star and the Globe):
1. Whitney Houston Pregnant? From deep within the Florida jail complex where Bobby Brown is currently being held on a probation violation, a fellow inmate intimated to the Star what the rapper reputedly previously intimated to him -- that Houston is pregnant with Brown's second child. Moreover, the inmate told the Star that Brown is weary about the baby’s health “because of all the c
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 30, 1999 -- Let the Pokémon backlash begin.
First, there was the recall of Burger King toys over safety concerns. Then there was the Michigan man who was granted a refund by a Kmart after saying his cute, little Pikachu doll dropped the F-bomb when its circuits were punched rapidly. (To be fair, cussing when one's circuits are being rapidly punched does seem a natural response.) Anyway, the man's calling for yet another nationwide recall.
And if that weren't enough, Nintendo, the gamemaker responsible for the video craze that spawned a TV show and hit movie, is being threatened by a lawsuit from spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller.
Geller says his image (not to mention his name) is being ripped off by the evil Pokémon character called "Un-Geller" (or, as its known in Japan, "Evil-Geller"). Un-Geller, by the way, carries spoon and boasts psychi