Celeb News Aggregate
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News, April 8: Paul Walker is Angry Vin Diesel Pulled Out of "2 Furious," Madonna Shows Face on "Will & Grace," Penelope Cruz Sues Magazine Tom Cruise Beau Bridges Geraldo Rivera
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News, April 2: Ashley Judd, Jeremy Irons Up for PRISM Awards, Sharon Osbourne is Cancer Free, Actor Robert Conrad Arrested on DUI After Car Crash Toni Braxton Narc Salton Sea Samuel L. Jackson Changing Lanes The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Jason Patric Val Kilmer Jeremy Irons Neve Campbell Bernie Mac Sharon Osbourne Robert Conrad Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Queen Latifah
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News Roundup: April 2 Top Story Britney Spears new restaurant Nyla. Other stories on: Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley in The House of Sand and Fog, James Gandolfini in Sharkslayer, Eugene Levy in In The Houze, Susan Sarandon in Children of Dune, Phil Donahue, David Hasslehoff and the Baywatch reunion, The Price is Right and Bob Barker, Paul McCartney, Eminem, Ketara "KeKe" Wyatt and Rosetta LeNoire.
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For Geraldo Rivera war coverage has become personal
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After seven years of attempting to garner legitimacy and respect among his NBC colleagues as a bona fide journalist, Geraldo Rivera is leaving the network and its CNBC cable outlet to join Fox News Channel as a war correspondent in Afghanistan, Fox News announced Thursday.
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Media and political analysts are expressing skepticism that Connie Chung's interview with Congressman Gary Condit, set for ABC's PrimeTime Thursday this week, will produce anything more substantial than what Geraldo Rivera turned up when he opened Al Capone's safe.
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Is anything scarier than "Jurassic Park III?" How about "JP IV?"
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6, 2000 -- If Jerry Springer can go from the Cincinnati mayor's office to his own brand of confrontational TV, then why can't talk show host Geraldo Rivera run for mayor of New York?
Simple. Rivera's bosses at NBC have vetoed his political plans.
TV Guide cites a letter to Rivera from NBC News Vice President David Corvo indicating that a 2001 mayoral candidacy would conflict with the flamboyant host's reporting role for the network. Rivera is the host of CNBC's "Rivera Live" as well as a documentary producer for NBC.
"It's tricky with Geraldo because he wears different hats for us," Corvo said. "But we didn't even want to have the perception that his political ambitions were affecting the objectivity of his reporting for the documentaries."
Although Rivera has reluctantly dropped his plans for the mayor's seat, he tells TV Guide: "I want to
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 18, 2000 -- This from the They Deserve Each Other files: TV journalist Geraldo Rivera and TV poster girl Darva Conger are dating. The New York Daily News reports that the former “Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?” bride and Rivera, also a multimillionaire, must wait for him to finalize his divorce from C.C. Dyer, his betrothed of 19 years, before the new couple wed.
Neither party has commented to the Daily News about their alleged togetherness.
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30, 2000 -- He duked it out once with skinheads on his former daytime talk show. Now TV journalist Geraldo Rivera is considering going head to head in the political ring.
Daily Variety reports that Rivera said this week that he’s mulling running for mayor of New York City next year. If he decides to go for it, he’d have to announce his candidacy by June for the November race next year.
Rivera also mentioned that he was considering a former member of Texas Gov. George W. Bush’s election team, although Rivera is not registered as a Republican or Democrat.
Let’s hope his nose comes out unscathed this time.
GET 'REAL': MTV execs have confirmed that they’re keeping it "Real." The big wigs at the cable channel have approved at least two more seasons of the reality-TV series "The Real World." The show, which will be shot in New York (also the sit
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HOLLYWOOD, May 22, 2000 -- Coming into the home stretch of the final week of the final sweeps period before summer, we've got tearful farewells, wacky guest stars, tantalizing cliffhangers and best of all … sexy stories about Florence Henderson!
ABC's "Spin City" (9 p.m. EDT/PDT Wednesday) will be back next season with Charlie Sheen as its new star. But the bigger news is that Michael J. Fox will make his network TV farewell (hopefully only temporarily) in the series' hourlong season finale. Fox will be taking a break from acting to use his considerable charm and energy to help the fight against Parkinson's disease. Michael Gross, who played Fox's TV dad in "Family Ties," the series that made him a star so long ago, makes a guest appearance in this episode. Expect lots of hugs all around.
The season finale of "3rd Rock from the Sun" (8 p.m. EDT/PDT Tuesday, NBC) is a spec