Celeb News Aggregate
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Michael Moore May Target Disney Next; Phil Spector Makes Citizen's Arrest, Everybody Loves Raymond Heads Into Final Season Holly Hunter William Hurt Quentin Tarantino Slyvester Stallone Celine Dion
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More Evidence Found in Michael Jackson Case, Brad Pitt's Ready for His Mid-Life Crisis, Keenan Ivory Wayans Divorces Wife Jennifer Aniston Jason Priestley Gwen Stefani Rosie O'Donnell Ray Romano Kevin James rob Schneider
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Everyone Loves Raymond will return for one final, yet shortened season. Chris Rock and Steve Martin get pilot pick ups. CBS wins sweeps.
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Mystic River The Station Agent The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Seabiscuit and In America lead the acting ensemble nods for the 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Jury selection began today in a court case against Sean P. Diddy Combs, whose former chauffeur claims the rap mogul and a bodyguard forced him to speed away from the scene of a 1999 nightclub shooting, The Associated Press reports. Also: Robert Blake Barbara Walters Doris Roberts Scott Weiland American Idol
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CBS' 60 Minutes will air an interview with Michael Jackson Sunday, marking the 45-year-old singer's first public comments since his Nov. 20 arrest on suspicion of child molestation. Also: Oprah Winfrey David Letterman Bill O'Reilly Ray Romano Jay Leno The Writers Guild of America Scarlett Johansson Jennifer Aniston Jesse Ventura Trailer Park Boys
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Clint Eastwood's Mystic River has won the first major prize of this year's film award season. Also: Louis Horvitz 76th Academy Awards Michael B. Seligman Carrie Fisher The Empire Strikes Back Barbra Streisand Ray Romano Raymie, Dickie, and the Bean: Why I Love and Hate My Brothers Ray Liotta Murder Inc. Irv Gotti Irv Lorenzo David Hemmings Sandra Bullock Brendan Fraser Matt Dillon Ryan Phillippe Don Cheadle Crash Naomi Watts Peter Jackson King Kong
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Jennifer Aniston will receive $550,000 in the settlement of her lawsuit against a photographer who admitted to illegally distributing photos of her sunbathing topless. Also: Phil Spector Paris Hilton David Letterman Eminem Cameron Diaz Coldplay Chris Martin David Spade 8 Simple Rules of Dating My Daughter Bob Barker The Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain
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Brad Garrett and Patricia Heaton hold back production start date on CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond
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Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond gets backend deals including Patricia Heaton Peter Boyle Doris Roberts Brad Garrett Ray Romano
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News, July 21 Woody Allen opens Venice Fest, Matt LeBlanc may get spin-off, Everyone Loves Raymond without Ray Romano Nick Nolte Kevin Bacon Jamie Kennedy
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News, May 12: Swimsuit Model Wins Survivor Everybody's Romano Nets Big Pay for Eighth Season, Ozzy Osbourne Parts Way with Record Label
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Comedian Ray Romano is dropping hints that the ninth season of his hit CBS comedy Everybody Loves Raymond may be its last. Also: Juliette Lewis Steve Buscemi Rodney Dangerfield Grammys American Music Awards Paul McCartney George Michael David Bowie Avril Lavigne Karen Morley Shane Alen Ladd Alicia Silverstone Scobby-Doo 2
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The Screen Actors Guild Awards give Chicago big wins including Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The Sopranos Edie Falco and James Gandolfini also win. Daniel Day-Lewis Christopher Walken
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A full list of the nominees for the 2003 SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Awards.
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Bobby Brown is hospitalized while serving eight-day jail sentence. Winona Ryder Ray Romano Debra Winger Hank Azaria Monica Potter Rip Torn Mel Gibson Jim Caviezel Madonna Friends Matt LeBlanc
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News roundup for Oct. 16 - A former employee for Lucasfilms was arrested for stealing an advanced copy of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Kid Rock Pamela Anderson Winona Ryder Ivana Trump The Cat in the Hat Mike Myers Dustin Hoffman Ray Romano
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The star of the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, who recently won an Emmy award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy, said the 2003-2004 season may well be the show's last.
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday that more than 70,000 Star Wars fans had written "Jedi" or something related in response to an optional question about their faith during last year's national census.
Roseanne Rob Zombie House of 1000 Corpses Red Light Runners Michael Madsen Ludacris The Fast and the Furious 2 Kelly Preston Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Star Search Pepsi-Cola
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The Rev. Al Sharpton has filed a $1 billion libel lawsuit against the HBO TV network for airing an FBI surveillance tape recorded 19 years ago showing a conversation between him and a government agent posing as a drug dealer.
Rev. Al Sharpton Woody Allen Jean Doumanian The Fountain Brad Pitt Cate Blanchette Ellen Burstyn Darren Aronofsky Ben Affleck Gone Baby Gone Dennis Lehane Everybody Loves Raymond Ray Romano Phil Rosenthal Jane Kaczmarek Ultimate Makeover Destiny's Child LeToya Lucckett LaTavia Roberson
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"Spider-Man" continues to rule the box office for the weekend of May 12, 2002.
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Box Office Analysis: May 5 Spider-Man The Scorpion King Life or Something Like It Changing Lanes The Rookie Hollywood Ending
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Box Office Analysis: April 28
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Martin Grove's analysis of the weekend's box office results for April 21, 2002.
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Imagine former Survivor winners Richard and Tina going head-to-head in an all-star tournament
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Box office analysis: April 14 Changing Lanes Frailty The Sweetest Thing Panic Room Ice Age The Rookie
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Box office analysis: April 7
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Box office analysis: March 31
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Box office analysis: March 24
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Box office analysis March 17
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Ray Romano talks about his latest role as Manny the Mammoth in Ice Age
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The box office preview of the weekend beginning March 15 Ice Age Ray Romano Denis Leary Showtime Eddie Murphy Robert De Niro Rene Russo Resident Evil Paul Anderson The Time Machine Simon Wells All About the Benjamins Ice Cube Mike Epps We Were Soliders Mel Gibson 40 Days and 40 Nights Josh Hartnett Kevin Costner Dragonfly Queen of the Damned Denzel Washington John Q Return to Never Land Big Fat Liar Mandy Moore The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Peter Jackson A Beautiful Mind Gosford Park In the Bedroom Ameile Monster's Ball Halle Berry
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Yesterdays first annual Love Rocks concert honored U2 singer Bono received Tom Cruise Kevin Spacey Sean Penn Ray Romano Drew Carey No Doubt Lauryn Hill R.E.M.
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The People's Choice Awards were given out Sunday--Friends ER Jennifer Aniston Kelsey Grammer Ray Romano Tom Hanks Julia Roberts Eddie Murphy Shrek
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U2 Alicia Keys Nelly Furtado Aaliyah
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Following is a news roundup for December 5 mentioning the keywords Elizabeth Hurley Steve Bing Bono U2 Bill Maher Smothers Brothers Whoopi Goldberg South Park Trey Parker Matt Stone Metallica James Hetfield ABC News NBC Tom Brokaw Frank Sinatra Drew Carey Ray Romano Patricia Heaton West Wing Buffy the Vampire Slayer Third Watch Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator Charlie's Angels Cameron Diaz
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Actor/comedian Ray Romano, speaking to Entertainment Tonight, about the success of Everybody Loves Raymond and the show's favorable Emmy buzz.
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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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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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SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 5, 2000 -- American audiences agree: Nothing is more potent than the combo of greed and fame.
ABC's sign-of-the-time gameshow "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" clobbered its May sweeps competition with its just-concluded celebrity installments that ran nightly from Monday to Thursday. Wednesday's edition, in fact, gave the network its biggest audience for a nonsports show since 1983.
With the impressive results, word is that ABC's already planning to bring back the stars for another sweeps run in November.
"The ratings was great, the celebrities had a lot of fun, and it was for charity," ABC spokeswoman Mozell Miley told Hollywood.com today. "The idea [of an encore celeb week] has been considered, but it hasn't been confirmed."
Here's a final rundown of how this week's celebrity contestants did (all winnings went to the players' cha
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 17, 2000 -- Whether the Olympics or network television, it's a cutthroat world out there. This from ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" files: NBC and CBS are reportedly asking their network stars to not appear on special celebrity episodes of the Regis Philbin phenom, Daily Variety reports.
But viewers will be treated to 10 former U.S. Olympic athletes.
Last spring, funnyman Ray Romano from CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond," "X-Files" G-man David Duchovny of Fox, and Vivica A. Fox from the CBS series "City of Angels" appeared on "Millionaire" alongside such notables as Lance Bass of 'N Sync and Queen Latifah to high ratings.
Variety reports that Martin Sheen of NBC's "The West Wing" and Conan O'Brien tentatively agreed to appear this time around but backed out after NBC officials suggested otherwise.
The scheduled TV celebrities so far are
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Actress Katharine Hepburn will probably be released by the weekend, Reuters reports.
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TV industry analysts are not concerned about the trend by network executives to pay stars of successful series million-dollar salaries in order to keep them.
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Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano is closing in on a $40 million-plus contract that would pay him nearly $800,000 per episode and extend his CBS sitcom for another two years.
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CBS chief Les Moonves said Wednesday that the network plans to produce a celebrity version of Survivor that would likely include network sitcom stars Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) and Kevin James (King of Queens), L.A. Lakers star Kobe Bryant and actor/singer Frank Stallone.
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HOLLYWOOD, March 2, 2001 - SNL front man Will Ferrell and "Sex in the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker doubled their fun when the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards nominations were announced yesterday. Each actor/funny person got two nominations.
Parker was nominated for funniest female performer in a TV series (leading role) for "Sex." She was also nominated for in the TV special category, for her hosting of the "2000 MTV Movie Awards." Parker received a Golden Globe earlier this year.
Ferrell, whose impersonations of President Bush on SNL are hugely popular, got his two noms in the funniest male performer in a TV special and funniest supporting male performer in a TV series categories.
Competing against Parker for funniest female performer in a TV series (leading role) are Debra Messing for "Will & Grace" and Jane Kaczmarek for "Malcolm in the Middle."
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 25, 2001 -- The readers of TV Guide magazine chose their favorites in television when the TV Guide Awards were handed out Saturday in a ceremony that paired standard award-show fare with participation from the viewing audience. (Don't worry -- you haven't missed it. The show doesn't air until March 7.)
The winners announced on Saturday were selected by the magazine's readership of some 34 million people, who either mailed in ballots or voted online. The winner of one category, favorite TV moment of the year, was not announced; instead, TV Guide readers and Web users will vote for the winner during the broadcast of the awards show on March 7 at 8pm EST on Fox.
For the top honors, readers picked "The West Wing" as best television drama and "Everybody Loves Raymond" as the best comedy show. Martin Sheen won the best actor in a drama for "The West Wing" and Am
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HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 21, 2001 - From sitcoms to cinema, the friendship between TV titans Ray Romano and Kevin James has held strong, and now the funnymen are bringing their talents to the movie world.
TV Guide has reported that Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond") and James ("The King Of Queens") are gearing up for writer/director Jon Favreau's ("Swingers") new comedy, "Bridge and Tunnel." In the film, Romano will play a doctor in Queens who is recently separated from his wife, while James will play his personal trainer, who repeatedly tries to jolt the doctor from his depression.
Romano has described the film as a "sort of buddy picture -- a 'Swingers' for the thirtysomething/fortysomething crowd." Favreau, who the comedians contacted due to their love of "Swingers," says of the pair: "These two have a lot over most stand-ups that I've seen in film --- a lot of chemistry together
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HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1, 2000 - This one just gets weirder and weirder. Now in its 27th year, the People's Choice Awards have announced their nominees and the results are even more worth a recount than that mess in Florida.
Culled by a nationwide Gallup poll of 213 million Americans, according to Reuters reports, the voters picked "The Patriot," "Remember the Titans" and "The Green Mile" as best film nominees. But the problem is, "The Green Mile," starring Tom Hanks, was released last year. Hmmm.
The award show, which honors those in film, music and TV, will pay tribute to favorites like Mel Gibson, Britney Spears and, um, Alabama.
On the TV front, Michael Richards ("The Michael Richards Show") and John Goodman ("Normal, Ohio") are each nominated in the favorite male performer in a new TV series category along with "Ed's" Tom Cavanagh -- despite the fact that these sho
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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24, 2000 -- Will Will Truman get lucky? Will Chandler and Monica tie the knot? Will Dawson and Pacey make up? And what's up with "Popular"?!
Those are some of the questions that have been posed and that will be answered during the fall season of television.
Herein is a critique of the fall seasons of 10 TV series that Hollywood.com staffers watch on a weekly basis:
"Will & Grace," NBC, Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET
Is "Will & Grace," the as-of-late-sometimes-hilarious sitcom about a gay man named Will Truman (Eric McCormack, who looks tan and really sexy this season), his best gay friend Jack McFarland (the always funny, over the top Emmy winner Sean Hayes), his best female friend Grace Adler (Debra Messing), and her lush of a socialite "employee" Karen Walker (Emmy winner Megan Mullally), falling from, er, grace this season? "Will & Grace" sadly ha
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 11, 2000 -- It was a golden evening for the Screen Actors Guild on Emmy night. Celebrities such as Emmy winner Jack Lemmon (for “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays With Morrie”) along with John Lithgow, David Schwimmer and James Cromwell arrived at the 52nd Annual Emmy Awards red carpet pre-show Sunday night at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium donning gold ribbons in support of the SAG strike.
SAG had requested that its members and others wear the ribbons in support of the long-running strike in response to actions to end royalty payments for commercials.
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series winner Linwood Boomer (“Malcolm in the Middle”) was the only Emmy winner to speak about the SAG strike during the telecast. Boomer concluded his acceptance speech by saying,” I left my yellow [sic] ribbon at home, but I love you guys. Don’t give up.”
According to Th
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 10, 2000 -- Leave it to the insurance types with their legal babble to ruin everything -- and that's including "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
Reports today say that Buena Vista Entertainment, the ABC/Disney production wing behind the champion game show, has been taken to the British High Court of Justice by its London-based insurers. Why? The smarty-pants types at the insurance firm of Goshawk Syndicate feel that the quiz-show's questions have just gotten too bloody easy. So easy that, the Goshawk folks fear, the show will be minting too many millionaires -- a scenario equivalent to a depthless money pit for an insurer.
Simply put, the Goshawk camp wants out of its contract with ABC -- and nothing short of a ruling by the crown is going to stop the company from getting it.
Here's the breakdown of the financial implications for Goshawk if
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2000 -- The infectious bug that has been plaguing TV series of late -- you know, the "I feel that my time with the show is up and I've decided to move on" epidemic -- has claimed another victim.
The latest casualty is none other than "Veronica's Closet's" Kathy Najimy. Trade papers report today that the actress, who plays Olive, Veronica's (Kirstie Alley) trusted sidekick and confidant, will bid farewell to the NBC comedy at the end of this season.
Najimy tells Variety that her decision to leave the show is based purely on personal reasons. With "Veronica's Closet" behind, Najimy reportedly plans to spend more time with her 3-year-old daughter, not to mention more of the same said time on a would-be "feature career."
Of course, the concept of "leaving" "Veronica's Closet" might become a moot point. The unbeloved comed