Monday, September 08, 2008
Featured
Help for NYC woman Rihanna championed
March 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A leukemia patient in dire need of a bone marrow transplant reportedly has found a donor after Grammy-winning singer Rihanna publicized her case. “The English language does not have words that are adequate to thank someone for working to save your life,” Lisa Gershowitz Flynn of New York wrote in an e-mail to supporters Thursday, People.com reported. Flynn, a 41-year-old lawyer and mother of two small children, was diagnosed in November 2007 with acute myelogenous leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood... [Read the full story]
Movie
‘Sopranos’ movie rumor revealed
March 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Hold the poles! Is a Sopranos movie in the works? The real-life manager of the strip club that fronted for the Bada Bing on HBO’s “The Sopranos” thinks there might be. Satin Dolls manager Nick D’Urso says he’s holding off on renovations to the strip club in Lodi, N.J., after getting a tip that a movie would be made. He wouldn’t name the tipster. An HBO spokeswoman says there’s no truth to the rumor that plans are in the works for a film about Tony Soprano and his mob crew. As first... [Read the full story]
Music
Justin Timberlake’s ‘Problem’ with women
March 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Justin Timberlake — who isn’t exactly hurting from lack of attention from women — is producing an NBC pilot about a bachelor who strikes out with the ladies. The Grammy-winning pop star is an executive producer on “My Problem with Women,” which follows thirtysomething Jose as he attempts to understand his romantic failures through therapy sessions, Reveille Studios announced Friday. The show is based on “Mi Problema con las Mujeres,” a Peruvian TV comedy. Reveille, the production company... [Read the full story]
Tv
No new sitcom for Jerry Seinfeld
March 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Sorry, “Seinfeld” fans. NBC and Jerry Seinfeld shot down a New York Post report Friday that the comic was in talks with the network about a new sitcom. The report, citing no sources, said Seinfeld would play himself in a New York series similar to “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” “There’s nothing to it,” said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks. Seinfeld’s spokeswoman, Elizabeth Clark Zoia, also said the story was completely false. “We appreciate the enthusiasm, however,” she... [Read the full story]
Entertainment
Presley: Not happy to announce pregnancy
March 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Lisa Marie Presley wanted to keep her pregnancy private, but felt she had to say something when photos of her looking heavier were ridiculed in the news media. “After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant,” the 40-year-old singer wrote on her MySpace page. Presley and her husband, music producer Michael Lockwood, are... [Read the full story]
Fashion
Spanish Designer Robert Verino Celebrates 25 Years
Spanish designers don’t generally get much ink in the U.S., and Madrid’s fashion week doesn’t have quite the same clout as Milan, London or Paris, yet. But Spanish... [Read more]
Roberto Verino brings his Spanish style to New York
Amid curtains of black lace and silk rose petal-covered carpets, Spanish designer Roberto Verino showed a 25-year retrospective of his work that he hopes will launch him into the... [Read more]
Stones guitarist is new frontman for Louis Vuitton
Rolling Stones guitarist and rock-and-roll bad boy Keith Richards is to become the new public face of Louis Vuitton, the French luxury fashion house said. For his first ever ad... [Read more]
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Gossip/Celebrity
OJ Simpson trial pushed back to September
Disgraced former football star O.J. Simpson won’t be tried on armed robbery and kidnapping charges until September, giving Simpson and two co-defendants six more months to... [Read more]
L.A. Fashion Week: Celebrity by design
Just as L.A. Fashion Week took a step forward, the celeb-as-designer trend seems to have sent it two steps back. Though the presence of bigger and more legitimate designers has... [Read more]
Spears’ father gets $2,500 per week
Being Britney Spears’ father is now a paying gig — through most of the summer, at least. A court has ordered the troubled pop star’s estate to pay James Spears’... [Read more]
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Sex Stories
Someone keeps sending Britney Spears packages of sex toys with the names of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie written on the outside of the boxes reports OK!... [Read more]
Talk about sex to most adults and they’ll start sniggering and making embarrassed jokes. So imagine what it must have been like for the latest teenage... [Read more]
oo-la-la! According to the new “Study of Sexuality in France” both the number of partners and diversity of sexual activity has significantly... [Read more]
American men have doubled the amount of housework they do and may be having better sex because of it, experts said Thursday. “By and large, the more... [Read more]