Though Morgan Freeman is alive and well, fans of the actor were sent into a panic when a rumour rocketed across the Internet on Thursday that CNN had reported his death. The star died on Thursday — not in real life, but according to a Twitter hoax that duped countless users, reports the New York [...]
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Twitter hoax kills very-much alive Morgan Freeman
December 17th, 2010 |
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Morgan Freeman Dead? Morgan Freeman Death Hoax Rocks Twitter
December 17th, 2010 |
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It started with one random Tweet, now Twitter user @OriginalCJizzle has issued a public apology after he sent Tweeters into a tizzy with a comment that prompted thousands of members of the microblogging hub to believe that actor Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was dead. The Glory star died Thursday — not in real life — [...]
Mario Lopez & Girlfriend Courtney Mazza Welcome Baby Girl Gia!
September 12th, 2010 |
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AC Slater’s a dad! Eighties/Nineties teen heartthrob Mario Lopez — former PEOPLE Magazine “Sexiest Man Alive” and beloved as the womanizing owner of two of the world’s best known dimples — is celebrating fatherhood after welcoming daughter Gia Francesca Lopez in Burbank, California on Saturday.Little Gia is the first tyke for Mario, 36, and his [...]
‘Avatar’ dominates Saturn Awards
June 26th, 2010 |
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James Cameron”s ‘Avatar’ swept Saturn Awards with 10 prizes. The innovative epic won awards for the Best Science Fiction Film, Best Music and Best Special Effects while on the other hand Cameron received the Best Director and Best Writing title, as well as The Visionary Award. The event held by the Academy of Science Fiction, [...]
FlashForward Fans Stage Protests Blackouts
June 14th, 2010 |
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Fans of the recently cancelled ABC series FlashForward staged a mass global protest against the show’s demise on Thursday – – creating mock blackouts in several major cities including New York, London, and Los Angeles to convince network bosses to revive the drama.The program — which starred Joseph Fiennes, Courtney Vance, and Gabrielle Union — [...]
Hanson Chats About New Album “Shout It Out†On “The TODAY Showâ€
April 26th, 2010 |
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Children of the ’90s will almost certainly remember Hanson. The clean-cut and good-natured trio was made up a group of brothers who tasted music stardom with their hit ‘97 single “MMMBop.†(Hated it!) Well Isaac, 29, Taylor, 27, and Zac Hanson, 24, aren’t exactly flopped-haired blondes anymore. These days, the musicians pass their times [...]
Posh’s ex boyfriend dies after ‘drug overdose’
March 11th, 2010 |
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Victoria Beckham’s former boyfriend Corey Haim died from a suspected drugs overdose in Los Angeles.
The Lost Boys actor, 38, who met the Spice Girl in 1995 and romanced her for a month, was found unconscious in a bedroom by his mother Judy, who then called the emergency services.
Haim was later pronounced dead at Providence [...]
Kevin Smith Southwest Airlines Fat Controversy
February 14th, 2010 |
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Kevin Smith — portly star of the Silent Bob films — is not happy about being called a “safety risk” by Southwest Airlines.
The Cop Out director — who also helmed comedy Mallrats and Clerks — took to his Twitter account this weekend to inform his over 1.6 million followers that the airline threw him [...]
“Full House†House For Sale…Asking Price $4 Million!
February 2nd, 2010 |
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There’s a little piece of TV history up for grabs — if you’ve got a cool $4 million laying around. The iconic Tanner house, featured in the intro for the 80s/90s TV smash Full House, is on the market, NBC News has learned.
While all scenes for Full House were shot on the Warner Brothers lot [...]
Spoon: N. American Tour Dates
January 11th, 2010 |
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SPOON ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
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On the eve of the January 19 release of its eagerly anticipated Transference, Spoon has announced the itinerary of its 2010 North American tour. The dates kick off with a March 17 headlining appearance at Stubb’s in Austin as part of the annual South by Southwest conference, and include the band’s first ever headline engagement at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
Transference, the seventh Spoon album and the first produced by the band itself, already has the media salivating in advance notices from The New Yorker to Maxim and all points in between. The record’s release is preceded by first single “Written In Reverse,” released earlier this month both digitally and to independent retail as a vinyl 7″ featuring non-album B-side “Mean Red Spider.”
The album, which also includes Spoon neo-classics “Who Makes Your Money,” “Is Love Forever?” and “The Mystery Zone,” began streaming in its entirety today as an NPR First Listen here.
Spoon will commemorate Transference‘s release with a January 19 appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
Spoon 2010 Tour Dates
01/19/10 Tue The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Burbank, CA
02/14/10 Sun King Tuts Glasgow, GB
02/15/10 Mon Academy 3 Manchester, GB
02/16/10 Tue Electric Ballroom London, GB
02/18/10 Thu The Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
02/19/10 Fri Luxor Koln, GER
02/20/10 Sat FrannzClub Berlin, GER
03/17/10 Wed Stubb’s BBQ Austin, TX
03/18/10 Thu Republic New Orleans New Orleans, LA
03/19/10 Fri WorkPlay Birmingham, AL
03/20/10 Sat The Tabernacle Atlanta, GA
03/22/10 Mon 9:30 Club Washington, DC
03/23/10 Tue 9:30 Club Washington, DC
03/24/10 Wed The National Richmond, VA
03/26/10 Fri Radio City Music Hall New York, NY
03/27/10 Sat House of Blues Boston, MA
03/29/10 Mon The Sound Academy Toronto, ON
03/30/10 Tue Royal Oak Music Theatre Royal Oak, MI
04/01/10 Thu Aragon Ballroom Chicago, IL
04/02/10 Fri First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
04/03/10 Sat First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
04/05/10 Mon Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
04/06/10 Tue Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
04/07/10 Wed In The Venue Salt Lake City, UT
04/09/10 Fri Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
04/10/10 Sat Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
04/11/10 Sun Orpheum Theatre Vancouver, BC
04/13/10 Tue Fox Theatre Redwood City, CA
“Written In Reverse” from Transference:
Charlie Sheen goes back to Hollywood, while wife stays in Aspen
January 4th, 2010 |
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From Monday onwards, Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke Mueller will be living 900 miles apart for at least the next month.
While the ‘Two And A Half Men’ star would return to his Two and a Half Men set in Burbank, Brooke will remain in their Aspen vacation rental with twin sons Bob and Max, [...]
Norah Jones: 2010 Tour Dates
December 3rd, 2009 |
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NORAH JONES ANNOUNCES 2010 U.S. TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF HER ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM THE FALL
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Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones has announced U.S. tour dates in support of her critically-acclaimed new album The Fall, which was released by EMI’s Blue Note Records on November 17. The 36-city tour will kick off March 5, 2010. All tour dates listed below. A select number of shows will go on sale beginning Friday, December 4. Ticketing information is available here.
Jones is also premiering several remixes from The Fall this week. On December 1, RCRD LBL presented “That’s What I Said (The NYC Remix by Adrock and Mike D).” On December 2, Stereogum presented “Chasing Pirates (Santigold and Snotty Remix).” On December 3, Artist Direct will present “Chasing Pirates (Droogs Remix),” which was created by a remix collective that included Beck. The remixes will be released digitally and on vinyl on January 12, 2010.
“We decided to have people I admire do some remixes,” Jones recently told Entertainment Weekly. “[Adrock and Mike D of] Beastie Boys did one, and Beck, and Santigold.” Jones first collaborated with Beastie Boys during the 2008 presidential election when they recruited her for their Get Out The Vote concerts, which also included Santigold. Jones also appeared in the season finale of 30 Rock this past May along with Mike D and Adrock. Jones and Beck first met when they performed together on KCRW’s holiday concert in 2002.
The Fall finds Jones experimenting with a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River‘s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris. King also helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer).
Norah Jones Tour Dates
12/15/09 Tue The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Burbank, CA
12/16/09 Wed Jimmy Kimmel Live Los Angeles, CA
03/05/10 Fri Brady Theater Tulsa, OK
03/06/10 Sat Midland Theatre Kansas City, MO
03/07/10 Sun Orpheum Theatre Omaha, NE
03/09/10 Tue Civic Center Des Moines, IA
03/11/10 Thu EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall Akron, OH
03/12/10 Fri Whitney Hall Louisville, KY
03/13/10 Sat The Murat Theatre Indianapolis, IN
03/15/10 Mon Overture Center for Arts Madison, WI
03/19/10 Fri Riverside Theater Milwaukee, WI
03/20/10 Sat The Chicago Theatre Chicago, IL
03/25/10 Thu Wang Center Boston, MA
03/26/10 Fri MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods Mashantucket, CT
03/27/10 Sat WaMu Theater At Madison Square Garden New York, NY
03/30/10 Tue Lyric Opera House Baltimore, MD
04/01/10 Thu The Paramount Theater Charlottesville, VA
04/02/10 Fri Warner Theatre Washington, DC
04/03/10 Sat Tower Theater Upper Darby, PA
04/18/10 Sun Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA
04/19/10 Mon Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Portland, OR
04/21/10 Wed The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
04/23/10 Fri Orpheum Theatre Los Angeles, CA
04/24/10 Sat Spreckels Theater San Diego, CA
04/25/10 Sun Dodge Theatre Phoenix, AZ
04/28/10 Wed Kiva Auditorium Albuquerque, NM
04/29/10 Thu Plaza Theater El Paso, TX
05/01/10 Sat Stubb’s BBQ Austin, TX
05/04/10 Tue Majestic Theatre Dallas, TX
05/05/10 Wed Verizon Wireless Theater Houston, TX
05/06/10 Thu Saenger Theatre Mobile, AL
05/08/10 Sat Orpheum Theater Memphis, TN
05/09/10 Sun Alabama Theatre Birmingham, AL
05/11/10 Tue Thomas Wolfe Auditorium Asheville, NC
05/12/10 Wed Ovens Auditorium Charlotte, NC
05/14/10 Fri Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN
05/15/10 Sat Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Atlanta, GA
Praise for The Fall
“Jones is standing tall on The Fall… A terrific batch of songs that smartly address her recent romantic travails.” — USA Today
“Jones sounds more confident and stretches her songwriting muscle… Her continued growth as a writer, not just as singer, brings another exciting dimension to The Fall.” — Associated Press
“The Fall has been billed as Norah Jones’ rock album. In fact, it’s something even more surprising: a hot-blooded soul record.” — SPIN
Pamela Bach Arrested For DUI
November 30th, 2009 |
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Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, the former wife of trouble-prone actor David Hasselhoff, was taken into custody for suspicion of driving under the influence on Saturday night.
Pamela, 42, was arrested and taken to a jail in Van Nuys, where she spent several hours before she was released early Sunday, The Los Angeles Police Department said.
In March, Pamela was [...]
JLo, Marc Anthony in £3m court battle over dog bite
November 21st, 2009 |
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Jennifer Lopez and her hubby Marc Anthony are in legal trouble, all because of their dog.
The couple is facing a 3-million-pound lawsuit launched by an airhostess who claims she was bitten by Anthony’s guard dog.
According to court papers, Lisa Wilson, 40, has claimed that the military-trained German shepherd attacked her while she was working on [...]
Miley Cyrus Stiffs On Tip At Outback Steakhouse
October 12th, 2009 |
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Miley Cyrus has a thing or two to learn about tippping. The Hannah Montana star — who clocked $25 million last year — got $70 worth of steak and mac and cheese for herself and sister Brandi at the Outback Steakhouse in Burbank last Sunday only to leave without dropping a tip. A spywitness tells [...]
Conan O’Brien Banned From New Jersey By Mayor Of Newark
October 2nd, 2009 |
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker widened Conan O’Brien’s from Newark to all of New Jersey in a YouTube video posted on Thursday afternoon.
The “feud” began when The Tonight Show host blasted Newark while talking about the city’s proposed new healthcare plan. As a result of the insult, a livid Booker banned Conan from Newark International Airport, [...]
Kanye West Expected To Appear On “The Jay Leno Show,†Despite Taylor Swift Fallout
September 14th, 2009 |
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Kanye West will be on-hand for the premiere of Jay Leno’s primetime series this Monday night –- and hopefully this time, he’ll manage to keep his lips zipped.
With any luck, maybe a few audience hecklers will toss some tomatoes at him….
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Kanye will still make his scheduled appearance on the debut of The Jay Leno Show [...]
How Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video Was Restored, Archived
August 6th, 2009 |
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Lowry Digital and JMR Electronics team up to restore and archive brittle, 40-year-old NASA footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing so that future generations will always have a clear look at space pioneering history. The NASA footage is edited on a Mac Pro Final Cut workstation and stored on JMR’s 16TB BlueStor storage array.
– The phone rang a few weeks ago at JMR Electronics, in Chatsworth, Calif. On the line was a company called Lowry Digital, of nearby Burbank, Calif., a pioneering expert in film and video restoration.
Lowry Digital was working on a rather unusual deadline job at the request of
NASA: The 1969 video…
Euna Lee Laura Ling Return Home From North Korea
August 5th, 2009 |
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Former President Bill Clinton accompanied Laura Ling and Euna Lee as they arrived back in the United States Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the journalists were pardoned and released from a North Korean prison by leader Kim Jong Il.
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Moments after their jet landed [...]