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Diane Sawyer Leaving “Good Morning America;” Replacing Charles Gibson On “World News”

Diane Sawyer is leaving Good Morning America. Sawyer bids farewell to her post at GMA as she prepares to join Brian Williams and Katie Couric in the nightly news race in January. Sawyer will be replacing Charlie Gibson on ABC’s World News, Media Bistro has learned.

“Diane’s presence will certainly be missed on Good Morning America. [...]

Ryan O’Neal Left Menopausal Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett’s longtime boyfriend has opened up about their 1998 breakup — Ryan O’Neal admits he left the late Charlie’s Angels star for a younger woman because she was going through menopause.

The Paper Moon star couldn’t deal with the changes his girlfriend of more than 20 years was going through at the time so he [...]

Farrah Fawcett Will Snubs Ryan O’Neal

Farrah Fawcett has left none of her multimillion fortune to her longtime lover Ryan O’Neal, it has emerged.

The Charlie’s Angels star, who died of cancer at 62 last month, bequeathed a large sum of money to the couple’s drug-addicted 24-year-old son, Redmond, but willed nothing to her on-again/off-again partner of nearly thirty years, The [...]

Charlie Crist’s Office Mistakenly Praises Nazi Film

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Despite the content of a letter bearing his signature, Gov. Charlie Crist does not want to share an anti-Semitic movie with all Floridians.

Crist’s office sent a letter thanking John Ubele for providing the governor …

Does it send you down the rabbit hole?

It’s got Johnny Depp as a frightwigged Mad Hatter, a Stephen Fry-voiced Cheshire Cat and a grown-up Alice – are you intrigued or turned off?

We’ve already been treated to a glimpse of what Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is going to look like, thanks to a series of stills that emerged earlier this year. But here is the first teaser trailer, featuring a healthy dose of Johnny Depp sporting a particularly lurid ginger frightwig as the Mad Hatter.

It’s also our first look at the Cheshire Cat, which will be voiced by Stephen Fry, the fearsome Jabberwock (Christopher Lee) and the Knave of Hearts (the horribly underused Crispin Glover). Burton’s Alice, played by Australian newcomer Mia Wasikowska, is 10 years older than Lewis Carroll’s creation, which should allow for a slightly darker, more adult take on Wonderland. But don’t expect anything too racy: this is, after all, a Disney movie.

By the looks of the trailer, the CGI work on the film is satisfyingly vivid and hyper-real. Depp seems to have adopted the camp mannerisms of a certain Captain Jack Sparrow, but shifted his accent from cockney seadog territory towards something rather more eccentrically upper class. It should be remembered, of course, that the actor is more than capable of fouling up an otherwise perfectly decent movie with an unnecessarily eccentric performance – I’m thinking of his Michael Jackson impersonation in Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory here – just as he maintains the ability to make slightly average fare transcend its genre parameters (as with the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie).

His Mad Hatter looks pretty fun and fairly sensible, though, wouldn’t you agree? Does this teaser make you want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes when Alice in Wonderland hits cinemas in March next year?

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Joan E. Dowlin: A Love Affair: Sharon Gless and the Gay Community

The audience cheered as a montage of Gless’ acting roles ended with her as Debbie Novotny, a beloved and outspoken mother of a gay son in Showtime’s Queer as Folk.

Celeb Tattoos Of Lovers’ Names: After The Breakup (PHOTOS)

Angelina and Billy Bob, Denise and Charlie, Johnny and Winona….at one point these relationships seemed so enduring to the parties involved that they got each other names tattooed on their bodies. Alas, the ink outlasted their love, with anot…

Emmy nominations 2009

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tina Fey’s urbane sitcom “30 Rock” received a leading 22 Emmy Award nominations Thursday, while the ’60s retro series “Mad Men” led the drama pack with 16 bids.
The shows were honored last year as best comedy and drama and have a chance to repeat the performance at September’s awards.
The TV movies [...]

Diaz credits parents” 39-year marriage for Hollywood success

Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz credits her parents’ 39-year marriage for her success in Hollywood.
The 36-year-old star, who lost her father to pneumonia last year, still believes that the long-lasting love her parents shared is one of the key contributors to her sterling on-screen success today.
“It’’s a bond that is so true, so pure, and so [...]

Alana Stewart To Publish Farrah Fawcett Cancer Diary “My Journey With Farrah”

Alana Stewart, Farrah Fawcett’s best friend of more than 30 years, is publishing a diary she kept of the late actress’ battle cancer.

The iconic pinup model and star of the ’70s series Charlie’s Angels died June 25 after a lengthy fight against anal cancer. She was 62.
My Journey With Farrah will be released through publisher [...]

Jared Kushner: “I Found The [Observer] Unbearable To Read” Before I Bought It”

The Kushners had never been lovers of newspapers, to say the least. Charlie and Jared blamed papers in general and more specifically the Newark Star-Ledger for besmirching the family name. The Kushners respected the Observer’s elite readership…

Kim Morgan: Be My Bloody Baby, Marty

I miss New York City. I miss the New York City I’ve never seen — the one I’ve only seen in movies. And after…