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5. John F. Kennedy, Jr.- July 16, 1999 Jfk2 John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of the 35th president, died along with his wife Carolyn Bessette when their plane crashed into the Atlantic en route to Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy was piloting his Pipier Saratoga II HP on a dark and hazy night when the crash occurred. It is believed that Kennedy, who had not yet been qualified for instrument flight rules conditions, was likely disoriented by the conditions.

Don’t get me wrong. I have no objection to anyone choosing to be a vegetarian, a Vegan, or pro-Ana for that matter. Short of cannibalism by murder, everyone should eat — and not eat — whatever they want to.I was married to a vegetarian and was a vegetarian, myself for five years — after my divorce. I even wrote an article in 1986 regarding my ignored suggestions to McDonalds and Burger King that they could get customers like me in — who wasn’t frequenting their fine establishments because nothing was offered for my wife — by putting veggie patties...

Striped bikinis never go out of fashion. They are a classic, and ideal for a glamorous poolside look. Kelly Brock Kim Kardashian

A posh pet shop that has peddled dogs to Paris and Britney is headed to court over some sick puppies. A fraud and false advertising lawsuit against Pets of Bel Air claims animals the store said were from private breeders actually came from puppy mills and were less than healthy and hardy.

March 10, 2008 In Defense of Celebrities By David Gibberman I never thought that anyone would have to defend celebrities. But I've noticed an increasing disconnect between what we know must be true about celebrities and how they're portrayed in the media. For example, we know that most celebrities are committed to combating global warming. So why do we keep hearing only about the few celebrities who compound the problem by driving gas-guzzling limousines, flying in private planes, and owning multiple mansions? Worse, why do we keep hearing only about the few celebrities who think that they can buy their...

I am one of those people who actually thought Britney and Kevin would make it. I mean, what's not to work: young, immature, rich too fast, talentless Louisiana small town girl, meets two timing, scum bag, cigarette smoking loser and fall madly in love for the entire world to see in their underwear on Hawaii's beaches. It's the stuff romance novels are made of. But, I digress. Back to the point of the article. I believe that Britney, Paris, and Lindsay are uniquely positioned to be future world leaders and here's why:

Right after that, a documentary against the Iraq war and GITMO are announced in a second award category. Is this outrageous, or is it me? Having the military introduce a film on same sex issues given the don't ask don't tell policy, and then have it followed by anti Iraq war, anti WOT films is political and using the troops as pawns IMHO. Quote from the winner: Let's hope we move this country away from the dark side. . .

Normally, I wouldn’t think of endorsing a presidential candidate. After all, who would care what I think? But faced with the stampede of celebrity endorsements for various candidates, I figured I know at least as much about politics as these luminaries. Why shouldn’t I endorse someone? Of course, the decision to announce an endorsement is freighted with responsibility. How is one to choose? At this stage of the game, the options have narrowed. Many worthy candidates have already dropped out. Former senator John Edwards’ (D-N.C.) plan to sue America into prosperity offered the promise of riches to every undeserving sloth...

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January 8 - Yvonne De Carlo, actress (Lily on the "Munsters"), age 84 January 10 - Carlo Ponti, producer ("Doctor Zhivago") and husband of Sophia Loren, age 94 January 14 - Darlene Conley, actress (Sally Spectra on "Bold and the Beautiful") age 72 January 16 - Ron Carey, actor (Ofc. Carl Levitt on "Barney Miller") age 71 January 17 - Art Buchwald, columnist for the Washington Post, age 81 January 19 - Denny Doherty, singer in the original Mamas and the Papas, age 66 January 20 - Sen. George Smathers, former U.S. Senator and confidant to several Presidents, age 93...

Stars who spout 'pseudo-science should check their facts first'By FIONA MACRAE - More by this author » Last updated at 23:29pm on 2nd January 2008  Nicole Kidman: Criticised for promoting a computer brain workout programme   When your name's Nicole Kidman or Gwyneth Paltrow, everyone wants to hear what you have to say. But before holding forth on their favourite remedy, celebrities should get their facts straight, experts say. The two Hollywood actresses, along with the TV presenter Gillian McKeith and fashion designer Stella McCartney, are singled out by a charity founded to increase the public's understanding of scientific...

Liza Minnelli collapsed during a show in Gothenburg on Wednesday night. The singer and actress was performing at the city's Scandinavium arena when she was taken ill just before 11pm. The Cabaret star sang three songs before dropping the microphone and falling off the stage, according to Göteborgs-Posten. Concert promoter Mikael Silverskiöld of Svensk Nöjesutveckling confirmed that the Oscar winner had fallen ill: "Liza Minnelli collapsed during a show at Scandinavium in Gothenburg, and doctors were called," he said in a statement. Silverskiöld said she was caught by the show's production manager and was not injured in the fall. Minnelli's...

New York Daily News' List of Dumbest People in Hollywood 1. Lindsay Lohan — poor movie choices ("I Know Who Killed Me"), delinquent behavior and bad taste in men. 2. Kim Kardashian — because it is sad when you leak your sex tape and nobody cares. 3. Spencer Pratt — who thinks his life on MTV's "The Hills" is reality - and believes we think so, too. 4. Jeff Kwatinetz — the man that gave the OK for Britney Spears' disastrous MTV Video Music Awards performance. 5. Shia LaBeouf — the 21-year-old "Transformers" star, for getting arrested while refusing to...

By Burt Prelutsky I used to believe that one of the reasons that a lot of the male movie stars of the 30s and 40s drank so much was out of guilt that they were making more money in a week than most Americans earned in a year, and that even in the middle of the Great Depression they were living like royalty. But I also suspected that they turned to alcohol partly out of shame because they were engaged in what would generally have been regarded as a passive, feminine occupation -- playing dress up, being told what to...

There have been so many debates and interviews and columns and profiles and polls, it’s hard to believe the election for president is still about 11 months away. Recently, celebrity endorsements have been making news, with Oprah Winfrey saying she would campaign for Barack Obama and Barbra Streisand making the not-so-stunning announcement that she was supporting Hillary Clinton. There are reasons, of course, why candidates welcome such help. First, there’s the bonanza of free publicity. With so many names and faces vying for attention, what could be better than the burst of news such endorsements bring? There’s also the burst...

There have been so many debates and interviews and columns and profiles and polls, it’s hard to believe the election for president is still about 11 months away. Recently, celebrity endorsements have been making news, with Oprah Winfrey saying she would campaign for Barack Obama and Barbra Streisand making the not-so-stunning announcement that she was supporting Hillary Clinton... ...the question remains: do these endorsements really translate into votes?...

Hollywood socialite Nicole Richie has lent her voice to a campaign to stop dogs peeing on lamp posts. When Paris Hilton's dog-loving pal learned of Swedish inventor Lennart Järlebro's plans to design a urinal for dogs, she immediately vowed to spread the word in the United States. "This invention is just so clever. It's a cute rubber cup attached to the post and a hose that pipes urine into the gutter," Richie, 26, told the Daily Star. Lennart Järlebro began designing a toilet for dogs after reading a newspaper report about the corrosive effects of dogs' urine on lamp posts....

This is the list of "The 50 Greatest TV Icons," compiled by cable's TV Land and the writers of Entertainment Weekly magazine. It will fuel a two-hour special on the network airing Friday at 8 p.m. EST, as well as a feature story in the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly...

...I reread " Ten Days That Shook the World," the famed account of the revolution by John Reed, the American journalist and fellow traveler. Then...last week's press reports of the recent encounter between Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president, and Naomi Campbell...The Western weakness for other people's revolutionary violence, the belief in the glamour and benevolence of foreign dictators, and the insistence on seeing both through the prism of Western political debates, are still very much with us. ...Though better known for her taste in shoes than for her opinions about Latin American economics, Campbell nevertheless turned up in Caracas gushing...

As if Britney Spears didn't have enough problems, now she's got snarky Jihadists wanting her head on a platter, y'all. And Madonna's too! According to Aaron Klein's new book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists," the wackadoodle haters are as celebrity obsessed as any blueblooded TMZ readers! In an interviews with hater Muhammad Abdel-Al (you can't call him "Al"), drab Abdel said, "If these two prostitutes keep doing what they will do, we of course will punish them... We can stone them and even we can kill them." Were the VMAs broadcast on Al Jazeera? There are some celebs they actually like; Richard...

Hollywood star Bill Murray has spoken out about the events that led to him leaving a blood sample at a Stockholm police station last month. While speaking to the press at the Venice Film Festival, Murray was asked by a Swedish journalist to explain just what he was doing driving around Stockholm city centre in a golf cart. "A friend of mine, Jesper Parnevik, invited me to play in a pro-am golf tournament in Stockholm. I was driven to a party celebrating the event in a golf cart," Murray said. "After the party, the people that drove in the golf...

Lohan To Do Hard Time BEVERLY HILLS, Calif - Lindsay Lohan reached a plea deal Thursday on misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges that calls for her to spend one day in jail, serve 10 days of community service and complete a drug treatment program. Upon hearing her sentence the troubled star fell to her knees, screaming hysterically "OH MY GOD NO NO NO NOOOOOOO! Onlookers say guards then drug Lohan from the courtroom as she screamed for her mother. Michael Vick To Plead Guilty RICHMOND, Va - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick will not admit to killing dogs or...

They say celebrity scandals are about "integrity." Where do you get that? Two eternal puzzles: What came first, the chicken or the egg? What came second, Barry Bonds or numbskull celebrities? Much as we'd prefer to ponder the miracles of the egg, life insists that we instead decipher Mr. Bonds, Mr. Vick, Ms. Lohan, Mr. Donaghy's NBA and the drug-addled messieurs of the Tour de France. Wall Street Journal style prefers the prefix "Mr." for all but famous men of history, an admirable but perhaps quaint bow to an era when the world was not filling so fast with individuals...

Paul Simon stumped across Iowa with Chris Dodd 10 days ago, marking the official start to the 2008 Celebrity Primary season; earlier Steven Spielberg endorsed Hillary Clinton, while his fellow Hollywood titan David Geffen shifted his support to Barack Obama. Here's the first in an occasional look at how the stars are coming out in the '08 presidential race: * Jennifer Aniston: $2,300 contribution to Barack Obama. * Hank Azaria Co-hosted an L.A. fundraiser for John Edwards. * George Clooney: Vows support for Obama to Time magazine. Matt Damon: Also tells Time of his support for Obama. * James Denton...

Two of the classiest Oscar winners will be attending this year's Ball for Life May 11.... [A]ctresses Patricia Neal and Celeste Holm will be on hand for this benefit fund-raiser for EMC and Good Counsel Homes, which provide excellent services for women in crisis pregnancies. Both of these marvelous women come from an era when our entertainment culture still retained an element of propriety and good taste sorely absent among today's celebrities. Taking on the battle for the heart and soul of America now requires a Herculean ability to wage war within the venue of pop culture. Dawn Eden and...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter)-Adam Sandler filled in as host of "Late Show With David Letterman" on Tuesday after Letterman went home early with a stomach bug.Sandler was previously booked as the main guest on Tuesday's show to promote his upcoming drama "Reign Over Me," but agreed to host when Letterman fell ill before taping began, CBS said. Sandler's co-star Don Cheadle, in town like Sandler for the movies's premier at New York University, was called in to fill as a guest.

MARCH 16-Comedian Carol Burnett, angered by her portrayal as a janitor in an adult film store in the animated TV show "The family Guy," has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox, the program's distributor.

Hollywood film star Johnny depp's young daughter is seriously ill in hospital, it was reported today.The Mirror newspaper said Depp's seven-year-old daughter Lily-Rose was rushed to a British hospital nine days ago as Depp, 43, took part in filming in the UK.

The day after Al Gore won an Oscar for his crockumentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, which warns that the earth is threatened with horrific catastrophes unless we all cut our energy consumption instantly, it turned out that the real inconvenient truth is that he, like the celebrity eco-warriors is a hypocrite

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2007 – Celebrities attending the 79th Academy Awards last night took time out from posing for the paparazzi and giving dozens of interviews to thank the men and women of the armed forces for their service. Former soldier and award nominee Clint Eastwood expresses his thanks to the men and women of the armed forces before the 79th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, Feb. 25. U.S. Army photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Reserve soldiers from the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment, based in Los Angeles, donned their dress uniforms to step...

A host of Hollywood celebrities have donated $1.3m (£664,000) to Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign at a lavish fund-raiser in Los Angeles.Film producer Steven Spielberg, actor Eddie Murphy and singer Jackson Browne were among those at the event. It comes a year before California holds its primaries in the run-up to the November 2008 presidential elections. The entertainment industry has traditionally been a lucrative source of cash for the Democrats. Tickets for the star-studded reception were sold for $2,300 - the maximum individual donation for a federal campaign. The event, at a Beverly Hills hotel, was organised by Spielberg and...

This has to be the ugliest dress I've ever seen. The fact that she thinks she's "hot" makes it even worse. Fiennes' Frisky Stewardess Speaks: 'What woman wouldn't want to make love with him?'...

TMZ has learned that while Britney Spears checked-in to rehab, she refused to stay and checked out-less than twenty-four hours later!

NEW YORK (AP)--Paula Abdul's spacy behavior on "American Idol" have prompted many to ponder if there;s a tumbler or two of booze in that red cup on the table in front of her on the Fox talent contest.That's nonsense, the 44-year-old "Idol" judge tells Us Weekly magazine in its Feb. 16 issue. "I've never been drunk. I have never done recreational drugs," she says. "Just look at my 20-year-career. Tell me someone who is into partying or doing drugs that could have done that."

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the most spectacular soccer players ever, comes from the infamous, Muslim dominated area of Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden's third biggest city. He presently plays for the major European club of Inter Milan and has formerly been contracted by Juventus, Ajax and Malmö FF among others. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, known as "Ibra" to Italian soccer fans, is one of the very few Muslim immigrants from the Malmö region who've made major success in any area of life (another exception is Hip hop artist Timbuktu - not especially well known in the US though). Many Rosengård Muslims strive to...

Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq. Actor Sean Penn, center, joins fellow anti-war activists as they march past the U.S. Supreme Court to protest the war in Iraq on Saturday. Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their cause with a Congress restive on the war and a country that has turned against the conflict....

Gwyneth Paltrow is "deeply upset" over stories claiming she made anti-American remarks, and tells PEOPLE exclusively that she never said anything against her native country. "First of all I feel so lucky to be American. When you look at the rest of the world, we're so lucky, and that's something my dad always instilled in me," Paltrow tells PEOPLE. "I feel so proud to be American." . . . "I felt so upset to be completely misconstrued and I never, ever would have said that," says the 34-year-old Oscar winner. "I definitely did not say that I think the British...

Yesterday hollywood actress Kirstie Alley revealed how at her heaviest she demolished up to an astonishing 28,000 calories a day. That's the equivalent of two large slices of chocolate cake, a 10oz sirloin steak in butter sauce with chips, 12 fizzy drinks, nine coffees with full-fat milk, salad with creamy dressing, six cups of pasta, pasta sauce and butter, a glass of red wine and a hot chocolate to finish. Kirstie's eating binges meant that she ballooned to 15st at her heaviest. But in a battle to beat the bulge she shed 7st and posed in a bikini on the...

N.Y.'s Russian Tea room reopens, caviar and all 03 Nov 2006 21:35:21 GMT Source: Reuters NEW YORK, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The reopening of New York's iconic Russian Tea Room on Friday should give gourmands depressed about a U.S. ban on wild beluga caviar something to smile about. Chef Gary Robbins, who first visited the restaurant as a child while Christmas shopping with his father and grandfather, said he has been keeping a wealth of wild beluga caviar from the 2005 catch at just below freezing. The United States banned trade in wild caviar last year amid declining global sturgeon...

"patsy994 wrote: Brad Pitt, like so many Hollywood stars is not in touch with the real world. He & all his friends have spent the last five years trashing the president of the U.S.A. and telling the world how ashamed they are of America. What does he expect some drunk over seas to say to him? I was verbally & physically attacked in an Atlanta hospital - in the U.S.A. - where I was a patient because a male nurse ASSUMED I voted for George W. Bush. It was frighting, so frightning I did not say a word and he...

Angelina Jolie is adopting an Indian baby to add to her growing international brood, according to US reports. Sources say the big-hearted actress and partner Brad Pitt have already applied to adopt a tot from an Indian orphanage. An insider said: "They hope to be able to bring the child home by Christmas. "Brad would prefer a boy no older than 18 months to even out the sexes but Angie has told him she can't guarantee she won't fall in love with a little girl." The source told US magazine Globe: "Whichever they end up with, they'd like to name...

A nail in the casket is hardly the end for some stars. Instead, their work, as well as their iconic images, continues to appeal to fans who remember them, and to those born long after they died. The 13 icons on our sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list collectively earned $247 million in the last 12 months. Their estates continue to make money by inking deals involving both their work and the rights to use their name and likenesses on merchandise and marketing campaigns.

Hybrid cars are all the rage in Hollywood. Celebrities drive them like they're a badge of honor. You save a few gallons of gas, you save the planet. Right? Well, not when you hop on a private jet and burn enough fuel to propel NASCAR through 2050. Of course, the stars need to go here and there. The location shoots, the fabulous vacations, etc. But that's why God created United Airlines. G-IV's, on the other hand, were created in the image of precious celebs. Julia Roberts On the ground: Roberts drives a Prius, which gets (at best) 60 miles to...

(CBS) MALIBU Celebrities and coastal residents held a protest in Malibu against a plan to build a massive, floating liquefied natural gas terminal off the coast of Malibu and Oxnard. Actor Pierce Brosnan and big wave surfer Laird Hamilton hosted the "Paddle Out Protest" at Surfrider Beach, near Malibu Pier in an effort to stop the BHP Billiton LNG terminal. Opponents claim storing liquefied natural gas poses a danger since it's highly flammable and explosive. The terminal would also draw huge tankers to the site from foreign countries several times per week and has the potential for significant and irreversible...

Money and power are handy, but millions of ambitious people are after something other than the corner office or the beach house on St. Bart’s. They want to swivel necks, to light a flare in others’ eyes, to walk into a crowded room and feel the conversation stop. They are busy networking, auditioning, talking up their latest project — a screenplay, a memoir, a new reality show — to satisfy a desire so obvious it is all but invisible. “To be noticed, to be wanted, to be loved, to walk into a place and have others care about what you’re...

The IRS wants its cut of any windfall that a taxpayer may be lucky enough to come into – whether winning the state lottery, a new car in church raffle, or “Survivor.” And taxpayers pony up, lest they end up like Richard Hatch, who just started serving the 51-month prison term he got for not paying taxes on the $1 million he won on the first season of the reality show. But for years, one group of very wealthy and very liberal Americans effectively gave themselves a hefty tax cut - while loudly denouncing any tax relief for workaday folk...

My son argues with me almost every time I use the word "treason" to describe the actions of liberals. His response to my use of the word in a recent column was to e-mail me the following: "Treason is very much in the realm of specific acts pertaining to the national security of the nation, and I don't think being a whiny liberal qualifies as treason." Perhaps, but it comes close. Take, for example, the senseless comments of Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks. Maines created a firestorm a couple of years ago by telling a British audience...

"Republican in the dictionary comes just after ‘reptile’ and just before ‘repugnant,’" actress Julia Roberts insightfully observed to the delight of the Radio City Music Hall crowd at the September 14 (2000) DNC fundraisier for Gore-Lieberman. That was just one of several liberal pro-Gore and anti-conservative pronouncements made by actors and actresses." * * * * * * * * * * * *

I may have heard the most ridiculous or one of the most ridiculous things ever on the radio. I was flipping through stations while driving and landed on a liberal host. She was saying how uneducated athletes are because they don't speak out politically. Maybe because unlike Hollywood elite they don't think we want to hear who they support? And it wouldn't make her happy. I know most of the Cubs players. They are very heavily Republican. But they know we want to see them hit and pitch. We don't want to know who they vote for. Okay maybe right...

I might sound a bit conceited with this statement, but to any other person an article about a new SEC rule might have seemed trivial. To me, it was a significant statement about the current American values; and I don't mean a positive statement. In their never ending campaign to create class warfare, the mainstream media, hypocritical wealthy Democrat politicians, Hollywood limousine liberals, and the left in general have regularly expressed a hatred toward corporate CEOs for their "bloated" salaries, benefits, and pensions. There's no rational reason, according to these socialists, for a man to earn in one week what...