October 06, 2005
Jack Osbourne wants to fly to the moon.
The reality TV star is in talks with NASA to join their next mission to the moon in 2018. Jack, 19, is desperate to sign up for inter-galactic trip and wants to use the proposed space odyssey to promote the Macmillan Cancer Relief and his mother Sharon's charity the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program.
He said: "Going to the moon would be amazing. The training's hardcore but I could handle it". Jack is not the only celebrity currently in talks with NASA to join their lunar expedition. Tom Hanks is reportedly begging the space agency to let him take part in the mission and fulfill his dream of walking on the moon. The 'Apollo 13' star - who recently wrote and produced new movie 'Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon' - has always been a supporter of NASA and space travel.
He is said to be hoping the agency will repay him by letting him join the crew on the moon mission. However, according to reports, NASA sources say Hanks' age and height will count against him. The Oscar-winning star will be 62-years-old when the shuttle launches - and at 6 feet 1 inches tall, the actor is too tall to be an astronaut.
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Lisa Ling has called off her 8-month engagement to media entrepreneur Philip Levine.
Ling — a former co-host on "The View" who left the daytime chatfest in 2002 to host "National Geographic Ultimate Explorer" — spends most of her time shuttling between L.A. and New York, while Levine is based in Miami. And, like many long-distance relationships, the Ling/Levine fling was destined to fail. Those craving dishy details should look elsewhere: the split was described by one friend of Ling's as "amicable."
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I Know What You Did Last Summer star Freddie Prinze Jr. woke with a cracked rib yesterday morning - and he has no idea how it happened.
The Hollywood actor is currently in New York City promoting his upcoming sitcom Freddie, and he was taken aback when he struggled to get out of bed this morning because he was in such dire pain. He says, "I have a cracked rib... I don't even know how it happened. I woke up and I just couldn't breathe." The actor, married to Sarah Michelle Gellar, costars in his new ABC sitcom with Madchen Amick.
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Via his publishing companies, Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, Eminem has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Detroit to stop five companies from making his tunes available online for cell-phone ringtones.
"This is a big business. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars a year," the rapper's lawyer, Howard Hertz, told the Detroit News. Hertz says the lawsuit would block the sale of any rings offered by Cellus, USA; FanMobile; Nextones.com; MyPhoneFiles and MatrixM LLC. The companies were not available for comment Wednesday.
Ringtone sales are becoming an increasingly bigger slice of the music business. A recent study from Jupiter Research claims that ringtone sales pulled in $217 million in 2004 and will reach $724 million by 2009.
The lawsuits won't stop at cell phones, however. Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, is also taking on karaoke companies spinning ill-gotten songs.
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Justin Timberlake has been derided by critics for his acting debut Edison, in which he plays a cub reporter exposing police corruption.
The film, which also features Hollywood heavyweights Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, has been panned by critics as "a star-studded dud of a B-picture". The Hollywood Reporter singled out the Cry Me A River singer as "green but earnest" and attributed the whole cast with "enough posturing to start up a chiropractic clinic".
And Variety were quick to agree with their analysis, piling criticism on Timberlake's performance. Their review of the film compared him to "a reporter from Seventeen magazine" while the film as a whole was dismissed as a "parade of cliches".
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Michael Douglas is set to join Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon in a comedy.
He has signed up for You, Me and Dupree, a romantic comedy directed by Joe and Anthony Russo. The Universal Pictures movie is about a newlywed couple that allows the best man to stay with them after the wedding, only to regret it.
Douglas will play the over-the-top, controlling father of the bride, reports Variety.
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Add Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife to the growing list of celebrity bust-ups. Edmonds and his wife Tracey issued a statement Wednesday announcing the end of their marriage after 13 years.
They have two young children. The pair said they had already been unofficially separated "for quite some time."
"It is with deep regret that we announce our permanent separation. We remain best friends," said the couple, who have also produced movies and television shows together, including "Soul Food."
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Most companies pay millions to jump on MTVÂ’s success. Not Hollister, who took feuding Laguna Beach reality stars Kristen and Lauren ( aka LC) and made them their latest fashion statement.
Here’s the catch: “Kristen” and “LC” aren’t trademarked, meaning Hollister could plaster their names on the shirts for free—no MTV negotiations, no copyright fees, and no stamp of approval from the network. Which team are you rooting for?
Price: $15.50; Available: at Hollister stores
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Good pals Regis Philbin and Donald Trump are already getting into the holiday spirit.
The talk show host and real-estate mogul are teaming up for a duet on Philbin's new CD, The Regis Philbin Christmas Album. The pair sing the holiday classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." The album includes 12 tracks of festive favorites and also features Philbin's wife JOY. The album is in stores now.
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If this isn't irony, I don't know what is.
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October 05, 2005
Just when you thought Wednesday couldn't get any more horrific after hearing about the Jessica-Nick, split...
Tom Cruise's fiancée, Katie Holmes, is pregnant with the couple's child, Cruise's spokesperson, Lee Anne DeVette, said
"Tom and Katie are very excited, and the entire family is very excited," says DeVette.
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Us Weekly has revealed that Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey have really split.
Gawker reports that the couple is waiting to make an official announcement later in the month, but according to Us Weekly’s scoop — kept so under wraps that employees were not allowed to receive their advance issues yesterday, presumably for fear that People might rape and pillage the story — the marriage has been dead for some time.
The article has a laundry list of contributions to the break-up (mostly blamed on Jessica), including creepy-dad Joe Simpson, Jessica’s “diva” behavior, and her fondness for whiskey on the rocks. One of those ubiquitous sources close to the couple says, “Jessica’s the problem. She’s not the girl America fell in love with anymore.”
UPDATE: On the other hand, E! is stating that Jessica and Nick issued a joint statement through a rep, denying reports from Us Weekly and Life & Style that the couple has ended their union. "Nick and Jessica have not separated," the rep said. "Rumors to the contrary are simply not true."
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Lindsay Lohan and an unidentified female friend suffered minor injuries Tuesday when the star's Mercedes crashed into another vehicle during a chase through West Hollywood that involved paparazzi, according to police and eyewitness accounts..
The Mean Girls star, 19, was driving a black convertible Mercedes shortly before 5 p.m. "when she collided into the passenger side of a maroon Chevrolet Astro van that was apparently turning in front of her," according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The impact also deployed the driver and passenger air bags in Lohan's car. According to the sheriff, "Miss Lohan and her female passenger (were) transported by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries." The male driver of the van was taken to the hospital with "moderate injuries."
The chase reportedly began after Lohan had a late lunch with friends at the Ivy Restaurant and then embarked on a shopping expedition that took Lindsay to a clothing store. "Paparazzi were outside the window following her, and she got in her car and zipped off," New Orleans resident Richard Starr, who was in California with his wife, Katherine, said.
"She came up the street like a bat out of hell," says Katherine Starr. "She was nailing it. The guy she hit was making a U-turn to get into his parking place." The collision caused the van to spin around in the street and then hit a parked truck, according to the sheriff's report. "There was smoke everywhere," said Katherine. "Lindsay jumped out and ran to the antique store."
The van driver, whose name has not been released, will "probably be alright, but he's pretty banged up," said Kirk Martin, manager of the Newsroom Cafe, where the driver works. A witness inside the ER of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center stated that Lohan and her female friend were taken inside a private room at the facility. "She wasn't crying, but she seemed upset. Mad. She wanted to get out of there," he said.
Said another witness: "She was in and out in 45 minutes. She had a couple of scratches on her legs, but she was totally fine. She was wheeling around having fun. Her friend was pushing her through the hallways." That witness added: "By the time she left, there were six or eight girlfriends with her ... all 19- or 20-year-olds."
A source close to Lohan said: "She's shaken up. She's rallying her friends around her for support." Lohan's rep, Leslie Sloane, said: "This is another example of the paparazzi endangering citizens, both Ms. Lohan and the other driver involved in the collision. As the matter is still under investigation, we cannot comment further at this time."
This was Lohan's second such paparazzi-related incident. On May 31 she emerged unscathed from a crash in which a photographer was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after hitting her car while allegedly following her, according to Los Angeles police.
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Britney Spears and her hubby, Kevin Federline, sicced their home videos on the public when they gave us "Chaotic," but there's one video floating out there they don't want us to see.
According to Us Weekly, a member of the couple's low-rent entourage "has threatened to release raunchy footage of the two taken before Spears looked pregnant [that was copied from a tape in the Spears/Federline collection]."
A copy of the original tape viewed by the couple's lawyers elicited laughter and disgust.
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Hugh Grant says he looks like a 'butch lesbian' with his hair cut short.
The actor says he tried to change his trademark floppy hair style but it made him look "ugly".
The Notting Hill star told Now magazine: "I tried to change. I had my hair cut off by Elizabeth Hurley's hair person. I thought it would look butch. "Unfortunately I looked like a butch lesbian. "I'm plug ugly with my hair cut off. Even Elizabeth couldn't look at me."
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Tom Cruise and fiancée Katie Holmes stroll hand-in-hand Sunday on the Los Angeles set of his Mission: Impossible 3. The pair have been engaged since mid-June, and his rep says Holmes has been a near-constant presence on the M:I 3 set.
--Pics from People and A Socialite's Life.
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Ashlee Simpson is returning to the scene of the mime.
Nearly one year after the pop star danced a jig on Saturday Night Live, Simpson will be back at Studio 8H as this weekend's musical guest. Her set list was not known. It was presumed she would sing, not dance.
Simpson had been talking up a SNL do-over since late summer. NBC said the booking came together only late last week. The appearance coincides with the Oct. 18 release of Simpson's sophomore album, I Am Me.
It was on SNL back on Oct. 23, 2004, that a flustered Simpson broke into a self-described "hoedown" after her drummer pressed a wrong button, and audiences heard her singing voice even as her mouth was nowhere near the microphone. Shortly thereafter, SNL put Simpson out of her misery, and cut to a commercial.
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The woman who has been making Tyra Banks' life a misery came face-to-face with the supermodel on her TV chat show.
Adult film star Tyra Banxxx stunned the model/TV star when she appeared on the front cover of porn industry magazine Xtreme, dressed up to look like the real Tyra. In a taped segment on her daily show, which will air on Thursday, Banks confronted her doppelganger and declared she's taking her name back.
Banks also told Banxxx, whose real name is Alana, how shocked she was upon first hearing that the Xtreme magazine cover girl was using her name. She says, "For a second I was like, 'Did they put my head on someone else's body?' I thought that it really did look like me. The first thing that went through my head... It wasn't anger, it was more of a curiosity, and an empathy like, 'Where does this girl come from... And what led her to this?'"
Banxxx has agreed to retire her name, insisting she never intended to offend her heroine. She tells the real Tyra, "Growing up, everyone always said I should be a model and everyone said I looked like you... You're an inspiration to me." By way of thanks for letting the name go without legal action, Banks has offered to help her doppelganger escape the adult film world and find employment in another field.
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Sinead O'Connor has criticized anti-gay priests, pointing out that they are actually preaching against love.
Whilst they claim to be doing God's work in advocating and spreading love and respect for fellow humans, homophobic members of the Catholic Church are in fact doing the opposite, she has suggested.
Contactmusic.com quotes her as saying: "There are people who say they represent Christ but actually they preach against love, which is blasphemous as far as I'm concerned. "The teaching against homosexuality is blasphemy. God created gay people, so who is anyone else to say you should not be gay?"
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In his 12 years in charge of booking musical guests on Conan O'Brien's "Late Night," Jim Pitt always listed U2 and Johnny Cash as the dream artists he'd tried but never succeeded in getting. He lost his chance with the late Cash, but the U2 dream is coming true Thursday in a major way.
O'Brien will turn over his entire show to the band, which is in New York for seven sold-out engagements at Madison Square Garden. "We were able to offer them something to feel enough like an event for them to do the show," Pitt said. "It's basically `Late Night with Conan O'Brien,' the U2 edition."
The NBC show has never before devoted itself entirely to a musical guest, although it gave major time a few years back to a holiday appearance by bandleader Max Weinberg's other employer, Bruce Springsteen.
O'Brien's a big U2 fan, and made a personal connection by talking at length with Bono during breaks in rehearsals for the band's "Saturday Night Live" appearance last season, Pitt said.
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