Lucrative main event of World Series of Poker gets underway in Las Vegas
July 03, 2008 - 7:51 pm
LAS VEGAS - The marathon grind toward the richest pot in poker is under way. Play opened in the 39th World Series of Poker main event Thursday, with nearly 1,300 players hoping to make it through a 10-hour day of no-limit Texas Hold 'em against high-profile players and unknowns who could ...
Lost scenes from 1927 film 'Metropolis' shown in Argentina
July 03, 2008 - 7:47 pm
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic "Metropolis," recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday. A long-lost original cut of the 1927 silent film sat for 80 years in a private ...
Ex-employee of Rachael Ray claims anorexia bias in $1 million lawsuit
July 03, 2008 - 4:46 pm
NEW YORK - A former accountant for Rachael Ray's television cooking show has filed a $1 million lawsuit, alleging he was forced out of his job because he has an eating disorder. Aaron Ferguson said in papers filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan that he has suffered from anorexia for ...
Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83
July 03, 2008 - 4:09 pm
LOS ANGELES - Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. His publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press he died at his ...
Madonna and A-Rod stir gossip amid reports their marriages are crumbling
July 03, 2008 - 4:07 pm
NEW YORK - A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world - each a chatty bunch - buzzing with questions ...
Jonas Brothers mania hits Toronto as hundreds converge for live TV appearance
July 03, 2008 - 4:06 pm
TORONTO - They came in packs, waving hand-scrawled posters, wearing homemade T-shirts and unleashing ear-splitting squeals of excitement. Hundreds of mostly shrieking teenage girls took over several blocks of downtown Toronto on Thursday to greet tween sensations the Jonas Brothers as the ...
Jason Priestley says music industry is 'a mess' but it works
July 03, 2008 - 2:52 pm
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers. Priestley, 38, followed the Alberta group to Nashville as they sought a record deal. "I got there as an outsider ...
Will Smith's kids get to see their 'daddy being mean' in film
July 03, 2008 - 2:25 pm
LOS ANGELES - Will Smith usually plays the hero in his summer blockbusters. But in "Hancock," he drinks, swears, mouths off and goes to prison. Smith's role as a superhero-gone-bad could be jarring to some moviegoers but not his children and wife Jada Pinkett Smith. "Fortunately, our ...
Locals in Nice used to rich and famous and indifferent to Brangelina
July 03, 2008 - 2:24 pm
NICE, France - Partially eclipsed by the glitterati of Cannes and the royal glare of Monaco, Nice is a place where even the brightest stars - like Brangelina - are greeted by little more than indifference. Only the presence of paparazzi outside the seaside hospital where Angelina Jolie is ...
Show in Switzerland sees Fernand Leger as a progenitor of pop art
July 03, 2008 - 2:22 pm
BASEL, Switzerland - The "modest and little" Statue of Liberty, a gift from his country, did not impress Fernand Leger as he watched from the deck of a liner sailing into the inner harbour of New York Bay in 1931. But the artist was immediately fascinated by the sight of the Manhattan ...
State Department report says celebrity passport snooping rampant
July 03, 2008 - 1:17 pm
WASHINGTON - An internal State Department investigation suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously disclosed, and recommends new steps to secure the files. A report from the department's inspector general to be released ...
Christie Brinkley testifies at divorce trial about husband's affair
July 03, 2008 - 12:56 am
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - Christie Brinkley testified at her divorce trial Thursday that the day she learned her husband was having an affair with a teenager was the day "my life as I knew it had vanished." The former Sports Illustrated model took the stand in state Supreme Court, a day after ...
Tears flow at 'Army Wives' screening with real army wives in audience
July 03, 2008 - 12:55 am
WASHINGTON - Tears flowed freely when two of TV's "Army Wives" met the real-life women they portray on the Lifetime series. Sally Pressman, who plays Roxy, and Brigid Brannagh, who plays Pamela, recently watched an upcoming episode with Army wives and service members at Walter Reed Medical ...
Donna Summer decides to add some sweet new sounds to her summer tour
July 03, 2008 - 12:36 am
WASHINGTON - Donna Summer says she approached her summer tour like a chocolate-chip cookie. The 59-year-old singer said that for the first time, she is incorporating all the music from a new album and most of her hits into the show. In the past, she's used just a few new songs, but never ...
New DVD releases include 'Batman Begins' and corny 'Superhero Movie'
July 03, 2008 - 11:52 am
Selected home-video releases: "Batman Begins" As if Heath Ledger's death and the inherent interest from rabid fans weren't enough to fan Batman mania for "The Dark Knight," the studio feeds the flames with a new DVD release and the Blu-ray high-definition debut of the 2005 hit film. ...
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