Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Before They Were Famous: Stars' Wacky Jobs
Beyonce used to sweep up hair at her mom's salon.........
Monday, February 8, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Brittany Murphy's death "preventable"
Sources involved in Brittany Murphy's autopsy tell TMZ her death was "preventable."
Sources say the primary causes of Murphy's death were pneumonia and severe anemia. L.A. County Coroner officials believe Brittany's condition was "treatable" but no one took her to the hospital in time.
As for the multiple drugs found in her system, we're told they were both prescription, including medicine for cramps, and over-the-counter medications, including cough syrup. Our sources say the drugs "pushed her over the line" but the underlying problems were the pneumonia and anemia.
In other words, Brittany was really sick, didn't get treatment and by self-medicating it pushed her over the line.
Read more: www.tmz.com
Sources say the primary causes of Murphy's death were pneumonia and severe anemia. L.A. County Coroner officials believe Brittany's condition was "treatable" but no one took her to the hospital in time.
As for the multiple drugs found in her system, we're told they were both prescription, including medicine for cramps, and over-the-counter medications, including cough syrup. Our sources say the drugs "pushed her over the line" but the underlying problems were the pneumonia and anemia.
In other words, Brittany was really sick, didn't get treatment and by self-medicating it pushed her over the line.
Read more: www.tmz.com
Charlie Sheen's SUV stolen and crashed
Charlie Sheen reported his SUV was stolen this morning, and hours later it was found on its side at the bottom of an L.A. cliff near famous Mulholland Drive.
Law enforcement tells TMZ Sheen reported the truck stolen from his house early this AM. We do not know if Sheen knew the suspect.
Cops tell us the fire department is on scene, looking to see if there's a body near the wreckage.
The suspect is not in custody.
Police are investigating.
Read more: www.tmz.com
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Man Saved By Webcam As Woman Watches Sunset
Man sending light signals for help is saved after a woman was watching the sunset on webcam.
It is a remarkable story on how a man can be saved by a webcam. The live camera today can be used for other reasons than for tourists. Someone who just happened to be viewing the live camera alerted police.
It all started when a tourist was lost in the dark on a frozen sea in north Germany. A woman watching the sunset from a live local area camera happened to notice camera flashes from a far distance. The tourist, whose name has not been given, was trying to reach help.
The tourist has been lost after walking onto ice off St Peter-Ording to photograph the same sunset. The woman watching the live camera alerted police who were able to guide the tourist to safety. If it wasn't for the camera device the man could've frozen to death or fallen through the ice.
"He got lost on the ice and could not find the coast again because it was covered in snow," police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said in a statement.
Stielow said the local community is aware of the risk of disorientation after dark. The beach can become hard to locate after sunset because of the frozen landscape. This is one of those remarkable stories on how technology can save lives.
Sunset Photograph Leads to Disorientation
The man had climbed over ice off the coast to photograph the sunset. He then became disoriented and lost his location on the ice. The air temperature was below freezing at the time he lost his direction.
Story from www.newsoxy.com
Simon Cowell's Haiti Song
The charity song for Haiti hit the internet on Tuesday. It features Susan Boyle, Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart and many more.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
'Avatar,' 'The Hurt Locker' Lead Oscar Nominations
Click the pic below to visit the official site for the Academy Awards
California - The science-fiction sensation "Avatar" and the Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker" lead the Academy Awards with nine nominations each, including best picture and director for James Cameron and ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow.
For the first time since 1943 the Oscars feature 10 best-picture contenders instead of the usual five.
Also nominated for best-picture Tuesday: "District 9"; the animated comedy "Up"; the World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds"; the football drama "The Blind Side"; the recession tale "Up in The Air," the 1960s drama "A Serious Man," and the teen tales "An Education" and "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire."
Acting nominees include the four stars who have dominated early awards shows: lead players Sandra Bullock for the American football drama "The Blind Side" and Jeff Bridges for the country-music tale "Crazy Heart" and supporting performers Mo'Nique for "Precious" and Austria's Christoph Waltz for "Inglourious Basterds."
The best-picture and director categories shape up as a showdown between ex-spouses who directed films that have dominated earlier Hollywood honors.
Cameron's "Avatar" won best drama and director at the Golden Globes, while Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" beat out Cameron at the Directors Guild of America Awards, whose recipient usually goes on to earn the best-director Oscar.
"The Hurt Locker" also beat "Avatar" for the Producers Guild of America top prize and was chosen as last year's best film by many key critics groups.
Bigelow, whose films include "Point Break" and "K19: The Widowmaker," is only the fourth woman nominated for a directing Oscar, following Sofia Coppola for 2003's "Lost in Translation," New Zealand director Jane Campion for 1993's "The Piano" and Italian director Lena Wertmuller for 1975's "Seven Beauties."
No woman has ever won the directing Oscar, and until Bigelow, no woman had ever won the Director's Guild honor.
Lee Daniels, who made "Precious," became only the second black filmmaker nominated for best director, after John Singleton for 1991's "Boyz N the Hood."
Also nominated for best director are Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air" and Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds." "Up in the Air" co-writer Reitman also had a nomination for adapted screenplay, while Tarantino also earned a nomination for original screenplay.
Longtime audience darling Bullock has never been nominated for an Oscar before but is considered the best-actress front-runner, playing a wealthy woman who takes in homeless teen Michael Oher, now a star with the American football team Baltimore Ravens.
Bullock is up against past Oscar winners Meryl Streep as chef Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" and Helen Mirren as Leo Tolstoy's bullheaded wife in "The Last Station," along with first-time nominees Carey Mulligan as a British teen involved with an older man in "An Education" and Gabourey Sidibe as a Harlem teen overcoming horrible abuse and neglect in "Precious."
Sidibe made her screen debut in "Precious," earning an Oscar nomination for her first professional acting job.
Bridges, nominated four times previously without winning an Oscar, is viewed as the man to beat this time for his role as a boozy country singer trying to clean up his act in "Crazy Heart."
Also nominated for best actor are past Oscar winners George Clooney as a frequent-flyer junkie in "Up in the Air" and Morgan Freeman as South African leader Nelson Mandela in "Invictus," Britain's Colin Firth as a grieving gay academic in "A Single Man" and Jeremy Renner as a bomb disposal expert in Iran in "The Hurt Locker."
Mo'Nique and Waltz were nominated for wicked roles, she as a reprehensible welfare mother in "Precious," he as a gleefully garrulous Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds." They were breakout roles for both, Mo'Nique leaping into the awards elite after a career of mainly lowbrow comedy, Waltz making his first Hollywood splash after working mostly in European theater and television.
Also up for supporting actress are "Up in the Air" co-stars Vera Farmiga as Clooney's frequent-flyer soul mate and Anna Kendrick as his reluctant business protege. The other nominations went to past Oscar winner Penelope Cruz as a filmmaker's needy mistress in the musical "Nine" and Maggie Gyllenhaal as a single mom involved wit Bridges' character in "Crazy Heart."
Joining Waltz in the supporting-actor lineup are Matt Damon as a South African rugby player in "Invictus," Woody Harrelson as a military man giving bad news to next of kin in "The Messenger," Christopher Plummer as aging author Tolstoy in "The Last Station" and Stanley Tucci as a serial killer in "The Lovely Bones."
News Source: OMG.Yahoo.com
For the first time since 1943 the Oscars feature 10 best-picture contenders instead of the usual five.
Also nominated for best-picture Tuesday: "District 9"; the animated comedy "Up"; the World War II saga "Inglourious Basterds"; the football drama "The Blind Side"; the recession tale "Up in The Air," the 1960s drama "A Serious Man," and the teen tales "An Education" and "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire."
Acting nominees include the four stars who have dominated early awards shows: lead players Sandra Bullock for the American football drama "The Blind Side" and Jeff Bridges for the country-music tale "Crazy Heart" and supporting performers Mo'Nique for "Precious" and Austria's Christoph Waltz for "Inglourious Basterds."
The best-picture and director categories shape up as a showdown between ex-spouses who directed films that have dominated earlier Hollywood honors.
Cameron's "Avatar" won best drama and director at the Golden Globes, while Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" beat out Cameron at the Directors Guild of America Awards, whose recipient usually goes on to earn the best-director Oscar.
"The Hurt Locker" also beat "Avatar" for the Producers Guild of America top prize and was chosen as last year's best film by many key critics groups.
Bigelow, whose films include "Point Break" and "K19: The Widowmaker," is only the fourth woman nominated for a directing Oscar, following Sofia Coppola for 2003's "Lost in Translation," New Zealand director Jane Campion for 1993's "The Piano" and Italian director Lena Wertmuller for 1975's "Seven Beauties."
No woman has ever won the directing Oscar, and until Bigelow, no woman had ever won the Director's Guild honor.
Lee Daniels, who made "Precious," became only the second black filmmaker nominated for best director, after John Singleton for 1991's "Boyz N the Hood."
Also nominated for best director are Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air" and Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds." "Up in the Air" co-writer Reitman also had a nomination for adapted screenplay, while Tarantino also earned a nomination for original screenplay.
Longtime audience darling Bullock has never been nominated for an Oscar before but is considered the best-actress front-runner, playing a wealthy woman who takes in homeless teen Michael Oher, now a star with the American football team Baltimore Ravens.
Bullock is up against past Oscar winners Meryl Streep as chef Julia Child in "Julie & Julia" and Helen Mirren as Leo Tolstoy's bullheaded wife in "The Last Station," along with first-time nominees Carey Mulligan as a British teen involved with an older man in "An Education" and Gabourey Sidibe as a Harlem teen overcoming horrible abuse and neglect in "Precious."
Sidibe made her screen debut in "Precious," earning an Oscar nomination for her first professional acting job.
Bridges, nominated four times previously without winning an Oscar, is viewed as the man to beat this time for his role as a boozy country singer trying to clean up his act in "Crazy Heart."
Also nominated for best actor are past Oscar winners George Clooney as a frequent-flyer junkie in "Up in the Air" and Morgan Freeman as South African leader Nelson Mandela in "Invictus," Britain's Colin Firth as a grieving gay academic in "A Single Man" and Jeremy Renner as a bomb disposal expert in Iran in "The Hurt Locker."
Mo'Nique and Waltz were nominated for wicked roles, she as a reprehensible welfare mother in "Precious," he as a gleefully garrulous Nazi in "Inglourious Basterds." They were breakout roles for both, Mo'Nique leaping into the awards elite after a career of mainly lowbrow comedy, Waltz making his first Hollywood splash after working mostly in European theater and television.
Also up for supporting actress are "Up in the Air" co-stars Vera Farmiga as Clooney's frequent-flyer soul mate and Anna Kendrick as his reluctant business protege. The other nominations went to past Oscar winner Penelope Cruz as a filmmaker's needy mistress in the musical "Nine" and Maggie Gyllenhaal as a single mom involved wit Bridges' character in "Crazy Heart."
Joining Waltz in the supporting-actor lineup are Matt Damon as a South African rugby player in "Invictus," Woody Harrelson as a military man giving bad news to next of kin in "The Messenger," Christopher Plummer as aging author Tolstoy in "The Last Station" and Stanley Tucci as a serial killer in "The Lovely Bones."
News Source: OMG.Yahoo.com
Monday, February 1, 2010
Oopsie........Taylor, do you have too many Grammys?
Singer Taylor Swift was left red faced after dropping one of her Grammy’s while posing for pictures following the awards ceremony.
The pop and country star was struggling to hold on to all four trophies as she posed for pictures, and let out a small squeal as one dropped to the floor.
Taylor took home awards for Album of the Year, Best Female Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Song and Best Country Album.
Luckily, Taylor had a helper on hand to quickly save the gong as she regained her composure and smiled for the cameras.
Grammy Red Carpet Report Card
Click the pic below to see the Best and Worst dressed at the Grammys last night.
"Avatar" Tops the Box Office, again
"Avatar" pulled in another $30 million to hold onto the top spot of the box office for its seventh straight week. That brings its U.S. total up to $594 million and has "Avatar" poised to break "Titanic's" $600 million box office record within the next few days.
--Meanwhile, Mel Gibson's new movie "Edge of Darkness" opened in second place, with a take of $17.1 million. Here are the Top 10 movies in the country.
1.) "Avatar", $30 million (--Up to a total of $594 million in its 7th week.)
2.) (NEW) Mel Gibson's "Edge of Darkness", $17.1 million
3.) (NEW) Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel's "When in Rome", $12.1 million
--Meanwhile, Mel Gibson's new movie "Edge of Darkness" opened in second place, with a take of $17.1 million. Here are the Top 10 movies in the country.
1.) "Avatar", $30 million (--Up to a total of $594 million in its 7th week.)
2.) (NEW) Mel Gibson's "Edge of Darkness", $17.1 million
3.) (NEW) Kristen Bell and Josh Duhamel's "When in Rome", $12.1 million
Rip Torn got ripped and the arrested
RIP TORN . . . (--whom you may remember as Agent Zed in the "Men In Black" movies, or as Patches O'Houlihan in "Dodgeball") . . . was arrested Friday night for allegedly breaking into a bank with a LOADED GUN. (???)
Police responded to an alarm at the bank in Salisbury, Connecticut . . . where Torn lives . . . at about 9:40 P.M. They found Torn inside, lying on the floor. Not surprisingly, he was HIGHLY INTOXICATED. He had smashed a window to get in.
Mark Macomber . . . the president and CEO of the bank . . . says he doesn't believe that Torn was trying to hurt anyone or steal anything. In fact, he said police told him they believe Torn thought he was IN HIS OWN HOUSE. (???)
Last we heard, Torn was STILL behind bars, and is due to be arraigned this morning.
He was booked on the following charges: Carrying a firearm while intoxicated, carrying a pistol without a permit, criminal trespass, burglary and criminal mischief.
Torn . . . who's 78 . . . has had a few alcohol-fueled brushes with the law in recent years. In 2004, he had a DUI charge dismissed, and in 2007, he pleaded guilty to being, quote, "ability impaired" while driving.
In 2008, he got pulled over after leaving a bar and trying to drive home with a Christmas tree tied to the roof of his car. He ended up getting probation for that on.
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