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Legend Lauren Bacall: 'Hollywood is a zoo'
Source: ABC Action News

Screen legend Lauren Bacall has hit out at the current state of Hollywood, insisting modern movie stars are only interested in fame.

Don Rickles Roasts Congress... and Barack Obama
Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

Don Rickles is the best! This is the funniest article I've ever read and I'm still laughing, but then I'm a conservative! If the liberal radicals don't laugh it's because they haven't mastered the art of allowing a free nation to be free to laugh at themselves.

What's the Skinny on the Heftier Male Stars?
Source: The New York Times

Hollywood's pool of leading men is getting larger — and not necessarily in a good way.

Maggie Grace Was "Taken" With Patagonia
Source: USA Today

we knew liam neeson's favorite pasttime was fly fishing, but TAKEN co-star, maggie grace, says in USAtoday that was recently smitten with a trip to chilean patagonia during which she enjoyed fly fishing. so has liam been teaching her something other than "father knows best?"

Associated Press: Jury: Keanu Reeves doesn't owe paparazzo
Source: license.icopyright.net

jurors unanimously rejected the civil lawsuit Monday, ruling that Reeves is not responsible for the photographer's alleged injuries. An interesting look at the fine line between getting out the news & harassment.

Hollywood 'paid fortune to smoke'
Source: BBC News

Tobacco firms paid huge amounts for endorsements from the stars of Hollywood's "Golden Age".

Breaking News: Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83
Source: The New York Times

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as ''Hud,'' ''Cool Hand Luke'' and ''The Color of Money,'' has died, a spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 93.

Breaking News: Actor Paul Newman has died of cancer at age 83, a spokeswoman says.

"You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

ABC News: 'Harry Potter' Can Barely Tie His Shoes
Source: ABC News

This is a "mystery" disease every bit as complex as the Harry Potter tales. My wife and I have tried to get up to speed on it ever sense one of our fine young grand-sons was diagnosed with the disease.

Robert Wagner finally talks about Natalie Wood's death
Source: Australian News Network

FOR 27 years, Hollywood actor Robert Wagner has refused to discuss the night his wife and fellow film star Natalie Wood vanished from their yacht and drowned.

Actor Morgan Freeman in serious condition after car accident | www.tennessean.com
Source: The Nashville Tennessean

JACKSON, Miss. — Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman has been injured in car accident in Mississippi and is in a hospital in Memphis. Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer says Freeman, 71, is in serious condition. The

Jack Black feels bad about his body
Source: Elastic Waist

Jack Black is reportedly trying to lose weight so that he can do more nude scenes in the movies. To which I say: screw that noise.

So why HAS Jodie Foster left her lesbian lover of 15 years?
Source: the Mail online

America's onetime sweetheart has undergone some changes in midlife-- she's finally acknowledged her homosexuality and broken up with her partner of 15 years. But the intrepid actress has a new girlfriend and is trying to avoid acrimony between herself and her ex.

Doris Day's Vanishing Act: Book Excerpt
Source: The Latest From VanityFair.com

When she made Pillow Talk with Rock Hudson, in 1959, Doris Day was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history.

Happiness is...: a conversation with Matthieu Ricard and Richard Gere
Source: Shambala Sun

A monk and a movie star: two very different lifestyles and so, you would think, two different paths to happiness.

George Clooney: The Sexiest – and Tastiest – Man Alive
Source: PEOPLE.com

We've heard of wax figures, but what about jelly bean portraits?

Johnny's Karaoke Fear
Source: Anova

Johnny Depp may look like a nice bet for a good night out... But don't expect him to la-la-la along to the likes of Gloria Gaynor with you at 2am in the morning.

Jack Nicholson: Anjelica Huston Beat Me Up
Source: The Huffington Post

Jack Nicholson sat down with Parade Magazine for an itnerview that will appear this coming weekend. Excerpts: Nicholson discusses how Anjelica Huston beat him up after he impregnated another actress...

Mathematicians Sum Up Jessica Alba's Sexiness: It's in Her Walk
Source:

Jessica Alba, the film actress, has the ultimate sexy strut, according to a team of Cambridge mathematicians. The academics found that it is the ratio between hips and waist that puts the sway into a woman's walk - and the nearer that ratio is to 0.7, the better.

Hollywood North is booming: Who is filming in Toronto now?
Source: Canada.com

Two foreign directors are spending part of the summer in Canada making new movies with stars like Julianne Moore and Gael Garcia Bernal. Filipino filmmaker Yam Laranas will shoot an English remake of his 2004 thriller Sigaw in Toronto for one month beginning August 13.

Shrinks In Movies

Sometimes my colleagues really have no sense of humor. A couple of them are up in arms about how therapists are portrayed in the movies and on TV.

Why movie stars often flop on TV
Source: NY Daily News

Television networks presumably spend many dollars enticing movie stars to series TV, as CBS is doing with James Woods in "Shark" or Virginia Madsen and Ray Liotta in "Smith." Which makes it kind of funny, really, that if all goes according to plan, what they get is a TV star.

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