Danny Partridge is 50
Today.
Biographies
Les Paul, Electric Guitar Inventor, Has Died
If you listen to rock, pop, blues, or country music, thank Les Paul.Paul invented the solid-body electric guitar — the John Deere plow of rock and roll.
Yikes! Michael Douglas’s Kid
(Originally published August 13, 2009)
Happy 70th, George Hamilton
Glowing bronze actor George Hamilton turns 70 today. He was born this day in 1939, the same year as another master of suave aging: George Lazenby.Here’s an awkward photo from April. The caption: “George Hamilton being asked for money by a homeless person outside Mr. Chow restaurant. Beverly Hills, California.”
Weird New Images From Heath Ledger’s Last Film
Heath Ledger was filming a movie when he died: not Batman but The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, the latest hallucinatory (and typically cursed) project from Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam.How hallucinatory? New photos below.The flick was described this way at Cannes:
Keanu Reeves vs. Teddy Bears
This video from 1984 features Keanu Reeves as a correspondent for a TV show called Going Great. He’s talking with a 13 year-old who collects stuffed bears.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009
She died this morning at Cape Cod Hospital, near the Kennedy family’s traditional summer compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
“For Bushies Only”
According to a report in The Raw Story, former staffers from the administration of President George W. Bush plan to create a social network, Facebook-style, specifically for fans and ex-employees of the former president.
“That Man Was Not Raised By His Parents”
“It was a wonderful turning point when we put him through the process of hair and makeup,” Taylor said, “and the first time we saw him with his haircut and his suit, all the women in the office kind of wilted and fainted when he walked by…”
Rosanna Arquette Is 50
True story.She still looked very Rosanna Arquette-ish in May at Cannes.(Photo: Zibi/WENN.com)