Zsa Zsa Gabor took a turn for the worse over the weekend, being “rushed” back to UCLA Medical Center on Friday and having blood clots removed. Saturday, her 20th wedding anniversary, was spent in the hospital with her husband, Frederic von Anhalt, at he
Could these men look any more British?
With a quickie bonus reverie, for some reason, about Lost in Translation.
At the tender age of 22, actress Hilary Duff has married hockey player Mike Comrie.
It cracks me up that both The Telegraph and The Guardian call Dr. Laura an “agony aunt” in describing her racial struggles this week.As Fat Tony says on The Simpsons, “It’s funny because it’s true.”
We’ve just posted a new profile of Wyclef Jean — hip-hop star, producer, former member of the Fugees, and now candidate for president of Haiti.
A few days ago we asked the musical question, “Why does Sly Stallone have a plastic bear dangling from his cell phone?”
“Serial Stabbing Suspect a ‘Gentle Giant’ But With a History of Violence.”ABC News on murder suspect Elias Abuelazam.Alternate headline: “Big Ol’ Teddy Bear of a Man Also Liked to Stab People.”
Things we didn’t know about the retiring Cathy Guisewite, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Can’t resist pointing out this photo by Matt Sullivan for Reuters, taken during practice for this week’s PGA Championships. The tournament is in Wisconsin — hence the cheese head atop the tiger. (That is, atop the tiger with giant biceps and claws holding a golf ball on a tee. Atop a baseball cap.)
This career has been a miracle – it let me turn every anxiety into art, be paid for it and connect in such a deep way with millions of other women.Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite says it all about her comic strip, Cathy, which will end on October 3rd.
“When she starts flirting, she is in good shape.”Zsa Zsa Gabor is out of the hospital, says her husband.
Now, that’s a pretty cool Google Doodle. The Wizard of Oz was released on 12 August 1939, making it (as the Google Doodle points out) 71 years old today. The premiere was at the Strand Theater in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Why Oconomowoc?
Because we just like photos of presidents getting sports jerseys. That’s Super Bowl-winning quarterback Drew Brees on the left, with other members of the New Orleans Saints in the background. Barack Obama is the 44th U.S. president.
[Update 2: It’s official: Stevens was indeed killed in the Alaska plane crash, according to family spokesman Mitch Rose. The website NASA Watch says that former NASA chief Sean O’Keefe was also on board, but survived.]
That’s Sylvester Stallone, outside a London theater last night for the U.K. premiere of his movie The Expendables.But wait: what’s that hanging from his cell phone?
Buzz Aldrin turned up at the Scientology Celebrity Center in Los Angeles this weekend for the “Church of Scientology Celebrity Center 41st Anniversary Gala.”
Jerry Garcia, leader of The Grateful Dead, died 15 years ago today — on 9 August 1995 — while trying to detox at a Marin County rehab clinic.
Author Kurt Vonnegut on semicolons, from a speech at Albion College in 2002.
Simon Cowell was caught topless “by accident” while changing yachts in Nice, France yesterday. His chest was in marvelous shape. As described by our friends at WENN: