While Americans are playing boring old football and Indians are dabbling in cricket, the Australians have invented a new sport: swimming into baited crocodile traps.It’s possibly not a good idea.The craziness of the stunt is matched only by the wonderful Aussie slang used to describe it:
Sebastian Janikowski of the Oakland Raiders kicked a 61-yard field goal today. In December. In Cleveland. The NFL has the video.
Kim Peek, the savant who helped inspire the Oscar-winning movie Rain Man, has died of a heart attack at age 58.
Bo the dog didn’t make the trip to Hawaii with the rest of the Obama family.Quarantine rules, don’t you know.
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Actress Brooke Mueller is the wife of Charlie Sheen, who was arrested yesterday after an alleged domestic incident at a rental home in Aspen, Colorado. Here are some photos of Brooke Mueller:
Actor Charlie Sheen was arrested on Christmas Day and charged with domestic violence after an incident with his third wife, Brooke Mueller.
Happy holidays and a happy new year to all our readers, from editors Paul Hehn and Hans Holznagel, boiler room geniuses Mike Duffy and Ad
Director James Cameron promotes his new movie Avatar in Beijing yesterday.More photos of James Cameron >>(Photo credit: WENN)
In honor of Peter Lawford’s 25th deathday… the Rat Pack in holiday mode.
A boy taken to a foreign country by his mother, who dies. A father who wants to bring the boy back to their original home.It’s the Elian Gonzalez case, right? The one about the Cuban boy that sparked such bitter outrage in America and lost Florida (and the 2000 elections) for Al Gore?
Happy 65th birthday to General Wesley Clark, the commander who led NATO forces to victory in Kosovo in 1999. He was a Democratic candidate for president in 2004. And he …..
90 days and 20 days behind bars: that’s what’s ahead for Richard and Mayumi Heene, the perpetrators of the Balloon Boy hoax in Colorado.Judge Stephen Schapanski handed down the sentences this morning as Richard Heene “choked back tears” in the courtroom.
Connie Hines, the Mister Ed actress who died on Friday, was 78 when she died, not 79.
[Editor’s note 2016: Most of the text of this post about the death of actress Connie Hines was deleted by accident in a 2015 technical revamp of Who2. Sorry! But we’ve left the photos …..
President Barack Obama is taking his family home for Christmas.
Rapper T.I. (born Clifford Harris) was released from jail Tuesday and sent to a halfway house, where he’ll serve the remainder of a one-year sentence he began on weapons charges back in May.
We reported exclusively three weeks ago that Rachel Uchitel owed Las Vegas $1345 on an unpaid traffic ticket from 2007.
Paul Hehn reviews the new James Cameron film Avatar:It’s Ferngully meets Pocahontas, story-wise. Visually it’s terrific and I’m very glad I saw it on the big screen.You could say it’s a grand feast of a movie, or you could say it was too long. It didn’t *feel* too long, but you can see where there are parts that are unnecessary.Fin!See photos of Avatar >>
It’s not really Sawyer’s fault. It was Dan Rather who was eager to hop into Cronkite’s anchor chair in 1981. CBS News, to its shame, forced Cronkite out to keep Rather happy. (CBS has always claimed that retireme