The death of Natasha Richardson has been ruled an accident by the New York City medical examiner. The cause of death was determined to be an epidural hematoma — bleeding in the brain — caused by a “blunt impact” to her head.
Prison officials have released a new photo of killer Charles Manson. It’s part of “periodic updates of inmate images,” says a spokesman.Still with the swastika.
Shocking, but now confirmed: Natasha Richardson has died, apparently of head injuries, after falling on a ski slope on Monday.
Informative, if bizarre.
It’s still quite confusing.The actress was flown from Canada to New York yesterday, where she is at Lenox Hill Hospital.
And is Victoria Beckham to blame? Maybe.Mostly we just like saying “WAGs” — a term that has its fifth anniversary this year.
Sara Jane Olson, also known as Kathleen Soliah, gets out of prison today, leaving the women’s facility at Chowchilla, California after serving seven years for her part in crimes committed in 1975. Kathleen Soliah was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the sorta-Marxist outfit that famously kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst back in 1974.
Those San Franciscans!Best comment from Boing Boing:If I ever resign my job, I shall deliver the message, scorched with a magnifying glass onto the side of a large slab of beef jerky.
Nobody knows. But Saint Patrick says he was born there. Here he is, kicking off his famous Confession:
John F. Kennedy, Jr. was never called “John-John” by his family.At least, not according to JFK aide and speechwriter Ted Sorensen. In his 2008 book Counselor, Sorensen recalls sending a draft of his 1965 memoir Kennedy to Jacqueline Kennedy for her review.
Odd factoid about Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane: he had a ticket on Flight 11 out of Boston on the morning of 9/11. He was late for the flight.
Whoa! Actor Ron Silver has died at the young age of 62. He “had been fighting esophageal cancer for two years,” says ABC News.(That’s the same cancer that got Harold Pinter three months ago.)
The designer goes Colonial:Whereas George powdered his hair, Galliano’s looks to have been painted white or covered in Wite-Out. Always looking forward and taking risks, that Galliano — no wonder critics love him! Also, the article calls Washington “G-Dubs.”
“A warrant was in fact issued Friday for the arrest of Lindsay Lohan… It is our hope that Ms. Lohan will surrender herself so this matter can be resolved in at timely manner.” Lindsay Lohan is a wanted criminal in Beverly Hills.
Madoff schadenfreude.
Yes, it’s true.Harrison Tyler, age 81, grandson of President John Tyler, is alive and well and living in the family homestead in Virginia.Let’s back up. John Tyler was president from 1841-45. How can a guy who became president 168 years ago have a living grandson?
Sports Illustrated’s Dan Patrick offers up this video of Larry Bird scoring 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks, on this day in 1985.
Three years in prison. That’s the sentence for Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference in December.
It’s true: After the surprise announcement in August, the convention in September, and the baby in December, Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have parted ways.
The Smithsonian has announced that they’ve found a secret message inside the pocket watch that belonged to President Abraham Lincoln. The message was left by a watch repairman named Jonathan Dillon and probably never seen by Lincoln himself.Inside the watch Dillon inscribed a note indicating that Fort Sumter had been attacked, along with the date (“April 13 – 1861”) and the note “thank God we have a government.”