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From Butch Cassidy to birthday gifts, Robert Redford recalls friendship

(NEWSER) - "Paul really likes to have fun and…he really especially loves to laugh at his own jokes, and some of them are just really awful," Robert Redford recalled of his friend Paul Newman to ABC News. "He enjoyed them so much…you'd start to laugh with him because you're so caught up in his enjoyment of them." More»

Clinton cancels Europe trip

(NEWSER) - Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother, died shortly after midnight, surrounded by her family at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, the Clinton family announced today. She was 92, and had been living with her daughter in Washington since 2006. Clinton canceled a planned trip to London and Istanbul to be with her when she fell ill last night, ABC News reports. More»

What a shocker: Tiger Woods made the list

(NEWSER) - Some guys are unsexy just because they’re not sexy; others are unsexy because they cheat on their Oscar-winning wives with tattooed strippers (hello, No. 6). Whatever the reason, the Boston Phoenix lists the 100 unsexiest men of 2010. Some highlights:

• No. 100, Justin Bieber: “Twenty-something mall skanks: It is not cute to Twitter that you’re ‘looking forward to tapping that.’” He’s 16.
• No. 80, Rush Limbaugh: “Don’t let the Florida hit your fat ass on the way out.”
• No. 51, Bill Clinton: “Bill Clinton’s penis famously wrecked the first Clinton presidency; in 2008 it may have wrecked Hillary’s before she could even get elected.”

Obama gets Clintons, Gore; McCain counters with Schwarzenegger, Giuliani

(NEWSER) - In the final days of the presidential campaign, the candidates are ramping up their schedules and bringing in their parties’ big names to motivate voters, the New York Times reports. John McCain, in addition to sending running mate Sarah Palin on a grueling two-day sprint across the country, has enlisted the help of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudolph Giuliani. More»

Maureen Dowd pays affectionate tribute to frequent interviewee

(NEWSER) - Paul Newman was an unapologetic liberal, Maureen Dowd reminds us in a column on the actor who was also her teenage crush. He made Nixon's enemies list for supporting Eugene McCarthy and opposing the Vietnam War, and had "traits that have been in short supply in the Bush administration," Dowd writes: "shrewdness, humility, decency, generosity, class." He also taught the clueless-in-the-kitchen reporter how to make a good salad. More»