Rip Torn Thought Bank Was Home: Lawyer

The binges just won't stop for former 'Baywatch' star

(NEWSER) - David Hasselhoff is back in the hospital after yet another booze binge. Making the situation even more troublesome? His 17-year-old daughter was the one who took him there. He checked in Sunday after drinking for three days straight, a source tells Radar . For those of you keeping track, he’s been hospitalized for this same issue more than five times in the past five years. More»

Judge orders actor to give up drinking after alleged bank break-in

(NEWSER) - Rip Torn entered a not guilty plea today to the charges leveled against him after his alleged drunken break-in at a Connecticut bank. At the same time, the judge added another bail condition: that he give up all alcohol. Torn’s lawyer pointed out that the actor is already undergoing rehab treatment, and said he had no intention of drinking anyway. More»

'Excessive partying' taking a toll, sources say

(NEWSER) - Rihanna was hospitalized after the Met’s Costume Institute gala Monday night, supposedly due to dehydration. But sources tell the New York Post the real problem is "excessive partying and not slowing down. She has been traveling nonstop and going wild." She also made some waves before her Saturday Night Live appearance last weekend, skipping dress rehearsal—no musical guest had ever done that before—due to illness, although she did perform on the show. More»

Seems like lots of Hollywood celebs are cousins

(NEWSER) - Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon got a bit of a surprise when they went on PBS' Finding Your Roots and discovered … they're actually distant cousins, Zap2It reports. "Talk about six degrees of separation, right?" jokes host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. In the Huffington Post , 14 more examples of surprising celebrity family connections:

• Tom Cruise: You probably know he was born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV—but did you know his cousin is William Mapother, aka Ethan from Lost?
• Jenny McCarthy: The former Playboy Playmate is cousins with Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy.

Plus, four more memorable celebrity bar fights

(NEWSER) - Shia LaBeouf had quite a night last week in Vancouver, first allegedly getting himself kicked out of a nightclub before getting into a brawl with a guy outside. TMZ —which has video, of course—reports that LaBeouf and the other man involved first got into an argument inside, then continued it after getting the boot. Oddly, the guy took off his shirt before going to town on LaBeouf’s face and head and knocking him to the ground. More»