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finally

 Lauren Bacall 
 Wins an Oscar 

Roger Corman, Gordon Willis, John Calley share the spotlight

Nov 15, 09 3:24 PM CST
(Newser) - A mere 65 years after her unforgettable screen debut, Lauren Bacall has won an Academy Award. The honorary Oscar was a high point of a ceremony last night in Los Angeles that also celebrated the careers of filmmaker Roger Corman, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and producer John Calley. "I can't... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • Academy Awards • film • Los Angeles • film director • screenwriters • actor • Hollywood producers • movies • Oscars • actress • cinematographer • Lauren Bacall • Roger Corman • Gordon Willis • John Calley • honorary Oscar • filmmaker

 Blind Actors 
 Blast  Breslin 
 Pick for Keller 

Advocates complain that blind, deaf had no chance to audition 

Oct 30, 09 2:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Advocates for blind and deaf actors complain that they were never given a chance to audition for the role of Helen Keller in an upcoming revival of The Miracle Worker. The part has instead been given to Abigail Breslin, best known for playing Olive in Little Miss Sunshine. The Broadway... More »

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child actors • Broadway • blindness • Broadway producers • actor • deaf people • Abigail Breslin • Helen Keller • actress

interview

 Love Me for 
 My Soul: 
 Megan Fox 

Starlet: 'I can't compromise my integrity'

Oct 23, 09 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Megan Fox says she's just misunderstood. "Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally," opines the starlet/philosopher, flogging US box office bomb Jennifer's Body north of the border. "This is a bullshit industry and I made a decision not... More »

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Hollywood • film • movies • Megan Fox • actress • Jennifer's Body

 Elizabeth Taylor 
 to Have Heart Surgery 

Actress says procedure will fix a leaky valve without open heart surgery

Oct 6, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Taylor will soon undergo heart surgery, she announced on Twitter today. “Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,” the 77-year-old actress posted this afternoon, notes ... More »

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Elizabeth Taylor • heart surgery • Twitter • actress

 Hollywood's Most 
 Profitable Actresses 

Naomi Watts delivers big hits for relatively little pay

Oct 6, 09 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Straitened studio heads unwilling to give $10 million to divas and hope for a hit should call Naomi Watts' agent right now. The Australian star of Mulholland Drive and The Ring is the most bankable actress in Hollywood, Forbes calculates. Her films earned an average of $44 for every dollar... More »

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Hollywood • Halle Berry • Jennifer Aniston • Cate Blanchett • Meryl Streep • Natalie Portman • Rachel McAdams • actor • Naomi Watts • Anne Hathaway • actress • return on investment • Jennifer Connelly • Hilary Swank

Hung Star Gets Waiter Fired
for Twittering About Tip

Actress complains to management after stiffing worker

Oct 6, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Beverly Hills waiter is looking for a new job after tweeting about Hung actress Jane Adams skipping out on a bill. Adams said she was going to her car to get her checkbook, then sent a rep the next day with payment for lunch—minus tip, the waiter twittered.... More »

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social networking • Beverly Hills • Twitter • waiter • actress • Jane Adams

OPINION

 Why Do Twits 
 Grace Women's Mags? 

Women's mag covers have gone from models to celebs to Kate Gosselin

Sep 29, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Aymar Jean Christian is fed up with the faces that appear on the covers of women’s magazines. Once upon a time, the women there were simply pretty. “Then sometime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, celebrity became more important than beauty.” And that was great, because... More »

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women • celebrity • Us Weekly • People Magazine • publishing industry • actress • magazine cover • celebrities • working

 Claire Danes 
 Weds Hugh Dancy 

My So-Called Life star, British actor were married in France

Sep 28, 09 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Actors Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy were married earlier this month in France, Life & Style reports. Danes, best known for her starring role in the cult TV series My So-Called Life, met Dancy on the set of the 2007 film Evening. The up-and-coming Dancy appeared most recently as... More »

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entertainment • actor • celebrity marriage • actress • Claire Danes • Confessions of a Shopaholic • Hugh Dancy • My So-Called Life • Evening

 LA Police Bust 
 Suspect in 
 Lohan Burglary 

18-year-old man also involved in break-in at home of Hills star Audrina Patridge: cops

Sep 17, 09 8:51 PM CDT
(AP) - Los Angeles police today arrested a man suspected of breaking into the homes of Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge. Nicholas Prugo, 18, is being held on $20,000 bail on suspicion of felony burglary; authorities gave no details on whether items had been recovered. More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • Lindsay Lohan • burglary • The Hills • Audrina Patridge • actress • Nicholas Prugo

 Barton: 
 Tooth Surgery 
 Led to Breakdown 

Mischa talks The Beautiful Life and rumors of drug abuse—sort of

Aug 28, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mischa Barton is speaking out for the first time about last month’s “involuntary psychiatric hold,” and the troubled actress pins much of the blame on wisdom tooth surgery. “It was a nightmare," she tells Time Out New York. "I’ve never had surgery... More »

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entertainment • drugs • celebrity • psychiatric treatment center • nervous breakdowns • actress • Mischa Barton

(Newser) - Katherine Heigl spilled the ugly truth about faking orgasms—it's apparently "really exhausting"—to Showbiz Spy. The 30-year-old actress had to don a pair of vibrating panties for a scene in the Ugly Truth, and filming the climax that ensued was "a nightmare," she says. "... More »

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Katherine Heigl • movies • actress • orgasm

(Newser) - A bare-chested Sharon Stone has hit French newsstands, Fox News reports. The 51-year-old actress poses topless and in bondage gear on the cover of Paris Match. Stone, who memorably revealed another part of her anatomy in Basic Instinct, says posing nude is easy; it just depends on motivation.... More »

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entertainment • France • Paris • topless • Sharon Stone • actress • magazine cover

 Sex Tape 
 Is Fake: 
 Gossip Girl 
 Meester 

Gossip Girl actress says it's not her in racy video

Aug 5, 09 3:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Leighton Meester says an alleged sex tape making the rounds is a phony. “It’s not real, so it makes me sort of sad,” the Gossip Girl actress tells Harper's Bazaar. “It's unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did. I definitely understand the nature... More »

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tabloids • sex tape • Gossip Girl • actress • Leighton Meester

 Tinseltown's 
 New Trend: 
 See-Through 
 Clothes 

Just remember to wear something underneath

Aug 5, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - The latest fashion trend for Hollywood’s leading ladies is leaving less to the imagination. Stars from Megan Fox to Emma Watson have been stepping out in sheer outfits, USA Today reports. “Sheer is beautiful,” says one stylist. “You just don’t want to be obscene.... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • fashion • celebrity • trend • Emma Watson • actress • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 Why Katherine 
 Heigl Is Annoying 


Jul 25, 09 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Katherine Heigl was “supposed to be America’s new sweetheart,” but somewhere we fell out of love. Sarah Ball, writing in Newsweek, lays some of the blame for her image as a “diva-like shrew” on "pure sexism. Every decade has a Most Annoying Actress,”... More »

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entertainment • television • film • Grey's Anatomy • Katherine Heigl • movies • actress • Sarah Ball

Mischa Barton
in Psychiatric Lockdown

OC star hospitalized
in  Los Angeles after
breakdown: sources

Jul 17, 09 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - OC star Mischa Barton was removed from her Hollywood home by police and placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold last night, reports Access Hollywood. A spokesman for the British-born actress confirmed that she will miss the premiere of her new movie Homecoming in New York tonight because of medical treatment.... More »

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Los Angeles • celebrity • mental breakdown • actress • Mischa Barton

Hollywood's Last Golden Girl Reminisces

De Havilland on her career, legendary chemistry with Flynn

Jul 14, 09 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Seventy years after Gone with the Wind, Olivia de Havilland talks to the Independent about her similarities to Melanie Hamilton, what it was really like to work during the golden age of Hollywood, and her relationship with Errol Flynn. Though nothing ever happened between the frequent costars, “What I... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • actor • Gone With the Wind • actress • Olivia de Havilland • Errol Flynn

Watson Waves Goodbye to Harry Potter

Seeking 'normal' life, Hermione gets ready
for Ivy League

Jul 11, 09 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - After 10 years at Hogwarts, Emma Watson is ready to move on to the Ivy League, the New York Daily News reports. The Harry Potter actress, who’s been playing the boy wizard’s pal Hermione Granger since she was 9, is taking a break from acting—and movie shoots,... More »

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Harry Potter • Ivy League • Daniel Radcliffe • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince • Emma Watson • actress

obituary

 Farrah 
 Fawcett 
 Dead at 62 

'Charlie's Angels' star diagnosed with cancer in 2006

Jun 25, 09 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Farrah Fawcett died this morning in Los Angeles after the battle with cancer that followed her 2006 diagnosis, Entertainment Tonight reports. The Charlie’s Angels star, 62, was a 1970s fashion idol who began her career in commercials and shot to fame after posing in an iconic portrait wearing a... More »

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cancer • television • theater • film • Farrah Fawcett • Charlie's Angels • Ryan O'Neal • Redmond O'Neal • actress • Lee Majors

 Woody's New Muse: Carla 

Director wants French first lady for film

Jun 19, 09 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Woody Allen’s newest leading lady could be France’s first lady. The director thinks Carla Bruni-Sarkozy “would be wonderful” in a film, Reuters reports. The former model has “charisma, she's already acted so she's not unknown to an audience. There are a lot of ways I could... More »

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entertainment • film • celebrity • Carla Bruni • Woody Allen • actress

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