7/5/2006
The Way They Were: apparently buying more tickets.
The song just isn't as sweet this time around.The New York Post reported Wednesday that ticket sales for Streisand's latest tour have not been strong, possibly due to sticker shock (in some markets tickets START at $800). And the reported $80 million that Babs is said to be making on the tour may...
7/5/2006
A Houston television station is reporting that Mr. Enron will not be seeing jail time after all.
Was it fear of jail time?A Houston television station reported Wednesday morning that Kenneth Lay, former CEO and chairman of Enron, died of a heart attack this weekend at his Aspen house. The wire services picked up the story as a "report," but both CNN and the New York Times reference a statement...
6/7/2006
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest nine-year-old of them all?
Jeremy Piven ("Entourage") and Stephen Dorff ("Blade") got into a pretty silly fight last night at exclusive New York club Bungalow 8, the New York Post reported.Piven was reportedly detailing his plans to befriend some babes in line for the bathroom when Dorff cut in front of him. "I can do what I...
6/7/2006
There's nothing "Ironic" about this sad breakup.
Alanis, of all people "You Oughta Know" great things never last.Singer Alanis Morissette (made famous by U.S. debut "Jagged Little Pill") and her fiance, actor Ryan Reynolds ("Blade: Trinity," "Van Wilder") have split, People.com reported. The couple met in 2002 via mutual friend Drew Barrymore and...
6/7/2006
Note to stars: Have your bodyguard wait with the car next time.
A quick Google search finds the Cadillac Escalade in lyrics for artists like Lil' Kim, Fat Joe and Kanye West.Unfortunately, the much-desired sport utility vehicle favored by rap stars (and Tony Soprano) is also the car most likely to be reported as stolen, according to the Insurance Institute for...
6/6/2006
WHICH teen queen is movin' on up?
Sounds like someone's a little too big for their Seven Jeans.Although her latest movie "Just My Luck" didn't exactly take flight at the box office, Lindsay Lohan has reportedly backed out of her newest filming project "Bill," said sources at the "Prairie Home Companion" premiere.After bonding with...
6/6/2006
First World Cup in which 3G technology will allow soccer -- or football -- fans to watch anywhere. So who needs to go to Germany, anyway?
You can stand in Munich or Nuremberg and get splashed with beer by overeager fans, or you could just keep up on the train -- or in the doctor's office, or in bed, or even in school!New mobile 3G technology will allow World Cup fans the world over to watch their team of choice in the quadrennial (...
6/6/2006
We hope it's just speculation about her three-picture deal with the Weinstein Company.
How do you say "Don't mess with perfection" in Chinese?We hear Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi is planning to sign a three-picture English-language deal with indie kingmakers the Weinstein Co. to star in three pictures, including (say it ain't so) a remake of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven...
6/6/2006
Soon enough they'll put an escalator on the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Sounds like it's time for "Second Blood."Hollywood action hero and man's man Sylvester Stallone just turned 60 and celebrated with a blow-out in Las Vegas at the site of his next big project.No, it's not another Rocky movie (although the sixth installment, "Rocky Balboa," is rumored to hit theatres...
6/6/2006
Proud grandpa of most famous baby ever speaks!
He may not be talking to the proud momma, but he still wants the world to know he's a grandfather. With no leeway from estranged daughter Angelina Jolie, actor Jon Voight is going to the tabloids with a plea: Let me see my first granddaughter!
