Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole Smith’s lawyer/boyfriend and two of her doctors have pleaded not guilty to charges that they conspired to provide thousands of prescription medication to the model/reality TV star before her death by drug overdose two years ago, the Associated Press reports. Outside the courtroom in Los Angeles, Stern’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, told reporters, "[Stern] did not commit a crime, period!" Smith was pronounced dead, at age 39, after being found unconscious in her Florida hotel room in 2007. All three defendants are charged with six counts each, including conspiracy, and, if convicted, could each face up to five years and eight months in prison.
Archive: May 2009 (181-190 of 345)
May 14
2009
01:15 AM ET
May 14
2009
01:13 AM ET
'House' star Olivia Wilde named Maxim's hottest woman
House, M.D. star Olivia Wilde, who plays a bisexual terminally ill internist on the show (yes, really), has claimed the top spot in "Maxim’s 2009 Hot 100," ranking the sexiest babes on Earth. Other beauties in the top ten include Transformers star Megan Fox (#2), Rihanna (#8), Watchmen star Malin Akerman (#4), Jennifer Love Hewitt (#10), and Forgetting Sarah Marshall actress Mila Kunis (#5). You can check out the whole list (with photos!) here. And People.com has this handy list of five things you don’t know about Olivia Wilde.
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May 13
2009
11:05 PM ET
Jennifer Hudson opens up about her late mother
In the upcoming June issue of Essence, Jennifer Hudson opens up about her late mother Darnell Donerson, People.com reports. Hudson recalls she was her "mamma’s baby" and "I’d go and sleep in her bed until I was 15 years old." Hudson’s fiance, David Otunga, admits that she has been reluctant to talk to the media about Donerson (who, along with Hudson’s brother and nephew were murdered in October of 2008) stating, "We don’t talk about it." Hudson also recently talked with EW about her life and career.
May 13
2009
10:15 PM ET
Robin Williams set to resume stand-up tour in the fall
Robin Williams will resume his "Weapons of Self-Destruction" stand-up tour, which he had to postpone in March to have heart surgery, this fall, according to Reuters. Williams, who is scheduled to appear on tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman, will start the tour back up on Sept. 30 in Bloomington, Ind., and finish out the 29 remaining shows originally slated. The tour will wrap up Nov. 28 in Atlantic City, N.J. Williams also stars in the upcoming Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, which opens May 22.
May 13
2009
08:47 PM ET
Martin Scorsese to direct Frank Sinatra biopic
Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct Sinatra, a biopic about legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra, according to Variety. The screenplay for the long-percolating project will be penned by Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams).
Talk about it on PopWatch:
Scorsese doing Sinatra: Is this a good idea?
May 13
2009
07:33 PM ET
Nicole Kidman exits Woody Allen movie over scheduling conflict
Nicole Kidman has withdrawn from Woody Allen’s latest, untitled movie due to a scheduling conflict, EW has learned. Kidman has already committed to producing and starring in The Rabbit Hole, which shoots on the East coast this summer. Allen’s movie is also scheduled to start shooting this summer, but in the U.K. When contacted by EW, Allen’s publicist said that Kidman’s replacement has yet to be determined.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Kidman would star in the Allen project, which also features Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts, and Freida Pinto. (Additional reporting by Nicole Sperling)
May 13
2009
03:38 PM ET
'Jon & Kate': Kate Gosselin discusses marriage struggles
Kate Gosselin, star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8, tells People that she and her husband have been struggling for months. Jon has been romantically linked to 23-year-old Deanna Hummel.
"I don’t know that we’re in the same place anymore, that we want the same thing," Kate told the magazine. "I’ve been struggling with the question of ‘Who is this person?’ for a while."
The couple has eight children — sextuplets and twins — between the ages of five and nine. Their reality show returns with new episodes on May 25.
More Jon & Kate:
Jon & Kate Sound Off
Kate Gosselin on ‘Today Show’: ‘Hesistant to believe’ infidelity rumors
Exclusive: Jon Gosselin tells EW ‘I am not guilty of cheating on my wife’
May 13
2009
12:51 PM ET
Al Pacino circling lead role in 'Blink'
Al Pacino is circling the lead role in an adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling Blink. The Hollywood Reporter‘s Risky Biz Blog is reporting that the Oscar winner would play a successful Wall Street financier who reconnects with his idealistic twentysomething son when he sees new opportunities for making money. The role of the son is still uncast, but Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) is slated to direct.
May 13
2009
12:37 PM ET
Jane Campion's 'Bright Star' snags U.S. distributor
Jane Campion’s first film in six years, the Cannes-bound Bright Star, has a U.S. distributor. Variety is reporting that the film, about the doomed loved affair between English poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, will be the first film distributed by Bob Berney and William Pohlad’s new, still unnamed company. Abbie Cornish (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and Ben Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited) will star.
May 13
2009
12:21 PM ET
Ashton Kutcher brings 'Blah Girls' to CBS
Blah Girls, Ashton Kutcher’s animated Web series about three pop-culture obsessed teens, will make the leap to television, according to Variety. Beginning today, the webisodes will air as one-minute shorts during episodes of CBS’s celebrity newsmag The Insider. Depending on its reception, CBS and Kutcher’s Katalyst Films have ideas of expanding the shorts into its own stand-alone network show.
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