Archive: August 2010 (1-10 of 178)

Aug 31 2010 09:23 PM ET

Conan O'Brien to announce his new show's name on Wednesday

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Conan O’Brien will unveil the name of his new late-night talk show on Wednesday, according to a Twitter post he made on Tuesday. “I was going to announce the name of my new show today, but my lawyers tell me The Return of Nanny McPhee is taken,” wrote O’Brien. “Tune in tomorrow.” Whatever it’s called, O’Brien’s new program will debut on TBS in November.

Aug 31 2010 08:38 PM ET

Bethenny Frankel says she's quitting 'Real Housewives of New York City'

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Bethenny Frankel is quitting Bravo’s reality show The Real Housewives of New York City, the natural foods chef told Us Weekly. Frankel said she has rejected Bravo’s offers for her to return for the series’ fourth season. “Last season was scary and painful,” said Frankel. “My gut’s saying not to be part of this cast.” However, according to Us Weekly, Frankel is contractually obligated to make a few appearances on Real Housewives, which starts shooting Sept. 20. Bravo debuted Frankel’s spinoff show, Bethenny Getting Married?, in June to more than 2 million viewers.

UPDATE: A spokesperson at Bravo said the network had no comment about Frankel’s appearance on future seasons of Real Housewives or ongoing negotiations.

Aug 31 2010 06:42 PM ET

Samantha Ronson under investigation after dog attack

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People is reporting that the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care & Control is investigating an incident in which Samantha Ronson’s bulldog Cadillac reportedly killed a smaller dog near her West Hollywood home. Ronson tweeted yesterday: “I feel incredibly sad and wish I could offer more than condolences, unfortunately there are no words to describe how sorry I am.”

Aug 31 2010 04:08 PM ET

Stars' secret 'Bling Ring' testimony is revealed

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The AP obtained unsealed grand jury testimony from late June given by several high-profile victims in a burglary ring case. Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson, Audrina Patridge, Paris Hilton, Brian Austin Green, and Lindsay Lohan had all appeared in a Los Angeles court  to testify about break-ins at their homes and the theft of jewelry and clothes among other items by a so-called “Bling Ring”. Their testimony resulted in the indictment of five individuals who have since pled not guilty and are due back in court later in September.  (A sixth took a plea deal.) [AP]

Aug 31 2010 03:32 PM ET

Zsa Zsa Gabor back in hospital

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CBS News reports Zsa Zsa Gabor has been rushed back to the hospital, after her husband Prince Frederic Von Anhalt found her “unresponsive.” Gabor first checked into the hospital mid-July after breaking her hip from a fall. She has since been reportedly given last rites by a priest. She is currently at the UCLA Medical Center.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor in very serious condition

Aug 31 2010 12:58 PM ET

'Crocodile Dundee' star unable to pay back taxes

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Paul Hogan, 70, best known for playing the titular character in the film Crocodile Dundee, claims he doesn’t have even 10 percent of the undisclosed sum he owes officials in back taxes on $38 million Australian dollars, the AP reports. In an interview with Australian program A Current Affair, the actor denied that he is a tax evader and said that the Australian Crime Commission is just looking to make an example out of a high-profile person. The L.A.-residing actor was served with an Australian Taxation Office order Aug. 20 that prevents him from leaving the country, which he entered last week to attend his mother’s funeral.

Aug 31 2010 11:58 AM ET

Chad Lowe weds

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Chad Lowe has wed his longtime girlfriend, Kim Painter, People reports. The couple — who has been together since 2007 — married Saturday at Terranea Resort in Los Angeles. Their 15-month-old daughter, Mabel, served as ring bearer.

Aug 31 2010 10:18 AM ET

Summer movie profits up, butts in movie seats down

Categories: Movie Biz

According to a new report from the Associated Press, Hollywood raked in record revenue — $4.35 billion in domestic receipts, up $100 million from last year — from the summer movie season. On the flip side, actual attendance was down. (Just ask the studios behind underperformers like Sex & the City 2, The Prince of Persia, and Marmaduke.) The rise in ticket prices, led by the surge of 3-D offerings, accounts for the increased coin in studio coffers.

Aug 31 2010 09:16 AM ET

Sandra Bullock talks about motherhood, post-Katrina rebuilding on 'Today Show'

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Sandra Bullock appeared on the Today Show this morning and spoke to Matt Lauer about her work to rebuild a school in post-Katrina New Orleans and being a mother to Louis, her adopted 7-month-old son, who is from New Orleans. “No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life that you are responsible for until you have a child in your life,” she said. ”It naturally shifts. It just shifted the day I met him, and it was like he’d been there the whole time and yet everything was different. Louis’s got the stage.” READ FULL STORY »

Aug 31 2010 06:56 AM ET

Paris Hilton faces felony charges, said she thought cocaine was gum

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Clark County, Nev., prosecutors have filed a felony charge against Paris Hilton in connection to her arrest in Las Vegas early Saturday morning on suspicion of cocaine possession, CNN reports. She will be arraigned on Oct. 27.

On Friday night, the 29-year-old socialite-heiress was a passenger in a black Cadillac Escalade, which was pulled over when an officer noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. The driver, Hilton’s boyfriend Cy Waits, allegedly said he was the one smoking marijuana and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. While police searched the vehicle for drugs, Hilton was escorted by a police lieutenant to a nearby hotel to use the restroom and shield her from the crowd that was gathering at the scene. It was there that police discovered a plastic bag of cocaine in her purse. Hilton said the cocaine and the purse were not hers and that she thought the plastic bag was gum. She did, however, claim ownership of other contents in the purse, including a broken tablet of Albuterol (commonly used to treat asthma), $,1300 in cash, and credit cards in her name.

Hilton’s lawyer, David Chesnoff, released the following statement: “This matter will be dealt with in the courts, not in the media, and I encourage people not to rush to judgment until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of law.”

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