The case involving Mel Gibson and his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva will be presented to prosecutors within in the next two weeks, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department tells EW.com. Detectives, who are investigating Gibson (for alleged domestic violence and child endangerment) and Grigorieva (for alleged extortion), will present their evidence, at which point prosecutors will decide if the case will go to trial.
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Aug 9
2010
05:23 PM ET
Aug 9
2010
12:00 PM ET
Johnny Carson's philanthropy continues posthumously
The former Tonight Show host, who died in 2005, set up a foundation in 1988 that has continued to receive a reported $156 million from a personal trust established by Carson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Smoking Gun obtained a 2010 tax return which indicates that the John W. Carson Foundation received $32.5 million in cash and $121.2 million in securities and royal rights from the John W. Carson Trust. Carson’s foundation supports a variety of organizations, including Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and Planned Parenthood.
Aug 9
2010
08:50 AM ET
Rod Stewart will be a father again
Rock legend Rod Stewart and his wife, Penny Lancaster, are expecting a baby, according to People. Stewart, 65, has five children from previous relationships and a 4-year-old son, Alastair, with Lancaster, 39.
Aug 9
2010
08:43 AM ET
Jack Black, Richard Linklater team up for 'Bernie'
Richard Linklater and Jack Black, who worked together on School of Rock, will reunite for the black comedy Bernie, based on the 1998 Texas Monthly article “Midnight in the Garden of East Texas” by Skip Hollandsworth. According to Variety, the movie is based on the true story of Bernie Tiede, a mortician and community leader in a small Texas town who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wealthy widow (Shirley MacLaine) that leads to fatal consequences. Linklater said producers will be looking for “funny and interesting folks” in Texas to appear in the movie.
Aug 9
2010
07:27 AM ET
Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal dies at age 84
Patricia Neal, a Tony- and Oscar-winning actress who embarked on a remarkable career comeback after suffering three strokes at age 39 that left her in a coma for three weeks, died on Sunday at her home in Edgartown, Mass., according to the New York Times. She was 84. Neal emerged in her early 20s on Broadway, winning a Tony for her debut in Lillian Hellman’s Another Part of the Forest before moving to Hollywood.
She is best known for her Oscar-winning turn in 1963′s Hud, playing the rare woman able to resist the adulterous appeals of Paul Newman’s callous title character. After suffering three strokes in 1965, she learned to walk and talk again and returned to work despite an impaired memory. She earned another Oscar nomination for 1968′s The Subject Was Roses. Other notable roles include the 1951 sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still, Elia Kazan’s 1957 drama A Face in the Crowd, 1961′s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker (as Helen Keller’s mother).
Neal’s personal life was often as dramatic as anything she did onscreen. At 23, she embarked on a three-year affair with Gary Cooper, her costar in The Fountainhead, who ultimately decided to stay with his wife and daughter. She then wed the British children’s book author Roald Dahl, resulting in a difficult 30-year marriage that produced five children and more than its share of tragedy. Their oldest, Olivia, died of measles at age 7, and son Theo suffered major brain damage at four months when his baby carriage was crushed between a taxi and bus in New York City.
Aug 8
2010
08:16 PM ET
Actress Jodie Fisher identified as the woman who prompted the ouster of Hewlett-Packard's CEO
The woman who made a sexual harassment claim against Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd that led to his resignation on Friday has stepped forward. According to the New York Times, she’s Jodie Fisher, a 50-year-old actress who appeared in steamy movies like Intimate Obsession as well as the 2007 NBC reality show Age of Love (she was the first woman eliminated on the dating show, which was built around finding a suitable female companion for Australian pro tennis player Mark Philipoussis).
Lawyers for Fisher reportedly contacted H-P in June alleging sexual harassment by Hurd, who resigned on Friday after the tech giant’s board found that he apparently had filed inaccurate expense statement covering payments to Fisher, who had worked as an independent contractor beginning in 2007. Both Hurd and Fisher insist that they did not engage in a sexual relationship. She told the Times she had been hired to work “at high-level customer and executive summit events” and that she had resolved her harassment claims with Hurd privately and without litigation.
Aug 8
2010
08:01 AM ET
British pop singer Robbie Williams weds actress Ayda Field
British pop star Robbie Williams married American actress Ayda Field at his Beverly Hills home on Saturday, People reports. The couple reportedly met in 2006. The 36-year-old singer first emerged as a member of the British boy band Take That in the early ’90s before embarking on a solo career. Field, 31, has had recurring roles in short-lived TV series like Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the Kelsey Grammer-Patirica Heaton sitcom Back to You.
Aug 6
2010
04:46 PM ET
Sean Penn not a fan of Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency; Jean responds
Sean Penn told CNN that he’s skeptical of Wyclef Jean’s bid to become Haiti’s president, saying that Jean has been a “non-presence” during the relief efforts. Penn has been deeply involved in Haiti since last January’s earthquake including running a camp for survivors. Said Penn during the interview, “Right now, I worry that this is a campaign that is more about a vision of flying around the world talking to people as he said.”
Update: Wyclef Jean defended himself, responding to Penn’s comments on The Gayle King Show: “What I want Sean Penn to know is, if I was not in Haiti after [former president] Jean-Bertrand Aristide left, if I did not create [my charity] Yéle Haiti to start stopping the violence, even him coming to Haiti would not have been possible today.” [People]
Aug 6
2010
04:26 PM ET
Bernie Mac's widow sues his doctor
Rhonda McCullough, the widow of Bernie Mac, has filed a wrongful death suit against Dr. Rene M. Earles, a Chicago dermatologist who’d treated Mac. The comedian died on Aug. 9, 2008 of heart failure after pneumonia. He’d also long been suffering from sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease. The suit alleges that the doctor failed to recognize how severe Mac’s cardiopulmonary distress was during an office visit three weeks prior to his death. The doctor disputed the allegations to the Chicago Sun-Times, saying that he believes he treated Mac appropriately. [People]
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