Rascal Flatts guitarist Joe Don Rooney and wife Tiffany Fallon welcomed a baby girl Sept. 7 in Nashville, People reports. Raquel Blue Rooney is the couple’s second child; Jagger Donovan is two years old. “Tiffany and I are so excited to have brought a brand new baby into the world,” Rooney said in a statement.
Archive: September 2010 (121-130 of 173)
Sep 9
2010
02:50 PM ET
Sep 9
2010
12:43 PM ET
Fox Searchlight acquires Terrence Malick project
Fox Searchlight Pictures announced today it has acquired the U.S. rights to Terrence Malick’s (Badlands, The Thin Red Line) long-delayed project The Tree of Life. The 1950s-set drama stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. It is set for release in 2011. The studio’s announcement said in part: “The Tree Of Life is the impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950s chronicling the journey of the eldest son, Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn), through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years — trying to reconcile the complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.”
Sep 9
2010
08:00 AM ET
Angelina Jolie condemns planned Koran burning
Angelina Jolie has added her voice to those against Florida pastor Terry Jones’ planned Sept. 11 Koran-burning. “I have hardly the words,” Jolie told reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan, “that somebody would do that to somebody’s religious book.” U.N. goodwill ambassador Jolie, who is in Pakistan drawing attention to flood victims, also praised the U.S. officials (which include President Obama) who’ve spoken out against the burning of the Muslim holy book, People reports.
Sep 8
2010
08:14 PM ET
Britney Spears accused of sexual harassment by security guard
Former Britney Spears security guard Fernando Flores is suing the pop star for sexual harassment. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 8 in an L.A. court and obtained by EW, Flores alleges that Spears “humiliated and traumatized” Flores by exposing her “naked or near naked body” to him, engaging in sex acts in front of him, verbally abusing him, and threatening to fire him after he said there was a 15-minute wait to get her a Slurpee at a Los Angeles movie theater. He also claims she engaged in sex acts near her two young sons.
A statement posted Sept. 9 on Spears’ official site called the lawsuit “another unfortunate situation where someone is trying to take advantage of the Spears family and make a name for himself,” adding that authorities have already closed their investigation of Flores’ accusations.
An attorney for Kevin Federline, Spears’ ex-husband and father of their children, told the Associated Press that his client takes allegations of abuse or wrongdoing regarding their children seriously, but that he looked into the accusations before the suit was filed and decided they were baseless.
“He is satisfied that the allegations are a product of economic motives,” Federline’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said to the AP. Kaplan said that the lawsuit was leaked to online news outlets before it was filed. “I think that the timing of this and the nature of the allegations speak for themselves,” he told the AP.
Sep 8
2010
04:35 PM ET
London Film Festival line-up announced
Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Keira Knightley — this year’s London Film Festival will look a lot like a Richard Curtis movie. The line-up of films for the 16-day October event was announced today. Among the contenders: Mike Leigh’s new comedy Another Year, Danny Boyle’s new thriller 127 Hours (with James Franco playing a mountain climber trapped under a bolder), and Darren Aronofsky’s ballet drama Black Swan (starring Natalie Portman). Also playing will be The King’s Speech, with Colin Firth as King George VI, Womb, a love story with Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith and ex-Bond girl Eva Green, and The American, the George Clooney hired killer thriller that opened here in America last week.
Sep 8
2010
04:04 PM ET
Snooki fined $500 for disturbing beach-goers
Jersey Shore‘s Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was ordered to pay a $500 fine for disturbing beach-goers in New Jersey in July, the Associated Press reports. Judge Damian G. Murray — who called the reality star “a Lindsay Lohan wannabe” in court — also ruled that Polizzi perform community service, but credited her one day for her work helping abused animals in a zoo. Polizzi pleaded guilty to disturbing others in court, and apologized for her behavior on the day of her arrest. She also claimed her manner was not scripted for Jersey Shore.
Sep 8
2010
01:03 PM ET
MTV launching live afternoon show called 'The Seven'
It may not involve hordes of teenagers screaming over the top of 30-second snippets of popular videos — R.I.P. Total Request Live! — but MTV plans to get back into the business of live, after-school programming. On Sept. 27, the network will launch The Seven, a half-hour show focusing on seven stories about news, pop-culture, fashion, and sex targeted to the 12-to-24-year-old audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Seven, which will air at 5 p.m., will be hosted by Kevin Manno and Julie Alexandria, and also feature musical performances and interviews.
Sep 8
2010
12:33 PM ET
Rachel Dratch has son
Former Saturday Night Live star Rachel Dratch delivered a baby boy named Eli Aug. 24 in New York City. “She’s doing great and the baby’s doing great,” a source told People. “She’s healthy and really happy!”
Dratch told People in July that her pregnancy has “a whole crazy story” behind it, but she would prefer it to remain private for now.
Sep 8
2010
08:35 AM ET
Mel Gibson's arresting officer suing his own department
The Sheriff’s Deputy who arrested Mel Gibson in the infamous 2006 DUI incident is suing Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, claiming he has been subject to repeated disciplinary action and overlooked for promotions since complaining that the actor received preferential treatment from police, People reports. Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee is asking for an undisclosed sum in a lawsuit against the County of Los Angeles that alleges discrimination and harassment and states that he has been singled out in a four-year investigation into who leaked the confidential arrest report to TMZ.
The suit claims that Mee, who is Jewish, was asked by superiors to delete portions of his report, “effectively participating in covering up the anti-Semitic posture of Mr. Gibson.” Gibson allegedly spewed a string of anti-Semitic statements on the night in question. The lawsuit also alleges that Gibson is a close friend of Sheriff Lee Baca and other top officials.
“My client is being retaliated against because he is a Jewish deputy,” Mee’s lawyer Etan Z. Lorant told People. “He was the most logical person for the police to investigate, but they didn’t look into any other deputies. They started with him and ended with him, even though other deputies had access to the report. They should’ve kept investigating.”
The lawsuit states that no charges were ever filed against Mee and that the case has been filed as “unresolved.”
“We categorically deny this lawsuit,” Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore told People. “This has nothing to do with ethnicity. What the sheriff’s department did was launch an investigation because someone was releasing confidential documents, which is a crime. We look forward to telling the whole story in this case.”
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