Francisco Quinn, son of the late acting legend Anthony Quinn (Lawrence of Arabia), died Friday in Malibu of an apparent heart attack according to local news outlets and reported by People. Quinn, one 13 children born to his father, was also an actor, having appeared as a drug kingpin in 1986′s Platoon. He later had roles in TV series like ER and 24.
Archive: August 2011 (51-60 of 66)
Aug 7
2011
03:41 PM ET
Aug 5
2011
08:05 PM ET
Rapper Big Sean arrested for sexual assault
G.O.O.D. Music rapper Big Sean, 23, and a friend were arrested Thursday after New York State Park Police received a complaint that a female had sexually assaulted during a concert. According to MTV News, the two men have been charged with forcible touching, unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and sex abuse in the third degree and will have to appear in court. Both deny the allegations.
Aug 5
2011
12:41 PM ET
Rowan Atkinson, a.k.a. Mr. Bean, crashes his McLaren F1
Rowan Atkinson, the actor best known as Mr. Bean, crashed his McLaren F1 supercar in Haddon, England, on Thursday night. Authorities tell the Associated Press alcohol was not a factor in the accident, which Atkinson was able to walk away from with just a minor shoulder injury even though his seven-figure car, one of the world’s fastest, is said to have struck a tree and a lamppost before catching fire. He left the hospital Friday afternoon.
Aug 5
2011
11:41 AM ET
Michael Kors to marry long-time partner
Michael Kors and his long-time boyfriend, Lance LePere, are engaged to be married, reports Women’s Wear Daily. The Project Runway judge and his businessman partner were seen at New York’s City Hall this week and have confirmed that they received their marriage license and are preparing for a private ceremony. Said Kors in a statement, “Lance and I are very excited to finally be able to have the opportunity to marry in our home state after many years together.” The couple met in 1990 when LePere was an intern at Kors’ design house.
Aug 5
2011
11:14 AM ET
Trinity Mirror facing new phone-hacking lawsuit
A lawyer for the family of Milly Dowler, the murdered 13-year-old British girl whose voice messages were hacked by Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid, is now representing another set of clients threatening to sue Trinity Mirror for similar invasions of privacy. Mark Lewis told the Associated Press that legal claims would be filed in “a few weeks,” though he would not disclose the identities of his clients.
Trinity Mirror came under recent scrutiny when Heather Mills accused one of their reporters of hacking her phone back in 2001. Now, her ex-husband Paul McCartney says he intends to contact authorities about reports that his phone may have also been hacked.
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Piers Morgan denies phone-hacking
Aug 4
2011
06:25 PM ET
'Grease's Cha Cha, Annette Charles, dies
Actress Annette Charles, who played Cha Cha, the villain’s feisty girlfriend who famously danced with John Travolta in Grease, died Wednesday, according to California State University – Northridge, where she was a part-time professor. The 63-year-old actress, who also appeared in television shows like Magnum, P.I., The Incredible Hulk, and The Bionic Woman before leaving acting in 1987, had cancer. “She was a very dynamic and inpirational speaker, ” says Dr. David Rodriguez, the chair of the school’s Department of Chicana/o Studies. “She also had such a great sense of social consciousness and social justice, and her students just loved her.”
Aug 4
2011
01:04 PM ET
Faye Dunaway fires back at 'slum landlord' for eviction suit
Yesterday, Faye Dunaway was facing eviction. Today, she’s firing with both barrels. In her sights? Henry J. Moses, the landlord who filed a lawsuit to remove her from her rent-stabilized New York City apartment. Moses claims Dunaway does not keep her primary residence in the Upper East Side apartment, but rather in L.A., and therefore isn’t eligible for rent stabilization. As such, when Dunaway moves out of the apartment, Moses can likely rent it for at least twice the price of the $1,048.72 monthly rent Dunaway is paying currently.
Today, Dunaway told the New York Times that she has not been ordered to leave. “I have chosen to leave because of the state of the apartment, and also because I am spending less and less time in New York,” she said in a voicemail, elaborating that Moses, “refused to paint the house, and bugs were everywhere.” Dunaway also accused Moses of being a “slum landlord” with “no class.”
Moses’s lawyer Craig Charie played the Times three voicemail messages Dunaway left yesterday for Moses in which she offered to hand back her apartment keys. As of press time, though, Dunaway had not handed over her keys and didn’t seem to be pulling any punches in her parting shot to Moses: “I hope you need that money like crazy and you’ll give it to poor people. I hope you have a terrible life.”
Aug 4
2011
09:23 AM ET
Piers Morgan pulled into phone-hacking investigation by Heather Mills claim
A British politician suggested that CNN talk-show host Piers Morgan return to Britain to share what he knows about accusations that a reporter for the Trinity Mirror publishing group phone-hacked Paul McCartney’s ex-wife Heather Mills in 2001, according to the Associated Press. Mills has claimed that a reporter admitted to her that her voice messages had been accessed illegally by Trinity Mirror, and Therese Coffee, a conservative member of the Parliamentary committee investigating the phone-hacking scandal, called for Morgan to answer their concerns. Morgan, who edited the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004, has denied any involvement and knowledge of phone hacking.
Read more:
Piers Morgan receives apology from British MP
Piers Morgan denies phone-hacking
Aug 3
2011
08:50 PM ET
Disney picks director for live-action 'Snow White' movie
Commercials director and visual effects specialist Michael Gracey will direct Disney’s Snow White revisionist feature, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The live-action project, now called The Order of the Seven, has been in the works since 2002. This film — which, to be clear, has nothing to do with either Universal’s upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman (starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron) or Relativity’s still-untitled Snow White film (starring Lily Collins and Julia Roberts) — will be set in China and “is evolving into an original action film, with the Snow White elements being minimized.”
Aug 3
2011
06:15 PM ET
Bubba Smith, former NFL Pro Bowler and 'Police Academy' star, dies at 66
Image Credit: Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett Collection
Bubba Smith, the former NFL standout who starred as Moses Hightower in the Police Academy franchise, was found dead Wednesday in his Los Angeles home at the age of 66, reports the Los Angeles Times. While a cause of death has yet to be determined, it is believed that he died of natural causes. A two-time All-American at Michigan State University who later was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame, Smith spent nine seasons in the NFL as a defensive end and tackle, playing in two Pro Bowls and winning a Super Bowl with the Baltimore Colts. In the late 1970s, he transitioned into Hollywood, guest-starring in such TV series as Good Times, Charlie’s Angels, and Taxi before scoring as the imposing florist-turned-cop in the 1984 big-screen comedy Police Academy and its many sequels. Smith, who also starred in ABC’s short-lived police drama Blue Thunder in 1984, popped up in the early ’90s on shows like Married…with Children, MacGyver, and Family Matters.
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