Archive: November 2011 (21-30 of 60)

Nov 16 2011 10:44 AM ET

'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin Karl Slover dies

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Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, The Wizard of Oz, has died. He was 93. The 4-foot-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday afternoon in a central Georgia hospital, said Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley. According to friends, as recently as last weekend, Slover appeared at events in the suburban Chicago area.

Slover was best known for playing the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins’ band but also had roles as a townsman and soldier in the film, said John Fricke, author of 100 Years of Oz and five other books on the movie and its star, Judy Garland. Slover was one of the tiniest male Munchkins in the movie.

Long after Slover retired, he continued to appear around the country at festivals and events related to the movie. He was one of seven Munchkins at the 2007 unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to the little people in the movie. Only three remain of the 124 diminutive actors who played the beloved Munchkins. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 16 2011 10:35 AM ET

Connie Britton adopts son

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Connie Britton has adopted a baby boy from Ethiopia, reports People. After a three-year wait, the American Horror Story star held 9-month-old baby Eyob, whom she calls Yoby, in her arms for the first time. “I thought I was going to collapse into a puddle of tears. I was just grinning from ear to ear,” said Britton. “I am thanking my lucky stars every day.”

Nov 16 2011 09:10 AM ET

Michael Jackson's death bed no longer up for auction

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The bed where Michael Jackson died is no longer available for sale. Julien’s Auctions has removed the queen-sized headboard from its auction of items from 100 North Carolwood Drive, Jackson’s last residence. “This item is the only portion of the bed that had been listed for auction, and no part of the bed remains for sale,” company president Darren Julien said Tuesday, adding that he removed the carved headboard seen in evidence photos during the criminal trial of Jackson’s physician from the auction’s lots at the request of Jackson’s estate. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 15 2011 06:58 PM ET

Heather Locklear, Jack Wagner break off engagement

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Sorry Melrose Place fans: Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner will not be getting married. People reports that the couple, who got engaged in August, are no longer engaged. This would have been Locklear’s third marriage: She was previously married to Tommy Lee and Richie Sambora.

Nov 14 2011 03:41 PM ET

Kim Kardashian hires lawyer to confront 'staged' wedding accusations -- EXCLUSIVE UPDATE

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Kim Kardashian is suing a publicist who once worked for her and is now implying on television that the reality star’s marriage to Kris Humphries was a sham. “It was obvious it was staged,” Jonathan Jaxson told Fox’s Good Day L.A. on Friday, while promoting his tell-all book about the pursuit of fame. “For me, it was fake because Kim said previously that she … didn’t want to get married weeks prior to the wedding itself.”

Jaxson also claimed that he worked with Kardashian in orchestrating a phony engagement to NFL star Reggie Bush in 2007 by arranging photographers to catch her shopping for a ring. “We turned it around and made it a media spectacular,” Jaxson said. “Never were they engaged. It was all for pure publicity.” READ FULL STORY »

Nov 14 2011 10:37 AM ET

Diaspora co-founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy is dead at 22

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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, one of the founding members of the social networking site Diaspora, has passed away at the age of 22. According to the International Business Times, the company confirmed that Zhitomirskiy has died, though the cause and date of his passing have not yet been reported. IBC writes that Zhitomirskiy, along with Dan Grippi, Maxwell Zalsberg and Raphael Sofaer, created Diaspora out of growing dissatisfaction with Facebook and wanted to create “a social network that didn’t force people to surrender their privacy.” (Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg helped contribute to Diaspora’s website fundraising, and said of the up-start, “I think it’s a cool idea.”) Zhitomirskiy’s profile on Diaspora reads, “Ilya is a Russian. He is super passionate about building a world of hacker spaces, maker culture, sharing, cycling, and life satisfaction.”

Nov 14 2011 10:22 AM ET

'Glee' star Lauren Potter appointed to Obama committee

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Actress Lauren Potter is known to Glee fans as Sue Sylvester’s right hand woman Becky Jackson, but the 21-year-old has been given an even more high-profile new role.

According to CNN.com, Potter has been appointed by President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, which “provides advice about intellectual disabilities to the president and the secretary of Health and Human Services. This can include education, homeownership and workplace integration issues. This committee consists of 21 citizen members appointed by the president and 13 federal government members who meet periodically over a year and report findings to the president.” READ FULL STORY »

Nov 13 2011 06:19 PM ET

Evelyn Lauder, breast cancer pink ribbon creator, dies at 75

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Pink was Evelyn Lauder’s color.

In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life.

In 1992, Lauder worked with her friend Alexandra Penney, the former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, to create the pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer awareness. It started small with Lauder and her husband, Leonard, largely financing the little bows given to women at department store makeup counters to remind them about breast exams. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 12 2011 05:43 PM ET

Zoe Saldana, fiance part ways

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After dating for 11 years, Star Trek star Zoe Saldana and fiancé Keith Britton have split, People reports. The couple, who announced they were engaged in 2010, have “amicably separated,” according to a rep. Saldana and Britton, however, will continue to work together on their fashion website, My Fashion Data Base. Said a statement from Saldana’s rep, “Saldana and Britton remain committed business partners as co-founders of fashion resource MyFDB.com.”

Nov 11 2011 11:34 PM ET

Jason Lee and wife second celebrity couple to renew vows on 11/11/11

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Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn weren’t the only lovebirds to renew their vows on 11/11/11. People reports former My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee wed wife Ceren Alkac again Friday in Los Angeles. The couple married for the first time three years ago, in 2008, the same year they welcomed their daughter, Casper. Alkac plays stepmom to Lee’s first child from a previous relationship, 8-year-old Pilot Inspektor.

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