Archive: December 2011 (31-40 of 80)

Dec 20 2011 04:37 PM ET

Lady Antebellum's Dave Haywood engaged

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Dave Haywood of Lady Antebellum is engaged, reports People. Haywood, the singer and guitarist for the country group, proposed to his girlfriend Kelli Cashiola last night. Haywood surprised Cashiola, the Vice President of Marketing/Brand Management for Warner Music Nashville, by picking her up from work and blindfolding her as he led her to her house, where he had strung up Christmas lights to read, “Will you marry me?” The couple were strictly platonic for five years before officially debuting as a couple at last month’s CMA Awards. They have not set a date for the wedding yet.

Read more:
CMA Awards: The winners list
American Music Awards — The AMAs winners list
EW Review: Own the Night

Dec 20 2011 03:59 PM ET

Christina Ricci to star in off-Broadway Shakespeare

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Christina Ricci’s stage debut last year apparently didn’t scare her off — she’s going back. Producers said Tuesday the Pan Am star will join two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth in a Classic Stage Company production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The off-Broadway show will begin performances March 28 and play through May 6. Neuwirth will play the role of Titania. Ricci will have the role of Hermia.

Ricci made her Broadway debut last season in Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still, replacing Alicia Silverstone and starring opposite Laura Linney, Brian d’Arcy James and Eric Bogosian. Ricci burst onto the scene in 1990 as Cher’s daughter in Mermaids and has built a long list of film credits, including The Addams Family, The Ice Storm, Speed Racer and Penelope.

Dec 20 2011 02:34 PM ET

Piers Morgan on phone hacking: 'I'm not going to start any trail that leads to the identification of a source'

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CNN celebrity interviewer Piers Morgan refused to disclose details Tuesday about his most damning link to Britain’s phone hacking scandal — his acknowledgment that he once listened to a phone message left by Paul McCartney for his then-wife Heather Mills. In an eagerly awaited appearance before the U.K.’s media ethics committee, Morgan, who replaced Larry King on CNN, was visibly tense, sometimes hostile and often rejected characterizations of his actions made by inquiry lawyers as “nonsense.”

The stakes were high for Morgan. More than a dozen journalists have been arrested, senior executives with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. media empire have lost their jobs, and top U.K. police officers have resigned over their failure to tackle the phone hacking scandal. His testimony Tuesday was given under oath, and Morgan could be subject to criminal proceedings if he was found to have violated any British laws.
Before his U.S. television career, Morgan ran two British tabloids — first Murdoch’s News of the World and then the Daily Mirror, owned by Murdoch competitor Trinity Mirror. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 20 2011 12:12 PM ET

Gerard Butler rescued after big-wave surfing incident

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Gerard Butler is okay after being held underwater by some big waves while filming for a movie about a surfer at Mavericks, a famed Northern California surf break known for treacherous, stories-high waves.

Filmmakers were shooting the 42-year-old Of Men and Mavericks star paddling out with competitive surfers Greg Long, Zach Wormhoudt, and Peter Mel on Sunday afternoon, the San Mateo County Times reported. The four were steering clear of a set of waves in the 15-foot range when a much larger set broke in front of them, said Wormhoudt, of Santa Cruz. Butler was held underwater for two waves and washed through some rocks while tethered to his surfboard, Wormhoudt said. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 19 2011 07:39 PM ET

Chaz Bono and fiancee call off engagement

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Activist and Dancing With the Stars contestant Chaz Bono and fiancée Jennifer Elia have ended their engagement and relationship, reports People. “Thanks for your concern about our separation,” Bono tweeted earlier today. “I’m doing fine, and we remain on good terms with nothing but respect and affection 4 each other.” The couple had been together for four years when Bono announced his decision in 2009 to transition from female to male.

Dec 19 2011 05:39 PM ET

Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard split

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Playwright and actor Sam Shepard and Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange are no longer together after a relationship that nearly lasted 30 years. People magazine reports that the couple, who have two children, Hannah and Samuel, separated two years ago. “They both are pursuing independent lives,” a source told the magazine.

Lange recently earned Golden Globe and SAG nominations for her role in FX’s American Horror Story.

Dec 19 2011 02:50 PM ET

Joe Jonas treated, released from hospital

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Joe Jonas is back in singing form after being treated at an L.A.-area hospital Sunday, EW confirms. TMZ had reported that Jonas was hospitalized with abdominal pain. A rep for the singer tells EW that Jonas was treated and released but did not elaborate on his ailment.

Dec 19 2011 12:19 PM ET

'Descendants' actress Judy Greer marries

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Actress Judy Greer, who’s currently in The Descendants, married Dean Johnsen on Saturday night, according to People. Greer and Johnsen, who’s a co-executive producer for Real Time With Bill Maher, tied the knot at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in front of approximately 200 friends, including Rashida Jones, Bill Maher, and Jason Biggs.

Dec 18 2011 02:31 PM ET

Vaclav Havel, playwright and anti-communist revolutionary, has died at 75

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Vaclav Havel wove theater into revolution, leading the charge to peacefully bring down communism in a regime he ridiculed as “Absurdistan” and proving the power of the people to overcome totalitarian rule. Shy and bookish, with a wispy mustache and unkempt hair, the dissident playwright was an unlikely hero of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 “Velvet Revolution” after four decades of suffocating repression — and of the epic struggle that ended the wider Cold War. He was his country’s first democratically elected president, leading it through the early challenges of democracy and its peaceful 1993 breakup into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, though his image suffered as his people discovered the difficulties of transforming their society.

A former chain-smoker who had a history of chronic respiratory problems dating back to his years in communist jails, Havel died Sunday morning at his weekend home in the northern Czech Republic, his assistant Sabina Tancevova said. His wife Dagmar and a nun who had been caring for him the last few months of his life were by his side, she said. He was 75.  READ FULL STORY »

Dec 18 2011 12:44 PM ET

Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean says 'I do'

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Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean married Rochelle DeAnna Karidis at the Beverly Hills Hotel yesterday, according to People. McLean had proposed to Karidis on stage nearly two years ago. The couple’s wedding, which take place in a tent on the Crystal Lawn, had a goth-theme, and McLean, 33, wore a red bow-tie.

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