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The Doors’ founding keyboardist, Ray Manzarek, died in Germany Monday after a long fight with cancer, his publicist said in a statement. He was 74. The artist had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer. The Doors formed in 1965 after Manzarek happened to meet Jim Morrison on California’s Venice Beach. The legendary rock...
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Oxbow has won the 138th Preakness Stakes horse race, ruining Kentucky Derby winner Orb’s bid to capture the Triple Crown. Orb finished fourth, ending the brown colt’s five-race winning streak. Since 1950, only two horses have won the middle jewel of the Triple Crown from the No. 1 post position. Photo: Oxbow, ridden...
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The film about the woman who was convicted of killing her former boyfriend will premiere June 22 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Lifetime isn’t wasting time in getting its Jodi Arias film on the air. With the convicted murderer’s trial still in its penalty phase, the cable network announced today that its true-crime movie, Jodi...
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Rihanna is reportedly suing British fashion retail chain Topshop for $5 million dollars … over a T-shirt. A top bearing Rihanna’s gorgeous mug is being sold in the United Kingdom without her consent, and despite eight months of negotiations, Topshopa apparently has refused to stop selling the shirt. Unfortunately for Rihanna, companies in the...
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Steve Carell reprised his role of former Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott on Thursday’s series finale of the U.S. sitcom “The Office.” Michael served as the best man at Dwight and Angela’s Pennsylvania beet farm wedding in the last episode of the show’s ninth and final season. Rainn Wilson and Angela Kinsey play...
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In a culture that outsources everything, it was inevitable some well-heeled Americans would find a way of skipping the tedium of lining up to get into a Disney attraction — especially during the recent Spring Break. Wealthy mothers from Manhattan are hiring disabled people, who pose as family members, to get onto rides and...
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Ahem… D3 Publisher and the Cartoon Network are gearing up with WayForward Technologies to bring Adventure Time and Regular Show fans new games this fall. This will be the second game for Finn the Human and Jake the Dog of Adventure Time, and the first for Mordecai and Rigby of the Regular Show. “With...
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. – the undefeated boxer – has topped a list of the highest-paid US athletes. According to an annual list by Sports Illustrated he is projected to make $90 million in 2013. Miami Heat basketball player LeBron James is a distant second at $56.5 million. Sports Illustrated
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There’s still one more season to go on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, but the show started its final countdown on Monday night with the introduction of the now-famous “mother” after eight seasons and 184 episodes. Spoiler alert: she’s a totally new character, so all those Robin-Ted fans should start crying now. “The...
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, pioneer of the television advice show, died on Monday of natural causes. Once considered the world’s most famous psychologist, the 85-year-old became famous upon winning TV game show The $64,000 Question in 1955. She later appeared in movies and TV shows, but became a nationwide celebrity as the host of a...
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Actress Angelina Jolie has written about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy in a New York Times piece. In the piece, Jolie writes: My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in...
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Taking a break from presidential oddsmaking, Public Policy Polling released the results of a different, equally important survey: How do Americans feel about Justin Bieber? In a music-oriented poll, the petulant pop star was among the artists rated unfavorably by 50 percent or more of respondents. (Chris Brown and Lady Gaga suffered the same...
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Charles Ramsey melodically recounts the day he helped rescue 3 kidnapped Cleveland women LYRICS: I knew somethin was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms dead giveaway, dead giveaway my neighbor got big testicles cause we see this dude everyday we eat ribs with this dude, but we...
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David Moyes is leaving Everton football club to join Manchester United. He’ll be taking the reins as manager at Manchester United, starting July 1. In a statement on the Manchester United website, Sir Alex Ferguson said, “When we discussed the candidates that we felt had the right attributes we unanimously agreed on David Moyes.”...
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The former child actor who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the 1960s “Peanuts” animated television specials was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday and immediately ordered to a residential drug treatment center by a California judge who told him: “Don’t be a blockhead.” Peter Robbins, 56, who choked up while...
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The Grammy-nominated frontman of Christian metalcore band As I Lay Dying has been arrested on suspicion of hiring an ex-policeman to kill his wife. Tim Lambesis, 32, was arrested at a shop in Oceanside, Southern California yesterday according to a statement released by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. He was detained on suspicion...
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Ray Harryhausen, who thrilled and terrified generations of moviegoers with his monstrous animated creations, has died at the age of 92. The visual effects pioneer, who worked on films including Clash of the Titans and Sinbad, influenced directors from Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson to James Cameron as well as Wallace & Gromit creator...
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Saul Bass celebration animates Google’s name in several different styles, playing on the designer’s best-known credit sequences. Google has marked the birthday of Saul Bass with one of the search engine’s most elaborate “doodles” yet – an animated sequence based on his designs for film title credits, film posters and corporate logos. Bass, who...
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Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of the season after 27 years in charge at Old Trafford, the Premier League champions confirmed on Wednesday. The 71-year-old, who won a 13th league title with the club this season, announced his decision via the club’s website after a morning of intense speculation....
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Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings. She has also been sentenced to three additional months of home confinement. Before the sentencing, her attorney said Hill had paid more than $970,000 to satisfy state and federal tax liabilities....
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