AP - Supermodel Naomi Campbell left the glitz and bright lights of the fashion world behind Wednesday and joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects.
Reuters - Actor Lane Garrison, who played an
inmate on the television drama “Prison Break,” was sentenced to
three years and four months in prison on Wednesday for a
drunken driving crash that killed a teenager.
AP - A celebrity jeweler who put diamonds on celebrities from Sir Elton John to Kanye West pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying records and giving false statements to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring.
AP - Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the “Harry Potter” films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard.
AP - Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the “Harry Potter” films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard.
AP - Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the “Harry Potter” films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard.
Reuters - Roger Daltrey may be a fully
fledged rock star these days, the exuberant voice of The Who,
but during the band’s early years he was the weakest link, a
violent brawler briefly fired by his bandmates.
AP - The man known as “Don Vito” on MTV’s show “Viva La Bam” was convicted Wednesday of two counts of sexual assault on a child. Vincent Margera, 51, who was accused of groping three girls ages 12 to 14 during an autograph signing event last year at mall skate park in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, fell to the floor cursing and yelled, “Just kill me now.”
AP - Britney Spears defended her parenting and decried her critics, lamenting “how cruel our world can be,” in a brief interview on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show Wednesday.
Playbill - The North American premiere of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage, the British-made stage show of the popular Hollywood picture, invites audiences to have the time of their lives beginning Oct. 31 in Toronto.