Dialer error, not network error, is responsible for "Dancing with the Stars’" star-crossed phone voting, ABC said Wednesday. We did investigate thoroughly," said network spokeswoman Lauren Tobin. "Fortunately or unfortunately, it was not our mistake. Since the hit summer show debuted June 1, an answering service in Michigan, has received hundreds of calls [...]
Under that Velvet Teddy Bear exterior lurks a grizzly. Second-season "American Idol" champ Ruben Studdard has filed a criminal complaint in an ongoing battle with his ex-manager. The plus-sized crooner filed a complaint Monday in Birmingham, Alabama, alleging the former manager, Ronald W. Edwards, who is also Studdard’s godfather, defrauded the singer out [...]
AP - Actress Jennifer Tilly won the Ladies no-limit Texas Hold ‘Em event at the World Series of Poker — the first time a celebrity has won an event at the famous tournament.
Tilly’s skillful play and admitted good luck earned her $158,625. She beat 600 players to capture first place in a two-day event featuring [...]
AP - Bono wants his hat back. And his earrings. His sweat shirt, too. Dublin-based rock band U2 went to court Tuesday to recover items from former stylist Lola Cashman, who has a range of memorabilia from her work on their 1987 Joshua Tree world tour.
In 2002, Cashman tried to sell some of the items [...]
AP - Whether Oprah Winfrey was turned away from a bit of after-hours shopping in Paris because of a racist employee or a special event, news of the confrontation outside a luxury store has evoked empathy and anger from many American minorities.
In living rooms and Internet chat rooms, the Winfrey case has sparked discussion of [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paul Winchell, a famed ventriloquist best remembered as the voice of the irrepressible Tigger in the Winnie the Pooh series, has died, an associate said on Sunday. He was 82.
Winchell died on Friday in the Los Angeles area, according associate Johnny Blue Star and a Web site operated [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In his first public statement since being acquitted of child sex abuse charges, Michael Jackson thanked his fans for the love and support he said “dried my tears” during the four-month trial.
In a statement posted on his Web site (www.mjjsource.com) on Sunday, Jackson said he could not have [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Every generation has its fears, and director Steven Spielberg does not shy away from the source of anxiety that his new science fiction epic, “War of the Worlds,” plays on — the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
“It’s certainly about Americans fleeing for their lives, being attacked for no reason, [...]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - They’re cursed at, knocked down and have objects thrown at them. They’re loathed by their subjects. Yet the demand for the photos they shoot is stronger than ever.
Welcome to the world of the paparazzi: the guerrilla-like photographers who will go to any length — from renting a helicopter to [...]
E! Online - Bewitched couldn’t break the spell of Batman Begins, let alone provide enough magic to reverse what has become the longest box-office slump in modern Hollywood history.
Warners’ bat backstory nabbed $27.6 million in its second weekend, a drop of just 43 percent from its opening. The
Christian Bale-led caper averaged $7,151 at [...]
