Taking things over the top: Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of Bristol Palin, will now attend the Republican National Convention.Bristol is the 17-year-old daughter of GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Bristol’s pregnancy has been a surprise story of the last few days, and Johnston is now being pulled into the spotlight as well.
Don LaFontaine, movie voiceover legend, has died. (At Cedars-Sinai, natch.)
Citizen astronaut Christa McAuliffe would be just 60 years old today. She was a 37-year-old schoolteacher from New Hampshire when she died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned…
Paul Newman, taking his Corvette out for the last time?Newman has not confirmed that he is ill — in June he insisted he was “doing nicely” — but the rumors keep circulating.(Thanks to editor Paul Hehn for the tip.)
Here are two new profiles just requested by our friends at Ask.com: songwriter Kara DioGuardi and teen actress Demi Lovato.
Small-town Wasilla, Alaska has had a lot of press since Sarah Palin became the running mate of John McCain. Palin played high school basketball in Wasilla, was Miss Wasilla of 1984, and was the city’s mayor from 1996-2002.But just how small is Wasilla?
Michael Jackson is 50 years old today.ABC News asks him about his AARP card… then shows how he might have looked now without all that surgery.
Sarah Palin, the first female governor of Alaska, is now the first female Republican candidate for vice president of the United States.John McCain’s aides made the announcement to reporters this morning.
Happy birthday to Senator John McCain. He turns 72 today, having been born on August 29, 1936.Wow: Singer Buddy Holly was born the same year as McCain, 1936. Holly was 22 when he died — he’s been gone almost 50 years now. McCain rolls on.