Beryl Bainbridge, author of An Awfully Big Adventure and many other dark-ish novels, has died at age 75. Cancer was the cause.She was a fascinating gal, but didn’t like being called “eccentric”:
In my collection I have a book called Movie Stars in Bathtubs, by Jack Scagnetti, from 1975.
The recent deal between the Home Shopping Network and Liza Minnelli has gone viral, in the form of this YouTube clip, in which Liza trots out her jewelry and clothing lines:
“I researched the genetic makeup of the city on the Internet… we like small towns, with Italian and German lineage, with people that live and work in the field and villages. This helps keep the genetic makeup more concentrated.”
As you can see from their subheadline, the Los Angeles Times wasn’t very excited about the new fantasy thriller from film director M. Night Shyamalan.
The arrow on the kid’s head represents the direction of Shyamalan’s career.
One of the many tentacles of Gawker.com has photos of the apartment recently vacated by comedian Tina Fey.
Those photos are here.
It’s a nice place. In fact, I like it better than her new place, where I never get invited either.
Yesterday at Wimbledon, former champion Andy Roddick was upset in the quarter-finals by Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun, who is ranked 82nd in the world. Read about it here.
Today at Wimbledon, former champion Venus Williams was upset in the quarter-finals by Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova, who is ranked 82nd in the world. Read about it here.
That hair! Those crushed velvet pants! That Bill Cosby moustache! Yes, it’s Steely Dan on The Midnight Special in 1973.
According to the gossip site TMZ.com, the divorce is final between superstar actress Sandra Bullock and her cheatin’, chopper-lovin’ husband, Jesse James.Just in time for her to get a date for the opening of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse!
Possibly more trouble for dog-abusing NFL player Michael Vick.
First, the shooting report. Vick celebrates birthday at night club. Vick leaves nightclub, shooting occurs 2:10 a.m. One man injured. That man is an old doggie associate of Vick’s. Hmmm.
6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6… 70-68.Match time: 11 hours and 5 minutes.
The National Enquirer reported this week that a 54 year-old massage therapist says former Vice President Al Gore made unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances on her in a Portland, Oregon hotel back in 2006.
Today’s issue of The Oregonian reports details of the incident, taken from police records and from a statement the woman made to investigators in 2009.
Charlene Wittstock is officially engaged to Prince Albert of Monaco, says the royal palace. At age 52 the royal bachelor scalawag has finally decided to settle down with a fellow Olympian 20 years his junior. (She swam in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney; Albert was on the Monaco bobsled team in five straight Winter Olympics from 1988 through 2002.)We have photos of Charlene Wittstock, starting with the official engagement photos released by the Monaco royal palace.
Those nasty things said in Rolling Stone magazine by U.S. General Stanley McChrystal have cost him his job.
President Barack Obama met with General McChrystal this morning, then announced that the general was being replaced by General David Petraeus as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
Edith Shain, who appeared in the famous Alfred Eisenstaedt photo of a soldier kissing a nurse at the end of World War II (she’s the nurse), has died at the age of 91.
As a tribute to Bruce Campbell, the star of Army of Darkness, some photos and videos:
First, some photos from his memoir, If Chins Could Kill:
From the blog of Leandro Copperfield, a wonderful mash-up of scenes and sounds from movies by directors Martin Scorsese and Stanley Kubrick:
According to this story from MTV News, the estate of pop legend Michael Jackson has generated $1 billion since his death almost a year ago. MTV News got their information …..
Actor Errol Flynn was born on this day in 1909.(Trivia note: jazz saxophonist Lester Young was born the same year and died the same year as Flynn, too: 1959.)Read more about Errol Flynn’s wicked, wicked ways.
The Paris Review has put many of its grand old interviews online, including a wonderful 1955 interview with humorist James Thurber. A sample:INTERVIEWER
You say that your drawings often don’t come out the way you
intended?