George Clooney is distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Aunt Rosemary was not George Clooney's only famous relative. You can add a certain Civil War American president to the Oscar-winning actor's family tree. Politics has apparently run in the activist actor's blood for centuries,...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Songwriter Bill Dees,"Oh, Pretty Woman" co-writer, dead at 73

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer-composer Bill Dees, best known for his songwriting collaboration with Roy Orbison on the hits "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "It's Over," has died at age 73 in Mountain Home, Arkansas, according to an obituary posted online by...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

William Shatner - there's an app for him

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Actor William Shatner is having a moment. A couple of years after CBS canceled his Twitter-inspired "$#*! My Dad Says" TV comedy, Shatner is at the top of the tech world. The former "Star Trek" captain, now 81, is...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Springsteen Sandy telethon raises $23 million, ABC more than $10 million

(Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Mary Blige and dozens of other musicians and celebrities helped raise some $23 million for victims of Hurricane Sandy on NBC television, while a Day of Giving on ABC TV networks raised more than $10 million....

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Rare John Lennon letter to Eric Clapton up for auction

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - John Lennon held out the promise he could bring out more musical greatness in legendary guitarist Eric Clapton in a letter that could fetch as much as $30,000 when it is sold at auction next month, the organizers of the sale said...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Aerosmith puts on Boston street concert on Memory Lane

BOSTON (Reuters) - Thousands of music fans clogged a Boston street on Monday to hear Grammy award-winning rock band Aerosmith perform a free concert in front of the apartment building where the musicians began their career four decades ago. The band...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Brad Pitt turns designer for high-end furniture collection

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Brad Pitt has turned his talents to creating furniture for a luxury design house with a high-end collection inspired by both Art Nouveau and Art Deco, according to Architectural Digest. Pitt, who collaborated on the collection...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Actress Kristen Bell expecting first child with Dax Shepard

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Kristen Bell is expecting her first child with actor Dax Shepard, her spokeswoman said on Monday. "Veronica Mars" actress Bell, 32, is expecting the child in late spring with her fiancé, "Parenthood" actor Shepard, 37,...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Sharon Osbourne has double mastectomy: magazine

LONDON (Reuters) - British celebrity Sharon Osbourne has had a double mastectomy after discovering she was carrying a gene that increased the risk of her developing breast cancer, she told Hello! magazine in an interview published on Monday. Osbourne,...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More

Court upholds Baumgartner fine for punching man

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner failed to have a conviction for assault overturned on Tuesday and has apologized through his lawyer for punching a Greek truck driver in a 2010 incident, a court spokeswoman said. Baumgartner,...

23.08 | 0 komentar | Read More