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LA Judge Tosses Tyler Blog Suit

LA judge throws out strange case

(Newser) - A Los Angeles judge dismissed Steven Tyler’s blogger lawsuit yesterday after unnamed suspects failed to show up in court, NBC Los Angeles reports. The Aerosmith frontman couldn't identify the online scribes he accuses of defamation and impersonation—that is, lying about him and his girlfriend, and posing as his...

Dolla Family Rips Claim of Self-Defense

Rep denies rapper ran in gang; suspect pleads not guilty

(Newser) - Self-defense played no role in the killing of 21-year-old rap artist Dolla, who was not a gang member, his family tells MTV. Aubrey Berry, 23, pleaded not guilty yesterday to murder and assault charges, saying he shot Roderick Burton in self-defense Monday in Los Angeles. His claim "is very...

Clay to Idol's Adam: Sorry for 'Colorful' Slam

Singer apologizes but repeats ridicule of Lambert

(Newser) - Yesterday, Clay Aiken dismissed fellow American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert as “contrived, awful, and slightly frightening!” But today, Aiken is apologizing for his “colorful (and negative) choice of words,” the New York Daily News reports. “I hope he can forgive me,” Aiken wrote in...

Hitchhiker Didn't Know Driver— McCartney

Apparently 26-year-old wasn't a huge Beatles fan

(Newser) - Is 26 too young to recognize a member of the most popular group in music history? Apparently for some, like the hitchhiker who got picked up by Paul McCartney on the West Indies island of Mustique—and didn’t realize it until Macca started discussing upcoming concerts. “I wasn’...

Paris Booted for Bathroom Hook-Up

Heiress just can't keep her hands off boy toy

(Newser) - Celebutante Paris Hilton’s latest Cannes antics: Getting kicked off a yacht party for hooking up with her boy toy in the bathroom. Elton John’s partner caught the two “tearing into each other” below deck, a source tells the Mirror, adding that none of the fellow party-goers were...

Realtors Sue CSI Over Kinky Portrayal

Real estate agents allege producer defamed them in episode

(Newser) - Scott and Melinda Tamkin are your average married real estate agents. Unless you watch CSI, in which they are conniving, kinky-sex-loving real estate agents. The couple is suing the producer of a February episode they say is based on a warped version of them, the Los Angeles Times reports. The...

Idol's Lambert May Front Queen Someday

Band's guitarist addresses rumors, would like to work with Lambert

(Newser) - Despite high-flying rumors, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert isn't the new frontman for Queen—yet. But after performing with him on the show's finale, drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May “are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point,” May tells Rolling Stone....

Waterboarded Shock Jock Mancow: 'Absolutely Torture'

(Newser) - A Chicago radio host submitted himself to a waterboarding demonstration to prove it isn’t torture, but it didn’t work out that way, NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV reports. “Way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Erich “Mancow” Muller said. “I...

Take Me Off Google Street View: McCartney

Ex-Beatle's home removed after complaint

(Newser) - Add Paul McCartney to the list of people who are freaked out by Google Street View. The Internet giant removed the former Beatle’s multimillion-dollar London abode after his security team complained, the Sun reports. “He was unsettled when he heard Google users could get a 360-degree view of...

De Niro's New Role: Grandpa
 De Niro's New Role: Grandpa 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
May 22, 2009 11:24 AM CDT

De Niro's New Role: Grandpa

Plus, Swayze really really not dead, more

(Newser) - Robert De Niro became a grandfather yesterday when son Raphael De Niro and daughter-in-law Claudine DeMatos welcomed Nicholas De Niro, the New York Post reports. Elsewhere:
  • To prove he’s really not dead, Patrick Swayze posed for a picture with wife Lisa Niemi at their New Mexico ranch, the Sun
...

Jon & Kate Hit Therapy; Cameras May Follow

Tab claims counseling will be shown on reality show

(Newser) - How will Jon & Kate Plus 8 deal with the rampant cheating rumors following its husband-wife team when the show’s next season premieres Monday? By broadcasting their therapy sessions, the National Enquirer reports. Kate Gosselin at first refused counseling, but she also “wants a future in showbiz, and...

Brangelina Facade Cracks a Bit
 Brangelina Facade Cracks a Bit 
May 22, 2009 9:51 AM CDT

Brangelina Facade Cracks a Bit

Brit paper reckons the pair is in trouble

(Newser) - And the award for best acting at the Cannes Film Festival goes to… Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, reports the Sun. Hollywood is abuzz with rumors of the power couple’s impending breakup: They’re putting on their happy faces along the Riviera but struggling to hide the awkwardness...

Clay: Idol's Lambert 'Frightening'

Former runner-up trashes Idol , contestants in blog

(Newser) - Former American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken finds this year’s runner-up, Adam Lambert, “slightly frightening.” Aiken trashed Idol in a post on his blog yesterday, Gawker reports, and Lambert did not escape unscathed. Aiken says he watches Idol only once a season, and “this year, I happened...

Ciara Lost on Fantasy Ride
 Ciara Lost on Fantasy Ride 
MUSIC REVIEW
May 21, 2009 1:33 PM CDT

Ciara Lost on Fantasy Ride

(Newser) - Ciara's tiny voice can't survive in the spaces her producers leave on her new album, Fantasy Ride, but the disc does provide a few fascinating diversions. Some critical opinions:
  • "That's what you get with Fantasy Ride," Tom Breihan writes on Pitchfork. "A few brilliant left turns that
...

Web Killed Big Acts, Saved Music: Kot
 Web Killed Big Acts, 
 Saved Music: Kot 
interview
May 21, 2009 12:50 PM CDT

Web Killed Big Acts, Saved Music: Kot

Each tech advance stirred unfounded fears: Kot

(Newser) - The Internet has so fragmented music that there may never be another big act like U2. But that’s just fine for music critic Greg Kot, author of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. “Art thrives best when it’s created without regard to making any kind of...

Batman Tougher Than John Connor: Bale

Using guns much easier than using fists, actor says

(Newser) - Who would win in a battle between Batman and John Connor? Christian Bale’s money seems to be on the Dark Knight, the Mirror reports. “Batman’s a hell of a lot tougher to do because he’s all physical,” Bale told E! “He doesn’t use...

Green Day Won't 'Censor' Album; Wal-Mart Won't Sell It

(Newser) - Wal-Mart isn’t selling Green Day’s new album because of explicit lyrics, and the band isn’t happy about it. “They won’t carry our record because they wanted us to censor it,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tells the AP. 21st Century Breakdown merits a parental-advisory label,...

Spider-Man Actress Found Dead
 Spider-Man 
 Actress 
 Found Dead 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
May 21, 2009 11:35 AM CDT

Spider-Man Actress Found Dead

(Newser) - Lucy Gordon, a British actress who played a small role in Spider-Man 3, was found dead in her Paris apartment yesterday, the Telegraph reports. The 28-year-old appears to have hanged herself. Elsewhere:
  • Hugh Hefner’s ex Kendra Wilkinson has no problem with his new girlfriends—in fact, they’re invited
...

Cannes: From Class to Crass

Festival has more alcohol, drugs, sex than films

(Newser) - The name “Cannes” once conjured up images of Hollywood glamor and French sophistication, but no more. The film festival has turned into a marathon of binge drinking and sleazy sex, attended by high-heeled, fake-tanned partiers who are “not interested in the films, only the party scene,” one...

Allen's Idol Win Another Triumph for Religious Right

(Newser) - Last night’s American Idol was more than just a reality-show finale: It was a symbolic victory of the religious right over the liberal left; red states over blue states. At least according to two bloggers. “For a theory about how Kris Allen pulled an upset over the wildly...

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