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Star Trek Boldly Goes for Box Office Win
Star Trek Boldly Goes
for Box Office Win
BOX OFFICE ROUNDUP
May 10, 2009 4:48 PM CDT

Star Trek Boldly Goes for Box Office Win

(Newser) - Star Trek set phasers for box office “kill” this weekend with a $76.5 million debut, Entertainment Weekly reports. Falling short of Wolverine’s $85.1 million opener last week, the take still exceeds expectations and bodes well for a franchise that needs a boost. Wolverine dropped a hefty...

Winslet Sues Tabloid for Libel

(Newser) - Steaming over an article that called her "the world's most irritating actress," Kate Winslet has sued a British tabloid for libel, the BBC reports. The Oscar winner was "distressed and embarrassed" by the Daily Mail's coverage of an interview in which she discussed her fitness regimen...

Film Outs Pols, Draws Fire From All Sides

Documentary that targets Crist has even gay groups worried

(Newser) - Outrage isn’t a conventional summer blockbuster, but its central aim will surely prove explosive: outing prominent politicians who have opposed gay causes. “It’s the responsibility of journalists and filmmakers to report on hypocrisy wherever they see it,” director Kirby Dick told the San Francisco Chronicle. His...

Next Day Air Arrives on Time
 Next Day Air Arrives on Time 
Movie review
May 8, 2009 11:23 AM CDT

Next Day Air Arrives on Time

Critics applaud drug-shipping comedy

(Newser) - Next Day Air, a laugher about a drug shipment that arrives at the wrong destination, hasn’t missed its mark with critics:
  • “Good things come in strange packages,” writes Nathan Lee in the New York Times, citing “a script that snaps, characters that pop, a blaze of
...

Madonna to Jesus: Learn English!
 Madonna 
 to Jesus: 
 Learn English! 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
May 8, 2009 10:15 AM CDT

Madonna to Jesus: Learn English!

Plus, Ali Lohan turning into her sister, more

(Newser) - Age is nothing but a number to Madonna and 22-year-old boy toy Jesus Luz, but the language barrier is a problem. The Material Girl is paying $1,000 a week for an English tutor, the Daily Star reports, citing the Star. Elsewhere:
  • Fifteen-year-old Ali Lohan might be the new Lindsay
...

Bio Details Swayze's Cancer Fight

It was almost too late before actor visited doctor

(Newser) - Patrick Swayze’s first inkling that something was wrong came while sipping champagne on New Year’s Eve 2007, reports the New York Daily News. “It was like acid on an open wound,” he recalls in a new biography out Tuesday. At the end of January 2008, after...

Mistress Preggo With Mel's Love Child: Tab

Gibson kids fear loss of inheritance

(Newser) - Mel Gibson is about to become a daddy for the eighth time, this time with girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, the National Enquirer reports. Gibson broke the news to his children late last month, and “he expects them to accept the baby as a new sibling,” a friend says. Instead,...

Simon to Susan: No Singing on Oprah

Boyle, Cowell to appear on Monday's show

(Newser) - Susan Boyle has officially hit the big-time: She’s appearing on Oprah on Monday, the Mirror reports. But don’t expect to hear the YouTube phenom sing—Simon Cowell, also appearing, wants to save that for the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals. Instead Boyle, appearing via Skype, will give Oprah...

Trek Lives Well, Should Prosper
 Trek Lives Well, Should Prosper 
MOVIE REVIEW
May 8, 2009 7:12 AM CDT

Trek Lives Well, Should Prosper

Abrams' bold reinvention of franchise will please both longtime fans and newbies

(Newser) - JJ Abrams has boldly pulled off the almost impossible with his stellar reinvention of Star Trek and made a movie that will wow both newcomers and hardcore Trekkies, critics say.
  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The prequel "is more exciting than the last four ST pictures put together, more
...

Now Paula Says She Wasn't Addicted

(Newser) - The Paula Abdul roller-coaster continues. The Idol judge says Ladies' Home Journal got it all wrong: She now insists she was never addicted to painkillers, and she never checked into a rehab facility, E! reports. “It was very stressful for me to hear that and to be quoted saying...

No Secret Brad-Jen Meeting: Rep
 No Secret 
 Brad-Jen Meeting: Rep 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
May 7, 2009 10:35 AM CDT

No Secret Brad-Jen Meeting: Rep

But not-so-secret Lilo-Sam meeting, and more

(Newser) - Hot on the heels of the rumor that Brad Pitt wants Jennifer Aniston back, reports surfaced yesterday that the two met last month—or did they? Jen’s reps quickly denied In Touch’s claim that they shared a secret drive around New York, the Daily Star reports. Elsewhere:
  • Lindsay
...

Kate on Jon Affair Rumors: 'We Just Need to Go Forward'

Did he cheat or didn't he? Either way, "there's really never any going back," she says.

(Newser) - The Jon and Kate back-and-forth has reached dizzying levels (see below links for all the drama), and Kate Gosselin is saying her piece, Us reports. Though her husband’s alleged affair has been denied, confirmed, re-denied, and re-confirmed, Kate is “hesitant to believe any of it,” she said...

Brown Lawyer Pursues Leaker
 Brown Lawyer Pursues Leaker 
May 7, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

Brown Lawyer Pursues Leaker

Geragos plans to mine internal police records for evidence

(Newser) - Attempting to learn how TMZ got a photo of Rihanna’s bruised face, Chris Brown’s lawyer filed two motions yesterday asking for internal police records, the New York Daily News reports. The LAPD is still probing the leak internally, but lawyer Mark Geragos is due back in court May...

Why Good Movies Make Bad Video Games
Why Good Movies Make 
Bad Video Games
ANALYSIS
May 7, 2009 8:36 AM CDT

Why Good Movies Make Bad Video Games

Parents, you certainly aren't helping

(Newser) - Movie buffs likely don’t remember The Chronicles of Riddick, a trundling sci-fi clunker from 2004. But for gamers, the title is hallowed because of its spin-off video game—a rare success for a movie tie-in. Too often, such games are rushed to coincide with the film, resulting in crappy...

'Very Proud' M*A*S*H Actor Comes Out

Single and 66, David Ogden Stiers wants 'to find someone'

(Newser) - In search of Mr. Right, M*A*S*H actor David Ogden Stiers has come out at the age of 66, PlanetOut reports. Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester's alter ego hesitated to confirm earlier rumors out of fear for his professional prospects, but he tells the Gossip Boy blog  he doesn't want "any...

New Kindle Upgrades Price, Not Reading Experience

(Newser) - The Kindle DX offers crisper resolution than its smaller cousin, but it’s still not big enough to display a full newspaper page, and the price may hold some buyers back, Damon Darlin writes in the New York Times. “You never see the big picture—a full page—that...

Brad to Courtney: I Miss Jen
 Brad to Courtney: 
 I Miss Jen 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
May 6, 2009 11:09 AM CDT

Brad to Courtney: I Miss Jen

Plus, Madonna gets slammed twice in one day, more

(Newser) - The world was rocked yesterday when news broke that Jennifer Aniston’s supposed “best friend,” Courtney Cox, spoke to Brad Pitt at a concert Sunday—but maybe it wasn’t a betrayal after all, Ian Undercover reports. “He said he made a mess of his life since...

Paris Is, Like, a Total Workaholic

Heiress defends herself against lawsuit, reveals total ignorance of what exec producer does

(Newser) - Paris Hilton is a workaholic who hasn’t taken a day off in years, she and her handlers insisted in a Miami deposition. The heiress is being sued for not sufficiently promoting the DVD of her 2006 film Pledge This, the AP reports. But the truth is, “like I...

Tab Confirms Jon & Kate Affair

Confirms with five, yes five, sources—plus video

(Newser) - Jon & Kate Plus 8 sources—five of them—who confirm dad Jon had an affair with his “mystery woman” does not equal good news for the reality show couple. Us even spoke to two relatives, including alleged mistress Deanna Hummel’s brother, who says at the house he...

Princes, Celebs, Frog Team Up in Green Vid

Charles joined by sons, A-listers to promote project

(Newser) - Princes William and Harry are joined by a cast of superstars—and a belching digital frog—in a video helping their father promote environmental awareness, the Mirror reports. Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, Daniel Craig, and the Dalai Lama are among those appearing in the clip promoting Prince Charles’ Rainforests Project....

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