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May 19 2011
Thursday 05-19-2011 7:06am ET
He may not be back! MARIA SHRIVER has hired divorce lawyer Laura Wasser. However, sources say Maria hasn't decided if she wants to pull the plug on her marriage to ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER just yet and she actually retained Wasser before news of the affair went public.
CHRIS MEDINA was the early sentimental favorite on AMERICAN IDOL. You may recall that Chris auditioned in Milwaukee, bringing along his brain-injured fiancee, whom he’s been taking care of. There were tears all around, but Chris didn't make the top 24. Still, Jimmy Iovine set Chris up with the song "What Are Words" and rushed it onto iTunes the day after his elimination episode aired. However, the Idol folks apparently have short memories as Chris Tweeted: "Just found out I will not be at the finale for American Idol…sad and disappointed." When one of his followers Tweeted back inquiring why, Chris replied, "not asked. Then I asked for tickets and I [was] told they can't."
ZSA-ZSA GABOR is once again fighting for her life after she fell into a coma following emergency stomach surgery. She was discharged from the hospital on Monday, but was back a day later because of a major infection in her stomach, which was caused by a feeding tube. Former Taxi star and Celebrity Rehab patient JEFF CONAWAY is in critical condition at an Encino hospital after an apparent overdose. As of last night he was in a coma and unresponsive. Family members have visited him in the hospital and his rep says he turned his head two days ago, but nothing since. Former Growing Pains stars KIRK CAMERON is calling out STEPHEN HAWKING after the physicist said there was no heaven. Cameron said, "Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?" Birthday Partiers: author Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle) 70 musician Pete Townshend 66 singer/actress Grace Jones (A View to a Kill, Boomerang, Conan The Destroyer) 59 actor Eric Lloyd (The Santa Clause, My Giant, Deconstructing Harry) 25
4/29
Friday 04-29-2011 8:42am ET
New Movies In Theatres… Fast Five - Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson are still fast and still furious and now they're in Rio. (PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, sexual content and language) Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil - A covert agency recruits Red Riding Hood to investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel. Featuring the voices of Hayden Panettiere, Bill Hader, Glenn Close, Amy Poehler, and Martin Short. (PG for Some mild rude humor, language and action) Prom - Teenagers find their futures taking shape as they prepare for the big dance. Featuring Aimee Teegarden and Thomas McDonell. (PG for mild language and a brief fight)
CASEY ABRAMS ran out of saves and was eliminated last night on AMERICAN IDOL. Meanwhile, the season 10 contestants will hit the road on their traditional post-season tour starting July 6th in West Valley City, Utah.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO is returning to LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. He’ll replace JEFF GOLDBLUM next season after Goldblum took over from D'Onofrio last year when he took time out to deal with a nervous exhaustion issue. However, Goldblum didn’t work out and creator Dick Wolf asked D'Onofrio to come back. As had been rumored, MEREDITH VIEIRA is leaving THE TODAY SHOW in June. Newsreader Ann Curry will be promoted to co-host while Natalie Morales takes Curry’s old job. Birthday Partiers: singer Tommy James 64 actress Nora Dunn (Runaway Jury, Bruce Almighty, Zoolander) 59 comedian Jerry Seinfeld 57 actress Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek Voyager, Ryan's Hope, Mercy) 56 actress Michelle Pfeiffer (White Oleander, I Am Sam, What Lies Beneath) 54 actor Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot) 54 actress Eve Plumb (The Brady Bunch) 53 singer Carnie Wilson 43 tennis player Andre Agassi 41 actress Uma Thurman (Kill Bill, The Producers, Be Cool) 41
4/27
Wednesday 04-27-2011 7:23am ET
CHARLIE SHEEN has come to the rescue of former baseball star Lenny Dykstra by posting $22,500 bail to spring him from jail. Dykstra was busted for allegedly embezzling from his bankrupt estate and had been cooling his heels behind bars until Charlie came through. Charlie told TMZ, "The rendition guilty trolls that kidnapped my dear friend Nails clearly forgot that he's a fellow Vatican assassin and his best pal is a warlock."
CHARLIE SHEEN isn’t winning with TRACY MORGAN. The 30 Rock star said, “Charlie Sheen ain't funny to me. I think that's a train wreck and I feel bad for his two little kids because they're the bodies being pulled out of the train wreck. What's going to happen to them? But everybody thinks it's a joke. While this a--hole is going on stage making a fool of himself his kids are going to suffer and don't even know it because this is a cycle of abuse.” First season American Idol runner-up JUSTIN GUARINI is a new dad. He and wife Reina Capodici welcomed son William Neko Bell Guarini yesterday morning. Guarini just wrapped his role in American Idiot on Broadway Sunday evening. Wrestler Chris Jericho was eliminated from DANCING WITH THE STARS last night. Along with Chris in the bottom three were Kirstie Alley and Kendra Wilkinson. As expected, KATIE COURIC officially announced that she’s leaving the CBS Evening News. Katie didn’t reveal what she’ll do next, but she did say she’s looking at a format that will allow her to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling. Tonight’s 90-minute AMERICAN IDOL will have contestants Casey Abrams, Lauren Alaina, James Durbin, Jacob Lusk, Scotty McCreery and Haley Reinhart pairing off and singing duets from the Carole King songbook. BRAD PITT will star in the movie World War Z. It’s based on the zombie novel and has Pitt playing a U.N. worker 10 years after a global zombie epidemic. Birthday Partiers: actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy, 12 Angry Men) 79 DJ Casey Kasem 79 musician Ace Frehley (Kiss) 60 singer Sheena Easton 52
4/26
Tuesday 04-26-2011 8:04am ET
Joining the regrettable tattoo club is HAYDEN PANETTIERE, who got the phrase "live without regrets," inked on her back in Italian. She says it’s to remind herself that everyone deals with disappointment and rejection. While you’d think that would be easy enough to remember without a tattoo, it turns out the Italian tattoo artist committed one little typo and the tat actually reads, 'I love apples'. Hayden is now warning people not to go under the needle in a foreign country. The Office star Ed Helms will host the May 14th episode of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE with musical guest Paul Simon. The musical guest when Tina Fey hosts on May 7th will be British singer Ellie Goulding. Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga will do the season finale on May 21st. Last night on DANCING WITH THE STARS, Romeo and Chelsea Kane each had high scores of 28, with Hines Ward right behind at 27. The bottom three were Kendra Wilkinson, Ralph Macchio and Chris Jericho. BOSTON ROB MARIANO will appear in the 10-part History Channel series Around the World in 80 Ways. Mariano and co-host Dennis Anderson will attempt to travel around the world using 80 different forms of transportation, including a blimp, fighter jet, ostrich, canoe and hitchhiking. If you’re wondering who Anderson is, he’s the creator and driver of the monster truck Gravedigger. Congratulations to KEVIN JAMES and wife Steffiana as they welcomed their third child and first son on Easter. Kannon Valentine James joins big sisters Sienna-Marie and Shea, who are 5 and 3, respectively. TONI COLLETTE and husband David Galafassi are celebrating the arrival of their second child and first son. Arlo Robert Galafassi was born on Good Friday and all are doing well.
Birthday Partiers: entertainer Carol Burnett (The Carol Burnett Show, Once Upon A Mattress) 78 singer Bobby Rydell 69 actor Jet Li (Kiss of the Dragon, Romeo Must Die, Cradle 2 The Grave) 48 actor Kevin James (King of Queens, Hitch, 50 First Dates) 46 actress Jordana Brewster (The Fast and the Furious, As The World Turns, Chuck) 31 actor Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe, She's The Man, Coach Carter) 31 4/22
Friday 04-22-2011 7:34am ET
Today’s celebrity whizzing match is between DONALD TRUMP and JERRY SEINFELD. It seems Seinfeld backed out of doing a charity benefit for St. Jude’s Hospital hosted by Trump’s son, Eric. A rep for Seinfeld says that Jerry has grown increasingly uncomfortable with Trump’s rhetoric, particularly in questioning President Obama’s citizenship. Trump fired back in a letter to Seinfeld saying, “We don’t care that you broke your commitment…What I do feel badly about is that I agreed to do, and did, your failed show, ‘The Marriage Ref,’ even though I thought it was absolutely terrible and was embarrassed after having watched the first couple of episodes. Despite its poor ratings, I didn’t cancel on you like you canceled on my son and St. Jude. I only wish I did. You should be ashamed of yourself!” In any case, Seinfeld is making contributions to both the Eric Trump Foundation and St. Jude’s Hospital.
New Movies In Theatres… African Cats - Documentary about lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my, surviving in the African desert. Samuel L. Jackson narrates (G) Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The wacky family is back as grandma jumps in to take care of a family medical drama. Starring Tyler Perry, Loretta Devine, Shad 'Bow Wow' Gregory Moss, and Isaiah Mustafa. (PG-13 for drug content, language and some mature thematic material) Water for Elephants – When a Depression-era kid’s parents are killed in a car accident, he skips his final veterinary exam and runs away to join a circus where he hooks up with the owner's wife. Stars Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. (PG 13 for Moments of intense violence and sexual content) Stefano Langone was bounced from AMERICAN IDOL last night. Jacob Lusk and Haley Reinhart joined him in the bottom three. Part of JENNIFER LOPEZ’S deal to do American Idol was that they’d let her develop some other shows and the first one of those new shows has been revealed. J.Lo will team up with Idol creator and executive producer Simon Fuller to do a musical competition show tentatively titled "Que Viva." It’ll feature Lopez and husband Marc Anthony searching for new talent in Latin America. Add JIM CARREY to the list of guest stars on the season finale THE OFFICE. Carrey will also be vying for Michael Scott's old job. Other job applicants will include Ricky Gervais, Will Arnett, Ray Romano, James Spader and Catherine Tate. The hour-long Office season finale will air May 19th. Birthday Partiers: musician Glen Campbell 75 actor Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider, Batman, The Bucket List) 74 actor/director John Waters (Hairspray, Polyester, Cry Baby) 65 musician Peter Frampton 61 actress Sherri Shepherd (The View, Beauty Shop, 30 Rock) 44 actress Amber Heard (Pineapple Express, Alpha Dog, Drop Dead Sexy) 25
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