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Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Celebrities Remember Her on Twitter
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News"Elizabeth Taylor takes final bow. Never more beautiful than as Maggie the cat. Never more actor impressive than as Martha in Virginia Woolf," Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers wrote after the breaking news that the beloved star of Hollywood's golden age had died this morning. Taylor, remembered for Academy Award-winning performances, her many marriages and her generous contributions to the fight against AIDS, passed away from congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in California. She was 79. For more celebrity and film industry thoughts and memories, Surge Desk turns to ...
Celebrity Hacking 101 -- and How to Prevent It
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe FBI reportedly is hunting for a hacking ring suspected of targeting female celebrities and stealing photos and videos from their computers and smartphones. Some 50 celebrities are said to have been victimized. Gossip website TMZ has listed Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera and Renee Olstead as among the targets of the alleged hackers. Contacted by AOL News, the FBI said it could neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation into the hacking ring. According to TMZ, law enforcement sources have said they believe a ...
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Justin Bieber Haircut or John Travolta Bald: Which Story Is More Important? [POLL]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIt's a major week for celebrity hair news. Last night Justin Bieber announced via Twitter that he's trimmed his trademark mop-topped 'do, writing, "Yeah so it's true...I got a lil haircut...I like it...and we are giving all the hair cut to CHARITY to auction." (Perhaps now that it's shorter, he won't have to spend $750 per trim.) Meanwhile, John Travolta -- seen in some sort of sling-like contraption in Hawaii -- was caught by paparazzi without his toupee (view the alleged photo here). The Daily Mail, which has been on the Travolta hair beat for several years, wrote in 2010 that photos of ...
Can't Find a Date? Let a Celeb Be Your Matchmaker
By David Moye - AOL NewsCelebrities entertain and enlighten us about life and love on a collective basis, and now, in some special cases, they're helping their fans find love. That's the premise of "The Fix-Up Show," a weekly stage show in Los Angeles in which singles get a chance to be paired up with their potential future mates by two of their friends and a random celebrity. According to host/creator J. Keith van Straaten, "The Fix-Up Show" started up in New York last summer and moved to Los Angeles. Celebrities who've helped make matches include comedian Margaret Cho, former "Brady Bunch" cast member Eve Plumb, ...
Debbie Gibson and Tiffany Fist-Fight in 'Mega Python vs Gatoroid'
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsIn the 1980s, former teen sensations Debbie Gibson and Tiffany constantly battled each other on the pop charts. Now, as grown women, the singers are rehashing their rivalry by flinging fists at each other's faces -- on television, that is. Calm down. It's not for some weird episode of "The Jerry Springer Show" or another one of those strange celebrity boxing matches. This girl fight is coming to fans courtesy of a ridiculously campy made-for-TV movie. On Jan. 29, at exactly 9 p.m., the '80s pop princesses will reunite on the small screen for "Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid," an original action ...
Kat Von D and Jesse James Get Engaged, and Twitter Gets Snarky
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIt's the romance of the century. OK, maybe not. Tattoo artist/reality star Kat Von D and tattooed motorcycle dude Jesse James have announced their engagement just six months after revealing their relationship -- and just seven months after James' contentious divorce from Sandra Bullock became final. In her previous relationship, Von D dated Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx, who's 24 years her senior. It will be the fourth marriage for James, whose breakup with Bullock became a tabloid scandal after several women claimed he'd had affairs with them. Naturally, Twitter users have had some choice ...
Fans Bid for Red Carpet Seats at SAG Awards
By Monica Garske - AOL News(Jan. 4) -- Awards season in Hollywood is right around the corner, but instead of watching the action from your couch this year, you could catch your favorite stars in the flesh -- front and center. Now through Monday, film and television fanatics can bid for bleacher seats along the red carpet of the 17th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, taking place Jan. 30 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles and airing live on TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. ET. The "Red Carpet Bleacher Auction" -- hosted online by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation at sagawards.org/auction -- is offering 90 perfectly ...
'Forbidden Planet' Star Anne Francis Dies at 80
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Actress Anne Francis, who was the love interest in the 1950s science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and later was sexy private eye in "Honey West" on TV, has died at age 80. Everet Anne Francis, shown in a publicity photograph from "Forbidden Planet," died Sunday of complications from pancreatic cancer. Francis died Sunday at a Santa Barbara nursing home, said Bill Guntle, a funeral director McDermott-Crockett & Associates Mortuary in Santa Barbara. Francis, who had surgery and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007, died of complications ...
Juan Carlos Cruz, Former Food Network Chef, Sentenced to 9 Years in Plot to Kill Wife
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Dec. 13) -- A former celebrity chef was sentenced to nine years in prison today after he pleaded no contest to trying to hire two homeless men to kill his wife. Juan Carlos Cruz, who starred on the Food Network show "Calorie Commando," was once known for his low-calorie recipes. But the former pastry chef made headlines in May when a homeless man in Santa Monica, Calif., told police Cruz approached him and another homeless man and offered to pay them $500 if he would kill Jennifer Campbell, his wife and high school sweetheart. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Chester Horn said Cruz, ...
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