By SAMUEL MAULL
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – The Oscar-winning composer and director behind”You Light Up My Life” raped 11 women he lured to his apartment with the promise of a starring role in a movie, prosecutors said at his arraignment Tuesday.
The women read an online ad placed by the director, Joseph Brooks, applied for [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Perez Hilton isn’t apologizing for using a gay slur.
The openly gay gossip blogger said in a statement Tuesday that he would continue to say things upsetting to gay and straight people alike. The comments came after the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called for Hilton to apologize Monday for unleashing [...]
By MEGHAN BARR
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are the proud parents of twin girls delivered by a surrogate mother, a publicist said Tuesday, following a pregnancy that proceeded less than smoothly.
The girls were born Monday afternoon at an Ohio hospital, publicist Simon Halls said. Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick [...]
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – A journalist jailed for four months in Iran on charges of espionage has a book deal.
Iranian-American Roxana Saberi, 32, is working on a memoir that HarperCollins will publish in March 2010. Saberi’s book, currently untitled, will tell of her arrest in January, her initial sentence to eight [...]
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Movie audiences accepted a proposal from Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, who scored the summer’s first big romantic comedy hit.
Bullock and Reynolds’ “The Proposal” took in $34.1 million to open as the weekend’s No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Disney film delivered the biggest [...]
By MIN LEE
AP Entertainment Writer
SHANGHAI (AP) – The Danish-Swedish drama “Original” won best picture at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival Sunday, with its male lead Sverrir Gudnason named best actor for playing the soul-searching son of a mentally ill mother.
Reading from the citation, jury president “Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle called the debut feature [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Chris Brown’s felony assault case is about to enter a key phase.
The R&B singer is due back in court Monday afternoon for a preliminary hearing that could feature testimony from Rihanna and a crucial ruling by a judge in Los Angeles.
Brown was arrested in February on suspicion of hitting and threatening [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Ryan O’Neal says he plans to marry Farrah Fawcett, who is struggling to overcome cancer.
The 68-year-old actor says in an interview with ABC television that he asked his longtime companion to marry him and “she’s agreed.” O’Neal says they will wed “as soon as she can say yes.”
The ABC interview with [...]
By ROB GILLIES
Associated Press Writer
TORONTO (AP) – Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton says he got a black eye from the manager of the Black Eyed Peas.
Hilton says he got into argument with Fergie and will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas at a Toronto nightclub early Monday morning and was punched outside the club by Polo Molina, [...]
By MIN LEE
AP Entertainment Writer
SHANGHAI (AP) – Former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh said Sunday that she will star in an upcoming kung fu movie directed by John Woo, adding that she’s not avoiding action movies despite a recent break from the genre.
The “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” actress told a press conference [...]
