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Chris Rock Fuels Eminem Collaboration Rumors

May 15, 2013 No Comments by

After Chris Rock’s posting a photo of himself on Twitter, rumors began circulating last week about a possible collaboration between Rock and Eminem on the latter’s new album. The caption of Rock’s photo read like ‘In the studio with Em don’t sleep’. Today, Rock further fueled the rumor in an interview with Fuse.tv. The comedian [...]

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Jury Finds Jodi Arias Eligible For Death Penalty

May 15, 2013 No Comments by

Jodi Arias revisited the court to face her trial’s final phase. Last week, she was announced guilty of first-degree murder by the judges, who would now consider whether the ex-waitress should be punished lifetime imprisonment or death. On Wednesday, it took less than three hours to the jurors to settle on death sentence, especially considering [...]

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‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ Directed by JJ Abrams

May 15, 2013 No Comments by

The new movie of the ‘Star Trek’ franchise ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ will hit the theaters on Thursday. It is the second movie of the franchise that had J.J. Abrams as the director.   It is actually a prequel that focuses on the time before the first six feature movies. It shows Chris Pine (plays [...]

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CMU Instructors Remember NCIS Actress’ School Days

May 15, 2013 No Comments by

With the wrapping up of the 10th season of NCIS, Tuesday night was a big night for the fans of the series. One of lead actors of the show perfected her craft from Pittsburgh. NCIS fans know her as Ziva. Cote de Pablo has learned most of the things in Pittsburgh, which brought stardom to [...]

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Angelina Jolie undergoes double mastectomy

May 14, 2013 No Comments

On Tuesday, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, 37, announced that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy. She had been living under growing risk of developing ovarian and breast cancer due to the presence of a BRACA1 gene’s mutation in her body.  Jolie wrote these things in an op-ed article in ‘New York Times’. She wrote [...]

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LinkedIn Bans ‘the world’s oldest profession’

May 14, 2013 No Comments

LinkedIn has been continuously trying to impose a ban on prostitution – the oldest profession in the world. World’s largest professional networking site has recently informed its users about some major changes in its user agreement and privacy policy. The site has more than 225 million users. Most of the modifications made are actually generalization [...]

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Christina Aguilera to return to ‘The Voice’

May 14, 2013 No Comments

Pop diva Christina Aguilera will be seen again in the singing reality show ‘The Voice’. She is returning to the upcoming season of the singing competition. However, it is yet to be known who she will cast out to make her appearance. Ex-jury Christina took her aside from the show after three seasons in 2012. [...]

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Dr. Joyce Brothers, On-Air Psychologist, Dies at 85

May 14, 2013 No Comments

Dr. Joyce Brothers passed away at her home in N.J.’s Fort Lee on Monday. She was 85. Lisa Brothers Arbisser, her daughter, confirmed the death news. Earlier, Joyce Brothers was an academic psychologist who counseled millions on the airwaves long before Drs. Ruth, Laura, and Phil. Dr. Brothers was always distinguished professionally. She was widely [...]

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‘How I Met Your Mother’ Season Finale Shows Glimpse of the ‘Mother’

May 13, 2013 No Comments

Last week, a promo of the popular comedy series ‘How I Met Your Mother’ was released that promised to reveal the mother. The fans indeed met the mother in the season finale aired tonight. It was certainly a great moment for the fans who had been waiting eagerly for so long. After all the theories [...]

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“Survivor: Caramoan” crowns a winner

May 13, 2013 No Comments

The winner of CBS’ veteran reality show ‘Survivor: Caramoan’ was announced on Sunday evening. John Cochran was voted as the winner of the 26th season of the show. Eight jury members voted anonymously to select the winner. Apart from the title, Cochran, a Harvard law student, received $1 million as the prize money. The lawyer [...]

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Savannah Guthrie From Today Is Happily Engaged!

May 13, 2013 No Comments

Savannah Guthrie, 41, the anchor of the show ‘Today’, announced the news of her being engaged to boyfriend Mike Feldman, 44, a political consultant and a former aide to Al Gore. She broke the news this morning on the set of the show. Matt Lauer, Guthrie’s co-anchor on the show, posted an image of Guthrie [...]

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Barbara Walters Reveals Retirement Plans

May 13, 2013 No Comments

On Monday, Barbara Walters broke the news of her retirement on ‘The View’. After the long 37-year stint with ABC, she decides to retire next summer. However, in her latest interview with ‘ABC News’, she sounded unsure of what to do with her free time. However, the post-retirement work schedule of the 83-year-old TV personality [...]

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Titus Young arrested on burglary, assault charges

May 12, 2013 No Comments

Titus Young, the former wide receiver of Lions, again involved in an off-field trouble. San Clemente, California, police arrested Young this weekend for the charges of attacking a police officer, burglary, and resisting arrest. Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s Lieutenant Joe Balicki confirmed the news on Sunday afternoon. Young is expected to be prosecuted on Monday. [...]

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Winning Powerball numbers for May 11 jackpot estimated at $270 million

May 12, 2013 No Comments

It is time for lottery players to check their Powerball tickets because the official lottery machine popped up the winning numbers for May 11 at around 11 p.m. With the Powerball number 16, the winning numbers are 6, 13, 19, 23, and 43.   For six weeks in a row, no match was found across [...]

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Lena Horne Death Hoax

May 11, 2013 No Comments

The Twitter just blew up and mourned the death of the iconic singer Lena Horne after a newspaper named ‘The Sacramento Bee’ incorrectly reported that she had died at the age of 92 on yesterday, May 10, 2013. The newspaper cited an article by the ‘New York Times’ but tragically missed that the article was [...]

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Raquel Pomplun named the 2013 Playboy Playmate of the Year

May 10, 2013 No Comments

Latin beauty Raquel Pomplun has been chosen as the Playmate of the Year 2013. The announcement has been made at the famous Playboy mansion during an exclusive luncheon. The announcement, coming from the mouth of Hugh Hefner, has made Pomplun the first Mexican-American model to get the title. The 25-year-old model released a statement saying [...]

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New York’s One World Trade Center spire finally goes up

May 10, 2013 No Comments

Workers topped off the new building named ‘One World Trade Center’ on Friday. The building is 1,776-foot tall, signifying the birth year of the United States. With the finishing touch of placing a spire making the structure, the New York City can claim to be home to the tallest building in the country once again. [...]

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Reviews are not so Great for ‘The Great Gatsby’

May 10, 2013 No Comments

The fourth big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ did not receive great reviews from the critics. Baz Luhrmann directed the movie adaptation of the 1925 novel. The storyline follows the journey of Nick Carraway, a would-be writer. After being drawn into the bountiful circle of a mysterious rich man [...]

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Kate Upton covers Vogue

May 10, 2013 No Comments

As far as modeling is concerned, Kate Upton has been showing that she is fully capable of it. The 20-year-old model made it on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ a few months ago. Now, she has ended up on the cover of the June 2013 issue of the ‘Vogue’ magazine.   It would be pretty [...]

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Death penalty possible after jury convicts Jodi Arias of first-degree murder

May 10, 2013 No Comments

Jodi Arias and her lawyers held a closed-door hearing with a judge on Thursday, just a day after the jurors became convinced of her guilt and held her responsible for a first-degree murder. It was not clear what was discussed in the hearing. However, the officials cancelled Thursday’s court proceedings after that. The trial will [...]

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TV Ratings: HLN Swells With Jodi Arias Verdict Coverage

May 09, 2013 No Comments

On Wednesday, the 19-week media drama around the Jodi Arias case climbed to the pinnacle with the jury’s announcing guilty verdict against her. The ratings reached to the highest during that time and cable news reaped the benefits. Arias has been found guilty of killing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. The channel ‘HLN’ has [...]

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‘The Great Gatsby’: DiCaprio Nails as Gatsby but the Real ‘Gatsby’ is yet to Come

May 09, 2013 No Comments

Baz Luhrmann, the director of ‘Moulin Rouge!’ (2001) and ‘Australia’, has directed the latest adaptation of the famous novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘The Great Gatsby’. Considering his previous works, it was justified to expect something grandeur if not great from the latest movie. The movie has been based on the recollections of a would-be [...]

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Ariel Castro, Cleveland Kidnap Suspect, May Face Death Penalty

May 09, 2013 No Comments

Ariel Castro, a Cleveland man who has been charged with the abduction, torture, and rape of three women – 23-year-old Gina DeJesus, 27-year-old Amanda Berry, 32-year-old and Michele Knight – for more than 10 years, might face death penalty for his crimes. An Ohio prosecutor said that he might seek death penalty against the defendant. [...]

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Long before he was charged, Ariel Castro was accuser in sexual assault case

May 09, 2013 No Comments

Almost a decade before being accused of abducting, torturing, and raping three Cleveland girls, Ariel Castro was himself the complainant in a sexual molestation case involving his two daughters. He brought that charge against Fernando Colon, his ex-wife’s second husband and the stepfather to his daughters. Castro made that accusation just a few months after [...]

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Mark Sanford and his ex-wife settle trespassing dispute

May 08, 2013 No Comments

Mark Sanford, the newly elected congressman, does not need to appear in court on Thursday because his ex-wife has withdrawn her complaint against him. She accused him of trespassing at her home in South Carolina. The ex-governor and Republican Sanford has been making a political comeback lately. The settlement was filed with Charleston County Family [...]

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Jury Concludes Jodi Arias Deliberations for Day

May 08, 2013 No Comments

The jury decided to resume deliberations in the murder trial of Jodi Arias case. On Tuesday, the second full day deliberations of the panel came to an end without reaching a verdict. Arias was arrested for the allegations of killing her boyfriend Travis Alexander in June 2008. He was found dead with a shot on [...]

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Jeanne Cooper, ‘Young and the Restless’ matriarch, dead at 84

May 08, 2013 No Comments

Jeanne Cooper, actress of CBS’ hit serial ‘The Young and the Restless’, has passed away at the age of 84. Recently she had been admitted in a hospital in Los Angeles due to a nameless illness. Actor Corbin Bernsen, Cooper’s son, had been updating about her condition to the fans and followers via Facebook. He [...]

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Kim Kardashian’s bikini puts baby bump on full display

May 08, 2013 No Comments

This week’s ‘Us Weekly’ featured Kim Kardashian in a bikini with her visible baby bump. The cover photo of the magazine displayed the pregnant star, wearing a sinewy bikini, relaxing on a Grecian beach. She, along with her family, went to the island of Mykonos for vacationing and shooting their ‘E!’ show named ‘Keeping Up [...]

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Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries accused of only wanting ‘thin and beautiful people’

May 08, 2013 No Comments

The controversial U.S. fashion retailer, Abercrombie & Fitch, has been criticized for ruling plus-size women out deliberately from wearing its clothes. The company has been doing so by failing to sell or make women’s apparels in any size above Large. A retail industry analyst Robin Lewis, who is also the co-author of the book ‘The [...]

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Saul Bass, Movie Title Designer, Honored with Google Doodle

May 08, 2013 No Comments

Today, Google has paid homage to Saul Bass, the famous graphic designer, through a doodle displaying on its homepage. Bass has been widely known for designing iconic movie titles for directors like Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. In a video medley, the doodle features a few of those famous movie openings including ‘Vertigo’, ‘Around the [...]

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