Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category

August 18th, 2008

Malaysia’s Islamists want Lavigne concert canceled

By JULIA ZAPPEI
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Malaysia’s Islamic opposition party has urged the government to cancel a concert by Avril Lavigne, saying the Canadian singer’s on-stage moves are “too sexy,” an official said Monday.
Lavigne, a Grammy-nominated rock singer who burst to fame with her 2002 debut album “Let’s Go,” plans to start her monthlong [...]

July 7th, 2008

Charlie Sheen Apologizes For Racial Slur

Voicemail recordings that Charlie Sheen left for ex-wife Denise Richards three years ago mysteriously surfaced on the Internet yesterday. Of course, they’ve been yanked as fast as they’ve mysteriously appeared, but being the serious investigative journalist I am, I managed to obtain the transcript of his message left on Tuesday, April 19, 2005:

Yeah, I just [...]

July 6th, 2008

Britney And Adnan Together Again

Britney Spears is back together with her paparazzi boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib! It’s like Romeo and Juliet, only with more crack hair and chin pubes. According to TMZ
The last few months Adnan has been getting into the gated community where Brit lives. They have been “together,” though we can’t say it’s still going on. We know [...]

July 4th, 2008

Able to Leap Tall Buildings, Even if Hung Over

Soon into the superhero spectacular “Hancock,” before the machinery has fully kicked in, and the story is still wreathed in blissful ambiguity, you see the star Will Smith sprawled on a Los Angeles bench. Dirty, disheveled, in full distressed costume and character, and within easy sloshing reach of a bottle, he looks lost and alone, [...]

June 27th, 2008

Angry West defends festival delay

Kanye West says criticism over keeping fans waiting at the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee last week has left him "the most offended I’ve ever been".
Writing on his blog, the rapper said he had been more than an hour-and-a-half late because organisers had not allowed enough time to build his elaborate set.
In the entry, [...]

June 25th, 2008

Monet work auctioned for £40.9m

A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, has fetched a record £40.9m for the artist’s work at auction.
The identity of the victorious bidder at Christie’s, London, has not been made public. The painting had been expected to fetch £24m.
Painted in 1919 in Giverny in France it has been seen in public just once in [...]