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Week of 6 April 2009
6 April 2009
Pfizer pays $75-million to settle lawsuit over using Nigerian children as guinea pigs ...
Who's ghost-writing Arianna Huffington's Twitter? ...
J. D. Salinger still isn't talking ...
Coolio pleads not guilty to felony drug charge ...
Son of Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett is busted for drugs, again ...
Bodyguards shoot at paparazzi as Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are re-married ...
Accused Nazi John Demjanjuk gets a stay of deportation ...
Taco Bell sign falls in windstorm, kills woman ...
. Roger Ebert hangs out with Mike Royko and Ann Landers ...
7 April 2009
Chris Brown pleads not guilty in beating of girlfriend Rihanna ...
Mickey Rourke steps into wrestling ring, smacks down Chris Jericho ...
Obama administration embraces Bush position on warrantless wiretapping and secrecy ...
Rosie O'Donnell and Star Jones do lunch ...
Scientists dismiss Gwyneth Paltrow's shampoo horror stories ...
Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) foretells plague of gay marriages ...
Toby Keith is livid about Rolling Stone story by Ethan Hawke, and Kris Kristofferson says he remembers none of it ...
Doctor says Farrah Fawcett is not at death's door ...
Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and other bailed out banks may spend billions buying more toxic assets ...
Judge rules that auction of Michael Jackson's stuff can continue ...
Viggo Mortensen says he's done with movies ...
Peter Bart's controversial reign is ending at Variety ...
Pornographic actor Jack Wrangler dies from emphysema in New York ...
8 April 2009
Kal Penn quits show biz for White House staff position ...
Rupert Murdoch says newspapers should charge on the web ...
Old-time Trekkers at surprise premiere say J. J. Abrams has nailed Star Trek, and Harry Knowles goes ga-ga ...
Attorney General of California Jerry Brown to Howard K. Stern - Don't bitch slap me! ...
Charlie Sheen's son is released from hospital ...
Auditor for Blockbuster Video raises "substantial doubt" about company's ability to survive ...
Playing a patient made Meat Loaf sick for real ...
Diane von Furstenberg takes a pink turn ...
Gary Coleman feigns disgust with his new film? ...
Laura Leighton is back from the dead for new Melrose Place ...
9 April 2009
Billy Bob Thornton doesn't want Canadians to know he's a movie star ...
Kurt Cobain's fortune lost to money-laundering ...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori gets 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity ...
Rihanna's dad is confused by Chris Brown's not guilty plea ...
Walgreens yanks Chia Obama ...
Rob Lowe claims victory in nanny case but nanny's lawyer says it ain't over yet ...
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells Pope Benedict XVI he's wrong on homosexuality ...
Eminem raps about nailin' Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ...
Associated Press sends AP affiliate a cease-and-desist letter for using video from AP's YouTube channel ...
Reaper seems doomed as producers sign with rival studio ...
10 April 2009
Kanye West is mocked mercilessly on South Park and takes it like a man ...
Merck made a hit list of doctors to be "neutralized" for criticizing Vioxx ...
It’s really important to Miley Cyrus that people think of her as a real artist ...
Bruce Springsteen is named as the other man in New Jersey divorce filing ...
Fox Broadcasting thinks you'll find weekly layoffs entertaining ...
David Caruso's ex-girlfriend sues for money and house ...
Leonard Nimoy returns to TV as millionaire scientist ...
Woody Harrelson roughs up paparazzi at airport ...
Farrah Fawcett is released from hospital ...
Luis Posada Carriles is indicted for link to Cuba bombings ...
Whitney Houston countersues stepmother ...
11 April 2009
Prince sings a love song to Salma Hayek ...
Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-Alabama) says there are 17 socialists in Congress ...
Doctor who operated on Kanye West's mom loses license ...
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Illinois) denies any wrongdoing ...
Billy Bob Thornton gets booed on stage, cancels band's Canada tour ...
12 April 2009
Judah Friedlander explains those hats ...
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he's on a hunger strike ...
More fishsticks for Kanye West ...
Fijian President Josefa Iloilo abolishes constitution ...
Liza Minnelli wants producers of biopic about mum Judy Garland to lay off her drug addictions ...
Former adult film star Marilyn Chambers found dead in her Canyon Country, California home ...