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Week of 25 May 2009
25 May 2009
Kevin Bacon's Blackberry is stolen on the subway ...
Judaism gets its first African-American woman rabbi ...
Pornographic videos flood YouTube ...
Lee Majors says the Farrah Fawcett TV special "was a little bit over done" ...
Ex-astronaut Charles F. Bolden, Jr. is named to head NASA ...
Illinois legislature wants to block any book deals for former Governor Rod Blagojevich ...
Annie Leibovitz threatened with bankruptcy ...
United HealthCare makes life hell for patents' rights advocate ...
26 May 2009
Mike Tyson's daughter is on life support after treadmill accident ...
Brooke Shields regrets not losing her virginity years earlier ...
Rep Nancy Pelosi (D-California) is "Pussy Galore", says Republican National Committee ...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie remake is in development, and Joss Whedon isn't invited ...
You too could have that Amy Winehouse look ...
Kareena Kapoor still thinks about Shahid Kapoor ...
Mel Gibson settles lawsuit over Passion of the Christ ...
Sarah Jessica Parker spends $18,000 on nursery ...
Federal Trade Commission goes after those "Your car warranty is about to expire" robocalling bastards ...
27 May 2009
New York Times reports that AT&T may have swayed results on American Idol ...
Doctor Who gets animated and maybe gets a movie ...
President Obama names Sonia Sotomayor to US Supreme Court ...
Mike Tyson's daughter dies after hanging accident ...
George Takei is unhappy with court ruling against gay marriage ...
Jayson Williams is arrested after nightclub fight ...
Preity Zinta gets choosy now ...
T.I. throws going-away concert, reports to prison ...
O.J. Simpson appeals robbery, kidnapping conviction ...
Nobel prize-winning economist Clive W.J. Granger dies in San Diego ...
28 May 2009
Criss Angel is accused of stealing cat ...
Feds have Senator Roland W. Burris (D-Illinois) on tape offering a check for then-Governor Rod Blagojevich ...
Lindsay Lohan's father is arrested on death threat charge ...
Jessica Simpson wants to make a reality show about body-image ...
North Korea is threatening to attack South Korea ...
"I am not a monster", Chris Brown explains ...
American Express wants $352,059.67 from Courtney Love ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenges US President Barack Obama to a face-to-face debate ...
Microsoft will spend upwards of $100-million to lure you from Google ...
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu suggests painting your roof white ...
Bernard Kerik is indicted again for making false statements to investigators ...
Colin Farrell will be best man in brother's gay wedding ...
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle returns to Bombay to reassure child stars ...
Jennie Garth reveals heart condition ...
English actor and star of Bergerac, Terence Alexander dies of Parkinson's disease in London, England, aged 86 ...
29 May 2009
Rihanna will take the stand for preliminary hearing in Chris Brown case ...
and meanwhile, Brown is sued in a separate assault and battery ...
Did Alaska First Dude Todd Palin offer daughter a new car if she'd break up with baby-daddy? ...
Winona Ryder battled depression after split from Johnny Depp ...
Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore runs for Governor in Alabama ...
US General Antonio Taguba describes those icky prisoner abuse photos that haven't been released ...
Roger Ebert warns moviegoers about Imax rip-off ...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denies affair with underaged girl ...
Newspaper Association of America holds clandestine meeting to discuss charging for online content ...
Ashton Kutcher threatens to terminate Twitter account ...
Physician and Chairman of Arcadian Management Services, John H. Austin dies in the airplane crash of his private, two-seater Storch in Garfield County, Utah ...
30 May 2009
Ozzy Osbourne sues over rights to the name Black Sabbath ...
Phil Spector gets 19 to life for killing Lana Clarkson ...
Stephen Colbert's secret Middle East trip is exposed by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ...
Katie Holmes wants more boink-time with Tom Cruise ...
Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman sign for A Steady Rain on Broadway ...
Summer Glau rumored to enter Joss Whedon's Dollhouse? ...
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan undergoes cancer surgery ...
Tom Sizemore is arrested on drug warrant ...
Former President of Israel Ephraim Katzir dies at his home in Rehovot, Israel ...
31 May 2009
Mariah Carey regrets picking nose ...
Jon Cryer's ex-wife busted for alleged child neglect ...
Perennial candidate Ralph Nader says Democratic National Committee offered him a bribe to go away during 2004 election ...
Congressman Peter Visclosky (D-Indiana) gets subpoenaed ...
Canadian woman seeks child support from Keanu Reeves ...
Wikipedia bans edits from Church of Scientology ...
Abortionist George Tiller is shot to death during a 10:00 a.m. service at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas ...