Musicians often have humble beginnings to their careers, sometimes playing on a subway platform or performing on the street for spare change. For the lucky ones who attain super stardom, they can afford previously unheard-of luxuries. And some of them buy star-worthy homes. This collection features the habitations of performers from rock to pop and [...]
Osama bin Laden lived in five safe houses while on the run in Pakistan and fathered four children — two of them born in government hospitals, his youngest widow has told investigators. The details of bin Laden’s life as a fugitive in Pakistan are contained in the interrogation report of Amal Ahmed Abdel-Fatah al-Sada, bin Laden’s 30-year-old Yemeni widow. [...]
Let’s all agree up-front: Nobody likes a bully, and that’s the easiest connection with the new buzzed-about documentary, “Bully,” out today in New York and Los Angeles. I wasn’t happy when Bobby Dreyfus told me I was flat-chested in the seventh grade when I was walking the halls between algebra and Spanish, and I didn’t [...]
Very soon, Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez may be bonded by more than their team affiliation — the two New York Jets quarterbacks might be neighbors. According to the New York Post and CNBC, Tebow is interested in a rental property at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. It’s 30 minutes from the Jets practice [...]
A 69-year-old local man says he has been hiking for decades. But on one recent outing along the Feather River in Butte County, a mountain lion pounced on him and knocked him to the ground. He survived the incident, he says, all thanks to a very unlikely hero. [See More...]
I am sure that the people who run Garrett High School in Indiana radiate intelligence. Perhaps, though, they have tossed a little inkblot onto their pristine record with the expulsion of senior Austin Carroll. He didn’t assault anyone. He didn’t toss a projectile, nor brandish a knife. No, it seems that he merely tweeted. Please [...]
“Hunger Games” actress Jennifer Lawrence ditches her girl-next-door image as she covers Germany’sInterview magazine. The soon-to-be superstar, who is on her way to earning big bucks off the heels of a record-breaking opening weekend, tells the mag just what she plans to do with her first big paycheck. The answer might surprise you! [See More...]
Any adaptation from book to movie is bound to rile up fans. The casting of black actors in “The Hunger Games” has spurred some negative tweets — even though at least two are true to Suzanne Collins’s 2008 book. The frenzy has focused on three characters in particular: Rue (Amandla Sternberg) and Thresh (Dayo Okeniyi), [...]
He’s played the rock god Jim Morrison, Moses, and even Batman, but now Val Kilmer is taking on the diety of authors: Mark Twain, in a one-man play, “Citizen Twain,” which he created. The 52-year-old wrote, directed, and stars in the project. From the photo of him in full Twain getup, it may be hard to believe that the [...]
It looks like Russell Crowe is about to start gathering animals two-by-two. Deadline reportsthat the Oscar-winning star of “A Beautiful Mind” and “Gladiator” will be playing the title role in the Biblical adaptation “Noah” for director Darren Aronofsky. It’s a high-profile role for Crowe, whose recent films have been a series of box office disappointments. His last film, [...]
