By Otis Gowens
| Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 09:12 AM
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press.
She was 79.
Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from congestive heart failure.
Morrison says her children were at her side. She’d been hospitalized for about six weeks.
Taylor first gained stardom as a child and appeared in more than 50 films. She won Oscars for her performances in “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
She was equally famous for extraordinary beauty and her stormy personal life, including eight marriages and a series of physical ailments.
In later years, she was a spokeswoman for humanitarian causes, notably AIDS research. That work gained her a special Oscar in 1993.
Looks like Charlie Sheen’s mouth may have gotten him into big trouble again.
LAPD removed The “Two and a Half Men” star’s twin boys from the home he shares with a model and a porn star he calls “the goddesses,” according to Popeater.com.
Sheen allegedly made death threats against Brooke Mueller, his estranged wife and the twins’ mother. TMZ said Mueller obtained a temporary restraining order against Sheen.
He spoke to NBC’s Today show about the boys removal this morning.
“At this moment, on live television, I do not know where my children are,” Sheen said. “There’s more love, compassion, support, childcare and everything else you could possibly want for a child here in this lovely home. It’s not a house, it’s a home.”
According to a TMZ report, deputies say the pint-sized singer was drunk.
Aguilera who has had her fair share of hits and misses in recent weeks - skipping words to the National Anthem and then bringing the house down at the Grammys - was pinched for public intoxication just before 3 a.m. today in West Hollywood.
Her boyfriend Matthew Rutler was arrested on a misdemenor DUI charge, the website says.
Xtina, a passenger in Rutler’s car, was deemed too drunk to care for herself.
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Charlie Sheen isn’t on cocaine, marijuana, opiates, amphetamines, alcohol and methadone, but that doesn’t mean he’s not high… on himself.
The ticked off star told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he’ll sue CBS for breach of contract and NBC that he deserves a 50 percent raise if he goes back to CBS’ “Two and a Half Men.”
That would give him $3 million per episode.
“Because of psychological distress, it is 3 mill an episode, take it or leave it,” Sheen said.
“I am tired of pretending I am not special. I’m tired of pretending like I’m not bitching a total freaking rock star from Mars. And people can’t figure me out. They can’t process me. I don’t expect them to. You can’t process me with a normal brain.”
CBS pulled the plug on the hit show Thursday after Sheen’s rant on Alex Jones Radio Show.
Charlie Sheen is the son of Dayton native Martin Sheen.
One of the world’s most well-known faces will visit the region this weekend to celebrate the launch of her home furnishing line in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford will sign autographs 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Fairborn-based Morris Home Furnishings new store in Springdale.
(Photo: Business Wire)
Morris is the only company that sells Cindy Crawford Home in Ohio.
It is available exclusively at its Dayton and Centerville stores and at the new Cincinnati Morris Home Furnishings showroom in Springdale.
During her career in modeling, Crawford graced the covers of the world’s most-recognized magazines.
Her home line is a mix of contemporary, vintage/classic and casual.
Crawford is an advocate in the fight against childhood leukemia. Her younger brother Jeff died of leukemia when she was 10 years old.
In recognition of her work, Morris will donate a portion of its grand opening sales to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medial Center. Crawford plans to visit the hospital today.
What do you think?
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Glenn Close doesn’t think the skipper’s skit was funny at all.
The Oscar-nominated actress denounces the use of her image in one of the raunchy videos that got US Navy Captain Owen Honorsremoved from his post aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise Tuesday and assigned to land desk duty.
“I am distraught that my image has been used to perpetuate something that I abhor,” Close told the Washington Post’s blog Celebritology through a spokesperson. “The cynical, unauthorized use of my image in this video is deeply offensive and insulting, and was the result of a seemingly innocent request of me during a visit to the aircraft carrier over four years ago.”
Warning: this video is offensive. Glenn Close appears toward the end with a parrot.
In the undeniably childish video in question, Close wears a Navy hat and poses with a parrot used earlier in very unparrot-like ways.
It was a part of a series of homophobic videos Honors filmed featuring sexual innuendos. They were broadcast to aircraft carrier’s crew in 2006 and 2007.
The Navy said that the videos meant be comical and to boost morale showed a lack of professionalism and good judgment.
What do you think? Should Owens have been reassigned?
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