Jen Chung
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After months of sorta public kisses, rumors and Instagram photos, singers Rihanna and Chris Brown appeared at tonight's Lakers game vs. the Knicks at the Staples Center. This is the pair's first public appearance together since Brown beat Rihanna in 2009. Brown, who apologized publicly for the assault, pleaded guilty to the attack and was sentenced to five years probation, plus taking a year-long domestic violence workshop. According to TMZ, "The two arrived to...
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The movie awards season is seriously underway, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcing its nominees for the 2013 Golden Globes.
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Larry Hagman, whose portrayal of slick oilman J.R. Ewing on the powerhouse 1980s CBS prime time soap, Dallas, defined television evil and turned him into a global TV star, died yesterday at age 81. He had been diagnosed with cancer last year, and died at a Fort Worth Hospital. His family said, "Larry was back in his beloved Dallas re-enacting the iconic role he loved most. Larry’s family and close friends had joined him in...
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Fiona Apple, the brilliant and intense singer-songwriter, has been on tour to support her new album, The Idler Wheel..., but she just cancelled her upcoming South American tour for a very good reason: She wants to be with her beloved dying dog.
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President Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show last night and host Jay Leno asked him a range of questions, from the debates to Donald Trump's big non-announcement. The biggest audience reaction, though, came when Leno asked about Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdouck's comment about abortion being unacceptable even in the case of rape, because the pregnancy is "something God intended to happen." The Mitt Romney-endorsed Republican had said, "The only exception I have...
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Yesterday, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner survived his death-defying jump from 128,000 feet in space to break records for the fastest freefall speed, the highest manned balloon-flight and the highest jump. He told an Austrian TV station, "I think 20 tons have fallen from my shoulders. I prepared for this for seven years." There was a camera attached to Baumgartner's suit, and it's showing how crazy the jump was (FYI: if you get motion sick,...
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The trailer for the eagerly anticipated film about Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho, Hitchcock, was released today and features everything you'd want: Anthony Hopkins looking much like the big-bellied director, classic 1960-era costumes and decor and Scarlett Johansson as the buxom starlet Janet Leigh who plays ill-fated Marion Crane.
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The filmmaker whose anti-Islam movie sparked the protests in Libya that claimed the lives of the U.S. Ambassador as well as other staffers is now in hiding.
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Duncan, known for his breakout role in "The Green Mile," "never fully recovered" after his July 13 heart attack.
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Featureflash / Shutterstock.com Tony Scott, the director of movies like Top Gun, True Romance, Man on Fire and Unstoppable, died today in an apparent suicide after jumping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro. The L.A. Country Coroner's Office and L.A. Police Department told the Daily Breeze that "Scott, 68, climbed a fence on the south side of the bridge's apex and leapt off 'without hesitation' around 12:30 p.m." A Los Angeles Port...
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