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Jen Chung

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  • The LA Clippers beat the Detroit Pistons, 129-97, last night and the highlight for that game—and perhaps for all of basketball yesterday—was DeAndre Jordan's crazy dunk. Jordan just kills the ball over the Pistons' Brandon Knight. Check it out:
  • Via Instagram Last night, Justin Bieber collapsed backstage during a concert at London's O2 Arena—but that didn't mean he left fans in a lurch. According to TMZ, "The singer was pulled into a private room where he was treated with oxygen from emergency personnel. Sources say Bieber was advised to go to the hospital ... but declined ... insisting that he 'had to finish the show for his fans.'" Here's video of his manager...
  • McCready in 2008 (Getty Images) Mindy McCready, the country music star who publicly confronted her issues on reality television, was found dead in Arkansas. While the police have not confirmed her death, NBC correspondent Andrea Canning tweeted, "Just got a call from Mindy McCready's best friend that she shot and killed herself this evening. My heart breaks for her two boys. RIP" and her brother confirmed that she died to the Daily News. She...
  • Chris Brown; Frank Ocean (Getty Images) The authorities are investigating whether R&B singer Chris Brown "assaulted an unnamed victim" in West Hollywood last night—and that victim is apparently singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. Ocean Tweeted last night, "got jumped by chris and a couple guys. lol. i only wish everest was there." [Everest is Ocean's dog.] According to the LA Sheriff's Department, deputies arrived at the 7200 block of Santa Monica Boulevard after receiving a call...
  • Jodie Foster at the Golden Globes (Getty Images) Jodie Foster stole this year's Golden Globes during her acceptance speech of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. On national television, she noted that she was gay but added, "I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago." After a montage showing the highlights of her long acting and directing career, Foster took to the stage and gave a...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • Duncan, known for his breakout role in "The Green Mile," "never fully recovered" after his July 13 heart attack.
  • 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...
  • Beloved funnyman Fred Willard appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and, naturally, the number one topic was his arrest for lewd conduct at a Hollywood porn theater. Fallon asked what movie he saw, "The movie you went to see.. was it The Firm? Was it Free Willy? Was it Anaconda?" Willard said, "Sadly, it was Get Shorty."
  • Fred Willard, the beloved funny man of TV and screen, was arrested last night—for allegedly masturbating at a Hollywood theater. According to TMZ, "LAPD undercover vice officers went into the Tiki Theater in Hollywood and found the 78-year-old 'Anchorman' star watching last night's feature ... with his penis exposed and in his hand."
  • A Redditor posted the video, explaining, "It's a bit late but here is DSLR footage I took of the SD fireworks at a park directly across the water from one of the barges. Behold as night becomes day."