Category: Entertainment
30 July, 2008 (19:00) | Entertainment, News, new hampshire | No comments
SPOFFORD, N.H. — In death, comedian George Carlin returned to New Hampshire, where some of his earliest routines were heard.
The famed funnyman died of heart failure in June. Last week, according to his last wishes, some of his ashes were spread in Spofford Lake, where he prompted laughter while at summer camp six decades ago.
A […]
30 June, 2008 (16:59) | Entertainment, News | No comments
The rate of sexually transmitted diseases in people over 45 doubled over the last decade, researchers found by checking reports from 19 sexual health clinics.
In 1996, the overall infection rate was 16.7 per 100,000 people in that age group. By 2003, it had risen to 36.3 per 100,000 researchers said.
They found 4,445 infections among people […]
13 June, 2008 (21:28) | Entertainment, News | No comments
CORONA, California — Former Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, convicted in the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate, could soon be released from a U.S. prison because she is near death, authorities said.
Atkins, 59, is terminally ill and being considered for so-called “compassionate release,” California state corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. She gave no […]
8 June, 2008 (18:43) | Entertainment, News | No comments
Clint Eastwood says Spike Lee should “shut his face” about the lack of African-Americans in “Flags of Our Fathers.”
“Has he ever studied the history?” Eastwood asked the U.K.’s Guardian in an interview published on Friday.
While promoting his own war movie, “Miracle at St. Anna,” about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought the Germans […]
26 May, 2008 (21:08) | Entertainment, News | 1 comment
MASON — Evel Knievel’s son staged his own stunt at the place where his father set a record for jumping 14 buses
Robbie “Kaptain” Knievel jumped 24 delivery trucks Saturday night at Kings Island amusement park. He said the jump would be at least 220 feet, which would be a new world record.
Knievel said he’d be […]
26 May, 2008 (10:17) | Entertainment, News, new hampshire | No comments
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — An event at the Portsmouth Music Hall featuring journalist and ABC news anchor Barbara Walters was abruptly stopped on Friday night when audience members sitting in the balcony felt the building shift.
The Building Inspector, Richard Hopley, said a weld supporting one of the nine columns cracked causing the column to shift three […]
25 May, 2008 (21:56) | Entertainment, News | No comments
LONDON — A teenage actor who is to appear in the new ‘Harry Potter’ film was stabbed to death Saturday during an early morning barfight.
Robert Knox, 18, was murdered outside the Metro bar in southeast London as he tried to protect his brother Jamie, 17, from a man with a knife.
The attack, which left […]
25 May, 2008 (09:21) | Entertainment, News | 1 comment
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK (AP) ― After two days, the dig for clandestine graves at Charles Manson’s last hideout was called to an end after yielding no bodies and leaving scientists puzzled over the clues that had enticed them to come this far.
“So far there have been no human remains found,” Lutze said Wednesday […]
29 April, 2008 (21:16) | Entertainment, News | No comments
A Los Angeles porn company is planning to release a film supposedly showing guitar legend Jimi Hendrix having sex with two women, according to a report in the New York Times on Tuesday.
According to Vivid Entertainment, the film, which has no audio, allegedly shows Hendrix having sex with two women in a dimly-lit bedroom, […]