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Posted 10.26.12 by BrentJS -
There's a mystery afoot in Hollywood (and we're not talking about the appeal of Honey Boo Boo and her family). Someone trashed the lavish, 38-foot trailer that served as Elizabeth Taylor's sanctuary from the set during the filming of Cleopatra (1963). The trailer, owned by Angel Alger, was on loan to Silver Screen Pictures for use in the filming of Liz & Dick, a Lifetime movie chronicling the love affair and two marriages of Taylor and actor Richard Burton. Initially, Alger blamed the star of the movie, child actor-turned-wild child Lindsay Lohan, for the damages, but she admits that she has no proof that Lohan had anything to do with the vandalism and thefts. Watch the video above for more on this mystery.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Blue Ivy continues to make news. Maternity patients at Lenox Hill Hospital are complaining they faced a series of indignities because of the increased security at the hospital over the weekend, which included having to wait hours to visit their own babies.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z haven't responded to the complaints. However, less than two days after Blue Ivy's birth, Jay-Z posted a new song online about his daughter. The lyrics to "Glory" reveal Beyoncé once suffered a miscarriage and that the baby was conceived in Paris.
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Snoop Dogg was arrested for drug possession in Texas over the weekend after police allegedly found weed on the rapper's tour bus. Snoop was issued a citation and released. Turns out the arrest was made at the same Sierra Blanca highway checkpoint where Willie Nelson was busted last year.
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Even though she's nominated for seven awards, Katy Perry has decided not to attend tomorrow's People's Choice Awards as previously planned. The awards show would have been her first outing since the announcement of her divorce from Russell Brand. Perry tweeted a message to fans: "I want to thank u all for voting for me, fingers crossed! #KATYCATS."
Don't miss our live red carpet coverage of the People's Choice awards, starting Wednesday at 8 PM ET. Get tune-in info and details about encore showings.
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Are they or aren't they? Evan Rachel Wood was spotted wearing what looked like a several-karat diamond engagement ring while out with Jamie Bell, her longtime on-again/off-again boyfriend. No comment yet from her rep. Although when similar buzz happened last fall, Wood tweeted to set the record straight: "Sorry to disappoint, but I have been wearing that diamond on my left hand since I was 14. It was my aunts. Any engagement rumor is false."
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And what would a rundown be without the latest Lindsay Lohan news? The actress is in "early talks" to star as Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie about Taylor's romance with Richard Burton. What do you think, brilliant or terrible casting?
Posted 01.10.12 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Cinema lost one of its biggest fans with the death of Kim Jong-Il over the weekend. The North Korean dictator, ruthlessly parodied in 2004's Team America: World Police, owned 20,000 movies and claimed to have seen every Oscar Best Picture winner. His favorite actress was Elizabeth Taylor, his favorite actor was Sean Connery, and his two favorite movies were Friday the 13th and Rambo.
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Speaking of Elizabeth Taylor, her jewelry auction had $116 million in sales, with Taylor admirer Kim Kardashian scooping up three Lorraine Schwartz bangles, paying $64,900 for the jade bracelets. In other, creepier auction news, Liz BFF Michael Jackson's belongings continue to be sold, with the rug that was under the bed he died in going for $15,360, far exceeding the $400-$600 estimate.
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Hugh Hefner tweeted that the Lindsay Lohan issue of Playboy is breaking sales records, although CNN called a dozen newsstands in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Atlanta Sunday and found just one that is sold out of the issue.
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Kobe Bryant's wife filed for divorce on Friday, apparently finally pushed over the edge by his repeated infidelity. It's rumored Bryant is linked to Kim Kardashian best friend Carla DiBello.
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Ellen DeGeneres has purchased Brad Pitt's 4,000-square-foot Malibu home for $12 million. She and wife Portia de Rossi are downsizing, having put their 15,000-square-foot manse on the market last month for $49 million.
Posted 12.19.11 by reelz -
Need to make a quick $116 million? Just sell off a collection of Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry.
On Tuesday night, Christie's auctioned the iconic actress's legendary collection. The night set a record for the most money spent on a private jewelry collection, ending with a total $115,932,000, says the Telegraph. That figure is more than double the previous record, with the Duchess of Windsor's jewelry collection earning $50 million at auction in 1987. Furthermore, this new record-breaking total was just for one night and only 80 items being sold. The jewelry auction is set to continue tonight, with clothing, accessories, art, and memorabilia to be sold later in the week. Part of the proceeds of the auction will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
More on the auction >> Posted 12.14.11 by Mandy -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Chaz Bono was booted from Dancing with the Stars last night after performing a tango to a track from Phantom of the Opera. Judge Bruno Tonioli told Bono, "It was like watching a cute little penguin trying to be a big menacing bird of prey." In spite of that slam Bono said, "I'm not leaving the show bitter or angry or anything... It was a wonderful, life-changing experience."
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Steven Tyler cut his face and lost two teeth after a shower fall in a hotel in Paraguay. Spokesmen for the 63-year-old Aerosmith frontman said the fall was the result of dehydration caused by food poisoning.
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Doing less well is 92-year-old Andy Rooney, who is in serious condition after suffering complications from surgery last week. Rooney's last 60 Minutes essay, his 1,097th, aired on October 2.
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Michael Jackson is the top-earning dead celebrity according to Forbes, raking in $170 million from the grave in the year ending in May 2011. A distant second to the King of Pop is Elvis Presley with $55 million. Rounding out the top 5 are Marilyn Monroe ($27 million), Peanuts creator Charles Schulz ($25 million), and John Lennon and Elizabeth Taylor tying with $12 million apiece.
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Michael Lohan allegedly threatened to kill ex-girlfriend Kate Major after she refused to perform oral sex on him, according to a Tampa police report. The estranged father of Lindsay Lohan is still in jail, charged with domestic violence.
Posted 10.26.11 by reelz -
"Big girls need big diamonds." Elizabeth Taylor said it and she would know, seeing as she had one of the most renowned jewelry collections in the world. According the the AP, Taylor's collection of jewelry, art, clothing, and more will be auctioned at Christie's in New York in December. Before the items are sold they are going on a round-the-world tour including stops in Moscow, London, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. When they arrive in New York, Christie's will have a museum-quality exhibition to display the collection. The New York exhibit will run from December 3-10, with the auction being held December 13-16. The jewelry will be sold in three sessions from on December 13 and 14, so this would be a great opportunity to make someone very happy this Christmas.
A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition admissions and related publications will be donated to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
Posted 06.29.11 by Mandy -
When you're considering taking on role that has already been played by an iconic actress, you have to tread lightly.
In discussing the possibility of playing Cleopatra, Angelina Jolie paid respect to the late Elizabeth Taylor's portrayal of the Egyptian pharaoh and said that her performance would take a difference direction than Taylor's 1963 movie.
Jolie tells the U.K.'s Telegraph:
My performance will never be as lovely as Elizabeth’s. We are trying to get into a different truth about her as a pharaoh in history and not as a sex symbol, because she really wasn’t. Even this idea of her having many lovers – it was possible that it was only two. She is very interesting, but she wasn’t a great beauty. I thought it was all about the glamor, but then I read about her and she was a very strong mother, she spoke five languages and she was a leader.
Though despite the compliments to Taylor, the actress was not keen on Hollywood remaking the movie and rebuffed attempts by Jolie to get her blessing for the new project.
Cleopatra has been in development for years >> Posted 05.31.11 by Chris -
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor passed away this week, and in honor of her life Reelzchannel is airing “Elizabeth Taylor: A Look Back.” We’ll examine her contribution to movies and her extraordinary humanitarian efforts.
Elizabeth Taylor was an Academy Award winning movie star whose career spanned over 6 decades. She was known for her acting, her beauty, her violet eyes, her love of jewelry, but all of this was sometimes eclipsed by her chaotic personal life. She herself said once that she didn't remember much about making the budget-busting epic Cleopatra because "there were a lot of other things going on.”
Aside from being a great actress, she was also a great humanitarian. After the death of her friend Rock Hudson, Taylor began to dedicate a great deal of money and time to help in the fight against AIDS. In 1991 she launched the Elizabeth Taylor HIV/AIDS Foundation.
Tune in for the ReelzChannel Special “Elizabeth Taylor: A Look Back.” The special premieres Saturday, March 26 at 11:30 AM ET/ 8:30 AM PT, with encores on Sunday at 1:30 AM ET, and Monday, March 28 at 2 AM ET. Find ReelzChannel at Dish 299, DirecTV 238, or your cable system.
Posted 03.24.11 by reelz -
Elizabeth Taylor, the Hollywood icon who was synonymous with celebrity glamor, died today of congestive heart failure. She was 79.
Known for her roles in such classic movies as National Velvet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Butterfield 8, Taylor is possibly most famous for her portrayal of Cleopatra in the 1963 movie of the same name, and that of Katharina in 1967's The Taming of the Shrew — a movie she also produced.
Married often, twice to Richard Burton (whom she worked with on 11 movies), Taylor once famously said, "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
The widely lauded, two-time Academy Award winning actress (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Butterfield 8) is survived by her brother Howard Taylor; her four children, Michael Wilding Jr., Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd Tivey, and Maria Burton Carson; and by nine grandchildren.
Watch Hollywood Dailies today at 5:00pm ET and 2:00pm PT for more tributes and reactions to the passing of one of America's greatest stars.
Posted 03.23.11 by reelz