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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Today is finally the day that Facebook goes public — one of the biggest IPOs ever. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rung the NASDAQ opening bell from the social network's California headquarters. Some water cooler points about the company going public:
— Zuckerberg is expected to pocket $20B personally;
— Because he owns 2.3 percent of Facebook, Bono will surpass Paul McCartney to becoming to world's richest rock star;
— This IPO creates a thousand new millionaires;
— With a valuation of $104B, Facebook is worth more than Disney, Kraft, and Amazon;
— Apparently money heals all wounds because Eduardo Saverin congratulated Zuckerberg over Facebook about the company going public. He should, the IPO is expected to make Saverin $3B.
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In his first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in 13 years, Conan O'Brien talked about Jay Leno — an arch nemesis for both hosts (it was Leno who took the Tonight Show away from both Letterman and O'Brien). "I was delighted by everything that happened, except you losing your job," Letterman said about the debacle a few years back when Leno replaced O'Brien on the late-night talk show. "The only consolation I took during that period was that you were happy," O'Brien said.
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Betty White received her own Friars Club Roast on Wednesday, and if you thought the club, which is known for their no-holds-barred roasts, was going to go easy on the 90-year old, you were wrong.
The comedian Jeff Ross said the roast was organized as a lunch “because we didn’t think she’d make it till dinner.” “She’s so old, the color white is named after her,” Ross said, but he might have crossed the line when he added, “I’m looking forward to your next appearance — in that vase above your mantel.” The joke received a loud groan from the crowd. Joy Behar, Regis Philbin, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie Harper, Liza Minnelli, and Larry King all attended the event with Barbara Walters as the M.C. “She’s so old, she thinks I’m jailbait,” said King, who is 78.
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And in is-it-1993? news, Jenny McCarthy announced she's posing for Playboy at the age of 39.
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How does a national treasure celebrate a milestone? With another national treasure, of course.
Betty White will turn 90 years old on January 17, and the celebrating is already well underway. At a recent birthday party, which will air on NBC Monday, January 16, the television star was presented with a cake created by Betty Crocker. Though she is a cultural icon and the First Lady of Food, Betty Crocker is not a real person. The name, however, was created in 1921, meaning the Bettys are the same age. The outside of Betty White's birthday cake was a combination of pink, white, red, and yellow elements, but the inside was all chocolate. The chocolate cake was layered with both chocolate ganache and chocolate mousse. Luckily, the cake was presented without incident. Betty White apparently has better luck with cakes than her Mary Tyler Moore show character Sue Ann Nivens.
The ninety-year-old actress has been a television star for sixty years, and was first nominated for an Emmy in 1952. Since then, the small screen icon has starred in more than a dozen television series, including the currently running Hot in Cleveland.
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Illumination Entertainment proved that it could compete in the competetive CG-animated movie marketplace, with its 2010 inaugural debut, Despicable Me- which not only charmed critics, but became a monster hit at the box office, easily besting DreamWorks Animation's similarly-themed 2010 release, MegaMind. For its second fully CG-animated movie, Illumination tackles one of the most beloved stories by one of America's most beloved authors, The Lorax, Dr. Seuss' classic children's story about the dangers of corporate greed and environmental destruction.
The first trailer for The Lorax debuted last month and we got to see a a bit more footage when an international trailer was released earlier this month. Now, Illumination has released a featurette that introduces some of the characters in the movie and gives us a look behind the scenes of the making of the movie, with commentary from voice actors Zac Efron ("Ted"), Taylor Swift ("Audrey"), Ed Helms ("Once-ler"), Betty White ("Grammy Norma"), Rob Riggle ("O'Hare") and Danny DeVito ("The Lorax").
watch the new featurette >> Posted 11.16.11 by BrentJS -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Where is Casey Anthony today? After the Fox News rumor that she was holed up in Geraldo Rivera's New Jersey–based yacht was killed, so to speak, it's believed she's flown to Carlsbad, California, with the help of attorney Todd Macaluso, who was once part of her defense team.
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Reasons for the Jennifer Lopez–Marc Anthony divorce are beginning to emerge, with one source telling People they split "after months of non-stop arguing" that, according to other sources, was due to Anthony being "very controlling" of J. Lo's American Idol career, and also because she may have had an affair with William Levy, who's known as "The Brad Pitt of Cuba."
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Tiger Woods' ex Elin Nordegren is apparently fuming now that she's learned new beau Jamie Dingman previously dinged Woods Mistress #1, Rachel Uchitel. Meanwhile, Uchitel has refunded Tiger the $10 million hush money he paid her after she allegedly broke her confidentiality agreement.
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The YouTube "ask a celeb on a date" meme has quickly reached its end-point as Sgt. Ray Lewis asked 89-year-old Betty White to the Marine Corps Ball. White has rejected the young sergeant's invitation, citing filming obligations.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown: Fast Friday Edition
Kate Middleton kept it real yesterday, pushing around an empty shopping cart at a Waitrose supermarket in Anglesey, Wales.
RELATED: Suffering wedding withdrawal? We've got encore showings of our "Royal Wedding Highlights" running this weekend.
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The Australian teen who threw eggs at Justin Bieber while he performed in Syndey has been charged with breaking and entering, trespassing, and malicious damage.
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Robert Pattinson thinks Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.
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$7M doesn't buy you much house in Palo Alto as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates.
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Nicolas Cage won't be charged with domestic abuse and disturbing the peace after his latest booze-fueled outburst in New Orleans last month.
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Kirstie Alley tells Ellen DeGeneres she used to have sex for two hours a day.
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Charlie Sheen is toying with the idea of taking his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour to Europe and Australia, with all proceeds going to the Torpedoes Against Tornadoes Foundation Sheen has set up to aid Alabama tornado victims.
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Lindsay Lohan is smoking in a hot new photo shoot for BLANK magazine.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Another dance, another Dancing mishap for Kirstie Alley as she lost her shoe while waltzing with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Last week Chmerkovskiy dropped Alley after buckling under the strain of her immense figure.
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Twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, both played by Armie Hammer in The Social Network, have lost their challenge to pull out of a settlement deal with Facebook and continue litigation to get more of what they think is theirs. Don't shed any tears for Cam and Ty, though. Their original settlement, valued at $65M, is now worth more than $160M due to the soaring value of the privately held company.
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Rihanna wants to shoot a video with Britney Spears for their "S&M" remix so she can spank her. On "S&M" Britney sings, "If I'm bad, tie me down. Shut me up, gag and bound me/'Cause the pain is my pleasure/Nothing comes better." So it sounds like she'd be up for it too.
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BABY REPORT:
* Tori Spelling is pregnant with her third child with husband Dean McDermott.
* Benicio del Toro is expecting a child with former reality star Kimberly Stewart, who is Rod Stewart's daughter.
* Scarlett Johansson is either plumping out or showing a baby bump while on a jog with boyfriend Sean Penn.
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89 year-old Betty White has picked a catfight with 24 year-old Lindsay Lohan saying she "cannot stand" celebrities like LiLo and Charlie Sheen who "party too much, don't learn their lines, are unprofessional and they grumble about everything." Lohan has fired back, "It's just a bit strange when people feel they must speak publicly about others. Especially a grown woman."
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The LAPD has recovered Nicolas Cage's copy of the first-ever Superman comic, now valued at over $1.5M. Cage is not a suspect in the theft and said he wants it back, but will have to return the insurance claim cash. Despite being one of the hardest working men in show business, Cage has had recent financial troubles, with two of his houses falling into foreclosure.
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He still doesn't have his own MTV spinoff show, but Jersey Shore's Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino took a Ferrari F430 Spider out for a test drive. No word on whether Sitch purchased the $200K car.
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Illumination Entertainment has released the first image from its 3D CG-animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic children's story about corporate greed and environmental destruction, The Lorax. First published in 1971, The Lorax chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, a furry, diminutive advocate for the trees ("as the trees have no tongues") against the Once-ler, whose corporation is destroying the forests of Truffula Trees, starving the Bar-ba-Loots, choking the song from the Swomee Swans and poisoning the waters of the Humming Fish. It is told through the perspective of a young boy who goes in search of the Once-ler to try to find out why the world is so ugly. The movie will follow the opening of the book, with Zac Efron voicing a young boy named Ted (named after Dr. Seuss' real name, Theodor "Ted" Geisel) who searches for the Once-ler (Ed Helms, The Office) after his grandmother (Betty White) tells him how colorful the world used to be. Danny DeVito will lend his voice to the Lorax.
what did devito say about the Lorax and the environment? >> Posted 11.02.10 by BrentJS -
Actress Betty White seems to be everywhere these days. After a memorable appearance in The Proposal with Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, the 88-year-old actress became the subject of a Facebook campaign to have her host Saturday Night Live that generated nearly 500,000 members and actually resulted in her becoming the oldest host in SNL history. Since then, White has appeared in several commercials, awards shows and in the movie You Again, and she is even the subject of a comic book from Bluewater Productions. Now, White will "get jiggy wit' it" alongside Will Smith in Men in Black 3 (MIB3).
The news of White's addition to the movie came from Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, who was recently rumored to be joining the cast herself. Scherzinger revealed to E! Online that she and White have both signed on to appear in MIB3. Scherzinger said her character's name is Lilly and that it is a "small villain role" in which she says "a couple of lines" and then dies. She did not reveal what character White would be playing. The cast also includes Emma Thompson, Jemaine Clement and Josh Brolin. Other actors rumored to be joining the cast include Alec Baldwin, Gemma Arterton and Sharlto Copley.
Posted 10.31.10 by BrentJS