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Celebrity Rundown
Hollywood is still responding to the death of actor Michael Clarke Duncan, who died over the weekend at the age of 54. Michael Bay, who cast the actor in his breakout role in Armageddon, wrote about meeting Duncan. "We found him in a gym. He cried at the first audition because he was so proud to audition for a 'Michael and Jerry movie,' he just wanted to make his mom proud. We gave him the role in the room." Tom Hanks, who starred alongside Duncan in his Oscar-nominated performance in The Green Mile released a statement. "I am terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike," Hanks said. "He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of The Green Mile. He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned." Duncan suffered a heart attack in July and according to reports "never fully recovered."
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— Russell Crowe was saved by the U.S. Coast Guard after getting lost kayaking.
— Green Day frontman Billy Joe Armstrong was rushed to the hospital for unknown reasons, forcing the band to cancel a concert performance.
— Minka Kelly is reportedly dating Captain America himself, Chris Evans
— And yet another royal flashes his family jewels.
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Posted 09.04.12 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Max Page, the 7-year-old star of the popular Volkswagen "Dark Vader" Super Bowl commercial, underwent open heart surgery to replace his pulmonary valve on Thursday at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. Doctors say the two-hour surgery went without a hitch and that Max is recovering "very well." He's expected to stay in the hospital for the next two weeks. In addition to the VW spot, Max has acting credits on The Young and the Restless and Prime Suspect. Max was born with the congenital heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot. His family is encouraging fans to make donations in his name to the hospital's Children's Fund.
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Despite crashing her rented Porsche into the back of a semi on the Pacific Coast Highway and despite her history of DUI, police did not collect a blood sample from Lindsay Lohan, reports RadarOnline. The actress did submit to a portable breathalyzer test along with other field sobriety tests, with police concluding she wasn't under the influence. Reportedly, the officers also told Lohan she's lucky to be alive and that her seat belt saved her life.
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Oprah Winfrey asked the question we've all been asking: Why did Kim Kardashian leave her marriage after just 72 days? Everyone will hear that answer when the interview with Kim and the entire Kardashian clan airs this weekend on Oprah's Next Chapter. On her Facebook page, Winfrey said Kim's answer "leveled me." Winfrey admits she has never met the Kardashians before or seen the show, but said she wants to know why this family has become a cultural phenomenon. Oprah, when you find out, let us know, OK? For those who can't wait, here's a preview of the interview.
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Katy Perry made a surprise appearance at the L.A. screening of her new 3-D concert movie, Katy Perry: Part of Me.***
There are rumors that Kourtney Kardashian has given birth to her second child after she posted a cryptic tweet — "Chick-fil-A and a water birth. No big deal."
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Miley Cryus is shooting down rumors she cheated on fiancé Liam Hemsworth with her best friend.
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Jake Gyllenhaal secretly hooked up with Minka Kelly after she broke up with Yankees slugger Derek Jeter.
Posted 06.15.12 by Chris -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stopped by the White House to meet with Barack and Michelle Obama so Jolie could talk to the prez about her work on preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence against women. Meanwhile, the First Couple have a busy movie-watching weekend lined up as they've requested a copy of the Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady and are also screening Red Tails with stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard in attendance.
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Ashton Kutcher is nearly unrecognizable after a haircut and shave, while Demi Moore is rumored to be dating 26-year-old personal trainer and model Blake Corl-Baietti.
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In other hair-related news, Robert Pattinson shaved off possibly Hollywood's most famous locks, but the shaved look did not work for Jake Gyllenhaal as he was reportedly rejected by Minka Kelly before reuniting with Derek Jeter.
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Casey Anthony now claims she may have gotten pregnant with daughter Caylee at a party in 2004 where she was date raped and "blacked out" after being served a spiked drink. Jose Baez, Anthony's attorney who helped the "Tot Mom" beat a murder rap, has decided to remove himself from her legal team after Anthony's odd video diaries surfaced last week.
Posted 01.12.12 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Ashton Kutcher attended Bill Clinton's Decade of Difference concert with his wedding ring but without wife Demi Moore, as a moving truck was spotted outside the couple's house days earlier. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga made everyone feel uncomfortable, singing Bad Romance to Bill and Hillary, telling the former president "I love you and your hot wife," and then dropping an F-bomb.
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Sources say Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lopez are "casually dating," but don't tell that to JLo as she shielded her face from paparazzi like she was doing a perp walk after the couple was spotted on a date Saturday night.
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Scarlett Johansson has hinted at the reasons her marriage to Ryan Reynolds may have failed, telling the German magazine GALA that she could be "overcritical - with myself and with other people. And I don't compromise... I pass judgment on people quite quickly."
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ABC has paved the way for Minka Kelly to reunite with Derek Jeter by cancelling Charlie's Angels. (Jeter's Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs two weeks ago.) Critics were harsh on the show — and Kelly in particular — with THR writing, "It’s beyond heinous. It contains some of the worst acting of the last decade on network television, much of it by Minka Kelly."
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Neal Schon dropped more than $10K on lingerie for "groupie slut" Michaele Salahi. The Journey guitarist bought her 42 bras and 38 panties at Rodeo Drive's La Perla boutique, totaling $10,496.55 (with tax).
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Finally, PBS's Seasame Street YouTube channel was hacked on Sunday with Bert and Ernie getting replaced by — you guessed it — porn.
Posted 10.17.11 by reelz -
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Minka Kelly and Derek Jeter have called it quits, ending their 3-year relationship. They're still friends, according to reps for both celebs. Before Jeter, Kelly had previously dated actors Chris Evans and Donald Faison, and singer John Mayer.
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Jim Carrey's creepy video love letter to Emma Stone crashed his web site yesterday, and when it was back online he took to Twitter to get even creepier, tweeting "www.jimcarreytrulife is back up! you may once again feast upon my #Boing! ?;^>" Dude, gross.
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Little House on the Prairie star Melissa Gilbert has filed for divorce from her husband of 16 years, actor Bruce Boxleitner. They had separated in January and now it's official.
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Kim Kardashian is arguably bigger than Jesus right now but she won't ever get a star on the Walk of Fame, at least according to the group's Facebook page which reads, "Someone asked if we give reality show characters stars? Hell to the No!”
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Speaking of Kardashian, she and husband Kris Humphries are on a mini-honeymoon in Amalfi, Italy, with Humphries demonstrating how to scream "American!" by donning a Minnesota Twins hat.
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Disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner is also in Amalfi with pregnant wife Huma Abedin. Maybe the two couples will run into each other.
Posted 08.26.11 by reelz -
Today's Challenge: The Rite and The Roommate are both released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time today. Can you find a movie link to connect Anthony Hopkins to Minka Kelly?
Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.
Play ClusterFlick >>
Posted 05.17.11 by reelz -
The Roommate is most notable for starring Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester, Parenthood's Minka Kelly, and Twilight's Cam Gigandet. It wasn't screened for critics, and in this case it turns out there's a good reason why. It stinks.
"...an all-too-familiar tale of a young woman increasingly terrorized by her psycho roomie."
— Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter"...(this) low-rent pic might occupy auds for a weekend, but won't evict Single White Female from its top-floor residence among psycho-roomie cinema."
— Rob Nelson, Variety"It's a lazy, bloodless, pointless, boring piece of work, lacking even the conviction to deliver a little cheap exploitation."
— Scott Tobias, Onion AV Club"...in terms of actual suspense, The Roommate telegraphs every dull twist and turn to the point that its harried set pieces feel like parodic recreations of clichéd genre scenarios..."
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While some may say that Sony Screen Gems' upcoming thriller The Roommate is a horror and thriller that sounds like Single White Female set in a college dormitory, we argue that the movie sounds more like Singel White Female 2: The Psycho set in a college dormitory. See for yourself below as the first trailer finds college freshman Sara (Minka Kelly) meeting her new roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) who begins to target the people in Sara's life, including her boyfriend (Cam Gigandet).