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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown: Fast Friday Edition
Pink had a baby girl.
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Sean Penn and Scarlett Johansson have split.
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It's rumored Cameron Diaz and Alex Rodriguez have too.
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Camille Grammer is fighting back against ex-husband Kelsey and filing her own papers for their children's custody.
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Shia LaBeouf tells the Los Angeles Times why Megan Fox is not in Transformers 3 — "Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael [Bay], who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women."
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Fox replacement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley tells Elle that she's taking acting classes, less than four weeks before Transformers 3 hits theaters.
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Octomom Nadya Suleman is having a bikini car wash in hopes of saving her house from foreclosure.
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A day after Shaquille O'Neal announced his retirement from the NBA, he hinted he's been offered a job at ESPN.
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U2 front man Bono was hitchhiking in Vancouver and got a ride from NHL player Gilbert Brule and his girlfriend.
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A 17-year-old Chinese boy donated a kidney so he could buy an iPad 2.
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ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Lindsay Lohan turned herself in for 35 days of house arrest at her Venice, CA, townhouse, and looked pretty happy about it.
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E! Online strongly suggests January Jones's baby daddy is X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn, but lawyers for Vaughn and wife Claudia Schiffer call it an "absolute lie." Either way, first images of Jones as Emma Frost in lingerie have emerged.
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Charlie Sheen has put his Beverly Hill mansion, dubbed the "Sober Valley Lodge," up for sale for $7.2M. One interested buyer is YouPorn.com, who hopes to fulfill Sheen's dream of turning his pad into a porn palace by moving in several porn stars to live at the mansion. The offer is lowball — $4.5M — but it's all cash and Sheen can hang out at the porn compound all he wants.
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The nude dress the Duchess of Cambridge wore to meet the Obamas has sold out worldwide and crashed retailer Reiss's website, which apologizes for the disruption.
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The L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services has closed the case on the investigation of Mariah Carey after an anonymous caller claimed there was drug and alcohol use in her hospital room. Carey drank a Guiness after birth per a hospital staffer's advice.
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Justin Biber and Selena Gomez look like they're on a honeymoon on their unsupervised vacation in Maui, Hawaii.
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Amy Winehouse is back in rehab.
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Bono and Mariah Shriver had lunch.
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While Jersey Shore shoots in Florence, Italy, Snooki is giving new meaning to the term "Ugly American."
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Despite an estimated $60 million budget, the effort of director Julie Taymor, and the music of U2's Bono and The Edge, the Broadway musicalSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark experienced a few hiccups during its first preview on Sunday. THR reports that the show "ran over three-and-a-half hours" and "stopped at least five times times as actors dangled from cables with flying tricks gone wrong."
However, like any good piece of the theater, the show must go on. "There will be no delays in performance schedule," a spokesman for the show revealed to THR. "Previews will continue as planned."
This is good news for fans of comic book musicals (1966's It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman anyone?), and U2 fans wondering what Bono and The Edge have done with the music. The two musicians told MTV that there are many similarities between the Irish rockers and the fictional superhero despite growing up in different countries, they all share "fairly humble origins."
the edge is peter parker, Bono is the green goblin >> Posted 11.30.10 by Ryan -
Spider-Man on Broadway? What is the world coming to? That's the reaction many people had when they first heard about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the upcoming rock musical from award-winning stage and screen director Julie Taymor (Titus, Across the Universe). With a cast of classic characters ripped from the pages of Marvel's Spider-Man comic books, an estimated $60 million budget, and music and lyrics from U2's Bono and The Edge, Turn Off the Dark is sure to be unlike anything seen on stage before.
watch the the spot >> Posted 11.28.10 by BrentJS -
The list of celebrities scheduled for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief continues to grow. Recent additions to the actors there to present include Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Nicole Kidman. Today, MTV announced that President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Robert Pattinson, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, and Muhammad Ali have also signed on.
Additionally, Madonna will perform live from New York and Haitian artist Emeline Michel in Los Angeles. They join a lineup of musical performers that includes Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Sting, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.
Proceeds from the George Clooney–organized telethon will be split evenly between The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, United Nations World Food Programme, Oxfam America, Partners in Health, The Red Cross, UNICEF, and the Yele Haiti Foundation.
The Hope for Haiti Now telethon airs Friday at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT on ReelzChannel, followed by an encore showing at 11 PM ET / 8 PM PT. Get details about the telethon and our special editions of Hollywood Dailies.
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Even though he's riding high on a professional wave of success following Taken, with upcoming appearances in potential blockbuster movies like Clash of the Titans and The A-Team, actor Liam Neeson still has time to pay tribute to his roots by performing in a low-budget movie about an Irish "show band" singer called The Virgin of Las Vegas.
The Virgin takes place before television, when cover bands were wildly popular. Neeson plays an aging alcoholic performer working in Las Vegas whose life changes "following the arrival of a mysterious stranger."
No strangers to the music scene are two of the Irishmen behind the project: U2's Bono is producing the movie from a script by Horslips' Barry Devlin, with a production budget of only $14 million.
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Variety reports that Liam Neeson has signed to star in The Virgin of Las Vegas, which recalls the phenomenon of Irish show bands. In the days before television became widespread, many Irish would go to live venues to see singers cover early rock and roll songs. The bands become increasingly popular in Ireland beginning in the 1950s and evenutally amassed large followings across the country.
This movie will see Neeson as an aging show band performer who has moved to Las Vegas and spends his days in a drunken haze until a mysterious stranger arrives to change his fortunes. The script is being penned by Barry Devlin, who also wrote A Man of No Importance, which tells the story of a gay Irish bus driver with a passion for Oscar Wilde plays. The connection, of course, is a maladjusted Irishman who finds redemption in the arts.
Although no other casting decisions have been announced, the movie does have another big name attached to it: U2 frontman Bono is acting as one of the producers. No other casting decisions have been announced, and the movie does not yet have a specific release date.
Posted 09.04.09 by reelz