http://www.mail.com/subjects/100-celebrity.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/100-celebrity.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2107240-actress-bynes-arrested-nyc-marijuana-charge.html NEW YORK (AP) — Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. It happened at an apartment building on West 47th Street at about 7:40 p.m. Thursday. Police say a building official called police to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the building's lobby... Fri, 24 May 2013 06:09:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2107240-actress-bynes-arrested-nyc-marijuana-charge.html 2013-05-24T06:09:05Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2107246-6-wyeth-paintings-fetch-2m-nyc-auction.html NEW YORK (AP) — Six paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction. New Jersey businessman Eric Sambol sold the works by Andrew, Jamie and N.C. Wyeth at Christie's on Thursday. They included three by Andrew, two by Jamie, and one by N.C. The highlight of the sale was N.C. Wyeth's "Norry Seavey... Fri, 24 May 2013 05:02:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2107246-6-wyeth-paintings-fetch-2m-nyc-auction.html 2013-05-24T05:02:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2104686-nixon-library-hosts-reunion-vietnam-pows.html YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his captivity strapped to a concrete pallet ... Thu, 23 May 2013 23:55:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2104686-nixon-library-hosts-reunion-vietnam-pows.html 2013-05-23T23:55:20Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2106750-warrant-rapper-tim-dog-despite-death-reports.html JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February. The 46-year-old, whose real name is Timothy Blair, is best known for a 1990s song "F--- Compton" tha... Thu, 23 May 2013 23:06:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2106750-warrant-rapper-tim-dog-despite-death-reports.html 2013-05-23T23:06:29Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2106454-mary-j-blige-faces-34m-federal-tax-lien-nj.html HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — Mary J. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 million tax lien in New Jersey. Court documents show the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of a lien on the nine-time Grammy Award winner Feb. 7. That was two days before the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul was honored at a pre-Grammy party in Los Angeles. Blig... Thu, 23 May 2013 20:54:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2106454-mary-j-blige-faces-34m-federal-tax-lien-nj.html 2013-05-23T20:54:10Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2105448-jerry-lewis-repeats-distaste-female-comics.html CANNES, France (AP) — Ladies? Don't make him laugh. Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: "I don't have any." In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of wou... Thu, 23 May 2013 20:08:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2105448-jerry-lewis-repeats-distaste-female-comics.html 2013-05-23T20:08:30Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2106094-coen-guirgis-tap-atlantic-theater-company.html NEW YORK (AP) — The world premiere of Ethan Coen's first full-length stage play, a revival of "The Threepenny Opera" and a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis will highlight the Atlantic Theater Company's upcoming season. The company unveiled its slate of 2013-14 offerings Thursday, which also includes a stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's beloved short stor... Thu, 23 May 2013 18:33:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2106094-coen-guirgis-tap-atlantic-theater-company.html 2013-05-23T18:33:38Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2105264-cannes-crime-2nd-jewel-theft-film-festival.html PARIS (AP) — Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) — in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival. The De Grisogono jewelry house said Thursday that the necklace was stolen after a party for f... Thu, 23 May 2013 18:00:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2105264-cannes-crime-2nd-jewel-theft-film-festival.html 2013-05-23T18:00:59Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2096180-heard-cannes-film-festival.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. CANNES GIVES EBERT THUMBS UP Film critics and festival-goers congregated on the Cannes beach to raise their thumbs to the late critic Roger Ebert. The tribute Thursday followed a panel discussion about Ebert's impact on film criticism. Before his deat... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:20:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2096180-heard-cannes-film-festival.html 2013-05-23T17:20:48Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2105360-singer-nick-carter-to-release-memoir-sept-24.html NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Carter isn't only writing songs — he's written a book. The Backstreet Boys singer will release a memoir, "Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It," on Sept. 24 via Bird Street Books. The 33-year-old is the first in the group to release a book. The autobiography and self-help book will include stories about Carter's teenage years ... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:16:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2105360-singer-nick-carter-to-release-memoir-sept-24.html 2013-05-23T17:16:25Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2105340-lea-michele-book-scheduled-2014-release.html NEW YORK (AP) — Lea Michele has stories to share about the many auditions she has passed. The "Glee" actress has a deal with Harmony Books, a Random House Inc. imprint. Harmony Books announced Thursday that "Brunette Ambition" will come out in the spring of 2014. The publisher is billing the book as a combination memoir, style guide and advice book. ... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:05:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2105340-lea-michele-book-scheduled-2014-release.html 2013-05-23T17:05:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2105426-canada-businessmans-corruption-trial-cuba.html HAVANA (AP) — A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his import company, Tri-Star Caribbean, was shuttered. Sarkis Yacoubian arrived at an Interior Ministry courthouse in Havana in a black sedan with tinted windows, and was seen being escorted inside by t... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:53:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2105426-canada-businessmans-corruption-trial-cuba.html 2013-05-23T16:53:39Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2105050-russian-court-denies-pussy-riots-alekhina-parole.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith have sent, urging Russia's courts to free Maria Alekhina and the other Pussy Riot still in prison, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. In its ruling on Thursday... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:20:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2105050-russian-court-denies-pussy-riots-alekhina-parole.html 2013-05-23T15:20:38Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2105204-sorrentino-serves-up-cinema-banquet-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food — appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella (actor Toni Servillo). Sorrentino's camera takes viewers through ... Thu, 23 May 2013 13:56:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2105204-sorrentino-serves-up-cinema-banquet-cannes.html 2013-05-23T13:56:35Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2104698-debbie-reynolds-we-knew-liberace-was-gay.html BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother Frances. The Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy-nominated Reynolds didn't need to do any homework f... Thu, 23 May 2013 07:45:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2104698-debbie-reynolds-we-knew-liberace-was-gay.html 2013-05-23T07:45:51Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2104586-ocean-that-separates-us-european-fans.html Imagine Derek Jeter leading the New York Yankees off the field because opposing fans were yelling racial slurs and throwing bananas at his team. Or a game between the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls halted because of unrelenting race-baiting from the crowd. It's almost unfathomable to a U.S. sports fan, even with the country's long, wrenching and seemingly e... Thu, 23 May 2013 07:08:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2104586-ocean-that-separates-us-european-fans.html 2013-05-23T07:08:50Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103674-obama-honors-carole-king-white-house-concert.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, saluting Carole King's five decades as an award-winning singer-songwriter, said Wednesday that music often is a place where people seek comfort and inspiration during trying times. Two days after much of Moore, Okla., was flattened by a powerful tornado that killed 24 people, Obama pledged anew that the nation wil... Thu, 23 May 2013 01:55:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103674-obama-honors-carole-king-white-house-concert.html 2013-05-23T01:55:20Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2104172-emails-aeg-lawyer-called-jackson-freak.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for the parent company of AEG Live LLC called Michael Jackson a freak on the day the singer signed a multimillion contract for a series of ill-fated comeback concerts, emails displayed for a jury on Wednesday showed. The emails were presented by Brian Panish, an attorney for Jackson's mother in her lawsuit claiming AEG was negl... Thu, 23 May 2013 00:23:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2104172-emails-aeg-lawyer-called-jackson-freak.html 2013-05-23T00:23:31Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103958-arias-trial-tv-cameras.html PHOENIX (AP) — The Jodi Arias trial had all the ingredients of a circus the minute it started: sex and violence, a defendant more than willing to seek the spotlight, a judge who extended leniency in allowing lengthy testimony and cameras in court — and a media-savvy sheriff ready and willing to set up jailhouse interviews with his most famous inmate. The ... Wed, 22 May 2013 23:42:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103958-arias-trial-tv-cameras.html 2013-05-22T23:42:21Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2103610-cannes-scott-thomas-glorious-dip-darkness.html CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother. "That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, 'You're my mother's favorite actre... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:29:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2103610-cannes-scott-thomas-glorious-dip-darkness.html 2013-05-22T19:29:13Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103368-idol-winner-rolling-debut-album-july.html NEW YORK (AP) — Candice Glover spent more time on season 12 of "American Idol" than she will on creating her debut album. The 23-year-old, who won the Fox singing series last week after competing for four months, is set to release "Music Speaks" on July 16. Past "Idol" champs released their debut albums in the fall after winning the contest in the spring,... Wed, 22 May 2013 17:32:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103368-idol-winner-rolling-debut-album-july.html 2013-05-22T17:32:36Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103174-beatles-lyrics-headed-british-library.html LONDON (AP) — Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My Life." Although these three songs are legally credit... Wed, 22 May 2013 17:24:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103174-beatles-lyrics-headed-british-library.html 2013-05-22T17:24:24Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103140-blake-shelton-putting-together-okla-benefit.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Shelton and NBC are putting together a benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims. Shelton told reporters about the fundraising effort after Tuesday night's episode of "The Voice." Shelton, an Oklahoma native, paid tribute to the thousands affected by Sunday and Monday's tornadoes by performing an acoustic version of the hit "Over You" ... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:32:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2103140-blake-shelton-putting-together-okla-benefit.html 2013-05-22T16:32:03Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2103126-cannes-james-franco-builds-bookish-filmography.html CANNES, France (AP) — James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf — and a very respectable one, at that. The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") and Hart Crane ("The Broken Tower"). He recently finished directing an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" (having first flirted with doing McCart... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:11:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2103126-cannes-james-franco-builds-bookish-filmography.html 2013-05-22T16:11:45Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2101550-nick-jonas-giuliana-rancic-to-host-usa.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant will be hosted by a Jonas brother and an E! News personality. Pageant officials announced Tuesday that Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers pop act and Giuliana Rancic, co-anchor of "E! News," will host the June 16 pageant. The winner of the 62nd annual pageant in Las Vegas goes on to compete in the Miss Univer... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2101550-nick-jonas-giuliana-rancic-to-host-usa.html 2013-05-22T15:08:16Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2102354-monroes-photos-prague-exhibition-stolen.html PRAGUE (AP) — A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen. Alice Titzova of the PR agency 2media says the photos, stolen late Monday, were to be on display starting May 30 at the Prague Castle. Titzova says mannequins and display cases which were part of the exhibition also disappeared... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:40:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2102354-monroes-photos-prague-exhibition-stolen.html 2013-05-22T14:40:25Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2101774-aretha-franklin-taking-june-off-postponing.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aretha Franklin is taking off the month of June. A spokesman for the 71-year-old singer says Franklin will reschedule two shows and resume her touring schedule in July. Publicist David Brokaw provided no other details Tuesday. Franklin announced earlier this month that she would cancel scheduled performances in Chicago and Connecticut t... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:39:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2101774-aretha-franklin-taking-june-off-postponing.html 2013-05-22T14:39:35Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2102448-ryan-gosling-breaks-cannes-heart-misses-premiere.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling. The 32-year-old Canadian actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of director Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives." Gosling stars in the Bangkok noir about a boxing club owner pressured by his mother to his avenge h... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2102448-ryan-gosling-breaks-cannes-heart-misses-premiere.html 2013-05-22T14:06:40Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2102586-canet-seeks-gritty-york-blood-ties.html CANNES, France (AP) — The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter. At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties." "Every day," the director laughed during an interview at the Cann... Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2102586-canet-seeks-gritty-york-blood-ties.html 2013-05-22T12:06:03Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2099992-singer-kellie-pickler-named-dancing-champ.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kellie Pickler came into the final "Dancing With the Stars" episode in second place but finished in first. The 26-year-old country singer won the show's mirror ball trophy Tuesday. "This is amazing!" she beamed to her professional partner, Derek Hough. The pair earned two sets of perfect scores Monday night and another on Tuesday. Judge... Wed, 22 May 2013 03:48:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2099992-singer-kellie-pickler-named-dancing-champ.html 2013-05-22T03:48:21Z