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John J. O'Connor, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died at 79. The former attorney had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1990, but made headlines two years ago when it was revealed he had a girlfriend at the assisted living home where he was living out his days-- and that his wife was okay with it.O'Connor's son revealed he'd struck up a romance with a woman

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It took most of the mainstream media about three days to catch up with our report on Friday that Joe Perry was claiming that Steven Tyler had quit Aerosmith, but as soon as they did catch up, Steven Tyler that came out and denied it.He walked onstage at the Fillmore in New York where The Joe Perry Project (with bassist and Aerosmith fill-in player David Hull) was performing and announced:"I just

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November 11, 1999New York Post Neal Travis’ New York INTERVIEW TAB-LED WHILE network news organizations have adopted many tabloid-TV practices, they don't like to admit it - and certainly don't want anyone getting air time to talk about the way standards have changed. Burt Kearns, in town to launch his book, "Tabloid Baby," just learned the power of establishment television.Kearns was

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The New York Times solicited readers' photos and recollections of the fall of The Berlin Wall. Among them was the encapsulation of the groundbreaking and singular tabloid television coverage by the producers and host of A Current Affair, as recounted in the book Tabloid Baby:"Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin — On the night of Thursday, Nov. 9, a contingent of producers and correspondents from A

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"Thursday, November 9, 1989, was a pretty rough day. I went home without hitting the bar, ordered some Japanese food from Obento Delight around the corner and was settling in to watch some television when the phone rang. It was Wayne."'Get down to the Fortune Garden, mate. They're tearin' down the Berlin Wall! Communism's over and the place is going fackin' nuts...'"That night, a group of

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A year after the election of Barack Obama, Disneyland officially inaugurated its first black princess with the debut of Tiana's Showboat Jubilee! starring Princess Tiana from the new animated feature, The Princess and The Frog.Singing and dancing and performing from the Mark Twain riverboat along the Rivers of America and culminating in a second line march into New Orleans Square, the spectacle

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Talented, troubled sometime actress Lindsay Lohan or her people are on a Twitter campaign against her very estranged father who's gone out on a perilous limb withhis own campaign claiming she needs some help. This is Lindsay less than 48 hours ago. Yeah, she's doing just fine. Oh, yeah.

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Joe Perry says Steven Tyler has quit Aerosmith.Just this morning, we were watching a CNN clip about Aerosmith's performance in Abu Dhabi and noticed that Perry and Tyler were interviewed separately, Tyler alongside his new partner in crime, Tabloid Baby pal Mark Hudson. Perry says the Abu Dhabi show was the band's last, and that he learned of Tyler's decision "online" but hasn't been able to

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What is with the British and their insults to their greatest comedian, Benny Hill? It's bad enough that during his life, Benny's ITV series was canceled because it wasn't "politically correct," but twenty years later, they're denying him an honor for the same reason.Great Britain's Royal Mail service has rejected a stamp honoring Benny Hill to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ITV.The series

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So Lindsay Lohan has the mainstream gossip media on her side this morning, as she or her people take to Twitter to attack her father Michael after he released her private voicemail recordings and went frighteningly public with his concerns about not only her health but her life.Word is that Lindsay is seeking a restraining order to keep him away and stop him from forcibly tossing her into a rehab

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Look what we woke up to in the Daily Mail. Mariah Carey, Lady GaGa, Britney Spears and Diana Ross. The fact that they represent four generations of female pop superstar and the sheer volume of tragedy make it worth pointing out.

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Mickey Mouse is getting a cynical and potentially dangerous makeover from Walt Disney's successors, as they fear the iconic beloved symbol of childhood innocence is more of a corporate symbol than beloved character to a generation raised on the Disney Channel.The New York Times reports on two parallel efforts within the Walt Disney Compamy organization to make Mickey Mouse more Miley Cyrus. The

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The first installment of Pink Slip, the new romantic comedy webisode series, made a splash when it hit YouTube, but the real buzz started after it was spread around on Facebook. Set in L.A. and focusing on what folks do when they're out of work-- pink slipped-- and broke, it struck a chord with viewers, and part two, which injects some real Bosom Buddies-Some Like It Hot comedy, is bound to

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Add the Los Angeles Times to the mainstream media outlets that leave the most colorful part of a great person’s life out of the story. The LA Times is a couple of days behind the New York Times in reporting the death at 103 of John Kenley, the Ohio summer stock theatre impresario known for casting television and movie stars including Burt Reynolds, Mae West, William Shatner and Joe Namath in

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It was a shock to fans of Danny Gans that the first hometown review of his posthumous autobiography was a detailed rebuttal from an entertainment columnist who claimed that "though I'm not named," he was the target of a chapter in The Voices In My Head that took aim at a jaded, sleazy, dishonest show biz writer.Mike Weatherford (left) of the Las Vegas Review-Journal (a paper that's owned--

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In the Las Vegas news media’s first examination of Danny Gans’ posthumous autobiography, a veteran newspaper columnist is challenging the accuracy of the book, blasting it as a "grudge" and the attacking abilities of Gans’ co-author.Las Vegas Review-Journal entertainment columnist Mike Weatherford's scathing column and supporting blogpost appears today-- on the six-month anniversary of Gans’

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If Wikipedia and other sources are to be believed, the New York Times left some very colorful-- and essential facts out of its obituary for Midwest theatre impresario John Kenley.The Times notes that Kenley, who died October 23rd at an astonishing 103, made his name "taking large-scale productions to small towns and cities and festooning the shows with headliners like Mae West, Gloria Swanson and

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We've written extensively in the past few years about the rock 'n' roll star resurgence of Seventies hometown hero David Hull as he's filled in for the ailing bass player Tom Hamilton on various Aeorsmith tours. Now that injuries and other maladies have led to an Aerosmith hiatus, guitarist Joe Perry has resurrected his Joe Perry Project. David Hull was the bassist with the the Project the

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A week after what would have been Danny Gans' 53rd birthday, the philanthropy and charitable work of the late Las Vegas superstar will be live on and be celebrated over three days with a golf clinic, pro-am tournament poker tournament and silent auction.The Danny Gans Partee for Kids benefits First Tee of Southern Nevada and the Danny Gans Junior Golf Academy, organizations that help kids throuh

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Las Vegas superstar Danny Gans' birthday went unmentioned in Las Vegas over the weekend. The musicial impressionist who died May 1st from an overdose of Dilaudid would have been 53 years old. Gans' spirit did hang over the city on Saturday, October 25th. As we'd reported, the coauthor of Gans' autobiography conducted his first official book signing at a Las Vegas shopping mall, and tickets

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True, they may be a pair of Spaldeens glued to a fishstick, but a couple of fake new breasts seem to have helped Amy Winehouse find her way back, if unsteadily, from what seemed to be certain destruction...Egotastic

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An eventful year for comedy genius John Cleese (right) has gotten even more lively as he turns seventy years old today. Cleese is also marking the fortieth anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, featured in a monster documentary package, performing his solo show "divorce tour" and awaiting the release of The Seventh Python, the Neil Innes biopic from our pals at Frozen Pictures, in which

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Danny Gans' co-author RG Ryan signs copies of the Gans autobiography The Voices In My Head at a Borders bookstore in the Las Vegas Town Square shopping center Saturday, the day Garth Brooks sold out the first twenty of his solo shows at Gans' former theatre on the Las Vegas Strip.Amazon.com is very slow in getting out copies of Gans' books. Ours is promised for delivery in mid-November.Photo:

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It took a day, but as a result of our insistence, editors at the Los Angeles Times have presented an accurate visual presentation of Roman Polanski in its website promotion of a feature story that recounts the sordid, explicit details of his 13-year-old rape victim's grand jury testimony.Tabloid Baby was the first to direct readers to the girl's graphic grand jury testimony, on the day Polanski

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