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Hugh Laurie gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame B
ritish actor Hugh Laurie, best known for playing a cantankerous doctor in the TV series ‘House’, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. Laurie, 57, was already well-known in Britain in the late 1980s for his role in the comedy series ‘Blackadder’, and ‘A Bit of Fry and Laurie’ with his friend and former comedy partner Stephen Fry. He crossed the Atlantic in 2004 to play Gregory House in the eight-year Fox TV series, twice winning the Golden Globe award for best actor in a TV drama. “I have lost count of the number of times, the number of young people I’ve met who are either studying or practicing medicine because they saw ‘House’,” Laurie said at the ceremony in Los Angeles. “There are physicians today saving lives, delivering babies and lancing boils because their imagination was ignited by stories and ideas and possibilities that they might not otherwise
have considered,” he said. Laurie currently stars in Hulu’s thriller TV series ‘Chance’, playing a forensic neuropsychiatrist. Fry, who met Laurie while studying at the University of Cambridge in England, poked fun at his friend during the ceremony. “It is the tradition in this marvelous town to reward stars by bringing them down to earth, so far down to earth that now Hugh will spend eternity having chewing gum and dog poo trodden into him and very likely worse,” Fry told the crowd. “The world was at its feet and now the world’s feet are at him,” he added. The Hollywood Walk of Fame said on its website that Laurie received the 2,593rd star on the renowned Hollywood Boulevard.
Kevin Curran, Emmy winner and longtime ‘Simpsons’ writer, dies at 59
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Intruder at supermodel’s California mansion charged
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n Australian man who jumped the fence at supermodel Miranda Kerr’s Malibu home and allegedly stabbed her security guard was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, prosecutors said. Shaun Haywood, 29, faces further felony counts of aggravated mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon, according to Los Angeles County district attorney Jackie Lacey. Haywood allegedly broke into the Australian model’s ranch on October 14 in an effort to deliver a letter. When confronted by a security guard, the defendant is said to have grabbed the guard’s knife and slashed his face, prosecutors said. The guard then shot Haywood. Both the intruder and the security guard were flown to hospital and were left with serious
but non-life-threatening injuries. Haywood was set to be arraigned on Tuesday with the prosecutor’s office recommending bail be set at more than $1 million. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in state prison. Kerr, 33, married Hollywood star Orlando Bloom in 2010 and gave birth to the couple’s child the following year. However three years later Bloom and Kerr announced that they were separating. Neither Kerr nor the boy were at home at the time, according to LA County sheriff’s deputies. Australian media reported however that she “no longer feels safe in the house” and is planning to return to Sydney.
evin Curran, a veteran comedy writer who spent 15 years on “The Simpsons,” died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 59. Curran graduated from Harvard College in 1979, where he served as an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. While at Harvard, Curran met Al Jean, who would go on to become the showrunner of Fox’s “The Simpsons.” Curran had been on staff at “The Simpsons” since 2001, most recently serving as co-executive producer. “He was one of the funniest guys I ever met,” Jean said. “He also had one of the sweetest, biggest hearts. He really was a terrific guy.” Notable episodes Curran wrote for “The Simpsons” include “Don’t Fear the Roofer” (2005) and “I’m Spelling as Fast as I Can” (2003). He conceived the idea and cowrote the 2002 “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween episode “The Island of Dr Hibbert.” Curran won three Emmy Awards during his tenure on the show. In addition, Curran won three consecutive Emmys from 1985-87 as part of the writing team on NBC’s “Late Night With David Letterman.” In the 1990s, he worked on Fox’s “Married With Children” and was also an executive producer of the WB Network’s “Unhappily Ever After” alongside “Married With Children” creator Ron Leavitt. Curran’s other TV credits included the short-lived ABC comedy “The Good Life.” Curran is survived by a son and a daughter that he had with his former partner, author Helen Fielding. Friends and former colleagues took to social media to pay tribute to Curran.
Tom Cruise credits his success to Scientology
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Costner takes Chinese Financier to court Over ‘Shanghai Sojourners’ ousting
he 54-year-old actor has over 50 films under his belt and still has producers queuing up to snag him for their forthcoming movies but he’s convinced he wouldn’t be where he is today if he hadn’t taken up the “beautiful” religion - a body of beliefs and practices created in 1954 by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard - three decades ago. Speaking to ITV News about the controversial organization, Tom - who rarely comments on his religious beliefs - said: “It’s something that has helped me incredibly in my life; I’ve been a Scientologist for over 30 years. It’s something, you know, without it, I wouldn’t be where I am. So it’s a beautiful religion. I’m incredibly proud.” The ‘Mission: Impossible’ star - who is the most famous star to follow the organization - believes the methods developed by Hubbard have helped him overcome his dyslexia. He said seven years ago of his literacy struggles at school: “I asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom. When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate.” Tom was first introduced to the church by his first wife Mimi Rogers, whom he was married to from 1987 until 1990, while he was still trying to make it as a global star. He then went on to wed
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evin Costner filed suit on Tuesday against Kylin Pictures, accusing the Chinese financier of firing him from the film “Shanghai Sojourners” in breach of their contract. Costner signed on in April to produce the film, a historical romance set amid the Japanese occupation of China. Costner and his production company, Treehouse Films, hired a writer to rewrite the screenplay. Costner himself then rewrote the draft, and had completed 104 pages when he was told to stop working, according to the suit. Kylin Pictures told Costner that he was no longer wanted on the project on Aug. 29, according to the suit. Costner had been promised $3 million to produce the film. Treehouse Films was promised another $1 million. Costner received only $150,000. Though Kylin had used Costner’s name to promote the film at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June, Costner alleges that the company had already decided to fire him. Kylin did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
Nicole Kidman, with whom he adopted two children Isabella and Conor, but they later divorced in 2001 following 11 years of marriage. Tom began dating Katie Holmes in 2005 and welcomed their daughter Suri, now 10, into the world in April 2006. They tied the knot over a year later in Italy and the head of Scientology David Miscavige served as the actor’s best man at the wedding. After six years of marriage, Katie filed for divorce - the details of which have remained sealed under New York law from Tom and it’s believed he hasn’t seen their daughter in public for three years after he was spotted taking to her to Disneyland in 2013. Tom is one of the highest-ranking Scientologists has been hailed by leaders of the faith as the “chosen one” who will spread the word of the religion. The bizarre sci-fi cult’s founder Hubbard claimed that billions of extra-terrestrial beings were sent to Earth by Xenu - the dictator of the ‘Galactic Confederacy’, comprised of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth - who gathered them around volcanoes and then destroyed the aliens with hydrogen bombs. The aliens’ souls attached themselves to chosen humans, known as thetans, who will be one day be saved from their life of spiritual harm.-Agencies
If there’s a ‘Splash’ remake, Tom Hanks wants in on it
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om Hanks wants in on Channing Tatum’s gender-swapped remake of his 1984 mermaid romantic comedy “Splash.” Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are developing a new take on the film with Tatum starring as a mer-man in the part originated by Daryl Hannah. “No one asked me. I am all in favor of it,” said Hanks, who played Allen Bauer in the original film. “Why not? That’s fine. Look, I think if they were really going to be bold, I would come back as Allen Bauer, and I would go off with Channing Tatum. That would be a bold movie. And I am suggesting it right now.” Howard directed the original based off Grazer’s idea and said he laughed when pitched the remake idea by Tatum and Jillian Bell, who would play the role originated by Hanks. “I mean look, it’s a bit of an experiment. So we are just going to have to see how the screenplay comes together,” Howard said at the “Inferno” premiere in Los Angeles on Tuesday. “We’ll see. But it will be a lot of fun even as we’re just working on it.” The “Splash” project comes amid a rush of gender-swapped remakes and reboots of popular older movies-including this summer’s “Ghostbusters,” an indevelopment all-women “Ocean’s 11” and more.
Liam Gallagher: Noel’s not only talented member of Oasis
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iam Gallagher says the biggest myth about Oasis is that his brother Noel Gallagher has more talent than him. The 44-year-old singer and his 49-year-old sibling have gone their separate ways since their group disbanded in 2009 following a huge backstage bust-up between before a concert in Paris, France. Since the demise of the ‘Cigarettes and Alcohol’ rockers, Noel has gone on to release two solo albums, while Liam made two records with new band Beady Eye and his currently recording his own solo LP and although Noel wrote the majority of Oasis’ biggest hits the outspoken frontman insists the key to their success was the dynamic between them both. Asked what the biggest misconception about Oasis is in an interview with DorkShelf.com, Liam answered: “I don’t know ... I think we wore our hearts on our sleeve. I guess there’s one that Noel’s the talented one and I’m not. That’s a big one.” This year, Liam and Noel revisited the band’s beginnings in Manchester and journey to their mammoth open-air concerts at Knebworth in 1996 which were attended by 250,000 fans for documentary film ‘Supersonic’ - directed by Mat Whitecross. The ‘I’m Outta Time’ songwriter enjoyed looking back but has admitted he doesn’t own any souvenirs or mementos from the band’s career, preferring to collect items owned by
his musical heroes. He said: “Oasis stuff? Nah. I’ve got loads of Beatles stuff, Jimi Hendrix, got loads of Bob Marley s**t, pictures, stuff like that.” Liam also confirmed he still owns a set of beads that were owned by his idol John Lennon that Noel bought him as a birthday present and claimed he had lost after wearing them on a night out. The ‘Some Might Say’ singer revealed: “I’ve still got them. They were beads that he wore when he met the Maharishi. They were in a glass case like what you get platinum albums in, I thought that man they’re not staying in there, so I smashed it open and put ‘em around me neck.”
Cher saves jewelry designer Rodkin after hair catches alight
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her “saved” jewelry designer Loree Rodkin’s life after her hair caught on fire. The 70-year-old singer has admitted she came to the rescue when the Chicago-born entrepreneur’s hair went up in flames after she walked past a burning candle at her scented jewelry party. The ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ hitmaker announced the news via social media on yesterday. She tweeted: “Well Loree’s party was giant Success...&..I SAVED HER LIFE “SHE WAS IN FRONT OF ME,WALKED PAST CANDLE..& HER HAIR WENT UP [in flames] I PUT IT OUT (sic).” And the businesswoman - who has designed accessories for Michelle Obama, Mary J. Blige, Steven Tyler and Madonna - has thanked the brunette beauty and her other guests, including Dita Von Teese for attending the By Kilian launch, although she failed to mention her mishap during the evening. Alongside a photo of Loree with Cher and two other guests, which was shared to the fashion mogul’s Instagram account, it read: “Tonight’s crew for @bykilianlaunch of our scented jewelry collaboration#diamondsandper-
fumeareagirlsbestfriend #loreerodkinjewelry #cher#oliviaharrison #marjoriebach#barbarabach #rumerwillis@pauletteakapauly @loreerodkin@laurielynnstark @cher thank you to@Melanie Griffith @ditavonteese Victoria jackson @chachawinchester@moonstarrs @rosarugosa25 for being the girls that u are and coming out for our dinner xoxo (sic).” Meanwhile, Cher is set to perform a series of concerts in Las Vegas and across the US next year, and has admitted she wants to pursue her music career whilst her “voice is still really good”, although she isn’t a fan of herself. Speaking previously about her forthcoming gigs, she said: “I didn’t want to be finished. I didn’t want to be through with singing, and I knew that this would probably be the last time. My voice is still really good. “I’m still active and running around. I can still fit into my costumes. I thought that this is probably ... it’s now or never. “I’ve never really been in love with Cher. She’s all right, but it’s like, I’m not a huge fan. I’m not a Cher fan.”