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Durable Oscar Winner Karl Malden Dies at 97
Originally posted 07/01/2009 04:25PM
Karl Malden, the bulbous-nosed character actor who won a Best Supporting Oscar for his role as Mitch, the guiless suitor of Blanche DuBois in the 1951 classic A Street Car Named Desire – a role he created on Broadway – and lent his particular brand of gravitas to American Express commercials in the 1980s, died Wednesday of natural causes in his Brentwood, Calif., home, his family announced. He was 97.
Born Malden Sekulovich to Czech and Siberian immigrants in Chicago, Malden barely spoke English as a child until the family moved to Gary, Indiana. He returned to the Windy City in the '30s and studied acting at the Goodman Theatre Dramatic School, before making his Broadway debut in 1940.
He would go on to star in more than 50 Hollywood films, often playing richly complex and often dark characters, while also making a mark on the small screen starting in 1972, on The Streets of San Francisco. He played a veteran police investigator who takes under his wing a young greenhorn, played by Michael Douglas.
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Permission Denied for Michael Jackson Burial at Neverland
Originally posted 07/01/2009 03:55PM
Michael Jackson will not be allowed to rest in peace at his beloved Neverland Ranch.
The singer's family, who wanted a funeral at Jackson's former home north of Santa Barbara, was not able to obtain a residential exemption required for a burial on private property.
"Contrary to previous news reports, the Jackson family is officially stating that there will be no public or private viewing at Neverland," says a Jackson family statement. "Plans are underway regarding a public memorial for Michael Jackson, and we will announce those plans shortly."
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Ryan O'Neal: Redmond Showing Strength and Resolve
Originally posted 07/01/2009 03:50PM
During the difficult days since Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer, Ryan O'Neal tells PEOPLE he has found comfort in connecting with his and Fawcett's only son, Redmond O'Neal.
"I'm so proud of Redmond and the strength and resolve he is showing since his mother's death," Ryan says.
Currently serving a jail sentence for violating his probation on drug charges, Redmond, 24, was allowed to attend Fawcett's funeral in Los Angeles Tuesday, where he served as a pallbearer with his father.
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Peter Facinelli Makes Good on Twitter Bet
Originally posted 07/01/2009 03:00PM
What connects Beyoncé's "Single Ladies," a grown man dancing down Hollywood Boulevard in a bikini, a line of vampire fans and a $10,000 donation to the Christopher Reeve Foundation?
Why, Twilight star Peter Facinelli's Twitter page, of course.
Facinelli signed autographs for free at the Affliction clothing store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles Tuesday as a give back to fans who helped him win a bet with his friend Rob DeFranco that he couldn't get 500,000 Twitter followers. "I kind of took this little bet, that was a silly little thing and I tried to make something positive out of it," Facinelli told PEOPLE.
The bet was initially started when DeFranco asked Facinelli if he could have Facinelli's on-set Twilight director's chair, which had Facinelli's name and the film's logo on it. Facinelli said "no" to his friend, but gave it away anyway after holding a free online drawing where fans around the country could register to win the unique item.
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Beyoncé's 'Fierce' Clothing Line Goes Back-to-School
Originally posted 07/01/2009 02:40PM
The collection's accessories, Tina Knowles reveals, "are really over the top"
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Hilary Duff Joins Gossip Girl
Originally posted 07/01/2009 02:00PM
The actress will play Jessica Szohr's famous roommate at New York University
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Jackson's Will Names Diana Ross as Backup Guardian
Originally posted 07/01/2009 01:05PM
The close, lifelong ties between Michael Jackson's and his friend Diana Ross are made dramatically clear in his 2002 will – he chose her to raise his three children if his mother is unable to do so.
The Jackson family matriarch Katherine Jackson, who is now watching the children, is named as the primary guardian, followed by Ross, 65, if Katherine dies or "is unwilling or unable" to act as guardian, according to the will, released Wednesday.
As for what Jackson leaves behind, a petition attached to the will values his estate at $500 million – nearly all of it "non-cash, non-liquid assets" in the form of a lucrative music catalog and "interests in various entities."
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Bradley Cooper and Renée Zellweger on a Date?
Originally posted 07/01/2009 12:55PM
That Bradley Cooper certainly gets around. Last weekend he was in Paris, where he fended off rumors about a possible relationship with Jennifer Aniston after they were seen together in New York.
Then, Tuesday night on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Hangover star, 34, was seen with Renée Zellweger, 40, at the Italian restaurant Antonucci.
"She didn't really eat much, but he ate," someone in the restaurant told PEOPLE, adding that the two looked like they were on a date. "They were very flirty. Either he's being very gentlemanly, 'cause that's the way he is, or they're dating. He paid. He pulled out her chair, that kind of stuff."
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Idol's Blake Lewis to Release Dance-Pop Album
Originally posted 07/01/2009 11:50AM
Heartbreak on Vinyl, due this fall, will be "filled with electro pop goodness," the season 6 contestant says
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Michael Jackson shatters Billboard records with remarkable sales' jumps following his death
Originally posted 07/01/2009 11:20AM
Source: Billboard
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Kendra Shares Her Honeymoon Playlist
Originally posted 07/01/2009 10:55AM
Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson might be off on a dreamy St. Lucia honeymoon with her new husband, NFL player Hank Baskett, but she is still taking time to contact her fans. Wednesday the former Girls Next Door star posted "My Honeymoon Playlist" on her Web site, letting everyone know that "there's no one music genre for a honeymoon."
She includes:
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