Celebrities

09/18/2007 -- Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen is urging communities across the state to celebrate the benefits of books for young children during the second annual Imagination Library Week in Tennessee. Bredesen proclaimed Sept. 16-22 as Imagination Library Week, which is full of events aimed at boosting enrollment and community support across the state.    » read more »

17 September 2007 -- Police in the U.S. resort city of Las Vegas, have arrested former football star O. J. Simpson and are preparing to charge him in connection with an alleged armed robbery.

Police said Sunday that Simpson faces charges including robbery with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon. A judge has ordered Simpson held without bail.    » read more »

11 September 2007, Washington (By Rebecca Ward) -- She may be best known as the plump, supposedly plain, Irish teenager in the 1995 movie Circle of Friends. But Minnie Driver has played everything from a Russian country-western singer in the Bond film GoldenEye to a heart-transplant patient in the sentimental romantic comedy Return to Me. Now, Minnie Driver is starring onstage as – herself. VOA's Rebecca Ward explains.    » read more »

Live Online Video and Blog Commentary Begins Emmy Night, September 16 at 5 PM*

- New VH1 Special 'All Access: Britney's Most Shocking Year Ever' Premieres Tuesday, September 11 at 8:30 PM ET/PT
- Special Includes Clips from Her Now Historic Performance on Last Night's MTV Video Music Awards

06 September 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- A judge has sided with Jennifer Lopez in the star's lawsuit against her first husband, Ojani Noa.

In a September 5 decision, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael C. Solner approved a $545,000 arbitration award for Jennifer Lopez.

The 38-year-old singer-actress was suing Noa, who intended to write a tell-all book about their relationship. Solner also issued a permanent injunction barring Ojani Noa from publishing negative, denigrating, or disparaging details about Jennifer Lopez.    » read more »

Italian Opera Tenor Dead at 71

05 September 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- Halle Berry is three months pregnant with her first baby. In a September 4 e-mail to Access Hollywood, the Oscar-winning actress confirmed she is expecting a child with her boyfriend, French-Canadian model Gabriel Aubry.

"Yes, I am three months pregnant! Gabriel and I are beyond excited, and I've waited a long time for this moment in life," Halle Berry wrote. "Now the next seven months will be the longest of my life!"    » read more »

Elvis to Eminem: quantifying the price of fame through early mortality of European and North American rock and pop stars

3-Sep-2007 -- Rock and pop stars are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to die an early death, and within a few years of becoming famous, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

The findings are based on more than 1050 North American and European musicians and singers who shot to fame between 1956 and 1999.    » read more »

Style Icon Victoria Beckham To Guest Star On ABC's "Ugly Betty"

Thursday, August 30, 2007 -- Victoria Beckham -- style icon and Spice Girl - will pay a visit to ABC's award-winning comedy "Ugly Betty" in an episode to film this fall. She will play herself, a celebrity bridesmaid at the wedding of the millennium: Wilhelmina Slater's (Vanessa Williams) nuptials to publishing mogul Bradford Meade (Alan Dale). Who knows what will happen when "bridezilla" Wilhelmina takes that march down the aisle, especially with "Posh Spice" leading the way?    » read more »

- First Viewer-Inspired Remix Through MTV.com
- First Simulcast Through MTV Mobile on Sprint TV
- First Awards Show Ever Recreated Virtually
- First VOD Instant Updates

30 August 2007 (By Ray McDonald) -- Pop Singer El DeBarge was arrested August 26 for investigation of domestic violence. The 46-year-old pop singer - real name Eldra DeBarge - was arrested in Lancaster, California, said Deputy Eric Eitner of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Details surrounding the arrest were not released.    » read more »

30 August 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- Bobby Brown has filed a lawsuit claiming his ex-wife Whitney Houston is keeping him from seeing their teenage daughter.

In a suit filed last week in Orange County, California Superior Court, the R & B singer said "I have not seen or spoken to my daughter since early June and I have no prospect of speaking to her anytime soon due to Whitney's actions."

Bobby Brown has been trying to overturn a judicial decision to nullify the couple's marriage and grant Whitney Houston sole custody of 14-year-old Bobbi Kristina.    » read more »

30 August 2007, Washington (By Ray McDonald) -- The Malawi welfare official tasked with assessing Madonna's fitness to adopt a young African boy will next week visit her London home.

Director Penston Kilembe canceled a visit in May, the first of two court-ordered trips to check on the singer's suitability to adopt David Banda.

A dispute reportedly arose over Madonna possibly paying his expenses for the trip.    » read more »

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