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Billionaire clown Guy Laliberte, founder of the globally famous Cirque du Soleil, is aboard the Russian Soyuz capsule headed for the Space Station to promote awareness of the planet’s water shortage problems.
“I am not a scientist, I’m not a doctor, I’m not an engineer,” he said. “I’m an organizer, a showman, and a creator – [...]

I met Roman Polanski in 1977, when I was 13 years old. I was in ninth grade that year, when he told my mother that he wanted to shoot pictures of me for a French magazine. That’s what he said, but instead, after shooting pictures of me at Jack Nicholson’s house on Mulholland Drive, he [...]

Must be the hair! Or the sex face!

“Letters to the President” is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the process of how those ten letters make it to the President’s desk from among the tens of thousands of letters, faxes, and e-mails that flood the White House each day.

Jake Lloyd played Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1. Now, 10 frigging years later, Jake is a 20-year-old walking specimen of the irreversibly scarred.
“It’s been part of my life for the last 10 years, so… [holding knees and rocking back and forth]  High school, they wouldn’t let it go.  You know how they [...]

Now that the King of Pop is dead, what better way to remember him by than looking at the people making a living out of him, and the animal spoofs, and the awesome pranks. You know, all the collateral damage. Remember when those schoolkids were so freaked out? Yeah, that was fun.

If you’re a Clint Eastwood fan, you might like to know “awesome” stuff about Clint, like how he has directed more movies than Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and that he’s actually allergic to them horses.
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Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, is undergoing a sex change, Usmagazine.com has learned.
Chastity, who is transitioning from female to male, began the process earlier this year after turning 40 March 4.
“Yes, it’s true — Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his true identity,” [...]

Probably one of the best Christopher Walken impersonations ever yanked off the youtubes.
BTW, twitter!

In August 1950, LIFE photographer Ed Clark took photos of what he had been told was a “hot tomato”  in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. Of course, the “hot tomato” would later be known as Marilyn Monroe, but these pics are seeing the light of day for the first time.

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“People always used to say they were afraid of me and I wondered, ‘Why? What are you afraid of? Why would people be scared of me?’ Watching the film tonight I realized that I’m scared of that guy.”
– Mike Tyson, on James Toback’s new film about him, also called Tyson.

Probably some of the awesomest/weirdest items from Michael Jackson’s auction.

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Sure, celebrities get engaged, married and divorced all the freaking time. But at least somebody painstakingly calculated how many starving African kids could be fed for a year by celebrities’ engagement rings.

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An artist’s rendering of Madonna, endorsing adult diapers, in that hot, sunshiny future. Not at all impossible.

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Consider, for instance, the delicate pinkie.

Woody Harrelson’s zombie invasion readiness may be well laudable, but this might be too “premature”:
“I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,” Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.
“With my daughter at the airport I [...]

One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? Who the f**k made that [...]