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Thursday, 25 April 2013
Topless Kate photos charges filed
French authorities filed charges against a magazine publisher who distributed -- and a photographer who allegedly took -- the photos of a topless Kate Middleton last September.
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| Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, cheers on Great Britain's
entries in the Men's Pommel Horse Apparatus Finals at the North
Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Summer Olympics in Greenwich,
London on August 5, Two people involved in the publication of topless photos of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, last year have been formally charged with invasion of privacy. Ernesto Mauri, a chief executive of the publishing house Mondadori, was charged for allowing the topless photos to be published in the French edition of the Mondadori-owned Closer Magazine in September, the Telegraph reported. A photographer for the regional paper La Provence, Valerie Suau, has also been charged for taking photos of Kate in a swimsuit. La Provence did not publish the scandal-inciting nude images, and investigators are still trying to conclude if Suau took the topless photos sold to Closer. Suau is "not concerned" over the charges, a source at La Provence said, and has admitted to taking the bikini photos but not topless. The investigation has been run by French authorities, who were asked by St. James's Palace to investigate after the photos appeared in September from the Duke and Duchess's vacation at a French villa. |
Cavaliers need to give up dream of 2014 reunion with LeBron James
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| Mike Brown is returning to Cleveland, but the odds of LeBron James joining him aren't great. (Getty Images) |
No more tanking for draft picks. No more empty free-agent classes. No more false promises and mirages. No more illusions of chasing James in the summer of 2014, only to compromise themselves over and over in the conceptual pursuit of him.
The Cavaliers have a franchise player, Kyrie Irving, and here's the problem today: No one cares his thoughts on the next coach, nor how the hiring affects him. Every day Brown's ever spent on the job as Cavaliers coach, every choice and action was colored with how LeBron James would react, how he'd respond.
For the good of this franchise, Brown doesn't need to be set up again as the fall guy for James wanting to play elsewhere. Three years later, Brown returns to coach the Cavaliers and somehow they're all still trying to get LeBron James to love them.
"The way Mike had to bend for LeBron weakened him as a leader," one former Cavaliers staffer told Yahoo! Sports. "They'd be crazy to put him through that again. It's pointless."
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres (Still) Won’t Have Kids
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| Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi (Getty Images) |
What's more, since the ceremony, the couple has somehow managed to remain front-and-center in the public eye while still preserving a modicum of personal space. Sure, they posed on the cover of People and made an appearance on "Oprah" when they got hitched (mainly to promote marriage equality), but their time at home together remains reasonably undocumented.
And it seems they like it that way, as Portia recently explained during an interview with Out magazine.
“We’ve settled into happily married life," she said. "We really support each other in whatever we’re doing and we’re incredibly happy, which is why you don’t see us in the press so much. There’s no drama to report.”
Which, of course, begs the question: what's next for this power duo? While there are many exciting projects on the table — including the revival of de Rossi's "Arrested Development" and a TV pilot about rival sisters she's producing alongside DeGeneres — there's one thing that's definitely missing: children.
“There comes some pressure in your mid-30s, and you think, 'Am I going to have kids so I don’t miss out on something that other people really seem to love? Or is it that I really genuinely want to do this with my whole heart?' I didn’t feel that my response was ‘yes’ to the latter. You have to really want to have kids, and neither of us did. So it’s just going to be me and Ellen and no babies — but we’re the best of friends and married life is blissful, it really is. I’ve never been happier than I am right now.”
Not that any of this should come as a surprise. Last September, when DeGeneres appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," she explained she didn't understand why the media wouldn't let the topic of kids go.
"I don't want to have one," she explained. "I don't want to have six. I don't want to have any. They're precious to look at and I love them; we have nieces and I love them very much. [But I] don't want 'em."
And there you have it, folks. Two of Hollywood's biggest talents still aren't going to reproduce.
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Monday, 15 April 2013
Kevin Hart Arrested for Drunk Driving: "This Is a Wake-Up Call"
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| Kevin Hart |
Kevin Hart is not in a laughing kind
of mood. The comedian and actor, 32, was arrested for drunk driving in
Los Angeles early Sunday, April 14. According to CNN, traffic police
stopped the Think Like a Man star after he was speeding down
the freeway at 90 mph in his black Mercedes -- weaving between lanes and
nearly running into a gas tanker truck.
Pulled over by an off ramp, "Mr. Hart had objective signs of intoxication and was unable to perform the field sobriety tests," California Highway Patrol said in a statement. He was booked in a local jail and released on $5,000 bail.
Hart was later frank, via Twitter, about the incident -- even joking about it. "When the cop asked me to take the sobriety test I said 'WHY WASTE OUR TIME ... I'M DRUNK MAN.'" He later clarified: "This is a wake up call for me, I have to be smarter & last night I wasn't ... everything happens for a reason."
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The Five-Year Engagement star has joked about his father's alleged drug addiction during a stand-up routine in his 2011 film Laugh at My Pain. "Drinking & driving is not a game or a laughing matter," he tweeted Sunday. "People have lost lives because of stupid ... this!."
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Republican lawmakers seek details on Beyonce, Jay Z Cuba trip
| Beyonce and Jay Z |
(Reuters) - Two Republican members of Congress have
asked the U.S. Treasury Department for information on what type of
license American pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay Z obtained for a high-profile trip to Cuba to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
They ate at some of the city's best restaurants, danced to Cuban music, walked through historic Old Havana and posed for pictures with admiring Cubans, who recognized them despite the past half-century of ideological conflict that separates the United States and Cuba.
In a letter dated on Friday, U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, asked Adam Szubin, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, for "information regarding the type of license that Beyonce and Jay-Z received, for what purpose, and who approved such travel."
Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart represent districts in south Florida where there is a high Cuban-American population.
"Despite the clear prohibition against tourism in Cuba, numerous press reports described the couple's trip as tourism, and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda," the letter said.
"We represent a community of many who have been deeply and personally harmed by the Castro regime's atrocities, including former political prisoners and the families of murdered innocents."
Representatives for Beyonce did not immediately respond for comment on Saturday.
The long-standing U.S. trade embargo against Cuba prevents most Americans from traveling to the island without a license granted by the U.S. government, although President Barack Obama's administration has eased restrictions on travel to Cuba for academic, religious or cultural exchanges.
In Washington this week, the State Department said it had no prior knowledge of the visit. A spokeswoman at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana said she did not know if the celebrity couple obtained a license for their trip. If they did not, they could be exposed to a fine.
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Jada Pinkett-Smith on Will Smith Open Marriage Rumors
I Tell Him to "Do Whatever You Want"
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| Will and Jada Pinkett Smith |
Hey, whatever works. Jada Pinkett-Smith addressed a longstanding rumor about her 16-year marriage to Will Smith in a new interview with HuffPost Live: That she and Will, 44, have an open relationship.
PHOTOS: See their wedding portrait and other stars' nuptials"No, I think that people get that idea because Will and I are very relaxed with one another," replied the actress and mother of actor-singers Willow, 12, and Jaden, 14. The 41-year-old star then continued of the "persistent" rumor: "But I've always told Will: You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay," she said, without going into further specifics.
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"Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man," she said of the Men in Black star. "I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be and that's not for me to do for him," she said, adding: "Or vice versa."
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The couple have battled more than one false report of an imminent divorce, most memorably in summer 2011, when the couple, who wed in 1997, slammed split rumors -- and talk that Pinkett Smith had an affair with HawthoRN costar Marc Anthony during his marriage to Jennifer Lopez. "Will is my best friend," she told HuffPost Live. "He's been by my side for some of the most difficult parts of my life. You always have that for your foundation."
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