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Some comics can’t write booklength stuff.

Robin Williams told me (15 years back) that he just can’t sit still long enough to type out his thoughts.  At age 53, Denis Leary discovered that he could actually write whole sentences (by tweeting) and not get bored [...]

[caption id="attachment_40537" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Justin Bieber; Imagine what the next 16 will be like (courtesy Kevin Aranibar of Kerosene Photography) CC 2.0"][/caption]Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story was launched in L.A. yesterday along with its author, a sensation on track to an historical inevitability of near-Elvis possibilities. 

Justin Bieber reportedly said that he [...]

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Steven Spielberg will again be lording over evil machines when he tackles Robopocalypse, unnamed ghostly sources say (actually Deadline).

The tongue-twisted-named movie is the usual robot version of Spartacus, with the mistreated A.I.s rebelling against the IRS (more likely humans in general).  [...]

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Instead of turning to revolution, tattoos, piercings or drugs, Katherine Schwarzenegger instead fought her real and imagined problems, issues, angst with a keyboard.

Writing Rock What You’ve Got at 20, with the vast experience of a unique life and the curiosity [...]

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Sometimes it’s not good to tell the whole truth.

Rolling Stones’ co-founder and lead guitarist Keith Richards’ new tell-all and then some book Life is #2 and climbing on Amazon.  Critically Praised for it’s candor, Disney suits think that just maybe it’s a bit too free-spirited for it’s [...]

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It’s no longer the KGB since the communists got lined up on the Baltic and told to swim for it.  Today it’s the SVR, the Russian Federation’s external intelligence agency.  And apparently some thrilling things (like spying) are just to hard to stop.

Enter [...]

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Since the 1960s Keith Richards has been at the top of the infamous People Most Likely to Die List. “Well, I’m not putting death on the agenda,” he told The Times (of London). “I don’t want to see [...]

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Hyperion today announced plans to publish a new book by actor-comedian and #1 New York Times bestselling author Paul Reiser. The book, titled Familyhood, is scheduled for publication in May 2011.

In keeping with the theme of his two previous New York Times [...]

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Rolling Stone’s upcoming issue (on newsstands Oct. 15) will feature an exclusive excerpt from Keith Richards’ memoir, Life, 11 days prior to the book’s much anticipated release.  The 10,000-word excerpt will look back at the early [...]

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It finally happened;  a star’s lips got so big that she actually had to cut them down to size.

It was 23 years ago that Lisa Rinna got her lips enlarged (plumped) but after decades of hardened silicone (and who knows what else) [...]