Supermodel Evangelista: French billionaire wanted abortion

May 4th, 2012

NEW YORK (Reuters) – When supermodel Linda Evangelista told French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault in 2006 she was pregnant with his child, he asked her to get an abortion, her attorney charged Thursday on the first day of a child-support trial in Manhattan. Pinault, 49, who is currently married to actress Salma Hayek, denied that charge but testified he told Evangelista that “if she were to have a child (they) might not have a relationship.” With that a four-month relationship, in which he said the couple only actually saw each other seven days, came to an end. …

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Jethro Tull’s Anderson "Thick As A Brick" and dapper

May 3rd, 2012

LONDON (Reuters) – A chat with Ian Anderson – flautist, multi-instrumentalist, founder and wild face of British rock group Jethro Tull – does not go quite as expected. Yes, there is discussion of his music, the 40th anniversary world tour of the progressive rock classic “Thick As A Brick”, and of its 2012 follow up. But there is also a lot more about flutes in space, an unlikely link with the George W.

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"Octomom" files for bankruptcy in California

May 1st, 2012

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California mother of octuplets, dubbed “Octomom,” filed for bankruptcy on Monday, after previously admitting she was on public assistance to support herself and her 14 children. Nadya Suleman, 36, gave birth to eight babies as a single mother in 2009. But goodwill turned to anger in the media after it was revealed Suleman had undergone fertility treatments when she already had six children, and questions were raised about her ability to provide for her family.

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Murdochs face tough week over scandal

April 30th, 2012

LONDON (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch’s tetchy and uncompromising appearance at a British inquiry into phone hacking could come back to haunt him this week when politicians give their verdict on the scandal at his defunct News of the World newspaper.

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Johnson biographer Caro says political genius is his subject

April 30th, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Robert Caro has spent almost 40 years writing his monumental prize-winning biography of President Lyndon Johnson, but says it is not the 1960s leader that held his fascination for so long, but how political power works in America. With the long-awaited fourth volume of his Johnson biography “The Passage of Power” due out on Tuesday, Caro said he never wanted to write just about the life of the president who rammed through civil rights and welfare laws that transformed the nation but then was destroyed by the Vietnam War.

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April 30th, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Robert Caro has spent almost 40 years writing his monumental prize-winning biography of President Lyndon Johnson, but says it is not the 1960s leader that held his fascination for so long, but how political power works in America.

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Obama, Kimmel target Kardashian at Correspondents dinner

April 30th, 2012

April 29 (TheWrap.com) – Lindsay Lohan may have gotten more attention than any other guest before Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner, but Kim Kardashian was the celebrity who took the most hits from the dais during the annual event. Host Jimmy Kimmel, for instance, remembered last year’s dinner, which took place after President Obama had dispatched a team that would track down and kill Osama bin Laden.

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Artist Lucian Freud leaves $156 million in will: paper

April 29th, 2012

LONDON (Reuters) – Portrait painter Lucian Freud left a record 96 million pounds ($156 million) in his will, the largest sum bequeathed by a British artist, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. Freud died in July last year aged 88, by which time his uncompromising, fleshy portraits had made him one of the world’s most revered and coveted artists, whose subjects ranged from England’s Queen Elizabeth II to the supermodel Kate Moss. His “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping”, a 1995 portrait of an obese woman asleep in the nude on a sofa, fetched $33

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Strauss-Kahn suspects "political enemies" in sex scandal: paper

April 27th, 2012

LONDON (Reuters) – The Guardian newspaper said on its website on Friday that former International Monetary Fund boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn believes his French presidential bid was scuppered last year by “political enemies” who made sure his sexual encounter with a New York maid was made public. It is the first time Strauss-Kahn has spoken publicly about the events surrounding a sexual encounter with a maid in a Sofitel hotel in New York last May, which put an end to his political ambitions. ..

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Music fans hanker for Ray Charles hologram: poll

April 27th, 2012

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – When a hologram of late rapper Tupac Shakur appeared on stage with Snoop Dogg at the recent Coachella music festival, it stunned audiences by literally bringing the performer back to life – technologically, anyway. Reuters asked Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research, which surveys consumers about celebrities for Hollywood’s major studios and TV networks, to pull together a list of dead celebrities who remain popular and, like Tupac, might still be big draws at a concert if only as a hologram.

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