Dustin Hoffman joins roll-call of celebrity heroes

May 8th, 2012 - 
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(Reuters) – A London lawyer has credited actor Dustin Hoffman for saving his life when he suffered a heart attack while jogging in the city’s Hyde Park, becoming the latest celebrity in recent weeks to help rescue a person in crisis. Sam Dempster, 27, told Britain’s Sun newspaper on Tuesday that Hoffman came to his aid when he collapsed in the park 10 days ago, and called emergency services. “I have no memory of what happened.

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Johnson biographer Caro says political genius is his subject

April 30th, 2012 - 
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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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South Africa’s apartheid land fix withers in fields

April 24th, 2012 - 
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SENEKAL, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s plans to undo the wrongs of apartheid by returning land seized from native blacks is embodied in the life of Koos Mthimkhulu. He was born on a white-owned farm in 1955 and attended a school set up by white farmers to give him just enough education for a life as field hand. A short childhood gave way to decades of milking cows, driving tractors and ploughing fields for poverty-level wages.

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World Chefs: Canada’s McNish trades steaks for raw foods

April 17th, 2012 - 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Classically trained Canadian chef Douglas McNish was overweight and unhappy when he decided he needed to make a change in his life and his diet, and he hasn’t looked back since. In his first cookbook, “Eat Raw, Eat Well,” the 29-year-old Toronto-based executive chef, teacher and raw food consultant provides 400 raw, vegan and gluten-free recipes and explains why he switched from a traditional diet and cooking steaks professionally and decided to give up meat and become a vegan and then a raw food chief.

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Beard recounts personal torment in revealing book

April 16th, 2012 - 
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Amanda Beard climbed the podium at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, clutching her teddy bear as she collected her first gold medal, no one could see the torment that was starting to brew inside of her. Whenever she smiled, cameras clicked and crowds roared with approval. She was just 14 at the time and apparently living the ultimate American dream.

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Mike Tyson set to tell his story in Las Vegas

March 25th, 2012 - 
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has, in his own words, behaved like a “Neanderthal” for much of his life. But next month, he hopes to become a “controlled artist, a disciplined artist” when he takes to a Las Vegas stage to talk about his checkered life as a childhood thief, an ear-biting fighter, an addict and a father of eight. Tyson, who in 1986 became the youngest world heavyweight champion at age 20, is set to perform an autobiographical monologue called “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth – Live on Stage.” “I hope people are entertained, and happy.

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"The Help" wins big at Image Awards; Houston remembered (Reuters)

February 18th, 2012 - 
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Reuters – “The Help,” which chronicled the experiences of black maids in the 1960s, and the comedy “Jumping the Broom” were honored at the NAACP Image Awards on Friday, and the life and career of Whitney Houston was celebrated with rousing gospel songs a week after the singer’s untimely death.

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Whitney Houston mourned at New Jersey church of her youth (Reuters)

February 12th, 2012 - 
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Reuters – At the New Jersey church where her singing career first took flight, fans and admirers gathered on Sunday to celebrate the life of Whitney Houston and mourn her passing a day after she died in a Beverly Hills hotel.

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Pre-Grammy gala celebrates Whitney Houston’s life (AP)

February 12th, 2012 - 
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AP – It was a surreal scene: Whitney Houston had died at the Beverly Hilton, and hours later and a few floors below, her life was being celebrated at the event where her career was launched.

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Radcliffe admits being drunk during "Harry Potter" scenes (Reuters)

February 3rd, 2012 - 
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Reuters – Daniel Radcliffe admitted he was drunk while filming some scenes for the “Harry Potter” movies during a period in his life where he was drinking “nightly,” the young star said in an interview.

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