Archive for February, 2010
‘Growing Pains’ actor committed suicide
Feb 26th
Missing American actor Andrew Koenig, who starred in the 1980s TV comedy "Growing Pains," killed himself, his father said Thursday after police found his body in an isolated area of a park. "Our son took his own life," a distraught Walter Koenig, who portrayed Chekov in the original "Star Trek" TV series, told reporters at a ...
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Loading ...Friends Fear Andrew Koenig is Dead
Feb 26th
Reportedly Depressed, the Former Growing Pains Star Gave Aways His Belongings and Has Been Missing for Overa Week As fears deepen that former Growing Pains actor Andrew Koenig is dead or in serious danger, could he be simply the latest in a long line of child actors with serious personal problems? Koenig, 41, has been ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Son of Star Trek actor found dead
Feb 26th
The son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig has been found dead in Canada. Andrew Koenig had been missing for more than a week, and police say they are not treating his death as suspicious. He had appeared in the 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains” and was last seen in Vancouver on Valentine’s Day. His neighbours in Los Angeles ...
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Growing Pains actor found dead; friends Facebook page for Andrew Koenig gone
Feb 26th
As announced here earlier, Andrew Koenig, the son of Star Trek TOS star Walter Koenig, was found dead Thursday of an apparent suicide. Friends and Family of Andrew went to 1,000 acre Stanley Park on Thursday and made the discovery of Andrew's body themselves, according to the Boston Globe. They found Koenig's body in a ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Actor found dead in park
Feb 26th
Actor Andrew Koenig, 41, best known for playing Boner on '80s sitcom "Growing Pains," was found dead Thursday in a park in Vancouver, British Columbia, police there said Thursday night. The actor's father, Walter Koenig, told reporters at a news conference at the park that his son took his own life. Andrew Koenig was reported missing ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Johnny Depp greets fans at Alice In Wonderland premiere
Feb 26th
Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter on the green carpet Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway have joined the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall in London for the royal premiere of Alice In Wonderland. Hundreds of fans stood in the rain in Leicester Square to greet their idols. Tim Burton's 3D ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘American Idol’ Top 24 results: Did the right people go home tonight?
Feb 26th
Somewhere in Castle Abdul, Queen Paula is sipping from a giant Pepsi cup and patting her chihuahuas on the head. “We did it! We did it!” she cackles, as she rests her tired, speed-dialing hands in a vat of Epsom salts. Okay, maybe not. But sugar, American Idol appears to be going down, if the ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Will ‘The Hurt Locker’ team be punished for breaking Oscar rules?
Feb 26th
We'll have to wait until the middle of next week to find out if the motion picture academy will respond publicly to the growing hubbub over a "Hurt Locker" producer's violation of Oscar campaign rules. Yesterday Nicolas Chartier issued an apology for the "extremely inappropriate" e-mail he sent to academy members urging them to campaign ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Are you a sex addict?
Feb 26th
When Jack Rogers first heard media reports of Tiger Woods' multiple extramarital affairs, the first thing he did was say a little prayer for Woods and his wife. The second thing he did was tally up the number of women who claimed to have had sex with the famous golfer. "I said to myself, 'My God, ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PETA pokes fun at Tiger Woods’ sex scandal in new ad campaign
Feb 26th
Though Tiger Woods has lost many of his lucrative endorsement deals since his widely publicized cheating scandal, there's one ad the pro golfer may not care to be a part of. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is looking for a local advertiser in Woods' neighborhood of Windermere, Florida to erect a billboard ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Comic showing Batman’s debut sells for $1m
Feb 26th
The comic book cover is one of the most famous of all time A comic showing the debut of superhero Batman has been sold for more than $1m (£655,000) at an auction in Dallas. The rare 1939 copy of Detective Comic No 27 was bought by an anonymous bidder from a seller who also wished to ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Brittany Murphy Autopsy Reveals No Signs Of Alcohol Or Drug Abuse
Feb 26th
Actress died from a combination of prescription drugs. Brittany Murphy died from a combination of pneumonia, anemia and prescription medication, according to the Los Angeles Coroner's report released Thursday (February 25). The report's findings should dispel gossip that the "8 Mile" and "Clueless" actress abused alcohol and illegal drugs or was dangerously underweight. The pattern of the ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Douglas` son denied bail
Feb 26th
The son of Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has been denied bail. Cameron Douglas is currently sitting in a jail, waiting to be sentenced on drug charges. A judge has now refused his request to be released from behind bars so he could be transferred to a rehab centre. Cameron has been locked up since last year, when his ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...50 Cent is being sued over sex video
Feb 26th
50 Cent is in legal hot water with a Florida woman who has sued the rapper in New York claiming that he unlawfully distributed her homemade sex video over the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator. Lastonia Leviston told the court Fitty used her name and image without permission and ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven Tyler and Aerosmith, happy together
Feb 26th
The feuding factions of Aerosmith announced yesterday they were “Cocked, Locked and Ready to Rock” this summer. So what was Joe Perry Tweeting about after that momentous declaration? Obama’s health-care summit! Yesterday, the band (sans Brad Whitford) took to its Web site to proclaim that they’re Back in the Saddle after six months of ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...1939 Batman Detective Comics No. 27 sells for record $1 million at auction
Feb 26th
Well, that record didn't last long. Just three days after a Superman book became the first comic to sell for $1 million, a Batman comic book sold Thursday at auction for about $75,000 more. Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas reports that a rare copy of Detective Comics No. 27 from 1939 -- in which "The Batman" made ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Wonderland’ looks curiouser, but Burton fills gaps in story
Feb 26th
Alice in Wonderland's most perplexing riddle isn't the one posed by the Mad Hatter at the tea party: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Instead, the real stumper is this: Given the enduring appeal of c's Victorian-era literary masterwork, why hasn't there ever been a wholly satisfying film or TV adaptation based on Alice's ...
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...PREACH IT! It’s official: Tiger Woods hates puppies
Feb 26th
Tiger Woods may have lost his championship status with many of his fans, but he still has some legal swing.The billionaire golfer reportedly has quashed a planned ad campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA was planning to put up a billboard poking clear fun at Woods’ ongoing marital woes while ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Kevin Smith Wants To Make ‘The Forrest Gump’ Of Sports Movies’
Feb 26th
As we chronicled earlier this week, Kevin Smith is going through a time of transition on two fronts: establishing himself as a non-writing director and pulling back his media presence, which makes some recent comments on his next directorial effort all the more intriguing. After he opens "Cop Out" on Friday, the groundbreaking indie-filmmaking legend has ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...“Crazies” director crazy for genre movies
Feb 26th
Genre movies do well with audience, but they usually don't get much respect from filmmakers for whom they're just bill payers. Exception: "The Crazies," a re-imagining of George Romero's 1973 horror thriller, opening Friday. Indeed, director Breck Eisner and stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell all embraced the story of a virus infecting residents of an idyllic ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘American Idol’ cuts four ninth-season semifinalists, determines Top 20
Feb 26th
American Idol's journey ended for the first of the ninth season's 24 semifinalists last night, with Tuesday and Wednesday's initial live performance shows culminating in a Thursday night results show that eliminated the two male and two female semifinalists who had received the fewest votes from home viewers. Ashley Rodriguez and Janell Wheeler were eliminated from ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Star Trek actor’s son found dead
Feb 26th
Andrew is the son of Walter Koenig - better known as Star Trek's Chekov The actor son of Star Trek veteran Walter Koenig has been found dead in a wood in Vancouver, police have said. Koenig said his 41-year-old son Andrew, who suffered from depression, "took his own life". Police spokeswoman Jana McGuinness said she did not ...
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...As Kim Raises the Bar, South Korea Delights
Feb 26th
Dressed in azure, skating to Gershwin, Kim Yu-na of South Korea seemingly floated to the clouds with her soaring jumps and airy elegance Thursday night, winning an Olympic gold medal and her rightful place as one of the greatest women’s figure skaters of all time. Demonstrating technical superiority and ethereal grace at 19, Kim delivered a ...
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Taleban suicide bombers kill 17 and injure 30 in Kabul attack
Feb 26th
A series of suicide blasts in central Kabul today killed at least 17 people and injured more than 30. A car bomb exploded on the edge of a large park just after 6.30am, destroying a single storey guesthouse popular with Indian contractors. Eyewitnesses said the streets were deserted as most people were still asleep ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...SeaWorld steadfast in wake of death
Feb 26th
Orlando to keep orca that drowned trainer As news of Tilikum the killer whale battering and drowning a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando continued to command global attention, the theme park’s leaders yesterday said they will keep the orca despite growing calls by critics to return the financially lucrative animal to the wild. SeaWorld’s famed killer whale shows ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Parties as split as ever on health
Feb 26th
Giving no ground, President Obama and Republican leaders fought forcefully for their competing visions of historic health-care reform yesterday in an exhausting, at times testy, live-on-TV debate. Far from any accord, Obama signaled the Democrats were prepared to push ahead for an all-or-nothing congressional vote. The marathon, 71/2-hour session did reveal narrow areas of agreement on ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Holi, the celeb way!
Feb 26th
It’s Holi time! People have already got their clothes, gulaal, food and booze together and are looking forward to really living it up. But what are our celebrities upto? What are their plans and how are they going to spend their holi-day. We get talking to a few on their idea of celebration and what does ...
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...King Khan’s sojourn
Feb 26th
He came, he saw and he conquered the world, he is none other than our very own King Khan of Bollywood- Shahrukh Khan. The man certainly needs no introduction as his every move becomes breaking news. Besides his magnetic presence on screen, his personal life too has been equally appealing to his fans. Mr and ...
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Movie review: Karthik Calling Karthik
Feb 26th
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone Music: Shankar Mahadevan/Ehsaan Noorani/Loy Mendonca Director: Vijay Lalwani At one point in Karthik Calling Karthik, Karthik’s boss tells him: You are one strange fellow. That is the understatement of the year. Karthik, played by Farhan Akhtar, is more than strange. We are told that he is a topper from IIM but when we first ...
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