Beatles and Rolling Stones photographs

New shots of Beatles and Rolling Stones Found

Great photos. They all look so young!

Tonya Harding Slams Obama

Obama reminds us of Tonya Harding's existence. Did I really need this?

Michael Jackson is selling a lot of ugly stuff

The Michael Jackson auction

In April, an auction by Julien's Auctions at the Beverley Hills Hilton will provide an unprecedented look into the private world of Michael Jackson. Observer Music Monthly has obtained this world exclusive preview of some of the items going under the hammer.

Eartha Kitt, Sultry Singer and Actress Dies

Eartha Kitt singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become a symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died from colon cancer. She was 81.

The Catalyst

Loads of photos of famous people + cats

Hunter S. Thompson

Jayne Mansfield

John Lennon

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Finger puppets of 6 who died in 2008

Gone But Not Forgotten finger puppets:
Set includes:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Jesse Helms
Maharishi Maresh Yogi
Yves Saint Laurent
Charlton Heston
Heath Ledger

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At Home With John Cleese

At Home with John Cleese
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Mitch Mitchell found dead

Drummer for Jimi Hendrix found dead

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He was 61.

This Aug. 21, 1967 file photo shows Noel Redding, left, Jimi Hendrix, center, and Mitch Mitchell, of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, at Heathrow airport in London. Authorities say Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s, has been found dead in his Portland, Ore. hotel room.

All that jazz

William Claxton (1927-2008) In a career spanning more than 50 years, William Claxton photographed some of the biggest musicians and movie stars of the 20th century. Here are a few favourites: Chet Baker, Steve McQueen and Marlene Dietrich

RIP Edie Adams

Tony-winning actress Edie Adams, a blond chanteuse with a funny streak who was married to the late comedian Ernie Kovacs, has died. She was 81.

Tony Curtis, last of the great Lotharios

Tony Curtis comes towards me in a wheelchair, wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt and very short white shorts. “Good to meet you,” he says. He takes my hand, brushes it with his lips and almost imperceptibly looks me up and down. At 83, despite baldness and a paunch, the legendary Hollywood Lothario still knows how to turn on the charm. Read more

Colin Farrell saved my life

A good news story:

Remember during last year's TIFF, when Colin Farrell took a homeless man known as 'Stress' on a $2,100 shopping spree and gave him $830 in cash to find a place to stay? The Sun reports today that Stress is now 'clean and sober, has a comfy bachelor pad, goes to church and the Y and darts around town on a mountain bike,' has 'taken up yoga,' and credits Farrell for giving him the help he needed to turn his life around.

Seen at Torontoist

From the spam files

I was just checking out my spam box and I can't help but feel sorry for celebrities who seem to have such complicated problems compared to mine:

Lindsay Lohan Addicted to Sex & Beverly Hillbilly Heroin (otherwise known as Granny Clampett's possum juice. I understand Lindsay and Ellie Mae are now an item and wear matching cutoffs, pigtails and teeny gingham tops)

Britney sues vagina for divorce (I'm surprised her vagina didn't beat her to the punch)

Paris Hilton Loses Vagina - Blames Dr Phil (Yo Paris, maybe you can have Britney's. She doesn't need it any more)

Esther Williams: Rockin' the Cary Grant Thing

Miss Williams tried therapy, but says she gave up when two successive psychiatrists sat gaga before a movie star. In 1959, her career at a seeming end and her second marriage over, she did try LSD under the direction of Cary Grant's psychiatrist, and had a hallucinatory experience in which she envisioned herself in the body of her older brother Stanton, a child movie actor who had died years earlier as a teen-ager, and whose mantle she realized she had assumed. She begins her book with an account of the trip.

Seems sensible. If you think you're going crazy, drop a blotter of acid and remove all doubt. And, just because I anticipate this question from the many burned out hippies who are my core readership, is the doctor still in practice?

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Retrospective of an over the hill philanderer

And in celebutard news today are some of the women Mick Jagger is rumoured to have shagged. A couple of surprises. I notice that none are all that recent; perhaps he's slowing down? If you're interested in seeing the complete list click on the image below and many, many more will be revealed.

As you reach 65, Mick, how many of these 65 conquests do you remember?

I'm not sure what my reaction would be if someone posted a similar list of my (youthful) conquests. I suspect it would involve Dr. Phil's voice taking over my brain, repeating over and over, "What were you thinking?"

Watch out for Britney-itis

Desperately seeking publicity: Now Madonna stages another lesbian kiss as promotional blitz rolls on.

I hope this girl doesn't catch whatever it was Madonna gave Britney.

I could swear that some of these have died more than once

Celebrity deaths of 2007
Every year I'm surprised by obituaries for people I thought were long gone.
I would have bet that Percy Saltzman was calling for mild temperatures and blue skies from his perch above the clouds.
Frankie Laine kept those doggies moving much longer than I'd given him credit for. I figured he reached the end of the ride years ago.
Merv Griffin - didn't he die last year? No, that was Mike Douglas. I got my ancient talk show hosts confused.
It looks like that rat poison they put out finally worked. Joey Bishop, last remaining member of the Rat Pack, died this year.
Evil Knievel shoulda been dead but it appears that he wasn't.

80-stars-then-and-now

Ever wonder how some fave Reagan-era acts are holding up? Some better than others judging by these photos:



80-stars-then-and-now Via Folderol

Bobcat's Advice

I was reading an interview with Bobcat Goldthwait in today's Guardian. This quote made me laugh:

Goldthwait offended many with his remarks following the actor Nick Nolte's arrest for taking the so-called date-rape drug, GHB. Nolte's defence, he suggested, should have begun: "Your honour, people have been telling me to go fuck myself for years. I decided I would, but I was afraid I might resist."

He Made The World Funky

A tribute to James Brown from Slate.

"When I saw the speakers jumping, vibrating a certain way, I knew that was it: deliverance," Brown remembered, adding, in the understatement of all-time, "I had discovered that my strength was … in the rhythm." more