LOS ANGELES - Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were… Continue
The hunt for Annie Le's murderer is reportedly focusing on a fellow Yale student who flunked lie detector tests and has defensive wounds on his body.
ABC news reported that cops are looking closely at the student, who failed two lie detector tests.
A body found stuffed in a wall at a Yale lab on Sunday is believed to be Le, a 24-year-old pharmacology graduate student who had been missing since Tuesday.
SAN'A, Yemen — A 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization said.
Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital San'a.
Child marriages are widespread in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, where tribal customs dominate… Continue
Taylor Swift is trying to keep the Kanye West flap from going on and on and on.
"I don't want to start anything because I had a great night," the 19-year-old told reporters backstage at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
Swift spoke out following Sunday's startling outburst by West after the country sensation beat out Beyonce' for the Best Female Video award for "You Belong with Me" at the awards show. Then, West walked on staged and… Continue
The MTV Music Video Awards never fails to stir up controversy - from the red carpet fashion statements to the impromptu on-stage moments - anything can happen on live TV. This year's edition, back in New York after a… Continue
Jermaine Jackson said earlier on the red carpet, "The perfect tribute is just to kick ass and give a great performance," and an emotional Janet clearly gives her number everything she had.
MediaTakeOut.com just got wind of some EXPLOSIVE NEWS!!!! Apparently Kanye's outburst during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech has caused more trouble than he could have imagined.
According to one of MediaTakeOut.com's entertainment industry insiders, it caused a HUGE BLOW UP between Jay Z and Beyonce.
The insider, who asked to remain anonymous, told MediaTakeOut.com that soon after Kanye's outburst - MTV network execs were furious.… Continue
Michael Jackson's This Is It in HD
The trailer for the upcoming Michael Jackson tour movie debuted last night -- and shows a ton of previously unseen rehearsal video of MJ in the months leading up to his death.
Michael appears with it in the footage -- and the huge dance sequences teased look damn bad ass.
The movie will be shown in theaters for two weeks,… Continue
We got Pitbull last night after the show, where he called Kanye a "f**king disrespectful motherf**ker" -- and he's not alone. Just check out these Twitter updates.
Pink: Kanye west is the biggest piece of s**t on earth. Quote me. Beyonce is a classy lady.I feel for her, too.Its not her fault at all, and her and taylor did their thing. And douche bag got kicked out. HA.
Katy Perry: F**K U KANYE. IT'S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.
It's the sleek beauty queen versus the superfreak machine at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
Beyoncé — the high priestess of booty — will face off against Lady Gaga — the new queen of weird — on tonight's extravaganza, starting at 9 p.m. and lasting until kamikaze host Russell Brand can stop thinking of ways to make all the stars in attendance squirm.
Last year, he had just that effect on Britney Spears, who, regardless, wound up… Continue
It's been a long, hard year for Tabitha Mullings: She lost her hands - and then she lost them again.
The Brooklyn single mom fell suddenly ill last year, damaging all four limbs and her eyesight. And then in the spring, a heartless thief stole her prosthetic hands from her car.
"My legs were still there in the trunk," Mullings said.
Still, Mullings - whose story has been chronicled in the Daily News since the beginning - has… Continue
Glenn Beck, the hottest right-wing voice on the air, worried aloud to his listeners the other day that powerful, sinister forces trying to destroy America might soon "shoot me in the head."
But there's fear among his critics, including calmer conservatives, that the victim more likely will be one of Beck's many broadcast targets.
After a summer of mob anger at town hall meetings on health care - some of which featured gun-toting… Continue
It took an ambush by a desperate mother, with police in tow, to save Whitney Houston's life.
In her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, airing in two parts - Monday and Tuesday - the 46-year-old singer reveals that at the height of her drug-addiction problems, her mom, Cissy, arrived unannounced at her house with armed deputies. She forced Whitney into rehab and vowed to sic the authorities on then-husband Bobby Brown if he tried to stop… Continue
So we are all supposed to rejoice today because Kim Clijsters, nice person and new mother, defeated Serena Williams, dilettante and tantrum thrower. It happened Saturday night at Ashe Stadium, 6-4, 7-5, in a circus finish to a semifinal that really didn't represent closure at all.
Really, it was all just very sad, lamentable. First there was the absurd foot-fault call by an overzealous lineswoman on an extremely critical point in that last game,… Continue
Tila Tequila egged on Chris Brown over and over again on her Twitter page and now CB has finally responded making this .... an official Twitter Fight!!!!!!!!
Tila, angry that the San Diego D.A. declined to press charges against Shawne Merriman, made several mentions of Brown on her Twitter page (we tried to grab one, but Tila has since made her page private).
Finally this morning, Brown tweeted back, "NOT TRYNA BE RUDE but i keep… Continue
The Coca-Cola Co. will donate $6 million to Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and the Morehouse School of Medicine, and will also give $1.2 million to the Robert W. Woodruff Library on the campus of the Atlanta University Center.
The historically black colleges are all part of the Atlanta University Center.
The beverage giant said the $6 million will help students where economic hardship threatens to derail… Continue