NEW YORK — The magic is back. R. Kelly still has it. Friday night at Wamu Theater at Madison Square Garden, the once legal-trouble-ridden singer showed why he's one of music's all-time greats, keeping the audience on its feet for almost all 90 minutes of his performance.
Forget Angelina, Julia and Reese: Salma Hayek is the richest woman in Hollywood.
In the past three years, she's produced a hit TV show, married a billionaire and become one of Hollywood's hottest moms. And on Friday, she comes to theaters in "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," her first big-screen project since the birth of her daughter, Valentina, in 2007.
Her character, Madame Truska, a woman who can grow a beard, is yet… Continue
LOS ANGELES - Anna Nicole Smith took methadone while pregnant with daughter Dannielynn because she was worried she might lose the baby if she went into withdrawal, her ex-boyfriend testified Friday.
Larry Birkhead, Dannielynn's dad, said the ex-Playmate suffered a prior miscarriage and was excited about her 2006 pregnancy, which she announced to him around Valentine's Day.
"She said she was trying to cut down on the amounts but if she… Continue
Former heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield forgave his boxing rival Mike Tyson Friday for biting his ear in their 1997 title fight.
"The most important thing is to forgive, and I forgive him," Holyfield said as he and Tyson shook hands on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Asked if he was still missing part of his ear, Holyfield pointed to the spot and said, "Just a little bit."
A smiling Tyson poured on the praise for the fighter he… Continue
A ruling by a New Jersey judge on Friday set the stage for a second manslaughter trial for former NBA star Jayson Williams.
His lawyers' latest attempts to clear Williams centered on a racial slur an investigator in the Hunterdon County prosecutor's office used to describe the basketball star, who is black.
The comment came in the months after the 2002 shooting of Costas (Gus) Christofi at Williams' central New Jersey… Continue
MINNEAPOLIS — A nurse who authorities say got his kicks by visiting Internet suicide chat rooms and encouraging depressed people to kill themselves is under investigation in at least two deaths and could face criminal charges that could test the limits of the First Amendment.
Investigators said William Melchert-Dinkel, 47, feigned compassion for those he chatted with, while offering step-by-step instructions on how to take their… Continue
Three key officials at the Department of Correction resigned Friday, just months after several prisoners held religious parties and a jailed female rapper posed for a magazine photo shoot.
Chief of Department Carolyn Thomas and Frank Squillante, assistant chief of special operations, both turned in their resignations effective Oct. 31, sources said.
George Okada's resignation as warden of the Manhattan detention complex is effective… Continue
Hollywood's latest fashion craze is slashing the red carpet competition. Starlets are showing off spots of skin in these sizzling, cut-out styles.
Halle Berry makes our collective jaws drop in this sparkly number that makes the mother of one look like a million bucks
This isn't a rock - it's a boulder.
An auction at Christie's next week will feature the Annenberg Diamond, a 32-carat dazzler that could fetch between $3 million and $5 million.
"The Annenberg outshines any other," said Rahul Kadakia, head of the jewelry department at Christie's, which is putting the gem on the block Wednesday morning.
"You have to consider how many there are in the world. Out of 100 million [rough diamonds]… Continue
Jermaine Jackson's baby mama claims the singer has left her so dirt poor ... that she's been forced to accept supermarket gift cards from Jermaine's mom just so she can feed the kids.
Alejandra Jackson filed legal documents in L.A. County Superior Court claiming Jermaine is a deadbeat dad who hasn't paid $35,550 in court-ordered child support payments for their two kids, Jermajesty and Jaffar.
In the docs Alejandra says Jermaine's own… Continue
It's not quite the "happily ever after" Disney would have imagined for its original fairytale princess.
A new advertisement for an Australian beer shows Snow White in a decidedly unladylike boudoir scene with her seven dwarfs - and Disney is anything but pleased, reports Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
The illustration for Jamieson's Raspberry Ale reinvents the fair-skinned cartoon ingénue as "Ho White."
"Hey, man, P got a lot of songs," Gates told us exclusively on the BET red carpet.
"He actually records a lot of songs he don't put out," Gates continued. "Going through that whole process of all them songs — just about all of them are hits anyway — it was a hard process. But I think I got it pretty much nailed to the T."
Any favorites?
"All of them," Gates added. "My whole purpose was to pick 18 classic songs. I wanted to… Continue
For his first stab at directing a movie, video game programmer Oren Peli used $15,000 of his own money to shoot "Paranormal Activity," with a handful of unknown actors, over seven days in 2006.
The set for the horror movie was his house, a suburban Southern California tract home whose noisy setting provided the inspiration for the tale of a demonic haunting.
There was no omen the movie would become a grass-roots Internet marketing… Continue
Marriage was just too complicated for Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley.
The Canadian pop-punk princess has filed for divorce from her Deryck Whibley, citing “irreconcilable difference” in court paperwork, TMZ.com reports.
Lavigne, 24, whose No. 1 hits include "Complicated," "I'm With You" and "My Happy Ending," is not requesting alimony, and has asked the court to deny spousal support to Whibley.
This steamy soup could give you a real lift.
A chain of three Spanish-American restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens is selling "Viagra soup" to its friskiest patrons.
The seafood-packed stew is supposed to put customers of El Rey Restaurant I, II and III in a loving mood - without a pricey prescription.
"We named it Viagra soup because of the ingredients it has to make you feel stronger, energetic ...and ready when the right… Continue
Despite pulling in about $20 million a year, actor Nicolas Cage is in serious money trouble.
The actor is suing his former business manager, Samuel Levin, for leading him "down a path toward financial ruin," according to TMZ.com. Cage asked for $20 million in damages in the lawsuit.
Cage alleges that his manager was reckless with his money, including doing such things as not paying taxes, which is the reason Cage now owes more than $6… Continue
WASHINGTON - All the hatred aimed at President Obama these days didn't make much sense to a fourth-grader in New Orleans Thursday, but it does to Obama.
Taking a question from a crowd-pleasing grade-schooler named Terrence Scott, Obama told him it just comes with the job of being President.
"I have to say, why people hate you and, and why, they supposed to love you and - God is love," the boy said to some laughter from the… Continue