Counter-culture hero and famed comedian George Carlin died at approximately 6 pm Sunday of heart failure. He was only 71 years old.
Carlin had a long career, but he was probably best known for his anti-establishment stance and routines involving dirty words and drug related themes. It’s also well known that he had a history of drug abuse and dependency.
The comedian was admitted to St. John’s Heath Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon for chest pains and he died a few hours later at approximately 6 pm.
Carlin achieved icon status for his 1970s routine, “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” His edgy material and use of some of those “dirty” words on the radio sparked a 1978 FCC lawsuit. The court ruled in the government’s favor, charging Carlin with indecency and allowing regulators to ban the use of certain words on the radio when they thought children might be listening.
Carlin is survived by his wife Sally Wade and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall.
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Posted on June 7th, 2008 in Paris Hilton
If you believed those pregnancy rumors that have been flying around about Paris Hilton her behavior the other night in Las Vegas should go a long way to dispell any belief that she might have a bun in the oven.
Paris was seen drinking pink Champagne at dinner on Friday night as she dined with her BFFs. She was also filming her new MTV reality show Paris Hilton’s My New BFF at TAO Las Vegas.
Accompanied by friends and surrounded by girls vying for her attention Hilton only had her boyfriend of four months, Benji Madden, on her mind. Madden for his part stayed in the background most of the night, as did Nicky Hilton and her boyfriend David Katzenberg as Paris soaked up the attention.
After dinner Paris and the girls went on to Tao where she was greeted with her song Stars are Blind. Hilton spent the next two hours smoking cigarettes and dancing with the final seven remaining contestants on the clubs catwalk while cameras rolled.
The group then went to the Mirage Villas for an afterparty where they were entertained by Paris’ friend Jeff Beacher.
Paris was seen drinking Gey Goose and Patron Silver Tequila at the after party.
Certainly all that drinking and smoking isn’t the behavior of a pregnant Paris? Or is it? Lets hope not!
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Did you hear that Tatum O’Neal was busted on Sunday for allegedly buying cocaine near her New York home?
O’Neal, 44, was seen making an illicit purchase at about 7:30 pm Sunday evening on Clinton Street. She was then arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. This, BTW, is a misdemeanor.
The alleged drug dealer, Allen Garcia, 32, was also arrested and charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance.
Tatum was booked in the 7th precinct and was then arraigned and released on her own recognizance early Monday afternoon. She’s due to return to court on July 28th.
According to the New York Post O’Neal asked police “You know who I am, right?” and also claimed that she was “researching a part - I’m doing this for a part as a junkie.”
Tatum O’Neal, daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal has a history with drugs. She apparently began using drugs by the age of 14. Drugs of choice included Quaalude’s, cocaine, marijuana and heroin. She also wrote about her struggles with addiction in the 2004 memoir, A Paper Life.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight Tatum stated that she’s spoken with her three children - Kevin, 22, Sean, 20 and Emily, 17 and that they’ve been very supportive.
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 in The scoop
Well I’m back to trying to change the theme for this website. Again. I hated the theme that I used for most of the last year. It didn’t work properly in some browsers and was finicky.
I think I’ve found a theme with some great features for a Celebrity gossip related blog so I’m working on getting this theme set up for this blog. I’m changing background colors and links etc so you might notice some changes over the next hour or so if you’re reading a few posts.
Be patient and we’ll be back in business with a great new look shortly!
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Wordless Wednesday
I think this man should got to L.A., I’m sure he’ll find plenty of well off and or rich women there … whether they’d take him up on his request I’m not sure, but that’s certainly the place to look!
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