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Jakarta - Women's emancipation and political differences have contributed to a sharp rise in divorce rates in Indonesia since democratic reforms were introduced more than 10 years ago after the fall of autocratic president Suharto, the Ministry of Religious Affairs said Thursday.
The divorce rate has increased steadily every...
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 Marriage problems, such as arguing or feeling angry can hurt your heart, according to a study being presented Thursday at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago.In the study, researchers at the University of Utah looked at 276 middle-aged couples to see if bad relationships were bad for health. The participants were asked...
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 A new study discovered that the men who consider the women’s only job to stay at home and take care of the house, earn more. Even if they might be considered “out of fashion,” these men’s ideas could increase their family’s income much more than ordinary.They will earn more than the men who think more modern nowadays and consider the...
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 A study involving more than 100 families prone to autism
revealed six new genes that seem to underlie the disease, which means
researchers might find new alternative to treat it.
Autism is usually characterized through social isolation,
speech problems and repetitive activities.
The researchers, who published their study in the...
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C-Rod files for divorce in Miami saying that she couldn’t bear her husband’s acting anymore. She accuses him of extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct. “Alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him,” said the petition filed in Miami Dade County.Alex Rodriguez doesn’t...
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Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod,
the highest-paid player in baseball history and wife Cynthia Rodriguez, also
known as C-Rod, split up after three months of problems in their marriage. The
couple has two daughters, Natasha, 3-years-old, and Ella, 2-months-old.
In spite of the affairs Alex
Rodriguez was thought to have with a...
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Dhaka - Bangladesh will begin providing special legal and physiological support for poor women and children who are victims of abuse and social injustice, officials said Tuesday.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun inaugurated a new centre in Dhaka where women and children victims of trafficking, acid attacks, rape, sexual harassments...
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South Koreans married to members of the country's 1-million-strong foreign population generally said they are happily wed, a survey conducted by a non-governmental organization showed.
South Koreans are more happily married than their foreign spouses, the Seoul Women Family Foundation found in their survey of 842 foreigners married...
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Israel moved Yigal Amir, the assassin of former Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin, to another prison early Friday and revoked his privileges after unauthorized interviews he gave to the country's two main commercial television channels caused a public outcry.
Amir, 38, was moved from the Ayalon prison, north-east of Tel Aviv and near his...
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More than 1,000 Japanese signed an online petition to legalize marriage between humans and comic-book characters launched by a man who wants to marry a girl from a poplar Japanese manga comic series.
Taichi Takashita said he wanted to collect more than 1 million signatures to present to the government to legalize marriage to...
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Taipei - A Taiwan woman is so good at matchmaking that in the past 30 years, she had helped 573 couples tie the knot, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Lee Hsiu-yen, 57, in Pingtung City, south Taiwan, is a full-time fruit seller and part-time matchmaker. In the past 30 years, she has helped 573 couples tie the knot, averaging 19 couples...
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The Palestinian who drove his car into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem late Monday, injuring 19 people, did not carry out a premeditated attack, his family said Tuesday.
The Palestinian was identified Tuesday as Qassem Mughrabi, 19, from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabel Mukhaber.
Witnesses and Israeli police said...
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World champion hurdler Jana Rawlinson is out of the Beijing Olympics with a toe injury, news reports said Wednesday. Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper said the 400-metre hurdles specialist had pulled out of the Australia squad. She raced for the first time in nine months in Poland last week but her toe problem has recurred. ...
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Almost 1,000 homosexual
protesters and their supporters marched in three main Indian towns on June 29, wishing to put an end to discrimination.
It is said that this was the
largest display of gay pride to happen in India. The activists marched in New Delhi, India’s
capital, for the first time, setting off on a...
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 The beloved Jerry Seinfeld is heading back to TV for ... a reality show?The comedian is set to team up with NBC again after an 11-year break to create and produce a reality series that finds humor in marital woes of other people.The working title for the show is "The Marriage Ref" and will invite athletes, celebs and comedians...
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 Comedians Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel have broken up
after a five-year relationship, publicists for the couple said on Monday.
The two both have their own shows. Kimmel, 40, hosts the
late-night ABC television talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, and Silverman, 37,
has her comedy show “The Sarah Silverman Program,” on the cable TV...
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 After Mariah Carey was seen wearing a very impressive
engagement diamond ring at the premiere of her new movie “Tennessee,” the
rumors about her and Nick Cannon being engaged started, but neither of them actually
confirmed them.
Now rumor has it that they are married.
Carey and Cannon got married in a “very impulsive”...
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Hollywood star Nicole Kidman said Tuesday her acting career may be over as her focus shifts to family and a second child with fellow Australian Keith Urban.
"I'm in a place in my life where I've had some great opportunities, but there are many things I want to do besides act," the 41-year-old Oscar winner said. "In...
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An Australian heartbroken man who decided to put his life on
sale on the Internet was bewildered to see that bids to buy his existence had
reached about $2 million, while he thought it was only worth a quarter of that
sum.
Ian Usher, who emigrated from England to Australia six years
ago, first auctioned his life on eBay in March,...
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 The Australian gay community will have a few reasons to be
happy about from now on. Wednesday, the Australian government announced that
about one hundred laws will be changed in favor of the same-sex couples. However,
marriages for gay and lesbians were still not accepted. Attorney General
Robert McClelland said that the changes come...
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Religion and sexuality make
strange bedfellows. No society has ever existed without them, but when
it comes to HIV and AIDS, the two social constructs coexist
uncomfortably. Religion often acts as a barrier to HIV
prevention work, AIDS activists, public health experts and sociologists
attending the XVII International AIDS...
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 Michael DeBakey, a heart surgeon whose world-shattering
heart transplants and coronary bypass surgical procedures made him one of the
noteworthy physicians of 20th century medicine, died Friday night at the age of
99.
The well-known doctor died of natural causes at the Methodist Hospital
in Houston, according to a statement...
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 Thomas Beatie was born a woman, named Tracy
Lagondino, but she went through a sex change, having chest reconstruction and
taking testosterone to develop masculine traits. Trcay kept her ovaries and
uterus.
After all these surgeries she became Thomas
Beatie, a transgender man with specific female organs which helped him to
become...
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 The Michigan Supreme Court decreed Wednesday, May 7, that the 2004 court decision against gay marriage obstructs governments and universities in Michigan offering health insurance to gay workers’ partners.
The 5-2 rule hinders about 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan, which used to...
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 After 17 years of following the lives of 192 couples, the
researchers at the University
Of Michigan School Of Public Health
and its psychology department made public their findings. Surprisingly, their
study found that couples who express their discontent and release their anger
live longer than those couples who suppress their...
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 Number one Justine Henin overcame a niggle to lead fellow seeds into
the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday as the Belgian
re-grouped to advance past Russia Olga Poutchkova 6-1, 7-5.
Also going through on day three was third seed Jelena Jankovic, who
put aside memories of an opening-round struggle to roll...
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Jerusalem - In what has been described as "the most unusual divorce on record," the Jerusalem Rabbinic Court has expedited divorce proceedings for a 17-year-old groom and his 14-year-old bride who married recently in an unauthorised, makeshift ceremony.
Israeli media reported Thursday that the court had to issue the divorce...
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Jakarta - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday held talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the second day of her trip to the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Clinton's visit to Indonesia was seen by many observers as an attempt to forge better ties with the Islamic world in line with...
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 Peter Cook, husband of former model Christie Brinkley,
started to cry while he was testifying on Wednesday, as the couple’s divorce
commenced in a Central Islip courtroom in New York.
Cook confessed to having had sexual relationships with a
Southampton teenager, Diana Bianchi, who he had hired for his Hamptons architectural...
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 French President Nicolas
Sarkozy arrived yesterday in Agra, approximately 125 miles south of New Delhi, to
visit one of the world’s most famous love monuments, the Taj Mahal. A suit was filed on his behalf that same day against a French airline company.
Sarkozy was not accompanied by his 40-year-old supermodel girlfriend...
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 A book in which the former wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
calls him a philanderer who is unworthy of being president went on sale
Friday after a Paris court rejected her demand to stop its publication,
France-Info radio reported.
In the book, entitled simply Cecilia, the former Madame Sarkozy is
quoted by author Anna...
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 France’s First
Lady is releasing her third studio album, titled “Comme si de rien n’etait”
(“As If Nothing Had Happened”), showing the world that the man that she loves
is more powerful than hard drugs. Carla Bruni confessed that the source of
inspiration for her lyrics was her love for her spouse, President Nicolas
Sarkozy. The...
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 Music superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z took out a marriage
license in Westchester’s Scarsdale
Village yesterday morning,
a source reportedly told People.com. According to the report, the license is
valid for 60 days in New York.
It appears that the pair told their friends that they would
like to marry in May, after the end of...
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 Sara Evans, the successful traditional-styled singer from Nashville, engaged to the
radio host Jay Barker, People.com reports. Evans, who is now one of country
music’s most popular artists, received Gold and Platinum certified albums for
“Restless” (2004) and “Real Fine
Place” (2005).
The country singer and Jay Baker, 37, are in...
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 Whitney Houston’s fans will be thrilled to learn that the
artist is making preparations for a new album that is due to be released this
year, BMG Label Group chairman/CEO Clive Davis announced on Thursday.
The material will be the first original production of the
singer’s since 2002. At the Billboard’s Music & Money Symposium...
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 Jessica Simpson has been sued by Speedfit
company as she banned the release of a fitness tape she shot in 2005. By doing
this, “Dukes of Hazzard” star might be “hurting millions of fat people in America,”
Alex Astilean, Speedfit owner told the press.
Jessica Simpson shot the fitness
video in 2005 to show how she managed to...
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 Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and
former All Saints member Nicole Appleton decided to tie the knot on Valentine’s
Day. The couple secretly married in London
on February 14, after a relationship of eight years. They have a seven-year-old
son, Gene, who attended the ceremony.
Liam’s brother and Oasis
guitarist Noel did not...
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 The American musician, Ike Turner, renowned for his controversial marriage with his former wife Tina Turner, died on Wednesday in his home in San Diego.At the age of 76, Ike Turner died in the presence of his wife, Jeanette Bazzell Turner, who married him in 1995. She did not reveal the cause of his death, but stated that he suffered...
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 Noah Baumbach made a terrific job with his “Squid and the
Whale”, depicting the drama of a dysfunctional Brooklyn
family that ends with a divorce that leaves deep marks on the two sons. And you
rightfully might expect the same quality time from his new “Margot At The
Wedding”, but there isn’t unfortunately.
Margot, a successful...
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 The author of
"Election" (1998) and " Little Children" (2004), Tom
Perrotta tackles the upper-middle-class living in the Northeastern suburbs, a
religious community whose mundane life is marked by the struggle between
credence and sex.
The Abstinence Teacher depicts
the story of a recently-divorced sex-ed...
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 A Brigham Young University study has found that people who are happily married have significantly less heart problems than those who are single or whose marriages are not going well. The benefits were not observed in those involved in supportive social networks."There seem to be some unique health benefits from marriage. It's not...
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 It does not take a scientist to figure out that a bad
marriage can cause you only problems, but did anyone ever think that it could
actually cause heart problems, and I don’t mean a broken heart.
According to recent studies, unhappy couples are more likely
to have a heart attack or chest pains than those who have healthy...
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Christopher Ciccone has little in common with his sister, ultra fit and apparently ageless pop star Madonna.
The 47-year-old Ciccone is so reserved he comes across almost as shy. He's wrapped in an oversized hooded sweatshirt, and the wrinkles show around his eyes, making him look personable.
Despite the cool autumn weather, he...
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Stacy Peterson, the wife of a former police officer, has become known worldwide as she disappeared a year ago with nobody to track her down. On Tuesday, there has been exactly a year since her disappearance and the family members will hold a candlelight vigil. Still, her husband will again be in New York to tell a national television...
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 According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the leader of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, turned down actress Lindsay Lohan when she offered her support on Wednesday for his presidential campaign. Obama was quoted by the newspaper when he said “thanks, but no thanks” to Lindsay’s offer.Lindsay wanted to host a series of events for the...
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 Daniled J. Collins, 39, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he had obliged his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family’s cat. The man forced the little girl stabbing the poor cat while he was holding the knife in the girl’s hand.On Thursday, during his trial, the man said he was “extremely sorry” for what he had done and that...
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Waving blue and white signs, 4,400 Democratic delegates roared approval at a parade of the party's stars on Monday, including the ailing Senator Edward Kennedy, former president Jimmy Carter and Michelle Obama.
Whether it was the kind of energy that will propel presumptive candidate Barack Obama, 47, into the White House in November...
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 Opponents of same-sex marriage seem to have taken a lead in campaign funding on a California referendum, according to filings from groups on both sides of the matter.Advocates of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage, raised an estimated $3.7 million from Jan. 1 through June 30, by comparison with gay-rights advocates who went...
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 New York City will start offering services in six foreign languages most commonly spoken in the city besides English. These idioms are Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Italian and French Creole. The new program is designed to broadly enlarge the town’s translation and interpretation services.An executive order signed Tuesday by Mayor...
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Warren Jeffs, 52, is the leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that practices polygamy. The FLDS has an estimated number of 10,000 members. Jeffs was convicted in Utah, in November last year, to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison. After that he had been convicted on two...
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 The Massachusetts Senate voted on Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law which banned gay couples living in other states from getting married in Massachusetts. The law prohibited same-sex couples from acquiring marriage licenses if they could not legally get married in the states in which they inhabit.The repeal attempt has the support of...
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 Massachusetts became the first state to agree to marriages between gay couples in 2004. Now, a 1913 state law seems to be back on track and doesn’t allow out-of-state gay couples to get married in Massachusetts if their unions are illegal in their home states.Former Gov. Mitt Romney remembered the forgotten law after gay marriage went...
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 Warren S. Jeffs, 52, sect leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was taken to the hospital on Tuesday, because he was found “convulsive” and feverish inside his jail cell in Arizona.The polygamist leader was taken to a Las Vegas hospital by helicopter and was transferred back to jail on Wednesday. He...
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Sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to a hospital in
Las Vegas on Tuesday. Police wouldn’t say why and the real cause of his
departure hasn't been found out yet. Jeffs was taken to the Sunrise Hospital and
Medical Center in Las Vegas from an Arizona Jail.
The jail in Kingman, Arizona is 100 miles from the
medical center and the...
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A survey last year by LifeWay Research, a US
Christian think-tank, revealed that a majority of adults who said they
believed in God never went to church. The reason: 72 per cent of
non-churchgoers said they thought the church 'was full of hypocrites.'
Another survey by Barna Group, a Christian survey organization,
found that young...
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Christie Brinkley admitted on Thursday in a Long
Island, New York
courtroom that she was destroyed the day she found out the fact that her
husband was having a mistress.
Details of her divorce from Peter Cook continue to be disclosed to the public. Whereas initially the man denied the affair with his
18-year-old assistant,...
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who created a public
reputation by admitting his controversial and sharp views regarding same-sex
marriage, has made a first public step forward, by launching an exploratory bid
for governor on Tuesday.
Mayor Newsom’s second and final term is due to expire in
2011. Speculation concerning him...
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 Governor David A. Paterson, who pleads for marriage between
same-sex partners, attended on Sunday the 39th annual pride parade, in spite of
the fact that he had received medical orders to stay at home, after undertaking
eye surgery.
A drag queen, cheerfully and colorfully dressed, announced
the most important people that were...
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 San Francisco
is preparing for the 38th annual gay pride parade, when big crowds
are expected to celebrate their recently approved right to marry. As gay
marriage became legal earlier this month, Friday was the city’s busiest day for
weddings.
The San Francisco
county clerk said he had 259 marriage license appointments and 284...
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 Same-sex couples who spent years hoping for the legal right to wed finally had that opportunity as the city opened a special office in a park auditorium in West Hollywood, California, on Tuesday to issue gender-neutral marriage licenses.
Actor George Takei and his partner were among the first Californian couples to get a wedding...
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 Today, USA
President George W. Bush was given a special treatment by Pope Benedict XVI. The
US President had the
opportunity to take a walk along with the pope through the Vatican
gardens, the place where popes pray privately. The Guardian.co.uk reports hat
this was the first time for a head of a state to meet the pope outside of...
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 Eldorado, Texas – A judge from Texas Court issued on Tuesday a
ruling for releasing a 16-year-old girl under special conditions after she had
complained to be sexually harassed by a man from the sect group she belonged to.
Her lawyer insisted she might be in danger.
The young girl is the daughter of the polygamist sect prophet,...
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 Californian citizens will have the chance to amend the state
constitution with defining the marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
This would come as a response against a Supreme Court decision issued on May 15
which legalized the same-sex unions.
A simple majority on the November 4 ballot is sufficient to ban...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey
tried to convince a judge that she is entitled to alimony, saying she is deeply
in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital
in Newark. She
said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend have left
her deeply in debt.
The...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to convince a judge that she was entitled to alimony, saying she was deeply in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital in Newark. She said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend had left her deeply in debt.The two...
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 The New York Governor, David
Patterson, has directed state agencies to recognize same-sex unions performed
in states or countries where these were legal. According to his spokesman Erin
Duggan, the governor’s indication for state agencies to revise their policies
and regulations accordingly is based on a May 14 memo.
The memo’s...
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 Politicians, religious and conservative
groups’ representatives are trying to get an initiative on the November ballot
to block a recent state Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage
in the Golden State. The initiative is expected to
qualify for the ballot after June 16, when the court’s decision is scheduled to
take...
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 A ruling on whether California
should legalize same-sex marriage is due on Thursday from the state’s supreme
court, CNN reports. If the court rules in favor of the gay marriage, California could become the second state after Massachusetts where gay
and lesbian residents can wed.
“What happens in California,
either way, will...
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 Virginia Hasn’t Always
Been for Lovers, the book written by Phyl Newbeck, resumes the case of Mildred Loving, a black woman whose battle
through the courts to marry a white man and to be able to live where they
wanted changed the Supreme Court’s position over interracial marriages. She
died on May 2 at her home in Central
Point,...
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 The U.S. Presbyterian Church has decided Tuesday that the
minister who performed gay marriages was not guilty for violating the church’s
constitution. Reverend Jane Adams Spahr is an activist for gay and lesbian
causes who lives in San Rafael,
California. She has been
previously found guilty for officiating at the weddings of two...
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 It appears the battle over same-sex marriage in California
heated up Thursday, when supporters of an initiative to ban it in the state’s
Constitution submitted more than 1.1 million signatures in an effort to qualify
the measure for the November ballot, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
County and state officials will make...
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 Custody hearings continued at the courthouse in San Angelo. Parents and
relatives of more than 400 children who were removed from the polygamist compound a couple of weeks ago tried to get custody of the children.
Some of the girls removed in the raid at the ranch owned by
the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...
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 Officials continued raids on a Texas ranch belonging to a withdrawal Mormon sect, removing 183 women and children since Thursday. Authorities began the raids after reports that a 16-year-old girl was sexually abused. It appears that the investigators are searching for evidence of a marriage between the teen and a 50-year-old man, as...
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 U.S. Senator’s Debbie Stabenow husband admitted that he used
the Internet to arrange a $150 sexual rendezvous with a prostitute at a
metropolitan Detroit
hotel, authorities said Wednesday.
According to a police report obtained by the Associated
Press, Thomas Athans’car was stopped by the police on February 26 at the...
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 Russell Yates, the father of the five children who were
drowned in the bathtub by his former wife and their mother, is a daddy once again. His new wife,
Laura Arnold gave birth to a “healthy boy.” No further details were given, but
Yates told ABC News that the child as well as his mother, are perfectly fine. Arnold is not at her...
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 During a television interview on Monday, New York’s Governor David A. Paterson
confessed that he had tried both cocaine and marijuana back in 1970s. Mr. Paterson
said that he took cocaine for “a couple of times” when he was about 22 or 23,
and also marijuana when he was 20. However, he added that he hadn’t used drugs
ever since....
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 The Democrat David Paterson was sworn in yesterday after
Eliot Spitzer stepped down over the allegations that he had links with a
prostitution ring.
According to Paterson’s
spokesman Armen Meyer, his first day as a governor will be spent “meeting with
senior staff, lawmakers and others, focused on the budget and state...
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 The mayor of Los Angeles, California, Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa confirmed he has an ongoing intimate relationship with television newswoman Mirthala Salinas."I have had a relationship with Ms. Salinas over time. It has evolved, and today I have acknowledged that relationship," said the Latino LA mayor, who is caught in a...
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 Newlywed Gisele Bundchen opened up about her new husband, motherhood and desire to have a huge family in the upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar. Talking for the first time about her marriage, Bundchen, who married Brady in a small ceremony in Santa Monica last month, said she wants to have what her parents, who have been together for 36...
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 After recently divorcing from hip-hop mogul, Russell
Simmons, Kimora Lee won sole custody of her two daughters, Ming, aged 8 and
Aoki, aged 5.
The papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on
Tuesday and apart from granting Kimora Lee exclusive custody of the two girls,
Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons was...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reportedly decided to break up after a marriage of seven years. The opinions about the reasons they had are divided between lots of sources. Some say that Guy has had enough of her flirting with some young artists, like Timberlake or Stuart Price and he just couldn’t bear to be “second...
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 Pamela Anderson can add a tick on her to-do list, now that
her two-month marriage with Rick Salomon has been annulled.
The two obtained the official annulment of their brief
marriage on Monday, according to documents filed in Superior Court. The
official papers cited fraud as the reason of the annulment, but didn’t disclose
any...
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 The bitter divorce that gave tabloid media so much food for
gossip between Beatles’ Paul McCartney and Heather Mills ended with a
settlement with $48.6 million in favor of the former model-turned activist.
According to a document released by the Family Court, Mills
was granted a lump sum of $33 million to which assets worth $15.6...
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 Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife and
former Bond girl, Denise Richards is going to star in a new reality show for E!
set, along with her two daughters, Variety reports. The show, due to begin this summer, has not
been titled yet.
The show is produced by Ryan
Seacrest Productions. The show will follow the 36-year-old actress “as...
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 Travis Barker, member of Blink
182, and Shanna Moakler, former Miss USA, have finally divorced,
according to TMZ.
The couple was on the verge of
breaking up almost two years ago, when Shanna Moakler filed for divorced in August
2006, but by March 2007, the former American beauty queen came running back to
her husband, with...
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 Three-time Academy Award-winning film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright Woody Allen will make his operatic stage debut in the fall of 2008 with the Los Angeles Opera's production of Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi," Hollywood Reporter says."I have no idea what I am doing, but incompetence...
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Amsterdam - A Dutch Catholic priest has been allowed to retain a formal relationship with a woman after a deadline for an appeal against the union expired, Dutch media reported Wednesday.
A Catholic court had previously ruled that Dutch priest Ruud Huysmans could not be held accountable for violating Church law when he had entered a...
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Stockholm/Reykjavik - Iceland seems set to make political history again after the recent collapse of its ruling coalition since the top candidate as interim prime minister is openly gay.
If Johanna Sigurdardottir, outgoing social affairs minister, succeeds in forming a government, she would be Iceland's first woman prime minister and...
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Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky, creator of organic-shaped buildings and a design visionary, died suddenly at the age of 71, medical services confirmed Thursday.
Kaplicky collapsed on a Prague street on Wednesday evening. He died of heart failure despite efforts to resuscitate him just hours after his daughter was born, his...
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Remarks by Pope Benedict XVI suggesting that safeguarding "human ecology" - intended as the concept of men and women created as distinct beings by God - is as important as "protecting tropical forests" have angered gay rights activists.
The Vatican did not immediately comment Tuesday on the remarks made by the...
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An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own sister in Germany.
The May 15 stabbing death of Morsal O, 16, in Hamburg attracted enormous attention at a time when Germans were concerned at a rash of "honour killings" by immigrants from archaic central Asian societies.
The term...
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A famous country pile, an elegant town house, a smart pub in Mayfair and the value of luxury homes in London and New York are among the spoils of matrimony with which Britain's Guy Ritchie is walking away from his eight-year marriage to Madonna.
Ritchie, a publicity-shy film director of considerable means, insisted for weeks that he...
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Amsterdam's gays are planning special Christmas celebrations this year with their first "Pink Christmas" festival due to start on Thursday.
The ten-day festival organized by the Dutch ProGay Foundation includes a special Christmas fair on December 21, a manger stall with two live Josephs and two live Marys, as well as a...
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US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over.
The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
The couple, who have three children,...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
High-profile...
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During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and discretion.
But at the time of her 70th birthday, the Greek-born wife of King Juan Carlos stunned the country with a sudden outburst of outspokenness, reigniting a debate about the role of the monarchy.
The queen opened up to journalist Pilar Urbano,...
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The Spanish royal court distanced itself Friday from comments expressed by Queen Sofia in a new biography in which she opposes gay marriage, among other political comments.
The queen was making the comments "in a private framework," a statement from the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid said. The queen's comments had also been...
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Spain's Queen Sofia opposes gay marriage and doesn't understand the need for gay pride parades, according to a report in the daily El Pais about a newly published biography on the queen.
According to the report, the queen is not opposed, in principle, to homosexuals living together or forming unions. "But you can't characterize...
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A day after pop-star Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie announced the end of their seven-year marriage British newspapers launched into feverish speculation Thursday about how much the split could cost the "Material Girl" superstar.
Figures ranged from 50 million pounds (86 million dollars) to 150 million pounds, based on...
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The Portuguese parliament Friday rejected a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage with an overwhelming majority, with the governing Socialists arguing that the time was not ripe.
The draft legislation had been tabled by the Greens and the Left Bloc.
Prime Minister Jose Socrates' Socialists and the opposition conservative parties...
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The Vatican issued its traditional good wishes to Muslims on Friday for their holy month of Ramadan, calling on them to work with Christians to defend the "dignity" of the traditional family.
The Vatican's top official for relations with Muslims, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran wrote that the family offered "a mutually...
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Pope Benedict XVI ended his four-day visit to France on Monday with a mass for the sick in the southern pilgrimage site of Lourdes.
Thousands of ill people from all over the world, many of them in wheelchairs or on stretchers, took part in the mass in the hope of a miraculous cure or simply morale.
"Many cures occur...
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By the time Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero finishes serving his second term as Spanish prime minister, his country is likely to have undergone a radical transformation.
During the 3.5 years that remain of his term after his re-election in March, Zapatero intends to complete sweeping social reforms that will turn traditionally...
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Germany's Commerzbank AG and insurer Allianz SE said Thursday their boards are to meet Sunday amid mounting speculation of a merger between two of the nation's leading banks.
While an Allianz spokesman declined to comment on what the insurer's board members will discuss, the meeting in Munich is widely expected to agree to selling off...
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Jean Sarkozy, the 21-year-old son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has filed a complaint against unknown persons over anti-Semitic grafitti, the daily Le Figaro reported Friday.
The paper said a suspect, 63, had been arrested by police, a man with a previous record of known anti-Semitic comments.
The younger Sarkozy's complaint...
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Liberals in the worldwide Anglican Church can take comfort from views expressed eight years ago on the vexed issue of homosexuality by Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, the London Times said Thursday.
In correspondence seen by the Times, Williams expressed the belief that gay sexual relationships can "reflect...
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 The jury found that Diana, Princess of Wales, and her
boyfriend, Dodi al-Fayed, were unlawfully killed in the 1997 car accident by
their driver, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who followed them through Paris.
The verdict caused mixed reactions, as Dodi’s father,
Mohammed al-Fayed, rejected it. “The jury have found that it...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in London
on Wednesday on a two-day state visit that he hopes will denote a new
“brotherhood” between France
and Britain.
Sarkozy expects to develop cooperation with Britain on defense, economy and
illegal immigration.
“I want a new Franco-British brotherhood,”...
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 In October 2007, French President Nickolas Sarkozy and his wife announced a surprising divorce after a marriage of 11 years. Now both have remarried. Since the separation, it seems things have come to normal as both the president and his former wife remarried. In February Sarkozy made official his romantic affair with the supermodel...
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 After wining another four-year term as Spain’s Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that this victory marks the beginning of a new era in the country’s politics. Zapatero’s Socialist Party managed to win 169 seats. It’s a five-seat improvement from the last elections that took place in 2004, but still seven seats short of...
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 In an
interview given on Tuesday for “L’Express” magazine, Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy, as she
was named in the newspaper, confesses her feelings for the president of France. The
couple was married on Feb. 2, in a secret ceremony, that took place at the
presidential Elysée
Palace.
It was the
first marriage for...
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French President Nicholas Sarkozy
and his new wife Carla Bruni have won the lawsuit against the low-cost Irish
airline Ryanair.
But the French court set the damages
for Carla Bruni at only 60,000 euros, a small part from the amount of 500,000
euro she had asked for.
Bruni, a former model, was not
pleased about the...
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 French president Nicolas Sarkozy has married his girlfriend,
supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni, on Saturday at the Elysee
Palace, announced Francois Lebel,
mayor of Paris'
eighth arrondissement, who performed the civil ceremony.
Francois Lebel told French Europe-1 radio that the bride
wore white and looked "ravishing, as...
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 Princess Diana planned a private wedding to a Pakistani heart surgeon
whom she called "Mr Wonderful" and never intended to get married to
Harrods' heir Dodi al-Fayed, with whom she died in Paris in August
1997, the inquest into their deaths was told Monday.
Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler whom she called her...
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A pair of twins in Britain who were separated at birth and adopted by
different families married each other without realizing they were
brother and sister and have now had their union annulled by a court, it
was revealed Friday.
The extraordinary case, brought to public attention by David Alton,
a liberal member of Britain's House...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his girlfriend, pop singer and
former supermodel Carla Bruni, will get married soon, the weekly Le
Journal du Dimanche reported on Sunday.
According to the paper, which cites anonymous sources, the wedding
is to take place February 8 or 9, just two weeks after Sarkozy
celebrates his 53rd...
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 Britain's Prince William is due to start a four-month attachment to the
Royal Air Force (RAF) next week after a one-year spell in the army, it
was reported Friday.
William, 25, is to train as a pilot flying helicopters and
fixed-wing aircraft at an RAF school at Cranwell, in the county of
Lincolnshire, in north-east...
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 Young Britons overwhelmingly back the monarchy and would like to see
Prince William to be the next monarch, of whose girlfriend Kate
Middleton they also wholeheartedly approve, an opinion poll showed
Friday.
A poll of 1,004 young people, aged between 18 and 24, showed that
nearly 70 per cent want to keep the royal family, even...
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 Liberal Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt on Sunday called on the
country's major parties to finally agree on the key points of
constitutional reform, as the parliament gave his temporary government
its vote of confidence.
Some 97 legislators gave him their vote of confidence, with 46 votes against.
The government, which is...
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 The inquest into the death of Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed in
London heard Thursday that Prince Philip allegedly referred to Diana's
lover as "an oily bed-hopper" amid suggestions that the relationship
should "be curtailed."
In the course of evidence given to the inquest Thursday by
Brigadier Miles...
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 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Monday retraced their
steps down the aisle of Westminster Abbey in London to mark the diamond
anniversary of their wedding there 60 years ago.
The queen, 81, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 86, were at the centre of
a Service of Thanksgiving, attended by 2,000 guests, and members of...
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One of Osama bin Laden’s sons, Omar seems to have a secret wife in Britain, as the 51-year-old parish councillor claims to have married to the child of al-Qaeda’s founder.Jane Felix-Browne a woman from Moulton, Cheshire says she met 27-year-old Omar while riding a hoarse near the Great Pyramid in Egypt last September and after a wild...
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 After the Group of Eight summit was over, US President George W Bush took of for Italy where he met with President Giorgio Napolitano, Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Pope Benedict.During his interview with Prodi, Bush left aside their divergences regarding the number of Italian troops in Afghanistan or the pull-out from Iraq and...
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 HBO has decided not to renew its sexually
explicit drama “Tell Me You Love Me” for a second season. The show has been cancelled
after one year since the series premiered on the pay cable channel. Cynthia
Mort, the creator of the series, said she “couldn’t find the right direction”
to take the show.
“Tell Me You Love Me,” a look...
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The
fourth season of The Bachelorette finished on Monday night, broadcasted on ABC,
when DeAnna Pappas accepted the proposal from Jesse Csincsak. She agreed
marrying the 25-year old professional snowboarder from Colorado,
after declining the proposal from 31-year old Jason Mesnick, an account
manager, originally from...
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 Sony Pictures TV and America’s most popular
talk-show’s host, Oprah Winfrey, announced that heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet C. Oz,
who was given the moniker Dr. Oz during appearances in “The Oprah Winfrey Show,”
will host an upcoming talk show, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures.
Winfrey said the new series, scheduled for
a 2009...
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 For
any man in this world the moment of the marriage proposal is the hardest of
all. But think about loving two women at a time and having to choose one of
them to spend the rest of your life with! Pretty tough, isn’t it? I thought so,
too. But the moment has come for “The Bachelor: London Calling” star Matt Grant
to choose his...
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 The drama of the high-career woman in the search of a
pleasant personal life made its debut with the popular TV series “Sex And The
City.”
HBO’s series made career with the theme of powerful women,
addicted to designer shoes, who always find consolation in discussions with
their girlfriends and will remain an authority in this...
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 WBBM-Channel 2 lost news anchor Randy Salerno, 45, on
Thursday night, in a snowmobile crash.
His long-time friend, Scott D. Hirschey was driving the
snowmobile; the snow vehicle slammed several trees and Salerno lost his life. Hirschey is charged
with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
The two were returning on Thursday...
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 Now, come to mamma and tell me who has been missing the
first two seasons of Grey’s Anatomy? Okay, me too, me too, but shush now ‘cause
the fun and complicated plot is back on our TVs!
Callie (Sara Ramirez) is determined to save her marriage
with George (T. R. Knight) and tell him simply that she forgives him for having
slept...
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 A starter wife is that first wife, completely devoted and self-sacrificing, that stands by her husband as he struggles to the top. Once up there, he leaves her.
“The Starter Wife” television mini-series stars Debra Messing, of “Will & Grace” fame, as one of them starter wife victims, trying to overcome the pain...
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 We’ve all gotten used to Ashton Kutcher playing roles of shy
or clumsy young men, so it is very hard to think of him as a mature and responsible
man. Would you ever imagine the 30-year-old Ashton playing some serious roles?
Probably not, but he might manage pretty well to do this. After all, he did
demonstrate that he can be a great...
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 Christian Brando was late Hollywood star Marlon
Brando’s eldest son. Unfortunately, at only 49 year old, Christian Brando died on
Saturday of complications from pneumonia, according to both The New York Post
and People magazine.
“His body was totally
compromised. […] He’d lived so hard… this is just so sad,” Christian...
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 Noah Baumbach made a terrific job with his “Squid and the Whale”, depicting the drama of a dysfunctional Brooklyn family that ends with a divorce that leaves deep marks on the two sons. And you rightfully might expect the same quality time from his new “Margot At The Wedding”, but there isn’t unfortunately. Margot, a successful New York...
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 Ben Affleck is proud to be the latest addition to the cast of “He's
Just Not That into You,” a Baltimore-set
movie of interconnecting story arcs dealing with the challenges of reading or
misreading human behavior.
Ben Affleck and Kris Kristofferson are joining the all-star
cast already made up of Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett...
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 JT joined the cast of actor Mike Myers' new comedy, "The Love Guru," Variety.com reported. If Myers, who co-wrote the movie script with Graham Gordy, had a word in casting Timberlake for the movie, he must like him quit some, considering that this is the second time they’ll be joining forces in a movie. Before "The Love...
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 Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston is reportedly in final negotiations to star in New Line Cinema’s comedy, "He’s Just Not That Into You."If all goes well, the "Friends" star, who’s set to play a woman in a long term relationship with a boyfriend who won’t commit to marriage, will be joining actors like Jennifer...
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 English writer-director Guy Ritchie apparently tries to prove his marriage with Madonna didn't totally kill off his talent. He signed up "300" star Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton and rapper Chris "Ludacris" Bridges for his "RocknRolla," Ritchie's latest attempt at the mob movie genre.After a...
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 Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have a Hugh Hefner biopic in the works, titled "Playboy." Variety reports that Brett Ratner is set to direct, while Brian Grazer is producing and John Hoffman is writing the screenplay.Brian Grazer, who won the best picture Academy Award for "A Beautiful Mind," acquired the...
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 Generations meet and clash and compete in dysfunctionalities as three women, mother, daughter and granddaughter, struggle with life’s unavoidable hardships.
The movie’s poster would have you think this is a light-hearted, recreational yet probably educational family story, due to the promising presence of 1) Jane Fonda; 2)...
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 British actress Natasha Richardson was hospitalized on Monday afternoon in Montreal due to a serious head injury she had suffered, according to published reports. Moreover, the 45-year-old was in critical condition following a ski accident in Quebec.In spite of the fact that People.com and IrishCentral.com initially reported that the...
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 Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston may reconcile … later.The former fiancé of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter explained in an interview that he and Bristol Palin could get back together but that they would stay friends at least for now.The 19-year-old fresh father told ABC’s “Good Morning America” during a segment scheduled to air on...
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 Singer/actress Mandy Moore and rocker Ryan Adams have said “I do” during a ceremony that could scarcely be described as astonishing.The two got hitched on Tuesday in Savannah, Georgia, according to US Magazine, while representatives for both celebrities have confirmed reports regarding the marriage.Thus, the event should surprise no one,...
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 Actress/singer Mandy Moore married indie rocker Ryan Adams. The pair, who've dated on and off for the past year, tied the knot in a small ceremony on Tuesday in Savannah, Ga, the actress-singer's publicist confirms. The twosome announced their engagement on Feb. 11 after dating on and off for more than a year. After a few months apart,...
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 Looks like Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman's rekindled romance didn't last too long. Usmagazine.com has confirmed that the couple have broken up again, and it seems like this one is permanent. "Late night" host Jimmy Kimmel and comic Sarah Silverman, who have been dating on-and-off for the last few months, have called it quits...
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 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have six children together: Maddox, 7, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, Shiloh, 2, and the newborn twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. But the older ones already started making questions about their parents living together and getting married. “Why are Shrek and Fiona married and you're not?” the children asked the...
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 George Clooney has been widely known for his sexy looks and the thing that he got married only once, in spite of these appearances. He was married to actress Talia Balsam in 1989 and divorced her in 1993. He is now 47 years old and after the failed marriage he started a relationship with Krista Allen in 2002. After the two dated for...
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 Wow! Angelina Jolie can’t get enough kids! The “Changeling” movie star just gave birth to twins three months ago, but that didn’t mean she and Brad Pitt would stop there. The couple now wants to adopt another child, as Angelina stated during “Today” show. She told host Matt Lauer on Thursday morning that six kids aren’t enough for...
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 Madonna, 50, and film director Guy Ritchie, 40, have been together for eight years and they will soon announce their divorce. Madonna and Guy Ritchie met back in 1999 through their friends Sting and Trudie Styler, the singer’s wife. After that, Madonna gave birth to their son, Rocco, in Los Angeles, on August 11, 2000 and she married Guy...
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 It has been reported that 50-year-old Madonna will divorce her husband, film director Guy Ritchie. The rumors about the two splitting up started since the end of June, but they denied them. Madonna and Guy have been together for eight years and will soon announce their divorce. In July, Madonna’s publicist stated that the two have no...
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 Former model Christie Brinkley started her divorce petition against her husband, Peter Cook, at the beginning of 2008’s summer. The two haven’t ended their dispute until now, as two children have remained behind their battle. Peter Cook cheated on Brinkley with a teen age girl while he was visiting porn sites on the internet. The former...
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 Lindsay Lohan has been in the spotlights lately only because of her affair (or not) with DJ Samantha Ronson. But the actress has now found something else to speak about and to show her rebellious ideas. Lindsay has argued about the Republican vice presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin’s ideas on the world that we live in.Lindsay wrote on...
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 U.S. comedy “30 Rock” will receive Jennifer Aniston, 39, in a guest appearance. The TV show will also have Tiny Fey and Alec Baldwin in the cast. The comedy will show behind the scenes of a TV network and the important corporation which owns it. Also David Schwimmer, who played the role of Ross Geller in “Friends,” appeared in the 30th...
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 Charlie Sheen, 42, started his career at the age of only 9, when he appeared in a small role together with his father, Martin Sheen, in the television movie “Two and a Half Man.” Still, his film career began in 1984 with roles in “Red Dawn” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” The American actor won a Golden Globe and an Emmy……but things...
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Matt Damon, on his real name Matthew Paige Damon, is an American screenwriter and an actor. For the screenwriting of “Good Will Hunting” he received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Since 1997, he is one of the most popular actors in Hollywood.The film gained Matt Damon and Benn Affleck an Oscar for the best original...
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 Morgan Freeman, 71, has four children and won the Academy Award in 2004 and a Golden Globe Award for best actor for the “Driving Miss Daisy” in 1990. Still, Morgan Freeman made his acting debut when he was only 8 and played the lead role in a school play.The great actor was married to Jeanette Adair Bradshaw from 1967 until 1979 before...
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 Lisa Marie Presley is the only daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. She was born in 1968 and she is an American singer and songwriter. Lisa Marie Presley was first married to Danny Keough, on October 3, 1988. They got two kids together, Danielle Riley, born in 1989 and Benjamin Storm, born in 1992. The singer divorced Keough...
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 Guy Ritchie’s marriage to Madonna “is fine,” as far as he is aware of, the film director told People in a recent interview. He denied rumors that their marriage is on the rocks. Ritchie, 39, who joined the cast of his upcoming directorial effort “RocknRolla’ on Thursday afternoon at the San Diego International Comic-Con, also spoke about...
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 Pamela Anderson and his ex-husband Tommy
Lee are back together again. Or, at least, they are living together again. The
former sex-tape stars were married for three years. The couple got married in a
surprise ceremony in February, 1995 and divorced three years later, in 1998.
Since her marriage to Lee, Anderson had been married...
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 Ethan Hawke’s wife has given birth to a baby
girl, Clementine Jane Hawke. The couple welcomed the beautiful girl on July 18
in New York City,
Hawke’s publicist, Mara Buxbaum said.
Ryan Shawhughes, 28, the former nanny of
the former couple Ethan Hawke-Uma Thurman, confirmed the pregnancy in January. The
37-year-old actor was...
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 A Broadway producer whose wife trashed him in a YouTube video has been granted a divorce from her. Actress Tricia Walsh-Smith, who became more famous after posting on the video sharing website monologues about her marriage, must leave within a month the Park Avenue apartment belonging to mogul Philip Smith, a judge decided on Monday. The...
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 A representative for Salma Hayek stated that the actress and her French
billionaire fiancé Francois-Henri Pinault have called off their engagement.
The explanation for the marriage nixing hasn’t been given yet. Also, it isn’t
known whether the two continue to form a couple, although a wedding isn’t
expected in the future. "We...
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 Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, told Deborah Roberts on “Good morning America,” broadcasted on ABC, that it is unlikely that his sister was involved in a relationship with A-Rod and that she had anything to do with the break up of the baseball star and Cynthia Rodriguez. The author of “Life with my sister Madonna” said that,...
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 She gets the kids, her Hamptons properties that Cook had advised her to buy, half of the family fishing boat that she had bought Cook for his 40th birthday, named Sweet Freedom; the boat will be sold and the profit split. But his girlfriend, Suzanne Shaw is standing by him after he lost the custody battle at the end of the “toxic”...
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 Ethan Hawke has married his girlfriend and former family
nanny, Ryan Shawhughes, the actor’s publicist confirmed on Thursday.
While Hawke’s ex-wife Uma Thurman got engaged last month, the
actor married his pregnant girlfriend in New York City, Mara Buxbaum said in an
e-mail to The Associated Press.
Buxbaum added that no further...
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 The ugly divorce trial of former model
Christie Brinkley and architect Peter Cook reached its final round on Thursday
with a settlement awarding Brinkley sole custody of their two children.
Her attorney, Robert Cohen said she will
keep her Hamptons
properties that her fourth husband had advised her to buy. The family fishing...
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 Tom Cruise sent a “room full of flowers” to ex-wife and new mother Nicole Kidman. “Tom was one of the first people to get in touch and sent her enough flowers to fill a room,” a source told the Daily Mirror. Cruise and Kidman split in 2000 after nearly 10 years of marriage. She also received a floral arrangement from Australia’s Prime...
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Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook started their divorce trial
on Thursday, July 3, because of the affair Cook had had with Diana Bianchi, 18,
some two years ago and his other so-called affairs on porn web sites. After
several days of public arguing, the two try to settle down their custody
dispute.
The couple and their lawyers,...
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 Despite rumors that their marriage is on the rocks, both
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon declare they are very happy about their marriage
and they are enjoying every bit of it.
Mariah Carey told Elle magazine that she used to fantasize
about being “kidnapped” from her unhappy life.
“When I was in an unhappy place in my life ... I...
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 Christie Brinkley’s so-called “toxic
divorce” moves to day 4. Dr. Stephen Herman of Manhattan, the psychiatrist who was appointed
by the court to testifie in Christie Brinkley- Peter Cook’s divorce trial, said
“Mr. Cook is characterologically a narcissist.” “While most people need a
feeding for their egos, Mr. Cook has an insatiable...
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 Peter Cook – Christie Brinkley’s divorce
proceedings, which started in New
York on July 2, continued Monday with another round. The
former supermodel accused Cook of manhandling their children, saying he used
force with them, according to People.
“At times he was too strong, too
overwhelming with his use of force,” the former...
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The New York Daily News reported
on Thursday that Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia, have broken up, after being
married for 6 years. The press hypothesizes that he has been involved in an extra
conjugal relationship the “Material girl”, pop icon Madonna.
The brokenhearted Cynthia
considers that the Yankee star has been...
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 In the course of rumors of unfaithfulness and divorce,
Madonna and Guy Ritchie were present with their children at Kabbalah services
in NY City on July 5.
Stories of infidelity started last week when many celebrity
magazines and tabloids began reporting that Madonna, whose spouse is the
British film director Guy Ritchie, had...
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 The former Sports Illustrated model, Christie Brinkley, 54, testified at her divorce trial, on Thursday, that she had been devastated by her husband’s affair with Diana Bianchi, 18. Peter Cook, 49, tried to deny everything, but in the end he confessed that Diana Bianchi was his only extramarital affair.Christie Brinkle also found out...
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 Rumors have it that Yankees celebrity Alex Rodriguez, 32, and
even more famous singer Madonna, 49, are becoming too close to call their
relationship simple amity. The marriages of both superstars are said to be on the
rocks, so the tabloids have linked the two, although Madonna’s spokeswoman has
denied the stories regarding the pop...
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Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ wife, Kimora
Lee Simmons, is demanding $480,000 in child support each year for their two
daughters.
After nine years of marriage Russell
Simmons and Kimora Lee divorced this year. Kimora Lee, 33, filled for divorce
earlier this year, citing irreconcilable differences, and asked for primary
custody...
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 Pop star Madonna is seeking legal advice to end her
seven-year marriage to film director Guy Ritchie, the Times of London informs.The 49-year-old singer has reportedly sought advice from
divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton, the same lawyer that represented Paul
McCartney when he divorced from Heather Mills, helping him to keep his...
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 Singer Jessica Simpson appeared on The View on June 25 to promote her upcoming country music album, which is to be released on September 9.
The host asked her about her relationship with Dallas Cowboys star Tony Romo, interested whether they have wedding plans or not. The 27-year-old singer dismissed
the rumors that claim she and...
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 Britney Spears and Kevin Federline met
again Tuesday in the courtroom. The child custody hearing in Los Angeles County
Superior court resulted in “a change of visitation status” for the 26-year-old
singer. It looks like the singer’s attempt to get more visitation rights for
her two sons from her marriage with Kevin Federline was a...
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 George Takei of “Star Trek” with his partner Brad Altman were among the first celebrities to obtain a marriage license on the first day of same-sex weddings in California last week. Same-sex couples who hoped for a long time to obtain the legal right to wed finally had that opportunity to see their dream come true as the city opened a...
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 The ongoing custody battle between Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards continues with another episode. After Sheen, star of “Two and a Half Men,” apologized for the inappropriate words he used in two voicemails he sent to his ex-wife, it was time for Denise Richards to go back to court. She did that on Friday morning in Los Angeles for an...
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 Former supermodel Christie Brinkley, 54, wanted
her divorce trial, which was set for July 2nd, to be public. On the other hand,
her ex-husband Peter Cook says he wants to protect himself from the terrible
publicity of a public divorce trial.
Brinkley filled for divorce from her fourth
husband in 2006 after news of his alleged...
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 Reese Witherspoon’s marriage to Ryan Phillippe is officially over. The couple finalized their divorce this week with court documents filed in Los Angeles. According to court documents, “(The court finds) the parties have settled all their remaining issues in these proceedings.”The couple, who separated back in 2006 and went through a...
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 After months of speculations, Ryan Phillippe and Australian
actress, Abbie Cornish, were spotted together as a couple this Thursday at the
Australians in Film Breakthrough Awards which took place at the Avalon Hotel in
Beverly Hills.
The 25-year-old actress was said to be the reason why the 7-year-marriage
between Phillippe and...
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 Lynda Carter, the actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s, was still a hero on Wednesday afternoon, People reports. Carter was canoeing on the Potomac River when she spotted a woman floating in the water. She did not have a cell phone with her, so she screamed to several nearby boaters who called 911.After the woman was pulled...
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 After Abbie Cornish and Ryan Phillippe costarred in “Stop-Loss,” everybody believed their relationship reached its final rounds. Abbie Cornish was rumored to be the reason behind Ryan’s separation and divorce from Reese Witherspoon. But when he gave his former wife and her new beau Jake Gyllenhall his blessing, everybody understood that...
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 Yoko Ono had sued the producers of “Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed,” a movie focused on the concept of Darwinian
evolution, saying they used the song “Imagine” without her permission.
Jon Lennon’s widow, her son Sean Ono
Lennon, and Julian Lennon, the singer’s son from his first marriage, along with
privately held publisher...
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 Actor Bill Murray’s wife has filed for
divorce after almost 11 years of marriage, alleging he abused her and he is
addicted to marijuana and alcohol. Jennifer Butler Murray also accuses him of
sex addiction and physical violence towards her during their marriage.
In the document, which was filed on 12 May
in Charleston County,...
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 It seems that “Queen of Pop” Madonna and her husband Guy
Ritchie have some problems regarding their relationship, and this time rumors
go even further saying that the couple is ready for a trial separation after
seven years of marriage, the Daily Mail reports.
Madonna and Ritchie, ten years her junior, glittered last
week at...
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