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George Clooney is single again -- and will once again -- land the hottest women in the world with ZERO effort. Too bad ... because the Cloons' online dating profile would be epic!Filed under: Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian, TMZ TV
Kris Humphries' Las Vegas bachelor party had everything -- except the semi-naked hot chicks ... who were all partying with his fiance Kim Kardashian instead! Kim wins again ... get used to it, pal.Filed under: Chris Brown, Celebrity Justice
Chris Brown says he's been SET UP -- claiming one of his neighbors scratched the initials "C.B." into an elevator at his Hollywood condo building in an effort to make the singer look like a "reckless" punk.
Filed under: Tobey Maguire
There's a reason Tobey Maguire took his poker pal Brad Ruderman to the cleaners ... it's because dude's harder to read than the Dead Sea Scrolls.Filed under: Ryan Seacrest, Sarah Schnare, Celebrity Justice, The Bachelor, Nurse!
A former Bachelor contestant who is now a producer for Ryan Seacrest is suing a guy who allegedly ran over her foot in a Mercedes, and she says the accident is ruining her life.
Filed under: Alex Trebek, Celebrity Justice, Deadline
Going off on what people put on
Check out our Summer Style Guide curated by Fashion Police host George Kotsiopoulos!
Talk about a birthday surprise.
Just a month after filing for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver accompanied her former hubby to lunch to celebrate his 64th birthday.
And they weren't alone...
As they dined at Barney's in Beverly Hills Saturday, Shriver and Schwarzenegger were joined by two of their four children, sons Patrick and Christopher, according to Us Weekly. The latter was released from the hospital Tuesday after a bodysurfing accident.
A source tells E! News that the pair were seen shopping together, as well.
The surprising family meal comes days after the former Governator backed off his initial hardball court papers, which had sought to deny Shriver spousal support.
Speaking of spousal support, Shriver reportedly picked up the lunch tab and ordered the birthday boy an espresso.
That is one classy, lady.
Miley Cyrus is no stranger to inkâ€"or speaking her mind! The former Disney star shared her latest tat via her Twitter Friday, displaying a pic of the inked "equals" sign, with the caption, "all LOVE is equal."
With the sign symbolically positioned on her ring finger, Miley's simple gesture is reportedly a statement supporting marriage equality.
The tat adds to Miley's growing collection of body art. The singer already features tattoos of a dream catcher on her torso, "Just Breathe" on her ribcage, an anchor on her wrist, "Love" on her ear, and a cross and heart on her hand.
Speaking of love, you've got to love a girl who speaks her mind...and her body.
RELATED: See other stars who think ink in our Tattooed Celebrities gallery
Looks like not even the Godfather could get you out of this one. Julie Pacino, 21-year-old daughter of actor Al Pacino, was arrested early Saturday morning in Manhattan on suspicion of Driving While Intoxicated.
The former UCLA softball player and aspiring film director was busted after driving through a police checkpoint with, "bloodshot, watery eyes, slurred speech and the strong smell of alcohol on her breath," according to police sources quoted by People.
The of-age daughter reportedly admitted drinking three beers and smoking marijuana prior to entering the checkpoint.
Following the arrest, the elder Pacino rushed to his daughter's side from Los Angeles, where he is working on HBO's Phil Spector murder trial project. Julie was released late Saturday on her own recognizance.
PHOTOS: Celebs not ready for their closeups in our Mug-Shot Mania gallery
Well…kind of.
Newlywed bronzed beauty Vanessa Minnillo addressed the awkward on last night's TLC Dream Wedding special when she brought up hubby Nick Lachey's ex-wife Jessica Simpson and her concurrent wedding scheduling with fiance Eric Johnson.
Vanessa shares, "to address the elephant in the room, yes, you know coincidentally at the same time that our wedding is going on, his ex is actually also doing the beautiful thing of getting married herself." Adding, "I think she would probably pray, as much as I do, that they allow us to have our own moments."
RELATED: A clip from Nick & Vanessa's Dream Wedding
Although Nick and Vanessa's wedding already went off without a hitchâ€"Jessica now seems to be on a different timetable.
The blonde recently divulged to Extra that she's yet to set a dateâ€"or even decide on a dress! As for why? The once wedding-obsessed singer/fashion designer explains that she's prioritized and is "super-focused"...on her mentor role for the upcoming NBC reality show, Fashion Star.
For Jess, it seems, the elephant in the room is her career. Congratulations all around!
EXCLUSIVE: Read it here first...
It was a couple of weeks ago that a report claimed Darren Criss was in talks to replace Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway revival of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
However, neither the Glee star nor anyone involved with the show has confirmed the news.
So is it happening?
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It sure is. I just got word that the official announcement will come tomorrow.
It was only a week ago that Criss remained coy on the subject. "I don't know!" he told TVGuide.com. "People keep asking me about it, and it's kind of cool that that's out there in the world, but I cannot confirm anything at all."
How to Succeed will mark Criss' Broadway debut. His three-week run will kick off on Jan. 3, according to Deadline.
Sadly, Criss won't be eligible for a Tony Award for his work because he did not originate the role in this version of the show. Not to mention that the Tonys already snubbed Radcliffe by not even nominating him. For those keep track of more successful How to Succeed stars, Matthew Broderick won for his performance in 1995 as did Robert Morse in 1962.
VIDEO: Darren Criss looks hot in GQ
One of the most congested weekends of the summer delivered no shortage of shock and awe to Hollywood, with expensive flops-in-the-making facing off against surprisingly formidable blue forest creatures recycled from the ’80s. Their fierce battle is too close to call as weekend numbers emerge, but that doesn’t mean the real winner isn’t clear. Your Weekend Receipts are here.
1. [tie] The Smurfs
Gross: $36,200,000 (new)
Screens: 3,395 (PSA: $10,663)
Weeks: 1
While many box-office wonks and other industry observers will no doubt propose various and sundry theories as to how an ’80s cartoon updating with no major movie stars could keep up with (and possibly surpass) a mega-budget graphic-novel tentpole starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, I think the truth is clear: Aliens are cool, but a flow chart is cooler.
1. [tie] Cowboys & Aliens
Gross: $36,200,000 (new)
Screens: 3,750 (PSA: $9,653)
Weeks: 1
Hate to say I told you so, DreamWorks, but come on: You’ve got huge stars. Sell them. Time to place bets on which will earn more (or less, if that’s how we’re measuring): C&A or Green Lantern?
3. Captain America: First Avenger
Gross: $24,905,000 ($116,772,000)
Screens: 3,715 (PSA: $6,704)
Weeks: 2 (change: -61.7%)
Not a terrible second week at all for the Marvel hero, particularly considering the clutter of new releases around it and its continuing habitation in the long shadow of Harry Potter. The real fun will come in the days ahead, as figures roll in from international markets including the UK, Russia, Australia, India and elsewhere. If Captain America can make it there, he can make it anywhere.
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Gross: $21,925,000 ($318,460,000)
Screens: 4,145 (PSA: $5,290)
Weeks: 3 (change: -53.8%)
As the final Potter installment approaches a billion-dollar gross worldwide, you just know an executive crew at Warner Bros. is contemplating how to keep some vestige of the franchise going. Maybe a Severus Snape flick? Being Tom Felton? Rupert Grint is in!
5. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Gross: $19,300,000 (new)
Screens: 3,020 (PSA: $6,391)
Weeks: 1
Not a bad showing at all, but again, this would have killed in August. Watch its legs, assuming The Change-Up doesn’t move in and kick them out from under it.
[Numbers via Box Office Mojo]
We know you're busy emptying your bank account on snazzy items from Home Shopping Network's Mariah Carey Collection (try the udder balmâ€"you won't be sorry), but why not take a break and catch up on this week's finest moments in Soup?
1. Paranormal Challenge: Though interacting with terrifying spirits of the undead is what this show's all about, apparently no one's afraid of an encounter with host Zak Bagan's balls.
Keep going. Four more chances to snort.
2. The Bachelorette: Swingin' man chaser Ashley Hebert and lucky stud Ben have a special treat in store: Chris Harrison has given them the key to the Fantasy Suite. And there's more in the room than a bottle of lotion and a mirror on the ceiling.
3. Man vs. Wild: What's more fun than watching a naked survivalist accidentally scald his junk? If you find out, let us know.
4. Amy Winehouse: The songs of the late, gifted chanteuse will be etched in our collective memory forever. Unless Showbiz Tonight has its way.
5. Jersey Shore: Snooki and the rest of the JS guidettes drop in on Nail Files to get those filthy fingertips seen to. And to offer up a mouthful of oral pleasure tips.
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Is it possible TLC's legion of little stars -- including Matt Roloff -- are all members of a secret society that rivals the fabled Illuminati? Of course not. But we're gonna enjoy investigating!Filed under: Shad Gaspard, TMZ Sports
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He's famously sworn that he would never get married ... but KISS frontman Gene Simmons is one step closer to breaking that vow ... proposing to his longtime GF Shannon Tweed in Belize recently.Filed under: Casey Anthony, Jose Baez, Anchal Joseph, Mark Geragos, Celebrity Justice, NBC, TV, Deadline, Exclusive
Filed under: Al Michaels, TMZ TV, TMZ Sports
Al Michaels is now a TMZ legend after laying down an awesome voicemail greeting -- and it's his best work EVER!! Besides "Monday Night Football" ... oh, and that Olympic hockey "Miracle" thingy.Filed under: TMZ TV, Joey Lawrence, Coco, Kim Kardashian
Filed under: Beavis and Butthead
He's baaaaaaaaaack ... and he still needs T.P. for his bunghole!!!
Huge news and Saturday livestreams!
The Smurfs drew Cowboys & Aliens to a draw at the weekend box office, with an estimated $36.2 million opening that nobody, but nobody some coming.
Well, all right, maybe Brainy Smurf. He seems pretty on the ball.
RELATED: What's up (or down) with Harry Potter's box office?
The Smurfs overwhelmed Cowboys & Aliens (and Captain America and Harry Potter and…) on the strength of family business.
More than half of all moviegoers were parents with kids who'd memorized the commercial. (Boy, whoever said the trailer was terrible?)Â Â
As for Cowboys & Aliensâ€"its $36.2 million estimated Friday-Sunday take looks considerably less impressive, considering its cast (Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford), its director (Iron Man's Jon Favreau) and its price tag ($163 million versus The Smurfs' reported $110 million).
The race between the The Smurfs and Cowboys & Aliens won't be settled for good until Monday's final numbers.
Whether it ends up No. 1 or No. 2, The Smurfs has already won.
Cowboys & Aliens, meanwhile, may already be wondering if maybe it should've been called Cowboys & Gargamel's Hated Ones. (Or, if it should've screened in 3-D, like you-know-which little big blue movie.)Â Â Â
Elsewhere, Captain America was very much the one-and-done box-office champ. In its second weekend, the movie fell almost as hard as Green Lantern, but blew past the $100 million mark domesticallyâ€"something Green Lantern didn't do until its third weekend.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ended the Sorcerer's Stone's nearly 10-year run as the top-grossing Harry Potter film in the United States. But the film's fast fall off means Transformers: Dark of the Moon remains the year's top-grossing movie.Â
Crazy, Stupid, Love, the ensemble comedy with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and more, got off to an OK start.
Here's a complete look at the weekend's top-grossing films, per Friday-Sunday estimates as compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Cowboys & Aliens, $36.2 million (tie)
1. The Smurfs, $36.2 million (tie)
3. Captain America: The First Avenger, $24.9 million
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, $21.9 million
5. Crazy, Stupid, Love, $19.3 million
6. Friends With Benefits, $9.3 million
7. Horrible Bosses, $7.1 million
8. Transformers: Dark of the Moon, $6 million
9. Zookeeper, $4.2 million
10. Cars 2, $2.3 million
Filed under: J.K. Rowling, TMZ TV, Harry Potter
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling just got iced up with a 40-diamond bracelet -- but perhaps she'd like to hand it over to a someone in need ... like a homeless person ... played by Harvey Levin?R. Kelly's no longer trapped in a closet hospital.
The R&B star has been discharged from a Chicago hospital after undergoing emergency throat surgery. "He left the hospital last night and is recuperating at home in Chicago," says publicist Allan Mayer. "Still no word on when he'll be able to resume performing."
Kelly, 44, went to see a throat specialist on Tuesday and wound up in the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where doctors drained an abcess on one of his tonsils.
Get well, R.
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Why are people so obsessed with these ghost-hunting shows, when they are so obviously faked? I don't want to believe that people are this stupid.
â€"Justin M., via Facebook
Well you've just scared up a big old mess for me, haven't you? There are plenty of those shows: Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, Haunted Collector, Ghost Hunters International, How I Met Your Mummy (I made that last one up ... or did I?). If you're a fan, I have some dish you'll definitely want to read:
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For this, I donned my jumpsuit, grabbed a ghost trap and solicited the help of Benjamin Radford, managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer science magazine and a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. The reason I chose Radford is that, though he is, by definition, a skeptic, he also conducts scientifically based ghost hunts of his own, and leaves his mind open to the idea that, sometime, maybe, in the future, a real ghost just might come along and blow all our minds. (Probably not.) (But maybe.) (Not that he's ever found a ghost on one of these hunts.) (But you never know.)
As part of his work, Radford has ridden along on some of those ghost hunts that you see on TV. He says he's never seen blatant evidence of deliberate fakery. However, one former Ghost Hunters castmember, Donna LaCroix, has hinted that the Syfy show may not totally be on the up and up. She wasn't specific, though, and, for the record, she also stated that she was upset over how show producers had treated her.
What Radford has seen, though, is earnest people, at least some of whom genuinely believe they're interacting with ghosts, psyching themselves out, fielding perfectly earthly noises and sights and leaping to the conclusion that they can't be explained. Example: The show MysteryQuest. Radford says he went along for an investigation of the Wolfe Manor in Clovis, Calif.
"People who were there when I was there weren't necessarily faking anything," he recalls. "But I did see cases where the crew inadvertently made sounds or lights that were at least briefly interpreted as ghostly."
Indeed, many ghost-hunting shows rely heavily on sounds they say they can't explain or debunkâ€"footsteps, squeaks, even voices. However, Radford notes, those shows also appear to have only two or three people in a dark room at the same time. Not so; there are actually as many as eight or nine, exponentially upping the chances that a random sneaker squeak or sigh from a second A.D. could appear to be unexplained.
Or maybe it isn't so random.
"Even if the people you see on camera aren't intentionally hoaxing, there is no reason why the rest of the TV crew isn't doing that," Radford tells me. (Indeed: Listen to that podcast featuring LaCroix above.)
Either way, Radford says, "What investigators tend to assume is that, if they can't re-create it, therefore, it is a ghost. But just because they may not be able to figure out what that weird light was, it doesn't mean it was a ghost."
Lastly, let's talk about the equipment: Ghosty hosts love to whip out blinking electromagnetic field detectors and laser grids and infrared lighting, all in hopes of trapping missives from the spirit world. It's always fun to watch those instruments freak out all by themselves. Trouble is, what does it mean?
"When you actually pin down these investigators, and ask what exactly are you claiming the connection is between an EMF detector and ghosts, they don't really have an answer," Radford says. "They just say that, you know, it's thought that, or some people claim, that ghosts give off EMFs."
All that said, for the record, the people currently on these shows, particularly Ghost Hunters, insist that they have no reason to lie.
Can I take off this jumpsuit now?
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Filed under: Kim Kardashian, Celebrity Justice, The Kardashians, Developing Stories
We now know what's really behind Kim Kardashian's lawsuit against Old Navy -- protecting a HUGE deal the Kardashian clan has with Sears ... sources close to the fam tell TMZ.
Filed under: Jetet 'Speedy' Peterson, TMZ Sports, Olympics, R.I.P.
Jeret "Speedy" Peterson -- who won a silver medal for freestyle skiing for the U.S. in 2010 -- has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Utah ... officials have confirmed.
