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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Newser Lunchbox - Stars Unite to 'F*** Famine'

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Stars Unite to 'F*** Famine'

(Newser) - Bono, George Clooney, Colin Farrell, and a host of celebrities spout the F-word in a new ad with a simple message: "F*** famine." (Don't worry, it's still SFW, thanks to a lot of censoring.) "Famine is the real obscenity," explains Bono in the... More »

Meet Jim Carrey, Graffiti Artist

(Newser) - Perhaps you've noticed some screwy behavior from Jim Carrey since his break-up with Jenny McCarthy: the odd tweets , the weird Emma Stone video . Turns out that he has another kinda strange new interest: graffiti. He bought an industrial workspace in Manhattan about six months ago and has since been... More »

Coffee-Making Interns Didn't Work for Us: Fox

(Newser) - Remember those Black Swan interns suing Fox Searchlight for not paying them to make coffee? Turns out they may not have actually worked for Fox Searchlight. The interns were employed by Darren Aronofsky’s production company, which made Black Swan, "well before Fox Searchlight even acquired its rights in... More »

ESPN Yanks Hank Williams After Obama-Hitler Rant

(Newser) - You may have noticed something missing from Monday Night Football last night: namely, Hank Williams Jr. asking, "Are you ready for some football?" as he's been doing for more than 20 years. ESPN pulled the country star's iconic song from the broadcast after Williams compared President Obama... More »

Alexis Stewart Reveals Her 'Mommie Dearest'

(Newser) - Turns out super homemaker Martha Stewart was a bit of a shrew in the maternal department—a gut-churning, demanding perfectionist when it came to her house, and decidedly not kid-friendly. That's the verdict from her grown daughter, Alexis, who has penned a kind of "Mommie Dearest" tell-all about... More »

ER Docs: Michael Jackson Was Beyond Saving

(Newser) - Michael Jackson was dead when he arrived at the UCLA Medical Center, but Dr. Conrad Murray insisted that physicians try to revive him, two emergency doctors testified yesterday. An aortic balloon pump was placed in Jackson's heart, a move that doctors knew was futile but was done "to... More »

Sean Combs Ordered Tupac's Murder: LA Cop

(Newser) - Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were murdered by the order of rival record company bosses, according to an LAPD detective who investigated Tupac's slaying in 1996. Gang informant Keffe Davis claims Sean Combs—then known as Puff Daddy—offered him $1 million to kill Tupac and Death Row records... More »