- Prenatal preoccupation: Parents fear Hollywood makes pregnancy look a little too cool
- July 1, 2008
- News that 17 girls at a Massachusetts high school became pregnant this year is raising questions about whether pregnancy has become something alluring to teens. Many teen pregnancies still take place against a backdrop of economic distress or a search for love, experts say — that’s been the case for years.
- LJWorld.com readers remember George Carlin
- June 25, 2008
- Sure, he was known best for “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” But George Carlin, the foul-mouthed comedian known for his biting social commentary, will be remembered for much more than that.
- Carlin spoke truth to power
- June 24, 2008
- lt was always comforting to know that George Carlin was out there making trouble. Like Richard Pryor, he straddled the great cultural divide that was the 1960s, coming in as a lamb and going out as a lion.
- Imus says comment was misunderstood
- June 24, 2008
- Months after returning to the radio with a pledge to mend the wounds caused by his comments about a women’s basketball team, Don Imus is once again defending on-air remarks regarding race.
- Hollywood stars hyping hydrogen cars
- June 23, 2008
- Oscar-winning writer and director Paul Haggis owns four Toyota Priuses and is high on the waiting list to buy a $100,000 Tesla electric roadster. But when he heard about the new Honda FCX Clarity, a hydrogen-powered car that gets 270 miles on a tank and emits nothing but water, he was desperate to drive it.
- Steve Carell is as surprised as anyone by his success
- June 22, 2008
- Steve Carell pops out of his hotel suite to greet a reporter. Wearing well-tread sneakers, jeans and a modest sports coat, he could be anyone: your accountant, your neighbor, your college roommate.
- Michelle Obama shares ‘View’
- June 19, 2008
- Michelle Obama said Wednesday she was “touched” that first lady Laura Bush came to her defense after she was harshly criticized by Republicans for her February comment that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of the United States.
- Beatty earns lifetime achievement award
- June 15, 2008
- Bill Clinton was among those saluting Warren Beatty as the Oscar-winning actor-director received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.
- NBC’s Tim Russert dies
- June 14, 2008
- Tim Russert, a political lifer who made a TV career of his passion with unrelenting questioning of the powerful and influential, died of a heart attack Friday in the midst of a presidential campaign he’d covered with trademark intensity.
- Singer acquitted of child pornography charges
- June 14, 2008
- R. Kelly bowed his head and wept Friday as he was cleared of child pornography charges, acquitted by a jury that deliberated for just 7 1/2 hours over a case that took six years to bring to trial.
- Friend: Paul Newman has cancer
- June 12, 2008
- Paul Newman, the legendary actor and philanthropist, is battling cancer, his longtime neighbor and business partner said Wednesday.
- Jack Black spills on childlike side
- June 10, 2008
- If you’re one of the millions who saw “Kung Fu Panda” over the weekend, you might want to know a little about Jack Black, who provides the voice for the main character Po.
- Actor in Christmas classic dies
- June 8, 2008
- Bob Anderson, who played the young George Bailey in the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” died Friday. He was 75.
- Rock icon Bo Diddley dies at 79
- June 3, 2008
- Before Buddy Holly did it, before the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and a million unknown garage bands, there was Bo Diddley — and the beat that bears his name. Diddley, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and one of the genre’s undisputed icons, died Monday at his 76-acre spread in rural Archer, Fla., about 10 miles out of Gainesville. He was 79.
- Rocker Neil Young pursues electric car
- June 2, 2008
- Neil Young, the rock legend who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era war protests, is trying to change the world again — with his car. Young has teamed up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the power units of big cars to get more horsepower but use less fuel.
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