Award Winning Designer Faces Rape Charges

Anand Jon Alexander has been known until now because of his being an award-winning fashion designer. But it seems that he will be shortly forgotten, because of a lawsuit that is very likely to stain his image simply forever.
Anand Jon Alexander has been accused of sexually assaulting 18 young models in California and he has [...]

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ordered to Reopen

Despite the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike, a New York judge has ordered on Wednesday a theater owner to reopen Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical.
State Court Justice Helen Freedman has granted an injunction sought by the popular musical’s producers, who argued that their contract was not subject to the strike and who had [...]

Hollywood Studios Sued Chinese Online Service

According to a state media report, five Hollywood studios sued a Chinese online service and an Internet café, on accusations that they offered pirated downloads of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, as well as other more or less popular movies.
The Beijing-based web site Jeboo.com and an Internet café from Shanghai are now facing a legal battle [...]

Singapore Censor Rap Scores 11,000 Hits on YouTube

Singapore’s Media Development Authority, which represents the institution that regulates and censors media and arts in this country, has scored an unexpected hit on Google’s popular video sharing web site YouTube with a rap video about the city-state’s media ambitions.
The YouTube posting has received until now more than 11,000 hits, as well as string of [...]

Actor Dennis Quaid’s Twins Recovering

The two-week-old twin children of actor Dennis Quaid are currently recovering in a Los Angeles hospital, after they have been mistakenly given a large overdose of a blood thinning drug.
Although it is one of the United States leading hospitals, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has to officially apologize on Wednesday for what it called the “preventable [...]

Queen Elizabeth I Portrait Sold for $5.3 Million

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I that is thought to be the earliest such piece that was commissioned to help the English monarch “advertise” herself to potential suitors was sold yesterday for the huge amount of 2.6 million pounds, or $5.3 million.
The life-sized painting was created by an artist from Antwerp, Steven van der Meulen, [...]

Brad Pitt Steps Out of “State of Play”

Angelina Jolie’s partner, Brad Pitt, stepped out of Universal’s political thriller “State of Play” reportedly because of script concerns. The popular actor and the movie’s director Kevin Macdonald (“The Last King of Scotland) had met for several times this month, but it seems that Macdonald’s attempts to iron out these concerns weren’t able to convince [...]

Boy George Charged with False Imprisonment

The popular frontman of Culture Club, Boy George, appeared yesterday in a London court after he had been charged with the false imprisonment of a male escort.
Dressed in a black jacket and shirt, the singer had to fight through a huge media scrum after a minute-long hearing during which he had spoken only for confirming [...]