Celine Dion

Now that’s pretty sad! Singer Celine Dion is no longer pregnant. She had a miscarriage, a close associate of the singer and her husband René Angélil reported.

“While she and Rene are actively trying for a baby, she is not currently expecting”, the source, who is a close friend of the couple, revealed to In Touch Weekly.

The story took no time to spread all over the web, which had left Dion’s many fans mourning. The couple had announced publicly about their 2nd pregnancy in August 2009. The 41 year old Dion and her husband Rene, who is 67 now, is said to have conceived with the help of fertility doctors in New York in mid-August. After Celine conceived the couple announced the news with much joy by saying, “They are crazy in love over the news”.

Celine’s family has not commented much on this issue.

Dion and Rene took their wedding vows in December 1994. The couple is presently raising their 8 year old son, Rene Charles Angelil. In an interview with CBS’ “Early Show” host Julie Chen, in December 2008, Dion said publicly that she and Rene were planning to expand their family. After trying for 6 years Dion finally conceived their first child by in vitro fertilization. In 2009 August Dion and Rene already had frozen embryo for their second child. The baby was due in March 2010.

There had been news spreading like fire on the Internet that Kanye West had died in a car accident. But the fans need not worry, nothing has actually happened to West. Whatever you may have come across online, Kanye West is very much alive and did not die in any car accident on Tuesday. The news was refuted by his girlfriend Amber Rose.

The fake death news of the much controversial rapper spread in Twitter like wild fire. There are no confirmed reports from where the news began to spread. In a press meet few were quoted as pointing it to the image board 4chan.org that reported West to have died in a car crash in Los Angeles. It took no time to create and circulate mail chains and threads across Twitter and Facebook.

Kanye West

Sophos.com, a computer security blog, took the credit of tracking it down to where the scam began. Fans went fanatic that “Kanye West died” and some such similar phrases went up to become the most-searched topics on Google Trends on October 21st. Kanye’s representative was not available for a comment at the press meet. But his model girlfriend, Amber Rose, tweeted that “This ‘RIP Kanye West’ topic is not funny and it’s NOT TRUE! He has people like myself and his family that love him very much. … It’s in extreme poor taste to have that as a trendy topic. It’s totally disrespectful to make up a story like this we’re all human … and we all make mistakes and to say someone died cuz of a mistake is ridiculous. You wouldn’t want someone to say that about you”.

The fake news of the rappers death that created ripples goes like this: “a bizarre car crash in Los Angeles involving two luxury cars early this morning [left] rapper Kanye West dead, a second injured, a third arrested for gross vehicular manslaughter and a fourth person was detained by police. A Los Angeles Police Department officer who witnessed the wreck and saw a red Ferrari and a white Porsche ’spinning out of control’ on Jamboree Road between Bison Avenue and East Bluff Drive.”

Anna Nicole Smith

A former bodyguard of Anna Nicole Smith revealed that the star was on powerful sedative after her son died. Smith’s bodyguard was at a hearing to a case to decide charged against her longtime companion and two attorneys.

Anna Nicole Smith was going through a depressing state of mind after her son’s death and began consuming types of rare sleep aid. As per reports of her former bodyguard she picked up habit of drinking powerful liquid sedative straight from the medicine bottle. The bodyguard also confirmed that Smith started carrying the bottle of medicine with her wherever she went. This resulted into a fatal overdose of the drug called chloral hydrate while she mourned over her son’s death.

The Miami fireman, Maurice Brighthaupt, stated, “I saw her use a spoon maybe twice and after that it was bottle to mouth – gulp”. The charges of planning conspiracy to ruin the model with illegal prescription drugs have been brought against Howard K. Stern, Smith’s longtime companion, and the two Los Angeles physicians, who adviced the medicines to her. The testimony of Brighthaupt will act as important evidence for the case. Stern and the two physicians have pleaded innocense already.

Khristine Eroshevich, one of the doctors at Studio City psychiatrist, prescribed the chloral hydrate to Smith in 2005 after her son Daniel’s death. As confirmed by Brighthaupt the doctor even delivered the drug to Smith when she was in the Bahamas at one occasion. He also added that the doctor was “reluctant” to give the medicine to the Smith but she “was begging for it and she really needed it”.

Heath Ledger in his final film - 'Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus'

Heath Ledger’s final film, ‘Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’, has been trailered and it has already started ruling the box office. Speculations are growing on whether it would be the late actor’s best film beating the box office records of “Dark Knight”, for which the actor won a posthumous Oscar.

After receiving huge applauds for playing the role of Joker in Dark Knight, it is expected that the final film of Ledger will do well in box office and will be loved by all his fans. Ledger fans have liked the trailer of his last film and have considered it to be amazing. The trailer of “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” puts light on the past life of Dr. Parnassus. Ledger plays the role of a mysterious man whose job is to save the doc from a deal with the devil. The film also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell as alternate versions of Ledger within the doctor’s Imaginarium.

Directed by Terry Gilliam, the audience can expect to catch a lot of Heath Ledger in the film. Before the filming of Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus was over Ledger had an unexpected death. This uncanny incident brought in four other Hollywood stars to fill in his place. Gilliam promises to take his audience through various emotional spectrum like he did earlier through his films like Year and Loathing in Las Vegas and 12 Monkeys. It would be a journey from gloom to glee and darkness to light.

The Oscar winning actor had an accidental death due to overdose of prescribed drugs in 2008.

Michael Jackson

Two hours, and all tickets for advance booking of ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It’ were sold out. The film will be previewed in Los Angeles and the film already have started reigning over the box office even before its release.  The studio behind the film has confirmed on Monday, the film has broken all earlier records for advance ticket booking and will dominate the box office in the forthcoming month. MJ fans are waiting anxiously to rock with the late King of Pop for one last time.

‘This Is It’ is based on the rehearsal footage of the “Bad” singer, shot weeks before his sudden death. The film is expected to hit the screen on 28th October. The advanced booking that was opened on Sunday resulted in thousands of tickets sold out in North America alone. Sony Pictures Entertainment revealed that the maximum number of tickets has been sold in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and New York.

Besides USA there has been a sale of of over $1 million in tickets in Japan alone on the very first day. Over 30,000 fans booked advanced tickets to the film on the opening day of advanced ticket booking in London. This huge number has overshadowed the ticket booking for “Harry Potter” and “The Lord of the Rings” in the city.

Other European nations like Holland, Sweden, Belgium and New Zealand  had also marked record booking for the film. According to reports from  Sony Pictures, the online booking of tickets were equally in demand. Fans also queued up for hours in Paris, Bangkok and Munich. Sony has pain a sum of $60 million for the footage to make the movie.

‘This Is It’ will be premiered on 27th October, a night prior to its nationwide release, at the new Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 in Los Angeles. The film showcases Jackson rehearsing for a  50-date run of London concerts. The “Thriller” singer was scheduled to perform live just weeks after his death on June 25th. There will be some behind-the-scenes footage as well as Jackson and his band and dancers rehearsing for the tour.

Jeff Blake, the chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution for Sony Pictures, was quoted as saying, “Michael Jackson has an army of fans everywhere around the world. We are giving the audiences an incredible opportunity to join together in celebration of Michael Jackson’s incredible career.”

John Travolta

Actor John Travolta will have to face an emotional testimony today. The Hollywood actor is one of the witnesses  at a Bahamas trial. The court officials have revealed that case has two people accused of trying to obtain a sum of US$25 million from the movie star

Soon after Travolta’s son died of a chronicle disease in the Bahamas, an  ambulance driver along with a former Bahamas senator allegedly targeted the actor. They have been taken into custody. A charge of postulating money in exchange for not bringing a document associated to 16 year old Jett Travolta’s treatment in public eyes, have been brought against them.

The Jury selection will begin on Monday morning. Travolta is listed among the prosecutors, who might be called to testify, as stated by Bahamas Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez. The trial, which will be held at the capital city of Nassau, has brought the city to spotlight again. Earlier there had been many such celebrity cases whose trial had taken place in this island chain off the Florida coast. In 2006, it was revealed by the court here that the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son Daniel was the result of an accidental drug overdose.

Followed by an extortion complaint with Bahamas police filed by Travolta in January, the case had begun here. Former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater and paramedic Tarino Lightbourne, have pleaded  innocent to charges including conspiracy to commit extortion. They tried to  revive Jett after he collapsed on January 2nd.

Travolta has reported that the duo threatened him with a document that would have brought out emergency respondents from any obligation if the family refused an ambulance. The defendants are now free on bail.

Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze died today at the age of 57. The dancer turned actor was popularly known for his physical grace and great looks. Swayze has acted in numerous films starting from romantic to action leads. His career reached its highest peak during  the late 1980s and early ’90s. After a long battle with  pancreatic cancer the 57 year old actor finally passed away.

One of the biggest achievements of  Swayze was when he acted in his debut film,  The Outsiders released in 1983. The film was directed by  Francis Ford Coppola. The late actor played the role of  a resort dance instructor in 1987’s Dirty Dancing sweeping off  Jennifer Grey off her feet. The film instantly made him the  most beloved leading men of his time. Dirty Dancing was an independent film, which became the biggest hit in box office. “She’s Like the Wind”, sung by Swayze in the film became enormously hit soon after the film’s release.

With his 1990’s hit, Ghost, Swayze established himself as a romantic icon of that time. The late actor played the role of a phantasm who tries to shelter his grief stricken beloved, Demi Moore from his killer. Right after the huge success of Ghost, two of his films:  Road House and Point Break changed his image completely to an action flick.

Although his career took a down trodden way in the late ’90s and it continued to remained such for the next couple of years, Swayze was back to the big screen with a bang with the 2001 cult favorite Donnie Darko.

In March 2008, Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. While undergoing chemotherapy, the charming actor began working on a 12 hour shift from July last year on a TV series. The show,  A&E crime drama The Beast, was premiered in January in which Swayze was seen playing the role of a world-weary undercover FBI agent. The show had about 2.4 million viewers.

Madonna

With a tearful tribute the the late king of pop, Michael Jackson, Madonna made the MTV’s Video Music Awards memorable for all. Dressed in a black zippered jacket and skirt, she walked on the darkened stage and said, “Michael Jackson was born in August, 1958. so was I. Michael Jackson grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. So did I. Michael Jackson had eight brothers and sisters. So do I. When Michael Jackson was 6 he became a superstar and was perhaps the world’s most beloved child. When I was 6 my mother died. I think he got the shorter end of the stick.

“I never had a mother, but he never had a childhood. And when you never get to have something, you become obsessed by it. I spent my childhood searching for my mother figures; sometimes I was successful. But how do you recreate your childhood when you are under the magnifying glass of the world for your entire life?

“There is no question that Michael Jackson was one of the greatest talents the world has ever known. … That when he sang a song at the ripe old age of 8, he could make you feel like an experienced adult was squeezing your heart with his words. … That the way he moved had the elegance of Fred Astaire and packed the punch of Muhammad Ali. … That his music had an extra layer of inexplicable magic that didn’t just make you want to dance but actually made you believe that you could fly, dare to dream, be anything that you wanted to be. Because that is what heroes do. And Michael Jackson was a hero.

“He performed in soccer stadiums around the world, he sold hundreds of millions of records, he dined with prime ministers and presidents. Girls fell in love with him, boys fell in love with him, everyone wanted to dance like him, he seemed otherworldly, but he was also a human being. Like most performers, he was shy and plagued with insecurities.

“I can’t say we were great friends, but in 1991 I decided I wanted to get to know him better. I asked him out to dinner: I said, ‘My treat, I’ll drive, just you and me.’ He agreed and showed up to my house without any bodyguards. We drove to the restaurant in my car. It was dark out, but he was still wearing sunglasses. I said, ‘Michael, I feel like I’m talking to a limousine, do you think you could take off those glasses so I could see your eyes?’ He paused for a moment, then he tossed the glasses out the window, looked at me with a wink and a smile and said, ‘Can you see me now, is that better?’

Michael Jackson

“In that moment, I could see both his vulnerability and his charm. The rest of the dinner, I was hell-bent on getting him to eat French fries, drink wine, have dessert and say bad words, things he never seemed to allow himself to do. Later, we went back to my house to watch a movie and we sat on the couch like two kids, and somewhere in the middle of the film, his hand snuck over and held mine. It felt like he was looking for a friend more than a romance and I was happy to oblige him. And in that moment he didn’t feel like a superstar, he felt like a human being. We went out a few more times together and then for one reason or another we fell out of touch. Then, the witch hunt began and it seemed like one negative story after the other was coming out about Michael. I felt his pain. I know what it’s like to walk down the street and feel like the whole world has turned against you. I know what it’s like to feel helpless and unable to defend yourself because the roar of the lynch mob is so loud that you are convinced your voice can never be heard.

“But I had a childhood, and I was allowed to make mistakes and find my own way in the world without the glare of the spotlight. When I first heard that Michael had died I was in London, days away from the opening of my tour. Michael was going to perform in the same venue as me a week later. All I could think about in that moment was that I had abandoned him. That we had abandoned him. That we had allowed this magnificent creature that once set the world on fire to somehow slip through the cracks. While he was trying to build a family and rebuild his career, we were all busy passing judgment. Most of us had turned our backs on him.

“In a desperate attempt to hold onto his memory, I went on the Internet to watch old clips of him dancing and singing on TV and onstage and I thought, ‘My God, he was so unique, so original, so rare. And there will never be anyone like him again.’ He was a king. But he was also a human being and alas, we are all human beings and sometimes we have to lose things before we can truly appreciate them. I want to end this on a positive note and say that my sons, age 9 and 4, are obsessed with Michael Jackson. There’s a whole lot of crotch-grabbing and moonwalking going on in my house, and it seems like a whole new generation of kids has discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is now, he is smiling about this.

“Yes, yes Michael Jackson was a human being, but dammit, he was a king. Long live the king.”

Michael Jackson

The Scheduled tribute concert in memory of late pop king, Michael Jackson, has been canceled by the Organizers on Friday. The event will now be held in London sometime in the forthcoming year. Sources have been quoted as saying that there were much speculation on whether artists like Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown and Natalie Cole would perform in Vienna. This might have fueled on the cancelation of the much awaited show.

Georg Kindel, the organizer of the show, has bashed up the Australian media stating that the reporters and news agencies have been circulating wrong information to commoners. Mr. Kindel have also mentioned that the show will be at Wembley Stadium in London, sometime in June 2010. This would be in memory of Michael Jackson on the first anniversary of the pop star’s death.

“The artists were disrespectfully treated as B-list artists by the media”, Kindel said. He also assured that the tickets for the Vienna concert will be refunded.

Earlier the Vienna city council had mentioned that it would fund upto 600,000 euros ($876,200) in suppoert of the show. The evert was scheduled to be held at the capital’s Schoenbrunn castle.

“A cancellation is better than something that is bad and that doesn’t interest anyone”, Robert Nuernberger, the spokesman for the Vienna tourist board, was quoted as saying.

The performers were expected to sing Jackson’s some of the greatest hits, which would include Billie Jean, Thriller and Bad in front of an expected audience of 65000. Tickets were on sale at a price of 63 to 518 euros ($91-$745), although it wasn’t confirmed by the organizers of the show how many tickets were sold.

The tickets for the London concert in the forthcoming year will be priced at 44 pounds ($73) minimum. The dates from when and where the tickets of show could be collected will be announced in December.

Screenshot of Janet and MJ in the Music Video - Scream

“To you Michael is an icon, to us Michael is family and he will forever live in all of our hearts”, with these few words Janet Jackson displayed her affections for the King of Pop at the BET awards. Michael Jackson’s kid sister, Janet has been trying to cope with the tragic loss of her brother since his death on the 25th of June this year. Her old habit of emotional eating and drowning herself into work is in continuance. She says in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar’s Laura Brown, that she was doing okay, but it is difficult to believe that he has passed away. The issue with her interview will be coming out in October.

In this interview she reveals delicate details about her relationship with her brother who is 7 years older to her. They were close and she would take care of him during their younger days. “I would shop for him, I would wash his clothes and cleaned his room” affectionately remembers Janet. His habits and quirks are still fresh in her mind. MJ’s fascination to shiny clothes, his “corny” sense of humor, his laughing till he started to cry … everything is fondly registered in her brain. She even recalls his habit of wearing his penny loafers even when they had “huge holes in the bottom”!

Remembering the time they had made the music video “Scream” together, she says “We had so much fun back then. We used to organize our days together”. The video is one of the cutest sibling music video ever. The last time they met was during a family dinner and that day “Dunk” had “laughed so hard that he cried”. That is what Janet calls MJ with love. During the whole interview she used present tense for her brother and then apologized for doing so.

Now that he is not around, Janet Jackson discloses that they are getting through this “as a family”. She is proud of Paris, Prince and Blanket, Michael’s kids, who are showing a brave attitude towards this onerous situation. They are being taken care of by their grandmother Katherine Jackson. Sources say that they would be home schooled now.

Life has definitely changed for the Jackson family. But “the family love will keep them going”, as Janet says for the children. The family love will surely keep them all going.

God Bless the family.