Celebrity Good Week/Bad Week News

It’s been a good week for…Cloris Leachman Being in her eighties obviously agrees with Cloris Leachman! Still a contestant on this season’s “Dancing with the Stars,” Cloris has just been named as the grand marshal of the coming Rose Parade. Typical Cloris, she said she is happy to be the grand marshal of something “older than I am.” It’s been a bad week for…the Dalai Lama The Tibetan leader was hospitalized this week with gallstones. He had surgery last Friday in New Delhi, but aides think he will be discharged early next week. It’s been a good week for…Tim Robbins … Continue reading

Money to Burn

Recession? What recession? Spend a day in the life of a super star celebrity and you might not believe that the country has hit upon hard economic times. Are you having a tough time selling your home or are you trying to make your 1,200-square-foot abode work for your family of seven? Then you might not want to hear that Sting just plunked down $26.5 million for a plush apartment in New York. According to city records, the wealthy rocker just bought his brand new pad in a luxury high rise with cold hard cash. The Police frontman’s new digs … Continue reading

Potter’s Glasses Honor Holocaust Victims

Just file it under: the most unique way to reuse eyeglasses. Daniel Radcliffe, the young actor who played the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the “Harry Potter” films, may never look at his first eyeglasses in the same way again. The 18-year-old just donated the glasses he wore as a child to a one-of-a-kind exhibition marking the horrors of the Holocaust. Radcliffe donated the tiny oval, gray metal-framed pair of glasses he wore as a 6-year-old to the exhibit where it joins specs belonging to Yoko Ono, talk show host Jerry Springer, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other celebrities. … Continue reading