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Celebrities Who Have Lost Children

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As I read the headlines about Mike Tyson’s daughter, Exodus, dying after being strangled by the cord on a treadmill, it made me realize that celebrities don’t always have the charmed lives we believe they do. Many have suffered what many consider the worst thing that can happen – the loss of a child. One of the most recent celebrity child tragedy was that of John and Kelly Travolta’s son Jett, who died of a seizure in January 2009, but there have been plenty more. Some were results of accidents, some of overdoses, and some of diseases, but all were … Continue reading →

This Week in History – July 5, 1998

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It was the week of July 5, 1998 – were you getting ready to party like it was 1999? Let’s see what was happening in the world of pop culture. In national news, Dow-Corning finally reached a settlement with women who had received silicone breast implants. The company was ordered to pay more than 170,000 women $3.2 billion dollars. In international news, Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport closed after 73 years in service to make way for a new $20 billion dollar facility. In computer news, the introduction of USB ports had computer users very excited. The USS Harry S. … Continue reading →

Celebrity Proposal on Ice

Did you see it? If you were watching the U.S. Figure Skating Championships this weekend you likely witnessed one of the romantic moves ever performed on ice. I guess pairs figure skater John Baldwin couldn’t wait for Valentine’s Day. It’s a moment that is now frozen in time for many spectators—-especially the expression on Rena Inoue’s face when her skating partner of seven years got down on one knee in the middle of the ice and proposed to her. Baldwin asked Inoue for her hand in marriage just moments after the pair completed their silver-medal-winning performance Saturday in St. Paul, … Continue reading →

Hollywood Baby Alert

It’s hip to be pregnant in Tinseltown… just ask Dixie Chick Martie Maguire. The singer who has publicly shared her fertility struggles with fans confirmed she and her husband are expecting another baby. The 38-year-old country music star and her professor husband are already parents to twin daughters Eva Ruth and Kathleen Emilie, who were born in April 2004. But don’t expect to see Maguire in too many baby boutiques shopping up a storm this time around. The mother of two 3 year olds revealed she is having another girl. Actor Fred Savage wants what Maguire is having… The former … Continue reading →

Celebrity News: A Birth, A Death, and a Free Man

Pretty soon he’ll be able to start his own hockey team… or at least contribute to a couple of figure skating pairs’ teams. Olympic champion ice skater Scott Hamilton and his wife, Tracie, just added another boy to their growing family. According to news reports, baby Maxx Hamilton arrived at 7:51 a.m. this morning. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 8 oz., and measured 20 inches long, according to proud papa Hamilton. Maxx will reportedly be joining 4-year-old big brother, Aidan at the family’s Tennessee home in a couple of days. The 49-year-old gold medal ice skating champ and his … Continue reading →

Celebrity REAL or RUMOR: Eva Pregnancy and R.E.M. Singer’s Jury Duty

No, Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria-Parker isn’t expecting a baby. Rather, she says she’s just bloated. Or at least she was when paparazzi snapped a shot of her that has been making the rounds on the Internet under the headline: “Eva’s Pregnant!” You’ve got to love a star who denies a pregnancy rumor by insisting that the little extra bulge around her belly is just extra helpings of home cooking and not evidence of impending motherhood. “I’ve been cooking and eating, cooking and eating. I keep telling everyone that I’ve gained 10 pounds just being on strike,” Longoria-Parker told a band … Continue reading →

The Sad Legacy of Rap Music

I recently blogged about rapper T.I., currently being held in jail on gun charges. He allegedly sent his bodyguard to purchase machine guns. Machine guns? Seriously, didn’t those go out of style with Prohibition? Who needs a machine gun in this day and age? I do enjoy listening to some rap music, but I also think some is pure trash. Anyhow, I started thinking about all the rappers lost to tragedy when I read today that rapper Big Moe had died at the age of 33 due to a heart attack. While his death was not related to violence, it … Continue reading →