Wow! Beat author Jack Kerouac played elaborate fantasy baseball games of his own devising.By 1946, when Kerouac was 24, he had devised a set of cards with precise verbal descriptions of various outcomes (“slow roller to ss,” for example), depending on the skill levels of the pitcher and batter. The game could be played using cards alone, but Mr.
83-year-old Jerry Lewis on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
“He’s respected by everybody, but he’s basically a hillbilly… He’s not going to invent anything.”USA Today analyzes the brains of Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Calvin Borel before Saturday’s Preakness.
Reuters is now reporting that actress Farrah Fawcett is near death. (And involved in some kind of complicated lawsuit, it seems.)
The Chicago Tribune doesn’t love it:Three years later the major players are back for more grandiloquent hackery. Hanks returns to the dullest role of his career, under the direction of Howard, who takes the material as seriously as a kidney stone on the way out.
We’ve got ’em!204 celebs and counting, from Bar Refaeli to Amelia Earhart to the always sexy Gordon Brown.(And R2-D2!)Thanks to Mike Duffy and Adam Duvander in the Who2 boiler room for making it all happen. And thanks to our new parters at WENN for providing the fascinating photos. We’ll be adding many more in the weeks to come.
On my first day of shooting I ended up breaking a stunt guy’s nose on the second take. A word of caution to any young actor out there: Do NOT hurt stuntmen because they will pay you back in kind. The next take after that, this big stunt guy kicked me in the stomach. He said it wasn’t on purpose, but I don’t know.Chris Pine learns the Hollywood way while filming Star Trek.
Speaking of Van Gogh’s ear… the Ohio woman who got an entirely new face last year has revealed herself. (Photos not for the squeamish.)She also revealed the terrible story behind her disfigurement: Her own husband shot her in the face with a shotgun.What a story. Modern medicine!
Did Vincent Van Gogh really cut off his own ear? That’s what we’ve always been told.But this news story says two researchers have a different theory: Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by fellow artist Paul Gauguin.
Weird: MSNBC has a “pre-pan” of Chris Pine as Captain Kirk… by someone who admittedly hasn’t seen the movie yet.Only William Shatner can fill Kirk’s boots, that’s the message. We all love Shatner, but… wha–?
A dirt-bike accident did the trick.Bale can proudly join Daryl Hannah, and Rahm Emanuel in our loop on Celebs Missing Fingers, which is possibly why he staged the accident in the first place.
A slideshow. The Walt Disney and the Bill Gates original Albuquerque card (shown) are the liveliest.
Duffy remembers an idyllic period when she was a teenager working as a Saturday girl, sweeping up in a hairdressing salon, at the same time as Penguin was publishing a series of books by modern poets at half a crown a time. “I’d be in my leather mini-skirt and boots up to here.
British light welterweight Ricky Hatton was KO’d in the second round by Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao last night in Las Vegas.
Here’s a new trailer for the next big movie based on the J.K. Rowling series of Harry Potter novels.
Justice David Souter will retire from the Supreme Court when its current session ends in July.After his two decades on the Court, the news seems to be all about how much Souter hates Washington, D.C.
Well, it’s a weird one: The late Bea Arthur and actor Rock Hudson sing a Dixieland duet about drugs on an unidentified 1970s television show. Enjoy!
Nifty logo tribute from Google to Morse Code inventor Samuel Morse on his 218th birthday.
Dead at 86. Everyone knows her big credits, but I didn’t know she was the original matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway. And — Fosse connection alert — her first husband produced All That Jazz.
A wonderfully cleaned-up version of Samuel L. Jackson’s famous line from the movie Snakes on a Plane: