Rumer Willis, All Grown Up
Seems like only a few years ago that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were married and having kids.Now their daughter Rumer is playing a nerdy college coed in the movie The House Bunny.
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Beaus of Obama’s Beaus
A modest coincidence: Joe Biden and Evan Bayh — the leading candidates to be Barack Obama’s running mate — both have sons named after themselves and nicknamed Beau.Beau Biden (Joseph R. Biden III) was born in 1969 and is now attorney general of Delaware.
Symmonds Through to Semis
Runner Nick Symmonds won his quarterfinal heat in the Olympic 800 meters today. He’s through to a semifinal heat on Thursday.Alas, his teammates Andrew Wheating and Christian Smith didn’t make the cut.
Georgia “Bigfoot” is a Rubber Monkey
Oh, dear. The lastest Bigfoot sighting turns out to be a hoax.
“Veep Shortlisters”
The Associated Press runs down the potential vice-presidential nominees.
Shirkieville or Terre Haute?
Our new profile of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh lists his place of birth as Terre Haute, Indiana.
Happy 35th Birthday, Jar Jar Binks!
Actor Ahmed Best was born on this day in 1973.
Nick Symmonds Runs in Beijing
A point of personal pride here: Nick Symmonds will run the 800 meters in the Olympics this week.
Bad-Health Updates: Hayes and Novak
A few late follow-ups on recent news…
‘Man on Wire’ — Man, Oh, Man
Can’t wait to see the new movie Man on Wire. It’s a documentary about Philip Petit, the daredevil who walked a high wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.
Brett Favre Traded to the Jets
After 16 years as the beloved quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, Brett Favre has been traded to the New York Jets.Try the Milwaukie Journal-Sentinel for the latest notes from the Green Bay side, and Newsday for the New York take.
Morgan Freeman Crashes, Divorces
Actor Morgan Freeman is divorcing his wife just a few days after he suffered a near-fatal car accident, according to the Los Angeles Times.Nice photo selection to go with the story, there, LA Times.
Happy 78th Birthday, Neil Armstrong!
You stud.
First Photos of the Pitt-Jolie Twins
People magazine has published the first photos of Knox and Vivienne, the twin newborns of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
Solzhenitsyn Dead
Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the stubborn dissident who outlasted the Soviet Union, has died at age 89.His 1962 book A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, about a Soviet prison camp inmate, made him both famous and a favorite target of government authorities. (A mathematician and professor, he had already spent a decade in prison camps and then in exile in Kazakhstan.)
For Pete’s Sakes, Steve Fossett Did Not Fake His Own Death
Brrrother. The tabloids are doing their best to reopen the Steve Fossett case, suddenly yakking about how Fossett may have faked his own death.
Gapper: Laurence Olivier
‘Gapper’ is our term for a profile we probably ought to have had long ago.
Feist Counts to Four on Sesame Street
Can’t get enough of this charming video of the singer Feist on the new season of Sesame Street:If the tune sounds familiar, you may recognize it from the popular iPod Nano “a little video for everyone” commercial…
McGregor Ridiculed Publicly
Google celebrates Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter today with a doodle on their home page.Once again, poor Mr. McGregor can only wave his rake and rage on while a cuddly rabbit steals his livelihood and gets all the good press. It’s sad.
Happy 100th, Joseph Mitchell!
The terrific writer Joseph Mitchell was born 100 years ago today.Mitchell wrote with a “fondness for the eccentricities of New York life,” as The Associated Press put it in their 1996 obituary. His stories, mostly published in The New Yorker, are full of saloonkeepers, Bowery bums, oystermen and oysters, beefsteak cooks, crazy storytellers, and the uncream of Manhattan.