date Mar 21, 08 01:49 PM

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Hollywood royalty Liz Taylor made a short appearance with her dog and handlers at The Abbey, a famous gay bar, today on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles.


date Jan 30, 08 10:00 AM

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Hollywood legends Carol Channing, Esther Williams, Florence Henderson and Julie Newmar were among those attending a special ceremony in Hollywood last night to donate historical Hollywood artifacts to the Smithsonian. Carol Channing donated the diamond gown and her Tony Award from Hello Dolly, Esther Williams donated her two MGM career scrapbooks, Florence Henderson donated her two TV Land Awards and Julie Newmar donated the Catwoman outfit from the 1966 TV show "Batman."


date Dec 7, 07 12:54 PM

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Comedienne Carol Burnett stopped in at Mr. Chow last night for dinner. The legendary Burnett has been in show business for over 50 years and shows no signs of stopping. She's reported set to begin filming a new film, The Post-Grad
Survival Guide
later this month.


date Dec 7, 07 02:12 AM

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Tony Bennett is still going strong at age 81. He performed in concert tonight at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, FL.


date Nov 15, 07 12:07 PM

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Vintage actress Mamie Van Doren had a slight wardrobe malfunction as she hosted a party for her new Mamietage red wine at the restaurant Eleven in West Hollywood yesterday. Guests at the party included Playboy Centerfold (July '74) Carol Vitale.


date Oct 30, 07 12:27 PM

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We found soon-to-be grandfather Lionel Richie at Spago with music legend Quincy Jones last night. Reportedly Richie, father of Nicole Richie, has decided upon the perfect gift for his pregnant daughter: a new home. He wants his grandchild to be as secure as possible as when he or she arrives so he's shopping for the perfect gated community and the reports indicate he's checking out a $7 million home. Not too shabby!


date Oct 29, 07 02:58 PM

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We caught funny man Chris Tucker and music legend Quincy Jones outside the Laugh Factory in Hollywood last night.

It's been reported that after the third film in the series, Rush Hour film star Tucker will move on to do other things. Says Tucker: “For me as a career move, I don�t know if I want to do another one. The fans will have to really, really, really say that ‘3’ was so good that they want to see another one. Because I really want to do something different.”

Earlier this month, Quincy Jones was named one of the 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters.


date Oct 23, 07 02:27 PM

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The ever-tan actor, George Hamilton enjoyed dinner at Mr Chow in Beverly Hills last night with his young, blonde date and his son, actor Ashley Hamilton.


date Oct 23, 07 02:18 PM

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The legendary and beautiful Jane Fonda attended the "Actors Studio Le Ragazze Degli Anni '70" premiere with Cloris Leachman and Shirley Knight at the Rome Film Festival yesterday.


date Oct 22, 07 04:14 PM

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Director Francis Ford Coppola with Sofia Coppola, Tim Roth and Alexandra Maria Lara presented Youth Without Youth at the Rome Film Festival.

The film is a love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.


date Oct 20, 07 09:37 AM

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Among the celebs attending the 2007 Spike TV Scream awards were Paris Hilton and Darren Lynn, Kristen Bell, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Ozzy and Jack Osbourne, Slash, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Criss Angel, Alice Cooper and Casper Van Dien.

The Scream Awards, which celebrate people getting the crap scared out of them, are appropriately scheduled to air just before Halloween on October 23. Check your local listings.


date Oct 19, 07 06:58 PM

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Sophia Loren looked as glamorous as ever on the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the Rome Film Festival. As part of the opening ceremony, the Festival and its attendees paid tribute to Sophia, who received a standing ovation.

As glamorous as she looks, her eyebrows look a bit odd, no? Could they be tattooed?


date Oct 16, 07 07:11 PM

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We caught Richard Dreyfuss on the set of My Life in Ruins in the old town of Plaka near the Acropolis in Athens yesterday.


date Oct 16, 07 07:09 PM

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Her Royal Highness Queen Sofia of Spain attended the Athens premiere of the new Greek film El Greco about the freedom fighter and artist, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco."

Queen Sofia was born in Athens as Princess of Greece and Denmark. She later married Prince Juan Carlos of Spain, who became King in 1975.


date Oct 15, 07 01:16 PM

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We snapped Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) on the set while filming the new romantic comedy, My Life in Ruins, on the Athens Acropolis with Richard Dreyfuss and Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis.

Due out in 2008, My Life In Ruins is a comedy about an archaeologist tour guide whose life takes a personal detour, while her group gets entangled in comic situations among the ruins with a series of unexpected stops along the way.


date Oct 12, 07 11:01 AM

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Roger Moore received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Stephanie Powers and James Bond co-star Richard Kiel ("Jaws") were among those who attended the ceremony.


date Oct 11, 07 01:03 PM

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Music superstar Elton John and long-time friend Billie Jean King hosted the 15th annual Advanta World Team Tennis Smash Hits, a special night of tennis featuring Andy Roddick, Lindsay Davenport and Anna Kournikova, among others. The event, held at The Pavilion at Villanova University in Philadelphia, benefits the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the local charity ActionAIDS.


date Oct 11, 07 12:32 AM

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Anna Kournikova, Elton John, Billie Jean King and Andy Roddick attended a press conference and posed for photos, today, with the team before the 15th annual Advanta World Team Tennis Smash Hits in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Billie Jean King and Elton John co-hosted the event featuring the all-star list of tennis celebrities including Andy Roddick, Lindsay Davenport, and Anna Kournikova. The charity event helped raise money for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and ActionAIDS in Philadelphia.


date Oct 8, 07 10:46 AM

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Among the legendary celebrities at Ray Courts Hollywood Collectors Show yesterday were Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds, Angie Dickinson (who got playful with a pooch) and legendary James Bond villian, Richard Kiel.

The "Hollywood Collectors Show, Inc." presents memorabilia, fan, collector, vendor/exhibitor and celebrity guests shows in the Hollywood and Burbank, California area.


date Oct 4, 07 12:03 PM

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Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Brooke Mueller and Holland Taylor were among the stars that attended the "Two and a Half Men" 100th Episode Celebration held at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills yesterday.


date Oct 2, 07 10:40 AM

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Former child star and singer Leif Garrett was all smiles as he left the nightclub Hyde in West Hollywood last night. He must have recovered from the soreness he experienced when appearing on CMT's "Ty Murray's Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge" in August. He quit the show after only one episode due to the pain and his lack of desire to continue. Who can blame him?


date Oct 2, 07 10:33 AM

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Robin Leach looked awfully jolly last night as he left Spago in Beverly Hills. Maybe it was because he has a full belly after his meal or perhaps it was the young, beautiful date?


date Sep 26, 07 05:09 PM

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Magic Johnson was the honored guest yesterday at a charity basketball game in Athens to raise money for a global AIDS campaign and victims of recent deadly wildfires in Greece that killed at least 65 people. "Thank you for allowing me to come to your beautiful country," Johnson, who did not play Tuesday, said before the start of the game. "This is to help all the people with HIV/AIDS and for the people affected by that terrible fire."

The game, held under the auspices of UNICEF's office in Greece, featured the Greece team that won the European championship 20 years ago by beating the Soviet Union in a close final. They faced the national under-19 team.


date Sep 26, 07 04:05 PM

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We caught Patrick Stewart out at the Ivy last night in London. Formerly Captain Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Patrick is slated to play the role of Claudius in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. David Tennant will play the title character in the production.


date Sep 20, 07 11:45 AM

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46-year-old Boy George headed out for a night of frivolity last night during London Fashion Week. Reports are he met up with good friend Naomi Campbell at the Dorchester Hotel and had quite a few laughs.


date Sep 19, 07 03:55 PM

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As London Fashion Week continued last night, nearly 500 guests attended the invitation-only Golden Age of Couture VIP Gala at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Guests paid $2,000 each to attend the event. Those in attendance included Elizabeth Hurley, Prince, Claudia Schiffer, Quentin Tarantino, Eva Herzigova, Jade Jagger, Lily Cole and Vivienne Westwood.


date Sep 19, 07 03:39 PM

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Michael Palin, "Monty Python" actor-turned-travel writer/presenter, signed copies of his new book, New Europe at Hatchards in London today. The new book documents his extensive travels around Eastern Europe encompassing Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.


date Sep 17, 07 05:34 PM

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The red carpet was sizzling at the Emmy Awards yesterday and it wasn't just the LA heat. Eva Longoria, "Heroes'" Ali Larter, Debra Messing and America Ferrara looked stunning as they made their way into the Shrine Auditorium and Al Gore was looking awfully dapper, himself.


date Sep 15, 07 11:40 AM

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Mel Brooks hammed it up for our cameras outside Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills last night.

Brooks was recently a guest on a new radio series, "Only In America," that chronicles the history of Jews in the America. Other guests on the series will include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Jon Stewart.


date Sep 14, 07 12:45 PM

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Hugh and his playmates Bridget Marquardt, Holly Madison, Brande Roderick and Kendra Wilkinson attended Finacially Hung's Black Card Party at Vice Nightclub last night in Hollywood.


date Sep 14, 07 12:20 PM

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The Alive Expo Emmy Awards Gift Suite is now open and the stars aren't wasting any time heading over to check it out. Yesterday, we ran into Cheryl Hines, Judd Nelson, Mary Lou Henner, Ernie Hudson, Maria Conchita Alonso, Alana Curry and Michael Urie among others.


date Sep 12, 07 08:45 PM

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The King took some time out from eternity to help out with a wedding on the Las Vegas Strip today. This Elvis impersonator takes his craft seriously, right down to his 1956 Cadillac with a 56ELVIS license plate!


date Sep 12, 07 12:20 PM

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Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor and director Woody Allen with wife Soon-Yi were among the stars that attended the premiere of thier new film Cassandra's Dream at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada yesterday.


date Sep 11, 07 01:14 PM

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Farm Aid '07 was held at Randal's Island in New York City yesterday. Artists including John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson, Montgomery Gentry and Counting Crows turned out to help raise money to save family farms in the US.

Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on their land. Dave Matthews joined the Farm Aid Board of Directors in 2001. Farm Aid has raised more than $30 million to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture. Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on their land.


date Sep 8, 07 02:51 PM

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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani toured the Pinellas County, Florida Sheriff's emergency response equipment at the Sheriff's office in Largo, Fla yesterday.


date Sep 7, 07 02:57 PM

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Artist and director Julian Schnabel won the 2007 Gucci Group Award at the 64th Annual Venice Film Festival for his work "Le Scaphandre et le Papillion" ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") an adaptation of a memoir written by Jean-Dominique Bauby, who in 1995, at age 43, succumbed to a stroke that left him completely paralyzed save for his left eye. (He "blinked" out the manuscript, one letter at a time; the book was published just days before Bauby's death in 1997).


date Sep 6, 07 07:18 PM

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Actor Bob Newhart turned 78 and celebrated with special honors from the Paley Center for Media and a party at Spago in Beverly Hills. Long-time friends and stars Tim Conway, Don Rickles, Dick Martin and Bill Daily were among those in attendance.


date Sep 6, 07 12:28 PM

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The great tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at the age of 71. Pavarotti had been fighting a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The world famous opera singer died at his home in Modena, Italy. His manager Terri Robson released a statement that read, "The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness." He is survived by his second wife Nicoletta Mantovani and daughter Alice, four. He also has three adult children with his first wife, Adua


date Sep 5, 07 02:38 PM

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The new play, based upon Pedro Almodovar's film of the same title All About My Mother, premiered in London last night at the Old Vic Theater. Almodovar attended with Penelope Cruz, who starred in the film. Kevin Spacey, the creative director for the Old Vic, was also at the event.