'American Idol' star's slink through 'For Your Entertainment' was clearly not for everyone. By Gil Kaufman Adam Lambert performing at the American Music Awards on Sunday Photo: Kevork Djansezian/ Getty Images If Adam Lambert proved anything during his sexually charged performance at Sunday night's American Music Awards , it's that he continues to give good headline. The "American Idol" runner-up...
Filed under: Sex Sells , Tax , Celebs & Money Earlier this month, Girls Gone Wild promoter Joe Francis plea-bargained his way out of a possible prison sentence for charges related to filing false tax returns. By pleading guilty to filing false tax returns and bribing Nevada jail workers, Mr. Francis was sentenced to time served and one year of probation , according to the Los Angeles Times . Initially...
Activision has a third development studio working on a new Call of Duty title, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. In a feature focused on the recent record-breaking sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which grossed USD 550 million in five days, the newspaper makes brief mention of a third studio "working on future versions." Traditionally, series creator Infinity Ward has...
The Los Angeles Times and other media outlets published a series of photos that allegedly back the Israeli claims. Iran, however, says one of the photos -- an apparent shipping manifest from the Ministry of Sepah -- is from a defunct agency, suggesting Israel made up the story, state-funded broadcaster Press TV reports . Other reports from the Iranian media blame Western reports, the Times in particular,...
The Los Angeles Times writes: "Sierra Leone is one of those nations where decades of foreign aid have failed to appreciably lift the fortunes of the people. The country is a charity case: 60% of its public spending comes from foreign governments and nonprofit organizations. Since 2002, it has received more than $1 billion in aid," the newspaper writes.
The Tribune Company indicated in court papers filed last Friday that it might emerge from bankruptcy by May 31 of next year. The company is filing for a four month extension "to craft a plan to exit Chapter 11 without interference from other parties." Bankruptcy is very confusing. More from the LA Times : The Chicago-based media company, whose holdings include the Los Angeles Times and KTLA-TV...
Describing a controversial federal judge's accounting for a $33.8 million trust as "curious," the 9th Circuit today called for another judge to provide an accounting of how the money was handled. The decision concerns disputed assets of the late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos which were entrusted to Real, who is now 85, while the federal courts sorted out his heirs, reports the Los...
BBC News In Israel, some on the right support talks with Hamas Christian Science Monitor A newspaper poll indicated that 53 percent of Likud party supporters favor talks with Islamist Hamas under certain conditions. Overall, 57 percent of Israelis back the idea. By Christa Case Bryant | Middle East editor 11.13.09 The left-leaning Israeli ... Critical Currents: Abbas's challenge to Israel Jerusalem...
Libel laws are much stricter in Great Britain than they are in the U.S. and there no constitutional right to free speech. This puts U.S. newspapers in legal jeopardy when they sell U.S. publications, such as The New York Times , in Britain. Many expatriates read major U.S. newspapers, which are readily available in London. But now the newspapers are getting ready to pull out of Great Britain, saying...
This morning's New York Times features a front-page Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin article on a story that MAN has been aggressively covering for six weeks: The New Museum's self-made ethical problems regarding its exhibition of a trustee's collection. ( Click here for a roundup of links to MAN's coverage. Click here for an op-ed I wrote for the current issue of The Art Newspaper.) Some thoughts:...
Britain's reputation for "libel tourism" is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned. Publishers, human rights groups and campaigners have expressed "substantial and increasing concern" because comments that would be protected under the freedom...
Tunisan blogger Fatma Riahi, who is known online as Arabicca, has been released by police investigating whether she is the author of Blog de Z , according to a posting on the Free Arabicca blog. According to Al Jazeera , Riahi was first summoned to appear before the Criminal Brigade of Gorjani in Tunis on Monday. She was released only to be arrested the next day. Her home was searched, and her computer...
RELATED " Covering the Fort Hood Shootings, A Day Later ," Al Tompkins Days after Twitter Lists were introduced to the public , the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday showed the power of this feature to cover a major news event in real-time. News organizations quickly created a trusted set of Twitter Lists to follow developments out of Texas. Lists from The Huffington Post , Los Angeles...
Waiting for a bus on my way to work I picked up a copy of the real estate sections of The Korea Times , a local newspaper serving the Korean community in Los Angeles. That’s right the real estate sections. There were two, a total of 32 pages of real estate coverage and advertisements in one day’s newspaper. This at a time when falling circulation and ad revenue forced the Los Angeles Times...
Just how bad for Obama were Tuesday's election results? So bad White House senior adviser David Axelrod went on Fox News Wednesday to try and spin it? In case you've forgotten, this is about two weeks after Axelrod told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, " [T]hey're not really a news station ." I guess that's changed now that the Republicans have come back to life (video of Major Garrett's unedited...
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