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7 Cursed Oscar Couples
 7 Cursed Oscar Couples 
Mar 1, 2014 12:54 PM CST

7 Cursed Oscar Couples

They broke up within a year of an Academy Award win

(Newser) - Winning an Oscar is great ... but for these couples, rounded up by People , it was followed by the demise of their relationship less than a year later:
  • George Clooney and Stacy Keibler: As a co-producer of Argo, Clooney won Best Picture last year—five months later, he and Keibler broke
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16 Secret Celeb Weddings
 16 Secret Celeb Weddings 
Feb 22, 2014 1:54 PM CST

16 Secret Celeb Weddings

Not every star needs all the fanfare

(Newser) - The latest celebrity couple to get married in secret? Leighton Meester and Adam Brody (aka Blair Waldorf from Gossip Girl and Seth Cohen from The OC). PopSugar rounds up quite a few more stars whose weddings surprised us. A sampling:
  • Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard: They quietly got hitched at
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Julia Roberts May Have to Battle for Half-Sister's Estate

As Nancy Motes' fiance's brother makes more disturbing claims

(Newser) - The latest drama surrounding the death of Julia Roberts' half-sister, Nancy Motes: A source tells the New York Post that Roberts may end up in a battle with Motes' fiance, John Dilbeck, who plans to argue that he should be a beneficiary of Motes' estate due to the length of...

In Suicide Note, Half-Sis Blamed Julia Roberts: Sources

Sources say Nancy Motes' family drove her to kill herself

(Newser) - Julia Roberts' half-sister Nancy Motes did leave a suicide note before her death from an apparent drug overdose, the coroner's office confirms to Us . A source close to the investigation tells the New York Daily News it was five pages long, and quite focused on Roberts: "There were...

Before Death, Half-Sis Tweeted Angrily About Julia Roberts

Nancy Motes called famous sibling 'cruel;' officials eye possible suicide

(Newser) - Just weeks before she was found dead of an apparent drug overdose , Julia Roberts' half-sister, Nancy Motes, had tweeted angrily about her famous sibling and the rest of her family, the New York Daily News reports. The tweets have apparently since been deleted , but the Daily News has screenshots of...

Julia Roberts' Half-Sister Found Dead

Nancy Motes was found in a bathtub with drugs on the scene

(Newser) - Julia Roberts' half-sister was found dead yesterday in a Los Angeles bathroom in what appears to be a drug overdose, CNN reports. Nancy Motes, 37, "was found in a bathtub that contained water," the chief coroner's investigator told the Daily News . "There were prescription and non-prescription...

Lone Survivor: Best War-Film Bow Since 9/11

'Hercules' stumbles while 'Frozen' clings to second spot

(Newser) - Lone Survivor shocked Hollywood this weekend with a blistering $38.9 million debut—the best of any war film since 9/11, says the Hollywood Reporter . Analysts tell USA Today that the Mark Wahlberg drama, about a US military mission gone wrong, fared well in the heartland thanks to a patriotic...

Julia Roberts on Fighting Meryl: 'She's Strong!'

Dishes on social media, Oscars with 'Marie Claire'

(Newser) - One of the perks of being a famous actress: You get to brawl with Meryl Streep. In a scene from the upcoming August: Osage County film, Julia Roberts knocks Streep, who plays her mother, to the ground. "I tell you, Meryl's strong!" Roberts tells Marie Claire . "...

10 Celebrity Couples You Never Knew About

Really? Charlie Sheen dated Robin Wright?

(Newser) - "Really? They were together?" That'll probably be your reaction to these celebrity couples rounded up by ETOnline . A sampling:
  • Not only did Charlie Sheen date Winona Ryder, he says he picked her stage name. She was born Winona Horowitz, but while listening to "Riders on the Storm"
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6 Celeb Secrets Spilled by Bodyguards

Guess who once passed out at the Playboy Mansion?

(Newser) - Who knows the uncensored truth about celebrities? As we've already learned , their hired help. Radar lists 11 bodyguards to the stars who have told all; here are six particularly juicy tidbits:
  • Jennifer Aniston loves to walk around half-naked, according to one ex-bodyguard. "When she answers the door in
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Why Julia Roberts Isn't Going to Sister's Wedding

She hates groom, doesn't want to get hit up for money

(Newser) - Sounds like there's little love lost between Julia Roberts and her half-sister Nancy Motes, at least if the National Enquirer is to be believed. According to Radar , a source tells the tabloid Roberts won't be attending her younger sibling's wedding because she's not a fan of...

25 Casting Close Calls
 25 Casting 
 Close Calls 
jen ... on SNL?!
Nov 17, 2012 12:53 PM CST

25 Casting Close Calls

Hollywood roles that could have gone another way

(Newser) - Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for her role in Girl, Interrupted—so, chances are, Parker Posey regrets not auditioning for the role when invited. Posey has said she "just didn't care enough about it." The Frisky rounds up 24 more casting close calls in Hollywood:
  • Leonardo DiCaprio
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Mirror Mirror Looks Great, Feels Flat
 Mirror Mirror 
 Looks Great, 
 Feels Flat 
movie reviews
Mar 30, 2012 11:40 AM CDT

Mirror Mirror Looks Great, Feels Flat

Julia Roberts stars as evil queen in Snow White spectacle

(Newser) - The latest retelling of Snow White (before June's Snow White and the Huntsman) is a lot like its vain queen: visually stunning, but kind of shallow. Critics aren't particularly impressed with Mirror Mirror:
  • Though director Tarsem Singh "knows how to make performers and sets look good, he
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UK Bans 'Too Perfect' Julia Roberts L'Oreal Ad

Over-airbrushed Roberts—and Turlington—ads yanked

(Newser) - Julia Roberts looks like she hasn't aged a day in her new makeup ad. Now British advertising authorities have told L'Oreal it went too far touching up Roberts'—and Christy Turlington's—face. The cosmetics firm was ordered to pull two overly airbushed magazine ads featuring the...

Larry Crowne Reviews: Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks Movie Is Mediocre at Best
 Larry Crowne Isn't Really 
 Romantic—or Funny 
MOVIE REVIEWs
Jul 1, 2011 1:05 PM CDT

Larry Crowne Isn't Really Romantic—or Funny

Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks movie doesn't live up to promise

(Newser) - Critics are finding plenty to laugh at in Larry Crowne, just not much of what writer/director/star Tom Hanks planned on. With a 36% rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes , the romantic-comedy co-starring Julia Roberts is about a middle-aged man making huge changes, but there's little you haven't seen a...

Julia Roberts, Clinton: Poor Nations Need Clean Stoves

Millions die each year in developing nations, mostly women and children

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton gets a little star power today in pushing one of her initiatives: She and Julia Roberts team up on a USA Today op-ed highlighting the danger of dirty stoves in the developing world. "Some 3 billion people live in homes where food is cooked on stoves or...

Toxin Plagues Brockovich Town, Again

Cancer-causing material spreads through wells

(Newser) - A toxic plume of chromium continues to trouble the California desert town that Erin Brockovich put on the map—and the pollution is getting worse, reports the AP . High levels of the material, which can cause cancer, have spread through wells near Hinkley. “Because of the widespread nature of...

Search for Diaz, Biel at Your Own Risk

 Search for 
 Diaz, Biel at 
 Your Own Risk 

most dangerous celebs
Aug 19, 2010 5:40 AM CDT

Search for Diaz, Biel at Your Own Risk

McAfee ranks most dangerous celebrity search terms

(Newser) - Searching for Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts, or Jessica Biel is risky business, warns online security company McAfee. The stars top the company's annual list of the most dangerous celebrities to search for online, the AP reports. The celebs are used as bait by scammers seeking to lure people to malicious...

Eat, Pray, Love, Play Bingo!

Fight chick-flick boredom with a game

(Newser) - Had enough of Julia Roberts and her latest chick flick? The cure is Eat, Pray, Love bingo. Yes, bingo, Dodai Stewart and Sadie Stein blog for Jezebel . Print out your board, smuggle it into the multiplex, and keep your eyes peeled for monkeys, elephants, crying men, and of course eating,...

Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn
 Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn 
MOVIE REVIEW
Aug 13, 2010 6:42 AM CDT

Eat, Pray, Love ... Yawn

Glossy adaptation of memoir lacks spice, say critics

(Newser) - Eat, Pray, Love looks lovely but lacks both the spice and the depth of the best-selling memoir it's based on, say critics. Julia Roberts stars as a jaded New York divorcee traveling the world to seek enlightenment.
  • Roberts' Liz says she wants to move outside her comfort zone, writes Kirk
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