Comedian Patton Oswalt is one of the funniest people to follow on Twitter, but after the Boston Marathon bombings he posted on Facebook something remarkably poignant.
“I remember when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, ‘Well, I’ve had it with humanity,’” he began. But then he seemed to channel Mister Rogers’ famous quote, “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
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Eccentric hoopster Dennis Rodman claims that the FBI approached him to become an informant about North Korea -- which, in the light of the fact that he has made this very public, shows what crappy security choices the feds can make.
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We’ve been sitting on rumors about a split between Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon for a few days now, but it seems the talk is true. TMZ reports that the pair have been living separately and that the reason for the split was Ozzy’s most recent relapse.
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Everyone’s talking about Aubrey Plaza’s bizarre hijacking of Will Ferrell’s acceptance speech at the MTV Movie Awards. The actress slunk onstage and then awkwardly interrupted him and tried to pry the award from his hands. “Are you OK?” he asked her.
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Octomom further proved that she is one triflin’ lady after breaking the lease on her SoCal home and leaving the joint in major disarray.
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A former associate of Garth Brooks is accusing him of being a colossal douche bag. Producer Lisa Sanderson is suing the country crooner for $425,000 in back pay and punitive damages, stemming from the fact that he is a “paranoid, angry, deceitful and vindictive man who would turn against those closest to him on a dime.”
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The actress who tried to take on age discrimination in Hollywood by challenging IMDb, the popular database, has lost her court battle.
Junie Hoang, 41 (heh-heh), sued IMDb for posting her real age after she had initially submitted a false birth year to appear younger. The Screen Actors Guild also has applied pressure on the site to limit the posting of the ages of industry folks since it apparently can be an impediment to getting hired.
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A 41-year-old woman is alleged to have stalked Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, the New York Post reported.
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Oy vey! Justin Bieber has done it again. “Anne Frank was a great girl,” he wrote in the guest book at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, according to multiple sources. “Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”
Um, hard to say, since she really seemed like more of a One Direction fan.
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The defense team in Katherine Jackson’s wrongful death lawsuit against AEG Live is going to have a hard time showing that the pop idol was not a hopeless drug addict, if recently released court docs are to be believed.
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