Rocker Tommy Lee has moved back in with Pamela Anderson, reports In Touch — but that doesn’t mean the friendly former spouses are getting back together. The Mötley Crüe drummer is crashing at Pam’s Malibu pad while his own home is renovated. These two just love to keep us guessing!BROKEBACK BLONDE: JAKE, REESE HOOK UPNew couple alert! Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and "Brokeback Mountain" star Jake Gyllenhaal, co-stars in the upcoming "Rendition," are reportedly seeing each other on the sly.
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Nino Giarratano watched as Mitchell Bialosky walked up to the lineup card and smiled.After two-plus years of seeing his name next to the No. 8 or 9 spot, the USF first baseman had been bumped up to the cleanup spot for a March 2 game against Baylor. And following a performance in which he ripped three hits in five at-bats and drove in two runs in a 5-4 loss to the Bears, he hasn’t moved since.
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Get in on the ground floor of this adventurous new magazine on meat culture edited and published in San Francisco by Sasha Wizansky and Amy Standen. These two literate and artistic young editors have produced a provocative, whimsical and politically open-ended journal on the issues raised by eating meat.
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A tiny, excellent, Shanghai-style restaurant has opened across the street from the Balboa Theater and I’ve had two scrumptious meals there.Good thing that my trusted informant reserved a table for six of us one night. The small dining room was full by 7 p.m. and people waited outside on the sidewalk for one of a handful of tables.
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Freddy Rodriguez played a loyal undertaker’s assistant in the cable hit "Six Feet Under," a memorable role, but it didn’t necessarily turn heads. That’s about to change.After watching "Grindhouse," the cinematic double feature from directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, audiences are bound to remember him."My special power [in the film] is the power to be a badass, you know?" the actor says. "Wray is just a bare-knuckle badass."
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Hell hath no fury like a woman whose family has been ritually sacrificed to appease the heavens, particularly when the devil challenges her to a high-stakes game of flinch. Here, that woman is Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank), a toothy Louisiana State University professor who acts as a professional mythbuster, traveling around the world to disprove the existence of divine miracles.
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There’s a quality to the wistful pop of Papercuts’ latest endeavor "Can’t Go Back" that suggests San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Jason Quever is in brighter spirits. The notoriously reclusive artist, who is essentially the lone force behind the indie band, admits he set out to create an upbeat follow-up to 2004’s critically acclaimed "Mockingbird" to remind folks that, well, the world isn’t such a bad place after all. But, as Quever, 31, has come to find, there’s been some misinterpretation surrounding his intentions.
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Observers of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have speculated that the famously take-charge actress has her baby-daddy on a short leash. But the Oscar winner’s brother insists that’s "rubbish.""They make all their decisions together," James Haven reportedly told the European mag Grazia. "It’s rubbish that she tries to control him. They have a balanced relationship; they each do their stuff. I’ve never seen moments where one is nagging or controlling the other."
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Graham Leggat might have been inspired by Oscar Wilde in making plans for the San Francisco International Film Festival’s 50th season, unspooling between April 26 and May 10: "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."Leggat, executive director of festival parent organization San Francisco Film Society, surely would prefer "just right" to "excess," and if all goes well that will be true, too. From an observer’s initial viewpoint, however, the overabundance of SFIFF-50 is stunning.
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It wouldn’t seem as if an ultra cool, macho guy like Idris Elba would be afraid of bugs. But the 35-year-old, London-born actor says while filming a few scenes for the new supernatural thriller movie "The Reaping," he almost "lost it.""These weren’t just bugs, these were giant-sized locusts and loads of them," said Elba during a recent interview to promote the movie in Beverly Hills.In the film, which opens Thursday, Elba and Academy Award-winning Hilary Swank play science professors who try to explain bizarre Biblical and plague-like occurrences in a small Louisiana town.
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