New evidence suggests Anna Nicole Smith may have been revising her will just five days before her mysterious death at age 39. A 2001 document released to the press was drafted before the birth of the late model’s daughter, Dannielynn — and leaves everything to son Daniel, now deceased. But a fax cover sheet unearthed by Web site TMZ.com, believed to be from the office of lawyer Ron Rale, shows that a copy of Anna’s will was faxed to an unknown recipient Feb. 3.
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A good bar is a rare and beautiful thing and David McLean, the owner of Alembic, a new bar on Haight, has made all right decisions.A veritable library of artisan spirits, many local and distilled in small batches, are catalogued on blackboards suspended on pulleys above the bar. Composed cocktails ($9), like a well proportioned negroni, satisfy traditionalists, while new-school concoctions, effusively described on their own menu, cater to whomever. The selection of beer, ales, sake and wines gets no less attention.
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The Force is strong in Charles Ross. It must be, considering the 32-year-old Canadian actor has a task of epic proportions ahead of him.Ross isn’t exactly the next Jedi incarnate set to battle the forces of evil in a galaxy far, far away.He is, however, a self-professed dork on a mission to bring the original "Star Wars" trilogy to life onstage without the help of, well, anyone.
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A good bar is a rare and beautiful thing and David McLean, the owner of Alembic, a new bar on Haight, has made all right decisions.
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Ask disco royalty Martha Wash who she thinks will take home the Oscar gold on Sunday and she'll make references to a queen of another kind. "Helen Mirren … oh, she's going to get it," Wash says from her home in New York City. Wash returns to San Francisco (her hometown) to liven up an already lively affair — The 27th Annual Academy of Friends Gala — at Herbst Pavilion. Touted as one of the biggest Oscar parties outside of Hollywood, the event raises funds allocated to a diverse set of HIV/AIDS agencies — 15 in all — in the Bay Area.
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The Syracuse Crunch, an upstate New York minor league hockey team, is going to great lengths to support pop star Britney Spears, who in recent weeks has been the focus of "negative publicity surrounding late-night partying, a very short stint in rehab, being photographed without wearing any underwear and a new shaved look," according the team's Web site.
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Britney Spears left a live-in rehabilitation facility early Wednesday, less than a day after checking in, according to several reports. It was the second time in a week that Spears entered a rehab facility and checked out before her first day was finished. The television news magazine "The Insider" initially reported that Spears called a car service, walked out of the Promises Malibu Treatment Center and left the facility early Wednesday morning.
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Will the second time in rehab prove the charm for Britney Spears? After a blink-and-you-missed-it daylong stint at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads treatment facility last week, Britney flew the coop. Then (FYI, in case you just jetted back from Mars) she returned to Los Angeles and shaved her head, reportedly as a desperate act of defiance against her mother, Lynne Spears — who was said to be beside herself about Britney ditching rehab.
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Being 51 is no big deal, unless you’re an opera company. In marked contrast with Europe, where such organizations have existed for hundreds of years, opera is a relative newcomer here. West Bay Opera’s current 51st season makes it California’s second-oldest continuously operating company, after San Francisco’s 84-year-old monarch. (The Met is 127, Central City is 75, Fort Worth is an impressive 61, Chicago’s Lyric is 51, Los Anegles is a parvenu at 21.)
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It’s been a decade since Motor City mainstay Bob Seger has toured. But that doesn’t mean the 61-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer hasn’t been hitting the road.If he can, he says, he’ll do 300 miles a day on one of his three vintage-chassis Harley Davidson Dyna Wide Glide motorcycles.
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