(USA TODAY,Gary Strauss ) For fans, one of the allures of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars is tracking the fish-out-of-water element among celebrity contestants. And of course, the transformation by entertainers, athletes and business tycoons from tangle foot to ballroom hoofer. Heading into its ninth season, the show is about to test the boundaries of [...]
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
THIS summer the unvarying male uniform in the precincts of Brooklyn cool has been a pair of shorts cut at knickers length, a V-neck Hanes T-shirt, a pair of generic slip-on sneakers and a straw fedora. Add a leather cuff bracelet if the coolster is gay.
In truth this get-up [...]
Lee Clower for The New YorkTimes
AN EVENING OUT Hudson Terrace features airy sunset views.
ITS location is on the far west side of Manhattan, where the city scenically merges with the Hudson River. But there’s another confluence that one can glimpse from his or her vantage point at Hudson Terrace on West 46th Street: the mix [...]
Laura Rauch for The New York Times
BRIGHT LIGHTS Holly Madison, who’s performing topless in Las Vegas, looks out of her limousine window at the sights on the Strip.
LAS VEGAS
BACHELOR-PARTY pandemonium broke out in the driveway of the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino here at 1 a.m. on a recent Saturday. The cause was petite, blond [...]
Well, it was quite a Gosselin day on TV today, wasn’t it, what with Kate sobbing on The Today Show this morning and Jon putting on his game-face (that is, his usual defensive stare) for the E! network.
But on the pair’s original franchise – this week’s new Jon & Kate Plus 8 episode — Jon [...]
(Entertainment Weekly) — One month after the record-breaking opening of “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” the team of Paramount and game-maker Hasbro proved again that toys are serious business at the box office.
“G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” overcame bad buzz and scathing reviews to win the weekend with $56.2 million, among the best August [...]
With a record-breaking 21.6 million votes cast for the finalists, Jeanine Mason came out on top in what was the biggest finale for Fox’s summer hit So You Think You Can Dance.
In front of more than 3,000 screaming fans Thursday, the 18-year-old contemporary wonder from Miami, Fla., beat out one of the toughest, diverse and [...]
ROSLYN, N.Y.
DAVID SHAW, 47, got his first job with a catering company at 14, worked his way through Michigan State’s hotel management school and, after graduating in 1983, was selected for a prestigious Hilton Hotel training program.
While still in his 20s, he was hired as general manager for a small country club in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., [...]
Now that Paula Abdul announced that she’s leaving American Idol, what will she do next?
While Abdul is filming another guest-starring role on an episode of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Gorgeous, FOX executives spoke at a Television Critics’ Association panel on Thursday in Los Angeles, saying Abdul’s judging days are far from over — she may just [...]
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