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Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, looks back in memoir ‘Be Ready When the Luck Happens’

By MARK KENNEDY
Oct 04, 2024 9:36 am - Long before Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa mini-empire of bestselling cookbooks and TV shows ever took off, she found herself at an airport, wanting to learn to fly. The story of how she refused to budge is included in her memoir, "Be Ready When the Luck Happens."
Garth Brooks accused of rape in lawsuit from hair-and-makeup artist

By ANDREW DALTON
Oct 04, 2024 7:23 am - A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup stylist for Garth Brooks alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday that he raped her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.
Doctor who helped supply Matthew Perry ketamine pleads guilty to drug charge

By ANDREW DALTON
Oct 02, 2024 3:08 pm - A San Diego doctor charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine.
Reese Witherspoon is teaming with bestseller Harlan Coben on her first suspense novel

By HILLEL ITALIE
Oct 02, 2024 1:48 pm - Grand Central Publishing announced Wednesday that Reese Witherspoon is teaming with the bestselling thriller writer and Netflix producer-creator Harlan Coben on a suspense novel, her first work of adult fiction.
Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose, medical examiner says

Oct 02, 2024 1:27 pm - Rapper Rich Homie Quan died from an accidental drug overdose, the medical examiner’s office in Georgia confirmed.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual misconduct by 120 people, attorney says

By JUAN A. LOZANO
Oct 01, 2024 5:38 pm - An attorney said Tuesday he is representing 120 accusers who have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop mogul who is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
John Amos, patriarch on ‘Good Times’ and an Emmy nominee for ‘Roots,’ dies at 84

By BETH HARRIS
Oct 01, 2024 1:47 pm - John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times" and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has died. He was 84.
After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon’s new children’s book also celebrates being uniquely you

By ALICIA RANCILIO
Oct 01, 2024 12:44 pm - If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former “Saturday Night Live” star says, think again. Find out why when she hosts a sold-out author event Thursday, Oct. 3, at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove.
Book Review: ‘The Last Dream,’ short stories scattered with the seeds of Pedro Almodovar films

By ANITA SNOW
Sep 30, 2024 6:18 pm - The seeds of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s later cinematic work are scattered throughout the pages of “The Last Dream,” his newly published collection of short writings.
Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88

Sep 29, 2024 5:43 pm - Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.

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