Celebrities
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Birmingham, the home of metal, honors Ozzy Osbourne as hearse passes through
Jul 30, 2025 9:40 am - Thousands of Black Sabbath fans were paying their respects Wednesday to frontman Ozzy Osbourne as his hearse made its way through the streets of Birmingham, the English city where he grew up and where the band was formed in 1968.
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Former WWE boss Vince McMahon is cited for reckless driving in Connecticut crash
Jul 30, 2025 9:29 am - Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon is accused of causing a crash on a Connecticut highway that wrecked his Bentley and damaged two other cars on Thursday, July 24.
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Book Review: ‘Gwyneth’ is a portrait of a pioneering and polarizing ‘It girl’ and wellness mogul
Jul 28, 2025 11:57 am - “Gwyneth: The Biography,” Amy Odell’s thorough portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow, splits her life and career into two distinct periods: the rise (and fall) of the quintessentia...
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
Jul 27, 2025 6:23 pm - Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97.
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Hulk Hogan, icon in professional wrestling, dies at age 71
Jul 24, 2025 11:21 am - Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing, bicep-busting icon of professional wrestling who turned the sport into a massive business and stretched his cultural influence far beyond the ring, died Thursday in Florida at age 71.
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Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76
Jul 22, 2025 1:26 pm - Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath, who became the throaty, growling voice — and drug-and-alcohol ravaged id —...
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ‘Cosby Show’ actor, dies at 54 in Costa Rica drowning
Jul 21, 2025 1:25 pm - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who as teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” was central to a cultural phenomenon that helped define the 1980s, died...
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Star-crossed singer Connie Francis, whose hits included 'Pretty Little Baby,' dead at 87Jul 17, 2025 8:01 am - Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and 1960s whose hits include “Pretty Little Baby” and who would later serve as an ironic title for a personal life filled with heartbreak and tragedy, has died at age 87.
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Larry David teams with the Obamas for HBO US history sketch show for the nation’s 250th
Jul 11, 2025 6:53 am - Larry David will bring his grumbly sensibility to U.S. history in a team-up with Barack and Michelle Obama for an HBO sketch show, the network announced Thursday.
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Singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty to 2 further charges over London nightclub assault case
Jul 11, 2025 6:35 am - Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown on Friday pleaded not guilty to two further charges related to the serious beating of a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub in 2023.