celebrity-science

Soledad O'Brien Hates This Dog

Ryan Tate · 01/19/09 04:27AM

Why should this family mastiff be homeless, along with the family? Because CNN's Soledad O'Brien is personally terminating a lease to remove the gassy creature.

Jet-Crash Tapes Show Instant Disaster, Calm Crew

Ryan Tate · 01/19/09 01:48AM

Cockpit recorders on US Airways Flight 1549 indicate both engines failed at 3,200 feet, soon after takeoff, federal officials said. The crew was reportedly very collected, including the flight attendants, now official heroes.

Will Smith Pours More Money Into Scientology

Ryan Tate · 12/18/08 06:43AM

Fox News' Roger Friedman has made an annual holiday tradition of probing Will Smith's tax returns. And Smith traditionally insists he's not a Scientologist, despite showering the cult with money. Especially this year.

Tom Cruise Laughs About Being Insane Scientologist

Ryan Tate · 12/16/08 09:46PM

This clip of Tom Cruise on David Letterman later tonight, in which he laughs about his fear of psychiatry and his insane, megalomaniacal tendencies, is one piece in a set: Scientology Prince asserts normalcy.

Oprah Balloons to 200 Pounds, Convenes Emergency Summit

Ryan Tate · 12/09/08 06:42AM

"Winfrey is aware of the health risks, inviting both [personal trainer Bob] Greene and Dr. Mehmet Oz to her show during the first week of January, along with spirituality experts, sex therapists and financial expert Suze Orman." [AP, WWD] (Click cover for larger version.)

Touchy Artist Flips Out On 60 Minutes

Ryan Tate · 12/08/08 05:08AM

Perhaps the imploding real estate market is getting under the skin of Julian Schnabel, the artist turned film director turned high-end condo developer. The auteur's movies are widely admired and his smashed-plate paintings were at least big in the 1980s, but his hot pink ("Pompeii red") Palazzo Chupi has turned into a controversial icon for angry neighbors, gauche celebrity speculators and tumbling prices. And though Chupi didn't come up during Schnabel's 60 Minutes interview, the thin-skinned artist didn't take this blessing to heart, instead lashing out at Morley Shafer for daring to ask about art critic Robert Hughes, one of his most prominent detractors.