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Victim of beating in Kent last week is declared dead at Akron hospital
Can DNA tests free ex-Akron captain?
Dad accused of forcing son into field, killing him
Man found dead in North Akron home is identified
Does it work? Test team returns to try out new products advertised on television
Blogs:
Pets:
Cat-loving chihuahua suckles seven abandoned kittens
The Heldenfiles:
Sunday Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
Browns sick after sick loss in Detroit
Akron Zips:
Zips advance to Sweet Sixteen
Tribe Matters:
Seven players added to Tribe’s 40-man roster
Cleveland Browns:
Post-game defensive quotes
Kent State Sports:
Kent State defeats Rochester College, 63-44
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Gameblog: Cavs vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Buckeye Blogging:
OSU – Michigan college football rivals meet in Baghdad
Varsity Letters:
Four area football teams play tonight
All Da King's Men:
The Sunday Sanity Challenge
Blog of Mass Destruction:
Will Health Care Reform Pass?
Akron Law Café:
Health Care Financing Reform: (69) The Brookings Institute Study on "Bending the Curve" – Four General Strategies
See Jane Style:
Vintage Chic
Car Chase:
TIME TO GET YOUR COLLECTOR CARS WINTERIZED
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Faye Dunaway to be Evicted?
Ohio Travels with Betty:
George is looking for a Thanksgiving buffet in Akron.
Sound Check:
Steely Dan Plays "The Royal Scam" at E.J. Thomas Hall
HRLite House:
Personal Rant – You are All Wrong About Jobs, or the Lack of Jobs, Being the Reason People Do Not Live in NEO
Akron Gamer:
Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
By Rich Heldenfels
Beacon Journal pop culture writer
Published on Friday, May 16, 2008
Wedding Bell Blues. Singer Shania Twain and her producer husband, Robert ''Mutt'' Lange, have separated, People.com reports. No reason for the split was given.
''Twain, 42, and Lange, 59, married in 1993, just six months after meeting,'' says the Web site. ''They are parents to a 6-year-old son, Eja D'Angelo.''
People notes that there were reports in 2000 of trouble in their marriage, but the couple stayed together, albeit with Twain out of the spotlight much of the time. Now she is peddling a new perfume, and a new CD is expected this year.
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New GM. Victoria G. Regan has been named general manager of WEWS (Channel 5), the Cleveland-based ABC affiliate. She will join the station on Monday.
Regan comes to Channel 5 from WPBF, the ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she has been general manager since 1997. In that capacity, she competed against a station owned by the E.W. Scripps Co., which also owns Channel 5.
She has also worked for stations in Dayton; Binghamton, N.Y., and Pittsburgh. In a statement, Scripps TV Station Group Senior Vice President Bill Peterson said, ''Her career is notable for the 'viewer-centric' news and programming she pursues.''
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New Mystery! Host. Actor-writer Alan Cumming will be host of Masterpiece Mystery! when it begins a new season on PBS on June 22.
You may know him as Nightcrawler in X2. He's also a Tony Award winner, for playing the emcee in the 1998 revival of Cabaret.
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Yes, It's Twins. Angelina Jolie has for the most part kept mum about how many buns are in her oven, but Jack Black confirmed to NBC that Jolie is in fact expecting twins.
Black and Jolie did a joint interview with NBC's Natalie Morales in Cannes to promote the animated movie Kung Fu Panda. Morales brought up baby business because she is expecting, Black's wife is pregnant and Jolie has a considerable baby bump.
Jolie was giving terse answers to questions about when she's due (''I've got a few months'') and whether she will deliver in France (''possibly''). But Black suddenly told Jolie, ''You're going to have as many as Brady Bunch when you have these, right?''
And Jolie, laughing,
confirmed.
By the way, she and partner Brad Pitt have four children so far; the twins will indeed give them a Brady-level six. So Black's discretion may be poor, but his math is fine.
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The Modern Scoop. If you think Jolie's pregnancy is trivial fare, it apparently was a big deal to the folks at NBC's Today, where the interview aired. The New York Post says Today's producer was ticked when Access Hollywood both aired excerpts from the interview and put the transcript on its Web site before the morning show could air it on Thursday.
Today and Access Hollywood are corporate siblings, and Today gave the other show footage — but, says the Post, that was just so Access could tease the interview during its telecast. Reps of both shows told the Post there was no beef; the Post's sources said otherwise.
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Nickname Games. The readers of Usmagazine.com decided that the best name for Jennifer Aniston and alleged swain John Mayer is Johnifer. Runner-up choice: Janiston.
Romance and fame lead to nicknames, after all. Pitt and Jolie, mentioned above, have been contracted into Brangelina, for instance. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are TomKat. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were declared Bennifer, which Affleck was able to take on to his next relationship, with wife Jennifer Garner.
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Fun Online. Check out http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ entertainment for a gallery proudly declared ''the worst album covers ever.'' You can even vote for your favorites and offer comments. I'm leaning toward one called ''Chicken Coupe de Ville.''
Rich Heldenfels writes about popular culture for the Beacon Journal and in a blog at http://www.ohio.com. He can be reached at 330-996-3582 and rheldenfels@thebeaconjournal.com
Wedding Bell Blues. Singer Shania Twain and her producer husband, Robert ''Mutt'' Lange, have separated, People.com reports. No reason for the split was given.
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