Actor Michael Showers, perhaps best known for his work as Captain John Guidry on the HBO series “Treme,” was found dead in the Mississippi River early Wednesday morning.
He was 45 years old.
A steamboat captain spotted him at around 11:15 a.m. in waters near New Orleans’ French Quarter and Harbor Police recovered the body about 30 minutes later, authorities told the Times-Picayune.
An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death, but the chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner’s office estimated that Showers’ body had been in the water for two days.
The Times-Picayune identified Showers as being from Chalmette, a village in southeast Louisiana situated on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
In addition to Treme, Showers made appearances in Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries, and his movie credits include Traffic, I Love You Phillip Morris and The Tree of Life.
“Octomom”, who has been struggling to make ends meet since she gave birth to eight children two years ago in Bellflower, was ranked near the top in the new poll “The Most Hated Person in America.”
French film actor Gerard Depardieu was caught short on a Paris to Dublin flight and chose not to bother going to the toilet before relieving himself, says airline CityJet.
“I will only confirm that he, in effect, urinated in the plane,” a spokeswoman for the Air France-KLM subsidiary said on Wednesday, confirming a report on Europe 1 radio, which interviewed a passenger who witnessed the incident.
According to the passenger, who was not named, the 62-year-old was visibly inebriated and tried to stand up before take-off, when passengers are asked to wear seatbelts, declaring: “I want to piss, I want to piss.”
When a stewardess asked him to sit and wait 15 minutes until the jet took off and reached cruising altitude, he said he could not wait. “And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor,” she told the French broadcaster.
“We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded,” she added. “No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned.”
Anderson Cooper could barely contain himself while talking about the incident.
For some odd reason, there is nothing as infectiously hilarious as watching someone try and fail to keep a straight face.
‘The Ridiculist‘ is the recurring segment on AC360 in which host Anderson Cooper reports on the sublimely absurd stories of the day.
Linda Hoganhas implied that her ex-husband, Hulk Hogan, carried on an “intimate relationship” with his best pal out of the ring, Ed “Brutus Beefcake” Leslie.
Hogan already has to deal with rumors that he and his daughterBrooke Hogan are in an incestuous relationship, and now he’s going to have to respond to rumors that he and Brutus Beefcake were gay lovers.
Linda appeared on Matty P’s Radio Happy Hour when the host went through a series of questions from fan emails; at one point, he asked Linda if her ex and Beefcake carried on “an intimate relationship.”
“Wow, I don’t know how to answer this, so I don’t end up getting a lawsuit,” she said, laughing. “A little bird told me, ‘Yes they think they did.’”
Howard Stern has fired back at troubled comedian Andy Dick, who went on an anti-Semtic rant on the Greg Fitzsimmons show on Tuesday, calling Stern “a shallow, money-grubbing Jew,” reports Radar.
Dick also reportedly said of Stern, “I have no problem with his big fat hook nose … and his money-grubbing, miserly Jewishness.”
Dick told Fitzsimmons that Stern “used to be a really great friend” but is furious with the self-proclaimed “King of All Media” after he hung up on him during a call-in appearance with Charlie Sheen earlier this year, and took shots at him with co-host Robin Quivers afterwards.
Stern was told about Dick’s comments by one of his listeners while on air, but wasn’t surprised Dick would sink so low.
“Yeah, well that’s where people like to go,” Stern said. “It kind of points out where people’s heads really are … And let me point this out there isn’t a moment in my life I don’t know that, that is what in is people’s heads … It always comes down to the Jew. And scumbags like Andy Dick, and I hadn’t head this yet, but I know what’s in their heads anyway.”
Stern continued telling Dick to get his act together, telling his listeners, “I guess Andy’s downward spiral continues, and now he’s blaming me for all his problems … Stop looking for handouts you fucking wacko, stop waiting for the Jew to give you a job!”
In a new interview with ABC’s Nightline, Corey Feldman says that the biggest evil in Hollywood is a group of high-powered pedophiles who go after child actors.
Corey, who has admitted to being molested, went on to say that he blames one particular child touching Hollywood mogul for the death of Corey Haim.
“The number one problem in Hollywood was, is and always will be pedophilia,” he said. “It’s all done under the radar… But it’s the big secret.”
The Lost Boys actor said he was “literally surrounded” by pedophiles at the age of 14, but didn’t realize “until I was much older what they were and what they wanted.”
Feldman blamed his friend Corey Haim’s death at age 38 in 2010 on the abuse suffered at the hands of one particular “Hollywood mogul” he refused to name. “There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids,” he said. “They all had either their own power, or connections to great power in the entertainment industry.”
Feldman said that Haim’s substance addiction was also a “symptom” of the molestation he experienced earlier in life.
“There’s a lot of good people in this industry, but there’s also a lot of really, really sick, corrupt people in this industry,” Feldman said. “There are people… who have gotten away with [pedophilia] for so long that they feel that they’re above the law. And that’s gotta change. That’s gotta stop.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Oprah Winfrey will be one of the recipients of an Honorary Oscar.
The Academy’s Board of Governors has named the first Oscar recipients of 2011 — and the honorees at the third annual Governors Awards dinner and ceremony on Saturday, November 12 will include an actor whose career stretches from “Dr. Strangelove” to Darth Vader, a makeup artist who began plying his trade more than half a century ago, and a one-woman showbiz colossus who will be taking home the first Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award bestowed by the Academy in three years.
Winfrey will receive the Hersholt to salute her extensive charitable, philanthropic and educational efforts. Actor Jones and makeup artist Smith, meanwhile, will receive honorary Academy Awards in recognition of lengthy and distinguished careers.
The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, which is also one of the Governors Awards, will not be handed out this year.
Smith is the only honoree to have won a competitive Oscar, for “Amadeus” in 1984. He was also nominated for “Dad” in 1989.
Winfrey and Jones were both nominated for acting awards — Winfrey as Best Supporting Actress for “The Color Purple” in 1985, Jones as Best Actor for “The Great White Hope” in 1970 — but neither won.
The choices were made at Tuesday night’s board meeting, and announced by the Academy after the recipients had been notified.
Since the Governors Awards were moved to a separate show in 2009, this is the first year that the governors have selected three recipients, rather than the maximum of four.
Elin Nordegren has put her marriage to Tiger Woods behind her.
Nordegren has a new boyfriend, wealthy investor Jamie Dingman, according to Page Six. Nordegren, whose divorce from Woods became final last August, has been seeing Dingman “for months.”
Dingman, son of billionare Michael Dingman, is an “emerging-markets veteran” who has specialized in Russian private equity funds and owned an Indy car racing team. Previously, Dingman’s been linked to Bridget Moynahan and Princess Madeleine.
Swedish press recently reported that Elin was having a cozy rendezvous with her then-unidentified lover at her luxury apartment in Stockholm. They were spotted outside of Elin’s home on Tuesday.
“He’s never been so happy. He and Elin have strong feelings for each other,” a friend told Page Six. “He’s a classic all-American guy. He’s handsome, a total gentleman and low-key. He’s never been in the press. Elin’s a very lucky girl; he’s a great guy but very private.”
Kris Jenner wanted to look her best for Kim Kardashian‘s summer wedding — which explains why the 55-year-old E! reality star recently went under the knife.
Jenner’s facelift will, of course, be featured on an upcoming episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians“.
“I’ve never had such a stressful morning, honestly, in my life,” Jenner says pre-surgery.
As Jenner begins to tear up, Kim, 30, reassures her mom that everything will be fine. “Don’t cry,” she says. “If you’re scared, you don’t have to do it. I’m sure people are scared all the time.”
Once the surgery is over, Kim visits her mother’s recovery room to offer more support. “Mom, you look fab,” she tells the bandaged reality star. “You look gorgeous.”
The procedure has been a well-kept secret among the Kardashian clan. According to Khloe, 27, the cosmetic surgery took place “about a month ago.”
“She looks amazing,” Khloe tells The New York Daily News. “They say you are supposed to have a lot of swelling for a week or so after, but I didn’t notice.”
It’s a sickness really… and now you know who started it.
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Rick Springfield, who is battling an ugly DUI case in Los Angeles, couldn’t have been happier last week about his very public mug shot.
“I have seen my mug shot. It’s way better than Nick Nolte‘s,” Rick said. “I’m thinking of going back, cause I liked the lighting so much, and doing a shoot.”
The 1980′s rocker plead not guilty to driving while intoxicated and will face trial in August where he could be looking at a maximum of six months behind bars and a $1,000 fine if he’s found guilty. That’s not stopping him, he’s already planning another fan cruise (November 12th).
“This is going to be the final one. They have been so great I didn’t want to get to the point where we go ‘this one wasn’t as much fun as last one.’ They have been incredible I want to leave it on a high note. We will come back and do something different.”
In his glory days, David Hasselhoff was an international sex symbol. I know… it never stops shocking us either.
Whether strutting his stuff in jeans on ‘Knight Rider,’ wearing the tightest leather pants on German singing shows, or rocking the red swim trunks on the beach in ‘Baywatch,’ boatloads of fans swooned at the sight of his manly assets. [gag]
Now comes news that The Hoff is capitalizing on his well-endowed reputation by taking on a “meaty role” in an episode of the upcoming ‘Sons of Anarchy‘ Season 4.
According to TVGuide, Hasselhoff will play the part of Dondo, a well-endowed former porn star who is now making major coin by producing sleazy girl-on-girl adult films.
It turns out that, back in the day, Dondo “was given a major career boost by Luanne (Dendrie Taylor) and gets involved in a little dirty work in her memory.” Hasselhoff’s episode will air in October, and he joins an impressive Season 4 guest cast roster that includes Danny Trejo, Rockmond Dunbar, LaMonica Garrett, Niko Nicotera and Ray McKinnon.
Since 2006 Hoff’s been acting as a TV talent show judge, first on ‘America’s Got Talent’ and then on its British counterpart. His most recent acting credits include a cameo in the movie ‘Hop,’ a reprisal of his role as Dr. William ‘Snapper’ Foster on CBS soap opera ‘The Young and the Restless,’ and a part in upcoming horror sequel ‘Piranha 3DD.’
Could this guest role on ‘Sons of Anarchy’ be the big acting comeback Hoff’s been waiting for? Playing a total sleazebag totally revitalized Neil Patrick Harris’s career after all.
‘Sons of Anarchy’ Season 4 is due to premiere in September on FX.
In the money mag’s 2011 list, both Jolie and Parker are tied for the No. 1 spot, with each bringing in $30 million between May 2010 and May 2011.
Jolie’s blockbusters ‘Salt’ and ‘The Tourist’ helped her bring in the cash, while SJP’s ‘Sex and the City’ residual checks and $18 million perfume lines are keeping her comfortable these days.
Trailing not too far behind Hollywood’s leading ladies comes Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, each banking a cool $28 million in the last year to tie for third place.
The ‘Horrible Bosses’ star had ‘The Bounty Hunter’ and ‘Just Go With It’ to keep her afloat this year, while Witherspoon’s ‘How Do You Know?’ and upcoming film projects have allowed her to keep her high price tag.
Rounding out fifth place is Hollywood favorite Julia Roberts. Though ‘Larry Crowne’ just flopped at the box office, last summer’s ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ helped her earn $20 million — tying the spot with ‘Twilight’ star Kristen Stewart.
Noticeably missing from the this year’s Top 5 is Sandra Bullock, who dropped from the top spot in 2010 to baring making the Top 10, bringing only $15 million in the last year.
Linda Evangelista went to court yesterday to sort out a custody arrangement between her and the father of her 4-year-old son.
While Evangelista and her people have denied that 49-year-old PPR chief, François-Henri Pinault is the father, the court confirms he is.
Due to a misunderstanding, Pinault did not show up to court, his lawyer David Aronson said. “We had understood that it was to be a brief, telephone conference, to bring Magistrate Troy up to date on what the status was,” Aronson explained.
Pinault owns Gucci, Bottega Veneta and Yves St. Laurent.
The wealthy CEO and Evangelista conceived their son in early 2006, when Pinault was reportedly separated from Hayak, whom he married in 2009.
Pinault has a 4-year-old daughter with his wife, Salma Hayek, and two children from his first wife.
If you’ve ever wondered what it might take for a high-profile political pundit to get indefinitely suspended, this would be it.
Mark Halperin, who co-authored the book “Game Change,” has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC — for calling President Obama a “d#ck.”
Speaking of the incident, Halperin said, “I want to offer a heartfelt and profound apology to the president, to my MSNBC colleagues, and to the viewers. My remark was unacceptable, and I deeply regret it.”
