Charlie Sheen has just admitted in a new Sports Illustrated interview that he decided to take performance enhancers for his role as Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn in ‘Major League.’
Usually it’s the athletes that take steroids to bulk up, not actors playing athletes.
“Let’s just say that I was enhancing my performance a little bit. It was the only time I ever did steroids… I did them for like six or eight weeks. You can print this, I don’t give a f**k. My fastball went from 79 [miles-per-hour] to like 85.”
Sheen went on to say that he quit the drug after losing control of his temper.
While on steroids, he almost got into a fight at a bar after some patrons were making fun of the wacky haircut he got for the role, “I didn’t like the haircut because it generated so many comments in bars. I’ve got enough of that already. Add that to the mix, and it’s a recipe for a fistfight,” he says.
Inthe new Newsweek, Tina Brown ponders what Princess Diana would be like today – as she would have turned 50 on Friday.
A computer-generated, age-projected image of a Diana shows her appearing to walk next to Kate Middleton, Prince William‘s bride.
“What would she have been like?” Brown writes of Diana. “Still great-looking: that’s a given.”
She goes on to say:
“Fashionwise, Diana would have gone the J.Crew and Galliano route à la Michelle Obama, always knowing how to mix the casual with the glam. There is no doubt she would have kept her chin taut with strategic Botox shots and her bare arms buff from the gym.
Remarriage? At least two, I suspect, on both sides of the Atlantic.”
Brown details all sorts of escapades that might have happened, with men, with her ex-husband, in politics and more. And would Diana have found peace? “Yes, I believe she would,” writes Brown.
But the Los Angeles Times ponders a different question – about the “jarring” cover, asking: “Shocking, brilliant or just plain cheap?” Most readers, it appears, find it “horribly” offensive. How about you?
On Friday, Oprah Winfrey visited South Africa, where she was given an honorary doctorate degree in education from the University of the Free State.
The talk-show queen, who wrapped the 25th and final season of her legendary daytime series in May, dressed in formal cap and gown for the affair.
Guests in attendance report that she was moved to tears while on stage for the presentation of the honor.
The university of approximately 30,000 students in the central farming town of Bloemfontein rolled out the red carpet, staging a ceremony for one that the Chicago Sun-Times says rivaled the type of pomp and circumstance normally drummed up for a whole graduating class.
The citation that came with her degree says Winfrey has become a true South African. “She did so because she believed that there was important work to be done here, and she wanted to be part of what Nelson Mandela and others had begun.”
Winfrey famously opened her South African school for girls in 2007, and weathered a scandal in which a dormitory staffer was accused of sexually assaulting students.
A different scandal plagued the University of the Free State five years ago, when white students were caught humiliating black housekeeping staffers and objecting to integration of the historically white college. Winfrey eventually reached out to Jonathan Jensen, the new rector and first black administrator of the college, whose success in achieving a public reconciliation between the two sides set a tone of forgiveness for the entire student body. Once the TV icon agreed to speak at the school, the school decided to turn her visit into a grand ceremony.
In the auditorium, Winfrey knelt on a padded stool, flashing her red stiletto heels as the doctorate degree was bestowed in front of a jubliant audience of more than 4,000.
“What has happened here at Free State in terms of racial reconciliation, of peace, of harmony, of one heart understanding and opening itself to another heart is nothing short of a miracle,” she said. “It is truly what the new South Africa is all about.”
It’s a sad day in Hollywood today because news that legendary Peter Falk passed away has hit the headlines, the 83-year-old Columbo star had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
A rep for the Academy Award nominee said that he died peacefully at his home in Beverly Hills and that he is “survived by his wife, Shera, of 34 years and two daughters from a previous marriage.”
Back in 2009 his wife, Shera, and his daughter, Catherine Falk, were locked in a court battle over over the creation of a conservatorship for Peter and who would take control of it. In the end a judge ruled that his wife would get the conservatorship over the actor.
Peter played Columbo on 69 episodes from 1968 to 2003 ad he won four Emmys for the role that saw him become a Hollywood legend. To keep his memory going in your head here are a few photos of the legend. May he rest in peace.
It’s all in Spanish, but you don’t need to speak the language to crack up at clip.
Tom Hanks has pretty much done everything when it’s time to promote a new movie.
And during his recent visit to Miami for his latest movie ‘Larry Crowne‘, the two-time Academy Award winner had some fun over at Spanish network Univisión, when he was a special guest on their morning show, ‘Despierta America’.
During a cooking segment, Hanks tried some mexican ingredients, including tasting some very spice chilis that made him sweat and even get a bit teary-eyed a bit.
But he surely proved he was game for everything, speaking a little bit of Spanish and even getting his dance on during the weather segment, alongside co-host Chiquinquirá Delgado.
Glen Campbell may have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s but that won’t keep the 75-year-old country crooner from his music.
He may just need a little extra help when it comes to remembering his famed lyrics.
“Glen is still an awesome guitar player and singer,” his wife, Kim, told People. “But if he flubs a lyric or gets confused on stage, I wouldn’t want people to think, ‘What’s the matter with him? Is he drunk?’”
A conclusion that the couple wanted to avoid by going public with Campbell’s disease. But in lieu of his diagnosis, the singer does not seem to be slowing down. The chart-topping Grammy-winner is hoping to organize a farewell tour with a full schedule of live performances kicking off this fall.
“I still love making music,” Campbell said. “And I still love performing for my fans. I’d like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.”
We have no doubt that Campbell’s concert goers will be more than happy to help the country legend out if he stumbles on stage.
Adult film star Sammie Spades was going to community college in Buffalo, NY back in 2006 when she met then Senator Clinton at a banquet and expressed interest in a summer internship.
Sammie says she was accepted as a 2006 summer intern at Clinton’s Buffalo office, where she did miscellaneous office work, but dreamed of sporting her own power pantsuits just like Hillary.
Sammie says, “I was planning on becoming an attorney and then going into public office.”
However, she found out having sex on tape was the best way to pay the bills.
Words of wisdom if I ever heard them. Hillary must be thrilled.
The 20-year-old single mom writes in her new book of losing her virginity to boyfriend Levi Johnston on a camping trip after getting drunk for the first time on too many wine coolers.
She awoke in her tent, alone, with no memories of what had happened as Johnston “talked with his friends on the other side of the canvas.” She had vowed to wait until marriage. And she had lied to her parents about where she was going.
After that night, Palin vowed to her mother, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, that she’d abstain from sex until marriage. She continued to have sex and at 18 became pregnant.
“I’d just made a complete fool of myself and given my family the middle finger,” she says after learning Johnston was cheating on her. His side of the story will be told in his upcoming book, “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs,” due for publication this fall.
Bristol’s memoir, co-written with Nancy French, is due out next week.
“I’m here again today to apologize for the mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused,” said the embattled lawmaker, who had become embroiled in an online sexual controversy. “Today I am announcing my resignation from Congress.”
Cheers were heard as Weiner announced he was stepping down from his post.
One man made it hard to hear his speech. The man yelled “bye-bye pervert” and asked him about the size of his penis.
I think Weiner might be proud of his wiener — it’s probably the cross-dressing photo HERE that did him in.
Dave Chappelle ending his six-year hiatus from television with a new show?
According to The Daily, the comedian has been working on material and tinkering with a return that’s as unconventional as his abrupt exit in 2005.
“Dave Chappelle’s going back to TV. It’s not for a network. It’s for Netflix or Crackle or some other subscription service.”
Chappelle of course bailed on his massively popular Comedy Central show, ‘Chappelle’s Show‘ in its third season. He stood to make $50 million in his contract, but walked away following an epiphany on a pilgrimage to South Africa.
“I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place?” he told Oprah at the time.
No deal has been made, but the report indicates Chappelle is looking to bring his talents to a paid-subscription service like Netflix, Hulu or Crackle. All of these online networks have recently ramped up their original content programming. Most notably, Netflix has David Finger’s ‘House of Card,’ priced at $100 million, set to air next year.
In the meantime, Chappelle is working on fresh material at Los Angeles comedy clubs, where one spy told The Daily his set was “really depressing. He was talking about the past, about the show.”
The third time was anything but a charm for Hugh Hefner, whose wedding to Crystal Harris has reportedly been called off.
According to TMZ, the 25-year model left the Playboy Mansion over the weekend after having a fight with the publishing mogul, 60 years her senior.
Multiple sources tell the site that Harris moved her things out of mansion and that the wedding, set for Saturday June 18th, has been canceled. It would be Hefner’s third marriage.
Hefner didn’t hint at any domestic disruptions on Saturday when he tweeted to a fan in England the details of the wedding. “The wedding is next Saturday (June 18),” he wrote. “And airs on Lifetime on July 13.”
Harris has not been silent on Twitter either, but has focused her words on promoting a new single, ‘Club Queen.’ On Monday — that’s after she left him, according to TMZ — Hefner helped his fiancee promote her music career with another tweet to his 638,000 followers.
Hefner, 85, and Harris, 25, began dating in January 2009 and became engaged around Christmas.
The Forbes’ Best Paid Celebrities Under 30 list is certainly an all-star cast!
Lady Gaga topped the list by grossing $170 million. She is followed by the youngest celeb to make the roll, 17-year-old teen heartthrob Justin Bieber, who raked in $53 million.
Miami Heat star LeBron James came in third with $48 million, fourth place went to tennis star Roger Federer with $47 million, while Taylor Swift rounded out the top five with $45 million.
Carrie Underwood brought in a cool $15 million, which placed her in the No. 19 slot.
Other celebs on the list include Katy Perry with $44 million, Rihanna with $29 million, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart who tied with $20 million and Miley Cyrus who earned $15 million.
Friedman notes that Clemons has had health problems in the past, including having both knees replaced, but “this situation, as described to me this evening, sounds pretty dire. I am told that members of the E Street Band were advised to get down to Florida as soon as possible.”
Clemons last performed with Springsteen and the E Street Band in December of 2010 at Asbury Park’s Carousel House for a special web broadcast taping.
He can be heard on two songs on Lady Gaga’s new album Born This Way, and played on stage with her last month during the American Idol season finale.
Outside of his work with the E Street Band, Clemons has recorded with many other artists and has had a number of musical projects on his own.
The best known of these are his 1985 vocal duet with Jackson Browne on the hit single “You’re a Friend of Mine”, and his saxophone work on Aretha Franklin‘s 1985 hit single “Freeway of Love”.
Here is the first image of Sacha Baron Cohen in his Saddam Hussein-inspired costume for his new film, “The Dictator.”
The movie is about a Hussein-like dictator who gets secretly replaced by a lookalike goat herder and now must find new meaning in a life in New York City. The film is inspired by “Zabibah and the King,” a book about a benevolent dictator that was revealed to be written by Hussein himself.
Creepy.
No matter how big the beard, they haven’t been able to hide Sacha.
Directed by Larry Charles, the film hits theaters May 11th, 2012.
