Jane’s Addiction singer falls, breaks hip, can’t get up
11th May 2009
9News Colorado – Jane’s Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell is recovering from a torn calf muscle he suffered on stage at a concert in Atlanta.
The creator of the Lollapalooza music festival hurt himself during the first song Sunday night at Lakewood Amphitheatre but was able to finish the show.
According to a statement from the band’s publicist, he was taken by ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center after the show.
Doctors told him to stay off the leg for several days, but Farrell says he still plans to perform as planned Tuesday night in Austin, Texas.
The influential alternative band, best known for its 1990 album “Ritual de lo Habitual,” broke up a year later but reunited with its original lineup last year and is touring with Nine Inch Nails.
Fawcett about to be turned off : (
08th May 2009
MSNBC – The weekend is expected to be a somber one for friends of Farrah Fawcett. Her longtime partner Ryan O’Neal told People magazine that Fawcett “stays in bed now,” and her treatment “has pretty much ended.”
According to a friend of Fawcett’s, O’Neal’s interview also is a cue that it was acceptable to begin preparing for the inevitable.
CNN – A second lingerie-modeling photo of Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has appeared after she assured pageant officials this week that the earlier shot was the only one she had appeared in.
The Web site that published the first picture published a second one Wednesday. It had already promised to “slowly roll out” more photos.
In complete non-surprise to anyone Paula Abdul comes out saying she was addicted to drugs.
05th May 2009
NY Daily News – “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul has been hiding a dark and painful secret for 12 years, she says in an upcoming issue of Ladies Home Journal.
She was an addict, straight up, she finally admits.
“I could have killed myself,” the fairy godmother of aspiring pop singers said as she revealed a dependency on powerful pain killers that she finally kicked last November.
Starpulse – With news last week that ABC was considering carrying on Scrubs for a ninth season, the question buzzing around Hollywood was: Can Scrubs go on without J.D.?
The eighth season was supposed to be the last. After NBC decided not to renew the show last year, ABC, which had been producing the show since its premiere in 2001, took up the option to air the series, with the expectation that it would be the final season. Most of the main cast members have either stated that they wouldn’t return for another season (Zach Braff, Judy Reyes) or have been cast in new television pilots (Donald Faison, Neil Flynn, John C. Reilly).
ArtWerk’s map of his “beloved Europe”
03rd May 2009
boingboing.net – ArtWerk drew this map of Europe, titled “Where I Live.” Be sure to read the lively debate over at Flickr, both in the annotated notes and the comments.
Face Mask Chic: The New Fashion Rage?
01st May 2009
The Daily Beast – The fast-spreading swine flu is deadly serious, but that hasn’t stopped some people from making a fashion statement with their precautionary measures. VIEW OUR GALLERY of 10 notably sick accessories.
