Sunday, September 30, 2012

Macaulay Culkin is now an artist – and you can tell by his pants

Macaulay Culkin (INFDaily.com)Macaulay Culkin looked like he was part of an art project on the streets of New York City earlier this week, wearing paint-splattered jeans that give us flashbacks of bad ’80s fashion. But the former child star has a good reason to be rocking the painter look: he’s been focusing on a career as an artist – and is so serious about it that he’s converted his Manhattan apartment into an art studio.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Miley Cyrus lands in bed with Ashton Kutcher (on ‘Two and a Half Men’)

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Ashton Kutcher has been a busy man lately: First he was caught in a couple of PDAs with rumoured girlfriend Mila Kunis last week, and now he's been photographed jumping into bed with Miley Cyrus.

Wait, what?

Don't worry -- it's just a day at the office for Cyrus, as the 19-year-old singer happens to be guest starring on Kutcher's show "Two and a Half Men" on Oct. 17. Cyrus will play Missi, the daughter of one of Walden's (Kutcher) friends who comes to visit for a week. During her stay, she forges a relationship with Jake (Angus T. Jones), who has just returned from the army.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

How Maria Shriver Confronted Arnold Schwarzenegger About His Secret Love Child

Arnold Schwarzenegger offers up plenty of sordid details in his new autobiography.In his new autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about how his wife, Maria Shriver, confronted him about his secret love child -- and how he begged her not to leave him.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Charlotte Garside, world’s smallest girl has first day of school

The world's smallest girl Charlotte Garside is 5 years old and the size of an infant. (Screen grab Daily Mail)The world's smallest girl Charlotte Garside is 5 years old and the size of an infant. (Screen grab Daily Mail)For a child attending school for the first time, being even a little different can be difficult, but for tiny Charlotte Garside, difference is a fact of life. The five-year-old British girl has a condition called primordial dwarfism, and is no bigger than a newborn baby, yet she has defied medical expectations by attending public school for the first time last week with her regular sized peers.

The Garsides live in the small British town of Withernsea, East Yorkshire, and her parents say Charlotte approaches life with a bold curiosity that often surprises people.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Michael J. Fox and family hit Emmy red carpet

(Getty Images)Michael J. Fox made the Emmy red carpet a family affair, bringing along wife, Tracy Pollan, and his son, Sam, who bears a striking resemblance to his famous dad. The 51-year-old double nominee is being recognized for his guest roles as Louis Canning on "The Good Wife" and for appearing as himself on "Curb Your Enthusiasm." His son, Sam Michael, is the oldest of Fox's four children. The 23-year-old once appeared on an episode of "Spin City." While he has mom's smile, he inherited dad's eyes and looks like Fox during the "Family Ties" years.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Cracking Your PIN Code: Easy as 1-2-3-4

If you lost your ATM card on the street, how easy would it be for someone to correctly guess your PIN and proceed to clean out your savings account? Quite easy, according to data scientist Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, a Seattle technology consultancy.

Berry analyzed passwords from previously released and exposed tables and security breaches, filtering the results to just those that were exactly four digits long [0-9]. There are 10,000 possible combinations that the digits 0-9 can be arranged into to form a four-digit code. Berry analyzed those to find which are the least and most predictable. He speculates that, if users select a four-digit password for an online account or other web site, it's not a stretch to use the same number for their four-digit bank PIN codes.

Friday, September 21, 2012

Makeup artist transforms into Emmy star

Promise Phan beforeThere's playing with make-up -- and then there's completely transforming yourself into a celebrity for a day with a stipple of a brush.

Promise Tamang Phan's sleight-of-hand redefines the title makeup artist means: Her YouTube channel features jaw-dropping metamorphoses from a good-looking Nepalese woman to Hollywood's reigning first ladies. Her take on Angelina Jolie, who was nominated for an Emmy in 1998 for "Gia" and her role in "George Wallace," ranks among her favorites.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

See Katie Holmes' Super-Glamorous Makeover on Harper's Bazaar Russia Cover

Katie Holmes v. 3.0 is looking good!

Harper's Bazaar Russia recently released its October 2012 cover starring the newly-divorced actress, designer and mom.

PHOTOS: How Katie transformed during her marriage to Tom Cruise

In pics taken by famed photographer Gilles Bensimon, Holmes, 33, wears her chestnut hair in luscious, retro waves, with dramatic, smokey eye makeup and sexy nude-toned lipstick.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

U.S. President Barack Obama crashes Iowa wedding, leaves gift

Jon and Sayli Gibbs wed on September 1st at Iowa's Living History Farms — the same day President Barack Obama attended a last-minute rally at the same location.

Because of tight security, they couldn't get into the parking lot that morning.

"We had to walk across Hickman with my wedding dress and suitcase," Sayli told ABC 5. "We had about three different girls helping carrying it."

The newlyweds' day went off without a hitch — the rally concluded before the wedding began, and both the staff and secret service were gracious about the double-booking — and was blessed with what Jon called "the presidential seal."

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

7 Side Effects of Drinking Diet Soda

Deceivingly "Diet"

Pop quiz! What's the single biggest source of calories for Americans? White bread? Big Macs? Actually, try soda. The average American drinks about two cans of the stuff every day. "But I drink diet soda," you say. "With no calories or sugar, it's the perfect alternative for weight watchers...Right?"

Not so fast. Before you pop the top off the caramel-colored bubbly, know this: guzzling diet soda comes with its own set of side effects that may harm your health--from kickstarting kidney problems to adding inches to your waistline.

Monday, September 17, 2012

The Riskiest Places to Use Your Credit Card

Even if you use the utmost caution, you can still be a victim of credit card fraud. Credit card companies and banks are more and more often putting the onus of catching phony or incorrect credit card charges on the consumer.

The most important thing is to check your billing statment, of course. And there are organizations like Creditcards.com that offer tips on how to keep your cards safe as well. Here, we take a look at 10 of the riskiest places you might use your card, according to Creditcards.com , and what you can do to avoid the dangers.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Strange Mystery Spheres on Mars Baffle Scientists

A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they're looking at.

The new Mars photo by Opportunity shows a close-up of a rock outcrop called Kirkwood covered in blister-like bumps that mission scientists can't yet explain. At first blush, the formations appear similar to so-called Martian "blueberries" — iron-rich spherical formations first seen by Opportunity in 2004 — but they actually differ in several key ways, scientist said.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Lessons from the 'World's Ugliest Woman': 'Stop Staring and Start Learning'

Lizzie Velasquez, author of Be Yourself, Be Beautiful.When she was in high school, Lizzie Velasquez was dubbed "The World's Ugliest Woman" in an 8-second-long YouTube video. Born with a medical condition so rare that just two other people in the world are thought to have it, Velasquez has no adipose tissue and cannot create muscle, store energy, or gain weight. She has zero percent body fat and weighs just 60 pounds.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

How I survived on $21 a week for groceries

How I survived on $21 a week for groceries

Our money expert, Caroline Cakebread, recently wrote a post on the $21 a week for groceries challenge. I was skeptical — like many of our readers — afterall, I usually spend $20 in one day — how would it be possible to make one twenty last a whole week? I decided to put the challenge to the test.

Best man loses wedding ring at the altar

What would you do if your best man lost your wedding ring? (Thinkstock)Many brides will go to outrageous lengths to ensure that every last detail of their wedding day is perfect. And yet there are some things you simply can't control, like the ability of the best man to deliver the ring down the aisle and into the hand of the groom.

Unfortunately for one unlucky British bride, this simple task was too much for her groom's best friend and brother to handle, who miraculously managed to drop and lose the ring — at the altar.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Carmen Dell'Orefice, 81, is Fashion Week's Oldest Runway Model. She's Also the Best

Dell'Orefice walks the runway at the Norisol Ferrari Spring 2013 fashion show. (Photo by Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images …Carmen Dell' Orefice was born before Fashion Week even existed. The 81-year-old, who walked the runway for Norisol Ferrari at NYFW on Monday, is the oldest working supermodel in the industry and proud of it.

"It's what I enjoy doing, and I'm able to do it," she told the Today Show before stepping on to the runway in a mocha-colored floor-length gown.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Retiring Michigan car dealership owner thanks employees in cash

Howard Cooper, 83, recently sold his Ann Arbor, Michigan, car dealership. The business will change hands this month — Ohio-based Germain Motor Co. purchased the Howard Cooper Import Center — with Cooper maintaining an office at the dealership "until he's ready to move on."

While Cooper insisted on employee retention as part of the deal, he still wanted to thank his employees for his rewarding 47-year career.

"My employees are very important to me and the reason for my success," Cooper told AnnArbor.com in April. "I know of a couple of buyers who would have paid more, but taking care of my employees was important to me."

On a recent Wednesday morning, all 89 of Cooper's employees were gifted with $1,000 for each year of service to the dealership.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Paris Jackson: 'I want to be my own person'

Paris Jackson (Charles Bush/Glamour)

Just like her late father Michael, Paris Jackson knows how tough it can be to live life in the spotlight. But somehow, that only seems to have made the 14-year-old aspiring actress, who's landed a role in the 2013 film "Lundon's Bridge and the Three Keys," more determined to stay there. In a new interview with Glamour, the teen opens up about her showbiz dreams. "A lot of people don't want me to do it," Paris tells the mag, acknowledging comments like the one her aunt Janet Jackson made during an interview with “Access Hollywood”: "[Paris] has the rest of her adult life to be that actress that she wants to be.... Your childhood — you completely lose."

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Ex-prosecutor claims O.J. Simpson attorney tampered with glove

(Reuters) - Nearly 17 years after O.J. Simpson walked away from his Los Angeles murder trial a free man, a prosecutor at the center of the case has alleged that the lead defense lawyer tampered with a crucial piece of evidence.

Former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Christopher Darden on Thursday accused Simpson's defense lawyer, the late Johnnie Cochran, of "manipulating" one of the infamous gloves that the prosecution said linked Simpson to the grisly double murder of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Calgary family trades in spacious home for tiny house

A Calgary family is building a tiny new abode on wheels that holds roughly 300 square feet of living space.

Kirsten Shaw and Michael Hunt plan to pull up stakes in Calgary in the spring and drive with one son through the United States for a year.

"I think I'll manage better than I am right now in 2,200 square feet because quite honestly I am not a homemaker. It stresses me out that I have all that dusting and everything to look after," said Shaw.

Friday, September 7, 2012

7-year-old Colorado girl survives bubonic plague


A seven-year-old Pagosa Springs, Colo., girl is recovering from an extremely rare disease that harkens back to a deadly epidemic in the Middle Ages.

Sierra Jane Downing is recovering well from a case of bubonic plague at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver, 9News in Denver reports.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Game show contestant spends winnings fast to keep them from his estranged wife

Scott Brown won $80,000 on 'Deal or No Deal' and spent it in less than four months

A British man must have felt like Montgomery Brewster after winning almost $80,000 on the show Deal or No Deal because he spent his winnings in a hurry.

According to The Inquisitr, Scott Brown was so determined to not give a penny of his small fortune to his estranged wife, Rachel, that he spent as much of the money as he could in the four months between the time the show was filmed and it aired.

The couple, who have two children, married in 2009. According to the Daily Mail, Rachel asked him for a divorce on Christmas Day, 2011, when he allegedly learned she was having an affair with a truck driver she met on the Internet. Brown had moved out and was sleeping on the floor of his parents' house in April when he learned he was going to be a contestant on the game show.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Scientology ‘auditioned’ potential wives for Tom Cruise: report

Tom Cruise/Nazanin Boniadi (WireImage)

How Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes first met has always been shrouded in secrecy. Although it has been widely speculated that she was selected for him by the Church of Scientology, this is something that the organization has always denied. But if the rumor is true, Holmes wouldn't have been the first actress to "audition" for the role. According to a new report in the October issue of Vanity Fair, just months before Cruise stepped out with Holmes in April 2005, his controversial religion was looking to find a girlfriend for him, preferably one that was already a Scientologist.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Ringo Starr named the world’s richest drummer

Ringo Starr performs with his All Starr band at The Greek Theatre on July 21, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. …

Too bad Dave Grohl and Charlie Watts.

Celebrity Net Worth compiled "salaries, real estate holdings, divorces, record sales, royalties and endorsements" of drummers from Nirvana, The Beatles, Genesis and the Rolling Stones and declared that the richest drummer on the list is none other than The Beatles' Ringo Starr.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

B.C. student plays dead to survive grizzly bear attack

Julia Stafford and a coworker curled in the fetal position and it may have saved their lives

There are some differing opinions on how to survive a bear attack, but for one University of British Columbia student playing dead may have saved her life.

Julia Stafford, 20, was collecting rock samples with a co-worker for a Canadian mining company just northeast of Anchorage in Alaska when they spotted a grizzly bear in a foggy ravine.