Archive for July, 2007

Usher stays mum about canceled wedding (AP)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Singer and actor Usher laughs with his fiancee Tameka Foster during the NBA Finals in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday, June 14, 2007. The wedding between Usher and his pregnant fiance has been canceled, his publicist told The Associated Press on Saturday, July 28, 2007. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Usher and his pregnant fiancee, Tameka Foster, canceled their wedding last weekend, but they’re apparently still together.

Bolshoi may miss 2008 overhaul deadline (Reuters)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Dancers from The Bolshoi Ballet perform a scene from the new production of Le Corsaire at The Coliseum in London July 30, 2007. (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)Reuters - Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre may not be able
to reopen in 2008 as planned because its renovation has been
mired in unexpected problems and expense, the state agency
paying for the works said on Tuesday.

Troubled retailer Gap names new CEO (AP)

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

A photo provided by Gap Inc. shows Glenn Murphy, whom Gap named to be the new chairman and chief executive officer of the clothing retailer. San Francisco-based Gap had been searching for a new CEO since January when the company jettisoned Paul Pressler following a dismal holiday season that deepened the company's slumping sales. (AP Photo/Gap Inc.)AP - Struggling clothing retailer Gap Inc. is pinning its future to a veteran Canadian merchant from the retail worlds of drug stores, books and food.

U.S. talk show host Tom Snyder dies at 71 (Reuters)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Talk show host and newsman Tom Snyder has died in San Francisco from complications of leukemia, Entertainment Tonight reported on Monday. Snyder is shown in a 1998 file photo. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)Reuters - Veteran U.S. talk show host Tom
Snyder, whose idiosyncratic interviewing style bemused and
annoyed late-night TV viewers during three decades, has died
after a long battle with leukemia, associates said on Monday.
He was 71.

U.S. talk show host Tom Snyder dies at 71 (Reuters)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Talk show host and newsman Tom Snyder has died in San Francisco from complications of leukemia, Entertainment Tonight reported on Monday. Snyder is shown in a 1998 file photo. (Peter Morgan/Reuters)Reuters - Veteran U.S. talk show host Tom
Snyder, whose idiosyncratic interviewing style bemused and
annoyed late-night TV viewers during three decades, has died
after a long battle with leukemia, associates said on Monday.
He was 71.

Spears, Federline are divorced (AP)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

AP - Britney Spears’ marriage to Kevin Federline officially ended Monday.

Goldman family obtains rights to O.J. Simpson book (Reuters)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Former NFL star and actor O.J. Simpson talks with reporters as he arrives for the funeral of attorney Johnnie Cochran in Los Angeles, April 6, 2005. Rights to Simpson's hypothetical book 'If I Did It' passed to relatives of murder victim Ron Goldman on Monday as a federal judge approved their settlement with a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Rights to O.J. Simpson's hypothetical
book "If I Did It" passed to relatives of murder victim Ron
Goldman on Monday as a federal judge approved their settlement
with a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee.

Goldman family obtains rights to O.J. Simpson book (Reuters)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Former NFL star and actor O.J. Simpson talks with reporters as he arrives for the funeral of attorney Johnnie Cochran in Los Angeles, April 6, 2005. Rights to Simpson's hypothetical book 'If I Did It' passed to relatives of murder victim Ron Goldman on Monday as a federal judge approved their settlement with a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)Reuters - Rights to O.J. Simpson's hypothetical
book "If I Did It" passed to relatives of murder victim Ron
Goldman on Monday as a federal judge approved their settlement
with a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee.

'Simpsons Movie' is tops at box office (AP)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

AP - Cowabunga!

Broadcaster Tom Snyder dies at 71 (AP)

Monday, July 30th, 2007

This is an undated picture provided by CBS of talk show host Tom Snyder. Snyder, whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television, has died after a struggle with leukemia. He was 71. (AP Photo/CBS, Bonnie Schiffman)AP - Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style, robust laugh and trademark cloud of cigarette smoke billowing around his head, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.