FRIENDS MOURN LEDGER AT SECOND LOS ANGELES SERVICE

February 2, 2008 - 5:05 pm

Friends and celebrity colleagues — including Tom Cruise, Sienna Miller, Ellen DeGeneres and director Todd Haynes — gathered on the Sony lot in Los Angeles to remember Heath Ledger on Saturday, People magazine has confirmed.

The gathering included industry luminaries and those connected to CAA (the agency that represented Ledger), including Cruise. It comes a week after relatives and close friends — including ex-girlfriend Naomi Watts — paid tribute to the 28-year-old actor at a smaller service at an L.A. cemetery.

Buddy Valastro replacing famed NYC pizzeria on the Strip

By Johnathan L. Wright / RJ

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The new restaurant from the “Cake Boss” star is also a pizzeria that will serve signature pies and Jersey-style sandwiches.

A photo of Bill Walton, NBA legend and known Grateful Dead fan, is shown inside the Sphere in L ...

Dead & Company lights up Sphere in honor of ‘Deadhead’ Bill Walton — PHOTOS

By Caitlin Lilly / RJ

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Rockers Dead & Company took time from their show at the Sphere in Las Vegas to pay tribute to arguably the most famous “Deadhead,” NBA legend Bill Walton.

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At home or in Hollywood: Chris Hemsworth up for ‘great adventure’

By C.L. Gaber Special / RJ

May 30, 2024 - 7:43 am

“I’m all about doing what I feel passionate about in life,” the 40-year-old actor says. “Ask yourself: What gets the adrenaline turned up?”

By John Katsilometes / RJ

May 30, 2024 - 10:19 am

Belle de Nuit’s series of speciality acts added spice to Voltaire since opening in November.

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LAPD searches for ‘General Hospital’ actor’s killers, seeks fingerprints, video

Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

May 28, 2024 - 11:59 am

Police detectives are collecting surveillance video and searching for fingerprints as they look for the group of catalytic converter thieves who killed a “General Hospital” actor on Saturday morning in downtown L.A.

Hip-hop icon Ice Cube is coming to the M Resort in Henderson in September. (Ice Cube)

Hip-hop icon coming to Henderson this fall

By Paul Pearson / RJ

May 28, 2024 - 11:26 am

The rapper, actor and Raiders fan is coming to Las Vegas, but this show will not be on the Strip.

Livin’ on: Dead & Company extend Sphere series into August

By John Katsilometes / RJ

May 28, 2024 - 6:29 pm

Dead & Company is adding dates this summer to its hit Las Vegas residency celebrating the Grateful Dead’s enduring legacy in rock history.

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Mike Tyson ‘doing great’ after medical emergency on flight to LA

Julia Wick Los Angeles Times

May 28, 2024 - 5:23 am

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson had a medical emergency Sunday on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, his representatives said Monday.

‘General Hospital’ actor shot dead in Los Angeles robbery

Theresa Braine, New York Daily News

May 27, 2024 - 6:00 am

Actor Johnny Wactor, known for playing Brando Corbin on “General Hospital,” was shot dead during a robbery attempt in Los Angeles, family members and his agent said Sunday.

Morgan Spurlock of the CNN series "Inside Man" poses at the CNN Worldwide All-Star Party, on Fr ...

‘Super Size Me’ documentarian, Morgan Spurlock, dies

By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer

May 24, 2024 - 9:24 am

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life’s work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died at age 53.