Nick Cannon has been hospitalized for what wife Mariah Carey described as mild kidney failure. The singer tweeted the picture above Wednesday, after a kid-centric holiday in Aspen that Nick said would realize a lifelong dream. "We're trying to be as festive as possible under the circumstances but please keep Nick in your thoughts because this is very painful," Carey wrote on her blog. "They tried to kick me out of the hospital," she added, but -- a diva gets what a diva wants, and Mariah...
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680), an ascetic known to French settlers as "Lily of the Mohawks," lived in the woods in what is now upstate New York and Quebec. After her conversion to Catholicism at age 20 — over the objection of family members — she had a friend whip her almost daily so she could experience Christ's suffering on the cross. She slept on a bed of thorns, shunned men and sex, walked barefoot in ice and snow and put burning coals between her toes.At the end of her penitent...
Five...Four...Three...Two...One... It's almost New Year's 2012 and time to watch that glitzy ball drop to signal the beginning of the new year. The New Year's Eve Ball successfully dropped during a "dress rehearsal," as The Associated Press called it, at noon on Friday while organizers continued to prepare for the most magical night of the year, inflating balloons and throwing confetti. This year's six-ton ball with the theme "Let There Be Friendship" has 238 new Waterford crystals to the...
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Last year, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was left off the NFC Pro Bowl team and then made those who ignored him realize their mistake by lighting up the opposition in the playoffs and winning the Super Bowl XLV most valuable player award. This year? Voters didn’t have any choice but to make him the NFC starter given his record pace toward the all-time record for single-season passer rating. That and the 14-1 record the Packers have forged in their follow-up...
LOS ANGELES -- Bill Maher has run afoul of religious conservatives yet again, after a Christmas Eve tweet the comedian sent about overtly religious Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. Following a 40-14 Broncos’ loss to the Buffalo Bills on Saturday, Maher tweeted, "Wow, Jesus just ... #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing, saying to Hitler ’Hey, Buffalo’s killing them’. (Adult language has been removed from the Tweet.) Predictably, the dig from the...
NEW YORK , Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenhill & Co., Inc. regretfully reports that two Managing Directors of the firm -- Jeffrey F. Buckalew and Rakesh Chawla -- are believed to have been aboard a private plane that crashed this morning in New Jersey . The plane belonged to Mr. Buckalew, an experienced pilot whose passion was flying. We also believe that Mr. Buckalew's wife, Corinne, and their two children, Jackson and Meriwether, were on the plane. Press reports indicate there were...
Batman (Christian Bale) and Bane (Tom Hardy) duke it out in the final chapter of Christopher Nolan's gritty follow-up to The Dark Knight. The long-awaited trailer to Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises - follow-up to 2008's hugely successful The Dark Knight - is finally here. Judging by the new trailer, Gotham City will once again be assailed by a large-scale threat, this time taking the shape - and a large shape it will be - of Tom Hardy's Bane, with supplementary villain Selina...
J.R. Martinez Weight Loss J.R. Martinez Diet Program 2011 - Isn't amazing how J.R Martinez and all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are shapely and healthy looking, and look good on camera. Others look like they haven't eaten in weeks, like they just got back from the famine in Ethiopia for a few weeks. Like they had been starving themselves to lose weight, and that is probably what they have been doing. You see it...
Former Bears WR Sam Hurd was arrested Wednesday and waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Nuccio Dinuzzo/Zumapress CHICAGO (AP) -- The attorney for Sam Hurd said Friday that his client had never sold drugs to other NFL players, hoping to put any rumors to rest as the wide receiver without a team prepares to fight federal drug charges. Less than an hour after Hurd was cut by the Chicago Bears, defense attorney Brett Greenfield told reporters that his client planned to fight the charges...
