Picts from the MET Gala

Mummified body may belong to actress, Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers

A mummified body believed to be the remains of model-turned-actress Yvette Vickers has been found in her Los Angeles home. Police suggest the victim may have died a year ago. The body was discovered by a neighbor last week, who grew suspicious after discovering old letters and cobwebs in Vickers' mailbox. The neighbor says she found the body in an upstairs room of Vickers' dilapidated Benedict Canyon home. Vickers' film credits include 1958's "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" and 1959's "Attack of the Giant Leeches." Her last feature role was in a 1990 horror called "Evil Spirits." Reports on her age vary between 74 and 82.

 

CBS Scores First Interview With Barack Obama Since Killing of Osama bin Laden

CBS has scored the first interview with President Obama since the killing of Osama bin Laden. The interview, to be conducted by Steve Kroft in the White House Wednesday, will be broadcast on 60 Minutes Sunday, May 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT).



Rick Springfield Arrested for DUI
Singer, Rick Springfield was arrested for DUI. The '80s rocker was pulled over in Los Angeles around 8:00pm last night ... and when officers approached his vehicle, they smelled alcohol. Law enforcement sources say Rick's blood alcohol content was .10 -- higher than the legal limit in CA. Springfield was taken to a nearby jail where he was booked and released on his own recognizance.


 Flava Flav Arrested
Flavor Flav was pulled over for a routine traffic violation in Las Vegas on Friday and ended up in jail. The officer quickly discovered that the rapper/reality star that there were four warrants out for his arrest stemming from prior traffic infractions. According to law enforcement, Flav never settled up with the court in 4 separate automobile-related matters -- including driving without proof of insurance, a parking violation and two cases of driving without a license.  Flav was taken to a local jail where he settled up and was released a short time later.


 Charlie Sheen Tours Alabama
Actor, Charlie Sheen, toured an Alabama neighborhood leveled by tornadoes and said Monday he wants to organize a relief event for victims in the state. "I want some money, hope, faith and healing to the area," said Sheen. Sheen said he decided to visit after receiving an invitation via Twitter from a University of Alabama student. Sheen also stopped by an area Kmart to buy flashlights for some of the thousands still without electricity. He paid the $324.07 tab with his own Visa card, and then brought them to a relief center amid loud cheers and applause. Sheen posted a photo Monday on Twitter showing the wreckage of a home with a message: "I'm in Tuscaloosa. It's beyond words. Info coming soon on how you can all help."


 Rachel Weisz to Play Evil Witch in Disney's 'Oz'
Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz is in negotiations to play the villainess in Oz: The Great and Powerful, Disney’s prequel-ish take on The Wizard of Oz tale that stars James Franco and Mila Kunis and is being directed by Sam Raimi. The movie stars Franco as Oz, a snake oil salesman who finds himself dealing with real magic when his balloon carries him into a fabled land and he runs into genuine witches. Weisz would play Evanora, a powerful, evil witch who intends to rule the land. She is the sister of Theadora (Kunis) and tries to seduce her to the dark side.

Sammy Hagar: Aerosmith wanted me to replace Steven Tyler

Former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar says he was offered the chance to replace Steven Tyler as the frontman of Aerosmith but that he turned down the opportunity because it would have been a difficult transition. Hagar says he has been approached over the years to join a string of top bands. "I was asked at one time to be in Motley Crue," he says. "I was asked at one time to be in Pantera by their managers. I was asked to be in Velvet Revolver when Scott Weiland quit." Hagar says he was considered as a possible replacement for Tyler when Tyler fell out with his Aerosmith bandmates in late 2009. "I was asked to be in Aerosmith, and I said no," he says. "Certain bands and certain frontman singers are more difficult to replace than others. Steven Tyler and that band have stayed together for 40 years, and you don't want to walk into something like that."

'Hurt Locker' team going forward with film on bin Laden hunt

The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama "The Hurt Locker" are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have had the bin Laden project in the works, and now that the al-Qaida leader has been killed, a person close to the filmmakers said Monday that the film is more relevant than ever. The as-yet-untitled film will center on the special operations forces in pursuit of bin Laden, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk about the project's status. U.S. forces have hunted bin Laden since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks nearly 10 years ago. A team of Navy SEALs shot and killed bin Laden early Monday at a compound in Pakistan.


TV NEWS
CBS has named Katie Couric‘s Evening News successor. 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley grabs the reins starting June 6.


Former "Survivor" champion Richard Hatch, is back in jail and is now officially known as inmate #05559-070. He's serving a 9 month prison sentence for not paying taxes on the prize money he won on the very first season of "Survivor". Hatch -- who was recently fired on this season's "Celebrity Apprentice" -- made a public plea to raise enough cash to pay off his debt, but his words fell on deaf ears.



Lifetime has renewed Army Wives for a 13-episode sixth season. Additionally, the cabler has greenlit Modern Love, a pilot based on the titular New York Times column. The Big C executive producer Jenny Bicks will claim showrunning duties on the new series.



The Pacific-10 has reached a deal to license most of its big football and basketball games to Fox and ESPN, and agreement that will net the conference approximately $3 billion over 12 years. The Pac-10's move to launch its own network mimics the Big Ten Conference's 2007 decision to launch its own network -- a decision that led to a 10-year, $1 billion deal with ESPN. However, unlike the Big Ten, Pac-10 will retain complete ownership of its network. (The Big Ten's network, by contrast, is 49-percent owned by Fox Cable Networks.) Beginning on July 1, the Pac-10 will be expanding the number of teams in the conference as well as its wallet, with Colorado and Utah coming on board to make the conference the Pac-12.




Former "Bachelor" and host of the syndicated medical talk show "The Doctors" Dr. Travis Stork is off the market.  Stork proposed to his girlfriend Dr. Charlotte Brown (a pediatrician) while on a recent Hawaiian vacation. Stork currently travels back and forth between working at the Vanderbilt hospital in Nashville, TN and taping "The Doctors" several days a week. He says that he has nothing but good memories from his time on "The Bachelor" and made friends.  He also saw Sarah Stone, recently.  She's the women he "chose" on the show and says she's happily married.


 ABC has ordered six episodes of Celebrity Wife Swap. Featuring celebrities trading their often lavish lifestyles for a week, the series hails from Zodiak USA, which also is behind the network's Wife Swap as well as Secret Millionaire and Syfy's scripted BBC remake Being Human. Wife Swap, based on the British format, has been airing in syndication on Lifetime and last aired original episodes on ABC in late 2010.




























Fox’s annual Teen Choice Awards is set to air Sunday, August 7 at 8/7c.

Operation was designed to kill bin Laden
The operation that killed Osama bin Laden was designed to do just that, not to take him alive, a U.S. government official told CNN Monday. DNA matching is under way on samples from the body of the slain terrorist leader, the official said. There are photographs of the body with a gunshot wound to the side of the head that shows an individual who is not unrecognizable as bin Laden, the official said. No decision has yet been made on whether to release the photographs and if so, when and how. Four others in the compound also were killed. One of them was bin Laden's adult son, and another was a woman being used as a shield by a male combatant, the officials said. Bin Laden's body was later buried at sea, an official said. Many Muslims adhere to the belief that bodies should be buried within one day. The official did not release additional details about the burial, but said it was handled in keeping with Muslim customs. The death of the founder and leader of al Qaeda comes almost 10 years after the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed about 3,000 people.

Guy Who Live-Tweeted U.S. Raid on Bin Laden by Accident Inundated With Media Requests

Sohaib Athar -- the Abbottabad IT consultant that tweeted the U.S. raid on Osama Bin Laden by accident -- has been inundated with media requests since news of the Al-Qaeda leader's death broke. And now he just wants to sleep. "Bin Laden is dead," Athar wrote on Twitter on Monday. "I didn’t kill him. Please let me sleep now." On Sunday afternoon (or early Monday local time), Athar tweeted as U.S. forces were carrying out their mission:

"Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)."

Then:
"A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope it’s not the start of something nasty."

"The few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani."

"People are saying it was not a technical fault and it was shot down. I heard it CIRCLE 3-4 times above, sounded purposeful."

Only Obama's announcement did Athar realize what he had been tweeting -- and anticipated the deluge. "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," he wrote as word of his accidental scoop spread. Athar told the BBC he's since been hit with a barrage of media requests from around the world. So how was Athar the only apparent Abbottabad resident tweeting about the operation? "Not many people use Twitter here," Athar said. "Everyone uses Facebook."

Veteran TV actor William Campbell dies

William Campbell, a veteran TV actor who starred in television series from "Gunsmoke" to "Star Trek" to "Perry Mason," and was married to President John F. Kennedy paramour Judith Campbell Exner, has died of natural causes. Campbell worked steadily through the 1960s and 1970s in a long line of television series. He had film roles in the 1950s, such as "Man in the Vault," with Anita Ekberg, and also appeared in 'Dementia: 13," Francis Ford Coppola's early horror film. Campbell is survived by his wife, Tereza, whom he married in 1963.

Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Welcome Twins
April 30 is double the pleasure for Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. Not only did they welcome twins, but the couple celebrated their third wedding anniversary, too! Carey, 42, delivered the babies Saturday at 12:07 p.m. at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles. Carey's representative, Cindi Berger, confirmed the births, saying the baby girl was born first, weighing 5 lbs., 3 oz., and was 18 inches long; her brother was next, at 5 lbs. 6 oz., and was 19 inches.

Rev. Al Sharpton renews vows for Carey, Cannon

A day after becoming parents to twins, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon renewed their vows with a hospital ceremony conducted by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Saturday was the couple's third anniversary — and also the day when Carey gave birth to a girl and a boy in Los Angeles. On Sunday, Sharpton blessed the babies, and also presided over a ceremony where the couple renewed their vows. Cannon tweeted words of thanks to the civil rights activist and said: "Yep we just had a wedding in the hospital!" Sharpton tweeted that Carey looked "great" and that the babies are beautiful. No names for the newborns have been announced.

 Official Wedding Photo and Photos of the Reception

    Prince William and his new wife flew out of Buckingham Palace Saturday after tying the knot in a dazzling display blending centuries-old royal tradition with the private moments of any young couple. But they did not fly off to their honeymoon, the couple has decided to stay in Britain this weekend, palace officials said. William, who married Middleton on Friday in an opulent ceremony at Westminster Abbey, plans to return to military duty as a Royal Air Force helicopter rescue pilot in Wales at the end of this weekend, which includes a Monday holiday, officials said. They will go on a honeymoon to an undisclosed overseas location later, officials said, stating that this is the couple's "personal preference." The palace has not revealed where in Britain they have gone for the weekend. The couple are thought to be seeking privacy after the intense media focus on their wedding. Earlier, officials said William has scheduled a two-week leave from his military duties for the couple's honeymoon, but no specific dates or locations have been announced.

'Fast Five' races to furious start with $83.6M

"Fast Five" has left the competition in the dust with an $83.6 million debut to grab the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office. The No. 1 movie the two previous weekends, "Rio" raised its total to $103.6 million.
"Fast Five" set a record for best April debut ever, speeding past the $71 million haul of its predecessor, "Fast & Furious," two years ago. Domestically, the weekend's other new wide releases tanked. Disney's teen romance "Prom" debuted at No. 5 with only $5 million, while the Weinstein Co. animated sequel "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil" opened at No. 6 with just $4.1 million.
1. "Fast Five," $83.6 million.
2. "Rio," $14.4 million.
3. "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family," $10.1 million.
4. "Water for Elephants," $9.1 million.
5. "Prom," $5 million.
6. "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil," $4.1 million.
7. "Soul Surfer," $3.3 million.
8. "Insidious," $2.7 million.
9. "Hop," $2.6 million.
10. "Source Code," $2.5 million.

The Rock to star in country music biopic

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is set to tackle his most tuneful movie yet by playing country music star Charley Pride in a new biopic. The wrestler turned actor will test out his musical skills as he portrays one of the genre's most successful black stars. Pride has sold more than 70 million records throughout his long-running career and remains the only African-American singer to be inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. Terrence Howard had originally been slated to play Pride in the film, but he dropped out as the production stalled.

Donald Trump Fires Back at David Letterman

Donald Trump shot back at David Letterman after the late night host publicly accused Trump of making racist comments toward President Obama during an on-air chat with Dr. Phil. In a letter to Letterman, Trump wrote that he was cancelling his May 18 appearance on Late Night, among other things.  Trump's letter to Letterman not only served as a cancellation notification, but as a tongue-lashing. "I was disappointed to hear the statements you made about me last night on your show that I was a 'racist,'" Trump wrote. "In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth and there is nobody who is less of a racist than Donald Trump. Based upon your statements, and despite the fact that we have always done so well together, especially in your ratings, I am canceling my May 18th appearance on your show." And if that wasn't enough, Trump also wrote that he wouldn't be doing a Top Ten list that was in the works. "Please inform your staff that I will likewise not do the 'top ten' list that they had been trying to set up," he says in the letter. Last week, Letterman said about Trump: "If he comes back on this show, and I am not sure we want him back on this show under these circumstances, he ought to be prepared to apologize just for that kind of behavior."

 

'Hangover' producers sued by Tyson's tattoo artist

 Mike Tyson's tattoo artist has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against "The Hangover: Part II" producers for allegedly using his design without consent. In the movie's preview, actor Ed Helms is shown sporting a face tattoo like the design inked on the boxer's left cheek and temple. S. Victor Whitmill, the artist who created, inked and copyrighted Tyson's iconic tattoo, is suing the film's studio, Warner Brothers, for allegedly using the image in the upcoming film without permission. Whitmill is seeking an injunction to halt the impending release of "The Hangover: Part II," as well as banning the image of Helms from use in advertising materials and trailers. He also wants unspecified damages.



TV NEWS
This Sunday, FOX planned to air a highly anticipated crossover of their animated comedies "Family Guy," "American Dad," and "The Cleveland Show." The event, dubbed "Animation Domination" has been widely promoted, but has been canceled. In the crossover, the characters of all three shows were impacted by a hurricane. FOX decided that the content wasn't appropriate given the deadly storms that have led to lost lives and homes in the southern U.S. this week. More than 300 people have been confirmed dead due to tornado touchdowns.


Nearly 23 million Americans rose early on Friday to watch Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot. The Nielsen Co. said the 22.76 million viewers were spread out over 11 different networks. The company's measurement was for the period of 6 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. EDT, when the ceremony was taking place. Websites reported high traffic, too. ABCNews.com said it's online traffic Friday was its highest since the 2008 presidential election. And, E! Online said its 23.6 million page views on Friday was its most ever. The wedding was telecast on ABC, CBS, NBC, Telemundo, Univision, BBC America, CNN, E! Entertainment, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and TLC.


Across the pond, however, Charles and Diana still rule. Nearly 27 million viewers in the UK watched Kate trade vows with William on BBC, ITV or Sky News, compared to the 28.4 million who tuned in for the royal wedding 30 years ago. Friday’s ceremony also ranked behind UK coverage of Princess Diana’s 1997 funeral.



Television's "Judge Judy" is keeping her hand firmly on the gavel through 2015. Judy Sheindlin signed a new multiyear deal to stay with the long-running syndicated program that last season ranked No. 1 in daytime, CBS Television Distribution said. "I am thrilled with the opportunity to continue this exciting second career," Sheindlin, 68, said in a statement. A former judge in New York, the tart-tongued Sheindlin presides over small-claims cases on her program that's in its 15th season.




NBC is upping the star power on "The Voice" by adding singers Reba McEntire, Monica and Sia and music producer Adam Blackstone as new advisers. They join Christina Aguilera, Cee-Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton. Aguilera will team up with Sia, Levine with Maroon 5 music director Blackstone, Green with Monica, and Shelton with McEntire, who goes by just Reba these days.




"Glee" producer Ryan Murphy has finally found the handsome male lead for "American Horror Story," his much buzzed about pilot for FX. Dylan McDermott is joining the cast that already includes film star Jessica Lange, and "Friday Night Lights" actress Connie Britton.



Looks like Glenn Beck has hopped on the right-wing hate bandwagon that's been rolling all over "Glee" lately. Beck trained his laser-like focus on the musical series on his show this week, deeming it "a horror show" and "a nightmare" because "everyone is sleeping with everyone else, it's all about self-gratification."