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Lisa Ling Talks About Working for Oprah
Lauren Soroken · 02/16/11 05:50PMMiley Cyrus Bong Rips Caught on Video
Maureen O'Connor · 12/10/10 10:36AMToday on Oprah: Bisexual Apes!
Matt Cherette · 10/04/10 03:18PMLeo DiCaprio: Kate's Husband Told Us How to Have Sex
Maureen O'Connor · 08/10/10 09:34AMHappy Birthday
cityfile · 08/28/09 06:07AMJack Black turns 40 today. Jason Priestley of Beverly Hills 90210 fame is 40. Actor Ben Gazzara is turning 79. Country singers Shania Twain and LeAnn Rimes are 44 and 27, respectively. Olympic figure skater (and Celebrity Apprentice contestant) Scott Hamilton is 51. Actress Jennifer Coolidge is turning 46. Filmmaker Robert Greenwald is 64. And one of the Osmonds (Wayne) is turning 58. Some of the people celebrating birthdays this weekend—including Warren Buffet, Lisa Ling, and John McCain—are below.
The Return of Vibe, Ling Sisters Look For a Deal
cityfile · 08/12/09 01:08PM• Vibe is rising from the dead. A group of investors led by former cable exec Leo Hindery and its luxury magazine publisher Uptown Media have acquired the magazine. They plan to resurrect the website in a few weeks. [WSJ]
• Laura Ling is shopping a book proposal with her sister, Lisa Ling. [WSJ]
• Twitter was the victim of another denial-of-service attack yesterday. [NYT]
• Facebook is testing out something called "Facebook Lite," which may or may not be a Twitter competitor, depending whom you ask. [ABC News, Guardian]
• CBS had planned to change up this year's Emmy Awards. But then everyone complained, so now it plans to go back to the way it was. [THR]
• A launch party for a new magazine? Could it be? Really? [AdAge]
Imprisonment, Famous Sister Pay Off For Laura Ling
Hamilton Nolan · 08/12/09 11:29AMHillary Clinton Asks North Korea to Forgive Reporters for Non-Crime
Ryan Tate · 07/10/09 08:49PMNorth Korea Shock: US Reporters Admit to Slanders, Calumnies
Hamilton Nolan · 06/16/09 08:27AMNorth Korea Sentences American Reporters to 12 Years Hard Labor
The Cajun Boy · 06/08/09 12:58AMLisa Ling Hitting The Press Trail To Try and Save North Korean-Detained Sister
Foster Kamer · 05/31/09 07:30PMLove Is In the Air
cityfile · 03/23/09 06:21AM
• Bruce Willis tied the knot with Victoria's Secret model Emma Heming this weekend at his home in Turks & Caicos. He's 54; she's 30. Guests at the wedding included his daughters, Madonna, and Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. [NYP, LAT]
• Natasha Bedingfield got married on Saturday, too, to a California businessman in Malibu. [People]
• 64-year-old tech billionaire Jim Clark married his 28-year-old girlfriend this weekend with a four-day event on Richard Branson's Necker Island. Guests included Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber and Ed Norton. [NYP]
• Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart finally got engaged. [People]
• Alas, it's not all happy news: Agyness Deyn and Albert Hammond Jr. have reportedly broken up. [NYM]
Video: 2008's Celeb Commencement Speeches
cityfile · 06/03/08 02:49PMIt's that time of year when institutions of higher learning heartlessly eject their seniors into the real world! Princeton grads were treated to the best speech of the season; Stephen Colbert delivered a zinger-filled address (above) in which he wisely reminded grads that "no one will ever, ever want to hear you sing a capella" outside college. How true. But plenty of other colleges tapped A through Z-list celebs to brace their soon-to-be-discharged students for entry into the workforce.