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In his memoir, Trejo, Danny Trejo recalled the time he was hypnotized by Charles Manson while the two were in jail 60 years ago, per Page Six. Trejo said a “greasy, dirty, scrawny” Manson walked up to him in Los Angeles County Jail in 1961 seeking protection. “He was so poor, he didn’t have a belt, and instead used a piece […]
A Russian TV station has generated outrage over a skit it aired in which an actress donned blackface to play Barack Obama. The caveat to that statement is that most of that outrage seems to be based in America, which is to say it’s unlikely to matter in any way to the actual station. According to TMZ, the […]
Former POTUS Barack Obama‘s new book A Promised Land, released Nov. 17, bagged the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House. The publisher announced this week that Obama’s book sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on its first day of […]
Selena Gomez is set to star as Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in the Peruvian mountaineer and social entrepreneur’s biopic, per The Hollywood Reporter. The film, In the Shadow of the Mountain, is based on the upcoming memoir of the same name written by mountaineer Vásquez-Lavado. Vásquez-Lavado was not only the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest, but she was also the first openly […]
Mariah Carey is set to release her new memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey, but don’t expect her to say much about her Eminem feud in it. The two musicians were rumored to have had a romantic affair in 2001, and ever since then they’ve traded shots at each other both in and outside of their […]
Not that it bears even the slightest semblance of urgency right now, what with distancing of the social variety and related real world perplexities, but John Mayer has addressed Jessica Simpson‘s recent Open Book memoir. Mayer appeared on Wednesday’s Watch What Happens Live, ultimately discussing a number of topics that briefly included the aforementioned Open Book. […]
Whitney Houston‘s best friend, Robyn Crawford, is ready to open up about her romantic connection with the iconic singer. In her upcoming memoir, A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston, Crawford reportedly documents her friendship with Houston, and shares details of their romantic relationship. In an excerpt of the book given to People, Crawford, who was 19-years-old at the time, […]
Prince was certainly no fan of the musical stylings of Ed Sheeran and Katy Perry, as revealed in a new book. “We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don’t like it no matter how many times they play it,” Prince is revealed […]
In his new memoir titled Me, Elton John opens up on how his perception towards Michael Jackson changed following his early interactions with the King of Pop, confessing that he thought the singer was “genuinely mentally ill” in his latter years, TMZ reports. “I’d known Michael since he was 13 or 14 … He was just the most adorable kid you […]
Actress Sarah Edmondson is one of the most outspoken members of the cult Nxivm, having written a memoir of her time with the sex cult that masqueraded as a personal development program. Following the arrest and trial of founder Keith Raniere, Edmondson is sharing insights into her time with the organization, including stories of how […]
