RIP Patrice O’Neal: Ricky Gervais, Dane Cook and More Offer Twitter Tributes …

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If you like to laugh, you're going to miss Patrice O'Neal. And his fellow comedians may miss him even more.

"One of my favourite stand up comedians. So sad. RIP," Ricky Gervais tweeted Tuesday upon hearing of O'Neal's death at

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Conrad Murray Sentencing – Live Streaming

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Dr. Conrad Murray faces up to four years behind bars at his sentencing Tuesday on his manslaughter conviction for administering a deadly anesthetic to Michael Jackson.

In his sentencing memo, the prosecution contended that Murray, 58, performed a "dangerous, unprecedented pharmaceutical experiment," withheld from paramedics and emergency room doctors that he'd administered propofol, and hid some drugs and equipment after Jackson stopped breathing.

Murray's attorneys, who suggested at

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"Beginners," "Tree of Life" win Gotham Film Awards

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Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:42am EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" and the Christopher Plummer film "Beginners" shared the top prize for best feature film on Monday at the Gotham Awards, a key event for independent movies which also marks the start of the film-awards season culminating in the Oscars.

The honors for "The Tree of Life," a mystical period drama starring

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Conrad Murray’s Mother Pleads for a Light Sentence: "He Is Sorry for What …

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Conrad Murray's defense team has brought out the heavy artillery: a note from mom.

Since the physician was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the June 25, 2009, death of Michael Jackson, Murray's attorneys have amassed several dozen letters from his friends, family, patients and colleagues

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Remembering Ken Russell: Ann-Margret talks about her famous ‘Tommy’ scene

British filmmaker Ken Russell, who died Sunday at the age of 84, had a knack for creating images that were unforgettable for both their pop-art beauty and their boundary pushing eroticism: Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestling naked in Women in Love (1969), Vanessa Redgrave passionately kissing Jesus in The Devils (1971).

But one scene in his work stands out from the rest for its sheer tongue-in-cheek audacity. In Tommy (1975), Russell’s psychedelic adaptation of The Who’s rock opera, a pinball wizard’s emotionally fragile mother (Ann-Margret) suffers a surreal nervous breakdown, rolling in baked beans, bubbles, and melted chocolate after throwing a champagne bottle into a TV set. “The crew members were all wearing high boots,” recalls the actress, who earned an Oscar nomination for her gutsy performance. “And here I was in my spandex catsuit that was shrinking each time I did a take.” Here’s what else the actress tells EW about the scene that brought her Oscar glory — and a trip to the hospital.

“I remember the first time I met Ken, I was going over to do all the songs for Tommy with Pete [Townshend] and everybody at The Who’s studio in London. I was told that Ken was quite different [laughs] — unusual. I didn’t know what to expect. So we went to lunch. He was gentle. He was really like a lamb. He was charming and mischievous, and he had those bright blue electric eyes.

We did that scene in three days. Each time that he would want to do another take of this sequence, I would have to go in, change, wash my hair, dry it, curl it, and come back. The crew members were all wearing high boots, and here I was in my spandex catsuit that was shrinking each time I did a take. The music was blaring in each scene, really loud.

It was such fun! They had built a wooden tube coming from way above to pour the things down to make it shoot out at me. No one had tried it before. Ken wanted me to look up and pretend that I don’t see anything until it hits me. And when the beans hit me, it just THREW me. My goodness!

When I threw the champagne bottle at the TV set, it really smashed. They got rid of all the broken glass on the carpet, but they had not gotten rid of all the jagged glass in the TV set. And Ken wanted me to thrash my arms around. And of course, one time, I brought my hands up and the soap suds were pink from blood. So they took me away, put loads of towels on me. And here I come into the hospital, looking like a drowned person in this silver knit shrinking catsuit with blood all over. There were 27 stitches.

I’ve never done a movie like that before or since. But the whole experience was wonderful.”

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Anne Hathaway sees a gem in fiance Adam Shulman

That's Adam Shulman, 30, an actor-turned-jewelry designer. Photographers caught Shulman and Hathaway, 29, in New York's Central Park over the weekend celebrating their engagement. Hathaway's rep confirmed the news.

Shulman has lately seemed to take a break from acting, shifting his focus to jewelry designing. He co-launched a collection — delicate butterfly necklaces and earrings, a pendant shaped like a light bulb — called James Banks (his middle name? Banks). Lucky featured it in the April issue. It's no wonder Shulman had a hand in designing the Kwiat rock he

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