So the commissioner’s office granting Billy Crystal permission to suit up as a New York Yankee for a spring game Thursday against the Pittsburgh Pirates—a charming experiment or a harmful pattern?I mean, for a major-league team to actually sign a comedian and actor to a one-day contract this way?”My only concern for Billy is that [...]
Sport Relief Does The Apprentice (BBC1) is the strident child of charity and celebrity. The sport is in putting five celebrities in a sack and waiting for them to start killing each other. You won’t wait long.
Sir Alan Sugar ran through their claims to fame in case, as he said drily, “Some of the viewers [...]
It’s all over for the “it” bag - or so says consumer research specialist Mintel. Fashion shoppers - mostly female - are finally losing their passion for celebrity-endorsed handbags that can cost thousands of pounds each.
The market for big-ticket, big-name bags, as sported by the likes of Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham, has been expanding [...]
When Kirsten Dunst was spotted last year during South by Southwest, the A-list star most certainly was not languishing in a long line or grooving with the festival masses. Rather she was, as one American-Statesman staffer blogged, ” … at the Spin Party, watching Kings of Leon and puffing cigarette after cigarette.”
That’s right, like [...]
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
(AAOS) is honored to recognize a surgeon who heals, inspires and encourages
others. Claudia Thomas, MD, the first black female orthopaedic surgeon in
her field, was presented today with the Academy’s 2008 Diversity Award at
the 75th Annual Meeting.
Dr. Thomas has worked throughout her residency and practice to recruit and
retain individuals who [...]