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Famous actor, playwright and director of both stage and screen, Sam Shepard, was pulled over by police in Normal, Illinois at 2:00 a.m. on Saturday morning and was charged with DUI and speeding.
According to police Lt. Mark Kotte, Shepard joined the growing list of celebrity DUIs when he failed a sobriety test after he was stopped for driving 46 mph in a residential zone with a posted speed limit of 30 mph.
He was heading north in the 700 block of North Main Street, traveling from Minnesota towards his home in Kentucky. The 65-year-old told police he made a stop at a downtown...
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Sam Shepard was arrested early on Saturday in central Illinois and was charged with speeding and drunken driving, authorities said.
The 65-year-old actor and playwright told police in Normal, Illinois, that he was just traversing the town and that he stopped at a local before leaving for his hotel.
According to a report by the Bloomington, Illinois, Pantagraph, police discovered that Sam Shepard’s blood alcohol was twice the legal limit and that he had been going 16 mph over the 30 mph speed limit while he was going through the town.
Consistent with...
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston posted a message on the Web on Sunday saying that they are in a lot of grief after last week’s death of their 16-year-old son, Jett. They also wanted to thank for everyone’s support and prayers after the terrible event which took place on Friday.
Jett Travolta died while the family was in vacation at their home in Bahamas. One of the house’s caretakers at the West End resort found the teenager lying on the bathroom floor and immediately sent him to the Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport by ambulance. Yet, because of the strong seizure he had...
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The National Society of Film Critics named Sean Penn, from “Milk,” best actor, and Sally Hawkins, from “Happy-Go-Lucky,” best actress. These honors given on Saturday put the two actors as top runners for the Academy Awards from February.
Penn made an incredible performance as the San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, a leader for the gay rights who had been killed together with a fellow politician in 1978.
Best director and best screenplay honors also went to “Happy-Go-Lucky’s” Mike Leigh. The movie depicts the story of an optimistic schoolteacher...
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Police in Normal, Illinois say actor and playwright Sam Shepard has been arrested Saturday at about 2 a.m., on preliminary charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding 15-20 mph above the limit and improper lane usage. "The way he pulled up upon the curb, it appeared he was driving under the influence," Lt. Mark Kotte said. His blood-alcohol level was reportedly twice the 0.085 legal limit for driving.
Shepard told police he had been at a bar, Fat Jack's, in Bloomington, Illinois, and was on his way to a Best Western hotel in Normal when he was pulled over. The owner...
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Police stated to have found 60-year-old Ron Asheton, a guitarist and founding member of the influential rock band The Stooges, dead at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, early on Tuesday morning.
According to The Ann Arbor News, Asheton's personal assistant contacted police late Monday after unsuccessfully trying to get a hold of him for days. When officers arrived at the scene, they found his body on a living-room couch. He appeared to have been dead for at least several days. Detectives told the newspaper that the cause of death is yet to be determined, but that it seems to have...
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A great friend, brother musician and trooper, the lead guitarist with legendary rock band the Stooges will be dearly missed, especially by singer Iggy Pop, who said Ron Asheton was his best friend....
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It’s the award collecting season in Hollywood! The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presents the Golden Globes on Sunday, the Screen Actors Guild has the SAG Awards on January 25, the Recording Academy gives out the Grammys on February 8, and then there's the Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars on February 22.
But first of them all, the People's Choice Award ceremony will take place Wednesday. The People's Choice Awards were created in 1975 by producer Bob Stivers, who sold the show to Procter & Gamble in the early 1980s. The awards have reflected the growing divergence...
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Ben Affleck's spokesman, Shawn Sachs, and Jennifer Garner's spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, made the announcement on Tuesday of Garner’s giving birth to their second daughter in Los...
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