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3 October 2008 8:56 AM, PDT | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Full disclosure: I had edited a Flash Gordon comics series at one point in my life. It was the third greatest nightmare in my professional life. Not the part about working with the talented and understanding Dan Jurgens; Dan’s a class act and a fine storyteller. No, working with King Features Syndicate was akin to Sisyphus’s task, except the big rock was a huge boulder of shit and pushing it up that mountain happened in the dead of the hottest summer in the innermost circle of hell. And I’ve lightened up on this over the years, too. And so, on with the show.

There may be no greater icon in comic strip history than Flash Gordon. Sorry, Buck Rogers. You came first but Flash had better art and story, and a much, much better villain. Creator/artist Alex Raymond is generally regarded as the greatest craftsman in the field; so great,

Mike Gold

2 September 2008 12:04 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Legendary comedians Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz have returned to the spotlight following a resurgence of rumours the couple fathered an unknown child.

Madeline "Linda" Jane Dee was allegedly given up for adoption by Ball in 1947 amid fears a baby would impede her plans for stardom, according to her daughter Cassandria Lucianna Carlson, 38.

Now the New York Post has reported Private Detective Vito Colucci has urged the couple's two publicly known children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. to "put this (the case) to rest" by providing DNA samples to prove paternity.

He adds that he believes Carlson's account, based on facts "accumulated over the years".

Dee was born four years before the 1951 debut of hit U.S. TV show I Love Lucy and immediately given up for adoption to California nurse Ruth Smith.

Carlson claims she discovered her mother's paternity after phoning Smith from a funeral home to help locate Dee's birth records following her mother's death in 2003.

Records name Helen Elizabeth Barnes as Dee's mother. There is no listed father.

But according to the newspaper, several attempts made by Carlson to establish the truth have been shunned by her allegedly estranged family.

In a letter written by Lucie Arnaz to Carlson in 2004, she protests: "I must inform you we're almost certainly not related. In 1947, my parents were married and wanted nothing more than to have a baby together. They struggled for 10 years with infertility and miscarriage until I came along in 1951. My mother would never have given up a child of hers nor would my father have let her."

A spokesperson for Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucie Arnaz did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

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21 August 2008 2:20 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Can someone please fire Anna Faris' agent? How much longer does one of this generation's most gifted comediennes—an ebullient ditz in the tradition of Judy Holliday, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn—have to be the best thing about a terrible movie? Other than the barely circulated stoner comedy Smiley Face and her minor turns in Brokeback Mountain and Lost In Translation, Faris has mostly logged time in dire vehicles like The House Bunny, which are dumb-dumb to her smart-dumb. As usual, Faris makes the most of what she's given, here playing a real-life Barbie doll who acts like she was just recently animated, like a skanky Pinocchio discovering the world for the first time. It's a shame her inspired creation gets ground through an insipid '80s-style campus comedy with a tarted-up Pussycat Dolls gloss—but then, that's pretty much Faris' career in a nutshell. With a kind of deranged bubbliness,

Scott Tobias

4 August 2008 2:25 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Country stars Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have joined esteemed ranks of Bob Hope, Lucille Ball and Bugs Bunny. They just received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The singing-songwriting duo were overwhelmed on Monday as Dr. Phil McGraw and wife Robin introduced them before unveiling the bronze star in the pavement. "I’ve had the pleasure of knowing these guys really well for a number of years now," said McGraw. " It is truly an honor for me to be a part of this." Brooks told the crowd he was amazed "[to] see Morgan Freeman's name right next to us.

Alondra Hernandez and Emmet Sullivan

15 May 2008 10:23 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warren Cowan, whose Rogers and Cowan public relations company has represented many of Hollywood's leading luminaries and the music industry's best-selling recording artists over more than a half century, died Wednesday of cancer at age 87. His clients included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Sylvester Stallone, Ronald Reagan, The Doors, Elton John, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael Jackson.

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18 April 2008 12:05 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Salma Hayek is to be honoured at the Crystal + Lucy Awards in the U.S. for raising the profile of women in entertainment.

The Crystal + Lucy Awards will acknowledge the 41-year-old's successful career not only as an actress, but also as a producer and director in the film and TV industries.

The Ugly Betty producer will also be sharing the spotlight with other honorees, including Ginnifer Goodwin, Sherry Lansing, Diane English, and the cast of the 2008 film The Women.

The event, established in 1994 in honour of comedienne Lucille Ball, will be held on 17 June at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, reports PeopleEnEspanol.com.

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