A support group for people with the genetic condition albinism has slammed as offensive the comedy cop movie The Heat for labelling an albino character “snow cone” and “evil”. Shari Parker, secretary of the Albinism Fellowship of Australia, said she felt embarrassed and humiliated by the movie, which stars Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock
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Kate Ritchie returns to Summer Bay
First there were the fluoro tops, pigtails, and imaginary friends. Then the awkward teen years – clandestine pashes behind the bike sheds, inappropriate boyfriends (including one played by Heath Ledger), plenty of angst
Young and the Restless actress dies
American actress Jeanne Cooper, who starred on the daytime television soap opera The Young and the Restless for four decades, has died, her son, actor Corbin Bernsen, said. Cooper was 84
Osbourne’s life just like House
Kelly Osbourne has compared her life to an episode of House because of the “impending fight against death” she has faced of late.
Kelly Osbourne ‘rushed to hospital’
Kelly Osbourne has been rushed to hospital after reportedly suffering a seizure. The 28-year-old reality star was filming her US reality show Fashion Police when she was struck by sudden and uncontrollable convulsions, according to Entertainment Tonight.
Melchert-Dinkel Case: Assisted Suicide Over the Internet
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Going for Broke
When Melissa Rothrock, 33, decided in the spring of 2009 that she wanted to become the first in her family to go to college, she knew a traditional program was out of the question. The mother of four children–one of them just an infant–couldn’t afford a babysitter, and her husband was on the road for days at a time as a truck driver
‘Dancing with the Stars’ copes with flu outbreak
They’ve try to avoid injuries every season, but these days the “Dancing with the Stars” cast is hoping to protect themselves from the flu bug that’s hit the ballroom. “I’m living off of [vitamin drink mix] Emergen-C right now,” Lacey Schwimmer said after Monday night’s performance.