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Michael Jackson is dead at age 50.

I’ve received several e-mails to comment on this story, but there’s really too few details to go on. I’m sure more will emerge in the near future.

According to news reports , emergency medical services were called to his home in Los Angeles, where he was found in presumed cardiac arrest. CPR was performed, and he was rushed to UCLA Medical Center, which was about six minutes away.

Other reports stated that he was training for a new show, opening in London next month, and had recently undergone a thorough and complete physical exam. He apparently was given a clean bill of health.

It’s being reported that he died from sudden cardiac death, which according to the American College of Cardiology, is defined as, “the sudden cessation of cardiac activity so that the victim becomes unresponsive, with no normal breathing and no signs of circulation.” In these cases, there are often no warning signs, and loss of consciousness can occur between seconds to minutes due to lack of blood flow to the brain.

It’s estimated that up to 15 percent of total mortality in the United States is due to sudden cardiac death, and its incidence rises both with age and underlying cardiac disease, with the latter factor increasing the risk up to ten-fold.

Coronary artery disease is the most commonly associated heart condition associated with sudden cardiac death, but other factors include structural heart disease, as well as smoking, obesity, an elevated blood pressure or cholesterol level, or a family history of heart disease.

In general, the outcome for sudden cardiac death is quite poor. We’re talking less than 20 percent. Getting to a defibrillator as soon as possible is critical. According to cardiologist Steven Nissen , “You have to get to the patient with a defibrillator within about four minutes to get a good outcome. Between four and eight minutes things are a little bit questionable, and after eight minutes very, very few people will survive.” It’s unclear whether there was a defibrillator at the home, but judging from the reports, it didn’t appear that one was readily available.

It’s also inevitable that, with sudden cardiac death in a man in his 50s, speculation may turn to drug use, specifically cocaine or prescription drugs. There is no evidence of anything like that emerging, but as Dr. Nissen states, it’s “another thing that often comes up when a celebrity dies suddenly.”

There’s no doubt that more information will be uncovered in the coming days to weeks, especially if prescription medications or illicit drugs were involved. But also keep in mind that sudden cardiac death can happen at any age, in seemingly healthy individuals.

Whatever the circumstances, there’s no doubt that Michael Jackson will be missed around the world.

Long live the King of Pop.  

Today was my first Ellen show and I got to see NO DOUBT perform live!
Kudos Ellen,Kudos!

Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt took a time-out from their hectic schedule of partying and PDA-ing at the Cannes Film Festival to splash around at their hotel pool. These two are well-acquainted with showing off their swimsuit bodies by now, but apparently Paris’s life isn’t all fun and games. This Summer we’ll get a peek at the serious side of the heiress when her documentary, Paris Not France, airs on MTV. She’s got lots to say about her sex tape, her role models, and much much more.

Now back in LA, Lindsay Lohan has resumed her regular hollywood nitelife.
Last Wednesday night, Lindsay was seen going solo to the Bardot lounge in Hollywood.
The photos available are not overly flattering, but that’s just the photographer not getting good photos.
The outfit is still stunning.

You won’t believe your ears … until they bleed.

Under the stage name “The Great White,” Spencer Pratt of The Hills released a new rap song,
 ”I’m a Celebrity,” on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show on Monday.

It’s as bad as you think - as his obligatory self-promotion.

“First I took over TV, the tabloids and the Internet - now I’m going after the airwaves,” the reality TV villain said. “Nothing can stop ‘The Great White.’”

Some of the brain-melting lyrics are as follows:

“Baby I get paid… I’ve been around the world, but I’m not finished yet… first Tweet of the day, I put my swag on… I’m in the limelight and I love it like my wife.”

The Hills’ Spencer Pratt makes music and douchebag history, becoming the first human being to ever reference his “first Tweet of the day” over a hip-hop beat.

Last month, new wife Heidi Montag said she wants her husband to sing and rap on her forthcoming, equally unlistenable pop record, saying: “Spencer Pratt is amazing. I’d love to get him on my album. He sings, he raps - he does everything.”

Yes, he sure does, Heidi. Way to refer to him by his first and last name, because we were a little unclear on who you were talking about.

If you really insist on torturing yourself that badly, grab a fist full of Advil and listen to this unparalleled awfulness - with which Pratt is promoting his upcoming stint on I’m Not A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here - by clicking here.

OK, either Megan Fox is a damn genius, out to f**k with us slobbering simpletons who just wait around for the supreme super-hottie to do anything, say anything, so we can put up a post about it.

Megan Fox on Toilet Ettiqutte
“I’m horrible to live with. I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. Friends will tell me, “Megan, you totally pinched a loaf in my toilet and didn’t flush.”
- FHM, June 2007

Megan Fox On Vocabulary
“I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against, but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve every learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard – but I do. And part of it is my own fault.”
- Esquire Magazine, June 2009

Megan Fox on High School Musical
“Ok, well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who are all being molested by the basketball coach, who is Zac Efron’s dad. It’s about them struggling to cope with this molestation. And they have these little girlfriends, who are their beards. Oh, and somehow there’s music involved. You have to get stoned to watch it.
- Esquire Magazine, June 2009

Megan Fox on Boys
“Robert Pattinson and Zac – they’re just too pretty with the big hair and the suits. And Rob is, what, 22? Zac is 21? That’s a joke. Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they’re immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.”
- Elle, June 2009

Megan Fox on Zac Efron
“Zac Efron is my obsession, we’re the same person. We’re not actually here, it’s like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it’s me, and you don’t know that. It’s one of the greatest mysteries of all time.”
- GQ Man of the Year Event 2008

Megan Fox on Her ‘Brian’ Tattoo”
I wouldn’t regret [my “Brian” tattoo] if we weren’t together. I can always have a kid and name him Brian. There are options.”
- FHM, June 2007

Megan Fox on Simba
“Starscream is the sexiest Transformer. [Why?] ‘Cause he just is. Why is Simba [from ‘The Lion King’] sexy? He just was. Maybe it was because Jonathan Taylor Thomas was the voice. I can’t tell you. It’s something I just feel.”
- Virtual Transformers Press Conference in Second Life, June 2007

Megan Fox on Alan Alda
“I am pretty sure I am a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I’m a tranny. I’m a man. I’m so painfully insecure. I’m on the verge of vomiting now. I am so horrified that I am here, and embarrassed. I’m scared,”
– Red Carpet Golden Globes 2009

Megan Fox on Farts
“If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like—you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.”
- GQ, October 2008

Megan Fox on Bisexuality
“I think people are born bisexual and then make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.”
- Esquire, June 2009

Actress Lindsay Lohan has finally found work. Other than guest hosting at clubs and being spotted with androgynous DJ’s out in public of course.

Lohan has signed on to star in a “fantasy comedy” called The Other Side according to Variety. She will star alongside Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews, and Alanis Morisette. Dave Matthews AND Alanis Morisette? Well, the acoustic jam band set should be all over this one.

Filming will begin in October on an island just off Massachusetts. Lohan is set to play a grad student who discovers a community of oddballs while working as a scientist on a remote island. Lohan as a scientist? What is she trying to research or develop? A way to have your skin look more orange? Oh what’s that? Lindsay Lohan has actually come out with a tanning lotion which will probably make you look more orange. Nevermind then.

Forget new consoles: if game publishers got their wish, we’d stick with the system we have and just buy endless peripherals. Activision’s latest announcement in its ever-growing Hero series is DJ Hero, a new game focusing on the joys of being a turntable-spinning club god.

No pricing has been announced yet for the game’s debut this fall, but it’ll obviously cost more than a game that had no peripheral at all.

USAToday has a really nice article on Kristen Stewart  so you should really check it out.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — It used to be easier to live a secret life growing up.

You could leave home, disappear from the radar, have different circles of friends, and spend that hidden time figuring out who you are. Now, every move, every mistake, every shift in personality is Twittered, Facebooked, MySpaced, texted and tracked via an elaborate network of cellphones and websites.

That’s how Kristen Stewart sees it. She became entrenched in the electronic babble when she became a superstar last year playing lovelorn good-girl Bella opposite smoldering vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) in Twilight, the blockbuster adaptation of the best-selling novels.

The actress, 19, gets to explore what her life might have been like laying low a generation ago in Adventureland, already open. The coming-of-age comedy about a girl and a guy who fall in love while toiling for the summer at a run-down amusement park is set in 1987 — three years before Stewart was born. Read The Rest of the Article

Despite having no movie or TV show to promote, Nylon magazine chose Lindsay Lohan to cover their April 2009 issue.

For more visit: NylonMag.com