SF News Vanity Fair's Dominck Dunne Dies Hollywood producer and Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne died today at 83. Self-described as a "a high-class Zelig," Dunne is best known for writing about the "courtroom travails of the rich and famous.
SF News View From the Bay On-Air Talent Co-Hosts Regis/Kelly Sadly, we failed to catch this morning's episode of LIVE with Regis and Kelly!. We're sad because View from the Bay's Janelle Wang helped Regis with hosting duties. Wang was a guest host
SF News Robin Wright Penn Files for Divorce -- Again The drama never ends with these two. Once again, all is not well in the Wright-Penn house. According to People, Robin Wright Penn filed for divorce from her husband Sean Penn last week.
SF News John Hughes Died Creator of Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club, director/writer John Hughes, died today. According to TMZ, "Hughes suffered [a] heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip
SF News Karl Malden, Dead at 97 Karl Malden, star of stage, screen and TV commercials, died yesterday. He was 97. Born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 - July 1, 2009, this crusty-but-benign thespian could play second fiddle like
SF News Billy Mays Found Dead Billy Mays, 50, famously loud and bearded informmercial spokesman, died this morning. (Egads! First Ed, Farrah, Jackson, now this. Too much to bear, folks.) According to reports, Mays finished wrapping up an Oxiclean
SF News Sean Penn Files for Divorce -- Again Two-time Academy Award winner and Marin resident Sean Penn filed for divorce from his wife, actress Robin Wright-Penn. Penn filed the papers on Friday. If you recall, Sean and Robin had planned on
SF News TMZ's Harvey Levin Speaks at Cal's School of Journalism Inexplicably managing not to spray the room with gunfire or hurl himself out of the nearest open window, TMZ's Harvey Levin spoke to students enrolled at the "elite" Graduate School of Journalism at
SF News Film du Jour: Internet Famous Class These are the worst kind of people in the world, all together in one class. You will want to put your face through a window after watching this video. And then chew your
SF News Robin Williams Hospitalized Sea Cliff's most famous ADHD comedian and Oscar winner, Robin Williams, has been hospitalized. According to his publicist, Mork "needs heart surgery and must cancel the remainder of his one-man comedy show, 'Weapons
misc Happy Birthday, Pooch! When the above-reproach Catherine Bigelow laid out the accomplishments of newly middle-aged "PR pro" Lori Puccinelli Stern, she left off our favorite: defender and fellow bee-savior of Holy Mother of San Francisco. Let
SF News Mayor Gavin Newsom Gets Himself a YouTube Page Following on the heels of other YouTube stars such as Chris Crocker and the Chocolate Rain guy, Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to harness the awesome power of the world wide web via a
SF News Mayor Newsom Appears on Dr. Phil Tonight Unless it involves children assaulting their own mothers, having mimicking young punks removed from the set, or nubile teens hooked on heroin, we wouldn't recommend an episode of Dr. Phil. Until today. See,
SF News Robert Pattinson Causes Mini Riot at Stonestown Galleria Known as one of the only places in SF where you can get Cheese on a Stick, SFPD couldn't control the scene San Francisco's Stonestown Galleria this morning. It seems popular 22-year-old British
SF News Photos: Celebs Saturated Paul Newman Benefit at Davies Symphony Hall Scores of Hollywood folk came to Davies Symphony Hall last night to remember Paul Newman, who passed away recently, by performing a staged reading of "The World of Nick Adams," an adaptation by
SF News It Is Done: Newsom and Siebel Get Hitched Well, it was a stellar weekend for actress/Standford grad/former SFist commenter Jennifer Siebel. First, she became San Francisco's reigning queen. Siebel, 34, and the Gav, 40, were hitched on Saturday in
misc R.I.P., Estelle Getty No, no, thank you for being a friend, Sophia Petrillo. Sniff, sob. Getty died at her home on Hollywood Boulevard in LA. She was 84. (Yeah, yeah, there's no SF relation here, but
Arts & Entertainment SF International LGBT Film Festival: <i>Ready? OK!</i> (By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the
SF News George Carlin, Dead at 71 Inspiration to many left-leaning political activists, writers, and observational humorists, comedian/social satirist/pottymouth George Carlin died of heart failure today at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 71. Above
misc Dave Chappelle, Bygone CompUSA Spotted On Market Street An SFist reader spotted comedian Dave Chappelle walking on Market Street the other day, interrupted his privacy, and snapped up the photo at left. (Thanks, Flickr user 3dollarbilly!) What he also caught was
SF News Photos: Beckham Armani Underwear Ad Revealed David Beckham's gargantuan Armani underwear poster splattered against the side of the Macy's building to much acclaim yesterday. "Just in time for gay-wedding gift shopping," declares Gawker, here are some shots of the
SF News Sean Penn & Robjn Wright-Penn Nix Divorce Well, you can breathe a sigh of relief, citizen of the Bay Area. Tempestuous celebrity couple Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn have withdrawn their petition for a divorce. Apparently, the Oscar winning method
