Cinema & Movie & celebrity News And Rumors

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.Miley Cyrus performs and opens up about her past mistakes on "Today" show

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Jessica Alba takes her sleepy daughter home after grabbing a bite at the Urth Caffe

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Hilary Duff shares a smooch with Penn Badgley while filming scenes for "Gossip Girl"

The singer/actress portrays Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional college experience ... and winds up being roommates with Vanessa (played by Jessica Szohr.)

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Gossip Girl is a very fun show to watch..

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LOS ANGELES - Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

"Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.

Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.

He had kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting "The Beast," an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot. It drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.

Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making "The Beast" because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.

When he first went public with the illness, some reports gave him only weeks to live, but his doctor said his situation was "considerably more optimistic" than that.

"I'd say five years is pretty wishful thinking," Swayze told ABC's Barbara Walters in early 2009. "Two years seems likely if you're going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I'd better get a fire under it."

A three-time Golden Globe nominee, Swayze became a star with his performance as the misunderstood bad-boy Johnny Castle in "Dirty Dancing." As the son of a choreographer who began his career in musical theater, he seemed a natural to play the role.

A coming-of-age romance starring Jennifer Grey as an idealistic young woman on vacation with her family and Swayze as the Catskills resort's ---- (and much older) dance instructor, the film made great use of both his grace on his feet and his muscular physique.

It became an international phenomenon in the summer of 1987, spawning albums, an Oscar-winning hit song in "(I've Had) the Time of My Life," stage productions and a sequel, 2004's "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," in which he made a cameo.

Swayze performed and co-wrote a song on the soundtrack, the ballad "She's Like the Wind," inspired by his wife, Lisa Niemi. The film also gave him the chance to utter the now-classic line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

And it allowed him to poke fun at himself on a "Saturday Night Live" episode, in which he played a wannabe Chippendales dancer alongside the corpulent and frighteningly shirtless Chris Farley.

A major crowdpleaser, the film drew only mixed reviews from critics, though Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, "Given the limitations of his role, that of a poor but handsome ----object abused by the rich women at Kellerman's Mountain House, Mr. Swayze is also good. ... He's at his best -- as is the movie -- when he's dancing."

Swayze followed that up with the 1989 action flick "Road House," in which he played a bouncer at a rowdy bar. But it was his performance in 1990's "Ghost" that showed his vulnerable, sensitive side. He starred as a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee (Demi Moore) -- with great frustration and longing -- through a psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg.

Swayze said at the time that he fought for the role of Sam Wheat (director Jerry Zucker wanted Kevin Kline) but once he went in for an audition and read six scenes, he got it.

Why did he want the part so badly? "It made me cry four or five times," he said of Bruce Joel Rubin's Oscar-winning script in an AP interview.

"Ghost" provided yet another indelible musical moment: Swayze and Moore sensually molding pottery together to the strains of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody." It also earned a best-picture nomination and a supporting-actress Oscar for Goldberg, who said she wouldn't have won if it weren't for Swayze.


"When I won my Academy Award, the only person I really thanked was Patrick," Goldberg said in March 2008 on the ABC daytime talk show "The View."

Swayze himself earned three Golden Globe nominations, for "Dirty Dancing," "Ghost" and 1995's "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar," which further allowed him to toy with his masculine image. The role called for him to play a drag queen on a cross-country road trip alongside Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo.

His heartthrob status almost kept him from being considered for the role of Vida Boheme.

"I couldn't get seen on it because everyone viewed me as terminally heterosexually masculine-macho," he told the AP then. But he transformed himself so completely that when his screen test was sent to Steven Spielberg, whose Amblin pictures produced "To Wong Foo," Spielberg didn't recognize him.

Among his earlier films, Swayze was part of the star-studded lineup of up-and-comers in Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," alongside Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane. Swayze played Darrel "Dary" Curtis, the oldest of three wayward brothers -- and essentially the father figure -- in a poor family in small-town Oklahoma.

Other '80s films included "Red Dawn," "Grandview U.S.A." (for which he also provided choreography) and "Youngblood," once more with Lowe, as Canadian hockey teammates.

In the '90s, he made such eclectic films as "Point Break" (1991), in which he played the leader of a band of bank-robbing surfers, and the family Western "Tall Tale" (1995), in which he starred as Pecos Bill. He appeared on the cover of People magazine as its "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1991, but his career tapered off toward the end of the 1990s, when he also had stay in rehab for alcohol abuse. In 2001, he appeared in the cult favorite "Donnie Darko," and in 2003 he returned to the New York stage with "Chicago"; 2006 found him in the musical "Guys and Dolls" in London.

Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston, the son of Jesse Swayze and choreographer Patsy Swayze, whose films include "Urban Cowboy."

He played football but also was drawn to dance and theater, performing with the Feld, Joffrey and Harkness Ballets and appearing on Broadway as Danny Zuko in "Grease." But he turned to acting in 1978 after a series of injuries.

Within a couple years of moving to Los Angeles, he made his debut in the roller-disco movie "Skatetown, U.S.A." The eclectic cast included Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Maureen McCormack and Billy Barty.

Swayze had a couple of movies in the works when his diagnosis was announced, including the drama "Powder Blue," starring Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker and his younger brother, Don, which was scheduled for release this year.

Off-screen, he was an avid conservationist who was moved by his time in Africa to shine a light on "man's greed and absolute unwillingness to operate according to Mother Nature's laws," he told the AP in 2004.

Swayze was married since 1975 to Niemi, a fellow dancer who took lessons with his mother; they met when he was 19 and she was 15. A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband from Los Angeles to Northern California for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center, People magazine reported in a cover story.

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Demi Moore is hot; her potato sack of a dress is not

Paula Abdul or Bratz doll

Paris Hilton is far from ferocious in her garish cheetah-print getup. Her man's track-pants look is also a major faux pas

Not even Kylie's cute smile can keep us from being distracted by the fact that she wore pajamas in public

Former "Baywatch" babe Pamela Anderson hit the red carpet at the 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards in this pink mess of a dress. Yes, it's held together with safety pins, and no, we don't know why she wasn't booted from the fashionable fete in that faux pas

Speaking of putrid pink ensembles, Serena Williams sported this mistake to the grand-opening celebration of Philippe Chow in Los Angeles. Is it just us, or is that mini a tad short for the muscular tennis ace?

We'll give "Big Love" beauty Ginnifer Goodwin five bonus points for not frowning like she always does, but we also have to take away ten for her handkerchief and hideous handbag

Z-lister Phoebe Price will do anything for attention, including dressing up her pet pooch in a pumpkin costume, wearing a ridiculous hat, riding a gigantic rocking horse, and unsuccessfully attempting to rock ripped leggings ... all at once

Has Mandy Moore's marriage to alt-country singer Ryan Adams altered her sense of style?

Following in Mandy's footsteps was former "Martin" star Tichina Arnold, who channeled her inner Pussycat Doll when deciding to don this age-inappropriate ensemble

Apparently every day is Halloween for "Gossip Girl" Taylor Momsen

From the hair to the makeup to the dress to the stockings, Nelly Furtado got it all wrong at the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards

Not that Paulina Rubio looked any better. Seriously! What's with that garbage-bag-like frock and those futuristic hoof-like heels?

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Penelope Cruz shot a cameo in the upcoming "S.e.x & the City 2" film, OK! magazine reported this week. The Spanish beauty plays herself in a red carpet scene

Christina Hendricks has walked plenty of red carpets too, but last Sunday she walked down the aisle. The s.e.x.y secretary from "Mad Men" wed actor Geoffrey Arend

Britney Spears has walked down the aisle twice. Until this week, she'd also topped the singles chart twice, but now her new single, appropriately named "3," is her third No. 1 smash

It was a tough week for fellow pop singer Jessica Simpson. First a cartoon skit on "Fox NFL Sunday" mocked her weight, and later Simpson took to Twitter to lash out at pranksters who were reporting they'd found her missing dog. "People are so cruel," she tweeted. "Please respect her memory

While Simpson considers whether to adopt a new dog, Paris Hilton is in the process of bringing home the bacon. The tabloid queen's latest pet is a pig named Princess Pigelette. "I'm getting her in a couple weeks," she told Us magazine Tuesday. "She's still a baby, so she's with her mom, getting ready for me. She'll be a perfect addition to the family!".

Leighton Meester isn't a real socialite like Paris, but she plays one on TV. The "Gossip Girl" actress has also been branching out into singing, and on Tuesday she released a new single, "Somebody to Love," featuring Robin Thicke.

Lindsay Lohan's been down the actress/singer path as well, but these days her professional career has taken a backseat to her personal life. On Friday a judge gave Lohan another year to complete the terms of her probation that resulted from a 2007 DUI arrest

Jon Gosselin was in court this week too. On Tuesday a judge ordered the reality TV star to return $180,000 to a joint bank account with estranged wife Kate. A few days later, TLC sued the father of eight, accusing him of breach of contract.

Maybe the answer to all this Jon and Kate drama is a United Nations ambassador? Orlando Bloom was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador on Monday

While Bloom's latest role involves traveling the world to advocate for the rights of children, Megan Fox's new gig is a little more ... adult-oriented. The big-screen beauty has signed on to be an underwear model for Emporio Armani

And finally, in one of the week's most disturbing developments, "X Factor" winner Leona Lewis was punched in the head while signing copies of her autobiography in London on Wednesday. Police arrested the man and said he would be given a psychiatric assessment

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From Michael Jackson to Patrick Swayze, the entertainment world said goodbye to a number of icons this past year.

A film and television star whose career spanned seven decades, Ricardo Montalban was perhaps best known for his role as the mysterious Mr. Roarke on TV's "Fantasy Island" from 1977 to 1984. He died January 14 from congestive heart failure at the age of 88.

The daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and the wife of actor Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson was a star both on Broadway and in Hollywood, where she starred in such films as "The Parent Trap" and "Maid in Manhattan." Richardson suffered a head injury while skiing on March 16, seemed fine at first, but hours later complained of a headache and eventually died two days later from an epidural hematoma. She was 45.

Husky-voiced Emmy winner Bea Arthur rose to fame as the character Maude Findlay in the '70s sitcoms "All in the Family" and "Maude," but made her most lasting impression as Dorothy Zbornak on "The Golden Girls." Arthur died of cancer on April 25, shortly before what would've been her 87th birthday.

Comic actor Dom DeLuise rose to fame starring in Mel Brooks movies as well as Burt Reynolds vehicles such as "The Cannonball Run" and "Smokey and the Bandit II." He later hosted TV's "Candid Camera" and wrote several books on cooking. He passed away from kidney failure and respiratory complications from cancer on May 4 at the age of 75

Whether he was serving as the straight man for Johnny Carson's jokes on "The Tonight Show," introducing outtakes on "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes," or finding the next big thing on "Star Search," for decades Ed McMahon was a warm, familiar presence on Americans' televisions. McMahon died at age 86 on June 23.

One of the biggest --- symbols of the '70s, Farrah Fawcett starred in the hit TV series "Charlie's Angels," and her iconic poster extended her reach to the walls of dorm rooms and garages around the world. Once married to actor Lee Majors, she went on to have an on-again/off-again relationship with Ryan O'Neal, who was by her side when she died of cancer on June 25 at the age of 62.

Without a doubt one of the most influential and successful artists in music history, Michael Jackson had 17 #1 hits, won 13 Grammys, and sold hundreds of millions of albums. Fans around the world were shocked by news of his death on June 25, when the "King of Pop" stopped breathing and could not be resuscitated.

Actor and martial-arts expert David Carradine made a name for himself in the '70s TV series "Kung Fu" and also appeared in its '90s sequel, "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues." The veteran of more than 100 films, including "Kill Bill," was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room on June 4.

A newsman for decades, and anchor of the "CBS Evening News" for nearly 20 years, Walter Cronkite earned himself the title of "the most trusted man in America," bringing viewers definitive reports on the assassination of JFK, the space program, and the Vietnam War. Cronkite died on July 17 at the age of 92.

Filmmaker John Hughes created some of the most iconic teen movies of the '80s -- such as "Pretty in Pink," "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" -- after getting his big break by writing the screenplay for "National Lampoon's Vacation." Hughes, who retired from show business in the early '90s and became a farmer, died of cardiac arrest on August 6 at the age of 59.

Adam Michael Goldstein, aka DJ AM, emerged as a member of the rap-rock band Crazy Town and later became a frequent collaborator of Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. The pair, dubbed TRV$DJAM, toured the country and were injured in a deadly September 2008 plane crash. Goldstein was found dead from an overdose in his New York apartment on August 28. He was 36.

Actor Patrick Swayze first turned heads with roles in "The Outsiders" and "Red Dawn" before establishing himself as a romantic lead in flicks like "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing." Swayze proved he could also take on action roles, starring in the movies "Point Break" and "Road House." After a tough battle with pancreatic cancer, he died at the age of 57 on September 14.