McKagan, 46, performed a few concerts with the band, and worked on new material for its first album in seven years, but musical differences cut short his tenure.
"Hey we wanted to thank Duff for helping us write songs for our new record," the band said via email. "We love the songs ...
Sotheby's auctioneer expects the 14 works, to be sold as part of its contemporary arts sales on October 15 and 16, to fetch over 1.5 million pounds ($2.3 million).
The highlight is Freud's "Eight Months Gone," depicting Hall eight months pregnant with her fourth child Gabriel in 1997 and ...
"Allow me to apologize to you today. I was taken care of by superb doctors so I can say I have graduated from being a cancer patient but there's one small snag -- my back, which had in the past given me trouble is bad again," Ozawa told concert-goers.
Ozawa, who turned 75 last week, was ...
Klein, 31, also was sentenced to the four days he had already served in a Los Angeles jail and agreed to attend 18 months of alcohol education classes, officials said.
The actor broke into Hollywood's ranks of young actors playing a naive teenager named Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Social media" is among today's most popular catch phrases thanks to the success of, among other things, networking website Facebook -- the favored way for today's youth to communicate on a global level.
Now Facebook is the subject of what's expected to be the ...
The Australian singer, 42, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 and underwent surgery and hair-losing chemotherapy.
But Minogue, whose career began on the TV soap opera "Neighbours," returned to the stage within a year and continues to perform. She toured 21 countries last year, and ...
Irish concert promoters MCD and the O2 Arena said that despite every effort to get the band on stage on time on Wednesday night, it did not arrive until nearly 90 minutes after the support act.
During the second song, singer Axl Rose asked members of the crowd who were throwing plastic glasses ...
The 93-year-old actress remains in a great deal of pain from being bedridden for around seven weeks, said spokesman John Blanchette.
Gabor, who is as famous for her lavish lifestyle and number of husbands -- she married nine times -- as for acting, broke her hip on July 17 and had replacement ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Telluride Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies for this weekend's event, regarded as among the top U.S. movie gatherings of the year and an early highlight for Oscar hopefuls.
The festival, which takes place over four days in the ski resort town of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
Google's Andy Rubin, the ...
T.I. whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., 29, was arrested with his wife on Sunset Boulevard Wednesday night after police smelled marijuana coming from a car in which the Grammy award-winning rapper was a passenger.
He was booked for possession of a controlled substance and was released after ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Independent filmmaker Lee Daniels got a big push for his movie "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" when Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signed on as executive producers after the film's Sundance Film Festival premiere in 2009.
"Precious" ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a smaller, cheaper version of its Web-to-TV device on Wednesday, stepping up a battle with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp for control of the digital living room.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also rolled out a completely overhauled lineup of iPod media ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The soon to be ex-wife of "Frasier" star Kelsey Grammer and a pair of Paris Hilton's aunts are among the women who make up the cast of the "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."
The reality show, slated to premiere on U.S. cable network Bravo on October ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nobody ever said Hollywood relationships were easy, and the on-again off-again affair of Justin Long and Drew Barrymore certainly proves that out.
Are they still on? Are they off? This Friday, as the pair's romantic comedy "Going the Distance" debuts in theaters, ...