After a fan Tweeted Justin Bieber, as a fellow Canadian, asking for his help to save lives (like hers) by promoting organ donation, he responded -- and his fans have done the same.
Over the last three months, living in a chilly tent on the roof of a vacant South Side Chicago motel, Rev. Corey Brooks kept up his vigil against gun violence. On Friday, he was triumphant after a pledge of $98,000 from filmmaker Tyler Perry provided the final push for reaching the pastor's goal of raising $450,000 to buy and demolish the decrepit motel, a haven for drugs and prostitution.
It took just 15 minutes to locate a teen who went missing five months ago in New York City, after Whoopi Goldberg broadcasted her photo and appealed for help on the ABC talk show The View.
Phyllis Diller, the first woman to make it big as a comedian, was an American pioneer. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife. She made self-deprecating jokes about her age and appearance, her terrible cooking and housekeeping, and her fictional husband named Fang. She died peacefully in her sleep, her longtime manager said, with a smile on her face. She was 95.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jessica Biel, and Samuel L. Jackson. When enough A-list Hollywood actors come together for a cause, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox networks will follow. Tomorrow night, at 8:00pm Eastern/Pacific and 7:00 Central, even cable channels will clear their schedules to broadcast a commercial-free one-hour fundraiser produced by the entertainment-industry-favorite, Stand Up to Cancer, co-founded by Katie Couric.
Superstar musicians born in the New York/New Jersey area will perform in Rockefeller Center Friday, part of a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy. New Jersey natives Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, along with Billy Joel from Long Island are joining Christina Aguilera, Sting and Jimmy Fallon for the show, to be broadcast on NBC at 8pm.
Christian Bale answered the Bat-signal this week for a 4-year-old cancer patient who wished to meet his hero. Jayden Barber wanted to meet the real Batman, so friends and family organized a Facebook page in hopes of attracting Bale's attention. The 38-year-old actor answered the call and earlier this week flew Jayden and his entire family out to Disneyland for an intimate lunch.
A plaque commemorating the woman who inspired the Beatles' hit, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, will be placed in Liverpool in memory of the woman who died in 2009 at age 46. Lucy Vodden was depicted in a painting brought home from nursery school by a young Julian Lennon, who showed it to his dad, John, and told him it was Lucy — in the sky with diamonds. Julian got back in touch with Lucy when he heard that she was battling Lupus, an auto-immune disease.
Sir Paul McCartney married U.S. businesswoman Nancy Shevell in London yesterday in a small civil ceremony at the same courthouse where he wed his first wife, Linda. Ringo Starr was one of the guests at a reception following the ceremony at McCartney's London home.
On Hugh Jackman's 43rd birthday Wednesday, the actor followed in the footsteps of Paul Newman launching a coffee, tea and chocolate company, with 100% of profits going to charity. It was the Australian actor's visit to Ethiopia with World Vision that planted the seed for the company.
When a 7-year-old learned his friend had cancer, he decded he could help raise money by racing go-karts. One of the boy's heroes, Nascar racer Jeff Gordon, heard about his campaign and decided to help.
Rocker Eddie Van Halen has donated 75 electric guitars from his personal collection to Los Angeles-area high schools as a way to inspire music in kids.
It took just 15 minutes to locate a teen who went missing five months ago in New York City, after Whoopi Goldberg broadcasted her photo and appealed for help on the ABC talk show The View.
Rock and Roll became loud when Jim Marshall, a British electrical engineer, and owner of Marshall Amplification, began producing one of the most iconic pieces of equipment in popular music from his small West London shop.
Tim McGraw will be saluting veterans in a big way while on tour this summer. The country music superstar is giving away 25 mortgage-free houses — one for each stop on his upcoming "Brothers of the Sun" tour — to wounded or needy service members.
Christian Bale, the hero in the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, on Tuesday visited victims of last week's mass shooting in a Colorado theatre where the movie was premiering.
New York Universtiy alum Alec Baldwin, whose home in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood also lost power on Tuesday, walked room-to-room lifting the spirits of students who had been evacuated from their dorms earlier that day. The 30 Rock star also had been quietly helping his neighbors, like the elderly in his building who couldn't use the stairs.
The Atlantic reported on this Twitter exchange between Star Trek star, William Shatner, and a Canadian astronaut who is currently serving on the International Space Station…
Stars from Hollywood to Virginia are pitching in with money and their time for helping New York and New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. A celebrity auction has even been launched to accept bids on exciting opportunities to rub elbows with the stars.
It was a star-studded night. After recording her new song at Rotation Records, Amy Hosmer left the studio. She was greeted by about 75 enthusiastic fans. She smiled shyly and thanked everyone for coming. Not what we'd expect from a rock star. But Amy isn't a typical star.
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