When news broke early yesterday that Corey Haim had died at the age of 38, a predictable thing happened. His name became a hotly searched keyword on Google, and over on Twitter, topics like "Lost Boys" and "RIP Corey Haim" were suddenly trending in a big way.

As a result, media outlets ranging from CNN to MTV to TMZ (not to mention The Washington Post) scrambled to post details and tributes.

It's hardly the first time that the passing of a less-than-major movie star has yielded this kind of response. In recent weeks and months, everyone from Andrew Koenig to Brittany Murphy to alleged Tila-Tequila fiancee Casey Johnson has generated news coverage, primarily on the Web, that even five years ago was unheard of. As Liz wrote not too long ago in this very blog, death seems like the new guaranteed attention-getter: a tragic event that grabs the media spotlight and makes former (or even never-really-been) celebs a sudden focus of attention.

So why are news organizations suddenly covering these incidents with, in some cases, the same fervor once reserved for plane crashes and political bombshells? One major reason should be obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of the Internet: Web traffic.

When everyone suddenly rushes to Google to verify that the kid they so adored in "Lucas" or Tai from "Clueless" really has passed away, every news organization wants to be there to capture those clicks. Why? Because high page views are just like TV ratings: they give media organizations bragging rights, as well as the potential to bring in more ad revenue.

And since the beginning of time, has there been a newspaper, magazine, broadcast network or Web site that doesn't want to beat its competition to the latest big story? Exactly.

Of course, the natural follow-up question is, doesn't this amount to the equivalent of pandering to your audience? The answer, in my opinion: sometimes yes. In the quest for page views, sometimes journalists toss something up on the 'ol Web wall to make sure something, anything, sticks with readers.

But I'd also argue that thanks to the Web and the increasing number of entertainment news blogs (like this one)-- and all the myriad ways it allows us to gauge what readers are reading (or want to be reading) -- we're more in touch with our audience than we've ever been. Let's say Corey Haim had died five years ago. Would people who are interested in pop culture, in their 20s or 30s and, like (ahem) the writers of this blog, one-time avid fans of "The Lost Boys," have been just as interested in reading about his sad demise?

I'd say yes. But would your New York Times or Washington Post have written about it? I'm guessing not, because an editor -- perhaps one of an older generation -- would have said, "Eh, no one cares about Corey Haim."

Well, people do care and I would argue that they always have. (Shocking Hollywood deaths are as old as celluloid itself, after all.) But now the Internet, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, is forcing news organizations to take notice.

Readers, what do you think? Do we over-cover the passing of the famous and semi-famous, or do we handle it appropriately?

Los Angeles: Howard Stern Tiger Woods beauty pageant: HLaura Donna Tiger Woods. Jamie Jungers Tiger Woods is a hot selling item. He will always remain in the news when he is not seen or heard. Speculations will continue to mount over whatever he does, or doesn’t.
So ever since that small and insignificant accident close to his palatial home a couple of months he is under a continuous attack of the media, sportspersons and all else.

He is sort of a punching bag and whoever wants to say anything about him, he writes it with so much authority that it feels like he is the first person in the chain to write about him.

Though this man or woman might have never ever shook Tiger Woods hands nor even might have seen in person.

I was appalled to hear the reports of Tiger Woods Mistress beauty show where women who had illegitimate sexual relationship with him and slept with him illegally would walk the ramp.

The funeral service for Michael Bryan, son of singer Marie Osmond, was laid to rest in Provo, Utah yesterday. Over 400 people, mostly friends and family members, attended the service. Members of the Osmond family participated in the service, with Marie’s brother Donnie doing the invocation. Marie Osmond’s son committed suicide on February 26th in Los Angeles, by jumping out of his apartment’s window. He is believed to have been suffering from depression. A note was later recovered by the police.

PROVO, Utah - Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son is being remembered by family and friends as a funny person, a gifted musician, athlete and a peacemaker who taught others the importance of giving. Services were held at noon Monday for Michael Bryan, the fourth of Osmond's eight children, at a chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Provo. Police said Bryan died Feb. 26 in an apparent suicide after jumping from the eighth floor of an apartment building in Los Angeles.

About 450 people attended the services, where LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson presided and gave the closing remarks. The funeral began with an invocation by Donny Osmond and family members followed by sharing their memories of Bryan. The service also included a hymn sung by Marie and Donny Osmond as well as five of their siblings.

"It's overwhelming how much Michael was a part of a lot of people's lives and how he brings people together, even now," said Bryan's uncle, Jimmy Osmond. "He was always a peacemaker. He was a wonderful boy."

In addition, Bryan's brother, Steven Craig, Marie Osmond's son from her first marriage, performed a song he wrote after his grandfather passed away two years ago.

"We used to sit down together and sing together and we used to write together and so it was a great experience and opportunity to express my love for him," Craig said.

Bryan was one of five children adopted by Osmond. He legally changed his last name from Blosil, the name of his adoptive father, to Bryan, according to records from Utah's 4th District Court.

Authorities are still waiting the results for autopsy and toxicology tests to determine the official cause of death and whether drugs or alcohol played a role.

Police also said he left a note in his apartment, but have not yet released the details of its contents. Bryan was a first-year apparel manufacturing student at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.

Osmond said her son entered rehabiliation services in 2007, but did not say what he was being treated for.

Her portrayal of famous Leigh Ann Tuohy in ‘The Blind Side’ enabled Sandra Bullock take home an Oscar in the category of Best Actress.
Actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin took stage to start the proceedings at Kodak Theater Hollywood and the Los Angeles California crowds welcomed the duo with wonderful round of applaud. The night observed various Hollywood stars both males and females receiving their Oscars and delivering their respective acceptance speeches.
The big winner of the night was none other than the daughter of an Alabama-German couple 45 years of age Sandra Annettee Bullock. Her father John W. Bullock is from Alabama whereas Helga D. Meyer an opera singer belongs to Germany. Born in Arlington, Virginia Sandra Bullock graced the red carpet on March 7, 2010 wearing a magnificent silver gown when she took stage to receive the honor.
Ever-witty and funny Sandra brought smiles on the faces of everyone present on the graceful occasion even with her opening sentence when she stated: “Did I finally wear all of you down, or did I really earn the Award deservingly?” However, by all means, it was best among the evening’s acceptance speeches, indeed.
She expressed due praise for the fellow nominees and then taking advantage of the opportunity, she also amused the audiences by a lighthearted jab she had at Meryl Streep sitting at a distance of few feet, titled Streep as her ‘lover’ and ‘great kisser.’ The reference she made was a January 2010 incident at Critics’ Choice Awards whereby Bullock had Meryl Streep in a lip-lock and the kiss got lot of media attention lately.
To continue with her speech, Sandra stated “I thank all the good and all the mean people to me such as George Clooney who kind drowned me in a pool some times in past’ and that ‘I still have a grudge about the same.” Then she talked further and in a serious tone stated that she would like to thank ‘The Blind Side’ and especially her mother for making her learn there’s no religion, class system and no race or no color etc.

When I found myself in the American Southeast for a few years after giving up on college, one of the ways of making myself feel as though I kind of belonged was to immerse myself in the music.

Even early on, Mark Linkous’ albums as Sparklehorse held far more pull for me than other Americana artists. His approach to music was innovative, to be sure, but also desperately and distinctly melancholy. Love songs, as love itself so often is, were immersed in confusion, loneliness and despair. Even the ostensibly happy ones.

I didn’t know Linkous, though I met him once and found him to be an absolutely lovely man. He signed a poster, “Best Witches, Mark Linkous.” And now, according to a Rolling Stone report, he’s committed suicide. Even those among us who didn’t know him except through his music, maybe we’re shocked and not at all surprised. That’s what Linkous was always best at, evoking emotions along a wide spectrum, giving us nothing and everything to hold on to.

Everyone who loves anyone has their favorite song or album. With Sparklehorse, there was a lot to love, from Linkous’ debut vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot through his Dark Night of the Soul collaboration with Danger Mouse, which just this week was finally given the green light by EMI after leaking last year. My personal favorite was Good Morning Spider, though I thought maybe today the pair of songs which opened It’s a Wonderful Life were the way to go. The title track is almost unbearably sad, especially if taken at face value with the news of Linkous’ suicide still shaking music fans at their core. The second, “Gold Day”, is as uplifting as any music I’ve ever heard. And that’s kind of how I’d like to remember Mark Linkous, lovely and lonely and capable of such incredible beauty it’s impossible to remember what life was like before his music touched you.

George Gershwin an American composer and pianist who wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows and the classical music hall with collaboration of with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. Many musicians have recorded Gershwin songs, He took jazz, Broadway and the musical cultures of both America and Europe, and fused them into something unique and very difficult to imitate. As a creature of his time and a person somewhat out of step with his time, he probably has something in common with Spielberg’s better lead characters: Frank Abignale, early ’60s misfit; Indiana Jones, ’30s weirdo. And not to psychoanalyze too much, but you’ve got to wonder if Spielberg thinks he has some kind of kinship with Gershwin, who also became incredibly successful incredibly young.

George Gershwin fell into coma at the age of 38 he past away due to the brain tumor. Even though the White House help to search for a prominent surgeon a few hours later George died.
“One of the many tragedies of his early death was he was still learning and moving into more of a classical area with things like ‘Porgy and Bess’ and ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ but he was taking lessons in classical orchestration,” said John Mueller, a political science professor at Ohio State University who wrote a script for a Gershwin musical comedy called “A Foggy Day” that finally reached the stage in the late 1990s.

“He was working to improve that,” Mueller said of Gershwin’s classical bent. “The talent was certainly there, and he had the drive and ambition to do it. He may have proved to be the best American classical composer of all time if he’d lived on.”

ugenia Chernyshova and Quentin Tarantino were seen out in LA last night bumpin' and grinding in LA. The model and director were looking mighty cozy as they danced the night away, according to TMZ.
Though the director has been linked with plenty of leading ladies, like Mira Sorvino, Julie Dreyfuss, and Kathy Griffin, he's never been married and doesn't have any little ones. He said (via ContactMusic.com): "I'm not saying that I'll never get married or have a kid before I'm 60. But I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time to make movies.

He was apparently in a relationship with an unknown woman a few years ago, but things didn't work out. Tarantino said it was ultimately for the best. He said: "If (his recent romance) had happened, I wouldn't have made Inglourious Basterds. Or I wouldn't have made it with the same intensity. And it wouldn't be finished now. "

PHOTO! Here is a picture of Alejandra Jackson, Randy and Jaffar Jackson’s mother. Alejandra Jackson’s pic as Jermaine Jackson’s ex wife first was covered on LALATE in 2007.

Then, Jermaine Jackson claimed he was broke, with no income, and no employment, unable to support Alejandra and pay support for Jaffar.

In a declaration filed in divorce court in 2007, Jermaine Jackson said he shouldn’t be forced to pay spousal support because “I currently do not have any employment” and “I do not have any income from which to pay support.”

Alejandra also claimed her pockets were empty. Her declarations as reported by LALATE then stated that she was broke and not getting any spousal support, that she and her kids are still living with Jackson’s mom.

Reports say as of this week they still are.

So how many kids does Jermaine have? Reportedly 8 total!

(Ages as of 2007 were the following:) Jermaine and this Alejandra have two sons, Jaffar, 11, and Jermajesty, 6, together. Alejandra also has two teenage children Randy Jackson —Genevieve, 17, and Randy Jr., 14.

“Occasionally and not consistently Mrs. Jackson will give me a couple hundred dollars for food or other expenses I need,” Alejandra stated in court documents, referring to mother-in-law Katherine Jackson.

“I do not object to an appropriate level of child support,” said Jermaine. “However, the reality is that [Alejandra] has knowingly misled this court into believing that I have income which I do not. I currently do not have any employment…

“Thus I find myself in a Catch-22 situation where while I need money, I also need to be very cognizant of what employment I do undertake so as not to degrade my market value and ability to obtain legitimate work in the future. Unfortunately (and sadly), this troubling situation is very common in the entertainment industry.”

Contrary to an early report on Wednesday morning, the Bruins are still trying to work out a deal with the Carolina Hurricanes to bring Ray Whitney to Boston, according to a source.
The hang-up still seems to be Whitney's desire for an extension with any team that acquires him. The 37-year-old (who will be 38 by the end of the playoffs) has reportedly been looking for a two- or three-year extension.
The Bruins could be trying to negotiate a package for Whitney and defenseman Joe Corvo.