Bieber wins, loses a fan
Rep. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) has contracted, but speedily kicked, a situation of Bieber fever. Throughout a latest interview with Rolling Stone, singer Justin Bieber, a native of Ontario, came out in favor of health-care reform. “Canada’s the most beneficial country inside the planet. We go to the physician and we don’t need to be concerned about having to pay him, but here, your whole existence, you’re broke because of health care charges,” he told the magazine. On Thursday afternoon, Murphy study the quote on the web and tweeted his approval, posting a website link to Bieber’s comments. Moments later on, Murphy recanted. “Oh wait . . . just heard what Biebs stated about abortion,” the congressman tweeted, referring towards the immaculately coiffed 16-year-old’s pro-life stance. “Ugh. #bieberfevercured.”
Even in death, Jackson earns
The King of Pop may be gone, but his portfolio lives on. Court documents exhibit that Michael Jackson’s estate has earned additional than $310 million because he died in 2009, the Connected Press reports. At the time of his demise, the singer was in the hole for additional than $400 million; his estate’s administrators have utilised $159 million to pay down that debt. Noteworthy expenses included a $900,000 payment to Forest Lawn Memorial Park, the cemetery where Jackson’s body is interred, and $35,000 in expenses listed as “costume for memorial.”
‘The Help’ author faces lawsuit
Writer Kathryn Stockett has sold a lot more than 2.two million copies of her best-selling e-book, “The Aid.” Now the assist desires its share. Ablene Cooper – a babysitter employed by Stockett’s older brother and sister-in-law – claims to possess been the basis for that book’s central character, Aibileen, the Wall Road Journal studies. Cooper has filed a lawsuit alleging that the author appropriated her image without her consent and is also seeking $75,000 in damages. Does Cooper resemble the character that she says is her literary counterpart? According to the lawsuit, within the book, Aibileen can be a middle-aged African American lady that has a gold tooth and whose son has died – all details that match Cooper. In interviews, Stockett has stated the plot and characters are fictitious.
