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Oscar winning star Joan Crawford died on this date in 1977. She made a name for herself as a flapper in the 1920's, then starred in the '30's, during The Great Depression, in rags-to-riches stories of hard working young women finding love. "Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?" - Joan Crawford No need to say more.

VINTON, Iowa -- It's one thing for Hillary Clinton's campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate's daughter, Chelsea. But can't a 9-year old reporter catch a break? Sydney Rieckoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response. "Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Rieckoff asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside. "I'm...

NEW YORK - Like any expectant mother, Kai Walter, six months pregnant, has lots to get done before the big day. One of her most important errands: an upcoming trip to the West Coast, where she has an appointment to take off her clothes and be photographed. Not for some magazine cover, a la Demi Moore, but for her own personal collection of pregnancy memories. The idea is to artistically capture her blossoming belly in all its glory, something more and more women are doing these days. Or they might be making a plaster "belly cast" of their changing form....

NEW YORK: The would be pop star niece of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has signed on for a reality television show about her attempts to break into the music industry. Wafah Dufour, a US citizen who lives in New York, inked the deal for the as yet untitled series with producer Judith Regan, whose previous credits include the mafia reality show “Growing Up Gotti.” “Wafah is a beautiful and talented singer who, like so many twenty-somethings, has a dream to make it in the music business,” Regan said in a statement Friday. Dufour, who was born Wafah Bin...

Less than a month ago, I saw a picture that compared Michael J with Joan Crawford posted on a FR thread. We have been debating whether or not he trying to look like her on purpose.. If anyone has a copy, or knows where it is..will you please let me know! Thank you so much!