Blues Legend Johnny Winter passes away at 70

 Blues Legend Johnny Winter, who began his music career as a teenager has died at the age of 70, it has been revealed.

Motley Crue rocker Nikki Sixx posted on Twitter that he was so bummed to hear about Winters passing and he spent many years soaking up his music late into the night, Contactmusic reported.

Beyonce gets 8 nominations at MTV Music Video Awards

On Thursday, it was announced that Beyonce acquired eight nominations. She leads the world for the MTV Music Awards.

Beyonce is the only one nominated up on the rap guy Eminem and Iggy Azalea, the controversial Aussie street-talker. Each of them got 7 nominations. Pharrell Williams also got a few for the song ‘Happy’. He got two for best video for Happy and Sing. The others who were nominated are Pitbull, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Imagine Dragons, Jason Derulo, Wiz Khalifa, Kanye West, the Black Eyes, Lorde, Linkin Park and Arctic Monkey.

Cory Monteith's Mother Opens Up About Son's Death For The First Time

In an interview with Good Morning America, Cory Monteith's mother opened up about her son's death for the first time, calling the loss "horrendous."

The untimely death of "Glee" star Cory Monteith broke the hearts of many, especially his mother Ann McGregor and girlfriend Lea Michele. While Michele has been very vocal about how she's been coping with the loss, Monteith's mother didn't publicly address the incident. Now, more than a year after his passing, McGregor finally opened up about her son's death in an interview with Good Morning America.

'Purge' sequel provides requisite thrills

LOS ANGELES — There's a lot more purging going on in this inevitable sequel to last summer's surprise horror hit "The Purge." Expanding the parameters of the low-budget original by taking the action literally out into the streets, "The Purge: Anarchy" efficiently exploits its high-concept premise while delivering far more visceral thrills than its predecessor. Like it or not, a new franchise seems to have been born.

Set 10 years in the future, the film written and directed by James DeMonaco (repeating his chores from the original) again takes place during the annual Purge, a government-sanctioned 12-hour period in which ordinary citizens are allowed to commit heinous crimes with no fear of punishment. Created as a way to allow people to indulge their basest instincts so as to keep the crime rate down the rest of the year, participants are urged to "have a good cleanse" while those seeking shelter from the nihilistic mayhem are constantly advising each other to "stay safe."

Charlie Sheen 'hammered' while greeting fans at Taco Bell drive-thru

The 48-year-old actor slurred his words when he stopped to talk to fans at the fast food joint’s drive-thru window.

Sometimes a late night Taco Bell run can turn into this.

Charlie Sheen was caught on camera by a fan while at the fast food joint's drive-thru in a video that went viral Wednesday.

Jennifer Aniston on Fiancé Justin Theroux: ‘He’s Just So Beautiful and Handsome’

Jennifer Aniston has nothing but good words for his fiancé Justin Theroux during a dinner at Sunset Tower Hotel's Tower Bar in Los Angeles Tuesday night, July 15, to celebrate the actor's appearance on the cover of Details magazine's August issue.

"I commend him for his courage. This is not normal for him," the 45-year-old actress told Women's Wear Daily about Theroux. "He's so graceful and utterly kind and golden."

Weird Al's 'Tacky' Comeback

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King of the song spoofs is at it again, parodying some this year's biggest hits in a new project.

Scott Disick: Hospitalized For Alcohol Poisoning Before Kourtney Ultimatum!

 According to recent reports, Scott Disick has quit drinking in order to save his relationship with Kourtney Kardashian.

Well, it looks as though we now know the event that triggered Kourtney's ultimatum. TMZ reports that Disick was hospitalized last month after binge drinking so heavily that he suffered from alcohol poisoning.

 Scott was reportedly so messed up when he arrived at the Southampton ER that his friends believed he'd been drugged.

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield enjoy rare PDA at premiere

They're one of Hollywood's most adored couples, but Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield never play up for the cameras.

The loved-up couple, who have been together since first meeting on the set of The Amazing Spider Man in 2011, were glued at the hip for last night's premiere of Magic in the Moonlight in New York.

Emma (25) opted for a high neck vintage style floral dress, while her other half debuted his new scruffy beard.

'The Mockingbird Next Door,' by Marja Mills

The Mockingbird Next Door

Life With Harper Lee

By Marja Mills

(The Penguin Press; 278 pages; $27.95)

In 1964, when Harper Lee was still issuing public statements, she told an interviewer: "All I want is to be the Jane Austen of south Alabama." Lee turned out, instead, to be the J.D. Salinger of Alabama, a one-shot novelist who spurned celebrity. Austen wrote six novels (two of which were published posthumously), but Lee completed only one, though that solitary novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," won the Pulitzer Prize, sold more than 40 million copies, and remains one of the most beloved novels of the 20th century.

'Wish I Was Here,' Zach Braff's Kickstarter movie, arrives in theaters

"WISH I Was Here" is a Kickstarter comedy about a guy who needs a good swift kick-start in the rear.

Zach Braff raised $3.5 million from online donors to fund the movie, the story of Aidan Bloom (Braff) - a jobless, rather shiftless young father who pursues his dream of being an actor thanks to the subsidy of his hardworking wife (Kate Hudson), as his disapproving dad (Mandy Patinkin) looks on.

Cory Monteith's Mother on Lea Michele: 'I Know Her Pain'

A year after Cory Monteith's death, his mother says she is still grappling with the tragedy – and finding support through Lea Michele.

"Until three days ago, I couldn't look at a picture of Cory," Ann McGregor told ABC News in an interview that aired Thursday. "So there's been progress."

MTV VMAs nominations: Beyonce, Eminem and Iggy Azalea lead 2014 shortlist

Beyoncé has picked up the most nominations ahead of this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, with Eminem and Iggy Azalea on her tail with seven nods.

The rapper is up for Best Hip-Hop, Best Male and Best Collaboration (with Rihanna on “The Monster"), while the “Fancy” singer is shortlisted for Video of the Year, Best Female and Best Pop.

Ron Howard to Direct Documentary on Beatles’ Performing History

Having presented a sweeping autobiography of sorts in “The Beatles Anthology,” nearly 20 years ago, Apple, the Beatles’ company, is returning to its archives. The company announced Wednesday that it will produce a new documentary focused on the band’s touring years. The film, which is as yet untitled, will be a collaboration between Apple, White Horse Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, and will be directed by Ron Howard.

“I am excited and honored to be working with Apple and the White Horse team on this astounding story of these four young men who stormed the world in 1964,” Mr. Howard said in a statement. “Their impact on popular culture and the human experience cannot be exaggerated.”

7 times militaries have shot down civilian planes

US intelligence reports that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down, making it one of the highest-casualty airliner shoot-downs in the history of aviation. But it's hardly the first. Events like this — though usually much smaller in scale — have occurred about two dozen times. Many instances were part of ongoing wars, such as Nazi Germany's shoot-down of a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight from Lisbon to London in 1943, or Zimbabwean rebels' shoot-downs of two Air Rhodesia flights in 1978 and 1979.

But in those cases, the countries involved were at war with each other. In contrast, Flight 17 was going from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, and neither the Netherlands nor Malaysia have much of any involvement in the Ukrainian civil war. And the death toll — there were 295 crew and passengers, and, to the best of our knowledge, no survivors — is extremely high.

Jason Biggs stirs controversy over Malaysia Airlines tweet

(CNN) -- For most of the day, Jason Biggs wasn't letting the Twitterverse judge whether his sarcastic quip about the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash was funny.

The "Orange is the New Black" actor stirred a Twitter storm after news reports confirmed that a Boeing 777 crashed in Ukraine with almost 300 people on board. Biggs joked, "Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?"

The backlash came quickly with some saying the remark was too soon, and the event too sensitive, to joke about.