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  • Illustration: Playboy by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    KUHNER: Murdering Muslim porn stars

    Islamists are targeting Western Muslim porn stars. This is how far the West has fallen: The porn star versus the Koran. Sila Sahin, a daytime TV soap-opera star, has sparked a public firestorm in Germany. The 25-year-old actress appears topless on the current cover of the German edition of Playboy. By Western standards, Ms. Sahin's behavior is typical, even tame. She is an amoral celebrity hoping to cash in on her fame by baring it all. Been there, done that. Marilyn Monroe, Drew Barrymore, Daryl Hannah - the list goes on of celebrities who have posed for Playboy.


  • Baldwin, Patti Smith featured at NY poetry reading

    The night of poetry began with the verse of Emily Dickinson set to television music, peaked with a shaman-esque chant by Patti Smith and ended with Alec Baldwin making good on his college English studies with a flawless recital of Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee."


  • FILE - Actress Elizabeth Taylor poses as Queen Cleopatra in this photo from Joseph L. Mankiewiez' 1963 film, "Cleopatra". Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the old-fashioned movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at age 79. (AP Photo/File)

    Quintessential star Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79

    Elizabeth Taylor, screen goddess, was born in 1951's "A Place in the Sun," when she cooed into Montgomery Clift's ear, "You'll be my pickup."


  • FILE - A Jan. 6, 1953 file photo shows one of the first pictures of Elizabeth Taylor with son Michael Howard Wilding, son of Taylor and English actor Michael Wilding. Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday, March 23, 2011 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure at age 79. (AP Photo, File)

    Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79 in LA

    Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the classic movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.


  • ** FILE ** Elizabeth Taylor, pictured in 1999, died Wednesday at age 79. (AP Photo/Dave Thomson, File)

    Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies

    Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life, and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the classic movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79.


  • Charlie Sheen

    SIMMONS: Sheen watchers enable sick man

    Through a glass, briefly, Charlie Sheen. I know, I know. Some of you aren't interested, and I can dig it. But here's a guy who is tossing his blessings into the toilet — and his illness is hiding that fact.


  • Jane Russell performs at the Radisson Hotel in Santa Maria, Calif., in 2005. Miss Russell, the stunning star of films in the 1940s and 1950s, died Monday at age 89. (Associated Press/The Santa Maria Times, Aaron Lambert)

    Film star Jane Russell dies at age 89

    She was the voluptuous pinup girl who set a million male hearts to pounding during World War II, the favorite movie star of a generation of young men long before she'd made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen.


  • FILE - In this Feb. 1, 1974 file photo, actress Jane Russell, right, poses for pictures with her husband, John Peoples, at their wedding reception in Santa Barbara, Calif. A family member on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 said Russell, stunning star of 1940s and 1950s films, has died at age 89. (AP File Photo)

    Jane Russell, star of '40s and '50s films, dies

    She was the voluptuous pin-up girl who set a million male hearts to pounding during World War II, the favorite movie star of a generation of young men long before she'd made a movie more than a handful of them had ever seen.


  • Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan, left, followed by Miss Nevada Cris Crotz and Miss New Hampshire, Krystal Lee Muccioli walk in the "Show Us Your Shoes" parade as part of this week's Miss America festivities Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

    Miss America contestants show their shoes in Vegas

    With intricate beading and down-home charm, 53 Miss America contestants strutted outside a Las Vegas Strip casino Friday to show off shoes decorated for their native states.


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