International Business News - People http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Singer-guitarist Jack White has penned a poem expressing his strong feelings for Detroit to clear up any misconceptions about how the White Stripes frontman feels about his hometown. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/white-stripes-white-pens-poem-about-detroit.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:20:43 EDT "The Bachelor" is a bachelor no more. Andrew Firestone, star of the ABC-TV reality show, married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday, Firestone's publicist Alisha Mahon told The Associated Press. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87037-people-andrew-firestone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/tvs-the-bachelor-weds-in-california.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/tvs-the-bachelor-weds-in-california.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:44:01 EDT "The Bachelor" is a bachelor no more. Andrew Firestone, star of the ABC-TV reality show, married Serbian model and actress Ivana Bozilovic Saturday, Firestone's publicist Alisha Mahon told The Associated Press. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/tvs-the-bachelor-weds-in-california.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:04:42 EDT The Emmy-winning daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin is getting her own doll. The 10-inch Bindi Irwin doll sports khakis, puffy pigtails and hiking boots, and comes with binoculars, a camera and other outback gear, as well as a cockatoo, wombat and python. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86619-people-irwin-daughter.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/crikey-crocodile-hunter-daughter-gets-own-doll.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/crikey-crocodile-hunter-daughter-gets-own-doll.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:46:12 EDT Soul diva Amy Winehouse sipped from a glass of red wine and looked a bit unsteady on her feet as she appeared in front of a large audience at the Rock in Rio music festival southeast of Madrid on Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86007-spain-music-festival.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/amy-winehouse-sings-in-spain-glass-of-win-in-hand.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/amy-winehouse-sings-in-spain-glass-of-win-in-hand.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:07:13 EDT "Crocodile Dundee" star Paul Hogan challenged Australian tax authorities Friday to track him down in the United States after a newspaper report that he was under investigation for tax evasion. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85925-australia-us-paul-hogan.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/croc-dundee-to-tax-authorities-come-and-get-me.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/croc-dundee-to-tax-authorities-come-and-get-me.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:15:51 EDT A man has sued Eminem, claiming the rapper punched him two years ago while they were in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club. The Detroit News reports Miad Jarbou of Royal Oak filed the lawsuit Thursday in Oakland County Circuit Court seeking more than $25,000 in damages. The suit claims Eminem punched him July 13, 2006, at Cheetah's On the Strip Gentlemen's Club. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85941-people-eminem.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/man-claims-assault-by-eminem-in-2006-in-detroit.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/man-claims-assault-by-eminem-in-2006-in-detroit.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:32:08 EDT A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world--each a chatty bunch--buzzing with questions about the two "friends." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85836-yankees-rodriguez.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/just-how-close-friends-are-madonna-and-a-rod.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/just-how-close-friends-are-madonna-and-a-rod.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:24:58 EDT A former accountant for Rachael Ray's TV cooking show has filed a $1 million lawsuit saying he was forced out of his job because he has an eating disorder. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85320-people-rachael-ray-accountant.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/rachael-ray-employee-claims-anorexia-bias.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/rachael-ray-employee-claims-anorexia-bias.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:26 EDT Brad Paisley says he got to mark a biggie off his wish list when Andy Griffith agreed to be in the video for his new single, "Waitin' On a Woman." "He has influenced my life more than most people that I grew up with--more than most people that I actually knew my whole life," Paisley said recently. "I wrote Andy a letter telling him what he has meant to me over the years and asked him to be in the video." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85237-people-brad-paisley-andy-griffith.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/paisley-says-working-with-griffith-a-highlight.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/paisley-says-working-with-griffith-a-highlight.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:48:38 EDT Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers. Priestley, 38, followed the group to Nashville as they sought a record deal. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85231-people-jason-priestley.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/priestley-says-music-industry-a-mess-but-works.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/priestley-says-music-industry-a-mess-but-works.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:45:15 EDT A foundation created by Steven Spielberg is giving $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History. The money from the Righteous Persons Foundation will go toward a new, five-story museum building being built in Philadelphia. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85252-people-spielberg-jewish-museum.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/spielberg-group-gives-1m-to-pa-jewish-museum.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/spielberg-group-gives-1m-to-pa-jewish-museum.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:17 EDT Will Smith usually plays the hero in his summer blockbusters. But in "Hancock," he drinks, swears, mouths off--and goes to prison. Smith's role as a superhero-gone-bad could be jarring to some moviegoers--but not his children and wife Jada Pinkett Smith. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/will-smiths-kids-see-daddy-being-mean-in-film.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:22:11 EDT Partially eclipsed by the glitterati of Cannes and the royal glare of Monaco, Nice is a place where even the brightest stars--like Brangelina--are greeted by little more than indifference. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85180-france-jolie.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/locals-indifferent-to-brangelina.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/locals-indifferent-to-brangelina.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:57:05 EDT A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world--each a chatty bunch--buzzing with questions about the two "friends." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85310-yankees-rodriguez.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/just-how-close-friends-are-madonna-and-a-rod.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/just-how-close-friends-are-madonna-and-a-rod.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:06:27 EDT Donna Summer says she approached her summer tour like a chocolate-chip cookie. The 59-year-old singer said that for the first time, she is incorporating all the music from a new album and most of her hits into the show. In the past, she's used just a few new songs, but never all of them. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85172-people-donna-summer.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/donna-summer-adds-sweet-sounds-to-summer-tour.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/donna-summer-adds-sweet-sounds-to-summer-tour.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:14:09 EDT Britain has honored Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her services to music. The 40-year-old pop star received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, from Prince Charles during a ceremony Thursday at Buckingham Palace in London. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85369-kylie-minogue.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/kylie-minogue-honored-buckingham-palace.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/kylie-minogue-honored-buckingham-palace.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:50:45 EDT Live from Newport: it's Chevy Chase. Chase, the comic actor and original cast member of "Saturday Night Live" will host the Newport Jazz Festival for the second year in a row. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/chevy-chase-to-host-newport-jazz-festival-again.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:35:16 EDT Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions. Federal judge William Terrell Hodges on Wednesday approved the actor's motion to travel to London and Bangkok, Thailand. Snipes will be in England about three days this month for post-production editing of "Gallowwalker," and in Thailand for eight weeks to film "Chasing the Dragon." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84579-people-snipes.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/judge-snipes-can-travel-abroad-for-movies.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/judge-snipes-can-travel-abroad-for-movies.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:58:13 EDT Sheryl Crow is urging people to get involved in saving America's wild horses. "I think it will be a real shame when we look back and we don't have these incredible species, and I guess my best hope would be that people, individuals, step up at this point and really protect these animals," the 46-year-old Grammy-winning singer says in an upcoming documentary, "Saving the American Wild Horse." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84481-people-sheryl-crow.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/sheryl-crow-urges-preservation-of-wild-mustangs.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/sheryl-crow-urges-preservation-of-wild-mustangs.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:59 EDT