Country music star and former American Idol winner Carrie Underwood has been getting heckled for weeks about taking on the role of Maria von Trapp in NBC’s The Sound of Music Live!. The 30-year-old singer addressed the issue of getting hate tweets from Julie Andrews fans just a few days ago, and now the real Von Trapp family is piling …

Health officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning people in Wisconsin to avoid so-called “cannibal sandwiches.” It’s an appetizer featuring raw ground beef on cocktail bread, and the occasional raw egg. “Cannibal sandwiches” are a popular Wisconsin tradition during the holiday season. Numerous people got sick with E. Coli after eating them last year. But, it’s …

Filed under: Robert Loggia , Family Guy Legendary actor Robert Loggia doesn’t just have a good sense of humor about the classic “Family Guy” about him — last night outside of Toscana in Brentwood … he recited part of it himself! Everybody loves Robert Loggia!

Recently, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio woke up early to see someone special: her youngest son, Declan, 16. “I hadn’t seen him in a couple of days,” she explains. He’s juggling high school and she’s spending afternoons and nights at the American Airlines Theater as she readies for her first Broadway work in a decade. “Let’s face it: I invited them to …

I knew that when I got the chance to talk to Steven Bauer, who plays Ray Donovan’s right hand man Avi in the new Showtime drama Ray Donovan, that there were a few topics I wanted to hit, besides his current show. One was Scarface, the movie where he played his breakout role of Manny Ribera, confidant to Al Pacino’s …

Port Authority police used Facebook to track down a Paterson teen who posted suicidal messages and photos of the George Washington Bridge on the social networking site, an agency spokesman said Wednesday. Officers moved quickly after a man alerted Paterson police to the alarming social media posts by an 18-year-old city resident Tuesday afternoon, according to police spokesman Joseph Pentangelo. …

Michelle Pfeiffer is in fantastic shape at 55, thanks to a vegan diet and cardio workouts. Pfeiffer, who runs four to six miles a day on the treadmill, recently switched to a vegan diet as part of a program to improve her overall health. Pfeiffer says reading the book “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” and seeing former president Bill Clinton …

The film that will tell the story of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is beginning to take shape. Al Pacino is attached to play Paterno in the biopic tentatively titled “Happy Valley,” and Brian De Palma will direct. Pacino and De Palma have quite a bit of history together, having teamed up for 1993’s “Carlito’s Way” and …

Members of the community gathered at Memorial University’s Faculty of Engineering in St. John’s last night for a vigil to remember the 14 women targeted and killed in the Montreal Massacre on December 6, 1989. VOCM’s Zaren Healey White reports. 24 years have passed since 14 women, 13 students and one employee, were shot to death at l’École Polytechnique in …

Recent speculation has suggested that former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who is in the running to replace Ballmer, is interested in selling the Xbox and Bing arms of the Microsoft business as he doesn’t believe they’re profitable. Speaking about the Xbox One, as reported by Geek Wire and Seeking Alpha, Ballmer said the console’s integration of Bing and SkyDrive are …

South African born Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron has paid tribute to former president Nelson Mandela who passed away on Thursday evening. At 2:07 pm today Charlize tweeted, My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in Peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever