Legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards can add one more item to his list of rock-star excesses: killing a library plant. A delicate orchid at the New York Public Library’s main branch died a few days after an encounter with the bad seed, staff said Wednesday. Marie d’Origny, deputy director of the library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, said the saucy Brit borrowed her office before he gave an Oct. 29 talk ... Jump to full article >>

Kim Zolciak may be pregnant, but it’s unclear how many prenatal education classes she’s taken so far. According to TMZ.com, the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member was photographed smoking just two weeks before announcing she was three-months pregnant – a big no-no for mommies-to-be. Zolciak, who is expecting a child with NFL star Kroy Biermann, was reportedly spotted puffing away on Nov. 7 outside the Georgia Dome ... Jump to full article >>

Demanding immediate removal of all posters showing Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan smoking a cigarette in the film ‘Guzaarish’, resident doctors working in public hospitals today wore black bands as mark of protest. The young doctors also demanded that the smoking scene in the film that was released on Friday be removed immediately. “We are in the process of writing letters to the Information and Broadcasting and Health ... Jump to full article >>

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish has run into a controversy ahead of its release, with an NGO taking objection to posters displayed across Mumbai, showing actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan smoking. National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) has threatened legal action against Aishwarya and the producer-director. “The innumerable posters and banners of film Guzaarish displayed all over Mumbai shows Bollywood icon Aishwarya Ra ... Jump to full article >>

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Gerald “Jerry” Long, who served as chairman and chief executive of the second-largest U.S. cigarette company in the 1980s, has died. He was 82. Long died in Winston-Salem on Wednesday. His wife, Marieanne Long, said he died of Lewy Body dementia, a brain disease that closely resembles Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Long held top executive positions at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in Winston-Salem from ... Jump to full article >>

It is 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time in the New York office of Keith Richards’s manager, a place that might look ordinary if every wall and shelf were not crammed with some of the world’s most glorious rock ’n’ roll memorabilia. Mr. Richards has a 3 o’clock appointment. “Come on in, he’ll be here in a minute,” an assistant says — and here he comes in a minute, at 3:01. This from a man who once prided himself for operating on Keit ... Jump to full article >>

A middle-aged man in a neon orange polo shirt and baggy blue gym shorts sat at a conference table in West Hollywood one recent afternoon interviewing a prospective ghostwriter. “It’s called ‘Redemption,’” said Aaron Tonken, the man with the story to tell. “It’s going to be big.” When Tonken was marched off to federal prison six years ago in a charity fraud scandal that embarrassed a slew of A-list ... Jump to full article >>

When Keith Hern saw the pictures of Hollywood actor Michael Douglas looking gaunt following his throat cancer diagnosis, the painful memories of his own battle with the disease flooded back. He knows what the star can expect to go through as three years ago Keith was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease – and he’s since beaten it twice. ‘It’s not going to be an easy battle. I underwent months of invasive chemo ... Jump to full article >>

LAST week it was announced that Michael Douglas has cancer. Lesley-Ann Jones believes his greatest allies as he fights the disease are his feisty wife Catherine and tough-guy father Kirk However good the Hollywood superstar’s cancer prognosis, however optimistic his specialists that he has what it takes to survive, what Michael Douglas has felt every day since his throat tumour diagnosis are the most basic of human instincts: fear and dread. D ... Jump to full article >>

Georgia May Jagger surprises and delights fashion aficionados with her perfect manners. While the daughters of rock royalty have a reputation for taking on their parents’ hell-raising antics, Georgia May Jagger is making a name for herself as the new darling of the catwalk with her polite charm. Lady (Amanda) Harlech, muse to Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, told me at a party at the Royal College of Art: “What struck me about Georgia ... Jump to full article >>