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Nearly 50 years after Charles Manson’s followers brutally murdered nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, her husband Roman Polanski still hasn’t made a visit his late wife and child’s graves.

After Manson’s death Sunday at the age of 83, Polanski’s lawyer Harland Braun tells People the director still longs to visit his wife and child’s burial plots in Los Angeles. The Oscar winner has not returned to the United States since fleeing the country in 1978 after he pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old.

“It is a very painful thing because Sharon and his son are...

A 20-year-old American college student died in Myanmar after she was gravely injured by a fall while visiting an ancient religious city.

Kassandra Braun, from Fishers, Indiana, fell to her death on Tuesday while on independent travel to Bagan, an ancient city in Myanmar that is home to Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries. She was touring the country as a participant of the Semester at Sea program.

The junior at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, died from her injuries while in an ambulance en route to Mandalay General Hospital, the program said in a statement.

“We are deeply...

Lois Laurel Hawes, the only daughter of famed comedian Stan Laurel, has died. She was 89.

Hawes died Friday after a long illness at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Calif., family spokesman Tyler St. Mark announced.

She was married to actor Rand Brooks — who played Scarlett O'Hara's first husband, Charles, in Gone with the Wind and sidekick Lucky Jenkins in a series of Hopalong Cassidy films — and then to writer-actor Tony Hawes.

Her mother was the first of Laurel's four wives, silent-movie actress Lois Neilson. Her brother, also named Stanley, died nine days after his...

On January 3rd, 1970, the frozen, decomposing body of Sister Catherine Cesnik was found lying in a field near a garbage dump in the Baltimore County suburb of Landsdowne, Maryland. The 26-year-old had disappeared the previous November, when she went out one evening to buy her sister an engagement present and never came home. Her car was found late that night, parked a few blocks away from her home and at an odd angle, leading investigators to suspect that her killer was someone she knew and who knew where she lived.

The remains of a notorious 19th-century serial killer — who was the subject of Erik Larson’s 2003 bestselling book, The Devil in the White City — are being exhumed to finally dispel the rumor that the killer conned his way into having another prisoner executed in his place.

Dr. H. H. Holmes was hanged in 1896 in Philadelphia for murdering his business partner, but it’s believed he killed many more.

Just before his execution, the once-respected pharmacist turned con artist, who was born Herman Webster Mudgett, confessed to killing at least 27 people, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The dead included his son,...

Game of Thrones actor Neil Fingleton, who played the towering Mag the Mighty on the HBO drama, died Saturday in the UK of heart failure. He was 36.

The 7’7″ Fingleton, who held the title of tallest British-born man in the world, played basketball in college (at both the University of North Carolina and Holy Cross) and professionally before transitioning into acting.

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Additional TV credits included playing The Fisher King on Doctor Who. On the big screen, he appeared in 47 Ronin, Jupiter Ascending, X-Men: First Class and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Fingleton was featured...

"Game of Thrones" star Neil Fingleton has died from heart failure. The 7'7" actor died Saturday in the UK.   Fingleton was a basketball player both in college and professionally before becoming an actor.  He played in college for both University of North Carolina and Holy Cross.  He played professionally in Spain, China, Italy, Greece and England. Fingleton played Mag the Mighty on the hit show.  He also appeared on "Dr. Who," and in "X-Men: First Class...

Roman Polanski will make a move next week to return to the U.S. and end his child rape case for good, without serving additional jail time. Polanski's famed lawyer, Harland Braun, has asked an L.A. County Superior Court judge to unseal a long-secret transcript of the testimony of the prosecutor in the Polanski case. Braun believes the secret testimony supports Polanski's claim that he cut a deal to serve only 48 days behind bars...

A 22-year-old Chicago man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly beating and stomping a 21-month-old baby to death, People confirms.

A police statement obtained by People identifies the alleged killer as Uriel Vega, who has been charged with one count of first-degree murder for the death of Raiylana Vasquez.

Police have yet to comment on a possible motive.

Vega — who is the child’s mother’s boyfriend, but not Raiylana’s father — was minding the child at the time of her death, according to police.

Police officers were called to the home Vega shares with the girl’s mother just before 11:30 a.

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A California man allegedly killed his mother by pushing her out the window and stomping on her following an argument, People confirms.

Police say they were called to the 7400 block of Hazeltine Avenue in Van Nuys, California, early Monday morning after neighbors heard a loud argument, allegedly between Carlota Vargas, 70, and her 40-year-old son, Fernando Vargas.

When officers arrived they found Carlota lying on the ground in front of their apartment complex suffering from injuries to her face. Fernando was also at scene and appeared to be suffering a leg injury, according...

Buck Kartalian, a former bodybuilder who went on to play Julius, the gorilla who harassed Charlton Heston's character in Planet of the Apes, died Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 93. He died of natural causes at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California, his son, Jason Kartalian, told the trade. Kartalian gained fame in 1968 when he was cast as Julius in the science-fiction film, the cigar-smoking gorilla in charge of security at the Research Complex for studying humans. He memorably uttered the line, "You know what they say: 'Human see, human do.' " He was...

Two Holy Cross football coaches just turned a regular practice into an all-out pro wrestling styled War ... reenacting the epic SummerSlam match for their team. The combatants? A linebackers coach and a tight ends coach in the roles of Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker. Our friends over at Bso reposted this move-for-move portrayal of the bout ... filled with all the chest slaps and chokeslams of the original. If this doesn't get Holy Cross players fired...

Los Angeles' Bendix Building. Photo by Jordan Cronk.The bats have left the bell towerThe victims have been bled Red velvet lines the black boxBela Lugosi's dead —BauhausBela-Bonkers Brit Bloke Brazenly Boosts Bendix-Building Black Bandana!In the annals of Los Angeles crime, it was hardly an episode to titillate James Ellroy. Was it even really a crime? I was on the short stairwell that connects the 11th—the top—floor of the Bendix Building, a Garment District block on the corner of Maple St and 12th St, when I spotted the square of white-patterned black cotton. Into my pocket it rapidly went, compensation for the fact that my quest for rooftop access had been stymied. An orange plastic sign across the door up ahead, warning (bluffing?) of alarms that would ring out if opened, dissuaded further progress. I wasn't too disheartened—my unplanned visit to the Bendix Building had yielded sufficient delights.

Chris Lilley's highly-anticipated comedy series Jonah from Tonga will be made available in full on BBC iPlayer in the style of Netflix's House of Cards.

All six episodes will be online before the show airs on BBC Three, meaning that viewers can binge on the full series in one go. The episodes will go online for 48 hours on Friday, May 2.

The show is being released at the same time in Australia on ABC's iview service.

Jonah from Tonga is the second spinoff from Lilley's cult hit Summer Heights High. The first, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, aired earlier this year on BBC Three.

Speaking about the decision to release the show in one go, Lilley said: "It's a really addictive show, so giving people the chance to watch the whole thing all at once is really exciting for me."

The preview for the spinoff teases:

Jonah from Tonga takes us...

If you thought the decorations at Thailand's White Temple were awesomely out of place, which include a zombie death pit and even a Predator, then you're surely going to love this insanely cool-looking jungle gym, which believe it or not resides in the backyard of a church!

As we spotted over on the Tumblr blog Kanye Western Front, this macabre play area is located on the same grounds as Germany's Holy Cross Church, which was built way back in 1885. Despite doing as much research as my computer could handle, I wasn't able to come up with any explanation as to when or why this bad boy was constructed, so I suppose your guess is as good as mine. All I know is, it's pretty damn cool.

If anyone can point us to any further information about this golden structure, we would very much appreciate it!

Award-Winning actor Martin Sheen is set to star in the BBC/Animal Planet film "The Whale." -- Two-Hour Film to Premiere on BBC One in December and Animal Planet in Summer 2014 -- -- Sheen to Headline Epic Tale of Survival at Sea -- Esteemed actor Martin Sheen will star in The Whale, a two-hour film from BBC Factual Productions and Animal Planet. Based on true events, the film tells one of history’s greatest stories of survival at sea as Martin Sheen portrays Old Thomas Nickerson, who tells a story of his life as a cabin boy on the ill-fated voyage of the whaling ship the Essex. From Animal Planet The Whale is written by Terry Cafolla (Holy Cross,...

Martin Sheen will star in The Whale, a two-hour film from BBC Factual Productions and Animal Planet that’s set to premiere in December on BBC 1 and in summer 2014 on Animal Planet. Based on true events, Sheen portrays Old Thomas Nickerson, who served as cabin boy on the ill-fated voyage of the whaling ship the Essex. The two-hour drama is inspired by real-life accounts of the ship’s sinking; those accounts are said to have inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The Whale is written by Terry Cafolla (Holy Cross, Messiah). Filming took place on location in Malta this past spring and wrapped up outside of London last summer. Sheen, repped by ICM Partners, leads the cast as the elder Nickerson with Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood, The Street) as First Mate Owen Chase; Adam Rayner (The Hunted) as Captain Pollard; Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones, Stella) as Joy; David Gyasi (Cloud Atlas,...

London, Sep 17: A romantic gesture of having an owl deliver the wedding rings, stalled a wedding ceremony as the bird flew up into the church rafters and fell asleep for an hour.

The owl, Darcey, which was supposed to come sweeping during the ceremony in the Holy Cross Church in Sherston, Wiltshire, instead had the desperate helpers coax him to come down, Metro.co.uk reported.

The owl, which slept for an hour, still had red ribbons attached to its feet.

Reverand Chris Bryan, who decided not to sit through the halt, continued the ceremony with a set of back-up rings, until the bird descended. (Ani)...

M0umbai, June 18: Actress Kavitta Verma has apologised to the Christian community for her "blasphemous" pose in forthcoming Bollywood movie "Policegiri", an activist said.

Kavitta's dressing scantily with a rosary on her body and the Holy Cross on her belly had raked up a controversy among Christians last week.

The Christian Secular Forum (Csf) had raised the issue with the movie's producers, T.P. Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal, and the Censor Board, demanding deletion of the offensive scenes from the movie, failing which they would not permit its release next month.

Late Monday, the producers invited Csf general secretary.

One of the victims seriously injured in the Boston Marathon bombings had a couple big name visitors on Thursday: Bradley Cooper and New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman.Edelman posted the photo above of the two inside Jeffrey Bauman Jr.'s hospital room at Boston Medical Center."Visited #survivor #stud #hero Jeffrey Bauman Jr. today. He was looking great and is a true inspiration. #strong," Edelman tweeted along with the photo.Bauman Jr., who lost both legs in the explosions, is seen giving a thumbs-up as he holds onto a football.Cooper was in town filming David O. Russell's "American Hustle" with Jennifer Lawrence and Christian Bale -- and was seen attending an interfaith service for the victims earlier in the day at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.Bale is rumored to have visited the hospital as well, just as he did in Aurora after the "Dark Knight Rises" shooting.

Authorities are seeking the help of the public in identifying potential suspects in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15. Law enforcement what Your help to identify these men!

New photos from the Boston Marathon were first revealed on April 18, showing potential suspects appearing and acting suspiciously before the explosions on April 15. Authorities have now released a set of photos, hoping that the public may help in identifying the potential perpetrators.

Bombing Marathon Bombing Suspect Photos Released

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the FBI would like to speak to “individuals” about the blast case, The Boston Globe reported. She was also quick to note that these individuals are not necessarily suspects.

She testified before a Congressional committee on April 18, saying that some of the video collected from near the Boston Marathon finish line had raised questions.

“But we need the public’s help in locating these individuals. The investigation is proceeding apace.

President Barack Obama sought to inspire a stricken city and comfort an unnerved nation Thursday, declaring that Boston "will run again" and vowing to hunt down the perpetrator of the twin blasts that brought mayhem and death to the Boston Marathon. "If they sought to intimidate us, to terrorize us ... it should be pretty clear right now that they picked the wrong city to do it," Obama said. The president spoke at an interfaith service in Boston honoring the three people killed and more than 170 injured when a pair of bombs ripped through the crowd gathered Monday afternoon near the...

On April 18, Barack Obama honored those killed and injured during the Boston Marathon by attempting to lift the town’s spirits. In an emotional speech, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston, the President assured the country that the those guilty ‘will face justice.’

President Obama said on Thursday, April 18, that America stands with Boston after the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15. The country’s leader stood before an audience at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston and said that the “spirit of the city remains undaunted.”

President Obama At Boston Marathon Interfaith Service: Barack’s Speech

President Obama said:

“Everyone of us has been touched by the attack on your beloved city. For millions of us, what happened in Boston Monday is personal. They picked the wrong city to do this. Yes we will find you.

Watch the service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, which President Obama and his wife Michelle are attending.

President Obama has arrived at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston. He and wife Michelle Obama are attending the interfaith service, on April 18, and supporting those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings that occurred on April 15.

Boston Interfaith Service — President Obama Attends

“The president will meet with first responders – both volunteers and professionals – as well as some impacted families,” The Boston Globe reports. “A spokesman tells pool reporters that Obama worked on his speech today himself, will speak about resilience of people of Boston.”

People inside the cathedral are wearing ties and roman collars as well as yamakas and marathon jackets and marathon medals.

Boston Bombings

There were two explosions at 2:50 pm on April 15, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

President Obama, who addressed the nation about seeking justice after the Boston Marathon bombings, will travel to Boston on April 18.

President Obama will attend and speak at an interfaith service April 18 in Boston to honor and pay respect for those killed and injured during the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced that the Commander in Chief would attend the service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End.

On April 16, President Obama promised to find those responsible for the bombings, calling it “an act of terrorism”.

Pres. Obama Addresses Act Of Terrorism At Boston Marathon

Speaking from the White House, President Obama called the bombings”a heinous and cowardly act.”

We also know this: the American people refuse to be terrorized. Because what the world saw yesterday in the aftermath of the explosions were stories of heroism and kindness, and generosity...

A helpless newborn baby boy was found abandoned in the dirt at the edge of an empty parking lot in Pompano Beach, Fla. wrapped in a blanket on Feb. 21. The heroic woman who found the baby got the attention of a day care bus driver, and had the driver’s supervisor to call 911.

A newborn baby was sleeping in the dirt along some hedges near an empty parking lot when a woman noticed something moving, and realized it was a baby. The infant was reportedly warm to the touch, but his mouth was very dry. The shocked woman immediately sought help for the poor baby, and flagged down a nearby bus driver.

The baby was then taken to Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale for further examination. The newborn is reportedly one to three days old, and his umbilical cord was still attached, which possibly means he was not delivered in a medical setting.

Dark Relic

Stars: James Frain, Clemency Burton-Hill, Tom Basden, Alyy Khan, Samuel West | Written by Andy Briggs | Directed by Lorenzo Sena

When a film starts and you see “Syfy” it’s often that moment that you start to sigh. These films are often CGI fests with weak stories, the kind of thing you would watch late at night and rarely like. There are times though that this is not the case, that the film is actually good. When I started watching Dark Relic I had little hope.

The story is quite interesting; this is the first good sign. When the first of the Crusades in the Holy Land ended it was a time for the knights to head home. This is what Sir Gregory intends to do. He and his men discover a holy relic, a fragment of the Holy Cross which was said to have been the one that Jesus was crucified on.

Washington, Mar 9: The mourners listened to Davy Jones' own songs at 'The Monkees' star's private funeral in Florida on Wednesday, it has been revealed.

According to newly released details about the service, only immediate family members were invited to the ceremony, while another memorial for public is planned in Jones' hometown of Manchester, England for next week.

The singer's relatives have thanked fans for their well-wishes and details about Wednesday's service at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indian town have now been revealed.

Several of Jones' own songs, including 'I'll Love You Forever' and 'Written in.

True to the hit song, Davy Jones was a daydreamer who made people believe, a priest told mourners at a small, private funeral for the Monkees lead singer on Thursday in Indiantown, Fla. Jones, who died Feb. 29 at age 66, was "a very Christian hero" who conducted himself "with humility and caring for others," the Rev. Frank O'Loughlin said at the closed-door service at Holy Cross Catholic Church. Although the funeral was held only for close family and friends, a copy of his sermon was provided to the Associated Press. Related: Davy Jones to Be Cremated"He wrote about a quiet,...

Film director whose career took him from gritty television plays to Hollywood thrillers

People who talk wistfully of the "golden age of British television drama" are often accused of viewing the past through the rosy lens of nostalgia. But a clear-eyed examination of the era proves that such slots as the BBC's The Wednesday Play (1964-70) and Play for Today (1970-84) were unsurpassed as breeding grounds for talented directors such as John Mackenzie, who has died after a stroke aged 83. Like most of his contemporaries who gained their experience by working in television – Philip Saville, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Ken Loach, Mike Newell, Michael Apted and Mike Leigh – Mackenzie went on to make feature films, notably his superb London-based gangster picture, The Long Good Friday (1980).

The television background trained Mackenzie to work quickly on taut and realistic narratives, within a tight budget and on schedule. One of his first jobs was as...

Welcome Zoners—

I still have last night’s adventures on my mind, but we cannot ignore our guests, can we? There’s lots on Monday’s visitor, a friend of the show who’s one of my favorites–but this is a fascinating group, made up of a major medical scientist, the head of the Special Olympics, and…an explorer who searches out headshrinkers.

Last week was wonderful, wasn’t it? Music, food, one very handsome and brilliant reporter, and a feisty Nobel Prize winner. And Stephen giving us The Word! Can’t wait for more. Doesn’t he make Mondays happy?

And now, your cast of characters for the week…

Monday, 3/28: Michael Moore

Polemical, satirical, and inimitable: Michael Moore is one of a kind, and you either love him or hate him. (I’m a fan.) Although he began as a journalist for alternative magazines like Mother Jones,...

Unlock the secret world of Los Angeles and you'll discover a city full of hidden gems – including a magician's castle, a naked spa and a fictional heritage tour

All I am told is to wear black tie and not to bring a camera. So now, in a cocktail dress and stilettos, I stand outside a vast pink hotel on scruffy Venice Beach boardwalk, waiting among psychics, street pianists, body builders and beach bums, for my evening's guide to turn up.

"Never put out on the first date, remember," cackles an ancient woman dragging a shopping trolley of Reader's Digest magazines down the street. I check my watch for the ninth time that minute and see a 10-year-old doing back-flips off a bench, landing like an alley cat each time. It is the end of a busy public holiday weekend and the boardwalk is finally packing up when a junk-heap grey Volvo pulls up.

Toldja! Announcement Of Mptf Care Deal Exclusive Update: I've learned that the Mptf deal is with Providence Health & Services, which will take over management of the acute care hospital to keep it open on campus and even expand the intensive care nursing services and other long-term offerings. "It couldn’t be a better scenario," one of my insiders exults. Providence Health & Services of California describes itself as a Catholic, not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing quality and compassionate health care and reaching out to the poor and the vulnerable in the communities it serves. Providence California operates five acute care medical centers in the Los Angeles area: Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Providence Tarzana Medical Center, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers in Torrance and San Pedro. The region also operates programs and facilities including Providence Medical Institute, Hospice care,...

"Mary, give me one of your Kleenexes," my mother told my aunt one morning long ago when we were entering Holy Cross Church. She held a bobby pin in her lips, reached up to part her hair, and fixed the Kleenex on top of her head. My Aunt Mary already had her handkerchief in place.

"Why do you have to do that?" I asked.

"Because we are going into the house of the Lord," my mother explained, "and we have to spare him from the sight of us."

"But why?"

"It's because we're women, honey," Aunt Mary said.

It must have been a Holy Day of Obligation. That would explain why we'd gone across town to attend Holy Cross with Mary instead of going to our own church, St. Patrick's. I can speculate that it was a day off, and after Mass they were going to a sale at Robeson's.

After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Brad Pitt called in the world's top architects for his acclaimed Make It Right project. The plan was to build green homes to replace those destroyed in New Orleans. Now the first houses are up and inhabited… so is it just a celebrity ego trip or a true regeneration?

Debra Dupar, pregnant with her fifth child, is sitting outside her new house. She is washed by the noon sun of an early spring day, nursing a pinkish-red drink and chatting to her friends. A short way off a camera crew is setting up, assessing shots, squinting at the light, chatting to potential interviewees. They are working for Spike Lee, who is making a documentary about the place where Debra lives.

A guided tour of about a dozen people tramps along the vestigial street, marked out by some sinewy evergreen oaks, or "live oaks" as they are called here.

After going on a joint tour with Young Money crew last year, Drake finally has his own headlining tour across the North America. A part of the 5th Annual Campus Consciousness Tour, the gig dubbed "The Away From Home" will be kicked off on April 6 at Eastern Illinois University.

In this tour, Drake is not just doing a series of live concerts as he will also be promoting the importance of environmental sustainability. Thus, the "half rock tour, half environmental campaign" will have his tour bus equipped with bio-diesel fuel. Eco-village tents, bio-degradable and re-cyclable products will also be used to educate concertgoers at each show.

Serving as supporting acts at the forthcoming traveling show are fellow Canadian rapper K-os and synth-pop New York band Francis & The Lights. Before the eco-friendly tour is wrapped on May 8 in Plymouth, he will perform at the Bamboozle Music Festival along with Paramore, Weezer,...

The Away From Home Tour will stop at 15 schools this spring.

By Cristina Ramos

Drake

Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images

Grammy nominee Drake will embark on his first solo tour of the U.S., it was announced Monday (February 8). The Young Money Mc will headline 25 cities beginning April 6 and will be implementing an eco-friendly policy throughout the tour.

The Away From Home Tour will stop at 15 college campuses along the way, including Penn State, Michigan State and University of Central Florida. Drizzy will also be making stops at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and sharing the stage with Paramore and Ke$ha at the Bamboozle Festival in Rutherford, New Jersey.

The eco-friendly show, which is part of the 5th Annual Campus Consciousness tour and hopes to promote environmental sustainability through music, also includes Canadian rapper K-os and synth-pop band Francis and the Lights. The showcase will also feature national...

EA Games and Visceral Games' Dante's Inferno is finally hitting the streets on Tuesday, February 9th, and we've got a look at a new video showing Dante's descent into the deepest corners of the underworld. Satan will have hell to pay indeed!

Dante’s Inferno takes gamers to the Western world’s most definitive view of the afterlife as created by the 13th Century Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Each of the nine circles -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery -- will showcase its own distinct look with demons, monsters, and geography that are crafted straight from the poem’s vivid descriptions. Using Death’s Scythe, Beatrice’s Holy Cross, and a slate of magic powers with a deep, customizable upgrade system, players will experience a fast and fluid 60 frames-per-second gameplay experience.

Take a look at the "Descent Trailer" below, and prepare to enter the underworld on February 9th.

We've been aware that the release date of Visceral Games and EA Games' Dante's Inferno is next Tuesday, February 9th, for quite some time now, but come this weekend, millions more people will be joining in the anticipation as the game is set to make a splash at the Super Bowl with a cinematic and moody 30-second spot.

The commercial offers a hint at Dante’s epic struggle to rescue his beloved Beatrice from the Devil’s grasp and illustrates his descent into the nine circles of hell, battling Satan’s minions and hoards of Hell’s demons.

Dante’s Inferno takes gamers to the Western world’s most definitive view of the afterlife as created by the 13th Century Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Each of the nine circles will showcase its own distinct look with demons, monsters, and geography that are crafted straight from the poem’s vivid descriptions.

By now everyone should be pretty geared up for the release of Visceral Games and EA Games' Dante's Inferno on February 9th, but just in case you're still not convinced, the developers have released a new video that showcases Dante's wicked-fast moves as he slashes and slaughters, massacres and mangles the devil's demons through Hell's nine circles.

With viscious anger and brutal vengeance, Dante will stop at nothing to rescue his beloved Beatrice. Equipped with Death’s Scythe and the Holy Cross, Dante must save his Beatrice from the devil and, in so doing, come to face his own demons to redeem himself.

Dante’s Inferno takes gamers to the Western world’s most definitive view of the afterlife as created by the 13th Century Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Each of the nine circles will showcase its own distinct look with demons, monsters, and geography that are crafted straight from the poem’s vivid descriptions.

Character actor Johnny Seven has died after losing his battle with lung cancer.

Seven - real name John Anthony Fetto II - died of complications from the disease at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California on Friday. He was 83.

He began his career performing in New York plays, and later co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in 1964's Navajo Run.

Seven also landed big-screen roles in The Last Mile with Mickey Rooney as well as 1960's Guns of the Timberland, before racking up a number of TV credits with bit parts in shows such as Chips, Bonanza, Charlie's Angels, Batman and Gunsmoke.

He is survived by Edith, his wife of 60 years, his son John Anthony Fetto III and a grandson, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Dennis Cole, a stuntman who rose to TV stardom in the 1966 series "Felony Squad" and went on to dozens of guest-starring appearances throughout the 1970s and '80s, died Sunday at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 69.

The cause of death was not released.

Although born in Detroit, Cole had the blond, athletic look of a quintessential California surfer, which earned him the attention of physique magazines and led to his casting as rookie detective Jim Briggs on "Felony." After that show's 2 1/2 year-run, Cole followed with the series "Bracken's World" and "Bearcats!" and a stint on the daytime soap "The Young and the Restless" that began in 1981.

Cole guest-starred on such series as "Medical Center," "Police Story," "The Love Boat" and "Charlie's Angels," where he met his second wife, Jaclyn Smith, to whom he was married from 1978-81.

He encountered tragedy in 1991 when his son Joe, from...

A man who claims that he is Michael Jackson's biological son has filed a creditor's claim against the late King of Pop's estate. Click here to see the papers. "The Insider" has obtained the court papers, in which Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson claims he is Jackson's son and was born on September 23, 1984 at Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills, CA. The father listed on his birth certificate is Michael Joseph Jackson, with his birth state listed as Indiana. The man, who is requesting DNA comparisons, also submits his photo as an exhibit -- claiming that he closely resembles the King of Pop. Keep checking back here for the latest coverage of the Michael Jackson investigation.

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Funnyman George Lopez has come under fire from his relatives after he allegedly buried his grandmother without inviting the rest of the family.

The comedian was devastated when Benita Gutierrez passed away at California's Holy Cross Hospital on 12 August.

But the star's sister has accused her sibling of arranging the funeral and pressing ahead with the arrangements without considering the rest of his bereaved relatives.

Linda Sierra tells RadarOnline.com, "George buried our grandma and didn't tell any of us about it. He didn't let any of us know - George's sisters, nephews and nieces are all heartbroken."

Gutierrez was laid to rest at the Forrest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, according to the website.

Series seven of 'The Clinic' has finished principal photography in Dublin. The award winning Irish drama which has been running on Rte has seen a wealth of Irish acting talent appear on our screens throughout the years with some new faces joining the latest series. Directed by Declan Eames, Janet Traynor, Lisa Mulcahy and Charlie McCarthy, the series was produced by Jonathon Curling (Holy Cross, Falling For a Dancer) for Parallel Films. This latest eight episode series sees the regular faces of Amy Huberman (Daisy), Dominic Mafham (Dan), Leigh Arnold (Clodagh) Tanya Moodie (Grace Safete) and Gary Lydon (Patrick) return to our screens. Also joining the cast this year is Victoria Smurfit (Trial & Retribution) who will play Edel.

'Best: His Mother's Son', a fact-based drama telling the story of footballer George Best's relationship with his mother will screen on Sunday, April 26th on BBC Two Ni at 9pm. The 90 minute drama will be followed by a making of documentary entitled 'Best: Made in Belfast' at 10.30pm. The drama stars Michelle Fairley (A Short Stay In Switzerland) as George's mother Ann and Tom Payne (Waterloo Road) as George. Lorcan Cranitch (Omagh) takes on the role of Dickie Best. Filmed in the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast last year, the script is written by one of Northern Ireland's leading dramatists, Terry Cafolla, who was nominated for a BAFTA for 'Holy Cross'.