Tangled up:
The whiff of plagiarism is blowin’ in the wind for Bob Dylan. Phrases sprinkled throughout the rock legend’s lecture for his Nobel Prize in literature are very similar to phrases fromthe summation of “Moby Dick” on SparkNotes, a sort of online CliffsNotes that’s familiar to students looking for shortcuts and teachers trying to catch them. Dylan and spokesmen for SparkNotes and the Swedish Academy, which hands out the Nobel, weren’t immediately available for comment.
Stones muse dies: Anita Pallenberg, amodel and actress who served as a muse for the Rolling Stones, has died. Shewas 75. A spokesperson for Keith Richards told The Associated Press that Pallenberg died Tuesday. The cause of death was not revealed, but the statement said Pallenberg “had been ill for some time.” Richards, the father of Pallenberg’s two grown children, said in a statement shewas “amost remarkable woman. Always inmy heart.”
Now that’s interesting:
“The Most Interesting Man in the World” is giving up beer for tequila. Actor Jonathan Goldsmith appeared as the sophisticated, eccentric and worldly pitchman for Dos Equis beer for nearly a decade. He’s now promoting Astral Tequila. In a new ad, the 78-year-old nods at his Dos Equis days by raising a glass of tequila and saying, “I told you I don’t always drink beer.”
June15 birthdays: Actor Jim Belushi is 63. Actress Helen Hunt is 54. Actress Courteney Cox is 53. Rapper-actor Ice Cube is 48.