LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Irvin Kershner is dead at 87. Irvin Kershner’s death was confirmed by goddaughter Adriana Santini. Kershner died at home in Los Angeles after an undisclosed illness.

Kershner is perhaps best known for directing the second Star Wars film, The Empires Strikes Back. He also directed the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery; Kershner had directed Connery 17 years earlier in A Fine Madness. To date, Kershner remains the only American to ever direct a Bond flick. In 1990 he also directed Robocop II.

Kershner had taught at USC where he met Lucas in the 1960s. He called Lucas the “best producer” he had ever worked with. Why did Lucas choose him for the film? “Of all the younger guys around, all the hot shots, why me?” he said to Lucas. “I remember he said, ‘Well, because you know everything a Hollywood director is supposed to know, but you’re not Hollywood.’ I liked that.” Kershner got his early break from Roger Corman on Stakeout on Dope Street (1958).

Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Irvin Kershner will be greatly missed.

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ATLANTA (LALATE) – Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann are set to marry. Yes, a Zolciak-Biermann wedding is set before Kim’s due date, claims reports. Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann first revealed that the Real Housewife is pregnant. Now a new report says the couple will marry before, not after, Kim’s baby birth.

Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann previously told news that they are anxious to wed. Recently, Kim told Life and Style that she is three months along. When asked if a wedding is in her future, Kim said she would not marry during the pregnancy but hopes to get married in the future after her baby’s birth.

Not so says another report.

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Kroy has reportedly already proposed to Kim, who told her girlfriends that she’s now engaged. Kim reportedly had sought to hold out for a big magazine splash announcement.  Added to that, multiple reports have said that Kim has been pushing for her own spinoff reality series along the same premise, and format, as the Bethenny Frankel – Jason Hoppy hit on Bravo.

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But Zolciak is clearly no Frankel.

Zolciak once said of dating “To have the opportunity to speak for myself and to have people understand what I’m going through is really special. I myself was confused and scared at first. Being able to speak from my heart and get this all out, it’s a huge relief for me.”

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So will Kim’s baby birth and wedding be on Real Housewives of a spinoff series? Will Shawn Rabideau guest star? Bravo has yet to comment.

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CHICAGO (LALATE) – Stewart Haverty died during Sunday’s Bears game; police say Haverty fell to his death from a Solider Field ledge shortly before 5 pm local time.

Haverty, a resident of Woodstock, was dead upon arrival at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Witnesses claim Haverty jumped to his death after running up to the ledge. Chicago Fire Chief Joe Roccasalva said Haverty landed onto a neighboring roof.

Earlier this month, Lucas Anthony Tang, 2, fell to his death while his parents attended a Lakers game at Staples Stadium. “Our condolences and prayers go to the Tang family,” a spokesman for AEG said at the time. “We are working with the Los Angeles Police Department on the investigation of this tragedy.”

Below is video of Haverty’s death from KTLA.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Bradley Manning fueled the latest WikiLeaks claims Adrian Lamo. Bradley Manning is a 23 year old army intelligence analyst from Iraq who allegedly copied sensitive documents while stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer near Baghdad, and put all the documents on CDs he marked generally as “Lady Gaga.”

Manning allegedly bragged about his activity to Adrian Lamo who in turn reported the digital conversations to U.S. authorities. But while the documents were suppose to be secret, he allegedly claimed to have found “incredible, awful things that belonged in the public domain and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington, DC”.

Wikileaks has refused to confirm if Manning was involved in the recent release. The Telegraph reports that David House, 23, had a laptop confiscated by authorities. During his alleged act, Manning claimed that no one suspected him, asserts Lamo. Manning called the situation “sad”. Manning has remained in solitary confinement for seven months.

Manning said the CDs were “labeled with something like Lady Gaga”.

Over the weekend, Julian Assange lost an appeal concerning an unrelated arrest warrant. Julian Assange had appealed a lower ruling by the Stockholm Criminal Court which had found investigators may issue an international arrest warrant for Assange and put him custody.

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BOSTON (LALATE) – Ashley Kerekes in choosing @theashes as her Twitter account never thought it would bring her international notoriety. Ashley is a 22 year old from Massachusetts. She told news this weekend that, for as long as she can remember, her boyfriend referred to her as The Ashes. So when she joined Twitter, she adopted that as her account name.

On Thursday, Ashley Kerekes started her morning with her usual three hundred followers. But by Monday morning, she was already at 6100 followers. What happened?

Ashley Kerekes initially had no clue. That was until people started sending her messages about cricket overseas. “The Ashes” contest between Australia and England had begun. Tweets about the match were now being sent to Kerekes. She responded “this is not the account of the cricket match. Check profiles before you send mentions, it’s incredibly annoying and rude” and “this isn’t the cricket twitter”. “Fans” started asked Kerekes for the current score. Her response was “Sorry guys, I don’t know the cricket match score.”

With that, she followed it up with her now notable tweet “I am not a cricket match. Stop mentioning me and check profiles before you send messages. It’s really annoying.”

From there, the Brisbane Times newspaper ran an news article on her, BBC ran news coverage of the Twit-confusion. But still, fans wanted Kerekes to take a position on a sporting match in a country she had never visited. “I’m not sure who I support, England or Australia. However, I’ve been to England. I’ve never been to Australia.” Because of that tweet, Kerekes has been offered a plane flight by an Australian airline, reports BBC News.

Soon, the “annoying” situation turned into something enjoyable. The Brisbane Times says Kerekes considers the Twitter celebrity status now as “amazing”. Kerekes is now selling t-shirts. But she still doesn’t know the score. “Sorry guys, I don’t know the cricket match score” or “What … is a wicket?”

In the end, fame can be exhausting even @theashes. “Okay, this has been insane. I’m exhausted”.

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