Dan Brown's highly anticipated new Robert Langdon thriller, The Lost Symbol, hit stores today and it's already flying off the shelves! Our own Mary Hart sat down for a one-on-one with the bestselling The Da Vinci Code author to get to the bottom of his latest mystery… Mystery is the key word, as Dan has kept the plot details under extremely tight wraps until today's release. "You want your readers to experience the book with a clean slate," he tells Mary. "You don't want people to have told them how it ends or what some of the secrets are, and there are a lot of people who wanted advanced copies of this book and there was a lot of pressure to keep it very, very secret." What we can say is that the action of The Lost Symbol takes place in Washington D.C. and it centers on the Freemasons, a ... Read More »

Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard is accustomed to gold around her neck and now she has a bundle of blue in her arms. The champion athlete has given birth to a baby boy. According to People, the new mom welcomed Blaise Ray Brown on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The baby weighed in at 7 pounds, 12 ounces. Beard told People, "I was in labor for about 16 hours and it was all worth it. He is happy and healthy and everything went as planned." Read More »

ET was at the Badgley Mischka Spring 2010 fashion show in New York City Monday night, where Kim Kardashian, Kara DioGuardi and Fran Drescher shared their thoughts on the death of Patrick Swayze. "Someone just told me on the way in, and I almost got sick," Kara told ET of the sad news. "Cancer -- I've been touched by it in my own family. I'm sure many people out there have. It's just sad whenever you lose anybody to that disease." "I had never met Patrick Swayze, but obviously I'm a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing' and 'Ghost' and his movies are just legendary," Kim told ET. "It's really sad. I think he fought really hard, and, you know, my prayers are just with his family." Read More »

ET has a first look at the new book by Patrick Swayze and his wife Lisa Niemi. The memoir will detail their life together, a 34-year love story between the star and his special lady. See our gallery dedicated to the couple: A Love Story in Pictures Read More »

ET has the latest... Demi Moore is opening up about the passing of her 'Ghost' co-star Patrick Swayze. "Patrick you are loved by so many and your light will forever shine in all of our lives. In the words of Sam to Molly, 'It's amazing Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.' I will miss you. I love you, Demi."  Read More »

"Bones" stars David Boreanaz, Tamara Taylor and all of Hollywood is talking about the loss of Patrick Swayze. "That is so sad," says Tamara. "I'm so sorry for his wife." [He] was quite a talent," adds David, who says Swayze was a "beautiful soul." Read More »

Patrick Swayze's former co-stars are speaking out to ET and remembering the beloved star. Whoopi Goldberg, who delighted audiences alongside Swayze in the 1991 hit film 'Ghost,' tells ET: "Patrick was a really good man, a funny man and one to whom I owe much that I can't ever repay. I believe in 'Ghost's' message, so he'll always be near." California Governor and former actor Arnold Schwarzenegger released this statement to ET: Read More »

Actor Patrick Swayze has died. He was 57. Patrick passed away on Monday in Los Angeles surrounded by family. The actor had been battling pancreatic cancer since being diagnosed in early 2008. Determined to fight his illness, Patrick resolutely continued working on his A&E series "The Beast" throughout his cancer treatments and also spent as much time as he could with wife of 34 years Lisa Niemi and their family. Read More »

Sylvester Stallone walked the red carpet at the 66th Venice Film Festival on Saturday night to pick up a prestigious award. Read on to find out the details… The 'Rocky' and 'Rambo' film icon was there to receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award. Stallone also showed clips of his latest film, 'The Expendables', in which he co-stars opposite Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham and Jet Li (Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger also appear in the film), and screened a new director's cut of his 2008 film 'Rambo.' Read More »

Talk show host David Letterman attended the opening ceremony Monday of a new heart center in New York City. Former patient Letterman was on hand at the unveiling of the Ron O. Perelman Heart Institute of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and spoke of the medical facility fondly. "When I’m here, I see a lot of people I know, a lot of people that, because of their efforts, I’m still living -- if you can call a steady diet of oat bran and egg whites living," he joked, and then continued in seriousness, "It's fun to be back here and this is a tremendous facility." Read More »