My
Fair Brady:
Christopher Knight and
Adrianne Curry have
tied the knot.
The couple exchanged vows in front of 250
friends and family during a traditional ceremony at the Christ Episcopal
Church in Curry's hometown of Joliet, Ill.
In a romance made in reality-TV heaven,
Curry, 23, who won the first season of America's Next Top Model,
met Knight, 48, who played Peter Brady on the '70s hit The Brady Bunch,
when they filmed the fourth season of VH1's The Surreal Life" in
2004. posted 2:34am by jholmes
5,800 people have died
from the Indonesian
earthquake that shook
the region on Saturday.
The earthquake was
registered at a 6.2.
posted 2:01am by jholmes
“I’m in a
relationship 12-step program,” she told me last week at the movie’s
post-Cannes late-night party at a nightclub in the Hotel 314.
posted 1:45am by jholmes
Melissa Parker, 30, said as a fan of "The
Omen," a movie about a demonic child, she's genuinely concerned about the
numerology involved, The Sun reported Tuesday.
"I'm terrified the birth will go wrong or the
child will have evil in him or her," Parker said. "Even worse my beautiful
baby could be the devil himself -- the anti-Christ." posted
3:45pm by jholmes
The D.C.
sniper has been
found guilty of six
slayings in the
Washington area.
Sentencing for John
Allen Muhammad is
already serving a life
sentence for three
killings in the
Virginia.
According to Malvo, Muhammad planned two
phases of attacks -- six shootings a day for a month, followed by a wave of
bombings of schools, school buses and children's hospitals.
Malvo said that when he asked Muhammad why,
the older man replied: "For the sheer terror of it -- the worst thing you
can do to people is aim at their children."
Muhammad hoped to extort $10 million from
authorities and use the money to set up a school in Canada to teach homeless
children how to use guns and explosives and use violence to shut down other
cities, Malvo said. posted 2:12pm by jholmes
Angelina
Jolie and Brad Pitt are
the parents of a
baby daughter by the
name of Shiloh Nouvel
Jolie-Pitt.
The proud couple also
donated $315,000 dollars
to the country of
Namibia where the child
was born. posted
1:22pm by jholmes
I am back
from a four day river
get-away. I was
able to get in some
boating, Seadooing,
tubing, relaxing and
family time. It
was nice to be away from
phones, internet, and
people. I hope
everyone had a great
holiday weekend.
posted 1:14pm by jholmes
May 26, 2006
The
Detroit Pistons beat the
Miami Heat 92-88
last night in game 2 of
the Eastern Conference
Finals. Game 3 is
Saturday night in Miami.
posted 2:53am by jholmes
The number 666 is
used to refer to the Beast — the Antichrist — in the Bible's Book of
Revelations:
"He also forced
everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark
on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell
unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his
name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the
number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."
When former
President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy retired to their last home in the
Bel Air district of Los Angeles in 1989, they forced officials to change
their address from 666 to 668 St. Cloud Road, Livio said.
posted 2:43am by jholmes
The Senate has passed a
sweeping
immigration bill. The bill still faces hurdles from the House and
President before it could become a law. posted 2:22am by jholmes
"Despite setbacks and
missteps, I strongly believe we did and are doing the right thing," Bush
said Thursday evening in a White House news conference with Blair. "Not
everything has turned out the way we hoped."
For his part, Blair said
he left a meeting this week with Iraq's new prime minister "thinking the
challenge is still immense, but I also came away thinking more certain than
ever that we should rise to it."
In unusually introspective
comments, Bush said he regretted his cowboy rhetoric after the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks such as his "wanted dead or alive" description of Osama bin
Laden and his taunting "bring 'em on" challenge to Iraqi insurgents.
Dixie Chicks lead
singer Natalie Maines' "new motto is, 'What would Bruce Springsteen do?' "
says Robison. "Not that we're of that caliber, but would Bruce Springsteen
do 'The View'?"
"It's one thing to
diss the Bush administration, it's treason to diss 'The View'!" said Behar.
posted 2:48am by jholmes
The
Rolling Stones are
postponing 15 tour dates
due to Keith Richards
condition.
Rumors abound that
Richards suffered some
brain damage after his
fall from a tree last
month. posted
7:55am by jholmes
He said the fire was believed to have been
caused by the miswiring of electrical systems in a cargo area of the
airport, and may have caused secondary explosions causing the fire to
quickly spread. posted 7:51am by jholmes
The
Miami Heat beat the
Detroit Pistons 91-86
in Game One of the
Eastern Conference NBA
Finals last night.
Phoenix and Dallas play
in Game one of the
Western Conference
Finals tonight.
posted 7:46am by jholmes
Kenny
Chesney, Brooks &
Dunn, Keith Urban,
Brad Paisley and
Carrie Underwood
were the
big winners last night
at the ACM awards show
in Las Vegas.
Keith Urban was top
male vocalist for a second year and Sara Evans, up against Underwood,
Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson and Lee Ann Womack, captured her first ACM
award, for top female vocalist.
The three-hour show
was as much about music as awards, however, and Trace Adkins provided one of
the evening's musical highlights. Dressed all in black — from his cowboy hat
to his leather suit — Adkins added a Las Vegas touch to the program as he
performed his song "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" while surrounded by shimmying
showgirls. posted 7:42am by jholmes
The information involved mainly those
veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975, said VA Secretary
Jim Nicholson. Data of veterans discharged before 1975 who submitted claims
to the agency may have been included.
"It's highly probable that they do not know
what they have," he said in a briefing with reporters. "We have decided that
we must exercise an abundance of caution and make sure our veterans are
aware of this incident." posted 2:00am by jholmes
Madonna
is upsetting Christians
around the world by
opening her new concert
singing a song
while hanging on a huge
mirror cross.
posted 12:13am by
jholmes
Tommy Hilfiger
really showed his "Appetite for Destruction" yesterday when he pummeled Guns
N' Roses frontman Axl Rose in a dispute over a VIP table at Rosario Dawson's
birthday party, sources said.
As the punch-up escalated, Hilfiger introduced Rose to some "November Pain"
with a blow to the cheek. Club guards quickly tried to separate the men.
Yesterday, club owner Noel Ashman pointed the finger at Hilfiger: "Axl was a
gentleman and had the good sense not to retaliate, as he would have done
some serious damage to Hilfiger."
When Rose took the stage a few minutes later to perform the song "You're
Crazy," he dedicated it "to my good friend Tommy Hilfiger."
posted 1:21am by jholmes
If you thought
"United 93" was disturbing, it turns out the Paul Greengrass
film was just the appetizer. Oliver Stone unveiled the main
course last night in Cannes with a tantalizing sample of his "World Trade
Center."
Unlike "United 93,"
this film has, if not a happy ending, an upbeat one. The two men lived to
tell their tale and be reunited with their families. But their stories of
survival are used by Stone so he can also convey the brutality and loss of
that horrible day. Stone shows, for example, the two towers imploding and
collapsing from within. It's an unimaginable horror. posted
1:10am by jholmes
Plus there's
this: "$90,000 found in congressman's freezer . . . The money was
divided among various frozen food containers, according to the heavily
redacted affidavit."
Some readers may recall that Jefferson also
used the National Guard to secure his home in New Orleans during the
Katrina aftermath. Another triumph for Louisiana politics! However, the
bribery story puts a new spin on this bit from the story about Jefferson's
urgent visit to his home amid the flood: "Finally, according to the source,
Jefferson emerged with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about
the size of a small refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the
truck." Hmm. posted 12:00am by jholmes
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was in surgery
Sunday fighting for his life a day after breaking his right rear leg in
three places at the Preakness, and the colt's surgeon said he's never worked
on so many catastrophic injuries to one horse.
posted 7:19pm by jholmes
Poor Preston: Britney
Spears stumbles and
almost drops Sean Preston once again on New York City street.
The baby-bobbling
bungle began at about 6 p.m., as the "Not That Innocent" pop tart left the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Central Park South, holding her kid, Sean Preston, and
what witnesses said was a tumbler of water and ice
Despite the tumble,
Britney managed not to spill a drop of her drink. Then she muttered to
fotogs in her Louisiana accent, "This is why I need a gun."
The near-drop is the
latest motherhood woe for Britney, who dangerously drove with Sean Preston
in her lap and strapped him into his car seat facing the wrong way, as The
Post reported . He also fell from a broken high chair. posted
6:50am by jholmes
The FDA is endorsing a
cervical cancer vaccine. Cervical cancer is #2 cancer killer in women.
posted 12:40am by jholmes
No trace of Hoffa
has ever been found, and no one has ever been charged in the case. But
investigators have long suspected that he was killed by the mob to keep him
from reclaiming the Teamsters presidency after he got out of prison for
corruption.
Hoffa was last seen
on a night he was scheduled to have dinner at a restaurant about 20 miles
from the farm. He was supposed to meet with a New Jersey Teamsters boss and
a Detroit Mafia captain, both now dead.
Over the years,
Hoffa's disappearance spawned endless theories — that he was entombed in
concrete at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands; that he was ground
up and thrown to the fishes in a Florida swamp; that he was obliterated in a
mob-owned fat-rendering plant that has since burned down. posted
12:39am by jholmes
A few minutes later, the burning fat set the
house fire alarm off, and chaos ensued. She explains, "It's (the alarm)
saying, 'Fire, please leave the building. Fire, please leave the building.'
Ben's upset. So he rips the thing out of the wall... Sorry, to the people we
are renting from! We will fix it. Next thing, here they (firefighters) come.
Hatchets, hats, full gear. We hear pound, pound, pound, pound, pound on the
door. There were like eight firemen and I said, 'Well, I can fix you dinner.
But it's probably gonna be burned.'" posted 12:32am by jholmes
Anne displayed great bravery at her trial and
the spectators spread word of her courage. Popular suspicion against Henry
and his mistress Jane Seymour was widespread and there was gossip attacking
their behaviour. Anne was accused of adultery, incest, and high treason. One
eyewitness reported that she gave "such wise and discreet answers". Although
Anne was not popular by any means, her trial was so unfair that even the
citizens protested. Even so, the King demanded her head and she was
condemned to death.
Anne then knelt down and was blindfolded with
a linen handkerchief. The skilled swordsman took off her head with a quick
clean sweep of his blade. Eye-witnesses claimed that, when her head was
shown to the spectators, her eyes were open and she appeared to be
attempting to speak. She was buried later that day in the nearby Chapel of
Saint Peter-ad-Vincula. posted 12:09am by jholmes
"I was hoping to do 40," said Chestnut, the
champion in pork ribs (5.5 pounds in 12 minutes), waffles (18.5 in 10
minutes) and jalapeno poppers (118 in 10 minutes). "I did 48 at home, but
it's always harder to do it in front of a crowd."
Chestnut estimates he has won $50,000 in cash
and prizes in a year on the circuit, including a car and ring after
prevailing in the Wing Bowl. In the event, which took place in Philadelphia,
he ate 173 buffalo wings in 30 minutes. posted 12:04am by
jholmes
Bill
Clinton has
signed a new book deal.
Financial terms have not
yet been released.
Clinton received a $12
million dollar advance
on his first book, My Life. posted
1:46am by jholmes
Nearly four years
since its debut, "Idol" continues to rule the ratings. It has attracted 25
million to 33 million viewers each telecast this season.
Seacrest said on
Wednesday's program that viewers called in 50 million votes.
posted 1:44am by jholmes
Today in
1980
Mount St. Helens erupted,
killing 57 people and
causing billions of
dollars in damage.
posted 1:36am by jholmes
More
college sports hazing
photos on
BadJocks.com
posted 1:33am by jholmes
May 17, 2006
David
Blaine, the 'bubble
boy',
has announced his next
stunt: Living in the
wild with wild beasts.
I guess he did suffer
brain damage trying to
hold his breath under
the water.
He tells the New York Post, "I'm planning to
live harmoniously among wild beasts. And I'd like to do it alone in the
jungle." posted 1:59am by jholmes
The star was introduced to the faith often
described as "Jewish mysticism" in 2003 by Madonna. Spears, who has not
posted a message on her website in over a year, left the brief note, "I no
longer study Kaballah (sic), my baby is my religion" on May 12.
posted 12:55am by jholmes
I am sure this hits a
little to close to home
for Cruise and Travolta,
but it sure is funny to
the rest of us.
Can Southpark get Tom to
come out of the closet?
"It's a movie about whether the greatest
story ever told is true or not, and it's not the greatest movie ever
screened, is it?" said Baz Bamigboye, a film columnist for London's
Daily Mail. "As a thriller, well," he continued, shrugging.
"Maybe the next day I'll forget about it,"
said Igor Soukmanov of Unistar Radio in Belarus. "But today for two hours it
was good entertainment. ... As a Hollywood movie, it's a very nice picture."
"I kept thinking of the Energizer Bunny,
because it kept going and going and going, and not in a good way," said
James Rocchi, a film critic for CBS 5 television in San Francisco and the
online outlet Cinematical. "Ron Howard makes handsome films. He doesn't make
bad ones, but he doesn't make great ones."
One especially melodramatic line uttered by
Hanks drew prolonged laughter and some catcalls, and the audience
continued to titter for much of the film's remainder.
"I didn't like it very
much. I thought it was almost as bad as the book. Tom Hanks was a zombie,
thank goodness for Ian McKellen. It was overplayed, there was too much music
and it was much too grandiose," said Peter Brunette, critic for the US daily
The Boston Globe.
"It was really
disappointing. The dialogue was cheesy. The acting wasn't too bad,
but the film is not as good as the book," added Lina Hamchaoui, from British
radio IRN. posted 12:32am by jholmes
Gunfire broke out at a
Waffle House in
North Carolina after
whites and hispanics got
into it over immigration
in the U.S. For
those of us who have
frequented the Waffle
House over the years, we
know this is not that
much out of the
ordinary. I have a
few good Waffle House
stories myself. I know
many of you do as well.
posted 12:24am by
jholmes
A
California home is on
the market for
$75 million dollars.
posted 12:22am by
jholmes
May 16, 2006
Hazing involving the
girls soccer team at
Northwestern.
BAD
JOCKS:
BadJocks.com reports
hazing incident at
Northwestern involving
women's soccer team.
This is creating quite a
stir in the media and on
campus. Congrats
to Bob Reno for breaking
the story. posted
3:02pm by jholmes
Top Movie for Second Straight Weekend.
Top Weekend Movies
May 12-14, 2006
Mission Impossible III-
$25.0 million
Poseidon-
$22.1 million
RV-
$9.9 million
Just My Luck- $5.7 million
An American Haunting-
$3.5 million
You can
now
find God on your cell
phone and Blackberry
as many ministers are
using technology to
spread the word.
posted 1:08am by jholmes
"Novelty bets are
becoming a significant and surprising revenue generator," said Greg Sindall,
a senior analyst at SportsInteraction.com, a sports, casino and current
event betting site. posted 12:30am by
jholmes
I truly
love and enjoy the TV
show HOUSE M.D.
but it can be a bit
predictable at times as
seen in the MAD TV video
spoof below.
Alternative rock band
FUEL has offered their
lead singing job to
Chris Daughtry of
American Idol. Daughtry was voted off
the music reality show
last week. posted
12:07am by jholmes
President
Bush said last night
that the
'catch and release' of
illegal aliens will end.
He has also called for
6,000 National Guard
troops along the border
of Mexico to back up the
Border Control.
"People who meet these conditions should be
able to apply for citizenship, but approval would not be automatic, and they
would have to wait in line behind those who played by the rules and followed
the law," Bush said.
"This initial commitment of Guard members
would last for a period of one year. After that, the number of Guard forces
will be reduced as new Border Patrol agents and new technologies come
online," Bush said. posted 12:03am by jholmes
Rivers said, "Did you hear Tom Cruise
just had a baby? He was there when it was born... He should have been there
when it was conceived!" Last October, Rivers accused Holmes of being
untalented and claimed her engagement to Cruise was the best thing she had
ever done.
Rivers said, "Each woman has done very well
by him - Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz. So this one, Katie Holmes ,
who doesn't seem to have much talent, is probably the luckiest of all. I saw
her in Batman Begins and, let's just say, she better hang on to Tom for a
while!" posted 1:12am by jholmes
Attended the
Suns-Clippers NBA
Playoff game tonight. Phoenix played a pretty bad game but stayed close.
The Clippers won the game 114-107 to tie the series at two games a piece.
Game five will be in Phoenix. posted 12:22am by jholmes
"Mexican President
Vicente Fox reached out to President Bush this morning to relay his concerns
about consideration of a plan by the United States to deploy National Guard
forces to the border region. President Bush made clear that the United
States considers Mexico a friend and that what is being considered is not a
militarization of the border, but support of Border Patrol capabilities, on
a temporary basis, by National Guard personnel," Tamburri said.
posted 12:03am by jholmes
May 14, 2006
Happy Mother's Day
Clinton and Bush at
Tulane's Commencement
Ceremonies
Shooting has been tentatively scheduled to
take place in 2008, as the two screen beauties are currently busy with other
commitments. posted 1:45am by jholmes
"After what I experienced with The Passion, I
frankly don't give a flying f*** about much of what those critics think."
Film star/director Mel Gibson does his own thing.
Legendary
singer/songwriter
Stevie Wonder is 56
today. I
thought this guy was in
his 50's when I was a
kid. posted 1:38am
by jholmes
American
Chris Gatlin set the
record in the 100-meter
dash yesterday.
Gatlin set the new world
record at 9.77 seconds.
posted 1:34am by jholmes
But Universal — home
of many overnight stars including several rappers who’ve come and gone —
would be the place for this. The company has had enormous success, but at
the same time encountered lawsuits from middle-men distributors claiming
inflated sales numbers — double dipping at the cash register, so to speak.
Many of the acts are
those you’ve never heard of. But others are illustrative of how Universal
(which includes Island/Def Jam, Motown, Interscope and other labels) tried
to force bad music down our throats.
Spitzer’s office
includes one very illuminating e-mail from a Universal promotion man: “Guys:
We need to get confirmation on what we are doing with the station. Use these
promotion [sic] to leverage airplay and rotations.”
But Lohan is no
singer, and no one, not even her movie fans, wanted her albums or to hear
her on the radio.
Nevertheless, the
record company persisted. A series of e-mails in June 2005 shows what was
happening — a manipulation of MTV’s “Total Request Live” show that airs
every afternoon and can seriously affect a new record’s fortunes.
posted 1:30am by jholmes
Freedom of the Seas,
which arrived this week in New York Harbor from Southampton, Britain, is 237
feet tall and 1,112 feet long with 15 passenger decks.
Built by Norwegian
shipbuilder Aker Yards ASA, the ship cost $800 million and can carry more
than 4,000 passengers. The world's previous largest ship, the Queen Mary 2,
can carry about 3,000 people and is 151,400 gross registered tons. The
Titanic's gross registered tonnage was 46,329.
A three-level dining room
seats 2,140. There are more than 2,000 deck chairs and an ice-skating rink.
The fitness center measures 9,700 square feet and includes a boxing ring.
The spa provides luxuries from teeth whitening to massages and a 13th-floor
deck offers a rock climbing wall and a big wave pool with simulated surfing.
posted 1:21am by jholmes
Tom
Cruise
banned Katie's parents
from seeing their first
grandchild until he
was back from promoting
MI:III overseas
so he could monitor the
initial visit between
the new mother and her
parents according to
sources close to the
situation.
Forget whatever it
was Tom Cruise told Diane Sawyer about his
relationship with Katie Holmes' parents.
The truth is, Katie's
parents, Martin and Kathleen Holmes,
didn’t get to see baby Suri up close and personal until the
day of the "Mission: Impossible 3" premiere in Los Angeles. That would have
been May 4. Suri was born in the late afternoon on April 17.
You do the math,
fans. That's two and a half weeks. The Holmeses were specifically not
invited until Tom was back home in Los Angeles after his worldwide
promotional tours and could monitor the baby’s first visit with her maternal
grandparents. Tom’s mother, Mary Jo Mapother-South was
there for the delivery. So were Tom’s sisters. But, as widely reported, the
Holmeses were at their vacation home in Florida when they got the news that
their daughter had given birth to their first grandchild.
“They are
heartbroken,” says the source who filled me in on this, and this person
knows what they’re talking about. But no one who’s interviewed Cruise for
"MI:3" has dared asked these questions. Instead, they’ve let Cruise refer to
Katie as “Kate” and do all the talking for her. The Holmeses are scared to
speak out, say friends, for fear that they will be cut off even more from
Katie and Suri. posted 1:33am by jholmes
Boycott Mission Impossible III to show
your displeasure with Mr. Cruise.
I watched
the March of the
Penguins
documentary tonight.
It was very educational,
saddening, and humorous.
Check it out if you get
a chance. posted 12:52am by
jholmes
He tells the New York Daily News,
"The work that's being done and the people that I met who are on the front
lines there, I just came away feeling like we're going to beat this. You
walk into these clinics; you're surrounded by people who are alive and well
because of the president's plan and because of this money."
posted 12:40am by jholmes
The final tally included
98 guinea pigs, 84 cats, 27 dogs, 14 rabbits, 3 potbellied pigs and 1 bird,
Code Compliance Supervisor Tony Genovesi said Wednesday. posted
12:35am by jholmes
More than
50 million Americans
claim to have a
disability according
to the census bureau.
posted 12:34am by
jholmes
Congress
is looking into
clamping down on MySpace
and Facebook.
The hope of the bill is
to clamp down on online
predators that lurk and
lure from public
libraries and schools.
According to the bill, it "prohibits access
to commercial social networking Web sites or chat rooms through which
minors" can access obscene or indecent material, be subject to unlawful
sexual advances or repeated offensive comments of a sexual nature from
adults, or access harmful information.
The bill terms a social-network Web site as
one that allows users to create Web pages or profiles about themselves as
well as offers communications including a forum, chat room, e-mail or
instant messenger, while a chat room is termed a site that allows multiple
users to communicate in real time via text.
"Sites like MySpace and Facebook have opened
the door to a new online community of social networks between friends,
students and colleagues," Fitzpatrick said. "However, this new technology
has become a feeding ground for child predators that use these sites as just
another way to do our children harm."
Specifically, it would require schools and
libraries to implement security systems to prevent students from being
exposed to obscene and objectionable material, according to Fitzpatrick.
posted 12:29am by jholmes
A source revealed to Grazia magazine: "Brad
has literally got down on his knees to beg Angelina to change her mind but
she laughs pulls him to his feet, kisses him and says, 'Let's not ruin
something so perfect'." posted 1:16pm by jholmes
"Mission: Impossible
3" had a bad Tuesday, falling $300,000 more at the box office from Monday’s
$3.5 million. That means it’s off 80 percent or so since Sunday.
Are people just
waiting, or have they really turned on their old pal, Tom Cruise?
It didn’t help that he dragged Katie Holmes up to Seattle
for a promo appearance three weeks after she gave birth.
Reports were that she
looked tired — and rightly so. Mothers don’t usually leave their babies
after three weeks. How peculiar this whole saga continues to be.
Now, Cruise is on the
cover of Good Housekeeping — an obvious bid to the female audience —and
sounds quite manic in Kate Coyne’s story.
posted 10:24am by jholmes
Pamela 'Plastic' Anderson and
Paris 'Fill in the _____' Hilton were recently out for a night on the town
together. That is truly like watching a car wreck waiting to happen.
posted 1:53am by jholmes
The
bill providing tax cuts worth $70 billion over five years passed by a
244-185 vote. The Senate was expected to clear the bill for Bush's signature
Thursday.
The
legislation provides a two-year extension of the reduced 15 percent tax rate
for capital gains and dividends, currently set to
expire at the end of 2008.
It
also would extend, for this year, recent changes to the alternative minimum
tax — originally aimed at making sure the wealthy pay at least some taxes —
to prevent it from hitting more upper middle-income families.
posted 1:12am by jholmes
The Greek Orthodox church is
slamming and banning The Da Vinci Code. When a group or church
calls for a boycott that usually sells a good hundred thousand extra tickets.
posted 1:08am by jholmes
With Cruise both starring in and producing
the Paramount Pictures release, he had an unusual amount of control over
promotional decisions that are usually left more solidly in the hands of
studios. posted 1:00am by jholmes
Close pal and Irish boxing star Joe Egan
says, "He loves their music so much he wants to be part of it. He's not a
Pavarotti or Domingo - but neither are the members of Westlife. Mike's asked
me to make contact with Louis Walsh to set the wheels in motion. He'd be
happy just to sing on the chorus of a track, but he could always replace
Brian McFadden." posted 10:14am by jholmes
You've got to feel
for these people though. Since Monday morning, every department at Paramount
has been called on for immediate cost cutting, I'm told. "Budget meetings
are going on everywhere," says a source. "Everyone's being asked what they
can do, and there's talk of layoffs again." posted 1:07am by
jholmes
She explained that "a few national surveys
conducted recently have suggested that oral sex may be a behavior that
teenagers are increasingly participating in. For example, in the 2002
National Survey of Family Growth, most teenagers reported having oral sex
and many had not had intercourse."
There may be a general feeling out there that
oral sex is safer than intercourse, Erbelding said, and it probably is for
some diseases.
However, Erbelding emphasized that oral and
anal sex may result in the transmission of STDs that will not be detected in
urine tests. "A urine test is not going to pick up gonorrhea or Chlamydia
that might have been acquired through rectal or oral sex, with gonorrhea
being the more significant infection for oral sex." posted
12:37am by jholmes
A source said: "Tom wasn't too pleased when
he found out about Katie. She flashed quite a lot of flesh and he didn't
think it was appropriate because of their Scientology beliefs. Katie was
happy to go along with it."
The brunette's raunchy sex scene with Aaron
Eckhart was included in the first screening on the film at the Toronto Film
Festival in Canada last year, however, it had been mysteriously deleted when
the film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah this year.
posted 12:15am by jholmes
"They don't age, they don't sag ... Mine
point in a perfectly good direction ... It doesn't mean they're great or
anybody else would like them. It just means I like them."
Teri
Hatcher loves her nipples.
"What woman hasn't wanted to be
Mick (Jagger)? If
you can't be with him you want to be him."
Sheryl Crow
confesses her love for the
Rolling Stones
frontman.
"I'm not good at playing a character
different from me. I'm always the nice guy, the boyfriend, easy on the eyes.
That's all I do." Former
Sex & The
City star John Corbett is honest about his acting limitations.
"He likes blueberries and she loves her
daddy." Julia Roberts on her twins Hazel and Phinneas' early
loves.
Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her
father and three brothers — including a fraternal twin — when the
"practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting
an iceberg. posted 1:23am by jholmes
Rolling
Stones guitarist
Keith Richards was near
death after falling
out of a tree recently
and had brain surgery
that hopefully will fix
the ailing rocker.
The New Zealand Herald reported that Richards
underwent brain surgery to relieve a subdural haematoma or blood clot on the
brain. The operation normally involves drilling a hole through the skull to
drain the clot. posted 12:11am by jholmes
Michael Jackson is
furious with GQ
magazine for a photo
spoof they have in the
current issue of the
men's magazine.
In one photo, a
Jackson look-alike sits in a darkened movie theater amid a row of children.
Another photo shows him standing in the desert draped in a black cloak and
headscarf, with his trademark glittery white glove.
posted 12:05am by jholmes
May 7, 2006
Steve
Nash was
named the NBA's Most
Valuable Player today
for the second year in a
row. Only nine
players in the history
of the league have won
the award in consecutive
years. Nash easily
beat out Lebron James
and former teammate Dirk
Nowitzki. posted
2:59pm by jholmes
Kobe
Bryant and his pouting
last night was pathetic.
Bryant folded and didn't
even try in the second
half of the game to the
Suns last night.
Never mind it was an
all-important game
seven.
The Suns won 121-90.
posted 2:56pm by jholmes
Box Office Mojo's
Brandon Gray says that the weekend total should now be in
the $45 million range. It's not a catastrophe by any means, but it does show
that star Tom Cruise's public persona and negative publicity plus a
raft of mediocre reviews for the film have put a dent in his plans to rule
the universe.
Grays says the new
"Mission" numbers are a disappointment because both installments 1 and 2 did
much better. "They each sold around 50 percent more tickets on their opening
weekends (Friday-Sunday)," Gray says, "despite opening on Wednesdays."
At this rate,
Cruise may want some kind of pharmacological drug to ease the pain on
Sunday night. Paramount execs definitely will.
posted 12:24am by jholmes
Suspected in multiple hijackings, including
the 1976 takeover of an Air France airplane in Entebbe, Uganda, Haddad knew
from the Israeli tactics that he could be shot or bombed as he walked the
street or picked up a phone.
Haddad was cautious of his every move,
avoiding travel outside of Iraq, said Klein, a Time magazine correspondent
in Jerusalem. But the 140-kilogram (309-pound) food lover had a weakness:
chocolate.
In Baghdad of 1977, luxuries like fine
chocolates were rare. Through a Palestinian working with the Mossad who had
gotten close to Haddad, the agency was able to feed Haddad chocolate brought
from Belgium and spread with poison over six months, Klein said.
Haddad died in March 1978, showing only
symptoms of leukemia but no signs of poisoning, Klein told the radio.
If only
Scott Peterson had been so clever. posted 12:14am by jholmes
"Richard is a straightlaced guy, and he was
upset with Kevin's behavior," a "pal" told the mag. Spears eventually
convinced Richard to return - after promising to do something about her
partying hubby. "I'll take care of the Kevin situation," she allegedly
promised, "if you take care of me." Federline was not thrilled about having
the round-the-clock sitter, says the mag, but "Britney told him it wasn't up
for negotiation
A scene from the movie RV
Top Weekend Movies
April 28-30, 2006
RV-
$16.4 million
Flight 93-
$11.5 million
Stick It-
$14.3 million
Silent Hill-
$10.8 million
Scary Movie 4- 9.3 million
Who is
Anna Nicole Smith's
baby's daddy?
posted 1:21am by jholmes
"If Anna Nicole is
pregnant, she obviously doesn't want anybody to know yet," Stern wrote in an
e-mail Thursday to The Associated Press. "If she's not pregnant, she's not
denying the rumor because she thinks it's funny how much of a stir it's
causing. She'll leave it up to you to guess which one it is."
posted 9:18am by jholmes
Dogged by $12 million in tax liens and other
legal judgments, rap music titan Marion "Suge" Knight is down to $11 in his
checking accounts and the bling on his back, according to a bankruptcy court
filing. The Death Row Records founder, who filed for Chapter 11 protection
last month, claims that his $4.4 million in assets is dwarfed by $137.4
million in debt. posted 9:12am by jholmes
Steve
Nash led the
Phoenix Suns to an
improbable Game 6
victory over the
Lakers in Los Angeles
last night. The
Suns won 126-118 in
overtime. Kobe had
50 points in the loss.
Game 7 will be in
Phoenix on Saturday.
Steve Nash led the Suns with 32 points and 13
assists. Leonardo Barbosa, starting for the suspended Raja Bell, scored 22
points for Phoenix. Thomas had 21 points and 10 rebounds, Marion had 20
points and 12 rebounds, and Diaw added 19 points and seven assists.
posted 1:18am by jholmes
May 4, 2006
Kevin
Federline is
seeking a threesome with
Britney and Jessica
Alba. He said
this recently during a
radio interview.
Does this guy ever think
before speaking?
Britney also appears to
have finally realized
the mistake she made
with this guy.
“Britney sees now that Kevin is a loser,”
says an insider, who notes that at the time Spears began dating Federline,
she was lonely and looking for someone to replace her ex Justin
Timberlake. “Her mistake was that Kevin is the type you fly around the
world having a wild time with, not the one you marry and make babies with.”
posted 6:18pm by jholmes
The original Guns N' Roses lineup -- Rose is
now the only veteran -- opened for the Stones during their four-night stint
at the Los Angeles Coliseum in October 1989. One of their sets was
highlighted by a Rose monologue in defense of racist and homophobic lyrics
in the song "One in a Million," a bitter complaint that too many people in
the Guns organization were "dancing with Mr. Brownstone" (i.e. doing drugs),
and a pledge that he would never perform again with Guns N' Roses.
posted 10:33am by jholmes
Mission Impossible III
is getting
good reviews so far.
Abrams directed it, and
the creator of “Lost” and “Alias” has his fingerprints everywhere — right
down to the last credit, which offers a "thank you" to the Hanso Foundation,
the fictitious and mysterious organization that created the island where the
"Lost" survivors are stranded.
Imagine Tom Cruise as
the star of “Alias,” and there you have it. The story is stronger than
usual, the plot actually makes a modicum of sense and there’s non-stop
action, thrills, explosions and even a few literary references thrown in for
fun. posted 1:47am by jholmes
The series started as one of the most-watched
in the fall and Davis won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the first
female U.S. president.
However, two extended breaks and
behind-the-scenes changes as well as a schedule move from Tuesday to
Thursday all contributed to a deep slide in ratings.
posted 12:48am by jholmes
$36 Million Dollar
Man
Simon
Crowell is paid
$36 million dollars a
year to do
American Idol.
And some say athletes
are overpaid?
posted 12:44am by
jholmes
According to national records, Hernandez was born on May 3, 1878, in one
of the country's central provinces, where she gave birth to 13 children. She
now has 60 grandchildren, 80 great-grandchildren and 25 great-great
grandchildren. posted 12:42am by jholmes
May 3, 2006
8.1 Earthquake rocks the
South Pacific and a
tsunami warning has been
issued for Hawaii, New
Zealand and other
countries.
UPDATE: The
tsunami warning has now
been cancelled.
posted 10:36am by
jholmes
Lohan has said, "You better believe, the next
time I see Nick Lachey out I'm going to attack him ... He's such a dog, he'd
go for it."
Lachey quickly dispelled any rumors of a
potential romance snapping, "I can safely say that I don't have any interest
in Lindsay Lohan ... nor do I understand anyone else that does."
posted 3:12am by jholmes
Matt
Leinart has been
spotted around L.A. with
Paris Hilton.
Also, there are rumors
that Lindsey Lohan stole
Paris' ex out from under
her. posted 3:00am
by jholmes
Youth
Gone Wild: Saw
Sebastian Bach of Skid
Row walking in the
Country Store on the way
to dinner tonight.
Bach has a reoccurring
role on the Gilmore
Girls. posted
2:58am by jholmes
Today in
1937,
Gone with the Wind,
a novel by Margaret
Mitchell, won the
Pulitzer Prize.
Today is also
Constitution Day in
Poland and Japan.
posted 2:40am by jholmes
"We are conducting a very profound
scientific, technical and moral study," said the head of the Vatican Council
for Health Pastoral Care. The church is expected to give a guarded,
provisional blessing to the use of condoms by married couples when one of
them suffers from Aids, as a way of protecting the health of the other
partner. It is only a technical concession, based on two ancient principles,
but, against the background of the stolid refusal by church authorities to
countenance even the slightest deviation for more than a generation, it
amounts to a revolution.
At a time when more than 40 million people
are infected with HIV, and there are 13,000 new cases every day, the Vatican
has been accused of contributing to the spread of the epidemic by forbidding
the use of prophylactics.
Nothing will be certain until the Pope has
signed it. But the fact that the change has got this far, with carefully
placed and worded endorsements by half a dozen influential cardinals, is
seen as an indication the change is almost certain.
He told one story of earning $750,000 when he
lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods last fall in San Francisco at a World Golf
Championship. Instead of going home, he drove to Las Vegas and says he lost
$1.65 million in five hours playing mostly $5,000 slot machines.
Daly three-putted from 15 feet on the second
playoff hole against Woods at Harding Park. He headed to Las Vegas and lost
$600,000 within 30 minutes. He said he took out another $600,000 line of
credit and lost that in two hours. posted 12:25am by jholmes
Shaquille
O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's
spouses both had babies
yesterday just six
minutes apart.
posted 12:05am by
jholmes
UPGRADE: Caesars
Palace in Las Vegas is
replacing Celine Dion's
show with the
ageless Cher. The
switch will take place
in 2008. I hope
Cher makes it until
then. posted
2:28am by jholmes
Where are
our cleaning people
today? Oh yeah,
they are
boycotting to support
immigration rights.
Boycotting for
lawbreakers. I
hope our plumber doesn't
start boycotting for
rapists.
Monday has been set aside for immigrants to boycott work, school and
shopping to show how much they matter to their communities.
But with some growing tired of street protests, and others afraid they'll
be deported or fired for walking out, people are planning to support the
effort in myriad ways. posted 2:09am by jholmes
This book was written
by a self depicted atheist at the time of his investigation into whether
there was or was not a Christ. Lee Strobel had witnessed his
wife's conversion to Christianity and thought he would investigate it
and prove her and her conversion to Christ wrong. Strobel believed
it was a good story that had simply become legend over time and the time
it took to record the story.
Strobel was an award-winning
investigative reporter and legal editor of the Chicago Tribune before
writing this book. He also holds a Master of Studies in Law from
Yale Law School.
He went on a two year mission
to investigate experts on the life of Jesus, the truth of the gospels, how
trustworthy they could be, did Jesus believe himself to be the son of God, the
crucifixion, and the resurrection, amidst other related topics.
Strobel approached the issue
as an investigative reporter would and asks the reader to read the book as an
unbiased juror is to assume evidence during a trial they are sitting in on.
He lays the case for Christ out, as he found it himself, in interviewing
countless experts in the field.
He is very confrontational
and doubting in questioning the experts on the subject. In the end he
finds the evidence monumentally on the side of their actually being a case for
Christ which in turn leads to his own conversion to Christianity.
I would highly recommend it
for someone who has questions about if there is or ever was a Christ, to the all
knowing atheist, and as well to the Christian that wants to strengthen their
understanding of the life of Christ.
