"We've ID'd the 'other' guy in these pix as Chad Hardcastle, a pal of Sam
Lutfi's. Chad hails from Miami, Florida, according to his MySpace, and we hear
he comes from a family of ministers. -- Hot AND heavenly!!!"
"Ay caramba! We must confess
that this is... well, unexpected? This is the woman who throws cell phones at
her staff, after all. Does she have what it takes to potentially be the next
First Lady of Venezuela? Somehow violent outbursts don't seem to fit that
picture. Then again, this IS Hugo Chavez we're talking about here."
"“There’s something that needs to be fixed with Britney. No bodyguard can’t do
it. An assistant can’t do it. And Britney, obviously, can’t do it alone. The
times that I’ve seen her use narcotics, maybe made her [mental] condition
worsen. I think definitely she’s got some kind of mental problem.”"
"Davis was said to be carrying a large amount of cash. Australian law states
that if you have more than $10,000 when you arrive at the airport, you must
declare it. He hit a snag a while back that turned into a check bouncing
debacle."
"Now Daddy is with Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan. I hope they stop laughing
about the Reds long enough to talk to God about smiting some liberals for me. "
"It looks like Christina Aguilera has won the baby race between her and
Nicole Richie, with the birth of her baby confirmed to Life & Style Weekly
by the neighbor/friend of Aguilera's father-in-law, Jack Bratman."
"Then he must be barking, straightjacket, electroshock, my dog told
me to kill those people mad to be tussling with that one. A former girlfriend of
Britney Spears' companion Adnan Ghalib (who's married by the way) told a British
newspaper that the guy is a straight up hound."
"Nicole and daddy Joel Madden named their bundle of joy Harlow Winter Kate
Madden. The name is a little strange but I think we will get used to it…"
"Entourage star Adrian Grenier is being accused of the high crime of using
cheesy and crass pickup lines on unsuspecting Vinnie-bait, having reportedly
told a girl at a bar that he makes 'documentary films' (what--Shot in the Dark
wasn't a documentary?). To which she replied, 'I'm in fashion,' meaning she
works in fashion, we presume, not that she was acquiescing to being the Flavor
of the Night. Wait! Don't leave--it gets better! Then he said, 'That's cool. So
how about we go home and I [bleep] the [bleep] out of you.'"
"Not everything in the bold sociological experiment known as Wife Swap always
goes smoothly: Take for example last night's arranged-marriage lab rats, Patrick
(according to his name tag) and temporary spouse, uh, Sasquatch--she of the
man-hands and unrealistic household-cleanliness goals."
"Tributes are pouring in for Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who became
the first man to reach the top of Mt Everest.
Sir Edmund died at Auckland
Hospital about 9am (7am AEDT) of a heart attack, the Auckland District Health
Board said in a statement."
"The cancellation of the Golden Globes awards show is set to cost the Los
Angeles economy an estimated $100m."
"Britney Spears's wild ride left the troubled pop star car-less Monday night,
after cops impounded her abandoned vehicle. 'Ms. Spears's car was impounded,'
Lt. David Grimes of the Los Angeles Police Department, West L.A. station, said –
after a flat tire had caused the troubled pop star to leave her white Mercedes
in the middle of the road in Brentwood, Calif. 'Officers on the scene told me it
was blocking the roadway,' said Grimes, 'and that it was unsafe enough to leave
at the location.' After she had left the car, Spears – who had ventured away
from her Studio City home to go to a drugstore – was given a lift by some of the
photographers who had been trailing her."
"Sources tell ET that BRITNEY SPEARS spoke with a British accent during her stay
at Cedars-Sinai hospital last Friday. While DR. PHIL wouldn’t comment on that
during our exclusive interview with him, he did say that the troubled pop star
needs to be in treatment."
"MIGRON, West Bank - Israel will tell President Bush during his visit this week
that it is committed to 'expeditiously' evacuating unauthorized settlement
outposts in the West Bank, a spokesman for Israel's premier said Monday."
"DAWSONVILLE, Ga. - A drifter agreed to lead investigators to a hiker's
decapitated body in the woods of northern Georgia only after prosecutors pledged
not to seek the death penalty against him, authorities said Tuesday."
"Just when we thought Amy Winehouse’s life couldn’t get any crazier she has
decided she wants a baby. The British singer has reportedly told husband Blake
Fielder-Civil that she wants to start trying for a baby as soon as he’s out of
jail."
"Oh, Brandon Davis, you naughty, greasy thing. What have you been up to now?"
"'They said the unholy union' between Ann Coulter and Dem former City
Council president Andrew Stein—first reported and possibly invented by Page
Six—wouldn't work. And 'they' were right! The pretend relationship is
over."
"About her drug use: “I took it about as far as I could. And I didn’t die, so I
decided to live, basically. Obviously it’s complicated, but it’s also very
simple. I wasn’t dead at 27, so I might as well be 30. You’re already in it. You
may as well be in a rocking chair some day eating a lobster club.”"
"Actress Anne Hathaway has signed up as Lancôme’s spokesmodel and
brand ambassador. As of this fall, The Devil Wears Prada and Brokeback Mountain
star, 25, will front Lancôme’s as-yet unrevealed new fragrance in print and,
most likely, TV ads."
"It seems a little small-town and hokey, true, but hey - how many of us have
museums dedicated to us in our hometowns? And really, who better to dedicate a
museum to than Brad Pitt himself?"
"It appears that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are ready for another baby, but
things aren’t working out as quick and easy as they did last time. They are
reportedly seeking medical help. Are twins in the near future??!"
"Sexy Heroes costars Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia take their
relationship public in L.A. over the weekend while catching a screening of
Atonement."
"Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel will leave their spots behind the desk —and cross
network lines — to appear as guests on each other's shows."
"After weeks of rumors, Nicole Kidman finally confirmed she is expecting a
child with husband Keith Urban."
"Beth Ann Chester, a 26-year-old health and physical education teacher at Moon
Area High School in suburban Pittsburgh, was charged with sexual abuse of
children, statutory sexual assault and related counts.
On Dec. 22, Chester
sent three pictures of herself, two of them naked, to the boy’s cell phone,
police said. The student replied with a naked picture of himself, authorities
said."
"The residents of Arlington, Oregon find themselves red faced over the
recent antics of their town’s mayor, Carmen Kontur Gronquist. She has posted
racy lingerie photos on her MySpace website."
"Despite last minute efforts from many parties, the Golden Globes will not
proceed as planned this Sunday. A non-broadcast ceremony will not be held as
well."
"Wow, he's been ensnared. Must be the boobs. Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo
vacationed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with Jessica Simpson and her parents last
week."
"“Everyone gets DUIs,” he said. “You only hear about it when celebrities get
them.”"
"NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A man who mailed a bloody cow's head to his wife's lover
has been sentenced to probation and community service."
"Let’s face it — Britney Spears doesn’t do a very good job at laying low.
Just one day after her release from Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Britney Spears
was spotted having breakfast at the Daily Grill in Palm Desert on Sunday with
photographer Adnan Ghalib."
"Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich takes ABC to task for
excluding him from last night’s debate. He and wife Elizabeth and their
supporters marched outside of the debate forum in protest."
"She too thinks the McCain campaign hit the iceberg last night with the amnesty
dodges, and concluded Charlie 'Gibson’s superficial knowledge of the immigration
issue left him completely unequipped to challenge John McCain’s slippery
rhetoric on shamnesty.'"
"I know John McCain does not go down easily among many conservatives. But with
Barack Obama looking like the victor among Democrats, his party needs the
Arizona Senator at the top of the ticket."
"'We do not have plans to charge her. There was nothing criminal here and as far
as the LAPD is concerned the case was closed last night as soon as the children
were handed over to their father.'"
"X17 sources have confirmed that the photo agency that works with Adnan Ghalib,
the photographer who has befriended Britney, is actively pitching the story of
Adnan's relationship with Brit and pictures of the two of them together to the
tabloids and they're asking for a whopping $5 million!!!"
"Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Chelsy Davy is reportedly terrified for her safety
- as she is trapped in her Kenyan holiday villa after the country’s riots spread
to the trendy tourist town where she is staying."
"A LUCKY rock drummer has told how he bumped into Hollywood babe Lindsay
Lohan... and she DRAGGED him to her bed."
"The New York Times fronts a story reporting that the US is considering a new
covert push inside Pakistan to go after Taliban and al Qaeda inside the country.
How can such an operation remain covert if it's plastered on the front page? Why
publicize this?"
"The incident was triggered when O'Reilly--with a Fox News crew
shooting--was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson 'Move'
so he could get Obama's attention, according to several eyewitnesses. 'O'Reilly
was yelling at him, yelling at his face,' a photographer shooting the scene
said.The incident was triggered when O'Reilly--with a Fox News crew
shooting--was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson 'Move'
so he could get Obama's attention, according to several eyewitnesses. 'O'Reilly
was yelling at him, yelling at his face,' a photographer shooting the scene
said."
"SINGAPORE - Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to
a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity."
"WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a state can
execute someone convicted of raping a child, one of the few remaining crimes
that does not require the death of the victim to result in capital
punishment."
"BAGHDAD - It goes against religious taboos in Iraq to involve women in
fighting, but three recent suicide bombings carried out by women could indicate
insurgents are growing increasingly desperate."
If you don't know who Glen Beck is, this isn't going to mean as much. It is well worth watching anyway. I highly recommend it.
"Brit's visitation has been 'suspended pending further order of the Court.'
The order is in effect until January 14. There will then be a hearing to
determine where the case goes."
"She’s already following in Britney Spears’ footsteps by trying to launch her
own music career, and now Britney’s cousin and former assistant Alli Sims, is
hoping to become a reality TV star, too."
"Pamela Anderson personally served husband Rick Salomon with divorce papers on
December 28, it has been claimed."
"ThinkGeek is selling a WiFi alarm clock that donates money to an organization
you hate every time you hit the snooze bar. I believe this is some sort of joke,
but what an idea!"
"Britney Spears’ custody standoff may be defined as a hostage situation that
could result in her arrest. Officers rode in the ambulance with Britney which
means she is technically in police custody. The seriousness of the matter
involves the time she was alone with Jayden in the house. He was taken to the ER
by the police and realized a few hours ago to Kevin."
"Well Britney's legal team, you know the team that asked to be removed from the
case, will have to defend Britney in court today against Mark Vincent Kaplan.
Kaplan is asking Britney's visitation to be suspended indefinitely and
surprisingly is expected to win."
"A man is accused of pouring boiling hot cooking oil onto a toddler and
blasting him with a hair dryer because he wouldn’t stop crying."
"Actress Reese Witherspoon is reportedly refusing to film a sex scene with Vince
Vaughn."
"That is insanity!' upon witnessing the swarm of paparazzi trailing the
ambulance containing a Britney Under the Influence."
"Any story which ends in a child being carried into a hospital is cause
for concern - make sure you watch this clip to the end to see Jayden being borne
into the ER room by a LAPD officer!"
"According to Page Six, paramedics rushed to a hospital for a mental evaluation.
They reportedly rolled a gurney and backboard into the house: never a good sign.
Although it’s still unclear what exactly is going on inside the house,
sources claimed Britney was “hysterical and just wants to keep the kids
overnight.”"
"The Britney Spears circus took a sad turn Thursday night as police,
firefighters and ambulances were called to Britney’s Beverly Hills home after
she refused to give her children back to ex-husband Kevin Federline."
"The girls were 17 and 18, named Sarah and Amina, and police in the affluent
Dallas suburb of Las Colinas say he killed them in his own cab and is still
armed and considered dangerous. WFAA-TV in Dallas says that police believe they
have him surrounded in a residential area of Lewisville, TV."
"In the summer of 2002, the FBI, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and several
other agencies began a massive search for a serial killer suspected of murdering
three women. Based on an FBI profile and an eyewitness report, they upended
southern Louisiana looking for a white man who drives a white pickup, collecting
DNA from more than 1,000 Caucasian males. They found nothing. Meanwhile, the
killer struck again.In March 2003, investigators turned to Tony Frudakis, a
molecular biologist who said he could determine the suspect’s race by analyzing
his DNA. Uncertain about the science, the police asked Frudakis to take a blind
test: They sent him DNA swabs from 20 people to see if he could identify their
races. He nailed every one.On a conference call a few weeks later, Frudakis
reported his results on their killer. “Your guy could be African-American or
Afro-Caribbean, but there is no chance that this is a Caucasian.” There was a
prolonged silence, followed by a flurry of questions. They all came down to
this: Would Frudakis bet his life on his results? Absolutely."
"Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal catastrophically may fall into the hands of
jihadists. But the South Asian version of jihad is a less familiar but no less
fearsome variant of the war directed at the Great Satan America, and the Little
Satan, Israel.
At one billion people, Hindus, the majority of whom live in
the Indian sub-continent, constitute the third largest religion in the world
after two billion Christians and 1.5 billion Muslims. Yet, their numbers have
not spared Hindus from ongoing, systematic Muslim attacks in India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh."
"Presidential candidate Ron Paul raised almost $20 million for his campaign in
the last three months, potentially outpacing every one of his Republican rivals
and putting his fundraising in league with Hillary Clinton's."
"Several Republican officials close to Fred Thompson’s presidential
campaign said they expect the candidate will drop out of the race within days if
he finishes poorly in Thursday’s Iowa caucus."
"The Palestinian terrorists remain convinced that they can defeat Israel
and take its land as its own. They must be disabused of that notion. That means
that the Palestinians must be defeated - unconditionally."
"Irving police have issued a capital murder warrant for a cab driver
accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters.
The bodies were found in his taxi."
"Britney Spears left her car parked in the drive-in lane of the Four Seasons’
underground car park and refused to move it or hand over the keys until she was
threatened by staff. She then had to be turned away from using the hotel’s spa,
prompting her to rant, “Do you know who I am. I f**king built this place. I’ve
spent so much money here I could have bought the God-damn hotel.”"
"Everyone is going crazy these days, if you are giving birth I guess the
last thing you wanna be is quiet… that’s not the case for our pregnant Jennifer
Lopez, who wants to give birth naturally and drugs free."
"There is a flurry of stories today about the shoddy treatment given
Indian women by some Indian men. First comes the story of 22-year-old Monika
Rani, an Indian transplant living in Oak Forest, Illinois. Monika's father,
Subhash Chander, is charged under arrest for setting fire to Monika's apartment
on Saturday, killing her, her 3-year-old son, her husband, and their unborn
child. Police and friends of the family believe that the killing was motivated
by caste, or class differences -- Subhash thought his daughter had married a man
beneath their family."
"Has Kate Hudson found a new man? There are reports that she and Matthew
McConaughey are an item. And that the two have embarked on a secret trip to a
Caribbean hideaway."
"Friend: I'm going to a notary after this.
Me: I've always wanted to be a notary.
Other Friend: My brother is a notary. Well, in Second Life.
(Everyone): !!!!!!"
"Angelina Jolie has ended the rift between her and her estranged father, Jon
Voight by reaching out with a telephone call. The pair hadn’t spoken since
Voight told a U.S. television show in June 2002 that he hoped Jolie sought help
for her “serious emotional problems”."
"She is not even two yet but Suri Cruise is being considered for her first
movie role. Producer Ash R Shah is thinking about making a movie about Knut, the
infamous polar bear at the Berlin Zoo and thinks that mini Cruise could get a
starring role."
"Bi-sexual MySpace and MTV star Tila Tequila has let it leak that there will be
a second serving of her whore-fest dating show ‘Shot at Love’."
"How do you subtly let a guy know that you're interested? Well, according to
Lindsay Lohan, dry-humping him in public is a good way to let him know that you
think he's swell."
"The latest news say that Britney and her boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James,
spent the new year with her ‘wannabe’ friend, a married paparazzo named Adnan
Ghalib."
"Even though it was reported in The Daily Mail, Nicole Kidman’s peeps are
denying the pregnancy rumors. 'As far as we are concerned it is another rumor.'"
"Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon are slowing coming out of the
relationship closet after a much-ridiculed public clinch in Rome, Italy that
seemed a little too conveniently timed with the release of their film
Rendition."
"After Lindsay Lohan’s ex, Riley Giles, talked about seeing Lindsay Lohan
naked and sold their lovemaking details and pics to the UK’s News of the World,
Lindsay’s mom, Dina Lohan, did what any concerned, protective mother would do.
She got on the phone and chewed out Riley Giles’ mom."
"Despite hearing that our girl Brit might not show up to be deposed in her
ongoing custody battle for her kids, Britney has indeed shown up at Mark Vincent
Kaplan's office this morning at 11:20. She's with her assistant Carla, wearing a
pink dress, says our source on the scene."
"A Texas woman is demanding an apology from her city’s mass transit system after
she was booted off a bus for reading the Bible aloud, MyFoxDFW.com reported
Monday.
Christine Lutz was on her way to church and reading passages to her
children on The T bus when the driver suddenly interrupted her."
"MARKHAM, Illinois (AP) -- A suburban Chicago man is accused of setting an
apartment fire -- killing his pregnant daughter, her husband and their young
child -- because the son-in-law didn't ask permission for the marriage,
prosecutors said."
"Mayor Gavin Newsom, 40, proposed to his girlfriend, actress Jennifer Siebel,
33, while the couple was vacationing over the weekend in Hawaii."
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil vaulted to a record $100 a barrel on Wednesday as
violence in Nigeria, tight energy stockpiles and a weaker dollar triggered a
surge of speculative buying, dealers said."
"Gordon Brown today agreed to send a police team from Scotland Yard to
Pakistan to help investigate the assassination of the opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto"
"Elisabeth Hasselbeck returns to The View live on January 7, 2008! We didn’t
really get a feel for how she and the two new co-hosts, Sherri Shepherd and
Whoopi Goldberg, feed off of each other so it should be interesting to see how
things go!"
"WTF? As you know, the RIAA is still running around suing average Joe’s
and Jane’s for copyright violations. Most people just pay the fine and move on.
But a few are challenging it. In one of these lawsuits, the RIAA is trying a new
argument: that it’s illegal to transfer music that you’ve legally purchased on
CD to your own computer. Yup. I really hope the record industry collapses under
the weight of its own lawyers."
"Towards the end of the previous year, web reports began circulating that Kat
Von D, the star of TLC's reality show LA Ink, is with child. Although the
26-year-old female tattoo artist has yet to issue an official confirmation, the
baby buzz has continued, with many of her fans posting congratulatory messages
on her MySpace page."
"“I think Casey is a serial cheater who has lied to Jamie Lynn and betrayed her
time and time again,” Spears' close friend revealed to the Enquirer. “Even
though I'm sure she knows in her heart that Casey's a lying, cheating dog, Jamie
Lynn is head over heels in love with him. She continues to take him back
regardless of how awful he treats her.”"
"John Carlisle notes that many newspapers are cutting their investigative
reporting teams and relying on nonprofit organizations to fill the gap. 'If
conservative nonprofit organizations significantly increase their use of
investigative reporting, then the movement will be able to partly offset the
liberal bias of the mainstream media,' he writes. 'Despite their political
agenda, newspapers and TV networks like scandals simply because they make great
headlines. Experience shows that they will cover scandals exposed by
conservatives.'"
"Nearly half the slide in the market capitalization of newspaper stocks came in
2007, when the shares lost a collective $11 billion, or 26%, of their value,
reports Alan D. Mutter."
