HOLLYWOOD DIRT OVERFLOW (06-08-10)
GARY COLEMAN CRAZINESS
DID GARY COLEMAN'S EX-WIFE TAKE PICTURES OF HIM WHEN HE WAS DYING . . . AND DEAD???
Reports are circulating that four pictures of GARY COLEMAN in the hospital were being shopped around to various tabloids over the last several days. --Three of them were taken while Gary was on life support, and the fourth was shot after the plug was pulled and Gary was DEAD. --Supposedly, a tabloid did buy the three pre-death photos, but passed on the fourth. There's no word which tabloid, how much they paid or when the pics will be on the stands. But we assume it'll be this week. --It would appear that Gary's ex-wife, SHANNON PRICE, was behind the photos. TMZ claims she hired a production company to stage the pics, and her intention was to cash in on Gary's death by selling them to the highest bidder. --In one of the photos, Shannon is sitting next to Gary, who's lying unconscious, with all manner of tubes sticking out of him. --Shannon's rep initially denied her involvement . . . but she changed her tune a little while later. -Now she says, quote, "Shannon and her family did take pictures but they were never meant to get out. Shannon is in no way getting compensated for these pictures." --Gary's rep, a guy named John Elm, is obviously not happy about this. He says, quote, "If the report is true, I find it terribly wrong and distasteful that someone would try exploiting Gary's death in this manner. --"Shame on those who are trying to profit from releasing such images." --Meanwhile, RadarOnline.com says that Shannon has been shopping HERSELF around . . . asking for up to $50,000 for interviews about Gary's death. --She has even offered to give a video tour of their house . . . including the place where Gary fell and suffered his fatal head injury. And, of course, she wants to be paid for that, too.
GARY COLEMAN'S LAST WORDS TO HIS EX-WIFE WERE, "I LOVE YOU" AND "MY HEAD HURTS" . . . ???
In a new interview with "Entertainment Tonight", SHANNON PRICE revealed GARY COLEMAN'S last words. --She said, quote, "He said, 'I love you and my head hurts.' Those were the last [words] that he said to me because he was in a lot of pain." --Shannon also defended her decision to take Gary off life support . . . quote, "The doctors advised me that he wasn't going to make it. His heart was giving out, it was going to stop regardless. --"It was the most difficult decision I've ever had to make in my entire life. Seeing Gary in that circumstance . . . it was best for him to go and not suffer. He was already a vegetable." --She said that Gary died almost immediately after the machines were turned off. --As for whatever's left of Gary's estate, Shannon said she doesn't know who will get control . . . but she added, quote, "He wanted me to have everything." --Shannon also addressed the 911 call she made after Gary fell . . . and critics who say she didn't do enough to help him. -She said, quote, "I know a lot of the rumors that are out there right now and, you know, nobody else would know what it was like to be in that situation until you're in that situation. --"A lot of people didn't think I was there for him and so I would definitely have tried to fix what I had said in the call." --She also said that she and Gary had planned to renew their vows soon, and that filing for divorce in 2008 was a rash decision that they both soon regretted. --Gary's body is still in a Utah mortuary, and that's where it'll stay for now. Shannon said, quote, "Gary didn't want a funeral and he didn't want a viewing. He didn't want people to see him that way. --"So, like I said, Gary is my best interest right now so I'm going to do what he wants." (--Here's video of the interview . . .)
http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/06/87963/index.html
--Shannon was also on "Good Morning America" yesterday. She did that interview in a wheelchair, and even had to stop briefly when she thought she was going to have a seizure. (--Shannon suffers from some type of seizure disorder . . . and she claims that's one of the reasons she couldn't be more helpful after Gary's fall.) --As for her hopes for Gary now, she said, quote, "I just hope Gary's happy and he's in a better place and he's not suffering anymore with all the health issues he's had over the years."
(--Here's video from that interview . . .)
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b184510_colemans_ex_blasts_haters_claims_she.html
GARY COLEMAN HAD A WILL THAT LEAVES EVERYTHING TO SHANNON PRICE . . . BUT IT MIGHT BE VOID BECAUSE THEY GOT DIVORCED:
A new will that GARY COLEMAN wrote in 2007 has surfaced, and it bequeaths everything to SHANNON PRICE. -It's a handwritten addition to Gary's 1999 will . . . and it's signed and everything. But it still might not be valid, because Gary and Shannon DIVORCED after it was written . . . and they never got remarried. --Kent Alderman is an attorney working for Dion Mial . . . the former manager whom Gary named as the executor of his estate in his 1999 will. --He says that under Utah law, quote, "It is treated as having been revoked when a divorce occurs after it was written. If they had remarried then it would again be valid." --It should be noted that Mial stands to make some bank from managing Gary's estate, so we can probably expect this thing to end up in court. --In fact, it's already getting ugly. Mial is dissing Shannon for running to every media outlet that'll have her, and for allegedly selling photos of Gary in the hospital. --He says, quote, "Knowing Gary, as well as anyone could have, I assure his closest family, friends and fans that his disdain for this behavior would be unquestionable and paramount to any foregoing profession of 'love' for Shannon that might have ever poured from his lips." --Meanwhile, Shannon's rep says that Gary didn't even like Mial anymore, because they had a falling out a few years ago.--She says, quote, "Gary made a statement about Dion less than 24 hours before he fell. He said that he had not been friends with Dion for years . . . [He said] he had a falling out with Dion and did not wish to be close friends with him anymore."
SANDRA BULLOCK SAYS SCARLETT JOHANSSON IS A GREAT KISSER:
The SANDRA BULLOCK / SCARLETT JOHANSSON kiss at the "MTV Movie Awards" wasn't nearly as hot as it should have been . . . but it turns out Sandra enjoyed it a little more than she seemed to at the time. --She told "Us Weekly", quote, "Ryan is right . . . Scarlett is a great kisser." --Sandra was referring to Scarlett's husband, RYAN REYNOLDS . . . who was Sandra's co-star in "The Proposal". --Speaking of which . . . Sandra and Ryan are teaming up again for a new movie called "Most Wanted". --It's an action-comedy in which Sandra plays a criminal being escorted to court by a U.S. Marshall . . . played by Ryan, obviously. Something happens that forces them to go on the run together, at which time action-packed hilarity ensues. --The tone of the movie is being compared to that of the 1988 flick "Midnight Run", which starred Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, if that helps any.
MORE MILEY CYRUS INAPPROPRIATENESS . . . INCLUDING A MALE DANCER TOUCHING HER CHEST:
We have a few more pictures from MILEY CYRUS' gig in Madrid over the weekend . . . and, no big surprise, they show Miley engaging in even MORE inappropriate behavior. --We've got Miley seductively touching her breast . . . followed by a picture of Miley's chest being touched by a male backup dancer. --Then we've got the now-classic Miley-moving-in-for-the-fake-lesbian-kiss pic . . . and a shot of Miley looking like she's about to touch herself in a self-loving manner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dogPrU-09A
ALANIS MORISSETTE IS MARRIED:
ALANIS MORISSETTE got married last month, to a white rapper who calls himself MC SOULEYE. (--His real Name is Mario Treadway). They had a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home on May 22nd. --Alanis . . . who turned 36 last week . . . was previously engaged to RYAN REYNOLDS. But that relationship ended in 2007, and Ryan is now married to SCARLETT JOHANSSON.
(--MC Souleye is 30. You can jam to some of his dope creations on his MySpace page . . .)
http://www.myspace.com/souleye
CHARLIE SHEEN'S SENTENCING HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL JULY 12TH:
CHARLIE SHEEN'S plea and sentencing for attacking his wife over Christmas did NOT go down yesterday. The deal got messed up somehow, and the whole thing was called off. --Which also means that Charlie has not yet begun his 30-day prison sentence. A new hearing has been scheduled for July 12th. --There's no official word yet what happened. Arnold Mordkin, the district attorney of Pitkin County, Colorado, would only say, quote, "We've hit a snag. We need more time than is available for us to complete some of the finer points." --TMZ claims that snag involves Charlie's work-release program. Under the deal his lawyers worked out, Charlie was going to be let out of prison during the day to help out at a local theater company. --But sources say the woman who runs the work-release program didn't like the way Charlie's deal was structured, so she refused to approve it.
WOODY HARRELSON SCORED THE WINNING GOAL IN A PRO-AM SOCCER MATCH:
You probably didn't know this, but every year, there's a pro-am charity soccer match called Soccer Aid. It pits an all-England team against players and celebrities from the rest of the world. --Stars taking part this year included Woody Harrelson, Mike Myers, Michael Sheen from "Twilight", British pop dork Robbie Williams and "Hell's Kitchen" chef Gordon Ramsay. (--Ramsay is Scottish, and Sheen is Welsh . . . so they were on the "Rest of the World" team, along with Woody and Mike Myers.) --This year's game went down Sunday at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England. --When regulation time ended, the score was tied 2 to 2. And when soccer games are tied, they often end in a shootout . . . where players take turns taking penalty kicks, and the team that hits the most wins. --Now, during the actual game, the goals were all scored by pro soccer players. But in the shootout, it came down to one kick by Woody Harrelson . . . and he ACED IT. (--Sheen and Myers . . . who's Canadian . . . had also made penalty kicks for the Rest of the World.)
(--Here's video of our AMERICAN HERO, Woody Harrelson, showing those Brits how we do things . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdkyk8-Jm4
DID GARY COLEMAN'S EX-WIFE TAKE PICTURES OF HIM WHEN HE WAS DYING . . . AND DEAD???
Reports are circulating that four pictures of GARY COLEMAN in the hospital were being shopped around to various tabloids over the last several days. --Three of them were taken while Gary was on life support, and the fourth was shot after the plug was pulled and Gary was DEAD. --Supposedly, a tabloid did buy the three pre-death photos, but passed on the fourth. There's no word which tabloid, how much they paid or when the pics will be on the stands. But we assume it'll be this week. --It would appear that Gary's ex-wife, SHANNON PRICE, was behind the photos. TMZ claims she hired a production company to stage the pics, and her intention was to cash in on Gary's death by selling them to the highest bidder. --In one of the photos, Shannon is sitting next to Gary, who's lying unconscious, with all manner of tubes sticking out of him. --Shannon's rep initially denied her involvement . . . but she changed her tune a little while later. -Now she says, quote, "Shannon and her family did take pictures but they were never meant to get out. Shannon is in no way getting compensated for these pictures." --Gary's rep, a guy named John Elm, is obviously not happy about this. He says, quote, "If the report is true, I find it terribly wrong and distasteful that someone would try exploiting Gary's death in this manner. --"Shame on those who are trying to profit from releasing such images." --Meanwhile, RadarOnline.com says that Shannon has been shopping HERSELF around . . . asking for up to $50,000 for interviews about Gary's death. --She has even offered to give a video tour of their house . . . including the place where Gary fell and suffered his fatal head injury. And, of course, she wants to be paid for that, too.
GARY COLEMAN'S LAST WORDS TO HIS EX-WIFE WERE, "I LOVE YOU" AND "MY HEAD HURTS" . . . ???
In a new interview with "Entertainment Tonight", SHANNON PRICE revealed GARY COLEMAN'S last words. --She said, quote, "He said, 'I love you and my head hurts.' Those were the last [words] that he said to me because he was in a lot of pain." --Shannon also defended her decision to take Gary off life support . . . quote, "The doctors advised me that he wasn't going to make it. His heart was giving out, it was going to stop regardless. --"It was the most difficult decision I've ever had to make in my entire life. Seeing Gary in that circumstance . . . it was best for him to go and not suffer. He was already a vegetable." --She said that Gary died almost immediately after the machines were turned off. --As for whatever's left of Gary's estate, Shannon said she doesn't know who will get control . . . but she added, quote, "He wanted me to have everything." --Shannon also addressed the 911 call she made after Gary fell . . . and critics who say she didn't do enough to help him. -She said, quote, "I know a lot of the rumors that are out there right now and, you know, nobody else would know what it was like to be in that situation until you're in that situation. --"A lot of people didn't think I was there for him and so I would definitely have tried to fix what I had said in the call." --She also said that she and Gary had planned to renew their vows soon, and that filing for divorce in 2008 was a rash decision that they both soon regretted. --Gary's body is still in a Utah mortuary, and that's where it'll stay for now. Shannon said, quote, "Gary didn't want a funeral and he didn't want a viewing. He didn't want people to see him that way. --"So, like I said, Gary is my best interest right now so I'm going to do what he wants." (--Here's video of the interview . . .)
http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/06/87963/index.html
--Shannon was also on "Good Morning America" yesterday. She did that interview in a wheelchair, and even had to stop briefly when she thought she was going to have a seizure. (--Shannon suffers from some type of seizure disorder . . . and she claims that's one of the reasons she couldn't be more helpful after Gary's fall.) --As for her hopes for Gary now, she said, quote, "I just hope Gary's happy and he's in a better place and he's not suffering anymore with all the health issues he's had over the years."
(--Here's video from that interview . . .)
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b184510_colemans_ex_blasts_haters_claims_she.html
GARY COLEMAN HAD A WILL THAT LEAVES EVERYTHING TO SHANNON PRICE . . . BUT IT MIGHT BE VOID BECAUSE THEY GOT DIVORCED:
A new will that GARY COLEMAN wrote in 2007 has surfaced, and it bequeaths everything to SHANNON PRICE. -It's a handwritten addition to Gary's 1999 will . . . and it's signed and everything. But it still might not be valid, because Gary and Shannon DIVORCED after it was written . . . and they never got remarried. --Kent Alderman is an attorney working for Dion Mial . . . the former manager whom Gary named as the executor of his estate in his 1999 will. --He says that under Utah law, quote, "It is treated as having been revoked when a divorce occurs after it was written. If they had remarried then it would again be valid." --It should be noted that Mial stands to make some bank from managing Gary's estate, so we can probably expect this thing to end up in court. --In fact, it's already getting ugly. Mial is dissing Shannon for running to every media outlet that'll have her, and for allegedly selling photos of Gary in the hospital. --He says, quote, "Knowing Gary, as well as anyone could have, I assure his closest family, friends and fans that his disdain for this behavior would be unquestionable and paramount to any foregoing profession of 'love' for Shannon that might have ever poured from his lips." --Meanwhile, Shannon's rep says that Gary didn't even like Mial anymore, because they had a falling out a few years ago.--She says, quote, "Gary made a statement about Dion less than 24 hours before he fell. He said that he had not been friends with Dion for years . . . [He said] he had a falling out with Dion and did not wish to be close friends with him anymore."
SANDRA BULLOCK SAYS SCARLETT JOHANSSON IS A GREAT KISSER:
The SANDRA BULLOCK / SCARLETT JOHANSSON kiss at the "MTV Movie Awards" wasn't nearly as hot as it should have been . . . but it turns out Sandra enjoyed it a little more than she seemed to at the time. --She told "Us Weekly", quote, "Ryan is right . . . Scarlett is a great kisser." --Sandra was referring to Scarlett's husband, RYAN REYNOLDS . . . who was Sandra's co-star in "The Proposal". --Speaking of which . . . Sandra and Ryan are teaming up again for a new movie called "Most Wanted". --It's an action-comedy in which Sandra plays a criminal being escorted to court by a U.S. Marshall . . . played by Ryan, obviously. Something happens that forces them to go on the run together, at which time action-packed hilarity ensues. --The tone of the movie is being compared to that of the 1988 flick "Midnight Run", which starred Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, if that helps any.
MORE MILEY CYRUS INAPPROPRIATENESS . . . INCLUDING A MALE DANCER TOUCHING HER CHEST:
We have a few more pictures from MILEY CYRUS' gig in Madrid over the weekend . . . and, no big surprise, they show Miley engaging in even MORE inappropriate behavior. --We've got Miley seductively touching her breast . . . followed by a picture of Miley's chest being touched by a male backup dancer. --Then we've got the now-classic Miley-moving-in-for-the-fake-lesbian-kiss pic . . . and a shot of Miley looking like she's about to touch herself in a self-loving manner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dogPrU-09A
ALANIS MORISSETTE IS MARRIED:
ALANIS MORISSETTE got married last month, to a white rapper who calls himself MC SOULEYE. (--His real Name is Mario Treadway). They had a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home on May 22nd. --Alanis . . . who turned 36 last week . . . was previously engaged to RYAN REYNOLDS. But that relationship ended in 2007, and Ryan is now married to SCARLETT JOHANSSON.
(--MC Souleye is 30. You can jam to some of his dope creations on his MySpace page . . .)
http://www.myspace.com/souleye
CHARLIE SHEEN'S SENTENCING HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL JULY 12TH:
CHARLIE SHEEN'S plea and sentencing for attacking his wife over Christmas did NOT go down yesterday. The deal got messed up somehow, and the whole thing was called off. --Which also means that Charlie has not yet begun his 30-day prison sentence. A new hearing has been scheduled for July 12th. --There's no official word yet what happened. Arnold Mordkin, the district attorney of Pitkin County, Colorado, would only say, quote, "We've hit a snag. We need more time than is available for us to complete some of the finer points." --TMZ claims that snag involves Charlie's work-release program. Under the deal his lawyers worked out, Charlie was going to be let out of prison during the day to help out at a local theater company. --But sources say the woman who runs the work-release program didn't like the way Charlie's deal was structured, so she refused to approve it.
WOODY HARRELSON SCORED THE WINNING GOAL IN A PRO-AM SOCCER MATCH:
You probably didn't know this, but every year, there's a pro-am charity soccer match called Soccer Aid. It pits an all-England team against players and celebrities from the rest of the world. --Stars taking part this year included Woody Harrelson, Mike Myers, Michael Sheen from "Twilight", British pop dork Robbie Williams and "Hell's Kitchen" chef Gordon Ramsay. (--Ramsay is Scottish, and Sheen is Welsh . . . so they were on the "Rest of the World" team, along with Woody and Mike Myers.) --This year's game went down Sunday at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England. --When regulation time ended, the score was tied 2 to 2. And when soccer games are tied, they often end in a shootout . . . where players take turns taking penalty kicks, and the team that hits the most wins. --Now, during the actual game, the goals were all scored by pro soccer players. But in the shootout, it came down to one kick by Woody Harrelson . . . and he ACED IT. (--Sheen and Myers . . . who's Canadian . . . had also made penalty kicks for the Rest of the World.)
(--Here's video of our AMERICAN HERO, Woody Harrelson, showing those Brits how we do things . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxdkyk8-Jm4
MR. T HATES THE NEW "A-TEAM" MOVIE:
MR. T is 58, and still pitying fools after all these years. The fools he is currently pitying are the ones who made his beloved '80s TV series, "The A-Team", into a movie. Because they jammed too much sex and violence into it. --He even rejected a cameo in the movie because of the content. --Mr. T says, quote, "People die in the film and there's plenty of sex but when we did it, no one got hurt and it was all played for fun and family entertainment. These seem to be elements nobody is interested in anymore. --"It was too graphic for me . . . it's nothing like the show we turned out every week." (--"The A-Team" hits theaters this Friday. Two of the original "A-Team" stars, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz, DO have cameos in the flick.) (--Dirk's character, Face, is played by Bradley Cooper in the new movie. Dwight's character, Howling Mad Murdock, is played by Sharlto Copley, the guy from "District 9".) (--Mr. T's character, B.A. Baracus, is being played by UFC monster Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. The team's leader, Hannibal, is being played by Liam Neeson. The guy who originally played him, George Peppard, died in 1994.)
(--Here's another look at the trailer . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CgWWYyayiU
MTV HAS APOLOGIZED FOR ALL THE SWEARING ON THE "MTV MOVIE AWARDS" BROADCAST:
If you caught the "MTV Movie Awards" on Sunday night . . . you probably noticed that the show was LITTERED with profanity, both bleeped and un-bleeped. --Well, MTV is sorry about that. Sort of. --The network has issued the following apology: Quote, "The 'MTV Movie Awards' is a live televised event known for irreverent comedy and a party atmosphere where our guests speak more freely than they otherwise might. --"While we aired the live broadcast with a delay, we were unable to mute every word that some might find objectionable. All of these words will be muted in subsequent airings. --"We sincerely apologize to those in our audience who were offended by any objectionable words that might have slipped by for the live airing." (--Might have?) --A conservative media watchdog called the Culture and Media Institute has published a SCATHING review of the show, in which they COUNTED the bad words. --They claim there were at least 100 naughty words during the two-hour broadcast, which averages out to more than one per minute, if you subtract commercial time. --MTV censors caught 70 curses . . . quote, "47 variations of (the F-word), 11 uses of (the S-word), two (A-hole)s, one slang for breasts, and nine that were unidentifiable." --And they missed 30 . . . quote, "nine variations of (the F-word), two of (the S-word), and one '(G-damn).' Apparently the censors didn't even try to cover nine uses of (the B-word), eight uses of 'ass,' and one 'damn.'"
(--Below, there's a link to a HIGHLIGHT REEL of all the bleeped and un-bleeped profanity from this year's "MTV Movie Awards". ***WARNING***: The video does NOT edit any naughty words that "slipped" past MTV's censors.)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bob-parks/2010/06/07/i-want-my-effin-mtv-video
VANESSA MARCIL IS RETURNING TO "GENERAL HOSPITAL":
VANESSA MARCIL . . . a one-time wife of COREY FELDMAN . . . is returning to "General Hospital" on August 11th. She'll be a series regular again . . . reprising her role as Brenda Barrett. --Vanessa has had two previous stints on "General Hospital". She was on the show from 1992 to 1998, and then did another run from 2002 to 2003. (--At that point, she left the show to do NBC's "Las Vegas".)
TUESDAY TV REMINDERS: (--Check your local listings.)
--"The NBA Finals" [Game 3] . . . 9:00 to 11:30 P.M. Eastern on ABC. (--The Boston Celtics host the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA championship. The series is tied 1-1 going into tonight's game.)
--"Jimmy Kimmel Game Night" . . . 8:30 to 9:00 P.M. on ABC. (--Drew Barrymore pimps her upcoming flick "Going the Distance" while talking basketball. (--This airs before the NBA Finals in the Eastern and Central time zones . . . and after the game in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.)
--"Pretty Little Liars" [SERIES Premiere] . . . 8:00 to 9:00 P.M. on ABC Family. (--Four teenage girls reunite for the funeral of a friend and then get mysterious messages from someone claiming to be the dead girl. Chad Lowe and "Charmed's" Holly Marie Combs play the parents of one of the girls.)
--"America's Got Talent" [Auditions Show] . . . 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on NBC.
--"Glee" [1st Season Finale] . . . 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on Fox. (--Rival glee clubs New Directions and Vocal Adrenaline face off while Quinn prepares to deliver her baby. Olivia Newton-John and Josh Groban have cameos as themselves.)
MR. T is 58, and still pitying fools after all these years. The fools he is currently pitying are the ones who made his beloved '80s TV series, "The A-Team", into a movie. Because they jammed too much sex and violence into it. --He even rejected a cameo in the movie because of the content. --Mr. T says, quote, "People die in the film and there's plenty of sex but when we did it, no one got hurt and it was all played for fun and family entertainment. These seem to be elements nobody is interested in anymore. --"It was too graphic for me . . . it's nothing like the show we turned out every week." (--"The A-Team" hits theaters this Friday. Two of the original "A-Team" stars, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz, DO have cameos in the flick.) (--Dirk's character, Face, is played by Bradley Cooper in the new movie. Dwight's character, Howling Mad Murdock, is played by Sharlto Copley, the guy from "District 9".) (--Mr. T's character, B.A. Baracus, is being played by UFC monster Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. The team's leader, Hannibal, is being played by Liam Neeson. The guy who originally played him, George Peppard, died in 1994.)
(--Here's another look at the trailer . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CgWWYyayiU
MTV HAS APOLOGIZED FOR ALL THE SWEARING ON THE "MTV MOVIE AWARDS" BROADCAST:
If you caught the "MTV Movie Awards" on Sunday night . . . you probably noticed that the show was LITTERED with profanity, both bleeped and un-bleeped. --Well, MTV is sorry about that. Sort of. --The network has issued the following apology: Quote, "The 'MTV Movie Awards' is a live televised event known for irreverent comedy and a party atmosphere where our guests speak more freely than they otherwise might. --"While we aired the live broadcast with a delay, we were unable to mute every word that some might find objectionable. All of these words will be muted in subsequent airings. --"We sincerely apologize to those in our audience who were offended by any objectionable words that might have slipped by for the live airing." (--Might have?) --A conservative media watchdog called the Culture and Media Institute has published a SCATHING review of the show, in which they COUNTED the bad words. --They claim there were at least 100 naughty words during the two-hour broadcast, which averages out to more than one per minute, if you subtract commercial time. --MTV censors caught 70 curses . . . quote, "47 variations of (the F-word), 11 uses of (the S-word), two (A-hole)s, one slang for breasts, and nine that were unidentifiable." --And they missed 30 . . . quote, "nine variations of (the F-word), two of (the S-word), and one '(G-damn).' Apparently the censors didn't even try to cover nine uses of (the B-word), eight uses of 'ass,' and one 'damn.'"
(--Below, there's a link to a HIGHLIGHT REEL of all the bleeped and un-bleeped profanity from this year's "MTV Movie Awards". ***WARNING***: The video does NOT edit any naughty words that "slipped" past MTV's censors.)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bob-parks/2010/06/07/i-want-my-effin-mtv-video
VANESSA MARCIL IS RETURNING TO "GENERAL HOSPITAL":
VANESSA MARCIL . . . a one-time wife of COREY FELDMAN . . . is returning to "General Hospital" on August 11th. She'll be a series regular again . . . reprising her role as Brenda Barrett. --Vanessa has had two previous stints on "General Hospital". She was on the show from 1992 to 1998, and then did another run from 2002 to 2003. (--At that point, she left the show to do NBC's "Las Vegas".)
TUESDAY TV REMINDERS: (--Check your local listings.)
--"The NBA Finals" [Game 3] . . . 9:00 to 11:30 P.M. Eastern on ABC. (--The Boston Celtics host the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA championship. The series is tied 1-1 going into tonight's game.)
--"Jimmy Kimmel Game Night" . . . 8:30 to 9:00 P.M. on ABC. (--Drew Barrymore pimps her upcoming flick "Going the Distance" while talking basketball. (--This airs before the NBA Finals in the Eastern and Central time zones . . . and after the game in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.)
--"Pretty Little Liars" [SERIES Premiere] . . . 8:00 to 9:00 P.M. on ABC Family. (--Four teenage girls reunite for the funeral of a friend and then get mysterious messages from someone claiming to be the dead girl. Chad Lowe and "Charmed's" Holly Marie Combs play the parents of one of the girls.)
--"America's Got Talent" [Auditions Show] . . . 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on NBC.
--"Glee" [1st Season Finale] . . . 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on Fox. (--Rival glee clubs New Directions and Vocal Adrenaline face off while Quinn prepares to deliver her baby. Olivia Newton-John and Josh Groban have cameos as themselves.)
NEW ON VIDEO TODAY
--"Shutter Island" - Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play U.S. marshals trapped on a remote island during a hurricane while investigating the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. Ben Kingsley's the doctor in charge.
--"From Paris with Love" - John Travolta plays a bald-headed CIA badass trying to take out a terrorist threat in Paris . . . and "Tudors" star Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays his inexperienced new partner.
--"Starstruck" - Another Disney flick your kids will want you to waste DVR space on. It stars Sterling Knight from "Sonny With a Chance" as a pop star who falls for a normal girl while he's avoiding the paparazzi.
--"iCarly: iSaved Your Life"
TV SERIES ON DVD:
--"Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season" . . . a two-disc DVD set.
--"Nip/Tuck: The Sixth and Final Season" . . . a five-disc DVD set.
--"Z Rock: Season 2" . . . the series about a hard rock band that performs at kid parties during the day to pay the bills. It airs on IFC, in case you've never heard of it.
--"Family Matters: The Complete First Season" . . . a three-disc DVD set. (--It ran for nine seasons.)
--"The A-Team: The Complete Series" . . . a 25-disc Limited Edition boxed set shaped like the A-Team's black van.
--"Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series" . . . a six-disc boxed DVD set.
NEW MUSIC OUT TODAY
--"Bionic", Christina Aguilera (--It includes "Woohoo" featuring Nicki Minaj, "My Girls" featuring Peaches, and the single "Not Myself Tonight".)
--"Shout It Out", Hanson (--You can revisit their amusing "Thinking 'Bout Somethin'" video . . . featuring Weird Al on tambourine . . . at their MySpace page, here.)
--"Lazarus", Travie McCoy (of Gym Class Heroes) (--His guests include Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley, T-Pain and Travis Barker. This is his debut solo album.)
--"Crunk Rock", Lil Jon (--His guests include Soulja Boy, Stephen and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Ice Cube, Game, R. Kelly, Mario and Pitbull.)
AND NOW . . . HALL & OATES IS BOYCOTTING ARIZONA:
Oh man, Arizona is SO screwed now! --HALL & OATES . . . the preeminent soft-rock supergroup of our time and all FUTURE times . . . has joined the boycott against Arizona. (--This is in response to Arizona's controversial new immigration law, which allows authorities to ask people they suspect of being illegal for their papers. The concern is for legal citizens who ARE or just LOOK Hispanic.) --Their manager, a cool-by-association dude named Jonathan Wolfson, has announced that Hall & Oates have canceled an August 2nd gig in Phoenix, which was scheduled to take place right after an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game. --In a statement, Hall & Oates explained, quote, "In addition to our personal convictions, we are standing in solidarity with the music community in our boycott of performing in Arizona at this time. --"We would like to emphasize that this has nothing to do with the management of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who have been professional and cooperative throughout our dealings with them. This is our response to a very specific action of the state." --Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall said the club understood Hall & Oates decision. (--They're probably also relieved that Hall & Oates exonerated them of any culpability in the decision to deny Arizona their soft rock MAGIC.) (???) (--And here's that awesome SNL 'Weekend Update' sketch with the Hall & Oates song about Obama vs. McCain. They show up at 1:21 . . .) http://www.hulu.com/watch/38478/saturday-night-live-update-thursday-hall-and-oates-109
DID PINK'S TOUR BUS CATCH FIRE IN GERMANY?
PINK is denying reports that her tour bus caught fire in Germany yesterday morning. She posted a message on Twitter saying, quote, "My tour bus did NOT catch on fire. That story is so false it's almost entertaining."
DESTINY'S CHILD IS *NOT* REUNITING . . . IN CASE YOU'D HEARD THAT THEY WERE:
Apparently, there were recent rumors that DESTINY'S CHILD was reuniting . . . or considering reuniting . . . because both BEYONCÉ and her dad, Matthew Knowles, have issued denials. Here they are: --A spokesperson for Beyoncé said, quote, "Destiny's Child made an unprecedented impact in contemporary music, becoming one of the best-selling groups of all time. --"Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams have each moved on to successful solo careers. The members remain close, but will not reunite as a group." --And her dad . . . who used to be the band's manager . . . added, quote, "Contrary to rumors online of a Destiny's Child reunion, there are no plans for the group to reunite for a performance or album. The rumors are false."
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS TOUR DATES:
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have announced a string of North American tour dates for this summer. The shows will stretch from August 7th in Winnipeg, Canada, through September 5th in Holmdel, New Jersey. --CAGE THE ELEPHANT will be opening almost all the shows.
(--You can find all the dates at StoneTemplePilots.com, here . . .)
http://stonetemplepilots.com/tour
(--Stone Temple Pilots will also perform at the Arizona Fall Frenzy festival in Phoenix on September 17th. That is, they will unless they get all fired up about that new immigration law. Arizona STP fans: Keep your fingers crossed!)
NAZZY’S RANDOM STUFF
MARITAL MADNESS
WHEN MEN LEAVE WOMEN: "WIFE ABANDONMENT SYNDROME" IS WHEN YOUR HUSBAND SUDDENLY, UNEXPECTEDLY LEAVES YOU:
60-year-old Vikki Stark is a therapist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three years ago, out of nowhere, her husband of 21 years left her. He'd never said he was unhappy, he was always loving and attentive, and he never gave her ANY warning. --Now, Stark's come up with a term to describe that scenario . . . which she says has happened to HUNDREDS of women she's met and contacted in her personal and professional life. She calls it "WIFE ABANDONMENT SYNDROME." --Here's what makes up Wife Abandonment Syndrome . . .
#1.) Your husband announces he wants to end things in a sudden, shocking way. Like you could be out buying groceries and, as you're putting them away, he says, "I'm out."
#2.) He's loving, attentive and caring until the end . . . and you're completely confident in your marriage. But when he leaves, he seems remorseless and unconcerned about the WRECKAGE he's leaving behind.
#3.) 95% of the time, he runs to another woman. She's almost always younger, but she's probably not a trophy wife. Stark says, quote, "She looks up to him, laughs at his jokes, and makes [him] feel like he's the king of the world."
#4.) He's the kind of guy who avoids conflict . . . but when he ends things, his reasons are, quote, "nonsensical, exaggerated, trivial or fraudulent." Something like "I've never been happy" or "You've always mistreated me."
#5.) He's usually unhappy at work . . . so in retrospect, you see that he realized he couldn't change his career but COULD change his partner.
--SO . . . since all of that basically adds up to "you'll never see this coming" . . . is there any way to check if you're at risk of your husband suddenly ditching you? --Stark says the best thing you can do is an annual check-up on your marriage. Once a year, sit down with your husband and say, "How are we doing?" --That way, even if you're not fighting very often, you might be able to see little problems that are growing under the surface.--But if this does happen to you, Stark says, don't blame yourself or regret your entire marriage. Quote, "There's no magic formula, but the sadness will lift." --It usually takes two or three years to truly move on, but, when you do, quote, "many women have rebuilt their lives on a new platform and started doing things they could never have imagined." (ABC News)
(--If you've suffered from Wife Abandonment Syndrome . . . or you want to read stories and get advice from women who have . . . check out Stark's website . . .)
http://www.runawayhusbands.com/
AMERICANS GET WAY, WAY TOO MUCH MEDICAL CARE . . . INCLUDING THE MOST RADIATION IN THE WORLD:
As much as we seem to HATE our health care system, we sure do spend a lot of time hanging out with it. --According to a study by the Associated Press, Americans are getting WAY too much medical care. We can't get enough. Check out these stats . . . --Between one-fifth and one-third of the tests and treatments we get are TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. In fact, we over-test and over-medicate so much that we may be making ourselves SICKER from all the side effects. --Americans get the MOST MEDICAL RADIATION in the world, which can increase our risk of cancer. --Doctors prescribe antibiotics TENS OF MILLIONS of times for viruses that can't be fixed with antibiotics . . . like colds. --Back pain is the most over-treated condition, and has some of the most EXPENSIVE treatment options . . . everything from too many MRI scans to unnecessary spinal surgery. --About one in three births in the U.S. is by C-section now . . . and, a lot of the time, it's because of a mediocre monitor that makes a perfectly healthy baby seem like it could be in trouble. --Dr. Bernard Rosof is on the American Medical Association's panel to try to curb over-testing and over-medicating. He says the key is to educated patients so we, quote, "begin to understand that less is often better." (Yahoo News)
WHICH "AMERICAN PHRASES" DO BRITISH PEOPLE HATE THE MOST?
Matthew Engel is a columnist at the "Daily Mail" in England. He says he's worried that our Americanized version of his precious English language is sneaking into his country, and he asked his readers to send their least-favorite American phrases.
--Here are 10 of the American-English phrases that his British-English purists hate the most . . .
#1.) "Can I get a coffee?" instead of "May I have a coffee?"
#2.) "I'm good" instead of "I'm very well, thank you." (--Yep, this is around the point where I wanted to hop on a Virgin Atlantic flight and go punch someone over there too.)
#3.) "Snuck" instead of "sneaked."
#4.) "Schedule" pronounced "skedule" instead of "shedule."
#5.) "Filling out a form" instead of "filling in a form."
#6.) "Fries" instead of "chips" and "chips" instead of "crisps."
#7.) Baseball metaphors. Things like "you're on the team" or "can we touch base" or "that was a home run." (--I guess they'd prefer croquet metaphors?)
#8.) "Driver's license" instead of "driving license."
#9.) "Food to-go" instead of "take-away food."
#10.) "Hi guys" when addressing people of either gender. (Daily Mail)
BAD NEWS: IT'S NOW ILLEGAL TO CREATE A HALF-MAN, HALF-ANIMAL IN OHIO AND ARIZONA:
Hope you didn't have any weekend plans to breed yourself a centaur or goat boy. --In the past month, Ohio and Arizona have both passed laws making it illegal to create HALF-HUMAN, HALF-ANIMAL hybrids. Louisiana and Oklahoma already had those laws. And other states could be hopping on that bandwagon too. --The bans are happening because human-animal hybrids are making news . . . not as weird pets, but because they could have a very real, possibly even game-changing, scientific impact. --In the past 15 years, researchers have been able to create human-animal hybrids like sheep with human livers and mice with human immune systems. They look like animals on the outside but have human organs and cells on the inside. --This could be HUGE for medical cures and advances. Like, if you destroy your liver with a lifetime of pounding bourbon, scientists could extract liver cells from you, insert them into a sheep, and harvest you a new liver made from your own cells. --Because they'd be your own cells, they could even be trained to fight an infection or disease . . . maybe even CANCER and HIV . . . and, when they were put back in your body, it would recognize them and use them to fight off your illness. --BUT . . . just like with stem cells, there's a big moral dilemma here . . . and that's why Ohio and Arizona have banned this kind of research. Opponents believe that mixing human and animal cells is UNNATURAL, and a crime against nature. (ABC News)
ONE OUT OF THREE KIDS HAS SEEN INTERNET SMUT BY AGE 10:
Here's your daily reminder: If YOU don't watch your kid when he goes on the Internet . . . HE'S going to watch porno. According to a new survey by a British children's advocacy group, one out of three kids sees Internet porno by age 10. --80% of kids between 14 and 16, or four out of five, admitted that they regularly look at explicit photos and videos on their home computer. 67%, or two out of three, look at porno on their cell phones. (Mirror.co.uk)
YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE HOW FEW WOMEN WOULD DATE A SHORT MAN:
In case you've been thinking lately, "You know, women really AREN'T that shallow" . . . here's a quick survey result to smack you right back into reality. --According to a study in a medical journal called "Personality and Individual Differences", only 4% of women . . . or one out of 25 . . . say they'd date a man who's shorter than they are. --The average height they wanted in a man was 5-foot-11 . . . even if the women were barely five feet tall themselves. The average male height is 5-foot-9. --"20/20" also ran a report on women's attitudes toward short men . . . and found that women would NEVER pick a short man to date over a taller man, even if the short guy was a doctor, champion skier, bestselling author and multimillionaire. --When they asked one woman what it would take to date a guy who's 5-foot-3, she answered, "Maybe if the other guy [was a] murderer." (Shine from Yahoo)
KIDS WITH LESBIAN PARENTS ACTUALLY TURN OUT *MORE* WELL-ADJUSTED THAN OTHER KIDS:
No matter what protestors with giant mullets and misspelled signs tell you, kids with gay parents turn out just fine. In fact, according to a new, TWENTY-FIVE YEAR study . . . sometimes they turn out even BETTER than other kids. --For the study, researchers followed 78 lesbian couples that conceived children through male seed donations. They monitored the kids for 25 years and measured their well being through quizzes and interviews. Here's what they found . . . --Kids with lesbian parents usually turned out MORE well-adjusted than kids with male-female parents. The kids with two moms also rated higher in social, academic and overall competence. --A doctor named Nanette Gartrell led the study, and she has a theory for why this happened. She says, quote, "Growing up in households with less power assertion and more parental involvement has been shown to [lead to] healthier psychological adjustment." --Wendy Wright is the president of the Concerned Women for America, a group that opposes gay marriage. She says she believes the study, quote, "cherry picked the [couples] who are involved and what info they release." --"You have to be a little suspicious of any study that says children being raised by same-sex couples do better or have superior outcomes to children raised with a mother and father. It just defies common sense and reality." (CNN)
--"Shutter Island" - Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play U.S. marshals trapped on a remote island during a hurricane while investigating the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane. Ben Kingsley's the doctor in charge.
--"From Paris with Love" - John Travolta plays a bald-headed CIA badass trying to take out a terrorist threat in Paris . . . and "Tudors" star Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays his inexperienced new partner.
--"Starstruck" - Another Disney flick your kids will want you to waste DVR space on. It stars Sterling Knight from "Sonny With a Chance" as a pop star who falls for a normal girl while he's avoiding the paparazzi.
--"iCarly: iSaved Your Life"
TV SERIES ON DVD:
--"Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season" . . . a two-disc DVD set.
--"Nip/Tuck: The Sixth and Final Season" . . . a five-disc DVD set.
--"Z Rock: Season 2" . . . the series about a hard rock band that performs at kid parties during the day to pay the bills. It airs on IFC, in case you've never heard of it.
--"Family Matters: The Complete First Season" . . . a three-disc DVD set. (--It ran for nine seasons.)
--"The A-Team: The Complete Series" . . . a 25-disc Limited Edition boxed set shaped like the A-Team's black van.
--"Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series" . . . a six-disc boxed DVD set.
NEW MUSIC OUT TODAY
--"Bionic", Christina Aguilera (--It includes "Woohoo" featuring Nicki Minaj, "My Girls" featuring Peaches, and the single "Not Myself Tonight".)
--"Shout It Out", Hanson (--You can revisit their amusing "Thinking 'Bout Somethin'" video . . . featuring Weird Al on tambourine . . . at their MySpace page, here.)
--"Lazarus", Travie McCoy (of Gym Class Heroes) (--His guests include Cee-Lo Green of Gnarls Barkley, T-Pain and Travis Barker. This is his debut solo album.)
--"Crunk Rock", Lil Jon (--His guests include Soulja Boy, Stephen and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Ice Cube, Game, R. Kelly, Mario and Pitbull.)
AND NOW . . . HALL & OATES IS BOYCOTTING ARIZONA:
Oh man, Arizona is SO screwed now! --HALL & OATES . . . the preeminent soft-rock supergroup of our time and all FUTURE times . . . has joined the boycott against Arizona. (--This is in response to Arizona's controversial new immigration law, which allows authorities to ask people they suspect of being illegal for their papers. The concern is for legal citizens who ARE or just LOOK Hispanic.) --Their manager, a cool-by-association dude named Jonathan Wolfson, has announced that Hall & Oates have canceled an August 2nd gig in Phoenix, which was scheduled to take place right after an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game. --In a statement, Hall & Oates explained, quote, "In addition to our personal convictions, we are standing in solidarity with the music community in our boycott of performing in Arizona at this time. --"We would like to emphasize that this has nothing to do with the management of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who have been professional and cooperative throughout our dealings with them. This is our response to a very specific action of the state." --Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall said the club understood Hall & Oates decision. (--They're probably also relieved that Hall & Oates exonerated them of any culpability in the decision to deny Arizona their soft rock MAGIC.) (???) (--And here's that awesome SNL 'Weekend Update' sketch with the Hall & Oates song about Obama vs. McCain. They show up at 1:21 . . .) http://www.hulu.com/watch/38478/saturday-night-live-update-thursday-hall-and-oates-109
DID PINK'S TOUR BUS CATCH FIRE IN GERMANY?
PINK is denying reports that her tour bus caught fire in Germany yesterday morning. She posted a message on Twitter saying, quote, "My tour bus did NOT catch on fire. That story is so false it's almost entertaining."
DESTINY'S CHILD IS *NOT* REUNITING . . . IN CASE YOU'D HEARD THAT THEY WERE:
Apparently, there were recent rumors that DESTINY'S CHILD was reuniting . . . or considering reuniting . . . because both BEYONCÉ and her dad, Matthew Knowles, have issued denials. Here they are: --A spokesperson for Beyoncé said, quote, "Destiny's Child made an unprecedented impact in contemporary music, becoming one of the best-selling groups of all time. --"Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams have each moved on to successful solo careers. The members remain close, but will not reunite as a group." --And her dad . . . who used to be the band's manager . . . added, quote, "Contrary to rumors online of a Destiny's Child reunion, there are no plans for the group to reunite for a performance or album. The rumors are false."
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS TOUR DATES:
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have announced a string of North American tour dates for this summer. The shows will stretch from August 7th in Winnipeg, Canada, through September 5th in Holmdel, New Jersey. --CAGE THE ELEPHANT will be opening almost all the shows.
(--You can find all the dates at StoneTemplePilots.com, here . . .)
http://stonetemplepilots.com/tour
(--Stone Temple Pilots will also perform at the Arizona Fall Frenzy festival in Phoenix on September 17th. That is, they will unless they get all fired up about that new immigration law. Arizona STP fans: Keep your fingers crossed!)
NAZZY’S RANDOM STUFF
MARITAL MADNESS
WHEN MEN LEAVE WOMEN: "WIFE ABANDONMENT SYNDROME" IS WHEN YOUR HUSBAND SUDDENLY, UNEXPECTEDLY LEAVES YOU:
60-year-old Vikki Stark is a therapist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three years ago, out of nowhere, her husband of 21 years left her. He'd never said he was unhappy, he was always loving and attentive, and he never gave her ANY warning. --Now, Stark's come up with a term to describe that scenario . . . which she says has happened to HUNDREDS of women she's met and contacted in her personal and professional life. She calls it "WIFE ABANDONMENT SYNDROME." --Here's what makes up Wife Abandonment Syndrome . . .
#1.) Your husband announces he wants to end things in a sudden, shocking way. Like you could be out buying groceries and, as you're putting them away, he says, "I'm out."
#2.) He's loving, attentive and caring until the end . . . and you're completely confident in your marriage. But when he leaves, he seems remorseless and unconcerned about the WRECKAGE he's leaving behind.
#3.) 95% of the time, he runs to another woman. She's almost always younger, but she's probably not a trophy wife. Stark says, quote, "She looks up to him, laughs at his jokes, and makes [him] feel like he's the king of the world."
#4.) He's the kind of guy who avoids conflict . . . but when he ends things, his reasons are, quote, "nonsensical, exaggerated, trivial or fraudulent." Something like "I've never been happy" or "You've always mistreated me."
#5.) He's usually unhappy at work . . . so in retrospect, you see that he realized he couldn't change his career but COULD change his partner.
--SO . . . since all of that basically adds up to "you'll never see this coming" . . . is there any way to check if you're at risk of your husband suddenly ditching you? --Stark says the best thing you can do is an annual check-up on your marriage. Once a year, sit down with your husband and say, "How are we doing?" --That way, even if you're not fighting very often, you might be able to see little problems that are growing under the surface.--But if this does happen to you, Stark says, don't blame yourself or regret your entire marriage. Quote, "There's no magic formula, but the sadness will lift." --It usually takes two or three years to truly move on, but, when you do, quote, "many women have rebuilt their lives on a new platform and started doing things they could never have imagined." (ABC News)
(--If you've suffered from Wife Abandonment Syndrome . . . or you want to read stories and get advice from women who have . . . check out Stark's website . . .)
http://www.runawayhusbands.com/
AMERICANS GET WAY, WAY TOO MUCH MEDICAL CARE . . . INCLUDING THE MOST RADIATION IN THE WORLD:
As much as we seem to HATE our health care system, we sure do spend a lot of time hanging out with it. --According to a study by the Associated Press, Americans are getting WAY too much medical care. We can't get enough. Check out these stats . . . --Between one-fifth and one-third of the tests and treatments we get are TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. In fact, we over-test and over-medicate so much that we may be making ourselves SICKER from all the side effects. --Americans get the MOST MEDICAL RADIATION in the world, which can increase our risk of cancer. --Doctors prescribe antibiotics TENS OF MILLIONS of times for viruses that can't be fixed with antibiotics . . . like colds. --Back pain is the most over-treated condition, and has some of the most EXPENSIVE treatment options . . . everything from too many MRI scans to unnecessary spinal surgery. --About one in three births in the U.S. is by C-section now . . . and, a lot of the time, it's because of a mediocre monitor that makes a perfectly healthy baby seem like it could be in trouble. --Dr. Bernard Rosof is on the American Medical Association's panel to try to curb over-testing and over-medicating. He says the key is to educated patients so we, quote, "begin to understand that less is often better." (Yahoo News)
WHICH "AMERICAN PHRASES" DO BRITISH PEOPLE HATE THE MOST?
Matthew Engel is a columnist at the "Daily Mail" in England. He says he's worried that our Americanized version of his precious English language is sneaking into his country, and he asked his readers to send their least-favorite American phrases.
--Here are 10 of the American-English phrases that his British-English purists hate the most . . .
#1.) "Can I get a coffee?" instead of "May I have a coffee?"
#2.) "I'm good" instead of "I'm very well, thank you." (--Yep, this is around the point where I wanted to hop on a Virgin Atlantic flight and go punch someone over there too.)
#3.) "Snuck" instead of "sneaked."
#4.) "Schedule" pronounced "skedule" instead of "shedule."
#5.) "Filling out a form" instead of "filling in a form."
#6.) "Fries" instead of "chips" and "chips" instead of "crisps."
#7.) Baseball metaphors. Things like "you're on the team" or "can we touch base" or "that was a home run." (--I guess they'd prefer croquet metaphors?)
#8.) "Driver's license" instead of "driving license."
#9.) "Food to-go" instead of "take-away food."
#10.) "Hi guys" when addressing people of either gender. (Daily Mail)
BAD NEWS: IT'S NOW ILLEGAL TO CREATE A HALF-MAN, HALF-ANIMAL IN OHIO AND ARIZONA:
Hope you didn't have any weekend plans to breed yourself a centaur or goat boy. --In the past month, Ohio and Arizona have both passed laws making it illegal to create HALF-HUMAN, HALF-ANIMAL hybrids. Louisiana and Oklahoma already had those laws. And other states could be hopping on that bandwagon too. --The bans are happening because human-animal hybrids are making news . . . not as weird pets, but because they could have a very real, possibly even game-changing, scientific impact. --In the past 15 years, researchers have been able to create human-animal hybrids like sheep with human livers and mice with human immune systems. They look like animals on the outside but have human organs and cells on the inside. --This could be HUGE for medical cures and advances. Like, if you destroy your liver with a lifetime of pounding bourbon, scientists could extract liver cells from you, insert them into a sheep, and harvest you a new liver made from your own cells. --Because they'd be your own cells, they could even be trained to fight an infection or disease . . . maybe even CANCER and HIV . . . and, when they were put back in your body, it would recognize them and use them to fight off your illness. --BUT . . . just like with stem cells, there's a big moral dilemma here . . . and that's why Ohio and Arizona have banned this kind of research. Opponents believe that mixing human and animal cells is UNNATURAL, and a crime against nature. (ABC News)
ONE OUT OF THREE KIDS HAS SEEN INTERNET SMUT BY AGE 10:
Here's your daily reminder: If YOU don't watch your kid when he goes on the Internet . . . HE'S going to watch porno. According to a new survey by a British children's advocacy group, one out of three kids sees Internet porno by age 10. --80% of kids between 14 and 16, or four out of five, admitted that they regularly look at explicit photos and videos on their home computer. 67%, or two out of three, look at porno on their cell phones. (Mirror.co.uk)
YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE HOW FEW WOMEN WOULD DATE A SHORT MAN:
In case you've been thinking lately, "You know, women really AREN'T that shallow" . . . here's a quick survey result to smack you right back into reality. --According to a study in a medical journal called "Personality and Individual Differences", only 4% of women . . . or one out of 25 . . . say they'd date a man who's shorter than they are. --The average height they wanted in a man was 5-foot-11 . . . even if the women were barely five feet tall themselves. The average male height is 5-foot-9. --"20/20" also ran a report on women's attitudes toward short men . . . and found that women would NEVER pick a short man to date over a taller man, even if the short guy was a doctor, champion skier, bestselling author and multimillionaire. --When they asked one woman what it would take to date a guy who's 5-foot-3, she answered, "Maybe if the other guy [was a] murderer." (Shine from Yahoo)
KIDS WITH LESBIAN PARENTS ACTUALLY TURN OUT *MORE* WELL-ADJUSTED THAN OTHER KIDS:
No matter what protestors with giant mullets and misspelled signs tell you, kids with gay parents turn out just fine. In fact, according to a new, TWENTY-FIVE YEAR study . . . sometimes they turn out even BETTER than other kids. --For the study, researchers followed 78 lesbian couples that conceived children through male seed donations. They monitored the kids for 25 years and measured their well being through quizzes and interviews. Here's what they found . . . --Kids with lesbian parents usually turned out MORE well-adjusted than kids with male-female parents. The kids with two moms also rated higher in social, academic and overall competence. --A doctor named Nanette Gartrell led the study, and she has a theory for why this happened. She says, quote, "Growing up in households with less power assertion and more parental involvement has been shown to [lead to] healthier psychological adjustment." --Wendy Wright is the president of the Concerned Women for America, a group that opposes gay marriage. She says she believes the study, quote, "cherry picked the [couples] who are involved and what info they release." --"You have to be a little suspicious of any study that says children being raised by same-sex couples do better or have superior outcomes to children raised with a mother and father. It just defies common sense and reality." (CNN)
A MAN IN TENNESSEE WHO HATES TRAFFIC CAMERAS GOT SWEET REVENGE ON HIS LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT:
I've still never met anyone who thinks traffic cameras are REALLY there for our safety . . . they're a cash grab by the local police and we ALL know it. --So I've got to applaud Brian McCrary of Gray, Tennessee (--in the northeast part of the state). Earlier this year, he got a $90 speeding ticket from a camera in Bluff City, Tennessee . . . and decided he was going to fight it in his own, unique way. --Brian's a computer network designer. He looked up the Bluff City Police Department's website at BluffCityPD.com . . . and he noticed that they'd let the registration on their website domain name expire. (--The way domain names work, you can buy one as long as no one else currently has it registered. And you own it from that point on, as long as you keep paying the annual fee, which can be around $10 per year.) --So Brian purchased the domain name for about $10 and set up his OWN website at BluffCityPD.com. This one features a cartoon character shaped like a police badge, clutching some cash . . . plus links about the SCAM of traffic cameras. --The Bluff City Police Department's chief, David Nelson, said the officer who manages the website is on medical leave, which is how they let it expire.
--And . . . unless they can prove they own the copyright to BluffCityPD . . . or Brian voluntarily gives or sells it to them . . . they won't be able to get that domain name back. (The Tennessean) (--Or, ya know, they can put a HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT on his license plate and Social Security number and make him have the most miserable life in history. Either way. Still, bravo to this guy for sticking it to The Man.)
A "WIZARD OF OZ" FESTIVAL WAS CALLED OFF BECAUSE OF A TORNADO:
There was supposed to be a "Wizard Of Oz" festival this past weekend in Chittenango, New York (--In central New York, outside Syracuse). They call it 'Oz-Stravaganza.' But they had to cancel it . . . because of A TORNADO. --And sure, while a lot of people who go to a "Wizard Of Oz" festival would WANT a tornado to come . . . after all, it's their best chance of escaping this horrible black-and-white world and actually getting to Oz . . . safety concerns made it impossible. --High winds . . . either a funnel cloud or a tornado . . . knocked over so many power lines and trees in Chittenango that the organizers had to cancel the event. They say they're rescheduling for a later date. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
THINK ABOUT THIS BEFORE YOU PLAY WITH AN IPAD AT THE APPLE STORE:
I probably won't drop hundreds of dollars on the new iPad, but I've gone to an Apple Store to mess around with one. And . . . well . . . after hearing this I'm NEVER going to do that again. --The "New York Daily News" secretly swabbed the iPads on display at four different Apple Stores around New York City, and found they're just CRAWLING with the diseases and bacteria of everyone who's touched them before you. --Two of the iPads had the bacteria that causes staph infections . . . two had a type of nasty YEAST . . . and two had bacteria that cause nasty rashes. So . . . if you are going to touch them . . . WASH YOUR HANDS when you're done. (Switched)
NAZZY’S SILLY VIDEOS O THE DAY
#1.) HERE'S A COMPILATION OF SOLDIERS RETURNING HOME AND SURPRISING THEIR FAMILIES:
Here's a compilation of soldiers returning home and surprising their families. See if you can make it through without crying.
(--Search for "soldiers surprising loved ones.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGzqpGx1KU
#2.) A SOUTH AFRICAN RESTAURANT RELEASED A WORLD CUP AD FEATURING BARE-BREASTED WOMEN:
A South African restaurant chain released an ad telling women to walk around shirtless because that's what foreigners think they do ALL the time. The ad features bare-breasted women, but it's all blurred out. (--Search for "Nando's AMA-visitors ad.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WNrVChjr0
#3.) A GUY WOKE HIS FRIEND UP WITH A CONFUSING PRANK:
A confused guy woke up to his friend shoving a banana in his mouth, handing him a TV, and pushing him into a closet, where he stayed for a solid five seconds before realizing it was a prank. (--Search for "confused wake-up prank.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3haugBOovxk
HOW OFTEN IS YOUR FAMILY TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM?
If you're wondering how working parents and their kids spend time when they're at home, researchers at UCLA spent THREE YEARS filming 32 families in Los Angeles. Each family had at least two kids, and both parents worked full-time jobs. --They analyzed over 1,500 hours of video, and released the findings last month. Here's the most interesting stuff they found . . .
#1.) WORKING MOMS SPENT 27% OF THEIR TIME CLEANING AND DOING CHORES, COMPARED TO 18% FOR DADS. The kids only spent 3% of their time on chores. And it didn't make a difference if they got an allowance. --The dads also lounged around more than the moms did. They spent 23% of their time doing things the researchers defined as "leisure activities," compared to 11% for moms.
#2.) THE ENTIRE FAMILY WAS TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM JUST 14% OF THE TIME. But the parents spent a lot of ONE-ON-ONE time with their kids. --On average, the moms were alone with the kids 34% of the time, and the dads were alone with them 25% of the time.
#3.) THE PARENTS DIDN'T GET MUCH ALONE TIME. While they were home, working moms and dads only spent 10% of their time alone in the same room together. That's not including the time they spent sleeping.
#4.) TALKING ABOUT THE DAY STRESSED MEN OUT. To measure stress levels, the researchers had parents spit into a cup four times a day, to check their cortisol levels. --Cortisol is a hormone your body releases when you're stressed out, and the more of it you have in your system, the higher your stress level is.
--The study showed that both men and women started to relax once they got home from work, which you'd expect. --But here's what's interesting. When they started talking about their day, the stress levels in women dropped even FASTER. But MEN found it HARDER to relax. (The New York Times)
Woman Finds Her Missing Kids On Facebook
A Southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has been able to find them using Facebook. Authorities say the children’s father, Faustino Utreta, left with the children in 1995, when they were ages 2 and 3. A district attorney for San Bernardino, California, says the mom found her daughter’s Facebook profile after searching the social networking site in March. The two children, a 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy, are now in the custody of the state of Florida. For now, the teenagers are being cared for by a non-relative in Florida that the pair already has an existing relationship with. The father has been charged with kidnapping and violating child custody orders.
Modest Men Or Modest Women?
Researchers in New Jersey say people find modest men less likable than modest women. Rutgers University researchers said they showed 200 volunteers videos depicting a male actor and a female actor interviewing for a job with the script calling for them to be humble about their achievements. The volunteers rated the interviewees on factors including modesty and likability. Researchers said the man was overwhelmingly liked less than the woman. “Modest men were not liked as much as modest women because they were viewed as ‘too weak’ for a man and because they were viewed as insufficiently confident and ambitious,” researchers said. One member of the research team said the findings indicate men face “prejudice” when they behave modestly. She said the findings “also raise the possibility that men may avoid behaving modestly because they risk backlash when they do.”
Hot Dog!
Summer time is hot dog season and Nathan’s Famous all-beef hotdogs celebrates with hot dog trivia to entertain your backyard guests.
· America’s will consume 7 billion hot dogs between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
· San Francisco eats more hot dogs than any other city, an average of 4.16 per person annually.
· Americans will spend more than $1.9 billion on hot dogs. The top five hot dog buying cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio/Corpus Christie, Baltimore/D.C., and Chicago.
· Americans will gobble down 150 million hot dogs on the Fourth of July alone.
· Hot dog lovers can win a chance to be a judge at the 2011 Nathan’s Famous eating competition at www.nathanssweepstakes.com.
I've still never met anyone who thinks traffic cameras are REALLY there for our safety . . . they're a cash grab by the local police and we ALL know it. --So I've got to applaud Brian McCrary of Gray, Tennessee (--in the northeast part of the state). Earlier this year, he got a $90 speeding ticket from a camera in Bluff City, Tennessee . . . and decided he was going to fight it in his own, unique way. --Brian's a computer network designer. He looked up the Bluff City Police Department's website at BluffCityPD.com . . . and he noticed that they'd let the registration on their website domain name expire. (--The way domain names work, you can buy one as long as no one else currently has it registered. And you own it from that point on, as long as you keep paying the annual fee, which can be around $10 per year.) --So Brian purchased the domain name for about $10 and set up his OWN website at BluffCityPD.com. This one features a cartoon character shaped like a police badge, clutching some cash . . . plus links about the SCAM of traffic cameras. --The Bluff City Police Department's chief, David Nelson, said the officer who manages the website is on medical leave, which is how they let it expire.
--And . . . unless they can prove they own the copyright to BluffCityPD . . . or Brian voluntarily gives or sells it to them . . . they won't be able to get that domain name back. (The Tennessean) (--Or, ya know, they can put a HOMELAND SECURITY ALERT on his license plate and Social Security number and make him have the most miserable life in history. Either way. Still, bravo to this guy for sticking it to The Man.)
A "WIZARD OF OZ" FESTIVAL WAS CALLED OFF BECAUSE OF A TORNADO:
There was supposed to be a "Wizard Of Oz" festival this past weekend in Chittenango, New York (--In central New York, outside Syracuse). They call it 'Oz-Stravaganza.' But they had to cancel it . . . because of A TORNADO. --And sure, while a lot of people who go to a "Wizard Of Oz" festival would WANT a tornado to come . . . after all, it's their best chance of escaping this horrible black-and-white world and actually getting to Oz . . . safety concerns made it impossible. --High winds . . . either a funnel cloud or a tornado . . . knocked over so many power lines and trees in Chittenango that the organizers had to cancel the event. They say they're rescheduling for a later date. (Syracuse Post-Standard)
THINK ABOUT THIS BEFORE YOU PLAY WITH AN IPAD AT THE APPLE STORE:
I probably won't drop hundreds of dollars on the new iPad, but I've gone to an Apple Store to mess around with one. And . . . well . . . after hearing this I'm NEVER going to do that again. --The "New York Daily News" secretly swabbed the iPads on display at four different Apple Stores around New York City, and found they're just CRAWLING with the diseases and bacteria of everyone who's touched them before you. --Two of the iPads had the bacteria that causes staph infections . . . two had a type of nasty YEAST . . . and two had bacteria that cause nasty rashes. So . . . if you are going to touch them . . . WASH YOUR HANDS when you're done. (Switched)
NAZZY’S SILLY VIDEOS O THE DAY
#1.) HERE'S A COMPILATION OF SOLDIERS RETURNING HOME AND SURPRISING THEIR FAMILIES:
Here's a compilation of soldiers returning home and surprising their families. See if you can make it through without crying.
(--Search for "soldiers surprising loved ones.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGzqpGx1KU
#2.) A SOUTH AFRICAN RESTAURANT RELEASED A WORLD CUP AD FEATURING BARE-BREASTED WOMEN:
A South African restaurant chain released an ad telling women to walk around shirtless because that's what foreigners think they do ALL the time. The ad features bare-breasted women, but it's all blurred out. (--Search for "Nando's AMA-visitors ad.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WNrVChjr0
#3.) A GUY WOKE HIS FRIEND UP WITH A CONFUSING PRANK:
A confused guy woke up to his friend shoving a banana in his mouth, handing him a TV, and pushing him into a closet, where he stayed for a solid five seconds before realizing it was a prank. (--Search for "confused wake-up prank.")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3haugBOovxk
HOW OFTEN IS YOUR FAMILY TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM?
If you're wondering how working parents and their kids spend time when they're at home, researchers at UCLA spent THREE YEARS filming 32 families in Los Angeles. Each family had at least two kids, and both parents worked full-time jobs. --They analyzed over 1,500 hours of video, and released the findings last month. Here's the most interesting stuff they found . . .
#1.) WORKING MOMS SPENT 27% OF THEIR TIME CLEANING AND DOING CHORES, COMPARED TO 18% FOR DADS. The kids only spent 3% of their time on chores. And it didn't make a difference if they got an allowance. --The dads also lounged around more than the moms did. They spent 23% of their time doing things the researchers defined as "leisure activities," compared to 11% for moms.
#2.) THE ENTIRE FAMILY WAS TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM JUST 14% OF THE TIME. But the parents spent a lot of ONE-ON-ONE time with their kids. --On average, the moms were alone with the kids 34% of the time, and the dads were alone with them 25% of the time.
#3.) THE PARENTS DIDN'T GET MUCH ALONE TIME. While they were home, working moms and dads only spent 10% of their time alone in the same room together. That's not including the time they spent sleeping.
#4.) TALKING ABOUT THE DAY STRESSED MEN OUT. To measure stress levels, the researchers had parents spit into a cup four times a day, to check their cortisol levels. --Cortisol is a hormone your body releases when you're stressed out, and the more of it you have in your system, the higher your stress level is.
--The study showed that both men and women started to relax once they got home from work, which you'd expect. --But here's what's interesting. When they started talking about their day, the stress levels in women dropped even FASTER. But MEN found it HARDER to relax. (The New York Times)
Woman Finds Her Missing Kids On Facebook
A Southern California mother whose two children were reported missing 15 years ago has been able to find them using Facebook. Authorities say the children’s father, Faustino Utreta, left with the children in 1995, when they were ages 2 and 3. A district attorney for San Bernardino, California, says the mom found her daughter’s Facebook profile after searching the social networking site in March. The two children, a 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy, are now in the custody of the state of Florida. For now, the teenagers are being cared for by a non-relative in Florida that the pair already has an existing relationship with. The father has been charged with kidnapping and violating child custody orders.
Modest Men Or Modest Women?
Researchers in New Jersey say people find modest men less likable than modest women. Rutgers University researchers said they showed 200 volunteers videos depicting a male actor and a female actor interviewing for a job with the script calling for them to be humble about their achievements. The volunteers rated the interviewees on factors including modesty and likability. Researchers said the man was overwhelmingly liked less than the woman. “Modest men were not liked as much as modest women because they were viewed as ‘too weak’ for a man and because they were viewed as insufficiently confident and ambitious,” researchers said. One member of the research team said the findings indicate men face “prejudice” when they behave modestly. She said the findings “also raise the possibility that men may avoid behaving modestly because they risk backlash when they do.”
Hot Dog!
Summer time is hot dog season and Nathan’s Famous all-beef hotdogs celebrates with hot dog trivia to entertain your backyard guests.
· America’s will consume 7 billion hot dogs between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
· San Francisco eats more hot dogs than any other city, an average of 4.16 per person annually.
· Americans will spend more than $1.9 billion on hot dogs. The top five hot dog buying cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio/Corpus Christie, Baltimore/D.C., and Chicago.
· Americans will gobble down 150 million hot dogs on the Fourth of July alone.
· Hot dog lovers can win a chance to be a judge at the 2011 Nathan’s Famous eating competition at www.nathanssweepstakes.com.
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