HOLLYWOOD DIRT OVERFLOW (06-04-10)
RUE MCCLANAHAN HAS DIED . . . WHICH MEANS BETTY WHITE IS NOW THE LAST "GOLDEN GIRL" STANDING:
BETTY WHITE is The Last "Golden Girl" Standing. RUE MCCLANAHAN died at about 1:00 A.M. yesterday morning, after suffering a massive stroke. She was 76. Her rep says, quote, "She had her family with her. She went in peace." --BEA ARTHUR died last year, and ESTELLE GETTY went in 2008. Betty is still alive and INCREDIBLY SEX at the age of 88. (--"Golden Girls" trivia: Estelle played Bea Arthur's mom, and the oldest of the girls. But she was younger than both Bea and Betty. Rue was the youngest cast member.) --Rue suffered a minor stroke earlier this year after recovering from bypass surgery. --Rue played Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls" . . . which ran from 1985 to 1992. (--And also on the spinoff, "The Golden Palace", which only lasted one season.) --Before "Golden Girls", she played Aunt Fran on "Mama's Family". And she had worked with Bea Arthur before, playing her best friend on the '70s sitcom "Maude". --Rue was married SIX times. She's survived by husband #6, Morrow Wilson, and a son from her first marriage. (--Here's a compilation of classic Blanche Devereaux moments . . .) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQhHud7aCps
BETTY WHITE AND MARC CHERRY REACT TO RUE MCCLANAHAN'S DEATH:
Not surprisingly, BETTY WHITE issued a statement yesterday. She said, quote, "Rue was a close and dear friend. I treasured our relationship. It hurts more than I ever thought it would, if that's even possible."
--"Desperate Housewives" creator MARC CHERRY had this to say . . . quote, "When I worked on 'The Golden Girls', my favorite character to write for was Blanche Devereaux. --"In the hands of lesser actresses Blanche's vanity and sexual appetite would have been off-putting. But in Rue's brilliant hands, that character became one of the most beloved in the history of T.V. --"Rue's kindness, generosity and enormous talent will be sorely missed."
GARY COLEMAN'S WIFE . . . OR EX-WIFE . . . IS DEFENDING HER DECISION TO PULL THE PLUG:
SHANNON PRICE . . . who was either GARY COLEMAN'S wife or ex-wife at the time of his death . . . did a video interview yesterday defending her decision to take Gary off life support. --She said, quote, "The doctors told us that even if they had done surgery on him, he would've died. He would've bled to death during the surgery. --"Even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He would be basically like Muhammad Ali . . . I mean, Gary was gone." --She added, quote, "Look what happened to Terri Schiavo. I always think of her case when it comes to this. --"I don't want people to be so hard on me thinking I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn't have made it anyway. His heart would've just given out. --"I don't want people to sit there and think I'm a bitch, and that I didn't care about him." (--So what, exactly, is the truth here? Would Gary have died? Would he have been like Muhammad Ali? Or would he have been like Terri Schiavo? That's basically three different outcomes there.) (--To be fair, though, none of those outcomes are all that desirable.) --Shannon also denied Internet speculation that she PUSHED Gary, and caused his fatal brain hemorrhage. --She said, quote, "A lot of people sit there and say, yeah, she pushed him. People are so cruel, they don't even know. I was upstairs, he was downstairs. How am I going to push him? Why would I want to hurt my husband, are you kidding?" (--Notice she called Gary, quote, "my husband." We still don't know the exact status of their marriage at the time of Gary's death. But as far as we know, Shannon DID have the legal right to make medical decisions for him.) (--Here's the video . . .)
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=9b40664b-d0d9-4c83-974d-f8e6923325bb
(--And here's another clip, in which Shannon says she's BROKE and can't afford Gary's funeral. Apparently, Gary hadn't been getting much work lately because of his health problems . . .)
(--And you can forget about a life insurance payout. Gary couldn't get life insurance because of his PRE-EXISTING CONDITION, kidney failure . . .)
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=85b3d517-f93e-462a-9e00-6fc869437784
TODD BRIDGES SAYS GARY COLEMAN HAD A SECRET WILL:
TODD BRIDGES . . . who played GARY COLEMAN'S older brother on "Diff'rent Strokes" . . . says that Gary had a SECRET WILL that cut his parents out of everything. --He told "Entertainment Tonight", quote, "[A friend of mine and I] have paperwork, and we'll bring it out soon, that will show what his wishes were and what he wanted. --"There's a big fight going on with his parents and some other people involved, and after we bring this paperwork out, everybody's going to shut up. --"Gary had certain wishes [to exclude his parents]. I'm not going to go against a dying man's wishes. There's a reason why he didn't speak to them for 23 years." (--It's not clear whether some of the "other people involved" include Gary's wife . . . or EX-wife . . . Shannon Price.) --Gary sued his parents and a former business advisor 20 years ago for stealing his "Diff'rent Strokes" money. He eventually won $1.3 million, but Bridges says Gary was actually bilked out of $18 million. --Gary's funeral is scheduled to go down tomorrow in Utah. But his parents, Sue and Willie Coleman, are expected to put up a fight for his remains. They want to bury him in his native Zion, Illinois. --Their spokesman says, quote, "All they want is for their son to come home, which is all they wanted for years before their son got taken away from them by a group of people who think they own actors. --"The Colemans are not attacking anybody, all they want is his body back. There has been a lot in the press about how they stole money, but they never stole a dime." --Bridges also told "ET" that Gary had heart surgery last fall, because he needed a valve replaced. --And he also said he wants people to forgive Gary for the prickly personality he developed in his later years. --He said, quote, "Imagine having major health problems. Imagine getting ripped off of all your money. Imagine being raised in a household where he wasn't taught how to love himself or to love others around him. --"So when he hit the world at an adult age, he wasn't prepared." (--Here's video . . .) http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/06/87853/index.html
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT IS SINGLE . . . AND STILL VAJAZZLING:
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT is still single since breaking up with JAMIE KENNEDY . . . and she's cool with that. She says, quote, "My love life is just me, and I'm very happy about it. --"I've not done the single thing very much, as you know, and I'm happy to do it." --Meanwhile, Jennifer is STILL VAJAZZLING . . . quote, "I vajazzle more for myself, so I have that secret sparkle that no one knows about." (!!!)
STACEY DASH IS KEEPING HER "KITTY" HOSTAGE FOR NOW:
STACEY DASH . . . (--The very sexy Nubian minx who played Alicia Silverstone's best friend in the movie "Clueless") . . . split with her third husband earlier this year. And as a result, she's LOCKING DOWN THE SEX. --She says, quote, "The problem was I slept with all of my husbands on the first date. He'd ask me and I'd say 'yes'. At this moment in time, the kitty is officially being held hostage."
ADRIEN BRODY SAYS HE'S NOT DATING JANUARY JONES:
ADRIEN BRODY is denying rumors that he's dating JANUARY JONES from AMC's "Mad Men". Asked about the supposed relationship, he said, quote, "She's just a friend of mine. That's silly."
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS WIFE:
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR . . . who will ALWAYS be Zack from "Saved by the Bell", no matter what he does . . . is separated from his wife, LISA ANN RUSSELL. There's no word on the cause of the split. --They've been married since 1996, and have two kids. (--They met when Lisa guest starred on "Saved by the Bell: The College Years" in 1993.)
KATHERINE HEIGL DIDN'T ALWAYS LOVE BEING MARRIED:
KATHERINE HEIGL and her husband, Josh Kelley, didn't have much of a honeymoon period when they got married in 2007. That's because Katherine HATED being married. --She says, quote, "The first four to six months were the hardest. It was the first time we lived together, and there was a weight in the relationship that didn't exist before. --"It was crazy. I was like, 'Can't we live in separate houses so I can keep things the way I like them?' I didn't want to nag all the time. You fall into those quintessential roles where he's the put-upon husband, and I'm the naggy wife." --Luckily for Josh, Katherine says she LOVES being married now.
LINDSAY LOHAN HAS ALREADY PASSED TWO COURT-ORDERED DRUG TESTS:
It hasn't been all that long since the court put some heavy rules down on LINDSAY LOHAN . . . but so far, so good. --Lindsay has already passed TWO court-ordered random drug tests. And her SCRAM bracelet hasn't uttered a peep yet . . . which means either she hasn't been drinking . . . or she's figured out how to fool it. --A so-called "source" says, quote, "She is doing great, totally focused on work. She feels really good and she seems really happy."
CHARLIE SHEEN'S WIFE WON'T BE IN COURT WITH HIM ON MONDAY:
BROOKE MUELLER won't be there when CHARLIE SHEEN goes to court in Aspen, Colorado on Monday to face charges that he assaulted her on Christmas Day. --Charlie is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge . . . for which he'll be sentenced to 30 days behind bars. But Brooke's attorney says, quote, "We never contemplated her coming." --As far as the relationship, Brooke's attorney says, quote, "They are totally committed to trying to work it out. Whether they will or they won't, I don't know yet."
4-YEAR-OLDS WHO HAVE IT BETTER THAN YOU - #1: GWEN STEFANI AND GAVIN ROSSDALE GAVE THEIR SON A $15,000 BIRTHDAY PARTY:
Did you gripe when they charged you 100 bucks to rent out a bouncy house for two hours for your kid's birthday party??? If so, then this might bother you a little . . . GWEN STEFANI and GAVIN ROSSDALE shelled out $15,000 last weekend on a birthday party for their four-year-old son Kingston. --It's not clear how all that money was spent, but "Us Weekly" says the party included a bouncy castle, three birds, a face painter, a balloon artist and, quote, "roaming superhero characters."
4-YEAR-OLDS WHO HAVE IT BETTER THAN YOU - #2: SURI CRUISE HAS AN IPAD:
Still stockpiling the change you find in your couch in hopes that you'll someday be able to afford the lowest-end iPad? If so, then this might bother you a little . . . --Suri Cruise . . . the 4-year-old daughter of TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES . . . has her own iPad. --She was seen playing with it while at dinner with her parents in New York City last month.
DAVID CARRADINE'S WIFE THINKS THE PRODUCERS OF HIS LAST MOVIE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH:
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of DAVID CARRADINE'S death. He was found hanging in the closet of a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. Carradine was in Bangkok for a few days to film a movie called "Stretch". --David died accidentally while attempting autoerotic asphyxiation . . . in which one pleasures oneself while also CHOKING oneself . . . because it supposedly heightens the feeling. --Well, David's widow, Anne Carradine, has filed a lawsuit against the producers of "Stretch", blaming THEM for David's death. --Here's her logic: The night David died, he was supposed to have dinner with the movie's director. David had an assistant, provided by the production company, who was supposed to be responsible for getting David to that dinner. --When it was time to leave for the restaurant, the assistant called David's room, but David didn't answer. So the assistant left without him. --An hour later, David called the assistant. But he was told that everyone was already across town at the restaurant, so he would have to fend for himself that night. -Left to his own devices, David did . . . well, you know . . . what he did, and accidentally killed himself. --Anne's lawsuit basically says that if the assistant had done his job properly and gotten him to dinner, David would still be alive today.
NOW WE'RE HEARING THAT JENNIFER ANISTON *WON'T* BE IN "SCREAM 4":
Yesterday, we heard that JENNIFER ANISTON was going to make an appearance in "Scream 4". Today, we're hearing she's NOT. --A rep for the Weinstein Company, which is producing the movie, tells "Us Weekly" that the rumor is, quote "not true."
THE MOVIE IN WHICH JIM CARREY AND EWAN MCGREGOR PLAY GAY LOVERS IS BEING HELD UP IN COURT:
"I Love You Phillip Morris" . . . the movie in which JIM CARREY and EWAN MCGREGOR play two guys who meet and FALL IN LOVE in prison . . . has already been released in most of the world. --It still hasn't come out here in the U.S. yet, and it might be a while before it does . . . because there's a legal dispute between the company that produced it and the company that was going to distribute it domestically. --The details really won't matter to you, but here's the upshot: The movie was scheduled to hit theaters on July 30th, but that's probably not going to happen now. Those close to the situation say that the earliest it could probably open is October.
"THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE" IS OVER . . . OFFICIALLY:
When CBS canceled "Ghost Whisperer" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine" last month, there was speculation that ABC could pick them up. --But last week, ABC rejected "Ghost Whisperer", and now they've also passed on "Christine". On Wednesday, the show's producers decided to pull the plug after talks with ABC broke down. So, that's that. (--The problem . . . according to Deadline.com . . . was that ABC was ultimately not willing to pay the high licensing fee to keep the show going.)
PEE WEE HERMAN MADE AN APPEARANCE ON CONAN'S COMEDY TOUR:
CONAN O'BRIEN'S epic Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour featured a "performance" by PEE WEE HERMAN on Wednesday night. (--It was the second of two shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.) --Pee Wee performed some squeaky "music" by slowly letting the air out of a balloon. (--Here's some video . . .) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja2CWc3MvVg
(--Also, drummer MAX WEINBERG made his first appearance on the tour. He performed with the band to close out Wednesday's show. So, I think it's safe to scrap those stupid rumors about a Conan / Max falling out.)
FRIDAY TV REMINDERS:
--"Construction Intervention" [1st Season Finale] . . . 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. on Discovery.
--"The 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee" . . . 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. on ABC. (--Erin Andrews and "The Bachelor's" Chris Harrison are your hosts.)
--"Flashpoint" [3rd Season Premiere] . . . 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on CBS.
SATURDAY TV REMINDERS:
--"Belmont Stakes" . . . 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Eastern on ABC. (--What would have been the final leg of the Triple Crown is held at Belmont Park in New York.) (--Once again, there will be no bid for the Triple Crown this year. A horse has to win all three races: The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont. But that hasn't been done since Affirmed did it back in 1978.) (--A horse named Super Saver won this year's Derby, but then lost the Preakness to Lookin' at Lucky. Neither of them are in this race. The early favorite for the Belmont is Ice Box. He came in second at the Derby.)
--"Saturday Night Live" . . . 11:30 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. on NBC. (--Charles Barkley guest hosts and Alicia Keys is the musical guest.) (REPEAT)
SUNDAY TV REMINDERS:
--"The NBA Finals" [Game 2] . . . 8:00 to 11:00 P.M. Eastern on ABC. (--The Los Angeles Lakers host the Boston Celtics. The Lakers won last night's game.)
--"Jimmy Kimmel Game Night" . . . 9:00 to 9:30 P.M. on ABC. (--Ashton Kutcher promotes his "Killers" movie while pretending to genuinely care about 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.)
--"2010 MTV Movie Awards" . . . 9:00 to 11:00 P.M. on MTV. (--Christina Aguilera performs and "Parks and Recreation's" Aziz Ansari is this year's host.) (--Presenters include Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Zac Efron, Miranda Cosgrove, Jonah Hill, Russell Brand and Bradley Cooper. I should probably also tell you that Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi helps co-host a pre-award show at 8:00 P.M.)
(--Here is a complete list of this year's nominees . . .)
http://tcs.wisebrother.com/tcstodaysTcs/fullArtShow/6435?cid=3569
--"Kate Plus 8" [SERIES Premiere] . . . 9:00 to 11:00 P.M. on TLC. (--Yes, she's back with the kids . . . MINUS Jon Gosselin and his hefty two and a half inch penis.)
MILEY CYRUS RAISED HER INAPPROPRIATENESS THREAT LEVEL WITH A SAME-SEX KISS ON STAGE:
The latest stop on MILEY CYRUS' Tour of Teenage Inappropriateness was a performance on "Britain's Got Talent" last night. (--It airs in the U.K., of course.) --She sang "Can't Be Tamed" . . . and like almost every other time we've seen her perform it, she went a little crazy. --Once again, she showed 100% of her legs and made some sexy dance moves . . . but this time she topped it off with an ADAM LAMBERT impression. --By that, I mean she appeared to engage in a SAME-SEX KISS onstage. --Now, from the video footage we have, it's unclear whether she actually kissed one of her female dancers . . . or simply mocked kissing her . . . but either way, it's probably going to anger some parents. (--After all, Miley is still just 17 years old, and a lot of her biggest fans are YOUNGER . . . or at least they will be as long as "Hannah Montana" is still on.)
(--You can watch the performance at the link below. The "kiss" happens at the 1:08 mark if you just want to skip ahead to that.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KOIv2kMuc
LEONA LEWIS SURVIVED FALLING DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT . . . ???
British singer LEONA LEWIS . . . a former "X-Factor" winner you may know from her hit, "Bleeding Love" . . . survived a fall down an elevator shaft. --It happened during a show in England last Friday. Apparently, an onstage elevator malfunctioned . . . and Leona somehow fell through the opening. --She says, quote, "We have been having problems with the lift. It had been going fine in rehearsals . . . [but] then I had a bit of an accident and fell down the lift shaft. It was quite scary." (--"Lift" is British for "elevator.") --"I was lucky not to get injured. Fortunately it happened during a blackout on set and didn't affect the show and none of the audience saw anything. I got a shock and had to be rescued. I had to just get back up and carry on." --Since there aren't any details on this particular elevator, it's difficult to gauge how LUCKY Leona was. We don't know how far she fell . . . or what she fell onto. (--It probably wasn't the traditional elevator shaft you're thinking of . . . like the crazy one in the opening scene of "Speed" . . . but still, a fall down any elevator shaft sounds pretty scary to me, even if it's just a few feet.) (--This isn't Leona Lewis' first harrowing experience. Back in October, some LUNATIC just walked up and PUNCHED her in the face during an autograph signing. She was OK . . . but that also had to be pretty frightening.)
BELINDA CARLISLE'S EATING DISORDERS WERE CAUSED BY HER DESIRE TO LOOK LIKE MADONNA:
GO-GO'S singer BELINDA CARLISLE has a new memoir out now called "Lips Unsealed" . . . and in the book, she admits that she once dealt with eating disorders, which were brought on by a desire to look like MADONNA. -Belinda's obsession and jealousy over Madonna occurred back in the '80s. --She writes, quote, "I thought [Madonna] looked phenomenal because she was skinnier than me. In some way, the drink and drugs is easier [to kick] because it [requires] abstinence, but with food, you got to eat every day . . . --". . . and I had a terrible relationship with food. If I did eat something wrong, I would be on the treadmill for hours and hours. --"And if I did have a bite of that cookie, then I would beat myself up and eat as many as I could and count the calories as I went along."
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ARE DOING AN "INTIMATE" U.S. TOUR:
The SMASHING PUMPKINS will be playing 12 shows in the U.S. this summer at, quote, "intimate venues." (--In other words, SMALL places.) --The dates stretch from July 6th in Cleveland through July 21st in Tampa. (--For the full itinerary, hit up SmashingPumpkins.com, here.)
DIDDY WANTS TO CORRECT YOUR PERCEPTION OF HIM:
If you think of DIDDY as some sort of fashionable, self-indulgent, high-class elitist . . . since that's how he's projected himself . . . he would now like you to STOP IT --He tells the "Los Angeles Times", quote, "People have this perception of me . . . which is my fault . . . of maybe a rapper or Champagne-sipping and Hamptons and white fur and just cliché type of things that are just kind of old and dated and corny. --"[But that] isn't how I am today, you know? That was just part of my image for a second. It wasn't who Sean is. You evolve . . . like, I need to retire my diamond necklace and fur jacket now. Things change. Times change." (--So Diddy is narcissistically saying that he's no longer a narcissist. OK. Obviously, all this will be contradicted by Diddy's next quote . . . and if I cared at all, I'd jump at the opportunity to call him out on it. But I just don't.)
NAZZY’S RANDOM STUFF
GEORGE W. BUSH HAS HIS OWN FACEBOOK PAGE:
Well, it's official: Facebook is no longer cool. Here's how I know . . . --On Wednesday, GEORGE W. BUSH signed up for his own Facebook fan page. --There's nothing too interesting going on there, and he's only made two posts so far. --The first is an update of what he's been up to since leaving the White House, and the second is a link to the official website of LAURA BUSH'S memoirs, "Spoken from the Heart". --As of last night, Dubya already had more than 100,000 fans. (Switched)
(--You can link to George W. Bush's Facebook page here . . .)
http://www.facebook.com/georgewbush
THREE TEENAGERS TRIED TO DINE AND DASH, BUT AN EMPLOYEE JUMPED ON THEIR CAR AND CALLED 911 WHILE THEY DROVE AWAY AT 60 MILES PER HOUR:
It's one thing to be a good employee. But THIS is just so far above and beyond the call of duty it's insane . . . --Brian McKnight works at the Waffle House restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (--about 30 miles southeast of Nashville). --On Sunday, he was taking a smoke break in the parking lot when three teens ran out of the restaurant and jumped into their car. They were trying to dine and ditch . . . meaning they left without paying. --Being the good guy he is, Brian tried to stop the teens from leaving. But the driver . . . an 18-year-old named Christopher Miller . . . accidentally hit Brian with his car, throwing him onto the hood, before tearing out of the parking lot. --Brian hung on for dear life for five minutes as Christopher drove through town, sometimes going as fast as 60 MILES PER HOUR. --But, somehow, Brian didn't fall off. And he even managed to pull his cell phone out of his pocket, and call 911 from the hood of the moving car. --On the 911 tape, Brian can be heard telling the dispatcher, quote, "I'm stuck on the hood of somebody's car and they refuse to stop . . . They are driving at . . . about 40 miles per hour and they will not stop." --Eventually, Christopher pulled over to the side of the road and handed over his car keys. He was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of reckless endangerment. He's expected in court next month. --So far, the two other teens in the car haven't been charged with anything. --As for Brian, he suffered a few minor injuries, but nothing too serious. And he doesn't consider himself a hero . . . just a guy who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. --By the way . . . the tab Christopher and his friends skipped out on? It was for $24.87. (Tennessean / WSMV News 4 - Nashville)
A WOMAN SAYS SHE WAS FIRED FROM CITIBANK FOR BEING "TOO SEXY":
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why people lose their jobs. Being TOO HOT isn't the likeliest of them . . . not by a long shot. But that's exactly what 33-year-old Debrahlee Lorenzana of Queens, New York, says happened to her. --Debrahlee started working for Citibank in September of 2008. And almost immediately, she says her superiors started making sexist and inappropriate comments about her clothes and appearance. --But Debrahlee says her clothes weren't the problem . . . they were just normal work clothes. It was that she was too SMOKING-HOT, and her co-workers just couldn't handle it. --Anyway, eventually Citibank fired Debrahlee. And now she's filed a lawsuit against the company claiming gender discrimination. -In the lawsuit, Debrahlee says she was told that, quote, "as a result of the shape of her figure, [her] clothes were purportedly 'too distracting' for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear." --And the reason none of Debrahlee's co-workers had the same problem, even though most of them wore similar outfits, is because unlike her, quote, "their general unattractiveness rendered moot their sartorial choices." (--Burn!) (???) --Anyway, officials for Citibank have refused to discuss the details of Debrahlee's case. But they call her accusations, quote, "unfounded" and "inaccurate." (New York Post / MSNBC)
HERE ARE FIVE FAMOUS GENIUSES WHO WERE TOTAL PERVS:
It's funny how we build up prominent historical figures in our minds. We selectively remember all their feats and accomplishments . . . to the point that they're almost like gods . . . but no one ever talks about their faults or other "humanizing" qualities.
--With that in mind, here are six famous geniuses you probably didn't know where total perverts:
#1.) ALBERT EINSTEIN: Einstein was married twice, and one of his wives was his first cousin Elsa. But Einstein cheated on both wives with at least ten other women, and he even got busted violating his best friend's niece.
#2.) MOZART: He may have been the greatest composer of all time, but he was into some seriously messed up stuff.
#3.) JAMES JOYCE: When he was away, Joyce and his wife, Nora, would exchange dirty letters. In them, Joyce talks about pleasuring himself while reading her letters. --He also tells Nora he wants her to, quote, "smack" and "flog" him while naked, and to drill her so hard it makes her break wind in his face.
#4.) T.E. LAWRENCE A.K.A. "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA": T.E. Lawrence was an officer in the British Army who played a major role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks. --Lawrence used to pay a man named John Bruce to whip him with a stick and write down what happened so he could use it for his own pleasure later on.
#5.) JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: Rousseau's work, "The Social Contract", was one of the single most important documents used to create the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. --But Rousseau also had a fetish for being spanked, and is thought to be the first person to come out as a "spankophile" and sadomasochist. (Cracked)
HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR YOUR KIDS TO SEE YOU NAKED?
Now it's time for our Question of the Day: How old is too old for your kids to see you NAKED?
--The reason I bring it up is because I read an article asking this very question on a website called CafeMom.com, and the writer identified two rules of thumb to go by:
#1.) You should never let your kid see you naked after they turn five, because there's a good chance they'll remember it and it will scar them for life.
#2.) And you should never let your kid see you naked after you've turned 40. Presumably, it's because everyone over the age of 40 has an unattractive body, and your kid would just find that too unpleasant. (-- When did you stop letting your kids see you naked? Did you do it too late, and are they screwed up because of it?) (--Or did you accidentally see your parents naked at some point, and now you can't get the image of their wrinkly, unclothed genitals out of your mind? We want to hear about it.) (Café Mom)
KIDS WITH OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BECOME NEUROTIC FREAKS:
As a parent, you always want to do what's best for your kids. The problem is that sometimes what you THINK is best for them actually does more harm than good. Here's what I mean . . . --Researchers at Keene State College in New Hampshire wanted to find out how well kids with so-called "helicopter parents" are able to adjust when they go away to school. --If you don't know what a "helicopter parent" is, it refers to parents who are abnormally overprotective. They're called that because they're always "hovering" over their kids to make sure they're okay. --Anyway, what the researchers found is that kids with helicopter parents grow up to be more dependent and neurotic, and less open than kids with parents who are less . . . well . . . let's call them "intense." --A guy named Neil Montgomery led the study. He says, quote, "I think what the helicopter parents did is they decided, 'OK we know what good parenting looks like, we're just going to ratchet it up to a new level, and our kids are going to be even better.' --"The problem is, when they ratcheted it up, they went too far, and in fact, caused an expansion of childhood or adolescence." --Overall, the study found that about 10% of kids have helicopter parents. (Yahoo News)
FREE-CREDIT-REPORT.COM IS LOOKING FOR A NEW HOUSE BAND:
FreeCreditReport.com is responsible for some of the most annoying commercials in the history of TV, which is really saying a lot.
(--If you don't believe me, or don't know what I'm talking about, you can link to a few of their ads here . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dFbNw3bpKE
--Anyway, FreeCreditReport.com is rebranding, and soon they'll be known as FreeCreditScore.com. And to go along with their "awesome" new name, they're holding an online competition to find an equally awesome new house band. --All you have to do is learn one of their insufferable ad jingles, make a video of your band performing it, and upload it to the contest website. --The only rules are that all bands must have between two and five members, and all band members must be 21 or older. (Consumerist) (--You can enter to be the new house band for FreeCreditScore.com here . . .)
http://freecreditscoreband.com/enter
DID YOU KNOW THEY MAKE SPECIAL OXYGEN MASKS FOR ANIMALS?
On Tuesday, members of the Chicago Fire Department saved the lives of two dogs and two cats that had been trapped in a burning house on the city's north side. --When the firefighters first found the animals, they were all lying lifeless on the floor. But rescue workers managed to revive them using special PET OXYGEN MASKS designed to fit over the snout of an animal. --About 250 of the masks were just donated to the department, and Tuesday was their first chance to try them out. All four pets are expected to be okay (Chicago Sun-Times)
AND NOW . . . INTRODUCING *SCENTED* BILLBOARDS:
There's a grocery chain in the southeastern United States called Bloom. Maybe you've heard of it. Or not. It doesn't really matter. --The point is Bloom recently started selling a new type of beef in its stores, and they wanted to let people know about it. So they put up a new billboard on Interstate-77 about 30 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina, advertising the meat. --It shows a big, juicy piece of steak on the end of a fork. But it's not what the billboard LOOKS like that makes it unique. It's that the billboard emits the SMELL of steak. Seriously. --There's actually a box mounted on the side of the billboard that blows the scent of smoky barbeque and black pepper about 30 to 50 yards down onto the highway. --It's the work of a company called ScentAir Technologies. According to a company spokesman, quote, "Scent is the sense closest linked to memory and emotion. To add it to what you see and hear completes this multi-sense experience." --The billboard will continue to smell like steak for the next two weeks, and the odor will be the strongest during rush-hour traffic in the morning and late afternoon. (WBTV News 3 - Charlotte)
NAZZY’S SILLY VIDEOS OF THE DAY
#1.) THE UMPIRE WHO COST A PITCHER A PERFECT GAME CRIED AT HOME PLATE THE NEXT DAY:
Major League umpire JIM JOYCE blew the call at first base on Wednesday and cost Tigers pitcher ARMANDO GALARRAGA a perfect game. But he was also the HOME PLATE umpire at YESTERDAY'S Tiger's game. --And before the game started, Galarraga brought out the Tigers' lineup card. He handed it to Joyce, then Joyce wiped away tears from his eyes and gave Galarraga a big pat on the back. (--Here's the video AND the botched call in case you missed it.)
(--Search for "Jim Joyce lineup card" and "Jim Joyce blown call perfect game." He wipes away the tears at :43.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAfSYAvQII8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsLt3iYiFbU
#2.) A CONVENIENCE STORE CASHIER IGNORED AN ARMED ROBBER:
A man with a gun tried to rob a convenience store, but the cashier just ignored him. And instead of filling the guy's bag with money, the cashier threw it on the floor, and the guy left. (--Search for "cashier ignored armed robber." He leaves at :46.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTkEdOf-WQ
#3.) A DRUNK DRIVER RAMPED OFF A TOLL BOOTH AND GOT AIRBORNE:
A drunk woman was leaving the Dallas Fort Worth Airport on Tuesday morning, and she tried to speed through a tollbooth without paying. But she hit a divider, and her car ramped up into the air. Here's the security cam footage. (--Search for "drunk driver DFW video.")
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/06/this_is_not_how_youre_supposed.php
#4.) A KID FOLDED A TOWEL INTO THE SHAPE OF A HORN . . . BUT IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE A GUY'S JUNK:
A kid showed off his towel-folding skills by folding one into the shape of a horn . . . or so he thought. In reality, it looked EXACTLY like a guy's junk. (--Search for "how to make a towel horn." He finishes at :46.) http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2010/06/03
#5.) A GUY TRIED TO PULL A COLLEGE PRANK, BUT FAILED:
A kid tried to scare his friend awake by setting off firecrackers in a garbage can next to his bed. But he ended up lighting the guy's bed on fire.
(--Search for "dorm fireworks prank epic fail.") (--WARNING!!! This video includes TONS of profanity . . .)
http://www.break.com/index/dorm-fireworks-prank-epic-fail.html
BETTY WHITE is The Last "Golden Girl" Standing. RUE MCCLANAHAN died at about 1:00 A.M. yesterday morning, after suffering a massive stroke. She was 76. Her rep says, quote, "She had her family with her. She went in peace." --BEA ARTHUR died last year, and ESTELLE GETTY went in 2008. Betty is still alive and INCREDIBLY SEX at the age of 88. (--"Golden Girls" trivia: Estelle played Bea Arthur's mom, and the oldest of the girls. But she was younger than both Bea and Betty. Rue was the youngest cast member.) --Rue suffered a minor stroke earlier this year after recovering from bypass surgery. --Rue played Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls" . . . which ran from 1985 to 1992. (--And also on the spinoff, "The Golden Palace", which only lasted one season.) --Before "Golden Girls", she played Aunt Fran on "Mama's Family". And she had worked with Bea Arthur before, playing her best friend on the '70s sitcom "Maude". --Rue was married SIX times. She's survived by husband #6, Morrow Wilson, and a son from her first marriage. (--Here's a compilation of classic Blanche Devereaux moments . . .) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQhHud7aCps
BETTY WHITE AND MARC CHERRY REACT TO RUE MCCLANAHAN'S DEATH:
Not surprisingly, BETTY WHITE issued a statement yesterday. She said, quote, "Rue was a close and dear friend. I treasured our relationship. It hurts more than I ever thought it would, if that's even possible."
--"Desperate Housewives" creator MARC CHERRY had this to say . . . quote, "When I worked on 'The Golden Girls', my favorite character to write for was Blanche Devereaux. --"In the hands of lesser actresses Blanche's vanity and sexual appetite would have been off-putting. But in Rue's brilliant hands, that character became one of the most beloved in the history of T.V. --"Rue's kindness, generosity and enormous talent will be sorely missed."
GARY COLEMAN'S WIFE . . . OR EX-WIFE . . . IS DEFENDING HER DECISION TO PULL THE PLUG:
SHANNON PRICE . . . who was either GARY COLEMAN'S wife or ex-wife at the time of his death . . . did a video interview yesterday defending her decision to take Gary off life support. --She said, quote, "The doctors told us that even if they had done surgery on him, he would've died. He would've bled to death during the surgery. --"Even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He would be basically like Muhammad Ali . . . I mean, Gary was gone." --She added, quote, "Look what happened to Terri Schiavo. I always think of her case when it comes to this. --"I don't want people to be so hard on me thinking I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn't have made it anyway. His heart would've just given out. --"I don't want people to sit there and think I'm a bitch, and that I didn't care about him." (--So what, exactly, is the truth here? Would Gary have died? Would he have been like Muhammad Ali? Or would he have been like Terri Schiavo? That's basically three different outcomes there.) (--To be fair, though, none of those outcomes are all that desirable.) --Shannon also denied Internet speculation that she PUSHED Gary, and caused his fatal brain hemorrhage. --She said, quote, "A lot of people sit there and say, yeah, she pushed him. People are so cruel, they don't even know. I was upstairs, he was downstairs. How am I going to push him? Why would I want to hurt my husband, are you kidding?" (--Notice she called Gary, quote, "my husband." We still don't know the exact status of their marriage at the time of Gary's death. But as far as we know, Shannon DID have the legal right to make medical decisions for him.) (--Here's the video . . .)
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=9b40664b-d0d9-4c83-974d-f8e6923325bb
(--And here's another clip, in which Shannon says she's BROKE and can't afford Gary's funeral. Apparently, Gary hadn't been getting much work lately because of his health problems . . .)
(--And you can forget about a life insurance payout. Gary couldn't get life insurance because of his PRE-EXISTING CONDITION, kidney failure . . .)
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=85b3d517-f93e-462a-9e00-6fc869437784
TODD BRIDGES SAYS GARY COLEMAN HAD A SECRET WILL:
TODD BRIDGES . . . who played GARY COLEMAN'S older brother on "Diff'rent Strokes" . . . says that Gary had a SECRET WILL that cut his parents out of everything. --He told "Entertainment Tonight", quote, "[A friend of mine and I] have paperwork, and we'll bring it out soon, that will show what his wishes were and what he wanted. --"There's a big fight going on with his parents and some other people involved, and after we bring this paperwork out, everybody's going to shut up. --"Gary had certain wishes [to exclude his parents]. I'm not going to go against a dying man's wishes. There's a reason why he didn't speak to them for 23 years." (--It's not clear whether some of the "other people involved" include Gary's wife . . . or EX-wife . . . Shannon Price.) --Gary sued his parents and a former business advisor 20 years ago for stealing his "Diff'rent Strokes" money. He eventually won $1.3 million, but Bridges says Gary was actually bilked out of $18 million. --Gary's funeral is scheduled to go down tomorrow in Utah. But his parents, Sue and Willie Coleman, are expected to put up a fight for his remains. They want to bury him in his native Zion, Illinois. --Their spokesman says, quote, "All they want is for their son to come home, which is all they wanted for years before their son got taken away from them by a group of people who think they own actors. --"The Colemans are not attacking anybody, all they want is his body back. There has been a lot in the press about how they stole money, but they never stole a dime." --Bridges also told "ET" that Gary had heart surgery last fall, because he needed a valve replaced. --And he also said he wants people to forgive Gary for the prickly personality he developed in his later years. --He said, quote, "Imagine having major health problems. Imagine getting ripped off of all your money. Imagine being raised in a household where he wasn't taught how to love himself or to love others around him. --"So when he hit the world at an adult age, he wasn't prepared." (--Here's video . . .) http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/06/87853/index.html
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT IS SINGLE . . . AND STILL VAJAZZLING:
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT is still single since breaking up with JAMIE KENNEDY . . . and she's cool with that. She says, quote, "My love life is just me, and I'm very happy about it. --"I've not done the single thing very much, as you know, and I'm happy to do it." --Meanwhile, Jennifer is STILL VAJAZZLING . . . quote, "I vajazzle more for myself, so I have that secret sparkle that no one knows about." (!!!)
STACEY DASH IS KEEPING HER "KITTY" HOSTAGE FOR NOW:
STACEY DASH . . . (--The very sexy Nubian minx who played Alicia Silverstone's best friend in the movie "Clueless") . . . split with her third husband earlier this year. And as a result, she's LOCKING DOWN THE SEX. --She says, quote, "The problem was I slept with all of my husbands on the first date. He'd ask me and I'd say 'yes'. At this moment in time, the kitty is officially being held hostage."
ADRIEN BRODY SAYS HE'S NOT DATING JANUARY JONES:
ADRIEN BRODY is denying rumors that he's dating JANUARY JONES from AMC's "Mad Men". Asked about the supposed relationship, he said, quote, "She's just a friend of mine. That's silly."
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR IS SEPARATED FROM HIS WIFE:
MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR . . . who will ALWAYS be Zack from "Saved by the Bell", no matter what he does . . . is separated from his wife, LISA ANN RUSSELL. There's no word on the cause of the split. --They've been married since 1996, and have two kids. (--They met when Lisa guest starred on "Saved by the Bell: The College Years" in 1993.)
KATHERINE HEIGL DIDN'T ALWAYS LOVE BEING MARRIED:
KATHERINE HEIGL and her husband, Josh Kelley, didn't have much of a honeymoon period when they got married in 2007. That's because Katherine HATED being married. --She says, quote, "The first four to six months were the hardest. It was the first time we lived together, and there was a weight in the relationship that didn't exist before. --"It was crazy. I was like, 'Can't we live in separate houses so I can keep things the way I like them?' I didn't want to nag all the time. You fall into those quintessential roles where he's the put-upon husband, and I'm the naggy wife." --Luckily for Josh, Katherine says she LOVES being married now.
LINDSAY LOHAN HAS ALREADY PASSED TWO COURT-ORDERED DRUG TESTS:
It hasn't been all that long since the court put some heavy rules down on LINDSAY LOHAN . . . but so far, so good. --Lindsay has already passed TWO court-ordered random drug tests. And her SCRAM bracelet hasn't uttered a peep yet . . . which means either she hasn't been drinking . . . or she's figured out how to fool it. --A so-called "source" says, quote, "She is doing great, totally focused on work. She feels really good and she seems really happy."
CHARLIE SHEEN'S WIFE WON'T BE IN COURT WITH HIM ON MONDAY:
BROOKE MUELLER won't be there when CHARLIE SHEEN goes to court in Aspen, Colorado on Monday to face charges that he assaulted her on Christmas Day. --Charlie is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge . . . for which he'll be sentenced to 30 days behind bars. But Brooke's attorney says, quote, "We never contemplated her coming." --As far as the relationship, Brooke's attorney says, quote, "They are totally committed to trying to work it out. Whether they will or they won't, I don't know yet."
4-YEAR-OLDS WHO HAVE IT BETTER THAN YOU - #1: GWEN STEFANI AND GAVIN ROSSDALE GAVE THEIR SON A $15,000 BIRTHDAY PARTY:
Did you gripe when they charged you 100 bucks to rent out a bouncy house for two hours for your kid's birthday party??? If so, then this might bother you a little . . . GWEN STEFANI and GAVIN ROSSDALE shelled out $15,000 last weekend on a birthday party for their four-year-old son Kingston. --It's not clear how all that money was spent, but "Us Weekly" says the party included a bouncy castle, three birds, a face painter, a balloon artist and, quote, "roaming superhero characters."
4-YEAR-OLDS WHO HAVE IT BETTER THAN YOU - #2: SURI CRUISE HAS AN IPAD:
Still stockpiling the change you find in your couch in hopes that you'll someday be able to afford the lowest-end iPad? If so, then this might bother you a little . . . --Suri Cruise . . . the 4-year-old daughter of TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES . . . has her own iPad. --She was seen playing with it while at dinner with her parents in New York City last month.
DAVID CARRADINE'S WIFE THINKS THE PRODUCERS OF HIS LAST MOVIE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DEATH:
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of DAVID CARRADINE'S death. He was found hanging in the closet of a hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. Carradine was in Bangkok for a few days to film a movie called "Stretch". --David died accidentally while attempting autoerotic asphyxiation . . . in which one pleasures oneself while also CHOKING oneself . . . because it supposedly heightens the feeling. --Well, David's widow, Anne Carradine, has filed a lawsuit against the producers of "Stretch", blaming THEM for David's death. --Here's her logic: The night David died, he was supposed to have dinner with the movie's director. David had an assistant, provided by the production company, who was supposed to be responsible for getting David to that dinner. --When it was time to leave for the restaurant, the assistant called David's room, but David didn't answer. So the assistant left without him. --An hour later, David called the assistant. But he was told that everyone was already across town at the restaurant, so he would have to fend for himself that night. -Left to his own devices, David did . . . well, you know . . . what he did, and accidentally killed himself. --Anne's lawsuit basically says that if the assistant had done his job properly and gotten him to dinner, David would still be alive today.
NOW WE'RE HEARING THAT JENNIFER ANISTON *WON'T* BE IN "SCREAM 4":
Yesterday, we heard that JENNIFER ANISTON was going to make an appearance in "Scream 4". Today, we're hearing she's NOT. --A rep for the Weinstein Company, which is producing the movie, tells "Us Weekly" that the rumor is, quote "not true."
THE MOVIE IN WHICH JIM CARREY AND EWAN MCGREGOR PLAY GAY LOVERS IS BEING HELD UP IN COURT:
"I Love You Phillip Morris" . . . the movie in which JIM CARREY and EWAN MCGREGOR play two guys who meet and FALL IN LOVE in prison . . . has already been released in most of the world. --It still hasn't come out here in the U.S. yet, and it might be a while before it does . . . because there's a legal dispute between the company that produced it and the company that was going to distribute it domestically. --The details really won't matter to you, but here's the upshot: The movie was scheduled to hit theaters on July 30th, but that's probably not going to happen now. Those close to the situation say that the earliest it could probably open is October.
"THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE" IS OVER . . . OFFICIALLY:
When CBS canceled "Ghost Whisperer" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine" last month, there was speculation that ABC could pick them up. --But last week, ABC rejected "Ghost Whisperer", and now they've also passed on "Christine". On Wednesday, the show's producers decided to pull the plug after talks with ABC broke down. So, that's that. (--The problem . . . according to Deadline.com . . . was that ABC was ultimately not willing to pay the high licensing fee to keep the show going.)
PEE WEE HERMAN MADE AN APPEARANCE ON CONAN'S COMEDY TOUR:
CONAN O'BRIEN'S epic Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour featured a "performance" by PEE WEE HERMAN on Wednesday night. (--It was the second of two shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.) --Pee Wee performed some squeaky "music" by slowly letting the air out of a balloon. (--Here's some video . . .) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja2CWc3MvVg
(--Also, drummer MAX WEINBERG made his first appearance on the tour. He performed with the band to close out Wednesday's show. So, I think it's safe to scrap those stupid rumors about a Conan / Max falling out.)
FRIDAY TV REMINDERS:
--"Construction Intervention" [1st Season Finale] . . . 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. on Discovery.
--"The 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee" . . . 8:00 to 10:00 P.M. on ABC. (--Erin Andrews and "The Bachelor's" Chris Harrison are your hosts.)
--"Flashpoint" [3rd Season Premiere] . . . 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. on CBS.
SATURDAY TV REMINDERS:
--"Belmont Stakes" . . . 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. Eastern on ABC. (--What would have been the final leg of the Triple Crown is held at Belmont Park in New York.) (--Once again, there will be no bid for the Triple Crown this year. A horse has to win all three races: The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont. But that hasn't been done since Affirmed did it back in 1978.) (--A horse named Super Saver won this year's Derby, but then lost the Preakness to Lookin' at Lucky. Neither of them are in this race. The early favorite for the Belmont is Ice Box. He came in second at the Derby.)
--"Saturday Night Live" . . . 11:30 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. on NBC. (--Charles Barkley guest hosts and Alicia Keys is the musical guest.) (REPEAT)
SUNDAY TV REMINDERS:
--"The NBA Finals" [Game 2] . . . 8:00 to 11:00 P.M. Eastern on ABC. (--The Los Angeles Lakers host the Boston Celtics. The Lakers won last night's game.)
--"Jimmy Kimmel Game Night" . . . 9:00 to 9:30 P.M. on ABC. (--Ashton Kutcher promotes his "Killers" movie while pretending to genuinely care about 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.)
--"2010 MTV Movie Awards" . . . 9:00 to 11:00 P.M. on MTV. (--Christina Aguilera performs and "Parks and Recreation's" Aziz Ansari is this year's host.) (--Presenters include Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Zac Efron, Miranda Cosgrove, Jonah Hill, Russell Brand and Bradley Cooper. I should probably also tell you that Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi helps co-host a pre-award show at 8:00 P.M.)
(--Here is a complete list of this year's nominees . . .)
http://tcs.wisebrother.com/tcstodaysTcs/fullArtShow/6435?cid=3569
--"Kate Plus 8" [SERIES Premiere] . . . 9:00 to 11:00 P.M. on TLC. (--Yes, she's back with the kids . . . MINUS Jon Gosselin and his hefty two and a half inch penis.)
MILEY CYRUS RAISED HER INAPPROPRIATENESS THREAT LEVEL WITH A SAME-SEX KISS ON STAGE:
The latest stop on MILEY CYRUS' Tour of Teenage Inappropriateness was a performance on "Britain's Got Talent" last night. (--It airs in the U.K., of course.) --She sang "Can't Be Tamed" . . . and like almost every other time we've seen her perform it, she went a little crazy. --Once again, she showed 100% of her legs and made some sexy dance moves . . . but this time she topped it off with an ADAM LAMBERT impression. --By that, I mean she appeared to engage in a SAME-SEX KISS onstage. --Now, from the video footage we have, it's unclear whether she actually kissed one of her female dancers . . . or simply mocked kissing her . . . but either way, it's probably going to anger some parents. (--After all, Miley is still just 17 years old, and a lot of her biggest fans are YOUNGER . . . or at least they will be as long as "Hannah Montana" is still on.)
(--You can watch the performance at the link below. The "kiss" happens at the 1:08 mark if you just want to skip ahead to that.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KOIv2kMuc
LEONA LEWIS SURVIVED FALLING DOWN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT . . . ???
British singer LEONA LEWIS . . . a former "X-Factor" winner you may know from her hit, "Bleeding Love" . . . survived a fall down an elevator shaft. --It happened during a show in England last Friday. Apparently, an onstage elevator malfunctioned . . . and Leona somehow fell through the opening. --She says, quote, "We have been having problems with the lift. It had been going fine in rehearsals . . . [but] then I had a bit of an accident and fell down the lift shaft. It was quite scary." (--"Lift" is British for "elevator.") --"I was lucky not to get injured. Fortunately it happened during a blackout on set and didn't affect the show and none of the audience saw anything. I got a shock and had to be rescued. I had to just get back up and carry on." --Since there aren't any details on this particular elevator, it's difficult to gauge how LUCKY Leona was. We don't know how far she fell . . . or what she fell onto. (--It probably wasn't the traditional elevator shaft you're thinking of . . . like the crazy one in the opening scene of "Speed" . . . but still, a fall down any elevator shaft sounds pretty scary to me, even if it's just a few feet.) (--This isn't Leona Lewis' first harrowing experience. Back in October, some LUNATIC just walked up and PUNCHED her in the face during an autograph signing. She was OK . . . but that also had to be pretty frightening.)
BELINDA CARLISLE'S EATING DISORDERS WERE CAUSED BY HER DESIRE TO LOOK LIKE MADONNA:
GO-GO'S singer BELINDA CARLISLE has a new memoir out now called "Lips Unsealed" . . . and in the book, she admits that she once dealt with eating disorders, which were brought on by a desire to look like MADONNA. -Belinda's obsession and jealousy over Madonna occurred back in the '80s. --She writes, quote, "I thought [Madonna] looked phenomenal because she was skinnier than me. In some way, the drink and drugs is easier [to kick] because it [requires] abstinence, but with food, you got to eat every day . . . --". . . and I had a terrible relationship with food. If I did eat something wrong, I would be on the treadmill for hours and hours. --"And if I did have a bite of that cookie, then I would beat myself up and eat as many as I could and count the calories as I went along."
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS ARE DOING AN "INTIMATE" U.S. TOUR:
The SMASHING PUMPKINS will be playing 12 shows in the U.S. this summer at, quote, "intimate venues." (--In other words, SMALL places.) --The dates stretch from July 6th in Cleveland through July 21st in Tampa. (--For the full itinerary, hit up SmashingPumpkins.com, here.)
DIDDY WANTS TO CORRECT YOUR PERCEPTION OF HIM:
If you think of DIDDY as some sort of fashionable, self-indulgent, high-class elitist . . . since that's how he's projected himself . . . he would now like you to STOP IT --He tells the "Los Angeles Times", quote, "People have this perception of me . . . which is my fault . . . of maybe a rapper or Champagne-sipping and Hamptons and white fur and just cliché type of things that are just kind of old and dated and corny. --"[But that] isn't how I am today, you know? That was just part of my image for a second. It wasn't who Sean is. You evolve . . . like, I need to retire my diamond necklace and fur jacket now. Things change. Times change." (--So Diddy is narcissistically saying that he's no longer a narcissist. OK. Obviously, all this will be contradicted by Diddy's next quote . . . and if I cared at all, I'd jump at the opportunity to call him out on it. But I just don't.)
NAZZY’S RANDOM STUFF
GEORGE W. BUSH HAS HIS OWN FACEBOOK PAGE:
Well, it's official: Facebook is no longer cool. Here's how I know . . . --On Wednesday, GEORGE W. BUSH signed up for his own Facebook fan page. --There's nothing too interesting going on there, and he's only made two posts so far. --The first is an update of what he's been up to since leaving the White House, and the second is a link to the official website of LAURA BUSH'S memoirs, "Spoken from the Heart". --As of last night, Dubya already had more than 100,000 fans. (Switched)
(--You can link to George W. Bush's Facebook page here . . .)
http://www.facebook.com/georgewbush
THREE TEENAGERS TRIED TO DINE AND DASH, BUT AN EMPLOYEE JUMPED ON THEIR CAR AND CALLED 911 WHILE THEY DROVE AWAY AT 60 MILES PER HOUR:
It's one thing to be a good employee. But THIS is just so far above and beyond the call of duty it's insane . . . --Brian McKnight works at the Waffle House restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (--about 30 miles southeast of Nashville). --On Sunday, he was taking a smoke break in the parking lot when three teens ran out of the restaurant and jumped into their car. They were trying to dine and ditch . . . meaning they left without paying. --Being the good guy he is, Brian tried to stop the teens from leaving. But the driver . . . an 18-year-old named Christopher Miller . . . accidentally hit Brian with his car, throwing him onto the hood, before tearing out of the parking lot. --Brian hung on for dear life for five minutes as Christopher drove through town, sometimes going as fast as 60 MILES PER HOUR. --But, somehow, Brian didn't fall off. And he even managed to pull his cell phone out of his pocket, and call 911 from the hood of the moving car. --On the 911 tape, Brian can be heard telling the dispatcher, quote, "I'm stuck on the hood of somebody's car and they refuse to stop . . . They are driving at . . . about 40 miles per hour and they will not stop." --Eventually, Christopher pulled over to the side of the road and handed over his car keys. He was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of reckless endangerment. He's expected in court next month. --So far, the two other teens in the car haven't been charged with anything. --As for Brian, he suffered a few minor injuries, but nothing too serious. And he doesn't consider himself a hero . . . just a guy who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. --By the way . . . the tab Christopher and his friends skipped out on? It was for $24.87. (Tennessean / WSMV News 4 - Nashville)
A WOMAN SAYS SHE WAS FIRED FROM CITIBANK FOR BEING "TOO SEXY":
There are plenty of legitimate reasons why people lose their jobs. Being TOO HOT isn't the likeliest of them . . . not by a long shot. But that's exactly what 33-year-old Debrahlee Lorenzana of Queens, New York, says happened to her. --Debrahlee started working for Citibank in September of 2008. And almost immediately, she says her superiors started making sexist and inappropriate comments about her clothes and appearance. --But Debrahlee says her clothes weren't the problem . . . they were just normal work clothes. It was that she was too SMOKING-HOT, and her co-workers just couldn't handle it. --Anyway, eventually Citibank fired Debrahlee. And now she's filed a lawsuit against the company claiming gender discrimination. -In the lawsuit, Debrahlee says she was told that, quote, "as a result of the shape of her figure, [her] clothes were purportedly 'too distracting' for her male colleagues and supervisors to bear." --And the reason none of Debrahlee's co-workers had the same problem, even though most of them wore similar outfits, is because unlike her, quote, "their general unattractiveness rendered moot their sartorial choices." (--Burn!) (???) --Anyway, officials for Citibank have refused to discuss the details of Debrahlee's case. But they call her accusations, quote, "unfounded" and "inaccurate." (New York Post / MSNBC)
HERE ARE FIVE FAMOUS GENIUSES WHO WERE TOTAL PERVS:
It's funny how we build up prominent historical figures in our minds. We selectively remember all their feats and accomplishments . . . to the point that they're almost like gods . . . but no one ever talks about their faults or other "humanizing" qualities.
--With that in mind, here are six famous geniuses you probably didn't know where total perverts:
#1.) ALBERT EINSTEIN: Einstein was married twice, and one of his wives was his first cousin Elsa. But Einstein cheated on both wives with at least ten other women, and he even got busted violating his best friend's niece.
#2.) MOZART: He may have been the greatest composer of all time, but he was into some seriously messed up stuff.
#3.) JAMES JOYCE: When he was away, Joyce and his wife, Nora, would exchange dirty letters. In them, Joyce talks about pleasuring himself while reading her letters. --He also tells Nora he wants her to, quote, "smack" and "flog" him while naked, and to drill her so hard it makes her break wind in his face.
#4.) T.E. LAWRENCE A.K.A. "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA": T.E. Lawrence was an officer in the British Army who played a major role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks. --Lawrence used to pay a man named John Bruce to whip him with a stick and write down what happened so he could use it for his own pleasure later on.
#5.) JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: Rousseau's work, "The Social Contract", was one of the single most important documents used to create the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. --But Rousseau also had a fetish for being spanked, and is thought to be the first person to come out as a "spankophile" and sadomasochist. (Cracked)
HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR YOUR KIDS TO SEE YOU NAKED?
Now it's time for our Question of the Day: How old is too old for your kids to see you NAKED?
--The reason I bring it up is because I read an article asking this very question on a website called CafeMom.com, and the writer identified two rules of thumb to go by:
#1.) You should never let your kid see you naked after they turn five, because there's a good chance they'll remember it and it will scar them for life.
#2.) And you should never let your kid see you naked after you've turned 40. Presumably, it's because everyone over the age of 40 has an unattractive body, and your kid would just find that too unpleasant. (-- When did you stop letting your kids see you naked? Did you do it too late, and are they screwed up because of it?) (--Or did you accidentally see your parents naked at some point, and now you can't get the image of their wrinkly, unclothed genitals out of your mind? We want to hear about it.) (Café Mom)
KIDS WITH OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO BECOME NEUROTIC FREAKS:
As a parent, you always want to do what's best for your kids. The problem is that sometimes what you THINK is best for them actually does more harm than good. Here's what I mean . . . --Researchers at Keene State College in New Hampshire wanted to find out how well kids with so-called "helicopter parents" are able to adjust when they go away to school. --If you don't know what a "helicopter parent" is, it refers to parents who are abnormally overprotective. They're called that because they're always "hovering" over their kids to make sure they're okay. --Anyway, what the researchers found is that kids with helicopter parents grow up to be more dependent and neurotic, and less open than kids with parents who are less . . . well . . . let's call them "intense." --A guy named Neil Montgomery led the study. He says, quote, "I think what the helicopter parents did is they decided, 'OK we know what good parenting looks like, we're just going to ratchet it up to a new level, and our kids are going to be even better.' --"The problem is, when they ratcheted it up, they went too far, and in fact, caused an expansion of childhood or adolescence." --Overall, the study found that about 10% of kids have helicopter parents. (Yahoo News)
FREE-CREDIT-REPORT.COM IS LOOKING FOR A NEW HOUSE BAND:
FreeCreditReport.com is responsible for some of the most annoying commercials in the history of TV, which is really saying a lot.
(--If you don't believe me, or don't know what I'm talking about, you can link to a few of their ads here . . .)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dFbNw3bpKE
--Anyway, FreeCreditReport.com is rebranding, and soon they'll be known as FreeCreditScore.com. And to go along with their "awesome" new name, they're holding an online competition to find an equally awesome new house band. --All you have to do is learn one of their insufferable ad jingles, make a video of your band performing it, and upload it to the contest website. --The only rules are that all bands must have between two and five members, and all band members must be 21 or older. (Consumerist) (--You can enter to be the new house band for FreeCreditScore.com here . . .)
http://freecreditscoreband.com/enter
DID YOU KNOW THEY MAKE SPECIAL OXYGEN MASKS FOR ANIMALS?
On Tuesday, members of the Chicago Fire Department saved the lives of two dogs and two cats that had been trapped in a burning house on the city's north side. --When the firefighters first found the animals, they were all lying lifeless on the floor. But rescue workers managed to revive them using special PET OXYGEN MASKS designed to fit over the snout of an animal. --About 250 of the masks were just donated to the department, and Tuesday was their first chance to try them out. All four pets are expected to be okay (Chicago Sun-Times)
AND NOW . . . INTRODUCING *SCENTED* BILLBOARDS:
There's a grocery chain in the southeastern United States called Bloom. Maybe you've heard of it. Or not. It doesn't really matter. --The point is Bloom recently started selling a new type of beef in its stores, and they wanted to let people know about it. So they put up a new billboard on Interstate-77 about 30 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina, advertising the meat. --It shows a big, juicy piece of steak on the end of a fork. But it's not what the billboard LOOKS like that makes it unique. It's that the billboard emits the SMELL of steak. Seriously. --There's actually a box mounted on the side of the billboard that blows the scent of smoky barbeque and black pepper about 30 to 50 yards down onto the highway. --It's the work of a company called ScentAir Technologies. According to a company spokesman, quote, "Scent is the sense closest linked to memory and emotion. To add it to what you see and hear completes this multi-sense experience." --The billboard will continue to smell like steak for the next two weeks, and the odor will be the strongest during rush-hour traffic in the morning and late afternoon. (WBTV News 3 - Charlotte)
NAZZY’S SILLY VIDEOS OF THE DAY
#1.) THE UMPIRE WHO COST A PITCHER A PERFECT GAME CRIED AT HOME PLATE THE NEXT DAY:
Major League umpire JIM JOYCE blew the call at first base on Wednesday and cost Tigers pitcher ARMANDO GALARRAGA a perfect game. But he was also the HOME PLATE umpire at YESTERDAY'S Tiger's game. --And before the game started, Galarraga brought out the Tigers' lineup card. He handed it to Joyce, then Joyce wiped away tears from his eyes and gave Galarraga a big pat on the back. (--Here's the video AND the botched call in case you missed it.)
(--Search for "Jim Joyce lineup card" and "Jim Joyce blown call perfect game." He wipes away the tears at :43.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAfSYAvQII8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsLt3iYiFbU
#2.) A CONVENIENCE STORE CASHIER IGNORED AN ARMED ROBBER:
A man with a gun tried to rob a convenience store, but the cashier just ignored him. And instead of filling the guy's bag with money, the cashier threw it on the floor, and the guy left. (--Search for "cashier ignored armed robber." He leaves at :46.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTkEdOf-WQ
#3.) A DRUNK DRIVER RAMPED OFF A TOLL BOOTH AND GOT AIRBORNE:
A drunk woman was leaving the Dallas Fort Worth Airport on Tuesday morning, and she tried to speed through a tollbooth without paying. But she hit a divider, and her car ramped up into the air. Here's the security cam footage. (--Search for "drunk driver DFW video.")
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/06/this_is_not_how_youre_supposed.php
#4.) A KID FOLDED A TOWEL INTO THE SHAPE OF A HORN . . . BUT IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE A GUY'S JUNK:
A kid showed off his towel-folding skills by folding one into the shape of a horn . . . or so he thought. In reality, it looked EXACTLY like a guy's junk. (--Search for "how to make a towel horn." He finishes at :46.) http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2010/06/03
#5.) A GUY TRIED TO PULL A COLLEGE PRANK, BUT FAILED:
A kid tried to scare his friend awake by setting off firecrackers in a garbage can next to his bed. But he ended up lighting the guy's bed on fire.
(--Search for "dorm fireworks prank epic fail.") (--WARNING!!! This video includes TONS of profanity . . .)
http://www.break.com/index/dorm-fireworks-prank-epic-fail.html
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