Someone’s in the Closet With Sylvester
The underage sex trial of R. Kelly is about to start. Just in time for the publicity, R. Kelly has released a CD and now also a DVD. Life is going to get a lot simpler if he gets convicted.
NT Times: ON Tuesday the R&B singer R. Kelly released “Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13-22,” a DVD of the newest episodes of his video hip-hopera. Featuring 26 characters, byzantine twists of plot and cliffhanger endings, it has a story that can perplex even the most devoted fans.
Andrew Kuo, the artist and blogger, hunkered down with all 22 installments, mapping out the complex interpersonal relationships. “I have a feeling that R. Kelly has about 40 napkins on his office desk, covered with diagrams and arrows,” Mr. Kuo said. The entire series will be shown on the Independent Film Channel in September.
A Picture Guide to R. Kelly’s Complicated Life
Continue ReadingGeorge Bush’s Mea Culpa
MAUREEN DOWD (NYT) ghostwrites George’s Bush “Mea culpa.” Don’t hold your breath. Nothing of the sort will ever come out of George Bush’s mouth.
Who’s Sorry Now?
There’s not much lately that we’d like to import from China.
Certainly not the yummy steamed buns stuffed with shredded cardboard soaked in a caustic agent used to make soap. Or the tasty toothpaste laced with an antifreeze ingredient. Or the scrumptious seafood with a chemical kick. Or those pet foods with kibbles and bits of poison.
But there is one thing made in China we could use: mea culpas of high officials.
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Expert to examine the relative comforts of the Hilton and a jail cell
One of my guilty pleasures is to follow the act that Paris Hilton puts on for the world. I don’t know her. Nor do I claim to have figured out what drives this lady to seek the lime light. She is clearly one of the world’s most well-known brands. Being only twenty-six this is no small accomplishment. After voluntarily moving to a small farm for a reality TV show (The Simple Life), she is involuntarily moving into a prison cell. I would not be surprised if she manages to land another reality TV show gig called “The Prison Life.” Read below the details why a judge sent her to prison for 45 days. Sing Sing for someone who only wanted to be a famous singer.
Justin Timberlake’s Reflection on Singlehood
In a recent interview, Justin Timberlake, who in January split with Cameron Diaz (his costar in Shrek pictured on the right, who also attended the press day), said being single has its ups and downs:
“The advantages are that you don’t get in as many arguments, and the disadvantage is that you’re talking to yourself.”
Apparantly, Justin does not like to talk to himself. Click on “More” to find who is in rumored to be his new “conversation partner.”
Continue ReadingA Holiday Card from Britney Spears
Britney seems to have discovered that motherhood and applepie is not as fun as singlehood and panty-less partying with Paris Hilton. The two girls are learning to upstage even Madonna, the mother of all self-promotion. It is fascinating to watch how newspapers all over the world are covering the two little Lolitas from the United States as if they had no one in their own country to talk about. Here are Britney’s holiday wishes for the world, found on britneyspears.com.
TomKat’s Wedding Picture
When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes failed to give the press a photo of their newborn child for six months, the tabloids started to accuse the couple of simply making up their baby story to create publicity. Here is a picture of their little girl, Suri, from yesterday’s TomKat star wedding in Italy, which moves me to exclaim: Oh, she definitely has the eyes of the father!
Rupert Murdoch’s Family Values
Murdoch believes in family values. That’s why he married three times. In a recent profile in the New Yorker (October 16, 2006) he explained. “I am a radical in the sense of supporting change… I also believe in free markets and family values—in a low-key way. I am not one to preach about it, having been married three times. But I really believe that the family is the basis of society.”
Rupert, you are too modest. It makes perfect sense that if you really value families, you feel a moral imperative to create more than one! And why would a radical believer in change not exchange the wife once in a while. After all, a mariage market can only function efficiently if there is some trading going on!
Supreme Court Deals with Greed, Sex and Deception
Older men and younger women - an age-old story. But an 89-year-old rolling into a strip club on a wheelchair and later marrying the stripper takes this idea to a whole new level. The Economist reports on what happened next.
THE words “probate exception” do not titillate. And yet a saucy, decade-long legal battle over a fortune of nearly half a billion dollars hinges on this clause, which deals with the boundaries between state and federal courts in estate disputes. At issue is whether Vickie Lynn Marshall, a former Playboy pin-up and exotic dancer better known as Anna Nicole Smith, will get anything from the estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall, an oil tycoon with assets estimated at $1.6 billion.
On May 1st, Ms Smith won an important victory. Although her inheritance remains uncertain, the United States Supreme Court (no less) unanimously ruled that she could pursue her case in federal court. One suspects the justices were enjoying themselves, for once.
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