British
Rocker Chick looking singer Amy Winehouse married her boyfriend,
Blake
Fielder-Civil, in Miami on Friday, the 18th of May. Winehouse, 23, and
Fielder-Civil, 23, a gofer for music videos, have spent a romantic three
days at The Shore Club hotel on South Beach, where since Wednesday they've
been seen kissing and holding hands. They had been engaged since April after
he proposed to her with a diamond ring from Tiffany. At the time, Winehouse
told U.K. newspaper The Sun, "I hope to be with him for the rest of my
life." But the couple had not announced a wedding date. In fact, the pair
has shared a tumultuous, on-and-off relationship. Though they started dating
two and a half years ago, they split up for some time. That period inspired
Winehouse to write "Tears Dry On Their Own" from her new album Back to
Black. Lately, though, the singer has been nothing short of effusive about
her relationship.
Lindsay Lohan was arrested on suspicion of
driving under the influence early Saturday morning after her
Mercedes
convertible struck a curb on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Police
reported that they also found a substance they believe to be
cocaine at the scene,
according to an Associated Press report. Lohan, 20, and two other
unidentified people were in the actresses' 2005 Mercedes SL-65 when it
crashed at around 5:30 a.m. on Saturday. It appeared she had been speeding
and when police responded to a 911 call about the accident, the
Associated Press on the scene reported that officers found a "usable
amount" of a drug they tentatively identified at the scene as cocaine. They
would not say where the drug was found other than to confirm that Lohan was
not carrying it. Lindsay, who spent time in a rehabilitation facility
earlier this year and has said in interviews that she's been attending
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for more than a year. Lindsay was driven from
the scene in a someone else's car to the hospital to be treated for minor
injuries. The other two people were not hurt. Lindsay was arrested at the
hospital for investigation of misdemeanor
driving under the
influence of alcohol or drugs, then released when she was admitted for
treatment. The case would be presented to the district attorney's office,
where she could face additional charges, some of them felonies. Her
tentative arraignment date is August 24. Saturday's incident was the third
car wreck in the past two and a half years for the troubled actress. In
October 2005, she and a passenger sustained minor injuries when her
convertible hit a van in Hollywood in an incident in which police cited the
other driver. Months before that, Lindsay struck a minivan carrying a
paparazzo, when she made a U-turn to try and avoid the photographer, who was
arrested for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon, but not charged.
The
Navy, Marines and Coast Guard, and NY has done Fleet week since 1938. Please
extend them courtesy, show them around, answer their questions, many are far
from home and treat them as if they were your children, buddies and friends.
Most are far from home and want to partake of NYC. Some will be going home,
for those sailors and jarheads, welcome home. We missed you...The
Sailors and Marines will be asking for people to take their picture and show
them how to get around NYC, please show them and extend courtesies to them.
They have not seen land for a bit and love the chance to walk around. When I
was in the Navy, my favorite thing was to see the sites and walk around and
talk to the locals and go to the Dance Clubs around NYC. Since the
Fleet Week Festivities start May 23rd and end May 30th. Go down and
see them come in, a great time for all involved. The Battle Group is a great article if
you want to check it out.
Pure Nightclub in Las Vegas is doing Lindsay Lohan 21st birthday party
should be a blast. It should be setup with great acts and other things
to keep her sober and party with A. A. pals.
Well, it started with today's gas prices being so high. A St.
John's student is starting a protest for gas prices being so
hot and high. He and Red Zone, asked that everyone should not buy gas
tomorrow. In response to the high gas prices to send a message back to
the big gas companies to lower prices. It is a grass roots, following
that is being asked to encourage everyone to join in and not buy gas
tomorrow. This business student started this in an effort to bring
down the price of gas. Only 18 years old, a Ford Mustang, and is a
hard thing to get to school, if you cannot afford to get to school.
This movement has taken on shape, and many more people are grabbing on.
We ask everyone with a car, not to by gas tomorrow, where ever you are.
For people in the United States, we ask that Tuesday, the 15th of May be the
day that we do not buy gas. For Europe and Asia and Africa, we ask
that Wednesday is the day, to not buy gas. To send to the gas
companies, a message, that we can no
longer
afford the high gas prices. Although this started with just one man
and his Mustang, it has grown to be a international problem that hope can
solve. We asked for the people in charge to change and help their
people in this fight. We also asked for more economical cars,
more hybrid cars and more cars that have alternative fuel alternatives.
Maybe this will help us to afford gas prices as they are. For it is
not only the oil cartels that hold us, it is up to a hushed minority to hold
our destiny in our hand. No longer should we stand in a hushed silence
and feel helpless, let all who own a car take part in this protest against
high gas prices. Tomorrow, make
a
concerted effort to not buy gas from any gas station. Send a clear
message, that gas prices are too high, tell your friends, tell your
neighbors, tell your family members, tell anyone that you can find to take a
day off from buying gas to protest high gas prices. Have those gas
attendants, cleaning up with no patrons to buy gas. Send a clear
message that the voice of the people can be heard and carried out.
Show the legislators that we can make a difference also, that they can
represent us. And sending this message clearly, the price of gas is
too high. More
JoJo: 'I Won't Breakdown Like Britney'.... R&B star Jojo insists she
won't fall victim to her own success
and suffer a nervous
breakdown - unlike pop rival Britney Spears. The 16-year-old Too Little Too
Late singer is adamant she won't follow in the footsteps of other child
stars who find themselves in rehab, thanks to the support of her family. She
says, "I can't see that (a breakdown) in my future. There are things that
are more important. "I don't think any sane person would see that coming -
I'm sure Britney didn't see it coming up."But I'm very close to my family
and they keep me grounded, and I don't think they would ever let me do
that." Jojo on right..>>>>
Candy
Spelling, to Paris, Grow up...!!! Candy Spelling (Tori's mom) sent
TMZ an open letter to Paris Hilton. Here is the letter, so hold on to your
knickers...
Dear Paris,
As someone who has known you for most of your life, I pay special attention
to your press coverage. (Apparently, I'm not alone, based on the responses
every word about you creates on TMZ.com and elsewhere.)
Paris, I'm very worried about you. The last week has not only been an
obvious roller-coaster for you emotionally, but your strategy went from
blaming employees and stating silly excuses like, "I don't read," to your
new lawyer's tactic to have you sound mature and take some responsibility.
In between, the paparazzi continue to follow you shopping and taking
self-defense classes (to protect yourself in jail?), and some over-zealous
friends staged embarrassing protests (three people?), and wasted taxpayer
funds with a petition to pardon you.
People who are rich and famous are not treated like "regular" people, even
though you claim to now be just like everyone else. In most situations, your
privileged life works to your benefit. You have opportunities, access and
resources like few others; and frankly, you can get away with more bad
behavior and excuses than most people could even imagine. However, as the
real possibility of jail approaches -- whether it's 21 days or 45 or
whatever the latest report is -- it's time to get real. It's time to find "a
Paris" somewhere between "heiress" and a character on "The Simple Life." I
know she's there, and I know she can be a good citizen and maturely face
consequences other people would have to face under the same circumstances.
I am sorry you have been sentenced to jail. I can't think of too much that
would be worse. But since you let this happen, use the next couple of weeks
preparing not only by publicly learning to fight (not a good message to
fellow inmates), but by looking around, realizing that you are not as truly
entitled as your money implies. You are a young woman who can add more to
her community than establishing new definitions for infamy.
Best,
Candy Spelling
Patty
Hearst weighed in with this diatribe: My heart goes out to the
inmates of the Century Regional Detention Center. Forty-five days with Paris
Hilton and the attendant publicity seems like cruel and unusual punishment
to me. Perhaps THEY should be petitioning the Governor for relief?
Joe Francis, 34, should be released from Bay
County custody Tuesday after serving a 35-day
sentence for
contempt of court. Florida prosecutors want Francis to remain in custody for
unresolved 2003 criminal charges involving filming minors in sexual
situations on Panama City beach. But Federal Magistrate Judge Larry
Bodiford ruled that Francis should first face federal tax evasion charges in
Reno, Nev. Joe Grammer, a spokesman for State Attorney Steve Meadows,
said the state would appeal Bodiford's ruling to U.S. District Judge Richard
Smoak. Francis has repeatedly clashed with Smoak over a federal civil
lawsuit involving the filming of under-aged girls. This is not new for Joe,
he has been fighting these types of lawsuits and accusations from many
states and countries and has been stopped from filming in certain places.
Grammer said Florida authorities believe Francis should remain behind bars
even if he is sent to Nevada. "Our position is that there are outstanding
warrants that remain. If the judge in Nevada says that he will be let
out on bond,
there is still an active warrant in Florida and that would keep him from
being released," he said. Francis also faces legal problems in California
where his probation for violating federal laws designed to prevent the
sexual exploitation of minors could be revoked. Joe has been known to
hobnob with celebs like Paris Hilton, Mario Lopez, Snoop, and many others is
seeing a new type of celebrity now. Dont pick up the soap Joe, just
let it go and keep it tight aiiight.
*Actress Michelle
Rodriguez is not a happy camper after seeing herself on the latest cover
of Curve magazine,
a publication for and about lesbian women. "As far as rumors go of me
coming out, I guess Curve magazine took it upon themselves to out me on the
premise of their own suspicions,” she wrote on her
Web site.
"Whatever, I'm not insulted, I have a big lesbian following, and for
whatever reasons they show me love. I'm never going to shun, disrespect or
neglect
anybody who shows me genuine non-psychotic love." But, she adds: “To put
words in someone's mouth and place people in categories affects them for
sure, especially in this business. I don't know what the intent behind the
Curve magazine cover was. I wasn't informed of it, I had no idea they were
planning on using my image to sell magazines." Curve never actually states
inside the magazine that she is gay, but once the issue hit the newsstands,
the Internet lit up with rumors that she had come out of the closet. Curve
executive editor Diane Anderson-Minshall tells People: "I am sorry that
Michelle Rodriguez feels like we've outed her. If she would read the
article, she could see that is simply not true. Our intention was definitely
not to do that. We simply wanted to pay homage to an actress
that has
been on our 'Top 5 Wish List' (of celebrities our readers want to read more
about) for several years." Being labeled a lesbian, she says, would probably
ruin her film and television career: "There are certain things that can
close doors between a celebrity and certain audiences. ... If I were Ellen [DeGeneres]
I may get away with the 'I'm gay' level of exposure, but I'm not a comedian,
I like men (real ones anyway) and I've only been in this business for seven
years, not 20." No matter what, I still love you girl, I am a real
man, ok so lets get it on...lol Enough said.
Opie and Anthony did it again, offended
women now. Now he insulted The Queen, Condeleesa
Rice, and
First Lady Laura Bush. So now again they want them fired, like they
did with the St. Patrick's Cathedral, egging on a couple to have sex in the
church. It brings more fire to a already hot topic in radio.
They are on XM satellite and CBS syndication. And the shock jocks
apologized for offending women and for saying the homeless man having sex
with the three aforementioned. We shall see what happens to the
duo in the near future..
Paris
Hilton may spend far less than 45 days in county jail for violating
probation because of state policies and jail overcrowding, authorities said
Thursday. Hilton, sentenced last week to do the time, could spend three
weeks or less behind bars because of a state requirement that grants inmates
time off for good behavior and because of overcrowding in the system, Los
Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. "It's possible that
it could be 21 days, 23 days. It's a complicated formula that the state sets
down. It's possible that she could do less time," Whitmore told The
Associated Press. As for overcrowding, "our jail is bursting at the seams"
and some women inmates have been released after serving only 10 percent of
their sentence, Whitmore said. Last year, "Lost" actress Michelle Rodriguez
was sentenced to 60 days in jail for violating probation after her drunken
driving arrest in Hawaii. She was released in hours because of overcrowding.
Hilton's time will be determined when she is booked into the county system,
Whitmore said. Well
now she got a letter from Candy Spelling..
If you haven’t noticed all the
colorful posters stuck to bulletin boards, telephone poles, and
abandoned vehicles (at least in my neck of the woods), the world is
gearing up for mid-May’s Bike to Work
Week.
Dates very slightly by region, but this grass-roots movement
is gaining serious momentum. And with gas prices climbing toward $4 a
gallon (ouch!), more and more people are
getting onboard
with the idea of an alternative means of transportation.
Count me in among the converted/quickly-going-broke. I’ve been trying
to take public transportation at least once a week (when I don’t have to
be at a soccer game or baseball game or Girl Scouts meeting, or something
right after work). I must admit, even in the mass transit-unfriendly
suburbs, it works pretty well. Sure, it takes a wee bit longer. But I get
lots done (OK, mostly Sudoku), and I get to do a lot of people watching
along the way.
The FCC is on the verge of
turning over a large chunk of the public airwaves to the same
giant phone and cable companies that control high-speed Internet
access for more than 96 percent of connected American homes.
This public "spectrum" could revolutionize the
Internet in America. Its wireless signal passes through concrete
buildings and over mountains; it can connect tens of million of
Americans who are being passed over by Internet providers like
AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.
Don't let the FCC give away our wireless Internet
to these price-gouging giants. The FCC deadline is fast
approaching. Act now:
Broadcast television channels will soon vacate
these airwaves when they go digital by 2009. If used right, these
public airways will revolutionize the ways we connect to laptops,
cell phones, PDAs, music players and other mobile Internet
devices. They can deliver an open Internet into your house without
the need for a telephone wire or cable modem.
Phone and cable lobbyists are pressuring the FCC
to sell companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast our airwaves so
they can horde spectrum and stifle competitive and cheaper
alternatives to their established networks.
This would be a disaster. After years of phone and
cable company control over Internet access, the United States has
fallen to 16th in the world in high-speed Internet rankings, with
few choices and some of the highest prices for the slowest speeds
in the world. We will continue this decline as long as we let
AT&T, Verizon and Comcast dictate the terms of Internet access for
the majority of Americans.
These phone and cable giants refuse to open their
networks to competitive applications and services. They lobby
Washington to stifle new innovations like Internet phone service
and to destroy Net Neutrality, the one principle that protects
equal opportunity and free choice on the Web.
We need to end their stranglehold and demand a
better Internet for everyone:
With open networks, the rest of the world has
rapidly adopted high-speed, Internet platforms for education,
economic innovation, creativity and civic participation. Countries
like South Korea, Japan, France and Canada have leapfrogged the
United States and now offer faster Internet connections at far
lower prices.
It's time we caught up.
Act now and help clear the path for a technology
that will deliver faster, more open and affordable Internet for
everyone.
1. Most people haven't heard about this issue yet.
It's really important that we spread the word and get people
involved. After you send your comment to the FCC,
tell at least five friends to take action.