The assassination of Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, is playing out like a Hollywood thriller. There’s a large international cast, including one slinky blonde, and role-playing (wealthy tourists). Moral decision: Indeed, is there a difference between execution by predator drone…or extreme prejudice, as in the calculated manner of 007?
After the 8.8 quake in Chile, we are evacuating to town, in case there is a tsunami!
Sunday: Fortunately, we only have big waves! Monday: The surfers are back.
between celebrity & notoriety, truth & fiction–especially in this town! A while back, the local news was filled with stories about a rash of audacious burglaries that targeted the homes of young celebs. It turns out that the alleged perps are a bunch of club-hopping kids, from an affluent suburb, so caught up in the Hollywood “culture” they apparently committed the break-ins ($3-million worth in mainly clothes & jewelry, some artwork, plus a gun)–to get designer duds (re: lifestyle) that belonged to the “anointed-ones.” Allegedly one of the so-called Bling Ring, Alexis Neiers, 18, is a dark beauty that had already been signed, at the time of her arrest, to an E! reality show called Pretty Wild, which debuts next month. The leggy teen now has a Vanity Fair story, a mouthpiece, and future court dates.
2000-2009: tattoos, slackers & baseball caps,still; The Sopranos; Dot-com Crash; Carrie & Mr. Big; Fla. recount; “Dub-Yuh”; 9/11!; bin Ladin/ al Qaeda; Patriotism/ Freedom Fries; Rummy,Condi; Taliban; Afghan war; Anthrax; Harry Potter; Guantanamo; DC sniper; file-sharing; Phil Spector murder; American Idol; Iraq war!; “Mission Accomplished”; ugh, Uggs;Paris Hilton; BlackBerry; sex tapes; Credit-Default swaps; real-estate boom; Trucker hats; Russian oligarchs; Ashton & Demi; Abu Ghraib; Bush redux,oh,no!! Global Warming; Brangelina; Ipod; MySpace; Blackwater; Google IPO; bull market; very expensive handbags; celebretards; steroids; more sex tapes; more Bush; more materialism; more billionaires; no panties; Katrina; Britney breakdown; Tsunami; bubbles; Iphone; more designer handbags; Anna Nicole death; Housewives; Internet tsunami:TV online; Facebook; black tights; exhibitionism & vulgarity as entertainment; foreclosures; Crash; New Depression; frozen banks; Madoff; sexy vampires; bail-outs; Barack Obama; Jon & Kate; Twitter; Lady GaGa; more reality; Michael Jackson: RIP; frothy markets; dreamy vampires; Tiger & the bimbos; healthcare reform; attempt to bring down Northwest flight; tattoos, slackers & baseball caps, Uggs, still…..& there are a few days left!
in Afghanistan, I look to the curious.
What about Suri Cruise’s high heels? Does Scientology approve this footgear for 3-year-olds? On another note: I am taken aback by Bob Dylan’s appearance, in a pewter pageboy wig and Santa hat, on his new Christmas album, and by the entire undertaking!
This gem of a quote from Sarah Palin’s new autobiography Going Rogue has vegetarians reeling:
“If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”
Sarah Palin kills moose with bare hands
to devour. I think you will enjoy David Kamp’s delicious “Twilight”-inspired teen saga .
& congratulations to Project Runway winner Irina Shabayeva. Her all-black collection is everything I love!
It is a challenge,” Major Nadil Malik Hasan told a woman who lived in his apt. building the night he announced he was “going away.” Dr. Val Finnell, who attended school w/ Hasan, has spoken out about how the psychiatrist’s extreme Muslim views permeated his outlook years ago. Reports have now surfaced that this deeply conflicted man not only prayed 5-times-a-day, but apparently also made visits to the local strip club. This terrible massacre is yet another scandal for the military brass. The warning signs were there–but Hasan filled a slot, as a desperately needed health care professional dealing with the ravaged minds of soldiers that had been deployed in war-zones 3, 4 & even 5-times. I wonder what he told his patients. They’re Army–and will not speak out.
Looked at the Enquirer cover w/ the wealthy twin icon story. It says she needs to protect her fortune from “struggling” artist boyfriend. I’m sure she’s aware he’s an oil business heir. On the other side of the family, grandpa is Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, making Uma his step-aunt.
She is not a well known name, but in the late 90s this brilliant high-octane attorney & women rights advocate was the head of a small govt. agency that oversaw the derivatives market. Brooksley Born soon learned what she was supposed to oversee was an extraordinary, newly deregulated “dark market,” as inscrutable & protected as an organized crime cartel! Hidden like landmines, gambling in derivatives eventually ballooned internationally to an incomprehensible figure of $529 TRILLION!!! Do I need to say that number again??? They are now haggling in DC over less than a trillion, in a 10-yr period, to fix the entire health care system!!! & I naively wondered, before the crash, how their were suddenly thousands of billionaires.
Like James Brown, but for different reasons, Ms. Born began waking up in a “in a cold sweat.” Testifying before four gov’t committees, she warned the pols & Big Boys (Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, underling Tim Geithner; titans of the the Street & their partners in crime: lobbyists & Beltway pals) that the situation was beyond dire & could bring down the entire global financial system. This was eleven years ago. You will see it all on this extraordinary show from PBS’s Frontline: THE WARNING.
PLS WATCH…THIS IS CRITICAL since Obama has yet to reinstitute the regulations that were put into effect during the early days FDR’s presidency, more than 75 years ago. Designed to prevent this type of endgame, the laws worked! Experts say it can happen again, if action isn’t taken!!!
have lived in LA. Meeting in acting class, of course, the “aliens” left Tinseltown as deadbeats. None of this surprises me, I just feel sorry for the kids.
What does surprise me is that Heene père has such low aspirations…Wife Swap, Jon & Kate go rogue w/ extreme weather?? With that overinflated ego, I think he would be pitching prestige–something like Mad Men. Maybe he could show his acting chops as a rival advertising genius giving Don Draper competition? Or what about trying to snatch David Duchovy’s wife on Californication? (JL said he wishes he thought of that title.)
Unfortunately, the stunts Richard Heene has come up with seem clearly like child abuse; therefore it’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for this scenario. Child services, pls!
when least expected, they say.
Last May, I dipped my toe back into the market. I’m not complaining, but I have never experienced such froth: tasty dividends & incredible gains. My Apple & Goldman shares alone are up $50+! But I remain bearish. How could one not?
The skeletal remains of a 4′-tall, 110 lb. female hominid that walked erect 4.4-million yrs. ago, have been unearthed in Ethiopia. The oldest creature thought to be an ancestor of man, she beats out the previous title-holder, “Lucy”, by a million years.
Has Sarah Palin commented on this remarkable find?
For 76-yr-old Roman Polanski, legendary director of the macabre, a nightmare has returned. In an incredible turn of events, the man once known as husband of Manson family victim, pregnant actress Sharon Tate, was just arrested in a Zurich airport–as he arrived to collect a lifetime achievement award.
Accused in 1977 of sexually assaulting an underage girl–a Tinseltown hopeful, the adolescent was handed over to the Polanski, by her mother, then taken to Jack Nicholson’s house for a photo shoot that culminated in sexual assault. The Academy-award winning director fled LA, just before sentencing, & has been exiled in Paris all these years.
