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 April, 2006 Archives | Homepage

Bat Cave Students Face Possible Criminal Charges

Officials are mulling mulling over whether or not to file charges against students at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville who tried to create a real, live Bat Cave in their dorm room.
A joker who made a bat cave out of a dorm room, and three other students believed to have stolen the dozen or so nocturnal critters used in the caper, could be in for criminal charges, officials said Thursday. At least five University of Arkansas at Fayetteville students had been in close contact with the bats, but state epidemiologist Dr. Frank Wilson said the exposure wasn't significant enough to require rabies shots. Health officials urged anyone else who was near the bats to be evaluated.

Three students gathered the brown bats during a caving expedition at Devil's Den State Park in northwest Arkansas, said university police Lt. Gary Crain. "The bats were pretty docile; they were sleeping. It was pretty easy to pick them like apples," Crain said. After they brought the bats to campus, a fourth student "thought it would be funny to release them in someone's room," he said. After the flying mammals were set loose in the dorm room April 5, animal control officers captured them and released them back into the wild.

Crain said that far from seeking to cover their tracks, the students posted pictures of the bats on the Internet site facebook.com. "That made it a little easier for us," he said. Prosecutors are considering charges, which could include theft for taking the bats and harassment _ "at the very minimum" _ for releasing the creatures, Crain said. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission also could pursue wildlife-related charges, he said. Three of the students are 19 and one is 20, Crain said. With no charges filed Thursday, he declined to identify them. Fayetteville animal control officials said the bats appeared to be healthy, and rangers at Devil's Den State Park said they have seen no instances of sick bats.
We're guessing that the student who "thought it would be funny to release them in someone's room" will get 20 years with possibility of parole after 12 years. Too lenient? Ok, life without possibility of parole. That sounds fair.

Posted on April 28, 2006
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David Copperfield Uses Powers Of Illusion To Foil Crime

Photo of David CopperfieldMagician David Copperfield used his powers of illusion to foil a robbery the other day.
Copperfield and two women were walking in West Palm Beach, FL when they were robbed at gunpoint. While the two women were forced to hand over their purse and money, Copperfield did what he does best: he performed an illusion.

When the robbers told him to empty his pockets, Copperfield, who was carrying a cellphone, wallet and passport, used his sleight of hand and pulled out his pockets to reveal nothing... the contents were gone, and the robbers were none the wiser.

As the robbers fled the scene, David took down the license plate number and aided the police department in quickly apprehending the suspects, who were also linked to five other armed robberies within the same week. David himself was amazed at the fast response time and the efficiency with which the West Palm Beach police and detectives apprehended the armed suspects.
Ok, that's pretty cool actually. He clearly kept calm during the incident; who knew David Copperfield was so good under pressure?

Posted on April 27, 2006
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No One Will Buy A Hamburger From Paris Hilton

Photo of Paris Hilton eating a hamburger.We had asked once before: would you buy a hamburger from this woman? Well, the answer is in: no, you wouldn't. And you wouldn't buy from from Anna Nicole Smith or Donald Trump, either.
The study, which scored 87 celebrities and sports figures who have appeared in an ad in the last year, focused on overall awareness and whether a celebrity left a positive impression in consumers' minds. With all the celebrity endorsers these days, it's a bit of a surprise that none of those mentioned above are considered A-listers or command top ad rates. (Catherine Zeta-Jones reportedly pocketed the most expensive celebrity endorsement last year for her $20 million, two-year deal with T-Mobile, according to trade pub AdWeek.)

The results suggest there's a big difference between remembering a person and buying something from them. Some of the most exposed celebrities, for instance, had the most negative effect on buying habits. Sexpot Anna Nicole Smith, hotel heiress Paris Hilton, pop tart Britney Spears, supermodel Kate Moss and real estate mogul Donald Trump were all examples of celebs whose association made it less likely a person would buy a product, the study said.
The study also said that you would buy something that Tiger Woods pitched. Which is good for him, since he's selling just about everything these days.

Posted on April 26, 2006
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Did Paris Gamble Away Her Bentley?

We're hearing conflicting reports over Paris Hilton's recent gambling spree in which allegedly she lost her $150,000 Bentley in a poker game. But her rep says it's not true. The Scoop reports:
The partying heiress is apparently a poker aficionado, and says she always wins the game in Vegas. But the buzz is that she doesn’t always win — and actually lost her beloved Bentley — valued at over $150,000 — in a recent game, according to various reports. But now an online poker company is offering Hilton a chance to win a new Bently. "If she goes heads-up online in a no-limit Texas Hold'em challenge against poker legend Mike Sexton and wins we’ll hand her the keys to a brand spanking new Bentley," PartyPoker.com spokesman Warren Lush told the Hamilton Spectator. "Forget one night in Paris, we're offering her one night to win her wheels back."

But Lush may be overplaying his hand. Hilton’s rep admits that his client "does enjoy poker" — but he adds, "Her Bentley is in her garage."
So is her Bentley really in her garage? No one's seen her driving it since the infamous poker game and other rumors say she's a compulsive gambler. Or the whole thing could just be a publicity stunt, because if there's one thing that Paris Hilton needs it's more bad publicity.

Posted on April 25, 2006
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J.J. Abrams To Direct New Star Trek Film

J.J. Abrams has agreed to direct a new Star Trek movie, which is nothing but good news as far as we're concerned.
"Mission: Impossible III" director J.J. Abrams is going from Cruise control to warp speed. A couple of weeks before the arrival of Tom Cruise and `M:I3,' Abrams has committed to produce the 11th "Star Trek" feature film and there are plans for him to direct as well, Paramount Pictures announced Friday. Abrams also will write the script with his "Mission Impossible III" co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said.

The studio is hoping to release the new "Star Trek" film in 2008. No plot for the movie has been nailed down and no one has been cast for the film. The "Star Trek" franchise covers several centuries of a future in which humans make their way in a universe populated by a bewildering variety of aliens, from the ultra-logical Vulcans to the merciless, hive-like Borg. The starship Enterprise in various incarnations was the focus of the original series and many of the movies. Two "Star Trek" TV series followed the exploits aboard a space station called Deep Space Nine and a marooned spaceship, Voyager.

Abrams created the hit ABC series "Lost" and Paramount hopes that "Lost" producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk will produce the movie, Kirkpatrick said. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy portrayed Kirk and Spock in the original "Star Trek" TV show in the 1960s and in numerous movies but "they have not yet been approached," Kirkpatrick said. Shatner, 75, currently stars in the hit series "Boston Legal" winning an Emmy for his role as an egotistical attorney.
So, let the casting ideas begin...

Posted on April 24, 2006
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Man Trades Paperclip for One Year's Free Rent

One Red PaperclipWhen we last left Kyle MacDonald he had managed to trade his red paperclip for several items. His last trade back in November was a red generator for an instant party. Since then his trades have included items like a skidoo and a trip to Yahk. And now the clever trader has worked his way up to one year's free rent at a rental house.
After a cross-continental trading trek involving a fish-shaped pen, a town named Yahk and the Web's astonishing ability to bestow celebrity, MacDonald is getting close. He's up to one year's free rent on a house in Phoenix.

Not a bad return on an investment of one red paper clip. Yet MacDonald, 26, vows to keep going until he crosses the threshold of his very own home, wherever that might be.

"It's totally overwhelming, I'm not going to lie," he said by phone from Montreal, where he and his girlfriend, Dominique Dupuis, live with two roommates. "But I'm still trading for that house. It's this obsessive thing."
Good for Kyle. He has almost achieved his original goal: "I'm going to keep trading for bigger or better things until I get a house." He has a house for one year. Will he be able to achieve his ultimate goal of owning a home? You can keep up with Kyle's trading at his blog.

Posted on April 22, 2006
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Nick Lachey Talks About The Divorce

Nick Lachey is finally talking about why his marriage ended. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to know why. He only found out it was over when Jessica told him it was.
Five months after Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson announced their separation, Lachey dishes about the end of his marriage in the current issue of Rolling Stone, on stands in New York and Los Angeles Wednesday and nationwide Friday. Here is what he had to say:
  • "I'll tell you how I knew my marriage was over: I was told."
  • "Jessica and I began playing these parts (on their MTV reality show Newlyweds) even when we were by ourselves. It became a really blurred line. There was a question about what truly was our reality."
  • "I don't pretend to understand (former father-in-law) Joe (Simpson). ... I don't know if he ever liked me. To this day I couldn't say. It was painful. Do I think Joe drove a rift between us? No. Was he an influence in our marriage? Absolutely."
  • "I don't know if there were other men. But if she did cheat, it was the result of something bigger, not the reason we didn't work. ... Sometimes I think it would be easier if I had just walked in the house and found her in bed with a guy. That would be clear-cut. End of story. I wouldn't have to deal with the uncertainty of adultery."
    • Yikes! Poor Nick!

    Posted on April 20, 2006
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    Suri Cruise Makes Her Arrival

    Photo of TomKatPeople magazine reports that Katie Holmes had her baby yesterday.
    Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise "joyously welcomed the arrival of a baby girl, Suri, today," Cruise's rep said in a statement after PEOPLE first broke the news Tuesday afternoon. "The child weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches in length. Both mother and daughter are doing well." The name Suri has its origins in Hebrew meaning "princess," or in Persian meaning "red rose," the rep added.

    In October, barely six months into their romance, an ecstatic Cruise and Holmes revealed that they were expectant parents. Cruise, 43, and Holmes, 27, had made no secret of their desire to start a family together: When asked by PEOPLE last June if they were planning to have children, Holmes smiled and said simply, "Yes."

    Friends of the Toledo, Ohio-bred Holmes called her perfectly suited to her upcoming role. "She almost seems born for motherhood," said Oliver Hudson, actress Kate Hudson's brother and an old pal who costarred with Holmes in Dawson's Creek. "She's a nurturer. She's got mother qualities a lot of girls her age don't have." Cruise, meanwhile, is "a great dad already," according to his pal, actress Leah Remini. He has two children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman: Isabella, 13, and Connor, 11, whom Cruise and Kidman adopted as infants. Remini told PEOPLE that both kids are "so cool…You can sit and talk to them about life."
    Did Katie get to scream? Did the doctors get to scream? Did Tom really eat the placenta (EWWWWW!)? We need more details. In an interesting twist of fate, Brooke Shields gave birth to a baby girl on the same day. Somehow we doubt Brooke is going to be calling Tom to arrange playdates for the tykes.

    Posted on April 19, 2006
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    Harvard Telescope To Look For Extraterrestrials

    Harvard University has embarked on a very interesting project: looking for aliens. A powerful new telescope was designed to capture possible light signals transmitted to Earth by extraterrestrials.
    The telescope is the first to be developed solely to search the skies for light pulses from aliens and will be able to cover 100,000 times the amount of sky covered by current equipment, its developers said. "The opening of this telescope represents one of those rare moments in a field of scientific endeavor when a great leap forward is enabled," said Bruce Betts, project director at The Planetary Society, a group in Pasadena, California, that advocates space exploration and funded the telescope's development.

    "Sending laser signals across the cosmos would be a very logical way for E.T. to reach out, but until now, we have been ill-equipped to receive any such signal," he said. Researchers say alien civilizations may be as likely to use light signals to communicate as radio transmissions. Visible light can form tight beams and could potentially convey information more efficiently, Betts said.

    The telescope was built at Harvard University's Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics' Oak Ridge Observatory, where the nonprofit Planetary Society has searched the depth of space for alien life using an 84-foot radio telescope. The new telescope, located at the observatory at Harvard, Massachusetts, a town about 30 miles northwest of Boston, will vastly enhance the scope of the search for artificial light pulses, Betts said. The telescope can process the equivalent of all books in print every second. As it scans the sky it uses a type of camera that can detect a billionth-of-a-second flash of light. "We are going from looking at a few stars a night to an all-sky survey where over a year we will search the entire northern hemisphere," Betts said.

    The telescope cost about $400,000 to build, much cheaper than a typical research-quality telescope. Betts said that was partly because the telescope does not need to be as sensitive, and "they've done it on a shoestring budget by being clever."
    But will they tell the public if they actually find something? Or will the Men in Black just hush it all up, as usual?

    Posted on April 18, 2006
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    The Deep Sea Volcano And Its Moat of Death

    Photo of Deep Sea VolcanoThe National Geographic reports on the discovery of a giant deep-sea volcano which has its very own Moat of Death, which has to go down as the coolest scientific discovery in quite awhile.
    Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies a volcanic realm nearly as strange as that featured in TV's hit drama Lost. But instead of a mysterious island, scientists have found a bubbling submarine volcano whose weird features include a swirling vortex, a host of strange animals, and a fearsome zone of toxic waters dubbed the Moat of Death.

    The volcano, described in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sits within the crater of a gigantic underwater mountain rising more than 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) from the ocean floor near the island of Samoa. The seamount, called Vailulu'u, is an active volcano, with a 2-mile-wide (3.2-kilometer-wide) crater. The cone rising within it has been dubbed Nafanua, for the Samoan goddess of war.

    Five years ago Hubert Staudigel of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues mapped the mountain using remote-sensing techniques. When they returned to the site in 2005 for a more thorough study with submersible vehicles, the scientists found that the seamount had grown a new, 300-meter (1,000-foot) lava cone, a sign of renewed volcanic activity. The peak of the cone, 700 meters (2,300 feet) below sea level, turned out to be teeming with life. "It was just full of eels," Staudigel said. "When we sent the submersible down, we found hundreds of eels scurrying out of the rock. Normally you'd see one or two." "That's very spectacular," he continued, "because there's not much food at that depth. You wonder what the eels live off of." At first the scientists thought the eels were eating microbes that lived near the cone's volcanic vents. But when some of the eels were caught, their stomachs turned out to be full of shrimp. The moat lies between Vailulu'u's encircling crater and the rim of the cone inside it. It's an extremely toxic environment, Staudigel said, where oxygen levels are dangerously low and volcanic vents fill the water with iron soot "almost like underwater smog."

    The volcano is also spewing liquid carbon dioxide, which combines with seawater to make a deadly acidic mix. And the same currents that bring shrimp to the eels also bring fish into the toxic moat, trapping them. The result? "We find one fish carcass after another," Staudigel said. But one species survives within the moat, a type of sea worm that seems to be feeding on the animal carcasses. It's not clear how the worms manage to live in a region where nothing but bacteria can live.
    Worms that live in the Moat of Death. So. Incredibly. Cool.

    Posted on April 17, 2006
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    Tom Cruise Denies Giant Binky Reports

    Remeber to set your Tivos: tonight Tom Cruise goes mano a mano with Diane Sawyer on ABC's Primetime at 9 p.m. EDT. Here are some of the fun tidbits we'll get to hear Tom discuss.
    Cruise suggested Scientology's doctrine of "silent birth," emphasizing a calm, quiet atmosphere in the delivery room, free from screaming and shouts of "push!," was misunderstood and exaggerated by the media. "It's basically just respecting the mother, you know, and helping to be quiet. (But) not the mother. The mother makes as much noise ... you know, she's going through it. She does what she's gotta do, OK?"

    Contrary to perceptions that Scientology frowns on giving painkillers to women in labor, Cruise added: "We're there, you know, with doctors. ... Whatever the woman wants. ... If she needs an epidural, she's gonna get her epidural." He denied a tabloid report that he had bought an adult pacifier to muffle the moans of his 27-year-old fiancee. Asked whether their baby would be given a Catholic baptism, Cruise said, "No," then added: "I mean you can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist. But we're just Scientologists." "Katie, too?" Sawyer asked. "Katie, too," he replied.

    It was the first public acknowledgment from the couple that Holmes has joined Cruise, one of Scientology's most prominent adherents, in embracing a faith founded by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Cruise denied media accounts of tension with Holmes' parents, who are devout Catholics, over her association with Scientology. "They're OK with her being a Scientologist since they're Catholic?" Sawyer asked, to which Cruise answered, "Absolutely, yes." The couple have yet to set a wedding date, but Cruise said in a separate interview with GQ magazine that they were looking to tie the knot sometime in late summer and early fall.
    So he's denying that he bought Katie a giant, customized pacifier to bite on during childbirth, eh? Well, alright, fine. But what about the birthing posters? And if she screams for an epidural, will anyone be able to answer her? "Honey, we would have agreed to the epidural for the mind-boggling pain, but we couldn't hear your requests through the Cone of Silence. Sorry!"

    Posted on April 14, 2006
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    Katie Holmes and the Giant Binky

    Star magaine is reporting that Tom Cruise visited his dentist to have a giant pacifier made for Katie Holmes to bite on during childbirth.
    When Tom Cruise visited his local orthodontist's office recently, it wasn't to talk about his children's teeth. It was to craft a personalized pacifier — for fiancée Katie Holmes! "In keeping with a Scientology silent birth, Tom is prepared to do whatever it takes to muffle Katie's moans and groans during the delivery," says a source close to Holmes. "He commissioned an adult-sized 'binky' for her to clench between her teeth, hoping that it'll squelch her screams." The one-of-a-kind pacifier is made of rubber, and is molded to the shape of Katie's teeth. The mom-to-be herself, though, may prove harder to mold: As Tom goes further and further to ensure that the birth fits squarely within the rules of his church, Katie is showing serious signs of wear.

    For weeks, Star reporter Brannon Castleberry has watched Katie, 27, spend day after day — up to eight hours at a stretch! — at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, often with Tom, 43, by her side. Now, Star has learned what's going on behind those closed doors: "If they're going to the center together regularly, it means that she is definitely resistant to something," a Scientology expert who prefers to remain unnamed tells Star. "It wouldn't surprise me if Katie secretly wanted out of Scientology, out of her relationship with Tom, or both." The source says that at the center, "they are probably putting tremendous pressure on Katie to find out if she has any second thoughts about Scientology."
    Meanwhile, we're anxiously awaiting the Tom Cruise/Diane Sawyer interview. That should be most interesting.

    Posted on April 13, 2006
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    Madonna Confessions Tour Already Sold Out in Most Venues

    Tickets for Madonna's announced Confessions summer tour have been selling like crazy; almost all venues are already sold out.
    The tour, which begins May 21 in Los Angeles, has sold out four shows in Paris at Bercy Stadium beginning Aug. 27, seven shows at London's Wembley Arena beginning Aug. 1, two shows at the 40,000-capacity Amsterdam Arena beginning Sept. 3, and four shows in New York's Madison Square Garden beginning June 28, as well as doubles in Los Angeles, Montreal, Miami and Chicago.

    Also sold out are Las Vegas (May 27), Philadelphia (July 12), Hartford, Conn. (June 25), Phoenix (June 8) and San Jose (May 30). Tour producer Arthur Fogel, president of TNA International, tells Billboard.com there has clearly been no resistance to ticket prices that range from $50 to $350. "What you have is a recognition that she creates and delivers a spectacular show every time she goes on the road," says Fogel. "And this tour will be no different."

    With a gross potential in the $200 million range, Confessions could be the top-grossing tour ever for a female artist. In 2004, Madonna's Re-Invention tour grossed $125 million and drew more than 900,000 fans to 56 shows.
    The scalpers are going to make a fortune on this one. But we love Madonna, so ante up!

    Posted on April 12, 2006
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    Thomas Dolby: K-Fed Stole My Song

    Thomas Dolby is ready to sue Kevin Federline for ripping of a sample from his 1983 hit "She Blinded Me With Science" for use in one of his new songs.
    "You can't just take a very well-known piece of music and add your own vitriolic rap over the top of it and get away with it," Dolby told MTV News on Wednesday. "If anybody's going to sing nasty lyrics over my music, it's going to be me." "America's Most Hated," which Federline recently debuted on his MySpace page, actually samples Mobb Deep's "Got It Twisted," which sampled "She Blinded Me With Science."

    "Mobb Deep came to me and asked for a license," said Dolby, who was paid a fee and receives royalties for Mobb Deep's song. "We issue licenses all the time, for movies and TV shows and so on. I was aware of the Mobb Deep one, but I certainly never issued a license to Kevin Federline." Dolby caught wind of the expletive-filled song, which begins with the line "This is for the haters," through a fan's posting on his own Web site's forum and made a plea to Federline on his blog.

    "I considered turning a blind eye to it other than, as I mentioned on my site, asking him politely to take it down," Dolby said. "But I found out today that it aired on VH1 last week. So it's more than just an MP3 download. It's airing on TV, and there's no question it's taken from the Mobb Deep record. It's like what Vanilla Ice did with 'Ice Ice Baby' [illegally sampling Queen and David Bowie's 'Under Pressure'], although I think Vanilla Ice is a superstar compared to this guy."

    Federline's management had no comment on the song but said it was removed from his MySpace page Wednesday. Dolby, meanwhile, has handed the issue over to his lawyers.
    So, let us count the ways in which K-Fed is the Worst Husband Ever: 1) leaving pregnant girlfriend to marry Britney; 2) he smoked around pregnant wife; 3) his drug dealer had to be thrown out of the house by enraged popstar wife 4) manpris 5) socks with thong sandals and now 6) he's a copyright infringer.

    Britney: sue that artist who did that horrifying statue of you giving birth on a bearskin rug, take the money and give it to the best divorce attorney in California. Then, call Justin to do a comeback record. He said he'd do it; take him up on it, girl!

    Posted on April 11, 2006
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    Jerry Garcia's Toilet Stolen

    Is nothing sacred anymore? Now someone has stolen Jerry Garcia's toilet. The toilet in question had a long, tortured history.
    The long, strange trip continues for Jerry Garcia's toilet. Police say the Grateful Dead leader's commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet, The Press Democrat newspaper reported Saturday.

    Garcia's salmon-colored toilet was the subject of a legal battle before it was finally moved to Sonoma, to await shipment to a Canadian casino. It's unclear if the toilet was swiped by a wayward Deadhead or a thief remodeling a bathroom. Police have no suspects or leads. Henry Koltys bought Garcia's Marin County home for $1.39 million in 1997 and removed the toilet and other items he planned to sell to raise money for a charity.

    After Koltys sold the house to a friend of the band's, the new owner sued to block the auction. The dispute was resolved last year, and Koltys moved the items to his home in Sonoma, about 40 miles north of San Francisco. Last month, Koltys sold the Grateful Dead singer's toilet for $2,550 to online casino Goldenpalace.com, which planned to use it as part of a traveling marketing exhibit. The casino is offering a $250 reward for its return. Henry Koltys said Friday that the toilet once stood in the master bathroom of Garcia, who died in 1995 at age 53. "It would have been his personal head," he said. The casino has made other unusual purchases in the last year -- it paid $25,000 for actor William Shatner's kidney stones and $28,000 for a grilled cheese sandwich that reportedly had the image of the Virgin Mary on it, Koltys said. Jonathon Lipsin, who worked for Garcia as a gardener and now owns a Northern California record store, said the toilet might appeal to dedicated Deadheads. "It's a little gross," Lipsin said. "But I could see it at a rock 'n' roll museum, too."
    So far it hasn't appeared on Ebay yet. But we just have a feeling....

    Posted on April 10, 2006
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    World's Largest Free Floating Soap Bubble Created

    John R. Erck, a 20 year old entrepreneur, has set a Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Free Floating Soap Bubble. The soap bubble was created using Beeboo Big Bubble Mix. The press release says the record breaking bubble event was attended by two PhD scientists who apparently had nothing better to to do than witness a soap bubble world record.
    A team of PhD scientists gathered in Farmington, Minnesota in October 2005 to provide 100% accurate documentation to the Guinness World Records committee. The team was comprised of Dr. Monte Ramstad, a pioneer in fully synchronized 3-dimensional digital photography, and Dr. Fadil Santosa, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.

    Dr. Ramstad photographed the bubble with a series of synchronized cameras located at predetermined angles and measured focal lengths while Dr. Santosa determined the volume of the bubble using various mathematical functions.
    Dr. Santosa must be pretty good at calculating the volume of bubbles considering this bubble is hardly a perfect circle and has odd bulges. Here are a couple cool facts about the big soap bubble.

  • If the bubble was filled with water it would total 788 gallons and weigh 3.2 tons!
  • 13,627 baseballs would fit inside!

    Even cooler is the fact that soap bubble master John R. Erck was wearing sunglasses and wielding two bubble wands while creating the record breaking bubble.

    Posted on April 9, 2006
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    Eva Longoria Visible From Space

    Eva Longoria is now visible from space.
    In honor of Maxim's 100th issue, which is on newsstands this week, the men's magazine has created a 75-by-110-foot vinyl mesh replica of its January 2005 cover image of Eva Longoria in the desert outside Las Vegas. Nine workers took more than 15 hours to build the cover, which is so big that satellites are able to photograph the image from space.

    The stunt was made possible by the city of Las Vegas and Google Earth, which will display the image today (www.maximonline.com/maximusa). "Leave it to Maxim to do something so creative and so wild to celebrate their 100th issue," says Longoria, who topped Maxim's Hot 100 list last year. "I guess space is no longer the final frontier. I am flattered, to say the least, to be TV's Sexiest Earthling."

    Maxim's centennial issue celebration continues this weekend with stars, such as Taye Diggs and Cuba Gooding Jr., and past cover models taking part in poker and golf tournaments and a party poolside at the Wynn Las Vegas Resort and Country Club.
    We hope the aliens are paying attention. Although, if we were Eva Longoria we might be a little worried. What good are human bodyguards against a kidnapping team from the Planet Orion?

    Posted on April 7, 2006
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    The Softer Side of Heath Ledger

    The Scoop reports that Heath Ledger isn't as confident in real life as he appears to be on-screen.
    Even cowboy actors get the blues. Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger says that when he first started become famous, he was wracked with insecurity. Seeing his face next to the slogan "He Will Rock You" on billboards for A Knights Tale didn't help matters. "It freaked me out," he told the London Observer. "I was like, 'What if I don’t rock 'em?'" He turned down the role of Spider-Man. "I didn’t feel like I deserved it," he says and described how he excused himself from the studio’s presentation and ducked into the men’s room. "And pretty much burst into tears. . . I was hitting my head, hitting the walls. It was a full-on anxiety attack."
    Heath Ledger as Spider-Man. We're not quite sure what to think about that.

    Posted on April 4, 2006
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    Naomi Cambpell Could Face 7 Years in the Slammer in Blackerry Rage Incident

    Supermodel Naomi Campbell is in hot water once again. Campbell has been accused of assaulting her maid by hurling her Blackberry at the unfortunate employee. And now the maid is alleging a cover-up.
    Hot-tempered diva Naomi Campbell tried to cover up her alleged hissy fit by keeping her blood-soaked maid away from the hospital, the victim's lawyer charged yesterday. The super-rich catwalker tried to have Ana Scolavino treated by her personal doctor in an effort to keep the hired help from cops, according to attorney Michael Block. "Naomi . . . tried to persuade her from going to the hospital or the police," he said. "Naomi Campbell was obviously interested in her not going to the police or any place the police might be involved. . . . Ana realized she needed medical assistance and just wanted to get out of there."

    Campbell is facing assault charges after allegedly hurling a crystal-encrusted BlackBerry at Scolavino's head. The lawyer showed reporters Scolavino's work coat as he left her apartment yesterday, embroidered with Campbell's name and splattered with blood. Campbell, 35, was arrested Thursday and accused of attacking the housekeeper, 42, because she couldn't immediately find a pair of $200 jeans. Police said yesterday they recovered a cell phone from the model's Park Ave. apartment, though they couldn't confirm it was the device she allegedly threw. If convicted, Campbell could face up to seven years in prison.

    But Block said his client, who was still suffering blurred vision yesterday, had yet to decide if Campbell would also face a personal-injury lawsuit. "We will meet next week and we will talk about it," he said. "This is not an attempt to extort money from Naomi Campbell. It's not an attempt to get attention. It's an attempt, frankly, to get some medical attention." He said his client had been the victim of the short-fused diva's legendary verbal tirades several times during her three months on the job, but had not been physically attacked before Thursday. Campbell, who denied the assault, accused the housekeeper of stealing from her. But Block, whose client is 5-feet-4 and about 150 pounds, ridiculed claims she would take the statuesque model's clothes. "Based on what I've seen of Naomi Campbell, in terms of her height and how thin she is . . . there's no way in the world my client would be wearing her clothes," he said.

    Campbell's lawyer David Breitbart said she was due to fly to South Africa last night to join former President Nelson Mandela in promoting a children's charity. Courthouse sources yesterday said Campbell's celebrity status helped her avoid a night in jail - gliding from arrest to arraignment in only eight hours. The average time this year has been 24.6 hours. "The police don't want to be responsible if something happened to her while she was in custody," the source said.
    Excellent PR move. Whenever we get booked on assault charges we immediately arrange some face time with Nelson Mandela to highlight our philanthropic and non-violent nature. Works every time.

    Posted on April 3, 2006
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