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Week of 9 July 2007
9 July 2007
Metallica's James Hetfield detained for having a "Taliban-like beard" ...
New book reveals new details about the death of Jim Morrison ...
Clay Aiken "beaten up by a girl" on an airplane ...
Dow Chemical and Dole Food sued over pesticides that allegedly left cropworkers sterile ...
Blackwater USA manager blamed for Fallujah massacre ...
Nepal's King Gyanendra has a lovely birthday party despite uprising against him ...
Boeing rolls out fuel-efficient 787 Dreamliner ...
Gore Vidal's solar-powered home is un-plugged by inspector ...
Warren Zevon hailed as genius, panned as drug fiend ...
Richard M. Nixon thought Fred Thompson was "dumb as hell" ...
Actor Charles Lane dies at his home in Brentwood, California, aged 102 ...
10 July 2007
Britney Spears's new boyfriend is no longer anonymous ...
Senator David Vitter is on Beltway Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's customer list, but he's already been forgiven ...
Phil Spector said all women should be shot in the head, ex-cop will testify ...
Smoking cigarettes helps ward off Parkinson's disease ...
J.K. Rowling won't rule out an eighth adventure for Harry Potter and Emma Watson won't rule out retiring at 20 ...
Megan Fox says she gets no kick from cocaine, prefers marijuana ...
Miley Cyrus sets a record with two #1 albums in one year ...
NBC, deep in last place, turns to Donald Trump ...
Paris Hilton is back at the club Les Deux ...
Sheryl Crow sends best wishes to Luciano Pavarotti ...
General Electric and Hitachi form nuclear power alliance ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones shampoos with sturgeon and caviar ...
William Randolph Hearst's Beverly Hills compound is for sale ($165-million) ...
11 July 2007
James Blunt says he took bids on his sister ...
Lindsay Lohan says Niccolò Machiavelli has changed her life ...
Alberto Gonzales knew about PATRIOT Act abuses when he testified before Congress that abuses had never happened ...
The Roman Catholic Church is the only true church, says Pope Benedict XVI ...
Keenen Ivory Wayans & brothers renegotiate Oakland studio deal ...
Rachel Corrie's family tries again to sue Caterpillar ...
Blondie does Desperately Seeking Susan ...
Cindy Sheehan tells Nancy Pelosi: Start impeachment or I'll run against you ...
Lynchburg City Council votes to rename highway in honor of Jerry Falwell ...
New Orleans madam says she also provided services for Senator David Vitter, and Vitter's wife once said she'd cut of his penis is he cheated on her ...
Henry Rollins vacations in Iran ...
Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona says Bush administration wouldn't let him discuss controversial public health issues ...
Tori Spelling says she's an ordained minister ...
Michael Moore rips new ones for Wolf Blitzer and CNN ...
Microsoft's Paul Allen buys a $12-million yellow submarine ...
Michael Chertoff reminds Americans to remain afraid ...
Alec Baldwin asks you not to see his latest movie ...
Former US First Lady Lady Bird Johnson dies from natural causes in Austin, Texas ...
12 July 2007
John Cleese's silly walk deemed scientifically unsound by Royal Society ...
Lindsay Lohan's MySpace messages hacked and sold by 'friend' ...
Queen Elizabeth II shows Annie Leibovitz her royal backside ...
Richard M. Nixon wanted to be seen as 'nicey-nice' ...
University of Oregon football team belatedly comes from behind to win the 2005 Holiday Bowl ...
Queen's Brian May earns his PhD in astrophysics ...
Catherine Zeta-Jones reveals the suave line that made her swoon for Michael Douglas ...
Don Cheadle is un-impressed with Condoleezza Rice ...
Larry Flynt says he has more D.C. sex scandals on tap ...
Alberto Fujimori defeats Peruvian extradition bid in Chilean Court ...
Kanye West and Evel Knievel agree to binding arbitration ...
Pink has unkind words for Britney Spears ...
Zooey Deschanel hits out at Hollywood party girls ...
Phyllis Diller gets "twisted the wrong way" ...
Chicago Sun-Times takes a left turn ...
Mitchell Brothers Pornographer Jim Mitchell is found dead at his Sonoma County, California home ...
13 July 2007
The Beeb says oops, actually, the Queen didn't storm off in a huff ...
Britney Spears reprimanded by Children's Protective Services ...
John McCain unraveled by 'gay sweaters' ...
Paris Hilton, of course, had very special treatment in jail ...
Hindu prayer in Senate gets nutballs in a dither ...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams is sorry for daydream of killing President Bush ...
14 July 2007
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen endorse used furniture removal service ...
Britney Spears applies for work as a cocktail waitress ...
Michael Richards "feels himself out" in Cambodia ...
Men must be circumcised to date Nicole Richie ...
Battery manufacturer wants to get into the feminine hygiene business ...
Billionaire Conrad Black found guilty of obstruction and could face 35 years in prison ...
FBI lied to phone companies 60+ times to get phone records without warrants ...
CBS and Mandy Patinkin play hardball over Criminal Minds ...
Evan Rachel Wood says she isn't to blame for Marilyn Manson's divorce ...
Jason Giambi tells George J. Mitchell about steroids in baseball ...
Lindsay Lohan cleared in 2005 crash ...
President Bush claims executive privilege to withhold documents on death of Pat Tillman ...
Boston Scientific pays $195-million to settle claims over defective heart defibrillators ...
Metallica's Kirk Hammett says the neighbor screwed his pooch ...
Snoop Dogg will star in a reality TV show ...
Mark Cuban submits paperwork to buy the Chicago Cubs ...
Media goes gaga as David Beckham and Victoria Adams arrive in L.A. ...
15 July 2007
Cameron Diaz and Britney Spears find romance with new boys ...
AT&T will develop and deploy spyware for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA ...
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen seek volunteer help ...
Joe Torre treats black baseball players 'different', says Gary Sheffield ...
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles agrees to $600-million payout for victims of pedophile priests ...
Marijuana growers are terrorists, says Drug Czar John Walters ...
Starbucks closes its coffee shop in China's Forbidden City ...
Apparently, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore was running for President? ...
Actor Kieron Moore dies at age 82 ...