Dr. Sputnik's Society Pages
We Sputnik
So You
Don't Have To
Week of 27 August 2007
27 August 2007
Owen Wilson hospitalized in California ...
Lindsay Lohan gets frisky on the toilet at rehab ...
Keanu Reeves takes Michael Rennie role in remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still ...
Hulk Hogan's son seriously injured in auto wreck ...
Quentin Tarantino offers a (presumably?) un-paid endorsement for California's In-N-Out Burger ...
Amy Winehouse and husband beaten and bloodied, apparently by each other ...
Founder of Peet's Coffee Alfred Peet dies in Ashland, Oregon ...
28 August 2007
Owen Wilson is in good condition, hospital says, and nobody who knows anything says anything more ...
Britney Spears is under investigation over child abuse allegations ...
John Singleton is cleared in wreck that killed jaywalker ...
Susan Sarandon confirms absofargingroovy new filming process for Speed Racer movie ...
Senator Larry Craig says his arrest for lewd conduct in men's room and subsequent conviction on watered down charges are all a "misunderstanding" ...
Hulk Hogan's son is released from hospital after high-speed wreck ...
Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins announce elimination of trans fats ...
Blair Underwood gets one-third credit on hard-boiled novel ...
As ordinary people lose their homes in huge Idaho fire, private force protects millionaires' mansions for American International Group ...
Eliza Dushku gets "mid- to high-six figures" from Fox ...
FBI now sees war on terror as its primary focus -- great news for Mafia dons, bank robbers, and kidnappers ...
Oscar-winning actress Miyoshi Umeki dies at a Licking, Missouri nursing home ...
29 August 2007
Bo Diddley is in stable condition after heart attack ...
Enrique Iglesias finds a million dollar silver lining to having a small penis ...
President Bush tells U.S. military commanders to confront Iran's "murderous activities" ...
Jamie Foxx comes to the defense of Michael Vick ...
Yahoo is sued over cooperation with Red Chinese leading to dissident's imprisonment ...
British TV chef Nigella Lawson says Martha Stewart wants to shag her husband ...
Geena Davis sues over charity she says stole her charitable ideas ...
American Library Association's "banned book" list is topped with true tale of penguin pals ...
Jim Carrey speaks out for repressed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi ...
Brain-damaged Senator Tim Johnson is welcomed home to South Dakota ...
Security guard Richard Jewell, wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic Park Bombing, dies of diabetes complications at his West Georgia home, age 44. He had been suffering from kidney problems since February ...
Former French Prime Minister Pierre Messmer dies at age 91 ...
30 August 2007
Police report confirms suicide attempt by Owen Wilson ...
Joss Whedon wants Pete Doherty to play a zombie ...
President Bush wants another $50,000,000,000 for Iraq occupation ...
Leona Helmsley left $12-million for her dog ...
Manuel Noriega wins an all-expense paid trip to France ...
Terrence Howard pulls a Mrs Doubtfire ...
Ian McKellen is on a mission from God ...
Keith Richards takes offense at Swedish review of Stones concert, but never quite says he wasn't drunk ...
Criss Angel says Britney Spears is all business after dark ...
Man describes his alleged gay sex with Sen Larry Craig ...
Matt LeBlanc's ex-manager wants a million dollars or so ...
Karl Rove's car gets Saran Wrapped by his wacky White House buddies ...
Associated Press's most un-newsworthy news story of the week is about David Hasselhoff's ex-wife Pamela Bach ...
Spanish actor José Luis de Villalonga dies on the island of Majorca ...
Former Ohio Representative Charles Vanik dies in his sleep at his home in Jupiter, Florida ...
31 August 2007
It's Britney, bitch, and she just wants to dance with you ...
Ted Haggard gets straightened out over plans to counsel at halfway house ...
Lil' Wayne gets sued for making it rain money ...
Shilpa Shetty wants you to watch while she does yoga ...
David Letterman's dream comes true -- an invitation from Oprah Winfrey ...
Toni Braxton doesn't have breast cancer ...
1 September 2007
Keira Knightley has no plans to flash paparazzi her knickerless crotch ...
Quentin Tarantino says no to Hawaii Five-O ...
Andy Dick is a tad peculiar (is that still news?) ...
Brian De Palma hopes his new movie Redacted helps end Iraq war ...
Jet Li says not to expect much from his fight scenes with Jackie Chan ...
Tom Cruise wins extortion case ...
Film Academy sues to stop Oscar sale by heirs of Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers ...
Probation for post-shark-jump Family Ties kid Brian Bonsall ...
A shocking ankle tattoo for Hayden Panettiere ...
Letters from Stan Laurel ...
2 September 2007
Owen Wilson goes home from the hospital ...
Catholic League President William Donohue says he'll slap the bejesus out of atheist Christopher Hitchens, who wants a Guinness or a shot of whiskey ...
IBM stores data on single atoms ...
Larry Craig, who's not gay and never has been gay, resigns from Senate ...
Michael Bolton gets $66,191 (Canadian) not to sing in Ottawa ...
Woody Allen says his films have had no artistic influence on other filmmakers ...
For years, FBI spied on Coretta Scott King ...
Microsoft allegedly uses bullies and bribes to make Office an international standard ...
Edward McGaffigan, the longest-serving panelist of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, dies of metastatic melanoma ...