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Week of 9 June 2008
9 June 2008
Ailing Patrick Swayze signs for TV series The Beast ...
Rupert Everett disses British Army and "blobby" United States ...
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. quits boxing ...
Ed McMahon's financial problems related to his boozing, manager explains ...
Ambassador Peter Jon de Vos dies in Grant-Valkaria, FL, age 69 ...
10 June 2008
From Puff Daddy to Diddy, P. Diddy, Sean Combs, Puffy, and back again ...
Amy Winehouse apologizes for racist chant ...
Transportation Security Administration's new policy: Passengers who assert their rights won't be allowed to fly ...
Virgin Media to spy on and threaten downloaders ...
Warren Buffett bets a million bucks against hedge fund firm ...
Gina Gershon says she did not have sex with that President ...
Former Oakland Raiders Head Coach John Rauch dies at his home in Oldsmar, Florida ...
11 June 2008
50 Cent is ordered not to sell smoldering New York property ...
William Shatner critiques his performance as Captain Kirk, finds it "rather good" ...
Roman Polanski documentary gets re-edited after court complains ...
R. Kelly won't testify in his own defense ...
Homeland Security Dept spends millions on bus kill-switches to stop Osama bin Laden from reenacting the movie Speed ...
Sienna Miller uses pyjamas to remember Heath Ledger ...
Former Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet dies in Singapore ...
Former US Ambassador to New Zealand Anne Clark Martindell dies at age 93 ...
12 June 2008
Robert Downey, Jr. says Burger King's lousy cheeseburger saved his life ...
Judge Alex Kozinski, presiding over porn trial, posts porn on his own website ...
Google's Sergey Brin books space flight ...
Boy George wants to perform for NYC sanitation workers ...
Metallica to bloggers: don't review our music ...
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons texted alleged mistress 867 times in 6 weeks ...
NASCAR didn't take claims of racial and sexual harassment seriously? ...
John Cusack makes ads comparing John McCain to President Bush ...
Warren G won't be prosecuted for possession of demon weed ...
Trent Reznor wants to turn Year Zero into a sci-fi series ...
Carl Icahn has a veiled threat for Yahoo board ...
13 June 2008
R. Kelly acquitted ...
Don't bother me with another Emmy, says Katherine Heigl ...
Dr. Drew says Tom Cruise might be mentally ill ...
Wal-Mart has customer jailed for using Wal-Mart money orders ...
Kooky Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies threaten to arrest reporter for looking at public records ...
Shaquille O'Neal wants to help people facing foreclosure (and make it a reality show) ...
Crispin Glover goes to the movies ...
Mötley Crüe sues their manager ...
Big shake-up at hemorrhaging Lehman Brothers ...
Countrywide gave low rates on mortgages to CEO Angelo Mozilo's buddies -- Sens. Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Secys. Alphonso Jackson, Donna Shalala, Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke ...
NBC journalist Tim Russert dies suddenly of a heart attack in Washington, DC ...
Retired JP Morgan executive Dennis Weatherstone dies in Stamford, Connecticut ...
14 June 2008
Kevin Spacey is going to teach at Oxford ...
Capital One underwriter says she was fired when she wouldn't approve "fraudulent, unlawful and bad loans" ...
Steven Seagal gets tongue-in-cheek academic treatment ...
RIAA drops, then refiles lawsuit to get a more favorable judge ...
Kid Rock hospitalized for unspecified reasons ...
15 June 2008
Corey Haim says Victoria Beckham is a terrible kisser ...
President Bush hints he may convert to Catholicism ...
The Office is set for another spin-off ...
Google is making a network neutrality detector ...
Special effects artist Stan Winston dies of multiple myeloma in Los Angeles ...