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Week of 17 May 2010
17 May 2010
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is banned from flying United Air Lines over drunken antics ...
Shia LaBeouf confesses suckitude of Indiana Jones 4 and Transformers 2 ...
History suggests a strategy for dealing with the oil catastrophe, but British Petroleum and the Obama administration aren't listening ...
Elizabeth Hurley says long-ago ex Hugh Grant "virtually has a bedroom" at her house ...
Jury bills Allergan $15M for botulism poisoning from Botox (which is, you know, short for botulinum toxin) ...
Napoleon Dynamite is being redeveloped as a TV cartoon ...
Sunny Deol says he won't make movie remakes ...
Jimmy Kimmel sends Michael Bolton to Bolton's School of Bolton ...
James Cameron urges TV producers to switch to 3D ...
Bernard Kerik troops off to prison ...
18 May 2010
Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN) resigns over affair with staffer ...
Sarah Jessica Parker tells everyone about the time Kristin Davis got diarrhea ...
Transocean to give shareholders $1B while trying to cap its responsibility for Gulf gusher at $27M ...
In oily BP disaster, will officials call on Kevin Costner? ...
President Obama's Kenyan aunt is granted asylum ...
Daleks and Cybermen to tour in Doctor Who stage act ...
Vatican's pedophile defense: bishops are not church employees ...
Google founder Sergey Brin transforms himself into a robot ...
Third supplier says TV screamer Gordon Ramsey has stopped paying his restaurant's bills ...
Thirty pounds lighter, Jason Alexander is Spandex-ready in new Jenny Craig ad ...
Ashley Olsen is safe and sound after jet's emergency landing ...
In the kitchen with Chris Onstad ...
19 May 2010
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, running for Senate, lies about his non-existent military experience in Vietnam, says The New York Times ...
John Travolta's pet dogs die in airport accident ...
Quitting Congressman Mark Souder (R-Indiana) made numerous abstinence-only videos with his mistress ...
Okay, who's been using Tyler Perry's credit card? ...
Ed Schultz tells a whopper, issues a whopper "correction" ...
Justin Bieber is nominated for Black Entertainment Television Award ...
Mark Zuckerberg is, according to Hollywood, a sex maniac ...
Rev Jeremiah Wright says President Obama literally threw him under a bus ...
Campbell Brown quits CNN ...
Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz pops one viagra too many ...
Moishe Rosen, founder of Jews for Jesus, dies from prostate cancer at his home in San Francisco ...
Economist John P. Lewis, who advised three US Presidents, dies at a retirement home in Montgomery, New Jersey ...
20 May 2010
Nicolas Cage will only eat animals that have sex in a "very dignified" manner ...
South Korea tells North Korea, you sank my battleship! ...
Home-town paper says The New York Times' claim that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal lied about military service is pretty much bogus ...
Science fiction master Norman Spinrad undergoes surgery for cancer ...
President Obama gives BP a free hand to clean up increasing oil catastrophe, but plans to appoint a blue-ribbon committee to look into what happened ...
Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Wachovia and 11 other banks routinely rigged auctions on billions of dollars in guaranteed investment contracts, says US Justice Department ...
Salma Hayek chooses motherhood over the moon ...
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minnesota) cancels interview with Newsweek reporter who fact-checked her wacky tweets ...
James Franco is bringing more mayhem to General Hospital ...
Wife of Congressman Lee Terry (R-Nebraska) demands local school board remove material that treats global climate change as science ...
21 May 2010
Paul Reubens is bound for Broadway in Pee-wee Herman stage show ...
British Petroleum and US Coast Guard block reporters' access to oily beaches in Louisiana ...
Suge Knight is arrested for assault with a deadly weapon ...
Local Republicans re-nominate former Congressman and double family values guy Vito Fossella (R-New York) ...
Bret Michaels is hospitalized again after "warning stroke" ...
Google unveils its newfangled Google TV ...
Judge issues and cancels arrest warrant for Lindsay Lohan ...
Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo is institutionalized for Asperger’s ...
Warner Bros jump-starts Looney Toons cartoons ...
Subpoena may be brewing for Naomi Campbell in war crimes trial over purported 'blood diamond' gift from former Liberian President Charles Taylor ...
Hall of fame lineman for the Chicago Bears Stan Jones dies from complications of heart disease and skin cancer at his daughter's home in Broomfield, Colorado, aged 78 ...
22 May 2010
Courtney Love says she boinked Kate Moss ...
British Petroleum was in a hurry so they skipped a safety test, but what could possibly go wrong? ...
Bono is flat on his back after surgery ...
Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) has never used an ATM, but knows all about the holograms ...
Noted smart guy Craig Venter says he's made synthetic life, and President Obama wants an investigation ...
Justin Bieber gets smacked in the head by a door ...
Betty White holds a grudge against wicked stepdaughter ...
Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue moonlights as formalist poet ...
Mathematician Martin Gardner dies in Norman, Oklahoma, aged 95 ...
Disgraced Ohio congressman Buz Lukens dies of complications from cancer at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, aged 79 ...
23 May 2010
Adam Ant is sent to mental hospital after unleashing obscene tirade against Christians ...
BP and the US Coast Guard plan to test Kevin Costner's oil clean-up machine against Gulf disaster ...
Bruce Sterling's wife gets her green card ...
Sex and the City sequel is just a long series of ads ...
Appeals Court says judge can't punish TV con man Kevin Trudeau for flooding his email with spam pleadings for leniency ...
Shelley Berman was a choirboy when he found out he could make people laugh ...