Wednesday, July 26, 2006

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  • What's Cooking?: Christie Brinkley's hubby finally came clean this week, offering a public apology to his model wife for his cheating ways. "I love my wife" Peter Cook said. "This is an aberration. I'm sorry. I'm contrite. I'm stupid. Foolish. No excuse." Cook's lawyer said, "He hopes there's no divorce. If she wants one, and he certainly hopes this doesn't happen, but if -- it will not be nasty. She can have whatever she wants." I'd ask for a time machine -- so she could have her makeup sex take place the day he posed for this GQ cover. (E!)

  • The Erosion of Roe v. Wade: Even though there is no compelling evidence that this problem even exists, our ever-focused Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would make it a federal crime to help an under-age girl escape parental notification laws by crossing state lines to obtain an abortion. Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who was the author of the measure, made this compelling argument, noting that abortion clinics in states without such parental involvement laws had advertised that no consent was needed: "If they are advertising, then it obviously at least happens," said (at least?!). "If it is happening 20 times a year, it is still worth doing to protect those parental rights and to protect those children from being in these kinds of situations." Um -- isn't the bigger "situation" here unwanted teenage pregnancies -- not rating someone out to her parents? Vowing to sign the bill into law President Bush said that "transporting minors across state lines to bypass parental consent laws regarding abortion undermines state law and jeopardizes the lives of young women." Obviously the president isn't very aware that the thing that jeopardizes a girl in trouble most is her angry father with a shotgun. (WP)

  • Model Killer: Investigators said Tuesday they are trying to find at least 50 women they have linked to a photographer who is on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the 1980s. Authorities are looking into whether any of the women were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984 by William Richard Bradford, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Web site. (Click here to help identify or locate any of the women.) (NBC11)

  • Nutty Theory: Doctors have a new idea why Lance Armstrong and other testicular cancer patients tend to respond so well to treatment, but Lance's doctors aren't buying it. (ABC)

  • When I Think of Her: "Control" freak Janet Jackson is just like a normal person -- well, a normal boring person. (NBC)

  • How Embarrassing: Steely Dan demands an apology from Owen Wilson. (AP)

  • Jack and Bill Went Up the Hill: Pre-school gay education receives mixed reaction / You're kidding. (PinkNews)

  • Ozymandias Melancholy: (212) fave Woody Allen gives Debbie Downer a run for her money -- and who can blame him? He is the only director whom moviegoers break up with, like he's a boyfriend or something. You hear a lot of variations on this theme. After "Celebrity" I called it quits . Or I gave up after "Deconstructing Harry." (WP)

  • Tattle TiVo: The DVR pioneer is starting a research division to sell data about how its 4.4 million users watch commercials -- or, more often, skip them. I don't like where this is going ... (NYT)
  • 1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    I loved this line in the Lance link: "No one knows the temperature of Lance's testicles."

    Umm, I think someone knows. Sheryl might have a guess. Besides, in Lance's case, shouldn't that read "testicle," singular?

    All I know is that this current heatwave has made my balls drop more than I ever thought possible.