Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Page 1 Consider (05/23)

  • Shaping Up: Hunky Daniel Craig, in Cannes to promote his new film "The Golden Compass," claims he's let himself go a bit since the filming of "Casino Royale," but that it's time to get Bondworthy again soon. "I had some down time," the 39-year-old actor said Monday. "I got to enjoy myself a bit. I'm getting back into shape now, I'm kind of building myself up again." Given how he looked in that square-cut bathing suit, he had an awful lot of leeway before "letting himself go" would begin to show ... (AP)

  • Bombing Out of School: A student at Liberty University, the school the Rev. Jerry Falwell founded in between spewing hate against various groups of people, was arrested was arrested after telling a family member he had made bombs and planned to attend Falwell's funeral. His motives are unclear, although given his choice of higher education one can only suspect they were warped. (AP)


  • Cioa! Babs: Italian consumer groups want authorities to cancel Barbra Streisand's concert in Rome next month because of excessive ticket prices. I have a better idea: if you don't want to pay that much, don't go. (AP)


  • O Father: Control freak Oprah Winfrey admits she was "stunned" to learn her father plans to write a tell-all book about her. "I was upset. I won't say devastated, but I was stunned," Winfrey explained. Winfrey said she laughed when one of her assistants told her the newspaper was calling to ask about a book her father, Vernon Winfrey, was writing. "I said, 'That's impossible. I can assure them it's not true,'" she said. "... I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, 'I meant to tell you I've been working on it.'" I'm guessing this one won't be part of Oprah's Book Club. (AP)

  • Separate and Not Equal: In New Jersey, a growing number of companies are refusing to recognize the state's civil unions law, denying benefits to the same-sex partners of employees. (Source)

  • I Am a Gay American's Wife: So what was Dina Matos McGreevey thinking during her governor husband's famous coming out speech, when she seemed to be smiling and standing by her man? "Well, you know, it wasn’t a smile. It was my attempt to keep it together and not fall apart in front of the cameras. I was literally in shock and in a fog. I had had less than three days to process what was happening -- he kept giving me the news in installments. I hadn’t absorbed what had happened. I was really at war with myself, feeling pain and anger and also trying to figure out how to respond or how not to respond. I am frankly surprised I was able to stand there and not fall apart." (Newsweek)

  • Tour de Farce: Could Floyd Landis be any more of a liar and a dick? (AP)


  • Photoshock: Those French boys came up with this wonderful Andy Roddick photo, which perfectly outlines the Men's Fitness debacle I wrote about early last week. (OhLaLaParis)
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