Monday, January 21, 2008

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  • Vote for Slim: A mailer from a Texas Republican congressional candidate's campaign contains a photo of his head attached to an image of a different body that makes him look thinner. (Is Janice Minn running his campaign?) Former Sugar Land Mayor Dean Hrbacek's campaign manager Scott Broschart acknowledged to The Houston Chronicle that the image is a fake, but said Hrbacek has been so busy that he had no time to pose for a full-length photo for the mailing "He may appreciate that we took a few pounds off him," Broschart said. "I think the voters ... are more concerned with the issues as opposed to pretty photo shoots." Yeah. That's it. (AP)

  • Sex Crime: Thirty years after director Roman Polanski fled the United States and a conviction for unlawful sex with a minor, a U.S. filmmaker has reopened the sensational case in a documentary that is shaking up the Sundance Film Festival. "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" debuted this weekend at Sundance, the top U.S. event for independent movies, and already director Marina Zenovich's nonfiction film has secured a worldwide distribution deal from the powerful Weinstein Co. (Reuters)

  • Laugh-Out: Look for lots of celebrity guest stars when Season 2 of LOGO's "Big Gay Sketch Show" premieres on Feb. 5 at 10 p.m. All eight episodes feature celebrity guest appearances including stage legends Elaine Stritch and Christine Ebersole (who appears as her character from "Grey Gardens"), as well as comedian Kate Clinton, Paul Vogt (Broadway’s "Hairspray"), Chastity Bono and Rosie O’Donnell, who also serves as one of the show’s executive producers. (LOGO)

  • Dancing Queen: Ellen DeGeneres supplants Oprah Winfrey as America's favorite television star on a new Harris Poll and Jon Stewart falls from second to fifth. (InsideTrack)

  • Brady Love: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, right, shows his teammate Junior Seau a little love during a postgame news conference after the Patriots defeated the San Diego Chargers 21-12 in the AFC Championship football game in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots advance to the Super Bowl a week from Sunday in Phoenix against the New York Giants. (AP)

  • Rapist Sentenced: A man convicted this week of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint was sentenced to 99 years in prison Thursday after he apologized for that attack and the rapes of four other young men. In a written statement read in court, Keith Hill also said he decided to assault men rather than women because "it would be less hard on them." Hill, 20, was convicted Tuesday of assaulting one of five young men he had confessed to raping during an eight-month spree in 2006 in Baytown, Texas. Hill described feeling conflicted even as he committed the crimes, saying he pistol-whipped two of his victims after orally raping them because he was "upset at them for doing what I told them to do." What a sick piece of trash. With a blame-the-victim stance like that I'm surprised he didn't go into politics. (AP)

  • From Steppenwolf to Broadway: Be sure to check out this adorable audio slide show of Laurie Metcalf -- in New York starring opposite Nathan Lane in David Mamet's "November" -- in which she talks about the good old days of performing with the Steppenwolf Theater Company. including this shot of her with Francis Guiman in the 1981 production of "Balm in Gilead" (NYT)

  • Network Hardball: Suddenly, resident MSNBC whackjob Chris Matthews is backing down on his attacks on Hillary Clinton. Someone afraid of losing his job, is he? (AP)

  • Victims Without a Crime? If those hot boys in Orange County can't be on MTV's "Laguna Beach," then they don't wanna play at all. (AP)

  • 'Overnight' Sensation: Kimya Dawson is having a hard time adjusting to her newfound "star" status since her Moldy Peaches and solo music has become a huge hit on the "Juno" soundtrack. (NYT)

  • Going on 47: Boy George claims his bitchy days are behind him and he's ready to grow up. (Towleroad)

  • Check Mate: Bobby Fischer, the reclusive chess genius who became a Cold War hero by dethroning the Soviet world champion in 1972 and later renounced his American citizenship, has died. He was 64. (AP)

  • 3 comments:

    Travis said...

    I cannot wait, they are going to have a skit of "America's Top Model" But instead it will be "America's Top Bottom" LOL!!

    Rick said...

    The rapist has been on the local news all week. What a little guy. But if he's holding a gun on you, you'll do anything

    Joey said...

    And why did Keith Hill only pick Caucasian men to assault? What weird psychology was going on there? Or is that just his "taste"?