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Tragic End: A budding Brooklyn filmmaker with model good looks was crushed to death by an 18-wheeler in Greenwich Village after he lost control of his bicycle and fell under the big rig's tire, cops and witnesses said. Derek Lake, a graduate of the School of Visual Arts who earned extra cash modeling for Esprit, was turning right from La Guardia Place onto West Houston Street at about 9:30 a.m. when he encountered a metal construction plate sticking up about 2 inches from the street bed. Witnesses said Lake, 24, skidded trying to avoid the plate and flew across an empty lane, before being swept, head first, under the truck's wheel. He was declared dead at the scene. (NYP)

Best 'View' Around: There are plenty of stories and theories floating around about Star Jones' departure from "The View," but this one is the funniest and bitchiest one I've seen. Who said Canadians were nice? (Canada.com)

'Law? What Law?": Well it's about f**king time: The Associated Press has finally said what many of us having been saying for years about the president's tendency to violate laws that he signs, but it's so much nice seeing it from a internationally known news wire. (Raw)

Splendor on the Grass: The rain let up at Wimbledon and three-time defending champ Roger Federer quickly disposed of Frenchman Richard Gasquet, giving him his 42nd straight on grass, surpassing Bjorn Borg's Open era mark set from 1976-81. (All 41 of Borg's wins came at the All England Club.) When the draw came out there was a lot of talk that Gasquet was going to be a problem for the Swiss magician, but if a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory is what they meant by a problem, then yes, it was one. (ESPN)

Secondhand News: To all those smokers who think I'm just being a big baby about having smoke blown in my face, suck on this. (AP)

A Big Return: I've seen about a dozen reviews of Brandon Routh's Superman and they're all good. Might I be seeing it for reasons besides the superbulge? (doubtful). (WP)

Jokers Wild: Did you see the surveillance camera capture some idiot shooting wildly in the middle of the Silver Nugget casino? One man was killed and a woman was injured. Some crazy shit. (AP) Meanwhile at the Vegas airport, police shot and killed a man who abducted a 3-year-old boy from a toy shop. (AP)

Standing Up for What's Right: A man in Idaho is protesting "The Joy of Gay Sex" by checking it out of his local library. That's funny. I protest Torso, Advocate Men and Latin Inches magazines by buying them at my local newsstand. (Advocate)

Oh, Father!

The Catholic Church has seen a huge drop-off in its membership in recent years, but something tells me recruiting more of these Hollywood-lookalike priests might get a whole new batch of sinners through the doors just begging to confess. See all of the hunky daddies fathers in the church's 2007 fundraising calendar here.


Proceeds from the calendar go to The Food Chain, an HIV/AIDS charity in London. Via TMZ.com

Fortune and Men's Eyes

For more Sorin pics, click here.

After weeks of silent shame, I finally came clean with my reality-TV junkie friend at work yesterday that yes, I do watch "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" (like you don't!). Believe it or not, I never got into "America's Next Top Model," so I missed all the Janice fun there (too many people competing for screen time when all I want is Janice). Then I tried to watch her on "The Surreal Life," but that stupid whore Omarosa wouldn't shut the fuck up for two seconds, and I finally gave up on that (apparently so did Janice -- she was so annoyed with that tranny that she exited the house before the show even ended). So when the Queen of Train Wrecks Janice finally got her much-deserved show, I was ripe for the watching.

First off, don't listen to the bloggers who say the show "looks low-budget" or Virginia Heffernan of the NYT who says the camera has to be constantly moving as to not let viewers see Dickinson's "disturbing when scutinized" face -- it's all lies. The show looks great and Janice -- a self-proclaimed fake from hair to chin, and ear to ear -- is completely fascinating to watch (and watch they let us -- she's in virtually every scene). Any hint of drug abuse or loopy Anna Nicole Smith syndrome is completely gone this time around. She's opening her own modeling agency and she means business.

And Janice knows how to pick some hot models -- well, some hot male models. All of the women she's picked so far have had weight problems, which makes you wonder if she did this on purpose so she can be more than twice the average girl's age but still have a better body and then throw it in their faces (smart girl!).

Like every week, this week's episode was the best episode ever! The men's underwear company 2(x)ist came knocking looking for three guys who look hot in tighty whities to do a job in the Big Apple. The auditions were bulge-a-licious and Janice's No. 1 hunk, Sorin Mihalache of Transylvania(!), who I've blogged about before here, here and here, thought he was a sure thing until the casting people actually wanted him to have a personality(!) and he clammed up. You could almost see the words "but I'm so gorgeous, why don't just hire me?" written across his face.

When the company selected three other models, including sexy manny T.J. Wilk (who is packing heat and was featured on last night's "Entertainment Tonight"), Paul Ramirez (both below) and former "Manhunt" reality modeling show contestant John Stallings, Sorin sat on the floor and sobbed like a little girl (it was hilarious!). He's so hot that -- of course -- he eventually had Janice and her business partner kissing his ass telling him how he actually was "much hotter" than the people 2(x)ist selected, but that modeling is "99 percent rejection," so he just had to get used to it. From the look on Sorin's face though, something tells me this really was the first time he'd been rejected, which is exactly why this really is must-see television ...

Related posts: Breakfast in Bed: T.J. Wilk

Morning Wood: Paul Ramirez

See these photos and lots more over at OhLaLaParis and FourFour.

You Give Me Fever

Sexy David Beckham heats up the World Cup in this one, via Tottyland.

Sporting Wood: Tommy Haas

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Wimbledon was mostly rained out on the first day of the fortnight, but the discovery of these photos of a new line of Tommy Haas tennis clothes and underwear was like a ray of (very hot) light ... (thanks, Greg!)

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Jumbo Jack: Looking for a 6-foot-7, 250-pound murder suspect? Better check the local Jack-in-the-Box. (NBC10)

Say Anything, But Get the F**k Away from Me: Actor John Cusack wants a restraining order against a 31-year-old "fan" named Emily Leatherman. Cusack alleges that the woman has been "showing unusual interest [in him] by stalking, throwing long letters of interest over my fence in bags with rocks and screwdrivers inside, making unannounced visits to offices of people I work with in an attempt to meet with me and listing my address as her own during a recent arrest. Mail addressed to her has been arriving at my residence without my permission. I have never met this person." With the way John's been looking lately -- not to mention that whole "Must Love Dogs" embarrassment -- I think he should consider himself lucky to even have a stalker. (TMZ)

The Cost of Loving: E. Pierce Marshall, 67, the son of J. Howard Marshall II who has been warring with the former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith for years over his dad's fortune, has died. It's very expensive to be her so here's hoping this gets the poor gal the money she needs. (AP)

Leather Lovers: These fashionistas are really fit to be tied. (NYT)

The Crying Game: A lawyer for Boy George says the reason the pop star can't do community service work, like raking leaves in Central Park, is because it would create "a media circus." George wishes ... (Telegraph)

In the Bag: Bottega Veneta's menswear collection was shown in Milan recently and man purses have never looked so good (FWD)

Those Wacky Arquettes: "Medium" famous Patricia Arquette wed her longtime boyfriend, the not-so-famous Thomas Jane, over the weekend in Venice, Italy. No word if sibling Alexis acted as a bridesmaid or a groomsman or if Patricia is still actually romantically involved with her new husband, or if she will this is the same as her six-year marriage to Nicolas Cage, who it later turned out she was only involved with for nine months after their 1995 wedding, yet they continued appearing in public together as a couple until 2001. (AP)

Rush to Judgment: Could Rush Limbaugh be any more of a dick? He's trying. (AP)

From Russia With Love: If you didn't see this story about three sets of orphaned twin siblings on "Dateline" this Sunday, you've got to read this. Michael and I cried and cried and cried ... (NBC)

Big Brother Complex: Adding to the growing mountain of scientific evidence that there is a strong biological component to being gay or lesbian, researchers in Canada have shown that boys with older brothers are slightly more likely to be gay than those without. "It's likely to be a prenatal effect," Anthony F. Bogaert of Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada, told the Associated Press. "This and other studies suggest that there is probably a biological basis for” homosexuality. (Advocate)

Playing Footsie: Two British tabloids that published articles insinuating British soccer player Ashley Cole had participating in a gay orgy that involved a cell phone cum sex toy have apologized to the soccer star, each stating that there was "no truth" to their stories. Now if Ashley could only figure out a way to explain this "Footballers Wives" moment from over the weekend. (PinkNews)