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[muthagoose]

Now at is a Pony One girl there... all crazy skeezered up... and most of all "crazy".



"SWF w/2child seeks grizzled SWM for relationship, erotic picture taking, failed album releasing, torment and eventually badgering."

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XM and Sirius reach merger agreement
Deal between two satellite radio providers would be ‘merger of equals’

NEW YORK - Satellite radio rivals XM and Sirius say they have reached an agreement to merge.

Speculation about a potential merger between the two companies has persisted for months, and analysts and company executives say such a deal could have significant cost savings. However, many remain skeptical that a deal would be able to pass regulatory scrutiny.

A clause in the Federal Communications Commission ruling granting licenses to the satellite radio operators says that one company cannot own the other one, but the FCC would have the power to change the rule if it chose to. Any deal would also have to pass an antitrust review at the Department of Justice.

The New York Post reported that XM's chairman Gary Parsons would likely keep that title in the combined company, while Sirius' CEO Mel Karmazin would become CEO. It wasn't clear if XM's CEO Hugh Panero would remain.

A tie-up could save the combined companies $7 billion and end their fierce battle for dominance, Stifel Nicolaus analysts said in a client note in January.

But other observers say a deal may not be smart, since the companies have incompatible radio hardware, and each is locked into expensive, long-term content deals. Even more, a merger may confuse consumers, who already have many other leisure options, such as iPods, video games and Internet media.

"This combination is the next logical step in the evolution of audio entertainment," said Mel Karmazin, CEO of SIRIUS Satellite Radio. "Together, our best-in-class management team and programming content will create unprecedented choice for consumers, while creating long-term value for shareholders of both companies."

New York-based Sirius, satellite radio home to Howard Stern and the National Football League, ended 2006 with more than 6 million subscribers. Washington-based XM, which carries Major League Baseball games and shows produced by Oprah Winfrey, said it ended 2006 with more than 7.6 million subscribers.

The shares of both Sirius and XM tumbled more than 40 percent last year on concerns about whether the rapid growth both companies had seen would continue. Both stocks have gained support in recent months from speculation that they would attempt to merge.

XM's stock rose again on Friday after an analyst said in a research note that a merger would have a good chance of passing regulatory hurdles.

[The Duke]

Referring back to the story about Britney Spears, it seems as if she has checked into rehab (she apparently did not go in the first place like originally thought) while wearing a wig on her head to cover up her new Kojak-esque hairdo.

[Chick-O-Stick]

It is now 24 hours later, and Sinead... I mean Britney has now left rehab. 'Nough said.

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This is what happens when you still live with your mother at age 39-

Man’s good intentions die by the sword
He breaks into apartment, mistaking porn screams for actual rape

OCONOMOWOC, Wis. - A man said he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.

“Now I feel stupid,” said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case. “This really is nothing, nothing but a mistake.”

According to a criminal complaint, the neighbor told police that Van Iveren pounded on the door and kicked it open without warning Feb. 12, damaging the frame and lock.

“Where is she?” Van Iveren demanded, thrusting the sword at the neighbor, the complaint said. “Where is she?”

The neighbor told police Van Iveren became increasingly aggressive as he repeated the question, insisting that he had heard a woman being raped. The complaint said that, with the sword pointed at him, the neighbor led Van Iveren throughout the apartment, opening closet doors to prove he was alone.

The neighbor later played for police the part of the DVD he believed Van Iveren heard downstairs.

Van Iveren, 39, of Oconomowoc, was charged with criminal trespass, criminal damage and disorderly conduct, all while using a dangerous weapon, and is due in court March 5. Together, the misdemeanor counts carry a maximum sentence of 33 months in jail.

Van Iveren said Tuesday that he heard a woman “screaming for help,” grabbed the sword, bounded up the stairs, kicked in the apartment door and confronted the man who lived there.

“I intended to hold it behind my back and knock. But I froze and instead, what happened happened,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Contesting his neighbor’s account, Van Iveren said he didn’t look anywhere in the apartment except the front room, and that he never threatened the neighbor with the sword.

“I had the sword extended. But that was all,” he said.

Van Iveren, who lives with his mother in the downstairs apartment, said he did not call police when he heard the noises because he does not have a telephone. He said he barely knew the upstairs tenant.

Police seized Van Iveren’s sword, which he said was a family heirloom.

[The Duke]

What is wrong with these people? First, Britney/Kojak leaving rehab again, or was it, as Chick-o-stick said, Sinead O'Connor? And now, this dumbass in the above story.

[muthagoose]

Never disturb the Mad Jacker.

[Chick-O-Stick]

Jared Leto Breaks Nose At 30 Seconds To Mars Concert
Singer ran into crowd, sustained additional injuries at Thursday show.

True chaos ensued Thursday at the Taste of Chaos tour stop in El Paso, Texas, resulting in 30 Seconds to Mars singer Jared Leto sustaining a broken nose and other injuries.

According to a spokesperson for the band's record label, Leto was injured when he ran into the crowd during "The Kill" and thousands of fans overpowered security and rushed toward him on the floor of County Coliseum.

Along with his nose, which was unintentionally broken, Leto suffered a foot injury and superficial injuries to his face and body.

Leto finished the show and even declared it one of the best of the tour, but eventually checked into a hospital to ensure that none of his injuries would require surgery. 30 Seconds to Mars are scheduled to perform Friday (March 2) in Dallas.

"I've been producing shows for 25 years and this was one of the scariest moments I have witnessed," Taste of Chaos organizer Kevin Lyman said in a statement. "We hope Jared's injuries are all minor and that he has a speedy recovery."

No fans were seriously injured in the melee, according to the band's spokesperson.

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Why Not Just Hold a Seance?

NEW YORK, March 23 -- Determined to right a historic wrong, a group that included authors, lawyers and a forensic pathologist called a news conference Friday to unveil a bold campaign to exhume a dead book.

No, wait.

To exhume a dead body. Well, that's what they said, anyway. But the more they talked about exhuming the body, the more it seemed like the point was reviving the sluggish sales of a nearly moribund book.

Specifically, "The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero," by William Kulash and Larry Sloman. Published in October, this door-stopper purports to reveal new and astounding elements of the great magician's life and death -- including the claim that he was murdered, a crime plotted by the husband of a spiritualist whom Houdini had debunked.

When this murder rap first surfaced in "The Secret Life," nobody paid it much mind, probably because there is not a whit of remotely persuasive evidence to support it. But a couple days ago a public-relations firm in Manhattan issued a news release announcing that the "families of Harry Houdini" would call for the exhumation of their ancestor's body so that it could be tested for traces of poison. Further, the announcement stated, a noted law and forensic science professor at George Washington University, James Starrs -- whose previous celebrity disinterments included the outlaw Jesse James -- had agreed to conduct the tests.

"We are here today at the beginning of a historical moment," said attorney Joseph Tacopina, starting off the festivities and speaking before a few dozen reporters and photographers. "Advances in forensic science have increased our desire as a society to disinter the distinguished in order to solve outstanding mysteries. This is one."

The Houdini clan, it turned out, was represented by George Hardeen, a grand-nephew, who was later heard via speakerphone and identified by Tacopina as "the only known living descendant of the family." Tacopina said that he had received the consent of the cemetery in Queens where Houdini is buried, and that he has a "good and substantial case," which he stated is the legal standard to convince a court that a digging expedition is a good idea.

Exactly how compelling is this case? The standard account of Houdini's death is that on Oct. 22, 1926, while he was on tour in Montreal, a fan punched him in the stomach -- by invitation, but before he was ready for the blow -- rupturing an already inflamed appendix. (It's known that Houdini had been complaining of stomach pain at the time.) A doctor in a Detroit hospital tried injecting him with an experimental serum, but he died on Halloween, at the age of 52.

But authors Kulash and Sloman maintain that Houdini was the victim of a thuggish cabal of psychics. Houdini spent much of his career unmasking spiritualism as a fraud, and one of his favorite targets was one Mina "Margery" Crandon, a socialite who acquired a certain fame after claiming telekinetic abilities. Her husband, a prominent Boston surgeon named Le Roi Crandon, was supposedly a member of what the authors call "the Psychic mafia" and the man behind Houdini's poisoning. In the authors' telling, Crandon had a confederate inject Houdini with that serum in Detroit, and it was meant to kill him, not cure him.

Now, you would think that for this theory to hold water you'd need some link between Crandon and the physician who administered the serum, right? Nuh-uh.

"There is no connection between the two [men]," said Kalush in a chat after the news conference. "There might be a connection. What I'm saying is there is more to investigate there."

Don't just focus on the serum, Kalush said. Another revelation in "The Secret Life" is that after the initial punch, Houdini was attacked two more times, both times by men punching him in the stomach. Kind of a strange way to whack a guy -- send goons to repeatedly punch him in the stomach. But if that doesn't fly, Kalush says that Houdini could have been poisoned earlier in his tour.

"We don't have a day-to-day record of who was with Houdini on tour," Kalush said. "Crandon had a lot of connections. Do we have a smoking gun that Crandon had a friend in Houdini's camp who could have put something in his soup? No."

What we have here, to put it politely, is pure conjecture. Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of "Houdini!!!: The Career of Erich Weiss" read "The Secret Life" and found the murder charge unconvincing.

"There's just no evidence given," he said. "I'll believe anything if you've got good evidence. But these are all very surprising and extreme conclusions. And the business about him being punched by a number of people sounds to me like utter baloney."

This wasn't the only story at the news conference that didn't quite check out. Hardeen, the grand-nephew, said he is not the only known descendant of Houdini. Far from it.

"There's lots of relatives out there," he said.

Well, did they sign off on this exhumation?

"I'm just speaking for myself. I don't represent the entire family, that's for sure."

Further, the man in charge of the cemetery in Queens said yesterday he hadn't given his okay to dig up Houdini's body -- nor is his okay needed.

"It's not up to me," David Jacobson explained, the cemetery's chairman of the board. "It's up to the courts."

Well, this is all starting to sound a little nutty, isn't it? Or not. The news conference, held at the American Jewish Historical Society, generated stories in the New York tabloids, and it was impossible to take a photo of Friday's event without including a big blown-up copy of the cover of "The Secret Life."

It turns out this media spectacle was not orchestrated and paid for by the family of Houdini, as one might have inferred from Tacopina's opening remarks. It was organized and paid for by the authors, who hired the uber-crafty PR firm Dan Klores Communications to put it together. The idea, perhaps, was to goose sales of "The Secret Life," which hasn't exactly burned up the bestseller list. It's sold a decent 24,000 since October, according to BookScan, which tracks most retailers, but the numbers are flagging. Last week, just 200 copies were sold.

So you can't help but feel sorry for Houdini, whose eternal peace could be disturbed for the sake of a hardback. One of his go-to stunts was escaping from a sealed coffin. If there's any justice in the world, here's hoping this misadventure ends with a bunch of people, huddled in a cemetery in Queens, gaping at an empty box.

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Joan Jett And Carmen Electra May Have Their Own "Cherry Bomb"

Joan Jett has sung about not caring about having a bad reputation and, after marrying Dennis Rodman and Dave Navarro, apparently neither does Carmen Electra.

So perhaps it's not implausible that the two women might actually have hooked up. Electra, 34, has previously admitted to having a secret crush on Jett since she was eight when she first saw her in a music video wearing a bikini. Jett, 46, cast Electra as a bisexual temptress in her 2006 video for "A.C.D.C.," another addition to a stellar acting resume that includes unforgettable roles in Scary Movie, Scary Movie 4, Good Burger and Starsky & Hutch. Jett and Electra have also been spotted together occasionally over the past year, and the topless model separated from Navarro last summer, so tongues are starting to wag.

According to The Daily Dish column on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.com website, Electra has been telling friends that she's "planning to drop a bombshell at one of the year's most anticipated gay gatherings." She's scheduled to perform with her burlesque troupe, the Bombshell Babes, at the Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs, California later this month, and may reveal more than her cleavage at the four-day lesbian festival.

"Carmen and Joan are planning on enjoying all the fun the weekend has to offer, and they'll be making a very clear statement to the world by attending together," an unnamed event insider told the Star magazine.

Another unnamed source said, "They've been dating since before Thanksgiving. They don't cohabitate, but they do spend a lot of time together."

Jett was a member of the all-female Runaways in the '70s and became a star when "I Love Rock N' Roll" became a smash hit in 1982. The rocker has had a number of other hits over the years, and has become somewhat of a gay icon. Electra has been responsible for a lot of teenage boys becoming better acquainted with their right hands.

[The Duke]

Wow! Now that is definitely not something I would have seen coming! Now will there be video footage of that weekend?

[Ponyone]

This is ridiculous, but also very cool

[muthagoose]

The whole thing is weird. I mean she was with Rodman, then Dave Navarro and now Joan Jett... is she gay, a tranny or just screwed up in the head?

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San Francisco to ban plastic grocery bags

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to become the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling.

Under the legislation, beginning in six months large supermarkets and drugstores will not be allowed to offer plastic bags made from petroleum products.

"Many [foreign] cities and nations have already implemented very similar legislation," said Ross Mirkarimi, the city legislator who championed the new law. "It's astounding that San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to follow suit." (Watch why it's no longer politically correct to 'think plastics' Video)

"I am hopeful that other U.S. cities will also adopt similar legislation," he said. "Why wait for the federal government to enact legislation that gets to the core of this problem when local governments can just step up to the plate?"

The city's Department of the Environment said San Francisco uses 181 million plastic grocery bags annually. Plans dating back a decade to encourage recycling of the bags have largely failed, with shoppers returning just one percent of bags, said department spokesman Mark Westland.

Mirkarimi said the ban would save 450,000 gallons of oil a year and remove the need to send 1,400 tons of debris now sent annually to landfills. The new rules would, however, allow recyclable plastic bags, which are not widely used today.

A spokesman for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who must approve or veto the legislation, called it sensible. "Chances are good that he is going to sign it," said Nathan Ballard.

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Real Kwik-E-Marts? Woo-Hoo!
7-Eleven may convert some stores to coincide with 'Simpsons Movie'

It appears as though the world's largest convenience store will get Simpsonized, though 7-Eleven Inc. said the deal isn't done yet.

But at a company event yesterday in Richmond, officials showcased their planned promotional ef- forts with major upcoming films, including "The Simpsons Movie."

If all goes as planned, the convenience store chain plans to refit 11 stores across the U.S. -- Richmond is an unlikely choice -- to resemble the front of the Kwik-E-Mart, the convenience store that Homer and other characters frequent in the classic cartoon TV series.

Customers also will be able to buy products inspired by the nearly two-decades-old show, including KrustyO's cereal, Buzz Cola and iced Squishees (the cup says Squishee, but the contents will be Slurpee).

The chain also will use pictures of Simpsons characters to promote 7-Eleven's line of fresh foods, such as placing the face of Homer and his classic "Mmmm . . . sandwich" quip on sandwich wrappers.

Details of 7-Eleven's plans were showed to employees in a booth at a company event at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. It was unclear yesterday which 11 stores of the more than 4,700 nationwide would receive a cartoony facelift or sell inventory of the Simpsons-inspired products.

The movie hits theaters July 27.



7-Eleven also is lining up deals with the "Spider-Man" franchise in advance of the third installment in May. The promotion will feature Black Cherry Lemonade Slurpees and collectible Slurpee cups with three-dimensional graphics on the side.

Finally, the retailer plans to use the June sequel to "Fantastic Four" to promote the Slurpee energy drink it launched last year, called Full Throttle.

Spokeswoman Margaret Chabris said contracts on the promotions have not been signed with movie studios. She didn't give any further details, saying the company will release more information in coming weeks.

"We've done research, and research shows us that our customers like . . . movies, so we're getting involved with some major studios on some of their properties this summer," she said.

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Muthagoose Says: "I smell a road trip!"

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Former ‘Family Ties’ child star Brian Bonsall arrested and held on charges of assault, false imprisonment

BOULDER, Colo. - Former child star Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keaton in “Family Ties,” was arrested on charges of assaulting his girlfriend, police said.

Bonsall, 25, was being held in the Boulder County jail Friday on charges of second-degree assault and false imprisonment. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney, and a listing for an agent could not be found.



"I'm cooooooooollllllld blooooooooooooded!!!"

Bonsall was arrested Wednesday after his girlfriend told police he poured an alcoholic drink on her face while she slept, put her in a choke hold and threw her onto a bed when she tried to leave, authorities said.

Bonsall told investigators he pushed the woman down in self-defense after she cut his arm and face with a steak knife, but she denied that, police said.

The woman was initially taken into custody but then released, police said.

Bonsall, who lives in Boulder, appeared in three seasons of “Family Ties,” the NBC sitcom that helped launch Michael J. Fox’s career. He later appeared in episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the 1993 film “Father Hood.”

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Ron Jeremy Allegedly Cops a Feel; Cops Called

TMZ has learned legendary porn star Ron Jeremy could face battery charges after a woman filed a police report claiming Ron acted like a boob by grabbing hers, and then signing it without permission... a Masonesque move to say the least.

The alleged incident occurred Saturday during the Exotica porn convention in Miami Beach. According to the police report, Leslie Sanchez approached Jeremy for an autograph, with her husband in tow.

Sanchez and her husband claim Jeremy was happy to oblige, but then he allegedly "reached towards the victim and stuck his hands under victim's blouse." Sanchez then claims Jeremy "reached inside her bra and grabbed her nipple. He pulled the nipple up and took out victim's breast and signed his name on it."

According to the police report, Sanchez "never gave Ron Jeremy permission to touch her." Sanchez also claims she has photos of the alleged incident.

eremy's agent, Mike Esterman, said, "Ron routinely signs ladies' breasts," adding that Jeremy has "been on this road before. It's his signature thing to do."

So far, no charges have been filed against Jeremy.

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Keith Richards snorted his dad!?!!

Rolling Stone Keith Richards told the NME music mag that he once snorted a bit of his old man's ashes. From Reuters:

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort?" the Sun quoted Richards as saying in its early Wednesday edition. "My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared. It went down pretty well and I'm still alive."


Muthagoose Says: "WTF!?!!!"

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Keith Richards: "I Didn't Really Snort My Father!"

So maybe Keith Richards isn't as hardcore as we thought he was.

Just hours after the Internet lit up with his claim that he'd snorted the ashes of his own father mixed with cocaine, his manager told MTV News that, sadly, it wasn't true. According to Jane Rose in an e-mail message, Richard's dad-ingesting comment was, "Said in jest ... Can't believe anyone took [it] seriously."

Yesterday, Richards added to his own self-medicating legend by telling NME, "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a littl

[The Duke]

Now that is something else.

[muthagoose]

QUEEN Turned Into Ice Cream

QUEEN has been turned into ice cream by Ben & Jerry's. The "Bohemian Raspberry" flavor will join other music-themed ice creams such as "Phish Food," inspired by the band PHISH, and THE GRATEFUL DEAD's "Cherry Garcia" and "Glastonberry" flavors.

According to NME, QUEEN guitarist Brian May welcomed the icy merchandise, saying, "It's Queentastic! Rhapsolicious! So cool it's not funny!" He also said he would like the next flavor to be "We Will Chock You." QUEEN's flavor will raise money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust fighting AIDS worldwide.

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Suspect named in Jam Master Jay's death
Federal prosecutors say low-level bandit was armed accomplice of gunman

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors have alleged that a low-level career bandit may hold the key to one of the more high-profile mysteries of the hip-hop world: Who killed rap pioneer Jam Master Jay?

In court papers, the prosecutors identify Ronald “Tenad” Washington as the armed accomplice of a second unidentified gunman who shot Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, inside his New York recording studio in 2002. They say Washington also is a suspect in the 1995 fatal shooting of Randy Walker, a close associate of the late rapper Tupac Shakur.

The papers were filed earlier this month in the federal trial of Washington, who was convicted in a string of armed robberies that occurred just after Jay was killed. Prosecutors declined Tuesday to discuss the unsolved slayings.

A Mizell family spokeswoman welcomed news that authorities had for the first time publicly identified a suspect.

“We’re relieved there’s some information coming out, although we understand that it’s not the full story,” said the spokeswoman, Fern Yates.

Washington, 45, has denied any connection to either the Mizell or Walker cases. In a sworn statement, he claimed hostile detectives had hounded him about the slaying of his “childhood friend” Mizell and other crimes.

Washington’s criminal record dates to 1982, and includes convictions for assault, drugs and grand larceny, authorities said.

During the 1980s, Mizell made rap music history working the turntables as Joe “Run” Simmons and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels rapped on hits like “King of Rock,” “It’s Tricky” and a top-40 remake of Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.”

Mizell was gunned down Oct. 30, 2002, at his 24/7 recording studio. According to a performer there, a man wearing a black sweat suit appeared, embraced Mizell, pulled out a .40-caliber pistol and opened fire.

A first round missed Mizell and injured another person. A second bullet, this one fired from point-blank range, entered the left side of Mizell’s head. The shooter vanished.

For his part, Washington “pointed his gun at those present in the studio, ordered them to get on the ground and provided cover for his associate to shoot and kill Jason Mizell,” prosecutors said in court papers.

While being sought for questioning in the Mizell case, Washington fled and lived in various motels, authorities said. He held up several fast-food restaurants and other businesses with a pellet gun before his arrest in December 2002.

Prosecutors claim Washington was among three men involved in a fatal car chase with another hip-hop figure — Walker — on Nov. 30, 1995. The suspect allegedly fired a gun out a car window, killing Walker and causing his minivan to crash.

Walker had performed with the group Live Squad under the name Stretch. He also was known for producing several songs for Shakur, victim of an unsolved murder in 1996 in Las Vegas.

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India court orders Gere's arrest

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) -- An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public.

Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks at an event to promote AIDS awareness in New Delhi sparked protests in some parts of India, mostly by Hindu vigilante groups, who saw it as an outrage against her modesty and an affront to Indian culture.

The order by a court in the northern city of Jaipur came in response to a complaint by a local lawyer.

The judge watched a video recording of Gere kissing Shetty and found him guilty of violating Indian laws against public obscenity, the lawyer, Poonam Chand Bhandari, said.

The court also summoned Shilpa Shetty to appear on May 5, Bhandari said, adding that Gere was also ordered to be arrested.

Gere can be sent to jail for up to three months or fined or both for the crime if he is arrested. He is not in India now but can be held if he visits the country again.

The Hollywood star is a devout Buddhist and a vocal supporter of the Tibetan cause and visits India frequently to meet the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in northern India.

He is also involved with charities looking after HIV-infected people and orphans, as well as AIDS prevention groups in the country.

Groups of men had burned and kicked straw effigies of Gere and Shetty in sporadic protests across the country after newspapers published the picture of the kiss on their front pages and TV channels aired visuals of the event.

Shetty, the winner of the "Celebrity Big Brother" reality TV show in Britain this year had said the kiss may have gone a "little overboard" but it was not obscene and the protests made India look regressive.

She said Gere was only re-enacting his moves from the film "Shall We Dance" to entertain the audience at the AIDS event and communicate in a Bollywood style as he did not speak Hindi.

Many commentators had subsequently expressed their unhappiness at what they said were fringe groups making a mountain of a harmless peck on the cheek.

Muthagoose says: At first glance I was totally expecting to read that Richard Gere was smuggling gerbils... turns out that I was wrong.

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Daughters make tape of drunk Hasselhoff
‘Part of recovery is relapse,’ says the ‘Baywatch’ star

LOS ANGELES - A videotape made by David Hasselhoff’s daughters shows the recovering alcoholic falling off the wagon, Hasselhoff acknowledged Thursday, but the actor added that he is doing much better since it was made.

The video, which aired Thursday on TV tabloid shows, depicts an apparently inebriated Hasselhoff, clad only in blue jeans, lying on the floor of a room and clumsily eating a hamburger while one of his daughters reproves him about his drinking.

“I am a recovering alcoholic,” Hasselhoff said in a statement issued Thursday. “Despite that I have been going through a painful divorce and I have recently been separated from my children due to my work, I have been successfully dealing with my issue. Unfortunately, one evening I did have a brief relapse, but part of recovery is relapse.

“Because of my honest and positive relationship with my daughters, who were concerned for my well-being, there was a tape made that night to show me what I was like. I have seen the tape. I have learned from it and I am back on my game.”

The tape’s existence was first reported Thursday by TV’s “The Insider,” “Entertainment Tonight” and “Extra,” which quickly posted stills and clips from it on their Web sites.



The TV shows said the tape was made about three months ago by Hasselhoff’s 16-year-old daughter, Taylor-Ann, in his home in Las Vegas, where the former “Baywatch” star has been appearing in a stage version of “The Producers.”

Hasselhoff’s publicist, Judy Katz, said she could not confirm those details.

“I thank God for the love and concern from my daughters,” Hasselhoff said in his statement. “The tape was never meant to become public, but got into the hands of individuals who are not worthy of mentioning, who maliciously released the tape for their own self purpose. I hope that someone else will learn from the tape, as I have.”

On the tape, a girl’s voice is heard saying: “Dad, you need to promise me you’re not gonna get alcohol tonight, OK?

“If you get alcohol tonight you’re fired from your show tomorrow,” the girl continues. “And a doctor’s coming over here in the morning to check your alcohol level and if there’s any alcohol in your system you’re gonna be fired from the show. Tomorrow. You hear me? No alcohol.”

“OK,” Hasselhoff replies in a slurred voice.

“Extra” said the tape also includes the girl repeatedly asking Hasselhoff why he continued to “do this” to himself.

“Cause I’m lonely. I have trouble in my life,” he replies.

Hasselhoff, 54, filed for divorce from Pamela Bach last year after 16 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. Bach, 43, filed her own divorce papers, also citing irreconcilable differences.

In addition to Taylor-Ann, they have a 14-year-old daughter, Hayley.

View the Tape:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9VeIjkuNY

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'Borat' Actor To Play FREDDIE MERCURY In Upcoming Film

According to Spin.com, Sacha Baron Cohen, the comical actor from faux-doc blockbuster "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", has signed to on to portray flamboyant QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury in a forthcoming yet-to-be titled film, the U.K.'s Mirror reports.

Cohen, 35, reportedly nudged out Johnny Depp for the role, which will depict Mercury's music, wild lifestyle, and untimely death in 1991 at the age of 45, due to an AIDS-related illness. "Film makers are working flat out to get the best possible script," an unidentified source told the Mirror. "Sacha loves the idea he can get away with playing Freddie after modeling Borat's look on him."



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