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Ryan Seacrest Signs Deal With E! TV

Ryan Seacrest's new year is looking good so far. The "American Idol" host and radio disc jockey signed a deal with E! Entertainment Television that includes producing and hosting the channel's red-carpet awards coverage.

Seacrest, who joined Dick Clark for ABC's "New Year's Rockin' Eve" on Saturday and has called Clark a role model, appears to be emulating the veteran producer with the three-year, E! contract announced Tuesday.

Seacrest will be executive producer of E!'s "Live From the Red Carpet," starting with the Golden Globes on Jan. 16. He'll share hosting duties with designer Isaac Mizrahi and E!'s Giuliana DePandi.

Mizrahi and DePandi will work the red carpet while Seacrest will act as master of ceremonies from a "strategic tower perch," according to the channel.

Star Jones, who handled red-carpet shows for E! after Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa, skipped to the TV Guide Channel, won't be part of the team, an E! spokeswoman said.

Seacrest's deal with E! extends beyond Hollywood's awards season.

In March, Seacrest will become managing editor and lead anchor of "E! News," joining current anchor DePandi, E! said. He will produce series for the channel through his Ryan Seacrest Productions, and has the option of selling shows to other networks or channels.

Seacrest also will produce and host celebrity interview specials for E! as part of the agreement, which some reports have valued at $21 million. The channel declined to specify the contract's value.

"This is a huge coup for E! ... He is the very best at what he does," Ted Harbert, president and chief executive officer of E! Networks, said in a statement.

Besides E! Entertainment Television, E! Networks operates the Style Network and E! Online.

Seacrest will have a full plate. He's remaining with Fox's "American Idol" talent contest, which returns for its fifth season Jan. 17, and continues to host the weekly "American Top 40" radio shows as well as his morning radio show for Los Angeles station 102.7 KIIS FM. [glow=red,2,300]To which Mav Himself is fan numbah whon.[/glow]

The KIIS show will begin airing from Seacrest's new "state-of-the-art" studio at E! Network's headquarters in Los Angeles, the channel said.

Seacrest, who's also a fill-in host for CNN's "Larry King Live" and has signed to take over "New Year's Rockin' Eve" when Clark no longer does the show, has to get busy if he wants to model himself on Clark.

The 76-year-old host and producer, who gained fame as the host of "American Bandstand," is a successful entrepreneur whose empire has supplied TV with movies, game and music shows, beauty contests and more.

Clark's TV appearance on New Year's Eve was his first since he suffered a stroke in 2004, and marked Seacrest's first participation as a host and producer of the special.

A misstep for Seacrest was "On-Air with Ryan Seacrest," a syndicated daytime talk show that was felled by low ratings after nine months

[stallion]

Ryan Seacrest must have been a saint in a former life.....because that is one no-talent assclown if I have ever seen one. Mav, if you see him rolling down Rodeo, run him down!!!!

[mavhimself]

i will. whenever i pass that star of his i try to subtly desecrate in one way or another. i've stomped smokes on it and spit on it before so.... that guy is proof that if you have enough money, anyone can get a star on the walk of fame.

mav himself.

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Gary Glitter charged with child molestation
Vietnamese prosecutors haven’t decided whether to try former glam rocker

HANOI, Vietnam - Former British rocker Gary Glitter was formally
charged Friday with committing obscene acts with two girls aged 10 and 11 at a Vietnamese resort town, prosecutors said.

Glitter, 61, who won fame as a flamboyant glam rocker in the 1970s, is accused of kissing and engaging in other physical acts with the girls at his rental home in the southern coastal town of Vung Tau, prosecutor Nguyen Van Xung said.

The charges carry prison terms of three to seven years, said Xung, who is deputy chief prosecutor in southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province.



This guy... a child toucher!!?!!! I am freakin' shocked!... oh yeah "allegedly"!!!

Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, originally faced possible child rape charges carrying the death penalty, but prosecutors did not find enough evidence for those charges, Xung said.

He has been detained at a jail near Vung Tau since Nov. 19 after he was seized in Ho Chi Minh City trying to board a flight out of the country.

Ba Ria Vung Tau provincial People’s Court must still make the determination whether to put Glitter on trial, Xung said.



Just when you were getting worried... we have found The Pa$$ion's next Halloween Costume![/i][/color]

Prosecutors said it was unlikely Glitter would be granted bail, saying the court would consider him a flight risk.

Glitter is perhaps best known for his song “Rock and Roll (Part 2),” still often played at sporting events.

He was convicted in Britain in 1999 of possessing child pornography and served half of a four-month jail term. He later went to Cambodia and was permanently expelled in 2002, but Cambodian officials did not specify any crime or file charges.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A pastor who has spoken out against homosexuality was arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside a hotel, authorities said.
As the Rev. Lonnie Latham, 59, left jail Wednesday, he said "I was set up. I was in the area pastoring to police."

Latham, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee, was arrested Tuesday and charged with offering to engage in an act of lewdness, Capt. Jeffrey Becker said.

Calls to Latham and his South Tulsa Baptist Church were not returned for comment.

Latham has supported a convention directive urging members to befriend gays and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become heterosexual "if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their 'sinful, destructive lifestyle.'"

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Messages left for the convention were not returned.

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Nick Lachey reveals in an interview that he used to put on Jessica Simpson's shoes and walk around in them – "It was sort of a kinky thing we liked to get into," he tells Elle magazine.

Other revelations from Lachey, 32, in the interview include him owning up to "typically (being) an overly sensitive person, I lay my heart out there too often." For instance, he tells Elle, "I've never been shy about crying. Sometimes we're so scared of our emotions that we rob ourselves."

Among his emotional admissions: He still thinks his ex is the sexiest woman he's ever seen. He's also a proponent of candid conversation. "I haven't even realized my full dirty talk potential," he claims.

Fake Ass Lou Ferrigno Pose



I know Lou Ferrigno... and you sir are no Lou Ferrigno!

Lachey's life was changed forever by a chance meeting with "The Duke" outside of Salisbury, MD.

[Chick-O-Stick]

^^^ Actually, I think it was his chance meeting with moi at Kings Island amusement park when he was a member of a Barbershop Quartet that he'd choose as forever changing his life...but whatever.


Artist’ attacks Duchamp's famous urinal
76-year-old French man previously vandalized ‘Fountain’ in 1993

PARIS - A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” — a porcelain urinal — with a hammer, police said.

Duchamp’s 1917 piece — an ordinary white, porcelain urinal that’s been called one of the most influential works of modern art — was slightly chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the museum said Thursday. It was removed from the exhibit for repair.

The suspect, a Provence resident whose identity was not released, already vandalized the work in 1993 — urinating into the piece when it was on display in Nimes, in southern France, police said.

During questioning, the man claimed his hammer attack on Wednesday was a work of performance art that might have pleased Dada artists. The early 20th-century avant-garde movement was the focus of the exhibit that ends Monday, police said.

A 2004 poll of 500 arts figures ranked “Fountain” as the most influential work of modern art — ahead of Pablo Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” Andy Warhol’s screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and “Guernica,” Picasso’s depiction of war’s devastation.

“Fountain” is estimated at $3.6 million.



Wot da eff?

[The Duke]

When I met Nick Lachey and his brother Drew, he was buying a roast beef sub and sunglasses at Royal Farms.

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Patrick Swayze: rap star?

As if Kevin Federline's would-be rap career weren't disturbing enough, Dirty Dancing icon Patrick Swayze is now experimenting with ''rap rhythms as an emotional undercurrent for ballads,'' reports AllHipHop.com.



The 53-year-old Swayze had a massive hit with the song She's Like the Wind from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack in 1987. The song is one of the most-played songs in the history of radio and helped the soundtrack sell more than 11 million records.

Hip-hop fans are familiar with Swayze for a different reason than his starring roles in such classic movies as Red Dawn, Roadhouse, The Outsiders and Ghost -- his last name has been used as rap slang since the early 1990s, when EPMD popularized the term on various albums. In U.S. hip-hop vernacular, ''Swayze'' means to ''leave'' or ''disappear,'' a term derived from his role in the 1990 film Ghost.

Swayze resurfaced in the rap world again in 2002, when he starred as an aggressive FBI agent in Ja Rule's video Reign.

Swayze, who has a role in the new flick Keeping Mum, did not peg a release date on his new material.

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Mom Sues After 5-Year-Old Allegedly Served Long Island Iced Tea
With workers the likes of Count Grande, El Stallion and Russian Mike, what do you expect?!!



A mother in New York is suing an Applebee's restaurant after her 5-year-old son was allegedly served a Long Island Iced Tea instead of apple juice.

Cynthia Pereles said she took her son Seth to dinner at the franchised restaurant in Battery Park City and ordered him an apple juice.

Pereles said she did not realize her son was drinking a concoction of white rum, gin, vodka, triple sec, Coke and sweet-and-sour mix until it was too late. The boy's eyes became glazed and he began to laugh uncontrollably, according to a report.

Pereles said the restaurant admitted the mistake but she is still suing for $75,000.

"When you're looking at your 5-year-old and you're asking him, quiet down Seth, sit still and you see that mentally and physically he cannot comply with what you're asking him to do because he is under the influence," Pereles said.

The boy was taken to the hospital and doctors found alcohol in the child's blood.

A manager at the restaurant declined comment.

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Swayze is synonymous with rap superstar. I can see him opening on the "Up In Smoke" tour.......
As for Applebee's, I never served a little kid booze, but I almost chased down some military folk for not tipping on a large check.

[muthagoose]

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt expecting a baby!
The Sex!: All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!

LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, according to People magazine’s Web site.

“Yes, I’m pregnant,” the magazine quoted Jolie as telling a charity aid worker Monday in the Dominican Republic, where she is filming “The Good Shepherd” with Matt Damon.

The report says the pregnancy was confirmed by representatives of both stars but does not identify them by name.
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The news comes one month after papers were filed to make Pitt the adoptive father of Jolie’s two children. Jolie sought to change the names of the children to Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt.

Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia in July to pick up Zahara, now 1 year old. Jolie’s adopted son, now 4, is from Cambodia.

Jolie, the 30-year-old daughter of actor Jon Voight, has appeared in more than two dozen films including “Girl Interrupted” (1999), “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001) and “Alexander” (2004).



"And the "Mother of The Year Award Goes To..."

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Em and Kim= True Love Always!

Rapper Eminem and his ex-wife are ready to remarry after picking up a marriage license on Thursday -- the latest twist in a turbulent relationship made famous by a hit song in which he fantasized about killing her.

Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, and Kimberly Mathers applied for a marriage license in Macomb County, just north of Detroit on Monday, an official in the clerk's office said on Thursday.

The marriage license, which cost $20, is valid for 30 days. A representative for the couple came on Thursday afternoon to claim the license, the official at the clerk's office said.

Eminem, 33, whose 2000 hit "Kim" is a graphic rap fantasy about his former wife's death, told a Detroit radio station last month the couple had reconciled and would probably remarry.

Published reports have said the two plan to marry on Saturday in the gritty Detroit suburb of Warren where they both once lived, just beyond the border of Detroit, 8 Mile Road, used as the title for Eminem's semi-autobiographical 2002 movie.

The Mathers married in 1999 and their divorce, which prompted a custody battle over their young daughter, was finalized in 2001.

Last year, the hip-hop superstar was treated for addiction to a sleep medication and had to cancel his European tour. His greatest hits collection, "Curtain Call," was released in December.

Eminem has denied he plans to retire but suggested he could take a break from recording and performing.

"I'm at a point in my life right now where I feel like I don't know where my career is going right now," he told Detroit radio station WKQI-FM last month in the only interview he granted to promote the album.

I don't know about any of you, but I intend to send a card of congratulations to the happy couple asap.

[muthagoose]

Ah... Eminem and Kim... the Pone and Lisa of the greater Detriot area.

[muthagoose]

Former child movie actor Joe Pichler missing for week

Former child actor Joe Pichler, who appeared in two of the "Beethoven" comedies, has been missing for a week after leaving what police have characterized as a suicide note.

But family members, including Pichler's mother and oldest sister, say they don't believe the two pages of poetry and other musings the 18-year-old left in his car was a suicide note.

In a telephone interview Monday from her home in Bremerton, Pichler's mother, Kathy Pichler, told The Associated Press that police leveled with her early on in the investigation.

She said a detective told her, "I don't know how to say this to you without sounding really bad, but basically I think your son's dead and it could take months for him to show up in the water.

Bremerton Detective Robbie Davis, the lead investigator, did not immediately return calls for comment Monday.

Pichler's car was found Jan. 9 at an intersection above Port Madison Narrows. Inside it was a note in which he said he was sorry he hadn't been a better role model for his younger brother and asked that his belongings go to 17-year-old A.J.

Pichler's mother and 26-year-old sister, Shawna Woody, said police released the car to the family without fully processing it for evidence that might yield some clues to his disappearance.

"They haven't fingerprinted his car. They sifted through it. They were in his apartment for about three minutes. They've done nothing," Kathy Pichler said.

She said the last outgoing call on her son's cell phone was placed at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 5 to a friend who told her they had been drinking alcohol earlier that day and had written some poetry together.

"There was no goodbye," she said of the cryptic note.

A native of Bremerton, across Puget Sound west of Seattle, Pichler was in a commercial for a Seattle department store at age 6. He moved to Los Angeles and appeared in "The Fan" in 1996, "Varsity Blues" in 1999 and the third and fourth installments of the "Beethoven" series, featuring the humorous adventures of a St. Bernard, in 2000 and 2001.

In 2002, he had a leading role in the film "Children on Their Birthdays," a coming of age tale based on a short story by Truman Capote. His TV appearances included a part in "Touched by an Angel."

Joe Pichler returned to Bremerton to live full-time in 2002 at the urging of his mother and graduated last year from Bremerton High but never lost his passion for acting, his family said.

"I just wanted him to have some normalcy in his life," Kathy Pichler told the Kitsap Sun. "He's a good boy and took it well, but he wasn't really happy about it."

Woody said she did not sense her brother had been despondent. She said he seemed eager to get back into acting as soon as his braces came off his teeth.

The second-youngest of five children, Joe Pichler lived across town from his parents, A.J. and 20-year-old sister, Samantha. Woody said she found it suspicious that the door to his apartment was unlocked and the lights were on — something a neighbor told her was not common for Joe.

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Politics- A Cut Throat Business

A vampire wants to run for governor of Minnesota. Yes, a vampire. "Politics is a cut-throat business," said Jonathan "The Impaler" Sharkey, who plans to be on the ticket of the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans Party.

"I'm a Satanist who doesn't hate Jesus," says Sharkey. "I just hate God the Father."

However, he claims to respect all religions and if elected, will post "everything from the Ten Commandments to the Wicca Reed" in government buildings.

Sharkey also pledged to execute convicted murders and child molesters personally by impaling them on a wooden pole outside the state capitol.

He promises extremely harsh punishment for those who use illegal drugs and says he will fight to make dealers serve life in prison, or better yet, impalement.

And, apparently, Sharkey has plans to run for president eventually. He says that upon becoming President, he will immediately recall ALL servicemen and women from combat areas around the world. Additionally, he will have President George W. Bush charged and tried for the murders of every American that has been killed in Iraq as a result of him sending them into War. Upon being convicted, he says he thinks everyone knows what the punishment will be.

Check out his website, and platform, at
Jonathan For Governor Of MN

To all of you vampires out there on this forum I apologize...but whadda nut!

[muthagoose]

See there is hope that you too can one day gain a political office LOTB!

[muthagoose]

William Shatner Sells Kidney Stone, Nick Grande Now More Broke Then Usual

LOS ANGELES -- An online casino has a piece of Capt. Kirk. Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity, it was announced Tuesday.

Shatner reached agreement Monday to sell the stone to GoldenPalace.com.

"This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?" he said in a telephone interview.

GoldenPalace.com is noted for its collection of oddities, which includes a partially eaten cheese sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary.

"This is a bold new addition to our fleet," GoldenPalace.com Chief Executive Officer Richard Rowe said in a statement.

The money will go to Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses for the needy.

"This would be the first Habitat for Humanity house built out of stone," joked Darren Julien, president of Los Angeles-based Julien's Auctions, which handled the sale.

Shatner, who played Kirk on the original "Star Trek" TV show and won the Emmy for his role on "Boston Legal," passed the stone last fall.

The deal includes the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone, which Shatner said was so large "you'd want to wear it on your finger."

"If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond," he said.

Shatner said the idea of selling the stone came up after "Boston Legal" raised $20,000 for Habitat for Humanity. With the money for the stone, Shatner said there is about enough funding to build half a house.

GoldenPalace.com originally offered $15,000 for the stone but Shatner turned it down, noting that his "Star Trek" tunics have commanded more than $100,000." His counteroffer was accepted.

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Joe Rogan rants on the beauty of DMT

On some FM radio talk show in a flyover state, "Fear Factor" and "Man Show" star Joe Rogan rants for rather a long time about the beauty of a psychoactive drug called dimethyl tryptamine, and the neurological neccesity of dreams.

This is shore 'nuff one weird listen. All this time, I thought he just force-fed maggots to out-of-work models. Who knew he was a neuroscience buff?

monkeydyne.com/pub/Joe_Rogan-DMT.mp3

Excerpts of note:

1) Life is a massive fuckin' mystery... and the best way to crack it is massive doses of psychedelics.

2) Los Angeles is a cancer. It fucking stinks. Why do people keep having babies here? I believe it's our fucking purpose. Much like yeast makes bread rise or mold takes over a fucking sandwich.

3) We are bacteria. That's what it's about.

Joe Rogan's Official Site: www.joerogan.net




Joe Rogan: A Face That Just Screams "Asshole"!

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LEIF GARRETT BUSTED FOR HERION, YET AGAIN...

Leif Garrett was made for dancing. That, and getting busted.

Garrett's plunge from the heights of teen idoldom continued over the weekend, with the former Tiger Beat centerfold jailed in Los Angeles on yet another drug charge.

The onetime Outsiders star, now 44, was picked up by cops Saturday after getting caught trying to catch a free ride on a downtown subway. He was detained at the Pershing Square Red Line station when it was discovered he didn't have a ticket. A search turned up heroin, according to officials.

Garrett is being held without bail because of an outstanding warrant for allegedly violating his probation on a prior drug count, per jail officials.

He pleaded guilty last March to attempted possession of cocaine and was placed on probation, says Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Count District Attorney's office. The warrant was issued in December, according to Gibbons, who declined to specify the reason.

The entertainer is due in court later Wednesday.

Garrett's reps could not immediately be reached for comment, but as faithful viewers of Behind the Music know, he's had a long history of substance-abuse problems.



IRONY: See above...

In 1999, he was arrested for cocaine and heroin possession after trying to score drugs from an undercover cop. The case was eventually dismissed, but not before Garrett was forced to enter rehab. It was his second court-ordered trip: Garrett did an earlier stint in 1997 following a cocaine bust.

Shortly after topping the charts with 1979's "I Was Made for Dancing," the 17-year-old Garrett was rung up for slamming his Porsche into another car, an accident that left his passenger, best friend Roland Winkler, paralyzed. The singer was alleged to have been drinking at the time.

Garrett has spent recent years variously mocking himself (see: 2003's Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, where he appeared opposite David Spade) and attempting to relaunch a career (his ill-fated band Godspeed; his "Smells Like Teen Spirit" cameo on the Melvins' 2000 album Crybaby).

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Bon Jovi’s plane skids off runway in Canada
No injuries reported after private jet overshoots runway in severe weather

HAMILTON, Ontario - Members of the band Bon Jovi escaped unharmed after their private plane skidded off a runway in Canada early Saturday.

It happened as their private Boeing 707 landed in Hamilton, Ontario, after a concert last night in Buffalo.

A spokeswoman says the band, touring staff and flight crew left the plane with no reports of injuries. The plane overshot the runway after landing in severe weather.

Bon Jovi's going ahead with shows planned Saturday, Monday and Tuesday at the Air Canada Center in Toronto.

Note: I couldn't decide which picture to use cause they all rock so fukkin' tough...



Hey Jon, Randy Savage just called... and yeah... ummm... he wants his look back.

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Mothers, lock up your daughters... Bon Jovi is on the town!

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"You too could find love on a gay cruise to the Bahamas!"

[stallion]

I can't figure out if that's Jon Bon Jovi or a EHS yearbook photo from 1988.

[LotB]

Nice, Goose. You never do know just what the future may hold.

[muthagoose]

Katie Holmes Sex Scene Goes Missing!
A 12-second hookup scene starring Katie Holmes was missing from the satirical political comedy "Thank You for Smoking" at a weekend screening.[/b]

PARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film Festival is all about discovery, but what filmmaker Jason Reitman found out during a screening of "Thank You for Smoking" was unusual even by Sundance standards: The Katie Holmes sex scene in his movie had vanished.

During a packed screening of his satirical political comedy on Saturday night, Reitman and his team were stunned to see that the 12-second hookup between a journalist played by Holmes and a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart had been snipped from the print.

"We were sitting there in shock," Reitman said Monday. "And I turned to other people who had worked on the film, and we were completely confused. But the audience didn't seem to notice or care." When the film was shown the next morning, the encounter was still missing.

Reitman was quick to tell the audiences what they had missed. The news solicited loud moans, but Reitman stopped short of acting out the racy, but hardly explicit, scene.

A couple of theories seemed possible. Had an enterprising operative from US Weekly sneaked into the Eccles Center projection booth and stolen the footage for an exclusive? Did Tom Cruise exert all of his Hollywood muscle to preserve the honor of his pregnant girlfriend? Or maybe conservative Utah activists felt Sundance's decadence had sunk so low, they took matters into their own hands.

The correct answer was not quite as provocative.

Reitman says that when the "Thank You for Smoking" print was assembled in Los Angeles, the scene — which comes at the end of the second reel but is preceded by a brief blackout — had been accidentally sliced off when the reels were spliced together.

The film, which is adapted from Christopher Buckley's novel, premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival and was sold to Fox Searchlight in a bidding war and is showing as a Sundance premiere; the movie opens in theaters March 17.

Still, Reitman found some humor — and potential box-office business — in the deletion.

"There were a couple of thousand people who saw the film at Sundance without the Katie Holmes sex scene," Reitman said. "I implore all of them to now go back and see the movie with the Katie Holmes sex scene."



Tom Cruise... a little bit crazier everyday.

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In other bizarre news, the apartment building I lived in for 2 years at The U caught fire. At least one student was killed. I always knew that place was a deathtrap waiting to happen. Fuckin' slumlords.