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Celebrity Divorces

So they've released a listing of the most costly divorces yet:

With Jordan having earned much of his wealth during his marriage, most of it through endorsement deals, Vanoy (who filed for divorce last year) stands to collect more than $150 million, the magazine said.

A close second would be the estimated $150 million settlement Diamond paid to onetime TV production assistant Marcia Murphey, whom he married in 1969 before his breakthrough album, "Touching You, Touching Me," went gold, Forbes said.

They divorced in 1996. Diamond later said Murphey, his second wife, was "worth every penny," according to Forbes.

Spielberg's first marriage, to actress Amy Irving, ended in 1989 with his ex-spouse awarded roughly half of the filmmaker's fortune, about $100 million, ranking No. 3 on Forbes' list.

I'm pretty sure that Forbes has also created a list of the most expensive divorces of all time as well. Two they appear to have left off that list though are Roman Abramovitch ($1 billion to his ex) and Jason and Medea. Allegorical perhaps, but she did go on to kill all of their children didn't she?

Indiana Jones IV

Good grief! There's going to be an Indiana Jones IV move, with Cate Blanchett and Harrison Ford....and Sean Connery.

SHE was seduced by a school student in her last flick - and it looks like the age gap won't be much different for Cate Blanchett's next potential on-screen affair.

The sultry siren, who played high school teacher Sheba Hart in Notes on a Scandal, has just signed on to star alongside ageing Harrison Ford in an upcoming addition to the Indiana Jones series.

While the specifics of Blanchett's role are being kept under wraps – along with David Koepp's screenplay – it is believed the 36-year-old beauty will feature prominently in the flick.

However, it has been revealed Ford will definitely be reprising the title role he made famous in the '80s – though at 64, and more than a quarter of a century after the original hit the big screen,  it's unsure whether he will be more convincing in the role of intrepid archaeologist or one of his fossils.

Not that he is likely to be the oldest cast member on set, with Sean Connery also linked to the project – reprising his role as Indiana's father.

Steven Spielberg will direct the flick – currently known simply as Fourth Instalment of the Indiana Jones Adventures – when it starts shooting in June, with Star Wars creator George Lucas signing on to produce.

Antonella Barba Nude Pictures: and the Sex Pictures Too

As you will almost certainly have heard there's something of a rumble going on over sexy and near nude photographs taken of the American Idol contestant, Antonella Barba. We have, at great risk to our own personal morality, of course, been able to track down these naked or near nude pictures of Antonella.

They're not home snaps, not something taken on the sly or through a telephoto lens. These are professionally staged, so she certainly knew what was going on.

The full set is here at the Antonella Barba pictures site. Here's a taster of Antonella:

There is also a set og photos out there which is said to show Antonella Barba in a hard sex scene, unlike these cheescake shots. Having, at even further risk to our morals and eyesight, checked these out for you, we would have to say that unless she has had extensive breast reconstruction, those latter photographs are not of Antonella Barba.

Pull Over, Not Pull Him

You would hope that people could be a little more prepared, wouldn't you?

Israeli police investigating why a car was blocking traffic in the fast lane of a major highway Sunday found a couple inside having sex.

A police spokesman said the female driver and her male passenger gave in to their passions without pulling over to the side of the road, causing congestion and leaving other motorists having to swerve to dodge their stationary vehicle.

A patrolman gave the woman a ticket for holding up traffic.

Ron Jeremy

I remember that Ron Jeremy has had straight acting roles before. There was that movie about him a few years back: he's had bit parts in various TV shows for example. He seems to be taking the acting more seriously now though:

Porn star Ron Jeremy wants to be taken seriously -- with his clothes on.

Dressed in a dark track suit with a protruding belly that shows he is past his physical prime, Jeremy hardly strikes you as one of the most successful American porn stars.

But Jeremy, 53, who claims to have been with more than 4,000 women during a 30-year career, is the first to admit that he is not your stereotypical sex star. He believes his average looks are a key to his success.

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But more than ever, he is driven to seize those elusive Hollywood roles. "It's a certain amount of ego," he said. "In my little cloud, I still think I'm an actor."

Would he like to do more reality television?

"To me, porn and reality TV are similar. I don't mind being in them," he said. "I just can't stand watching them."

An interesting sales line, don't you think?

 

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Robbie Williams: Drug Addict

Well, looks like we can explain a little bit about his last album then:

British pop star Robbie Williams has been admitted to a rehabilitation center in the United States where he will undergo treatment for prescription drug addiction, his agent said on Tuesday.

Williams, who celebrates his 33rd birthday on Tuesday, is one of Europe's most successful entertainers who rose to fame as a member of the hit boy band Take That before forging a successful solo career in the past decade.

"Robbie Williams has today been admitted into a treatment center in America for his dependency on prescription drugs," his public relations agent in London said. "There will be no further comment on this matter."

Williams, who was born in Britain and now has a home in Los Angeles, has a history of struggling with addictions and was treated for drug and alcohol dependency after Take That split up in 1995.

By prescription drugs I assume they don't mean ibuprofen: but still, that last album was proof that something was wrong, eh?

 

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Art Buchwald Dies

Reuters announces that Art Buchwald, the long running syndicated humour columnist, has died, aged 81.

Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Arthur "Art" Buchwald, 81, died of kidney failure on Wednesday evening, his son, Joel Buchwald, said on Thursday.

Buchwald had been critically ill and near death last year but recuperated enough to write a book about the experience, "Too Soon to Say Goodbye," which was published in November and included eulogies that his friends had planned to deliver at his expected funeral a year ago.

"He died last night at 11:20 p.m. He was at my house," Joel Buchwald said. He had lived with his son for much of the past eight years.

A newspaper humorist whose column was syndicated to more than 550 newspapers at one point, Buchwald won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982. He also published more than 30 books.

I actually learned all I know about the Nixon tapes nd the Watergate scandal from reading his book of columns from that year. A slightly bizarre way of learning history but fun all the same.

 

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The Horror, The Horror

From the annals of The Anorak:

Miss Clarke lives in Bristol. She works in Bath. She is as British as warm beer, hoodies and kebabs in curry sauce. And one day she work up and started talking in French.
She called around her pals and invited them to visit her in Paris.
But she was in the West Country. And suspecting something amiss, Louise’s sister took her to see he doctor.

...

There, the finest French medical minds realised she was suffering from Susac’s syndrome, a condition that causes the immune to system to attack healthy tissue. And so it was that healthy British flesh was under siege from the French.
The Mail delivers a brief history of Susac’s syndrome. We learn it was named after Dr John Susac. We learn that the condition can cause the sufferer to develop “bizarre and paranoid behaviour.”
And what is being French to Mail readers but that?

Well, quite, what great horror could there be than for a daughter of John Bull's finest becoming French?

 

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Lettuce Ladies

PETA has a group called the Lettuce Ladies who demonstrate against the eating of animals. Perhaps they might have bitten off more than they can chew when they started demonstrating in Kazakhstan:

Two British animal rights campaigners clad in nothing more than bikinis made of lettuce leaves braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to urge the people of Kazakhstan to stop eating horses and go vegetarian.

As the putative homeland of fictional TV reporter Borat, the vast and formerly nomadic Central Asian state has risen to prominence in recent months, leading People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to ask them to stop eating meat.

"Whereas Borat is ridiculing the country, we're trying to come here with a positive message," Yvonne Taylor, 35, told Reuters. "We're saying that going vegetarian is the best thing people can do for their health and to stop animals suffering."

Kazakhstan's national cuisine is almost entirely meat-based. Horse sausage and boiled sheep's head are delicacies while lamb and offal are part of the staple diet.

To give you an example of quite how awful the food is there even the Russians think it is foul.

However, I have to admit that judging by these two lettuce ladies, skimpy bikinis or not, they're not going to change the minds of many Kazakhs.

 

 

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Nicole Richie

Now here's something I didn't know about Nicole Richie:

NICOLE Richie stares out from the page.
Richie is the American famous for being the adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie, 5ft 1in small and so light she can fall to the ground like a autumn leaf.
The Mirror says Nicole has a body mass index of 16.1. What this means we have no idea, and we can only speculate on its legality and how it impairs her driving.
As the paper reports, this vision of skin, bone and hair has been pinched by the police for driving the wrong way down a motorway in Los Angeles.

Adopted? Still, after her arrest she admitted to smoking cannabis, taking Vicodin and in general being a wild or problem child.

Still, driving the wrong way down an LA freeway? How in hell did she survive that?

 

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