Rolling Stones with AC/DC

1st Yoko Ono now LEGO UNO….

The spectacle of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney’s estranged wife Heather Mills fox-trotting across the floor on her artificial leg proved a big ratings draw for ABC’s hit show “Dancing with the Stars.”

Nearly 22 million viewers tuned in on Monday night to see a visibly tense Mills fox trot without stumbling, or worse, as the TV dance contest kicked off its fourth edition, Nielsen Media Research reported on Tuesday.

That tally marks the biggest audience yet for a season premiere of the ballroom dancing show. By comparison, the third installment of the celebrity-filled series debuted last October with 20.2 million viewers.

Monday’s two-hour broadcast was by far the most watched show of the night on U.S. television and posted ABC’s largest overall audience in the 8-to-10 p.m. time period with regularly scheduled non-sports programming in more than 15 years.

Capitalizing on the curiosity factor surrounding Mills’ much-ballyhooed appearance as the first contestant on the show to compete with an artificial leg, ABC saved her performance with professional dance partner Jonathan Roberts for the last half-hour of the telecast.

The pair fox-trotted to the Irving Berlin classic “Cheek to Cheek.” The former model turned social activist, who lost her left leg below the knee in a 1993 traffic accident, seemed stiff as she danced in a long, pink and creme sequined gown.

But she was a hit with the judges and the studio audience, some of whom gave her a standing ovation.

“You’ve got more guts than Rambo,” judge Bruno Tonioli enthused. Fellow judge Len Goodman called her “an inspiration.”

Mills, 39, apparently relieved to get through the dance without mishap — she even managed a high kick during the routine — remarked, “I’m just glad I did not fall over.”

The judges gave Mills and her partner a score of 18 out of 30 points, which was higher than tallies received by several other teams. All 11 pairs will dance again next week before one couple is eliminated based on the combined rankings of the judges and viewers, whose votes count for half.

Other contestants include world female boxing champion Laila Ali (daughter of Muhammad Ali), country music star Billy Ray Cyrus, former ‘N Sync boy-band member Joey Fatone and Olympic speed-skater Apolo Anton Ohno.

Mills separated from McCartney last year in what has grown into a highly publicized and increasingly nasty divorce, as Britain’s tabloid newspapers portrayed her as a gold-digger seeking to cash in on the beloved former Beatle’s fortune.

Online reaction to Mills on the show’s Web site was mixed, with postings ranging from, “We dislike you just as much as the Brits” and “Shame on ABC” to “Heather Mills RULES!!”

(thank you Mike , for the Lego Uno reference…..it’s wonderful)

Curtain falls quickly on ‘Captivity’ ad campaign

In the wake of a public outcry against Los Angeles billboards and New York taxicab tops advertising the upcoming movie “Captivity” with images of the abduction, torture and death of a young woman, After Dark Films said it will take down the offending ads by 2 p.m. today.

After Dark, its theatrical distribution partner Lionsgate Films and the MPAA received a barrage of phone calls objecting to the gratuitous depiction of the film’s star Elisha Cuthbert being tortured and killed.

The billboards, first posted March 13, feature four frames with captions above each one. “Abduction” shows Cuthbert with a gloved hand over her face; “Confinement” features the actress behind a chain-link fence with a bloody finger poking through; “Torture” depicts Cuthbert’s face, covered in white gauze, with tubes shoved up her nose; and “Termination” shows her with her head thrown back, seemingly dead.

The ads appeared on 30 Los Angeles-area billboards and 1,400 New York taxi tops. After Dark is paying to have them removed — and while some billboards in the Hollywood area were still visible Monday, others already had come down.

Lionsgate said Monday that it had no involvement with the ads, which were produced by Art Machine Digital, and that all the marketing for the movie had been handled solely by After Dark. “This film was done in association with After Dark Films.

The nature of the association allows After Dark autonomy over their marketing materials, and therefore we neither saw nor approved this billboard before it was posted,” said Peter Wilkes, head of Lionsgate investor relations. “Once aware of the materials and the reaction to them, we immediately asked After Dark to remove the billboards, to which they immediately and cooperatively responded.”

After Dark said the posting of the billboards was an accident. CEO Courtney Solomon said the wrong files were sent to the printer, who then passed them on to the billboard company without approval from any executives at After Dark. Execs from the indie production company were attending ShoWest in Las Vegas last week and had no idea the wrong billboards were posted until they returned from the convention Thursday to a flood of e-mails and phone calls from angry parents and offended women. “Personally, I wasn’t going to go with this campaign. I thought it was OTP (over the top),” Solomon said. “Nothing like this can ever happen again.” Solomon added that Lionsgate hadn’t seen the ad because it wasn’t one of the concepts After Dark was planning to use to promote the horror film. “Captivity,” director Roland Joffe’s film about a man and a woman who are being held captive, is scheduled to open May 18.

He also said that the campaign for bus shelters — a variation of the second frame in the billboard poster, minus the bloody finger — had been approved by the MPAA. Neither Lionsgate nor After Dark is an MPAA signatory, but because they are submitting the film for an MPAA rating, they also are submitting advertising materials to the MPAA’s advertising administration. Sources close to the MPAA said the organization had not approved the four-frame ad, and the posting of the ad was in clear defiance of MPAA rules and regulations. The MPAA declined comment on the billboards Monday because it had not decided how to deal with the issue.

According to one source, the MPAA could deny issuing “Captivity” a rating, which would make it more difficult to play some multiplexes. “The billboard was not MPAA approved,” Solomon said. “We are working fully to cooperate with them. We intend to become a signatory. We want to play by the rules.” He added that the images on the billboard are not an accurate representation of the film, which stars Cuthbert as a woman who awakens to find herself being held in a cellar. “This movie is certainly a horror movie and it’s about abduction, but it’s also about female empowerment,” Solomon said. “We reshot the ending so the main character ends up in as much of a positive situation as the situation could allow. There is no rape or nudity in it, though it should be an R-rated movie.

For the audience it’s made for, it’s satisfying to that audience. I’m sure that’s not the same audience that’s complaining about the billboards.” Competing marketing executives speculated Monday that the ads had been erected by After Dark to generate publicity by creating a controversy — an assertion Solomon emphatically denied. Studio marketers suggested that indie companies that are not MPAA signatories play around with the rules as a way of getting added attention. “I’m sure it’s effective, but it’s not my style,” said one unnamed marketing executive.

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Knob Creek Machine gun Shoot

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She’s Back….2 month gig in Vegas…

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Wrestlers allegedly tied to drug ring….

Interesting SI article HERE.

Gene Simmons Facelift Operation…

Unusual Deaths of the 21st Century

• 2001: Bernd-Jürgen Brandes was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and then eaten by Armin Meiwes. Before the killing, both men dined on Brandes’ severed penis. Brandes had answered an internet advertisement by Meiwes looking for someone for this purpose. Brandes explicitly stated in his will that he wished to be killed and eaten. This is referred to in the song “Mein Teil” by German NDH band Rammstein.^[27]
• 2003: Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, was killed by a time bomb which was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck and would kill him if he refused. The bomb later exploded, killing him.
• 2003: Brandon Vedas died of a drug overdose while engaged in an Internet chat, as shown on his webcam.
• 2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the wilderness among bears for thirteen summers in a remote region in Alaska, was killed and partially consumed by bears, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. The incident is described in Werner Herzog‘s documentary film Grizzly Man.^[28]
• 2005: Kenneth Pinyan of Seattle died of acute peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion in the town of Enumclaw, Washington. Pinyan had done this before, and he delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of reluctance for official cognizance. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington.^[29] His story was recounted in the 2007 documentary film Zoo.
• 2005: 28-year-old Korean video game addict Lee Seung Seop collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing Starcraft and World of Warcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours.^[30]
• 2006: Steve Irwin, a television personality and naturalist known as The Crocodile Hunter, died when his heart was impaled by a short-tail stingray barb while filming in Queensland‘s Great Barrier Reef. ^[31]
• 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB operative and Russian expatriate who had been investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was poisoned by polonium-210, an extremely rare radioactive metalloid.^[32]
• 2006: Mariesa Weber, a 5’3″ Florida woman, fell behind a 6′ tall bookcase in her family’s home and suffocated. She was not discovered for 11 days; her family thought she had been kidnapped. ^[33]
• 2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii in a KDND 107.9 “The End” radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating. ^[34]