FLASH LITES: RIP N READ POP CULTURE RECAP
FLASH LITES: RIP N READ POP CULTURE RECAP
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) Wondering why stick-thin star Gwyneth Paltrow looks so curvy in ads for her new movie Shallow Hal? Well, she hasnt packed on the pounds shes wearing falsies. Her rep tells the New York Post the fake boobs were needed to make Gwynnie look more curvaceous.
LOS ANGELES Rapper Ol Dirty Bastard isnt letting jail stop him from making albums. The kooky Wu-Tang Clan member who has been in prison since July will release a new album next March titled The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones.
LOS ANGELES HBO will be shooting a biopic on the life of comedian Peter Sellers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. No word on who will play the British comedian.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. A Florida high school has canceled plans to drop eggs onto a poster of Osama bin Laden as part of a physics experiment. School district officials have put the kibosh on the Dixie Hollins High School event dubbed The Yolks On Osama because they think its culturally insensitive.
FERRES, Greece A nightclubber in Greece made like Lizzie Grubman after he was booted out for wild behavior. The 22-year-old soldier went back to his base and stole a tank and crashed it into the bar.
TRIER, Germany Britney Spears is popular with teens but not with pigs. Farmers near Trier, Germany, are playing Oops!...I Did It Again to scare off a plague of wild boars and say the teen queens music is more effective then Madonnas.
PERTH, Australia A 70-year-old aboriginal elder is being painted as a pervert in an Australian court room after a 20-year-old woman accused him of trading cans of spray paint for sex.
NEW YORK The King of Pop is now the King of Hypocrites. Although Michael Jackson has repeatedly griped about being forced into show business as a kid, his upcoming CD, Invincible, features his 4- year-old son, Prince, singing on a song called The Lost Children.
LOS ANGELES Is Jane Fonda really a square or a circle? Either way, Hanoi Jane will be making her first ever game show appearance on Hollywood Squares starting November 1.
LONDON A British artist says he will produce a CD of silence collected from the brief pauses of sound taken from a BBC radio broadcast on December 12. The artist says the silences are actually full of tiny sounds which normally go unobserved. The boxed set of 24 silent CDs will cost $426 dollars.