McCain nails this one
Posted on 02/18/2003 4:54:49 AM PST by BigWaveBetty
Yeah, and we better get our minds outta the guttah!
Why would PETA have calendars like that????
Back later----
War is hell on Hollywood. Fear of a conflict with Iraq has clipped the wings of some of the highest-flying stars.
Filming of the Trojan War epic "Troy," starring Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Saffron Burrows, was to have started in Morocco in April, but security concerns might scuttle plans to shoot in the Muslim nation on the North African coast. A Warner rep said yesterday it would be "premature" to speculate whether there'd be a delay, adding that director Wolfgang Petersen hoped to start on time. [Of course, it couldn't possibly be filmed anywhere else]
In Europe, the annual World Music Awards in Monaco have been rescheduled over fears of war with Iraq. Melissa Corken, the event's executive producer, tells us the date has been shifted from March 5 to April 24. "It wasn't just the artists who started having problems coming over, it was also my production team," says Corken, who has been working with ABC for 10 years. "Nobody wanted to leave their families the first week of March with an imminent threat of war."
The small all-star event honors artists with the top recording sales in different parts of the world. Last year the ceremony attracted Alicia Keys, Shakira, Shaggy, Ja Rule, Kylie Minogue and Enrique Iglesias.
Even Kelly Osbourne canceled a trip to a British music awards show earlier this month over Orange Alert anxiety. "Kelly couldn't bring herself to get on that plane in L.A.," a source told London's Sun. "She thinks the risks are just too big at the moment." Of course. Her importance to Al Qaeda is incalculable. NY Daily News
I doubt x42 is going to stop flying all over the world, though. Those paychecks are just too alluring.
The fur is flying in Vienna because of Pam Anderson. The former “Baywatch” babe is the guest of honor at the snooty, ultra-conservative Vienna Opera Ball this year — and a slew of guests are threatening to cancel as a result.
“THE BALL has a reputation for being sort of stodgy, and it’s trying to update its image, so Pam was invited,” says an insider. But, says the source, Pam decided to turn the invite into an event for her favorite cause, animal rights, and announced that while she was in Vienna, she would unveil and sign her new ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. What’s more, she announced, her date would be a PETA activist, Dan Mathews. It was then that the furor began.
“The Vienna Opera Ball is the place where the crème de la crème of European society show off their exquisite gowns, jewels — and FURS. They started canceling because they didn’t want some PETA guy throwing red paint on their sables,” the source says.
The controversy made front page headlines and Mathews had to fax a letter to the ball organizers assuring them he wouldn’t attack fur-wearers with red paint — or anything else.
“I know there is a time and a place for every tactic,” Mathews tells The Scoop. “I plan to use waltzing as a weapon and charm the women out of their furs.” MSNBC
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I just couldn't resist this tidbit, also from MSNBC, about Bill Clinton's girlfriend, Kevin Spacey:
Don’t seat Kevin Spacey next to actor Peter Mullan. The two appeared together in the flick “Ordinary Decent Criminal,” and Mullan doesn’t have fond memories of his Oscar-winning co-star. In fact, the BBC recently apologized after Mullan launched into a obscene rant about Spacey on live TV.
Mullan, who stars in “The Magdalene Sisters,” claimed that while filming “Ordinary Decent Criminal” in Dublin, Spacey was insufferable and had rented two lilac-colored Range Rovers, one to use and one as a decoy.
“He honestly believed there would be mass recognition. We did try to explain to him that we were in a city where Bono can walk down the street and nobody bothers him. Dubliners are not impressed by celebrities.” Mullan also claimed that Spacey “used to run around in a cap and dark glasses. He would always, wherever we went, take them both off with a flourish with the words, ‘Look who I really am.’ But he got completely and absolutely no reaction.”
“He’s a pr**k,” Mullan told the BBC’s Liquid News.
Ah, yes, Monaco. A certain target due to their invaluable contributions to the war on terror.
McCain nails this one
Lookee here - where has the media been with this one?
Photo by KAMAL KISHORE
Activists of the All India Anti-terrorist Front shout anti-Pakistani
slogans during a demonstration in New Delhi.
Re: The stodgy Vienna Opera Ball (good grief can you imagine what she'll wear?). It might not have so much to do with their fur coats as when they heard about the Pam invite they looked up PETA and found what's at the link Timeout posted. There's a whole lot more wacky going on with PETA folks than just throwing paint on furs.
More clinton (make it go away).
Sunday's "Dateline D.C." column, which the paper says is written by a Washington-based British journalist and political observer, named no names but cited reports that Clinton had already lined up support for his candidacy for the secretary-general position from Germany, France, England, Ireland, New Zealand, a handful of African states, Morocco and Egypt. The Tribune-Review also reports Russia has made it known it would not object and added that China is also a big fan of the former president.
According to the Tribune-Review columnist, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is "under pressure to resign before the end of his second term in 2006." Should he do so, the General Assembly would select his replacement, on the recommendation of the U.N. Security Council. This may come as early as this Fall. More
Seems the frogs are just as slippery as we suspected.
French President Jacques Chirac is a pivotal figure on the international scene, whose views on Iraq are of vital concern. Those views are not driven simply by geopolitics, however. The factors that shape his thinking include a long, complex and sometimes mysterious relationship with Saddam Hussein. The relationship is not secret, but it is no longer as well known as it once was -- nor is it well known outside of France. It is not insignificant in understanding Chirac's view of Iraq.
Miss Germany 2003 is hoping for a date with Saddam Hussein to try and talk him into disarming.
Alexandra Vodjanikowa, 19, is travelling to Iraq because she wants to do her bit to avoid a war.
She has already set up a meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, but Saddam has yet to confirm.
Alexandra said: "I`m a bit nervous, this is a lot of responsibility. I have already arranged a meeting with the foreign minister.
"But they have yet to confirm whether I will meet the dictator himself or not. Either way I will be there all week."
The trip has been organized by German newspaper Bild, whose journalists used their contacts to arrange the meetings. Link
Hillary's staff miffed at the Maverick.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Hillary Clinton sounded angry Wednesday morning over comments from Sen. John McCain yesterday, after the Arizona Republican urged ex-President Bill Clinton to "shut up!" and stop criticizing President Bush as the nation prepares for war.
"I don't think that's appropriate," barked the Clinton press flak, who hung up the phone abruptly before we could get the full McCain quote out.
No one in ex-President Clinton's Harlem office was available to comment on Sen. McCain's remarks. Link
Poor No. 1 son didn't pass his driving test. We try again tomorrow.
Ha ha, understatement of the century.
Goodness, we're a laugh riot around here. :-)
So Zora's hiding? Shouldn't she and Evan be doing interviews or something?
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