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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has decided not to campaign for any of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates, because none of the politicians in the running "inspire" him. The Blood Diamond star, 32, was a staunch advocate of Democratic hopeful Senator John Kerry during 2004's presidential election and even traveled across 14 states to rally support and raise funds for him. But DiCaprio admits the frontrunners for 2008's election - Democratic candidates Senator Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul - have yet to catch his attention with their environmental policies. He says, "I'm still on the fence about it,...

Joe Scarborough and his panel on MSNBC are all agreeing that if there is a big turnout it will spell a Kerry victory. Why is this?

JOHN Howard is in danger of losing the election. If he continues to campaign as badly as he has during the past two weeks, he is a goner. This is a big statement. All the bookies have the Government as a firm favourite and the bookies are usually the best guide. The latest Newspoll says that 55 per cent believe the Coalition will win against 25 per cent who believe Labor will triumph, a number that is growing in the Coalition's favour rather than declining. Newspoll also showed a jump in Labor's vote, taking it to a winning margin of...

MADONNA is reportedly to be planning her most shocking stage performance yet on her forthcoming 'RE-INVENTION' world tour. Fans will see the star being "frazzled" in an electric chair, and images of people killed in Iraq will be shown on a huge video screen. According to today's (May 20) Sun newspaper, the show will also contain simulated lesbian sex when Madonna tangos with a female dancer, and a parade of scantily-clad pregnant women will appear during 'Papa Don't Preach'. After her performance of 'Lament', from the 1996 musical 'Evita', the stage will be plunged into darkness. There will be a...

Doctor Who fans are preparing for the 40th anniversary of the sci-fi show's television debut on Sunday. The show first appeared on the BBC in 1963, with William Hartnell taking the lead role as the time-travelling hero It grew into a much-loved institution, before being axed in 1989, by which time Sylvester McCoy was the seventh actor to play the Doctor. Now fans are speculating as to who will take the lead role in a revival of Dr Who, due to be broadcast in 2005. The new series is in the early stages of development, and is being written by...

A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago. In Canada. "On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the (Canadian) Copyright Act dealing with private copying came into force. Until that time, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright, although, in practice, the prohibition was largely unenforceable. The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who...

DOWNGRADED: CNN is shifting CROSSFIRE to 4:30 PM ET/1:30 PM PT from 7 PM and cutting it to half an hour from a full hour... MORE...

In Baghdad, A Top Video Rental Is Gibson's 'The Patriot'People in Baghdad have been spending their evenings watching Hollywood action movies as their city is being pounded by American bombs and artillery, according to an article appearing in Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspapers. News Limited papers reported today (Tuesday) that a favorite is the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, in which Gibson plays a revolutionary war figure who reluctantly takes up arms against the British. One video dealer remarked, "During an evening of air strikes, provided there's electricity, customers want to wind down and be taken in by a story in...

BARF!!!!

Christine Amanpour on CNN reporting breaking news.....Basra now considered open military target

Some of the top stars of "blaxploitation" movies have condemned civil rights organizations for undermining a nascent black film thirty years ago and putting hundreds of black actors, directors and crew members out of work. In the documentary Baadasssss Cinema, debuting Wednesday night on the Independent Film channel, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, who starred in such films as Black Caesar, Bucktown, and Hell Up in Harlem, says angrily: "NAACP and CORE - they're the ones who created this terminology: black exploitation. That has to be clear, on the record. It came from them. It didn't come from the white...

SEPTEMBER 3!

The Clymer News Network just interrupted the LKL repeat to show President Bush's reaction to the death of 2 soldiers. He said that Americans had already made sacrifices on flight 93. He said they prayed and than said LETS ROLL!!!! God Bless our Wonderful President!

Sorry to use up valuable bandwidth, just wanted to see if anyone knew what Judge Sauls was up to. I haven't heard his name mentioned in ages and no net searches pull up anything post-Florida insanity. He is the man, and I hope he is doing well.

I'm about to fly and I'm scared to heck of planes so I'd love to hear about anyone who's had a nightmarish plane ride.....hopefully it will make me feel better