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Basic in-stink: Sharon Stone top of the flops in Oscars spoofs by Rob Woollard 2 hours, 25 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Sharon Stone and "Basic Instinct 2" were top of the flops as organizers of Hollywood's annual Oscars parody -- the Razzies -- unveiled their nominations for 2006's "worst of the worst." The critically panned sequel to the 1992 psychological murder mystery received seven Razzie nods, which come one day before the official Oscars nominations are announced in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. "Unenjoyable, unerotic, unwatchable," was how one reviewer summed up Basic Instinct 2 last year, while another...

When Lori Nichols of Oregon, WI was in her late 20s, she once asked her mom to baby-sit without revealing where she was going. "When I got back hours later, I showed her why she was watching the kids," Nichols said, turning to show off the red rose she had tattooed on her shoulder. "I thought she'd be mad, but she was jealous," Nichols said. "(I didn't know) my mom always wanted a yellow rose . . . She wanted one, but she was stuck with (my dad) for so long." Ever since her mom died in September 2004, Nichols...

Britney Spears is to be investigated by social service officials concerned about the welfare of her children, it has been reported. The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services is apparently trying to track down the singer for a meeting. Miss Spears, 25, split from her second husband, Kevin Federline, last month, and since then has been a fixture on the Hollywood party circuit. She has been photographed – minus her underwear – at nightclubs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, alongside socialites Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. According to newspapers in the U.S., authorities fear she is failing...

The most famous porn star in Italy, Cicciolina, is willing to trade sex with Osama Bin Laden for peace, according to a report from the AP. The porn queen, 55, reportedly stated that it is somebody should do something to pacify the terrorist, claiming that she may be the right woman to make the effort. At an erotic fair in Bucharest, Romania, Cicciolia said, "It is time someone did something about Bin Laden, and I am ready to do it...I am ready to make a deal. He can have me in exchange for his tyranny. My breasts have only ever...