May 31, 2005
Sitings
• Tom Cruise on Oprah, remixed to heavenly, hilarious perfection. (courtesy NationalWaterCooler)
• Honda Civic "Sometimes you forget it's a family car" commercial. (t/y Terrance)
The Basement Tapes
On the eve of Sports Kids Moms & Dads' debut tomorrow night, we thought that since one of the kids is a cheerleader, a bit of cheerleading would get you in the mood. Sort of peppy and full of spirit. Years ago, in 1992, WOW had a kind of omnibus series on Channel 4 in the UK called Made in the USA. This promo by the National Cheerleaders Association was included in one of the episodes. It's very Gwen Stefani meets Saved by the Bell: The New Class meets DeVry Institute. (Watch the clip)
Snap! Cap
The rehearsals for the opening scene of the Middlesville High School production of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Skidmark" were an astounding success. (Max)
Snap!
Tonight there will be team coverage on all the local news stations of this fire atop a Los Angeles skyscraper that's been abandoned for several years. Possible terror attack? More likely leftover embers from a guerilla Memorial Day barbecue. Us WOWers scurried up to our roof, where Beau Genot took this picture with his V6-50 before the fire fizzled out in pathetic white smoke. "They've elected a new pope!" James St. James shouted over the hubbub of a battalion of helicopters.
Of Interest
Recently confessed "Deep Throat" leak, W Mark Felt (left), and Deep Throat porno director, Gerard Damiano. Two completely different men?
(Read)
Mass Appeal
According to the Times of London, homosexual priests in the Church of England will be allowed to marry their boyfriends under a proposal drawn up by senior bishops. Gay and lesbian clergy will be able to cohabit in civil partnerships and be allowed the joint financial benefits afforded het couples – ahh, but not the pleasures of sex.
Under the proposal, a priest intending to register a civil partnership would inform his or her bishop in a face-to-face meeting. The priest would then give an undertaking to uphold the teaching of the Church of England, outlined in the 1991 document Issues in Human Sexuality. This paper prohibits sex for gay clergy.
We wonder though, if sex is prohibited between civil partners, is it still permitted between clergy and flock?
Teaser
Karli, the 17-year equestrian, rides a horse that costs as much as a luxury car so she offsets the cost by mucking stalls every weekend. Watch her gallop the bridle path to glory when Sports Kids Moms & Dads premieres tomorrow on Bravo at 10PM.
Addressed to Kill
So here's the deal. I am moving to London in exactly 11 months and I want to shed a few pounds. The reason I'm contacting you guys is that I love love LOVED the soundtrack to Party Monster and I need to have great music like that to work-out to. I would like to find more music like this, but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Can you offer any help?? Thanks so much!
Kim Brewer
Devoted WOW fan
Ed reply: Kim, you'll have to shed a few dollars before you shed a few pounds. (In expensive London, you'll shed pounds like crazy.) The soundtrack CD is available on Amazon and they have that "customers who liked this might also like these" list. Which you should already have done. Ta ta.
I love your site! Why not help me brag to the world by creating a tee shirt!! I'm thinking World of Wow and the globe (including the edited by Stephen Saban) across the top (front), and a list of your regulars on the back. I adore the St. James Version! Provide this awesome tee shit (for a nominal fee) so that everyone can check me out and in turn check YOU out!
Warmly,
Liz Fine
Philadelphia
Ed reply: Hee hee, she said tee shit.
French Roast
At the Moments of French Cinema Film Festival in Tel Aviv, lumpy French acteur Gerard Depardieu, said there were very few interesting American movies, and most of them are indies. He was at the festival to screen his new comedy, titled, ironically, I Prefer That We Remain Friends. He went on to say, "The American industry slowly killed cinema and transformed into one long B-flick, apart from a few that are making movies of a different kind, such as Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood. Working on an American set is just like working on any other, only more boring." We would say to him, as they say so eloquently in Paris, "Pf-f-f-fffttt!" (ynetnews)
Bland Aid
Although our Randy would like nothing more this summer than to witness a Spice Girls reunion, sadly, that seems about as likely as Randy cleaning our apartment. The Girls have been 86ed from performing at Sir Bob Geldof's Live 8 (or Live Aid 2) multi-star concert in Philadelphia and London in July even before they could dial the clinic to make Botox appointments. Seems the BBC, which is broadcasting the event that aims to stanch Third World debt, thinks the Spicers will trivialize the show's dead-serious message. And a bunch of multimillionaire bands singing to end poverty is dead serious. (breakingnews.iol.ie)
The corporation also believes there wouldn't be enough time for the Spice Girls to perform at the show, because 16 major acts, including Paul McCartney, Sting and U2 have already agreed to sing at the London leg of the July event in the capital's Hyde Park.
McCartney, Sting, Bono? Bor-ring. Wouldn't it be an end to world poverty if they (and others, like Will Smith) just forked over some of their cash and let us enjoy the Spice Girls? We're just saying.
Memorable Day?
On Memorial Day, someone forgot to invite me to a BBQ, so I watched TV.
Miss Universe - NBC
Why it was worth watching:
• Miss Puerto Rico - Her eyelash treatment was insane. Fake eyelashes just on the ends (it worked, she was second runner-up).
• Miss Mexico - Hot tamale! She should have won but, alas, while she aced the T&A competition, she stumbled on the Q&A! When asked what book she would have everyone read, she referenced some obscure self-help book, I Met the Author.
• Miss USA - Someone needed to teach this girl how to "walk" - calling Miss Jay!
• Miss Canada - OK, I know I sound like I'm bragging, but I clocked her as the winner right from the start. She had bland pageant queen written all over her!
• The national costume parade - Oh my God, if only Gay Pride were as fabulous. Thumping house music and a stage full of drag queens! Delicious!
• The bathing suit competition - It went on for like 10 minutes! Endless! I suspect executive Donald Trump had something to do with this.
• Carson Kressley's hair - Jheri Curls! Carson debuted a hot new do: curly, greased, hot.
Hell's Kitchen - FOX
Gordon Ramsay works overtime trying to convince us he is Satan. The thing about demonic characters on reality shows is that they work best when they aren't trying! Gordon is over-cooked!
And no, I didn't watch an earnest war movie. Why bother? I get to see that everyday, I don't need to remember what is impossible to forget!
– Randy Barbato
Plunk Your Magic Ringer, Froggy
Brit band Coldplay has been beaten on the UK singles chart by a frog. And a ringtone at that. The tune, which doesn't sound even remotely amphibian, is expected to replace Oasis' "Lyla" any minute, now that it's trashed "Speed of Sound" in the race to #1 and given Chris Martin a bad case of warts. (Hear it) As you might expect, it's the first time a ringtone has crossed over onto mainstream music charts. (And let's hope it's the last, yo.) "Crazy Frog Axel F," the ringtone and hit single, originated 10 years ago when a 17-year-old Swede named Daniel Malmedahl recorded the high-pitched sound of a revving two-stroke moped. And Metal Machine Music was a flop? (ABC News)
The Christian Wrong
Jack Nicholson mimic and onetime dreamboy, Christian Slater, was arrested early this morning in Manhattan after a woman whose ass he groped on the corner of 93rd and Third reported him to the police. Courteously, or stupidly, the drunk Slater hung around the scene long enough for the woman to identify him. Slater was arrested on third-degree sexual abuse and is expected to show up later today in Manhattan Criminal Court. Hung over. The recently divorced actor is an old, um, hand at this sort of thing, you'll remember. Back in '97 he spent 90 days in jail for biting a man on the stomach and throwing a cop against a wall during what must have been LA's only really good party that year. The Heathers star is currently appearing on Broadway in The Ass Glass Menagerie. Meanwhile, we're wondering what a woman was doing at 93rd and Third at 2AM if she didn't want Christian Slater grabbing her ass. (Newsday)
On the Street Where You Live
If you live on or are thinking of moving to Picadilly Lane in Maumee, Ohio, it might be wise to not do so if you're easily creeped or have an unnatural fear of being offended sexually. Mr Peppers*, pictured above, is registered on that street as a sex offender. He's a smidgen over 5' and weighs 170 pounds, so he can be a handful. (ohio.esorn via sploid)
*Not to be confused with lovable Mr Peepers.
2nd Prize: TWO Nights in Paris
C'est officiel. Paris Latsis, the 27-year-old shipping heir, popped the question to 24-year-old hotel heiress, Paris Hilton, on Wednesday, after a very long (five months) courtship. Latsis apparently asked Hilton to marry him the moment she set her expensively shoed foot back on Los Angeles soil after her whirlwind three-week tour of Europe, where she hawked the movie, House of Wax, and her perfume, Smell. Seventy-five people showed up for the engagement barbecue at the Hilton-Latsis crib in the Hollywood Hills. No word on the wedding date or the size of the ring, if any of either. (People)
May 27, 2005
Rebecca's Loose
"I'm bisexual, so I'm attracted to other women," Rebecca Loos tells Australia's Entertainment News.com, "and since it's still really secretive and undercover in the UK I thought it would be great to go out to LA and see what happens." Loos is the woman whose fling with media darling David Beckham caused a scandal in still-not-blasé-to-scandal England last year. What happened in LA, as we reported last week, was that Loos got married to model Jenny Shimizu after a whirlwind three-day courtship. The ceremony was filmed for WOW's Power Lesbians documentary, which airs in the UK this Sunday on Sky One.
"It definitely shed a different light on what happened last year – you know, the media was saying that I was the marriage-wrecker, that I'm the bad person, that I did it for the money, and that couldn't be further from the truth." She says the term 'Power Lesbians' refers to glamorous, successful women who are well and truly 'out and proud'.
Hillbilly Nation
Carrie Underwood
Reba McIntire
Anna Nicole Smith
Renée and Kenny
Britney and Kevin
Garth and Trisha
Billy Bob Thornton
Dr Phil
George W Bush
Blah Blah Blog
Sunday night, I woke up nearly suffocating on the phlegmy shit in my throat, in so much pain I couldn't swallow. I think I slept for about 52 minutes and when I woke up I couldn't even talk. Good times, lots of really good times. Monday morning I started running a fever, averaging about 101.5. So I gave in, admitted I was sick, and saw my doctor this morning. Holy mother of shit. I hit the trifecta:
1. A severe sinus infection
2. excra-something tonsillitis
3. and the mother of them all: Mono.
Whose celebrity blog is that quote from?
A) Dave Navarro
B) William Shatner
C) Wil Wheaton
D) Gene Simmons
Cream Off the 'Top'
Janice Dickinson is putting the "out" in "outré," fired from her judging chair on next season's America's Next Top Model. The show might not recover from America's First Supermodel's absence, though her seat will be filled beautifully by England's First Superstar Model, '60s mannequin Twiggy Lawson. The show will also be lacking another judge, Nolé Marin, the, um, previously unknown fashion editor and personal stylist to certain stars, who will be replaced by runway trainer J Alexander. We're not worried about the outspoken Dickinson's future one bit. She's writing her third memoir and, frankly, looks terrific.
Access Hollywood
Dickinson photo courtesy Pop Muse.
Brady Corbet
Costar of Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin,
opening today at Laemmle's Sunset 5
1. Describe yourself as if you were writing a personals ad.
True blue looking for deep purple.
2. If you had two tickets to paradise, where would you go and who would you take?
A bedroom in Paris, afternoon, windows open, and white linen stretched over the mattress. I would take someone lovely, but it would all depend on when the tickets came and who I was with when they arrived.
3. Who plays you in the movie?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, so sexy, so confident, so cool... If only...
4. Who do you go to for advice?
My mother, certainly.
5. What makes you cry?
When I pay for an album that costs over $15, only to realize that there was something better (and cheaper) on my way out of the store.
Bonus: Toilet paper roll – over or under?
Over, definitely.
(See also Gregg Araki and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
What's New on IDT?
Because of the renewed interest in it due to Inside Deep Thoat, the super successful porn film Deep Throat will open in legitimate UK cinemas for the first time ever beginning June 10. Have your IDs ready because you have to be at least 18 and able to prove it 24 hours before ticket purchase. Also, Inside Deep Throat came up at #6 on Singapore's top-10 list last weekend. (Visit IDT)
Read Me
Memorial Day weekend is not only the beginning of summer, but also the beginning of reading season. Here are some titles to get you started.
THE STARTER WIFE - Gigi Levangie Grazer, wife of Brian, perfectly dissects "the wife of" syndrome in this landmark addition to the Hollywood wife genre. After being dumped by silly mogul who makes career mistake of affair with Britney Spears, the ex Hollywood wife has improbable fling with homeless man, who of course turns out to be jillionaire in bum's clothing. Hot.
NASTY - Simon Doonan, the lovechild of Oscar Wilde and Andy Warhol, sets down a hilarious memoir that begins "When I was six years old my mother sneezed and her dentures flew out." Apparently they skittered across the kitchen floor like "a fleeing crustacean." How could you put it down after that? Jane Austen and Joe Orton eat your heart out.
STARSTRUCK - Michael Joseph Gross comes out as abject fan and former autograph hound in this fabulous dissection of Celebrity, the crippling pandemic of the 21st century. Publicists finally get what's coming to them and Katie Couric, formerly the most popular girl in high school / on television, reveals her true colors. Nasty!
I'M COMING TO TAKE YOU TO LUNCH - Simon Napier Bell, svengali pop manager and love child of Malcolm McLaren and Oscar Wilde, tells us what it was really like handling Wham! (ooh err), and how he got the boys into China (sadly, this is only published in Britain right now).
– Fenton Bailey
May 26, 2005
Sitings
• This guy, Jeff Gomez, wrote a note reminding us that WOW is MOM upside down. (We're very nurturing here.) He included links to his music, so we explored and found he's extremely listenable; but we've chosen a not-representative song called "Lou Reed" to post here. (dontcallhome.com)
• Girl removes head, reattaches head. Or does she? (putfile.com)
• TV Guide graffiti. (clifty.com)
• Babies underwater. (littleurchins.com)
From the Desk of the JG
Love getting drunk with friends, but tired of the same old drinking games? Well say goodbye to Asshole, Beer Pong, Keg Stands, Hearts, Tippy Cups, Beer Cheesi, Beer Golf, Checkers, Beer Jenga, Beer Uno, Aces, Brain Damage, Circle of Death, Power Hour, Drunk Driver, Drug Dealer, Go Fish, Fuck You, Buzz, 31, Anchor Man, Dimes, Dog Doo, Quarters, Spinners, Taps, Voodoo, 6 Cups, Beer Die, Three Man, Scum Bag, Beer Hunter, Boat Races, Graduation, Key Stone Cops, Sevens, Shotgun, Shoulders, Frisbeer, Letters, One Duck, Questions, Rhyme, Matchbox Game, I Never, I Robot, Roxanne, Shit On Your Neighbor, Smile, Suck And Blow, The Blues, Million Dollar Drunk, Name Game, Touchy Feely, Waterfall, Who Shit, Bat Beer, Beers for Cheers, Brady Bunch, Casino, Hi Bob, SMASH, Strange Brew, OC, Breakfast Club, Tympani, Whoville, Caps, Chandeliers, High Low, POD, World Cup, Cardinal Puff, Cow Tipping, Depth Charge, Guess the Note, Name That Tune, Hashing, Sink the Battleship, States, Stoppers, Thumper, Tips, Viking, Whiz, Bullshit, Fuzzy Duck, Ibble Dibble, Wuss Douche Bag Fucker, Zoom Swartz Bifigliano...and say hello to Edward 40 Hands! It's the drinking sensation sweeping the nation.
The title of the game is derived from the Tim Burton film. But unlike the poor and freakish Scissorhands, this physical defect will make you the envy of all your friends! The supplies and premise are simple. Using duct tape, have someone wrap a 40 (preferably malt liquor) securely around each hand. Open the beers beers by mouth, and drink til their gone. Your hands will not recoup their freedom until both 40s have been properly downed. First to finish gets the undying respect of the group. For the expert edition, repeat the above steps.
Easy. Fun. Wasted.
Enjoy!
– Jim Galasso
How to Juggle, Paint
People came into the WOW Report suite just now and distracted us and we totally lost the source for these two gifs and can't link them. Yes, we've retraced our steps and looked everywhere.
Liev and Elijah Sitting in a Tree
First there was this item not long ago in "Page Six":
NAOMI Watts is finally over her ex, Heath Ledger. The blond Aussie showed up at the U2 show at the Garden Saturday night with her new man, Liev Schreiber. "They are definitely together," our spy said.
And there was this longer bit today on IMDb:
Australian actress Naomi Watts and American actor Liev Schreiber appear to be dating, after being spotted together several times in New York city. Only days after it was reported Watts was dating a mystery film producer named Gary, the I Heart Huckabees beauty, 36, has been photographed in a Manhattan park with the 37-year-old The Manchurian Candidate star. American newspaper New York Daily News reports Schreiber, Watts and her best pal Nicole Kidman attended Saturday's U2 concert at Madison Square Garden, where the blonde "spent much of the concert sitting on Liev Schreiber's lap". Two days later, the couple attended the annual benefit for theatre company Naked Angels together. It is believed the pair met at the Museum Of Modern Art's Costume Institute Gala on May 2, where both were guests. Schreiber has previously been romantically linked to Sex And The City star Kristin Davis, while Watts ended her two-year relationship with her Ned Kelly co-star Heath Ledger in May 2004.
OK, but James St. James feels those sightings are to scoff, and wants to draw your attention back to two photos that appeared in The WOW Report on May 3, one at the Met Costume Institute's Chanel exhibit; the other at a more relaxed event. We're just saying.
Mag Swag
Last night there was just too much TV to watch: the two-hour Lost finale, the two-hour American Idol finale, the two-hour Amber Frey movie. So we set the DVR to "overload" and went with James and Randy to the Entertainment Weekly party in the penthouse at the Chateau Marmont. Randy spent the whole time talking to writer Josh Wolk while we and James got cosy with the cater girl, who fed us chicken skewers, coconut shrimp, mini pizzas, and crab cakes as if she were assigned to us exclusively. From the terrace, we watched the smog hang heavily over LA's glittery skyline, then went inside and took photos of James snuggled up to the sateenlike acetate pillows on the couch, each featuring a different EW cover. When we got there, there were about five of them. When we left, there were about four. Well, it was Jake.
Bitch and Famous
Madonna, Madge, Esther, whatever. Her name is legion, just like Satan's. And she might not be evil, but sometimes her whining and demanding can make a room feel like Hades. Like this hot TV set apparently did back in 2003 when she agreed to be interviewed for her American Life. "Open the door now, I'm suffocating," she exaggerates to her assistant. "I can't even think to answer a question." (Watch the clip)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Costar of Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin,
opening Friday at Laemmle's Sunset 5
1. Describe yourself as if you were writing a personal ad.
Gorgeous humble wealthy celebrity seeks woman with two breasts.
2. If you had two tickets to paradise, where would you go and who would you take?
Brigitte Bardot to the Sunset 5.
3. Who plays you in the movie?
Slava Polunin.
4. Who do you go to for advice?
Brady Corbet.
5. What makes you cry?
"Baby Mine."
Recently Dead (Update)
It was after surgery for stomach ulcers that film producer Ismail Merchant (right) died. And, yes, he and director James Ivory (left) had been a couple for four decades – longer than Tom and Nic, Nick and Jessica, Ben and Jennifer, and Brad and Jennifer combined.
(Photo: Mark Lennihan / AP)
American Midol
Five hundred million citizens of the US voted this season for American Idol contestants. Shocking. Did even a fraction of those show up at the polls for the presidential election? But again, the American people didn't disappoint in selecting a winner. Like George W Bush, Carrie Underwood was the blatantly inferior candidate. As she sang her victory song (next week's chart-topper, "I'll Meet You in Heaven" or some such), choking back humble sobs of joy, she didn't once hit a right note – and, ironically, the song only had one note. Shame on you, America. Now your punishment (and ours, and we're innocent!) will be having to listen to her. Meanwhile, we predict Bo will hook up with the Skynyrd and have a pleasant career anyway.
May 25, 2005
Sitings
• FemDefence, a woman's protection against rape. (t/y Eduardo)
• Make your own light saber sex toy. (t/y Eduardo)
• Image of GW Bush on a piece of toilet paper up for grabs on eBay. (t/y Pam)
• The Cybernetic Parrot Sausage. Not to be believed. (t/y Robin)
Snap! Cap
In a stunning twist, the Athletic Department announced that the most academically qualified cheerleader would lead the squad during halftime. Reached for comment later she had no comment, explaining that the experience had 'left her deflated.' (Max)
Bare vs Bear
Sexy images can't cut a break these days. The Carl's Jr commercial with Paris Hilton washing a car while eating a monster piece of meat has been given strict airing schedules on many networks due to complaints from religious and parents groups. And the dominatrix teddy bear has been banned outright from the streets of Zurich, where it posed for tourists along with the likes of Schoolteacher Bear and Skier Bear. Both women were deemed "too steamy." (businessweek, ookiine)
Not Yet a TV Show
Seems not enough people are watchin' Britney and Kevin's Chaotic, y'all. UPN's thinking of canceling it. That's UPN. Canceling a show. We must be the only person watching it. Female First claims that Spears is so "distraught" by the thought that her show might be axed that she's seeking counsel. Not legal counsel, but psychological counsel. A "source" says that she's upset that her fans don't seem to care anymore about what she has to say. Jeez, you'd think they'd tune in just to see the inevitable moment Brit finally trains the camera on her husband's gigantic pecker.
Slap!
Burt Reynolds, attending the New York premiere of The Longest Yard, a remake of the Robert Aldrich movie he made back in '74 when his toupee was darker, slapped a CBS assistant producer who hadn't seen the original. More hissy fit than "happy slapping." "What kind of guy are you?" the still-feisty 69-year-old actor asked the producer. Really, that was the extent of the incident, but CBS had team coverage and if you go to CBS New York, there's video but, sadly, we could only get the audio here at WOW.
The producer works for CBS NewsPath, which provides video footage to affiliate stations. No word on how the producer plans to proceed from here.
Sports Kids Pregame
Some of the sports kids from Sports Kids Moms & Dads will be showing up on NBC's Access Hollywood tonight at 7:30PM. It's a good guess that they'll be talking about their Bravo series which begins airing June 1 at 10PM. Meanwhile, watch this clip.
Recently Dead
Call it Ismail's End, if you will. Ismail Merchant, the producing half (though some would say third) of the filmmaking trio (the other half were director James Ivory and frequent screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) responsible for rarefied, Anglo-esque costume dramas, died today at 68 of currently undisclosed causes in a London hospital. The films of Merchant Ivory Productions include Maurice, Room With a View, The Remains of the Day, The Bostonians, and, um, Slaves of New York. (Excite via Celebrity Death Beeper)
Score!
Susan Stewart's "Hits & Misses" column in TV Guide gives Sports Kids Moms & Dads a score of 8. In next week's issue Stewart raves:
Oh, those pesky parental pathologies! The producers who took on stage moms and dads now turn their gimlet eyes on the parent as coach. Among the five kids followed are Trenton, age 8, whose dad has him on a grueling seven-day training schedule to prep him for a pro football career; and Karli, whose $40,000 horse is breaking divorced mom Karen's budget. Kids is so outrageous you may wonder if it's for real. Sadly, every soccer mom in America knows the answer. MY SCORE: 8
Snap!
Renée Zellweger looking more like a scrawny Texas tourist than an Oscar-winner who just got starred on The Boulevard, and her baldheaded hillbilly husband Kenny Chesney – hatless! (via A Socialite's Life)
Extreme Makeovers
The annual San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival will be getting underway on June 16 and will continue through June 29. Since last year, the festival is called Frameline and this year, its 29th, the festival's director, Michael Lumpkin, decided to "give props" – finally – to the transgender and bisexual communities. "We needed to do something to strengthen the diversity and further the visibility of our community," he said. Among the 268 films from 33 countries are the world premiere of WOW's documentary, TransGeneration, that follows four transgender college students over one year, and Transamerica, starring Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman as a woman undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
This just in. Frameline will be showing WOW's heartwarming doc Tammy Faye: Death Defying at 6:30PM at the Castro on June 25. And the dynamic gay icon herself will be present at the screening.
May 24, 2005
Sitings
• A Lost site for obsessed fans. 4 8 15 16 23 42 is just the beginning.
• Darth Vader guesses what you're thinking of. Dark thoughts from BK.
Snap! Cap
Taken from an actual FedEx press release, dated Sept. 28, 2004: "FedEx Ground wins top transportation safety award; affirms company's longstanding commitment to safe driving." (Liz)
Tour of Doody
Jessica Simpson has filed for divorce from Nick Lachey, according to a report in Star magazine, and the two have not been together for two weeks. In the interim, Simpson has been spotted partying with Fred Durst and Bam Margera, separately. We got this story from The Bosh, which got the story from Gawker, which got the story from E!, which subsequently took the story down. At some moment, though, it was in Star.
Wait, Don't Touch That Dial
On June 1, Bravo will launch "webisodes" immediately following airings of WOW's Sports Kids Moms & Dads. The series documents five parents who are super involved in their children's athletics, much the way the showbiz and show dog moms and dads fussed with their two- and four-legged projects. The short webisodes that follow each episode of Sports Kids will be the continuing story of a sixth child, a 15-year-old soccer player. (Broadcasting & Cable, Bravo's Official Site, Schedule)
They're Perf
When the USPS announced that the new, personalized PhotoStamps™ were the best invention since no licking, we went right out and made some ourselves, totally bypassing the post office. Here's our second issue: a 37-cent commemorative of one of the WOW Report's favorite people. Seriously. Nicest thing you can say about putting yourself on your own PhotoStamp™ is that you don't have to be dead first. And, frankly, we enjoy licking.
(Who's on that stamp?)
And Its Horn Goes "Tweak Tweak"
Washington state has a regulation that bans a car's vanity plates from referencing alcohol or illegal drugs. So aberrant sex and Vicodin would pass inspection. But there's a black Audi in Seattle whose plates are sporting C9H13N, the chemical formula for methamphetamine. Technically, the meth formula is C10H15N, but if you've ever done meth you know that it's not always strictly technical. (Seattle Times)
The driver of the car, whose name was not released, told state officials in his application for the plate that the series of letters and numbers represented red food coloring, said Brad Benfield, spokesman for the state Department of Licensing. But according to the UW Chemistry Department, the compound represented on the plate is not a formula for known red food coloring.