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|_|         |_|  11.09.08 ISSUE 413
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* God hates UK & Ireland, apparently
* Chris Morris: New TV idea bombs
* Charts: Kings of Leon are number one
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       >> RIP VMAs <<
       MTV make mockery of world
      
   Poor old Britney. Once again used by outside
   interests and corporations. Men, mum, record
   label, paps -  they've all used Brit to make
   cash with no regard to her mental health. After
   years at the top of pop and some of the greatest
   pop songs of the last decade she couldn't get
   arrested at MTV awards ceremonies. Now,
   as US pop looks, for once, so second rate
   that it can't break out beyond tween circles,
   Viacom uses the poor, fragile, obviously over-
   medicated ex-pop star for publicity and news.
   One of the least impressive, least bought records
   suddenly make her a star. Yeah right. Nothing
   should be able to withstand this amount of
   cynicism. Death to the Video Music Awards!


Russell Brand tried to smash the mediocrity, at least.
Enjoy the online comments, many more like this one:
"Russell WHO? I didn't realise this show was an Osama
(sic) campaign rally. Imagine if Cedric the Entertainer
came to London and did a bit about Margaret
Thatcher and Alzheimers." Nick, Austin TX, USA
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1594254&vid=272743


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Russell Brand has/had a black and white cat
called Morrissey.
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       >> Brass neck <<
       BBC say Airline Plot good, Morris bad?
    
   Chris Morris. Role model for news and comedy
   shows on TV. He has a brilliant new show idea.
   The Brass Eye provocateur has written a comedy
   about a Jihadi wannabe suicide bomber cell
   in the North of England. It's funny and topical.
   The perfect TV show? Well, maybe to you and me.
   To the BBC and C4, the channels we hear he
   offered it to, it's not. They've said no to it.
   Possibly too scared at the subject content?
  
   Did you see the recent "Airline Plot" terror trial?
   The jury didn't convict but on the same day, the
   BBC thought it was appropriate to use their news
   programmes to attack that jury, and put out a 
   Panorama show called "The Airline Plot" -
   when a jury had decided that no such plot existed.
   And Morris can't get his show commissioned!


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A DRC Government minister has ordered a Kinshasa jail
to release a dozen goats. They were to appear in court,
charged with being sold illegally by the roadside.
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       >> BBC: arse from elbow? <<
       Can you teach a dog New Tricks

   The BBC has a series called New Tricks which is
   incredibly successful It stars popular but
   uncool actors James Bolam, Amanda Redman and
   Dennis Waterman as detectives. It's proved
   a massive hit with viewers. All good? You'd
   think. Except BBC suits HATE it. And its
   success. BBC Drama has targets, focus group
   works and demographics to hit and this
   doesn't. Cue soul searching, and bitter
   recriminations among executives who don't
   think this should be BBC output.

 
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Best new film to look forward to: JCVD. The story
of an actor called Jean-Claude Van Damme. Starring
an actor called Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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       >> Horsing around <<
       You couldn't make it up

   The Bobbi Brown concession at Selfridges
   has a lot of wealthy or famous customers.
   Recently a wealthy Arab sheik turned up to
   buy make up. He wanted it for... his white
   stallion. He gave a photo of the horse to
   staff and asked them what he needed to
   make-up the horse to look beautiful. He
   walked off with a haul including brushes,
   eye shadows, blushers, gel eyeliner, and
   make up remover - costing more than three grand.


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Webbed feet, like Rachel Stevens and, it appears,
dozens of Popbitch readers have, apparently are a
sign that your ancestors came from Venice.
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       >> Drop the pilot <<
      They know everything about everyone

   One of the best sites now is the Professional
   pilots Rumour Network. Here's the latest
   celebrities-on-planes news

   "Cilla Black - she should be shot"
   "You don't talk to Ms Black. Ms Black
   will talk to you. Ms Black only sits in 1".

   "Michael Winner. Words fail me at how
    important he thinks he is".

   "Jodie Kidd - she is Michael Winner in drag".

   "Friend works on check-in and has witnessed
   Madonna throwing her toys out twice - once over
   not being able to sit in 1A on Concorde and another
   time over not being allowed her excess luggage free.

   "Rachel Stevens - cried because we wouldn't
   upgrade her"

   More next week...


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An anagram of Mercury Music Prize winner "Elbow's
Guy Garvey" - Vaguely Web Orgy.
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       >> Big Questions <<
     What people are asking this week

   Which Brit tabloid hacks covering
   Gary Glitter recently has a particularly
   strong connection with the story? He lives
   in Bangkok and enjoys hanging out in the
   under-age bars in the city.

(Ancient jokes home: What's the difference
between Gary Glitter and a greyhound? The
greyhound waits for the hare.)


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One of Britain's professors running the Large
Hadron Collider is the ex-keyboard player
of D:Ream, Professor Brian Cox.
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       >> Fan love <<
       Publicists love Leona?

   Every week we get thousands of emails from
   readers. Sometimes PR companies try to smuggle
   stories in. Which do you think this is from
   - PR or genuine fan?

   "I here from a PA at a big publishing company
   that there is a bidding war in progress for the
   auction of the first official Leona Lewis book
   to be published in 2009 ...... Sound exiting for
   her global fans and I am one...
   I am sure it will be great. T"


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Roger Fisher from Heart has pledged he'll give the
royalties earned from his song Barracuda being played
for Republicans straight to the Obama campaign.
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       >> God hates the UK <<
       And Ireland, apparently

   "Have we told you lately that God hates the UK?"
   The lovely Phelps family of Westboro Baptist
   Church, aka the God Hates Fags gang, have a
   new target: the UK.

   Apparently we're being punished for our "fag
   enabling ways". They blame: The Church of
   England, "Enough said about that filthy false
   religion". And the Government, "Its head is
   the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth, II.  That’s
   right - the exact same Queen Elizabeth, II,
   who is the head of the Church of England."
   No shit, Sherlock.

   And God's punishment: London tornado in 2006
   (6 injured), the 2003 European heatwave "which
   included the U.K" and last but not least,
   the Black Plague (1666, when sodomy was very
   illegal).

Next week: "God hates Ireland, Land of
the Sodomite Damned"

More:
http://tinyurl.com/46tqvy


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JS writes: "David Walliams was in Wagamama Dublin.
Very unassuming and has lost weight. IDNSH noodles."
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       >> Horse play <<
       Nagging the best man

   Australian weddings can be weird things. A
   stag night in Sydney recently went so wrong it
   went to court. Everything was going well, the
   stripper was popular, until the best man was
   called upon to do his bit. He ended up on all
   fours, with the stripper on top of him, brandishing
   a dildo. The, apparently conservative best man
   is said to have told the stripper, "don't put
   it in". "Moments later the best man squinted
   and got up quickly, calling the stripper an
   idiot and telling her to leave", the court heard.

   "I feel that my manhood has dropped a bit," he
   told police in his statement.

   And the name of the stripper who ended up
   "riding him like a horse"? Linda Naggs.


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The three Jonas Brothers have a secret handshake.
One of them is diabetic.
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        >> Love wars  <<
       Bristol hits the baby news again

   France's Minister of Justice, Rachida Dati,
   has announced she is pregnant, but isn't
   going to say who the father is. Spanish media
   has started to report that one celebrity is
   denying he is the father. Ex-President Jose
   Maria Aznar. Apparently the two have been
   friends for a while, and were spotted
   recently partying at Paris' Bristol hotel
   with the Sarkozys and Julio Iglesias.
   Aznar, you may remember, made his name
   on his Islamaphobia. Dati is half Morrocan
   and half Algerian.


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Anon writes: "Just seen your story on Carole
Cadwallader. She was sued once by a celebrity Brazilian
waxer and landed the Observer with a ฃ12k damages bill
for a three paragraph article. Not the brightest...?"
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       >> Sin City <<
       Leather nights of Berlin

   Last weekend was the Folsom Street Fair fetish
   event in Berlin. The main party, PiG, was held
   at a huge power station in Rummelsburg, East
   Berlin. There were more than 3000 men in fetish
   gear. Including George Michael. Nowadays gay
   pop stars' dream is a West End Show. At
   least George still shows them how it's
   supposed to be done.

   George has, rightly, been named as one of
   Britain's top gays by Godhatesfags.com. Well
   they call it "Poster Children for Sin" but we
   prefer to accentuate the positives. Making up
   the top five are Sir Elton John, Nicholas
   Boles, Sir In McKellen and Boy George.


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Jenna Dewan, the girl who Justin Timberlake left
Britney for, is getting married to Channing Tatum, who
was brilliant in A Guide To Recognising Your Saints.
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       >> Techdance <<
       Ashton Kutcher gets on the web

   Techcrunch 50 is, apparently, the Sundance of the
   Tech Industry. It took place this week in San
   Francisco, and Ashton Kutcher went along to launch
   his new website. How 2001 of him! Our spy said:

   * Demi Moore spotted wandering around "looking
   shiny and expressionless" And she nearly broke
   someone's nose trying out a Wii style golf game
   on an iPhone.
   * Ashton Kutcher "seemed to have B.O."
   * Samantha Ronson DJd the Facebook afterparty:
   "She did actually mix the records herself
   (unlike Geldof, Lawler etc) but she wasn't very
   good at it."
   * Jack Johnson played the iPod press conference.
   "He was rather good."
   * Steve Jobs not dead, looks better than he did.
   * Steve Wozniak is fat, but good-natured and
   posed for photos with awestruck geeks.

Kutcher's site:
http://www.blahgirls.com

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Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany. Billie
Piper's middle name is Paul.
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       >> Things that make you go hmm <<
       Palin porn, dog on wheels, Polish posters

   "It's like a really bad Disney movie":
   Matt Damon on politics. Interested in dinosaurs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk

   Super-cool film posters:
http://tinyurl.com/54wkh8

   Kevin Godley has a dog on wheels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5KwNUAO5ao

   James Whale has a great new TV job:
http://www.bid.tv/presenter_james_whale.htm

   Sarah Palin porn-a-like:
http://www.xvideos.com/video48460/hot_teacher_teaches_teens_how_to_fuck

   GOLD - Like a mini-Latitude or Bestival but with
   no mud. Booker Prize authors, 5-star Edinburgh
   comedy, Luke Wright's Poetry Parlour, Martin
   Creed's band, Gay Bingo, Heartbreak etc. 1pm -2am,
   Saturday 27th September, Shoreditch Town Hall
http://www.gold08.co.uk



       >> Chart Predictions <<
       New entries/High climbers Sun 14th September

++ Number One
KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

++ Top Ten
CLIFF RICHARD Thank You For A Lifetime

++ Top Twenty
IGLU & HARTLY In This City

++ Top Forty
FLOBOTS Handlebars
CANCER Just Stand Up
MCFLY Lies
BASSHUNTER Angel In The Night
QUEEN & PAUL ROGERS C-LEBRITY
SAM SPARRO Black & Gold
FLO RIDA ft WILL I AM In The Ayer
MIA Paper Planes
ELBOW One Day Like This


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Old Jokes Home:
A deaf old man goes for a checkup to the doctors
with his wife.
Doctor, slowly: "Mr Roberts, I need a urine sample,
a faeces sample and a sperm sample please".
"What did he say dear?" says old Mr Roberts.
Mrs Roberts: "He says he needs your underpants".


Still Bored:
9/11 - seven years on:
http://www.icanhas911.com/2007/09/11/fukkin-ur-veringz/