Archive for December, 2009

The Weirdest 2010 Wall Calendars

Yes, there’s really a naked clown calendar. The dead mall calendar is kind of cool though.

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55 Sexy Ladies Wearing Corsets

There really is something on the internet for everyone.

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Viewers who tuned into the Weather Channel Sunday night were treated to a tearjerker with a side of sunny skies as meteorologist Kim Perez got an on-air proposal from her longtime boyfriend, police sergeant Marty Cunningham. Kim had just predicted rainfall for Florida and the Southeast this New Year’s Eve when Marty stumbled onto the set.

“Hi!” said the mother of three.

“How are you?” Marty asked.

“Good!” Kim replied.

“We’ve been talking about this for a long time, and I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. So I’m asking you today,” he started getting down on one knee, “Will you please marry me?”

“I will,” Kim said, smiling.

Don’t you just love a happy ending?

Kim has been obsessed with meteorology ever since she was a little girl.

“I first realized that gender may be an issue very young,” Kim wrote on The Weather Channel website. “When I told someone I wanted to be a meteorologist, they asked why a nice girl like me would want to study meteors! I didn’t understand the problem until I started looking though books and doing research, I couldn’t find any women meteorologists, not even on TV!”

A spokesperson for the Atlanta-based Weather Channel says the couple plan to have a small wedding with family and friends — likely on the 13th of whatever month they choose, since Marty’s lucky number is 13.



Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized With Chest Pains

Shock jock loudmouth Rush Limbaugh is hospitalized in serious condition in Honolulu this final Wednesday of 2009 after complaining of chest pains at a local resort.

Paramedics responded to a call for help at 2:41 PM at the Kahala Hotel and Resort, where the controversial conservative is vacationing, according to Hawaiian TV station KITV. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room when emergency crews arrived, sources say. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem.

Limbaugh, 58, who has more than 20 million listeners, was taken to Queen’s Medical Center. He is in serious condition. In 2003, Limbaugh underwent treatment for an addiction to prescription painkillers, including Lorcet, Norco and hydrocodone.



Michael Jackson’s groundbreaking music video horror flick has been immortalized among the nation’s treasures in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. Jackson’s 1983 short movie “Thriller,” featuring an unforgettable graveyard dance that helped revolutionize music videos, will live on in the U.S. National Film Registry.

The 14-minute “Thriller” video is among 25 films the Library of Congress added to the registry on Wednesday. It is the first music video included in the 2009 list of cultural treasures that will be preserved for all time.

“Because of the way the recording industry is evolving and changing, we thought it would be good to go back to the developmentof an earlier seismic shift, which was the development of the music video,” says Steve Leggett, coordinator of the National Film Preservation Board.

Joining the King of Pop in the 2009 class are The Muppets, who have earned acclaim for their 1979 film The Muppet Movie — which featured the big screen debut of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.



Mel Gibson’s upcoming film has been met with protests in Mexico over plans to transfer prisoners ahead of shooting.

Gibson will begin filming the action-drama How I Spent My Summer Vacation at the Ignacio Allende prison in the Gulf coast city of Veracruz next month and some inmates will be be relocated to make way for production, the BBC reported this week.

The protesters say it would be more difficult for them to visit loved ones incarcerated in the prison or bring them food if they are transferred out of Veracruz.

One protester held a sign that read, “No transfers to make a movie.”

“We have been here all night, supporting our relatives. While we are here we won’t let anyone take them away,” said another.

Gerardo Duran, the director of the Ignacio Allende prison, says the reports of massive transfers are just hearsay, but he did acknowledge that part of the facility will be cleared to allow the filmmakers to work.

How I Spent My Summer Vacation — written and directed by Gibson — will feature the Braveheart star as a career criminal who learns to survive in a violent Mexican prison with the help of a 9-year-old boy.



Mariah Carey and Vanessa Hudgens have been tapped to play a crooning mother and daughter duo in a new motion picture comedy about televison talent shows.

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“Mariah is eager to capitalize on her acclaimed performance in Precious with another movie,” says a Hollywood producer, who asked to remain anonymous. “There is one project where she would play one half of a mother and daughter singing duo who audition for a TV talent show.”

In January, Mariah will accept the Breakthrough Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for her role as a social worker in Precious. The film was recently named the year’s best in a poll by Rolling Stone.

The singer said to be unsure about accepting the role in the American Idol-esque movie, despite her recent success at the box office. The diva recently admitted that she is irritated by the constant criticism of her 2001 box office stinker Glitter. Mariah insists she wants to move on from the musical.

“It just gets annoying when eight years later they’re like, ‘The Glitter star, da-da-da’,” she told Time Out New York. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, you’re current.There have been worse movies. And I’m not sticking up for that movie. ‘Cause it wasn’t my thing. I didn’t create it. But I do think the soundtrack is good.”

At 39, the “Vision of Love” star’s big source of consternation about accepting the role is the possibility of playing a mom to the 20-year-old High School Musical hottie.

“Vanessa Hudgens has already been approached for the daughter role. The only sticking point seems to be whether Mariah feels comfortable playing mom to a teenager. She’s a little sensitive when it comes to her age.”



Erik Gates, who guest-starred as an Amateur Rocket Expert on the popular Discovery Channel show MythBusters, died in a freak accident Dec. 20. He was 47.

Gates was doing electrical work on a roof at a building in Newbury Park, California when he fell 30 feet from a skylight. Gates was an owner of Gateco Electric, which was employed at the site.

“He was a good guy,” Steve DeGennaro, who co-founded Xirrus’ with Gates’ brother, Dirk, tells The Ventura County Star. “He survived cancer, he jumps with parachutes, he base jumps. He’s an active guy who was used to taking precautions. This was a freak accident that shouldn’t have happened.”

“Team MB wishes to express our deepest sympathies on the passing of our beloved rocket expert, Erik,” followed by “You were an honorary MythBuster and will be sorely missed,” MythBusters Tweeted this week.



Ke$ha “Tik Tok” Sets Billboard Record

The debut album from pop newcomer Ke$ha has been circulating the Interwebs for a couple days now — and for good reason — Ke$ha currently holds the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with her record-breaking first single “Tik Tok.”

“Tik Tok” sold 440,000 downloads over the Christmas holiday — a 175% increase of the week before — setting a new record on the Billboard charts for the “Most Ever Digital Single Sales for a Female Artist.” The smash hit has sold a massive 610,000 downloads since its iTunes debut earlier this month.



Eric Dane Rebecca Gayheart Baby Girl

Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart are expecting a baby girl according to PEOPLE. Despite stepping out with an obvious baby bump in September, “The Noxzema Girl” and “Dr. McSteamy” had not formally announced the pregnancy until now. The couple has been married since 2004.

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