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No drugs for Darius
Darius Danesh, the Iranian heartthrob who has been topping
the charts after his appearance in UK’s version of “American
idol”, says that he has been “constantly turning down offers
of drugs” ever since he became a pop star. No doubt he will
expand on this and other pressures of stardom in his new autobiography,
for which he has been offered a £100,000 deal. Not bad
for a 22 year old!
Ask Azita and Azita will tell
Oliver Stone’s former assistant, Azita Zendel, is at the Cannes
Film Festival premiering her movie “Controlled Chaos” based
on her former boss’ "scandalous" lifestyle. Azita
worked for Stone from 1991 to 1995, during which time the
volatile director directed "JFK," "Natural
Born Killers" and "Nixon." The UCLA grad describes
her movie as "the story of the assistant to a famous
film director who must protect her womanizing boss when a
reporter implicates him in a scandal." With all his love
for conspiracy theories, you’d think Stone would have been
cautious enough to make his employees sign a confidentiality
agreement!
Azita Zendel at the Sundance
Film Festival, January 2003
Saving Private Lynch
Both the Toronto Star and the BBC report that the now iconic
rescue of private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital was
nothing more than army and media-created myth. Iraqi doctors
in Nasiriya say they provided the best treatment they could
for the soldier in the midst of war. She was assigned the
only specialist bed in the hospital and one of only two nurses
on the floor. Actually, the hospital staff tried to deliver
Jessica to the Americans in an ambulance. But as the ambulance,
with Private Lynch inside, approached a checkpoint, American
troops opened fire, forcing it to flee back to the hospital.
Two days later, US special forces stormed the hospital, capturing
the "dramatic" events on a night vision camera.
"We were surprised. Why do this? There was no military,
there were no soldiers in the hospital," said Dr Anmar
Uday, who worked at the hospital. Now NBC is planning a TV
movie on Lynch’s rescue, even though Lynch herself has amnesia
about this whole episode of her life, and probably will never
remember it.
Skulls and Bones
The next Presidential election may be a battle of Bones vs.
Bones. Both Senator John Kerry and President George Bush are
members of the infamous Yale University secret society “Skulls
and Bones”, which has been called the ultimate old boys’ network.
Every year, 15 Yale juniors are chosen to join the club, which
holds meetings twice a week in a crypt-like building known
as the ``Tomb.'' There are bizarre initiation rites, including
a ceremony where new members must spend an evening before
a roaring fire in the Tomb recounting details of their sexual
history to fellow members. The Bones alumni roster is flush
with CIA officials, business moguls, cong
The Bennifer Nuptials
Not that they need more bling bling but J. Lo and Ben Lo have
reportedly been offered googads of moola by Britain's OK!
magazine to have an exclusive on their nuptials. Some rumors
peg the sum as high as $1.5 million. Don’t confuse OK! With
Hello!, the Euro-trashmag sued by Catherine Zeta-Jones for
publishing unflattering pictures of her stuffing her face
with wedding cake.
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