
July 12, 2007
This is an update to this entry where someone was trying to blackmail her into relinquishing her crown.
Amy Polumbo spoke on the Today show this morning and decided to reveal the photos herself.
The photos were being used in an attempt to blackmail her, and give up her crown and title as Miss. New Jersey.
Miss New Jersey released about a dozen embarrassing photographs of her partying and drinking exclusively to TODAY on Thursday. The blonde beauty queen claims the images were sent to pageant officials in an effort to force her to give up her crown.“I feel sick to my stomach. I really do,” Amy Polumbo told host Matt Lauer. “You know, they’re not that bad, but they were meant to be private. And it is making me feel very vulnerable that the entire country has to see them now because of this situation.”
The photos really aren’t that bad, by contemporary standards, but they aren’t necessarily good for the 22-year-old theater major’s public image, either.
One shows a smiling Polumbo with a man she identified as her boyfriend, his open mouth over her left breast. Polumbo is fully clothed in the photo, which appeared to be snapped at a nightclub.“This was meant to be private,” Polumbo said.
The photos are in the extended entry, and not one of them is worthy of blackmail or having her crown stripped away in my opinion.
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July 9, 2007
UK Yahoo is reporting that James Hetfield had a hard time entering the UK to play at Wembley Stadium for Live Earth and questioned by airport officials.
The star was barred entry to Luton airport on Thursday and questioned by staff who were concerned about his appearance. Fears that Hetfield might be involved in terrorism were apparently founded on his "Taliban-like beard", according to The Times. He was allowed to leave the airport after a brief interrogation, when he persuaded officials that he was a rock star.
Poor James.
He's not a terrorist, he's a fucking rock star!
Maybe he should shave the beard though.
It's not really "him" anyway.
I liked his chops much better.

*UPDATE*
London's The Times had originally posted the news story, but now a rep for Hetfield says it's untrue.
Usmagazine.com reports that the rep said, "It's false. It's not true." We should have smelled this one from a mile away.
July 6, 2007
Mis New Jersey is being blackmailed by someone who claims they have pictures of her from years ago that would tarnish her crown.
Polumbo said that she received copies of between six and a dozen photos which she and her attorney would only describe as not revealing in the mail on June 25, accompanied by a letter threatening to publish them unless she relinquished her crown to first runner-up Ronica Licciardello.
June 27, 2007
Fashion designer Liz Claiborne, whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78.The cause of her death on Tuesday was not immediately known.

April 1, 2007
Here's Justin Timberlake from the Kids Choice Awards 2007, where he won for favorite male singer.
The show aired last night, and all winners can be found on that page.
Doesn't he look like a game show host?
You just won a brand new car!!
March 27, 2007
On March 27th, 1963, Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born.

Some of his film work includes:
* Reservoir Dogs (1992)
* Pulp Fiction (1994)
* Jackie Brown (1997)
* Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004)
* Inglorious Bastards (TBA)
* The Vega Brothers (TBA)
* Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (Rumor)
Collaborative films:
* Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995)
* Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director)
* Grindhouse (Death Proof segment) (2007)
I'm very much looking forward to Grindhouse which is going to be released April 6, 2007.
He's one of my most favorite directors. I absolutely love the Kill Bill's of course, From Dusk Till Dawn, where is was the writer, is another.
But my most favorite is Reservoir Dogs.
Have a long and happy life, looking forward to many more amazing pieces of film.
March 26, 2007
MTV.com reports (as well as many other sources) that Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental overdose.
Six weeks after Anna Nicole Smith's death, the Broward County, Florida, chief medical examiner announced on Monday (March 26) that the former model died of an accidental drug overdose attributed to a combination of prescription drugs that were in her system at the time of her death.
While the accidental overdose is clear, exactly which drugs caused her death is not evident. Broward County Chief Medical Examiner Joshua Perper said Smith had nine different prescription drugs in her system at the time of her death, including three anti-anxiety medications, the antihistamine Benadryl and the drug thought to have been the main culprit in her death, the prescription sleeping medication chloral hydrate.
Perper said the combination of drugs was the likely cause of Smith's death, but there was also evidence that a high fever she had suffered from in the days prior to her overdose was caused by an injection of a "longevity" medication that could have been human-growth hormone, vitamin B-12 or immunoglobulin. He explained that the autopsy revealed evidence that Smith had previously made injections into her buttocks, which showed signs of multiple abscesses, and that an injection she made prior to her trip might have ruptured an abscess and caused an infectious agent to enter her bloodstream.
March 23, 2007

The Associated Press reports that Anna Nicole Smith's autopsy results will be released on Monday March 26th.
More than six weeks after the former Playboy Playmate died, authorities said Thursday.The medical examiner for Broward County, Dr. Joshua Perper, and Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said they will hold a joint news conference to discuss the cause of death.
Smith was found Feb. 8 in her hotel room at a tribal casino in Hollywood, Fla. An initial autopsy report showed no immediate indication of a drug overdose and no sign of major external injuries on the 39-year-old reality TV star.
Perper delayed the release of the full autopsy report after police gave him additional evidence, though authorities have not said what that is.
Prosecutors have said they are not treating the case as a homicide.