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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check
March 2, 2010
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Fashion Emergency:
Did you like those hats the United States Olympics team showed off during the games? So did a few of the biggest names in showbiz and politics! The NY Post's Page Six gossip column reports QUEEN LATIFAH, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, CINDY CRAWFORD, VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN and MITT ROMNEY all managed to snag one from designer RALPH LAUREN before they went on sale to the public. If you'd like a new chapeau for your collection, get ready to pay a pretty penny. Although they originally went for a mere $75, entrepreneurs over at eBay.com have been getting up to five-hundred-bucks a piece. (Lee)
Reality Round-Up:
The cast for season 10 of "Dancing with the Stars" was revealed during last night's finale of "The Bachelor." They are: PAMELA ANDERSON, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver CHAD OCHOCINCO, "All My Children's" AIDEN TURNER, ESPN hottie ERIN ANDREWS, former "Beverly Hills 90210" star SHANNEN DOHERTY, 80-year-old former astronaut BUZZ ALDRIN ("the original moonwalker"), "Reno 911" star NIECY NASH (currently on "The Insider"), Pussycat Doll's NICOLE SCHERZINGER, Olympic gold medalist EVAN LYSACEK, reality star KATE GOSSELIN, "reality's most-watched super-mom" and last night's winner of "The Bachelor," JAKE PAVELKA.
Movies that will suck:
Another day, another remake in the works. This time it'll be a remake of the 1981 DUDLEY MOORE comedy "Arthur." And Warner Brothers has picked British star RUSSELL BRAND to play the drunken playboy who can inherit a fortune and keep his lifestyle if he'll marry an heiress instead of the working-class woman he's fallen in love with.
In the original film, Dudley Moore was nominated for an Oscar and Sir JOHN GIELGUD, who played Arthur's butler, won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
The studio has hired PETER BAYNHAM --who was a writer on SACHA BARON COHEN's "Borat" and "Bruno"-- to write the script for the remake.Off the beaten path:
Artist SPENCER TUNICK has done it again. He's the guy who like to take pictures of large crowds of naked people in front of landmarks.
The BBC says over 5-thousand people stripped down for Tunick last weekend in front of the Sydney Opera House. Organizers say they were only expecting about 25-hundred people to show up.
Tunick was commissioned to take the photo by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. He says, "Gay men and women lay naked next to their straight neighbors and this delivered a very strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society." (Still)Survivor, real life:
A woman in California survived a gunshot to the chest --when the bullet was absorbed by her breast implants.
The Los Angeles Times says LYDIA CARRANZA was working in a dentist's office in Simi Valley when a gunman burst in and opened fire.
The man aimed the pistol right at Carranza's heart. But, doctors say her D-cup implant stopped the shrapnel from hitting any vital organs. One surgeon said, "Had she not had the implant, she might not be alive today."
The gunman had entered the office looking for his wife. He's currently in jail awaiting trial. (Still)