Lost star Daniel Dae Kim has pleaded not guilty to driving drunk in Hawaii last month, even though… well, let his lawyer tell it:
“He made an apology to the state, the people of Hawaii and his fans,” defense lawyer Patrick McPherson said outside the courtroom. “He pleaded not guilty and requested a trial date.”
Yeah, that doesn’t even make sense. Here’s the Jin-uine apology that Kim sent to TMZ right after it happened:
“I am deeply ashamed and embarrassed by the events of Thursday morning. It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home. It is my intention to cooperate fully with the police and I am grateful to them for their sensitivity throughout this matter. To my friends, family, colleagues and fans, thank you for your kind words of support. To those I have disappointed I can only ask that you accept my heartfelt apologies. I am truly, truly sorry.”
I’m no legal eagle, but doesn’t a public apology usually indicate an admission of guilt? If you then plead not guilty, doesn’t that turn your heartfelt apology into a big pile of polar-bear poopies? More importantly: Are we ever going to find out who those people on the Freighter are?
The British trainwreck singer is all of 22 now, and she says:
“I’d like to live in the country and have chickens and pigs. It’s a great job but it doesn’t leave time for what’s important — like having a family. I’m going to do one more album. I just want to make some money — maybe I could retire at 25.”
Technically this isn’t Deceiver-worthy… yet. I’m just leaving a note to myself for her birthday on May 2, 2010. Could she really mean it? I reserve the right to hold on to my dreams.
Ben Cousins, former captain and star of the West Coast Eagles football team (the Australian kind, not the American or European kind), has been videotaped snorting coke (the Colombian kind, not the carbonated kind) at a party on Australia’s Gold Coast.
This comes a few weeks after he was suspended from the football league for his drug use and just days after American police agreed not to slap him with drug charges following an early November binge in Los Angeles. At the time, Cousins said of his addictions:
“I am a lot further down the road to recovery than has been portrayed.”
To set the record straight, he allowed a film crew from Aussie television program A Current Affair to follow him around — the very same crew that caught him sniffing up the goal line. Click here to see the video.
Thanks to a UK reader for sharing this. Last month Metro newspaper (a free UK commuter daily) took thermal-imaging photos of the four major political parties’ headquarters buildings. The sophisticated snaps show how much heat energy is radiating from the buildings. More heat loss means a less-efficient (and therefore not-so-carbon-neutral) building.
Guess who came in dead last? Yep. The Green Party (photo above). Labour also had lousy insulation. The Tories and Liberal Democrats fared better.
Will Green Party Principal Speaker Derek Wall move his office to a hermetically sealed, Earth-mother-friendly, solar-powered, recyclable building made only of locally grown materials? Uh, no. That would be intellectually consistent, and we can’t have that in politics.
from Left to Right: Lib Dem, Labour, Conservative
Update, for those who asked: Red and orange colors indicate heat loss. And yes, that’s a double-decker bus radiating heat in front of Tory central.
I absolutely love this viral video ad, titled “Onslaught,” from the Dove soap people and their ad agency Ogilvy & Mather. It takes some well-deserved shots at the “beauty industry” for luring young girls with all sorts of unattainable body images.
But Advertising Age points out:
Dove is a brand from Unilever, which isn’t so enlightened when it comes to Axe/Lynx — whose ads portray women as slinky sex toys — and Slim-Fast, which encourages exactly the kind of yo-yo dieting so vividly dramatized in “Onslaught.”As for Ogilvy, well — in a bit of horrifying/delicious irony — it is actually the U.S. agency for the Barbie doll. Oops.
What’s next? Will NAMBLA start piously warning our sons about “stranger danger”?
Update (Nov. 28): Toronto Star marketing columnist Jennifer Wells picks apart Unilever’s hypocrisy, with help from a YouTube artist who re-cut the commercial to include all-Unilever footage. Fun!
Australian actress Toni Collette, who’s about to have her first child, might soon pull up stakes and move to the good ol’ US of A to shoot a TV pilot for Steven Spielberg:
Spielberg handpicked Collette for the lead role in The United States Of Tara, a comedy show about a suburban mum with a multiple personality disorder …
If the pilot is successful (and given Spielberg’s backing it is likely to be) the actor and her husband Dave Galafassi may shift temporarily to the States for filming, with their new baby in tow.
Back in June ‘04, Collette wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald that future generations of Australians needed to maintain their own national identity, separate from us dirty Yanks:
Our children watch TV to learn. If they grow up with American standards and expectations in our relatively naive land, it’ll create such a stifling sense of confusion. They are already eating McDonald’s, drinking Coca-Cola and being swamped by Disney.
We don’t want Australian kids to grow up with American accents. We don’t want a country of clones wondering why their world is so different from the one they watch on TV or see at the movies. And that’s what will happen if we allow our screens to be dominated by American product. We have to prevent a diet of vacuous American fodder, which will spoil their, and in turn, our true potential.
Collette can still pull off this whole “Aussie Pride” thing without contradicting herself. The trick is to homeschool the kid and feed her (or him!) a steady diet of nothing but Australian movies and TV shows. They’ve got at least a dozen of each down there, and that’s not even counting the Yahoo Serious oeuvre. Her people have recently discovered how to fashion crude DVDs out of available materials (rocks and sand, mostly), so that should help. Then she can make her vacuous American fodder, collect her vacuous American dollars, and still have a clear conscience. Yay!
(Hat tip: Tim Blair)
Another case of getting exactly what you asked for.
When Riley Giles dumped his fiancée via text and started dating Lindsay Lohan after meeting her in rehab, his jilted ex-bride-to-be, Bree Tierney, revealed how desperately he wanted some press for his snowboarding career:
“I know Riley well enough to know that every action he takes is to benefit himself. He’s just looking for publicity.”
So why is he now whining that his girlfriend is such a media whore who won’t even eat Thanksgiving dinner without phoning the paps? The Lohan clan dined at Cipriani’s in New York on Thursday night, and the completely unsurprising photographer swarm made Riley get up and leave before dessert was even served.
It looks like there was more than one cooked bird at their table that night.
Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis can do the crime but totally can’t do the time.
He says that at the Oklahoma prison where he served a month for contempt this spring, the guards “abused” him by taking away his extra blanket and threatening to strap him naked to a chair.
To which I say: whatever. How many teenage girls has Joe Francis humiliated in a similarly naked fashion? I guess his argument here is that he wasn’t given a bottle of Cuervo first.
As for now, he’s sitting in a different jail in Reno, awaiting trial for tax evasion next year. And Florida still has to prosecute him for the use of minors in sexual performances. There may actually be justice in the world.
Are you geared up for the UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali next month? Sure you are! Everybody’s been looking forward to it all year. It’s so popular, in fact, that Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport is worried that they won’t have enough “parking space” for the sheer number of incoming private jets. Organizers are planning to send most of the planes to other airports in Indonesia. But hey, if there’s no room to park your private jet in a tropical paradise, that’s just the price you have to pay for telling everybody else how to reduce their carbon footprint. If you’re not part of the problem, how can you be part of the solution? I think that’s how the saying goes…
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
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