• (There is a topless woman doing gymnastics in a thong, and a brief look at Matt Dillon's ass.)
• This is the movie which is said to contain some Marisa Tomei nudity, but I don't think the woman in the trailer is Marisa. (Although I don't know.) It is kinda sexy, whoever it is.
• Detailed info about the film

Seven clips for Four Brothers. No sign of any brides.

• "Ire"? So THAT's what they call it.
• "For years, Howard White has advertised his strip club near Los Angeles International Airport with a not too subtle marquee reading 'Live Nude Nude Nudes. But some tourists and nearby businesses say White has gone too far with his latest pitch for the Century Lounge: a freshly posted sign proclaiming 'Vaginas R' Us.'"

Bobby Knight To Host Ill-tempered Reality TV Show: "Bob Knight will give one Texas Tech student the opportunity to play on his team in a new reality show. Sixteen students will take part in 'Knight School,' set to air on ESPN in February."

OK. so it's a slow news day: Fire Destroys Marie Osmond's Garage. I didn't know that Marie has eight children.

Dukes take the daily box office for Friday, August 5, 2005. They just got in the ol' General Lee and ran away with it, with about as much as the next four films added together.

The ten crappiest film villains

Get waste - get wasted! $400,000 worth of cocaine flows through the Po river every day

• "Based on the acclaimed, best-selling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, 'Everything is Illuminated' tells the story of a young American Jewish man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather--in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. The journey begins as a comic nightmare--with an eccentric trio of paid 'expert' guides sorely lacking in expertise: a cranky grandfather who insists on bringing his unruly seeing-eye dog to help him drive, and his over-enthusiastic grandson, whose fractured command of English, passion for retro American pop culture, and inability to shut up threaten to make the worst of every situation. But what starts out as the tour from hell turns into a surprisingly meaningful journey--with an unexpected and powerful series of revelations that will indelibly change all of their lives."

Official blurb:

• Evan Rachel Wood plays Kimberly Joyce, an insanely intelligent, wildly funny, shockingly cruel and sexy-beyond-her-years Beverly Hills teenager who will stop at nothing to become famous. Believing the world is an orchestra and she is the conductor, Kimberly masterfully manipulates all those around her. She convinces her two best friends to join her in a campaign against their befuddled teacher, Mr. Anderson, played to nebbishy perfection by Ron Livingston. Kimberly entangles the entire Beverly Hills community in her carefully woven web of seduction and deceit. A clever comedy with many turns, "Pretty Persuasion" has an ending that nobody but Kimberly can predict!

Canadian pot activist says he's like Gandhi ...

• ... constantly hungry.

"Muslims in France are having it their way with 'Beurger King' - a new fast-food restaurant" ... "Waitresses wear Islamic head scarves, as do many of their customers"

• The car-hops, however, are HOT!

Europe to ban low-cut blouses on barmaids.

• According to The Sun, "the ruling is part of the new Optical Radiation Directive — expected to be rubber-stamped by the EU parliament next month."
• They just gotta do it because "barmaids run a skin cancer risk if they expose themselves to the sun when they go outside to collect glasses."
• Say, what? Most alcohol is consumed at night, not in the sunlight. Can barmaids wear low-cut tops after sundown?
• I guess Europe could come up with something this crazy and this intrusive, but am I the only one that smells something fishy in this whole story?

Letterman's "Top Ten Signs Your Kid Is Spending Too Much Time On The Internet"

Surgery reduces Mimi Rogers from 34ddd to 34d. The actress "was delighted to have her huge bust reduced to a more manageable level, but she refuses to consider any other kind of cosmetic surgery."

Wikipedia plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content

Pujols becomes the first player ever to hit 30 homers in each of his first five seasons

New Chapter in the Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: Her Own Words, as Spoken to Her Shrink?

• "Of her one-night affair with Joan Crawford, she said: "Next time I saw Crawford, she wanted another round. I told her straight-out I didn't much enjoy doing it with a woman. After I turned her down, she became spiteful."
• I don't know. That's kind of hard to believe. Joan Crawford spiteful?

"All the writers nominated for the prestigious Hugo award for the best Sci-Fi or Fantasy novel are British." (Despite the fact that the majority of voters are American.)