Jude Law Nude.

Woo Hoo....

Just a month after the Alfie star issued a public
apology to his fiancée, Sienna Miller, for
cheating on her with his children's nanny, Law's
private life is once again on display.

The actor was snapped in the buff by a lurking
paparazzo as he changed into a swimsuit outside his
mother's home in France.

The resulting money shot--a full-frontal pic of Jude
in the nude--quickly made the rounds on the Internet,
revealing Law's attributes to the world.

Law's rep, Simon Halls, scoffed when asked for comment
on the photo.

"Oh, please!" Halls told the New York Post. "The guy
is on vacation in France with his kids. People need to
give him a little bit of a break."

Despite the negative publicity that has dogged Law of
late, his popularity seems intact--at least with the
ladies.

The actor's unplanned nude scene came just days after
he was determined to have the sexiest rear end in show
biz, according to a poll of 1,000 British moviegoers,
who voted for Law based on his bath scene in The
Talented Mr. Ripley.

Pierce Brosnan has turned in his license to play Bond.
James Bond.

The now ex-007 star said he learned in a recent phone
call that his acting chops would not be required for a
fifth go-round as the secret agent.

Brosnan's exit from the franchise is hardly shocking,
seeing as the actor has been dropping hints for some
time now that he was sick of secret agenthood.

Now all that remains is to lock in the next fellow to
profess his fondness for martinis shaken, not starred.

Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Heath
Ledger, Clive Owen and Orlando Bloom are among the
names that have been floated so far as possible
replacements for Brosnan.

Esther Wong, who booked a who's who of punk rock and
new wave bands at her popular Madame Wong's clubs in
the 1970s and '80s, has died. She was 88.

She died at her Los Angeles home from emphysema and
cancer.

Wong, who earned the nickname the "godmother of punk,"
showcased such popular groups as the Police, X, the
Go-Gos, Oingo Boingo, the Motels, the Knack, the
Textones and Plane English early in their careers,
giving many groups their first major break.

The native of China originally booked Polynesian bands
to play at her restaurant, but when hardly anyone
showed up to hear them she decided to take a chance on
rock acts. Almost overnight in 1978, hundreds of
people began showing up at her Chinatown restaurant to
hear the new sounds, and she opened a Madame Wong's
West in Santa Monica that same year.

Wong quickly became known as a no-nonsense proprietor.
She once halted a performance by the Ramones until the
band members left the stage and cleaned up the
graffiti they had put on a bathroom wall. She rarely
booked female singers, calling them "no good, always
trouble," and she was known to go into the audience to
try to sniff out marijuana smokers.

Wong auditioned performers by listening to their
tapes, often while driving in her car, until she said
her habit of flinging bad music out the window nearly
got her in trouble.

"One day I almost hit the highway patrol car that was
right next to me," she told the Times in 1980.

Born and educated in Shanghai, Wong traveled the world
as a child with her father, who was an importer.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1949 when the Chinese
government fell to the communists, working for two
decades at a shipping company before opening her
restaurant.

A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad,
using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F
Got-2 (love symbol) Farm'n." Underneath is a
1,000-foot-long arrow pointing single white females to
his house.

"It only took me about an hour — I did it with a corn
planter in May," Pieter DeHond said Wednesday as he
removed weeds from the 18-acre field. "I was just
horsing around. I wouldn't place a personal ad in the
paper. To me it seems desperate," he added, laughing.
"This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a
field where nobody could see it unless you flew over
it."

The 41-year-old divorced father said running a
business and looking after his two teenagers doesn't
leave a lot of room for socializing.

His corn stalk appeal, featured this week in his
hometown Daily Messenger newspaper, has already drawn
quite a few phone calls and e-mails.

A woman faces two counts of kidnapping after allegedly
paying two boys for a lawn job with a fake $50 bill,
then holding them hostage when they caught on.

Tracy Lynn Clinton, 39, remained in the Eastern
Regional Jail, where she has been held on $12,500 bail
since her arrest.

The victims were two slightly built boys, ages 12 and
13, who told investigators they were terrorized by
Clinton. She allegedly screamed at them, threatened
physical violence and exhibited bizarre behavior that
included publicly urinating on a fence.

If convicted, Clinton could get life in prison on the
kidnapping charges and as much as a year in prison on
the counterfeit bill charge.

A fish caught in an east German lake near the Polish
border not only got off the hook but also lured a
46-year-old fisherman to his death, police in the
eastern town of Eisenhuettenstadt.

A police spokeswoman said the fish pulled the fishing
rod out of the man's hands and dragged it about 100
metres away from shore. The man took off his clothes
and swam after the pole.

An eyewitness said the man reached the rod floating on
the surface but then suddenly stopped moving. The
witness, swam out to help him and pulled the fisherman
back to shore, where he was later pronounced dead.