A new house on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,
lawsuit brought by five orphans who claim they were
exploited for, and by, the heart-tugging ABC reality
series. five orphaned African-American siblings
ranging in age from 21-14, both groups living in one
crowded three-bedroom house. Viewers watched as a
modest ranch-style home had been demolished, and
replaced with a nine-bedroom, six-bath, two-story,
spa-equipped, state-of-the-art spread. A happy ending
is enjoyed by all.

On camera, at least.

In the family's lawsuit, the orphans charge Once the
attention was had, the new house built, and the TV
shoot over, they say they were all but forced out of
the home.

Jennifer Lopez, star in "Bordertown," In the film,
Lopez plays a Chicago-based reporter sent to Mexico to
investigate the killings of over 340 women who have
been slain over the last 12 years in Juarez, a city of
about 1.3 million people across from El Paso, Texas.
But human rights groups say the number of women killed
is much higher.

At least 100 of those deaths appear to fit a pattern
where a young, slender woman was sexually assaulted,
strangled and dumped in the desert outside Juarez.
Some have speculated that they were the work of a
serial killer, but investigators have denied that.

Oscar winning-director Oliver Stone has pleaded no
contest to a charge of marijuana possession and was
fined $100. Stone's lawyers entered the plea on his
behalf at a Beverly Hills court Stone, 58, who won
best director Oscars for the Vietnam War-themed movies
"Platoon" and "Born of the Fourth of July," was
charged after being stopped at a routine traffic
checkpoint in May.

Stone also pleaded no contest to driving under the
influence and guilty to cannabis possession in 1999 in
Beverly Hills. He was given three years probation in
that case.

Police were investigating a golf outing sponsored by a
gentleman's club in a Chicago suburb that allegedly
featured women strippers in bikinis giving male
golfers lap dances.

Residents who live along the Country Lakes Golf Club's
course said they were surprised to see scantily clad
women dancing and performing on the course. One
resident called police to complain and videotaped some
of the event from her back window. Ruining the fun for
everyone.

A court in Germany convicted a man for fraud after he
racked up huge phone bills phoning a sex hotline from
work and split the proceeds with a woman working at
the service.

The court handed the 38-year-old an eight-month
suspended jail sentence for the ruse which he cooked
up with the hotline worker while working for a local
medical insurer.

German media said the man had made more than 160 calls
within half a year, at a cost to his company of almost
$19,700.

Jimi Hendrix, regarded as one of the greatest electric
guitar players and known as a prodigious womanizer,
lied about being gay to get out of the U.S. Army and
pursue his true love -- music, according to a new
biography of the rock legend.

"Room Full of Mirrors," recounts the life of Hendrix,
from a troubled childhood in a black Seattle
neighborhood, to brushes with the law and a fast climb
to the top of the rock world with hits such as "Purple
Haze," and "Hey Joe," and "The Wind Cries Mary."

Hendrix did not begin playing guitar until he was 15.
Three years later, Hendrix enlisted in the 101st
Airborne Division in 1961 as a court-offered
alternative to jail for riding in stolen cars.

He claimed he was discharged after 13 months after
breaking his ankle in a parachuting drill, but
military records showed he was discharged for
"homosexual tendencies."

According to the records, he told the base
psychiatrist he had sexual fantasies about his
bunkmates, grew addicted to masturbating and was in
love with a member of his squad.

He was just letting his Freak Flag Fly...

Subject: Area 69

Dear Jerry,

I was asleep on the couch in the family room, I had
been watching an old movie. The tv was set was under a
large picture window.

Around three o'clock that morning, I opened my eyes
and noticed a flashing light outside the house. I
immediately thought that it was a firefly. As the
light continued to flash, I realized that it was too
bright to be a firefly. There are no fireflies here.

Then the light moved toward the window and--
unbelievably--through the windowpane into the room. It
passed in front of me, perhaps as close as three feet.
The light seemed as bright as a sixty-watt bulb. My
dog Sheba, who had been sleeping beside the couch,
woke up and noticed the flashing light. She began to
whimper and hid her head.

I was so scared. I heard a screetching, high pitched
sound growing from what I thought was the flashing
light, but began to realize was me screaming at the
top of my lungs.

I wondered why no one was running in to help me. My
whole family was sleeping in just the next rooms. But
no one came to help me.

When the light moved into the kitchen, I ran to my
sister's bedroom. "Move over," she said. "I saw
something that scared me and I'm coming into bed with
you." She didn't move. I looked at her and she was
asleep but her eyes were wide open and she didn't
move.

I covered my head in the quilt and shook and shivered
and then I must have fallen asleep.

The next morning my sister and I woke up. We were both
nude and our pajamas and panties were in one pile on
the window seal.

At breakfast we told our family what had happened, but
no one else had noticed anything or seemed to care.

I love the stories you tell, but was too embarrassed
to write you. But one day I was with my boss having
lunch at Red Robin and you were sitting and reading a
book in the next booth. Two people came over to say "hi"
to you and you were so nice to them, that I knew you
were okay.

Thanks,
Lora