Monday, August 22, 2005

Sunday the Little Green Men Festival in Hopkinsville,
KY hosted hundreds with tales of what they believe are
some of the more fascinating, provable cases of UFOs
reported.

The festival, at the Hopkinsville-Christian
County Conference and Convention Center, commemorates
the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 21, 1955, report of
an alien invasion at Kelly,KY.

Singapore will host its first-ever Sex Expo in
November after receiving in-principle approval from
the tightly-controlled city-state's authorities.

The Singapore police have already imposed certain
conditions for organizers — no obscene acts can be put
on display and all exhibits and promotions will face
government scrutineers.

The exhibition will feature furniture "designed to
enhance lovemaking" and an erotic toy section, an
exhibition on the history of condoms is also scheduled
for show.

Singapore, a tiny, wealthy Southeast Asian city-state
of 4.2 million, has restrictions everywhere:
Cosmopolitan magazine can only be sold if wrapped to
avoid browsing by minors, and programs like HBO's "Sex
and the City" and "Six Feet Under" have been screened
with cuts by the country's censors.

Singapore also outlaws oral sex and homosexuality.
Officials say its citizens want censorship.

A controversial exhibition of skinned human cadavers
at a Florida museum goes on in defiance of a state
agency's vote to ban the display.

The exhibition at Tampa's Museum of Science and
Industry, features 20 human bodies and 260 human
organs. Board members were concerned it would not show
the proper respect for the bodies, which are preserved
and displayed in poses with titles like "Running Man"
and "Soccer Player."

500 people had paid to see the exhibit
in its first two hours. Premier Exhibitions of
Atlanta, which organized the show, said it obtained
the bodies and organs legally and without payment from
a medical university in China.

The Chinese government said the cadavers were
unclaimed and unidentified bodies.

An "electronic nappy" used to monitor wetness sparked
a bomb alert in a German post office when it arrived
in a parcel ticking suspiciously "They suspected it
was a bomb so they put the package into an empty room
and called the police," said a police spokesman.

"It was supposed to respond to wetness with bleeping
sounds but this one ticked."

Two squad cars rushed to the scene and immediately
contacted the sender. Police gave the all clear after
they contacted the woman who told them the intercepted
package contained only a malfunctioning diaper.

Tired of being blamed for the box office slump, the
nation's movie theater owners returned fire, accusing
the studios of delivering sub-standard product.

"Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as
good," said John Fithian, president of the National
Association of Theater Owners.

His remarks were part of a direct rebuke to Robert
Iger, who is about to take over as CEO of the Walt
Disney Co. Iger said last week that the industry
should move toward the simultaneous release of
theatrical films and videos.

Go to the theatre and see a movie, buy or rent the DVD
on the way out... Is that a bad, or good thing?

I'm tired of people talking during the movie, the ads
before the films, price of consetions, people putting
the feet up on the back of my seat and poor
projection. When the movies out of focus, there's
never anyone around to straighten it out!

Cable giant Comcast Corp. and the National Hockey
League outlined a new three-year agreement that will
place regular-season and several postseason games
exclusively on OLN, the cable channel previously known
as Outdoor Life Network.

The $200 million-plus deal vaults OLN into the realm
of larger sports channels with a major, if troubled,
sport. It was announced hours after ESPN, which had
held cable rights to hockey for most of the past 20
years, opted not to match Comcast's offer.

OLN, with distribution in 64 million homes nationwide
on mostly basic cable, is known for carrying outdoor
coverage and wheel-to-wheel coverage of cycling's Tour
de France but has less distribution and lower ratings
than ESPN.

OLN used to be one of my favorite channels, but
now....

China will soon have its own version of the extremely
capitalist reality TV show "The Apprentice," according
to a news report.

Donald Trump will be the executive producer of the
Chinese show, which will be hosted by a Beijing
property mogul, the version in the communist country
would closely follow the U.S. original, in which
contestants use their business savvy to compete
against each other, and the winner gets a job with
Trump.

Wonder what a good name for this show could be called?
"Crouching Donald, Hidden Egg Roll" okay, that's
stupid... Got a better one?

"The 40-Year Old Virgin," likes it on top.

Steve Carell's sex-deprived comedy about a middle-aged
geek who's prodded by buddies into seeking out love,
scored $20.6 million to open as the number one film
over yet another slow weekend at the box office.

After nearly six years of marriage, former Singled Out
host Jenny McCarthy is ready to be single again.

McCarthy and her husband, director John Asher, have
filed for divorce.

Billy Bob Thornton is putting on his spacesuit to star
in "The Astronaut Farmer," a drama about an eccentric
farmer who builds a rocket inside his barn, to the
chagrin of his neighbors and the government.

The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) has turned
thumbs down on an upcoming film's posters featuring
severed fingers.

"Saw II" is scheduled to open nationwide October 28.
It is a sequel to James Wan's "Saw," a horror thriller
about two men chained up in a room by a serial killer.
The first film, rated R, grossed more than $55 million
domestically when it was released last year.