`Scarlett Johansson wanted to expose her breasts in a movie – but was stopped by the director.
The 21-year-old actress was left fuming after filmmaker Michael Bay demanded she wore a bra in a scene in action thriller ‘The Island’.
He told Esquire magazine: “Scarlett said, ‘I’m not wearing this [expletive] bra. I’m going naked.’ I said, ‘Scarlett, you can’t go naked, this film is PG13.'”
Michael – who has also helmed Hollywood blockbusters ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Pearl Harbour’ – says his decision annoyed the actress so much she launched into another foul-mouthed tirade when he later knocked on her trailer door.’
`The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will coincide with the 2012 London Olympics, a scheduling conflict that is creating controversy in Britain, the Daily Mail reported on its website Saturday.
The conflict means Muslim athletes must fast from sunrise to sunset for the entire period of the Olympics, putting them at a distinct disadvantage.
Ramadan will fall from July 21 to August 20 in 2012, while the London Games run between July 27 and August 12.
An estimated 3,000 Muslim competitors are likely to be affected.’
`Love is a 26-year-old police officer in Wichita Falls, Texas. And now he’s been indefinitely suspended, because authorities are concerned that the images and statements on his Web site could undermine public confidence in the police department.
Love’s Web page has been removed. But it was listed under the name Leatherface. The Wichita Falls Times Record News said Love’s site included several graphic images of dismembered women as well as vivid pictures of a nude woman eating entrails and a bare-chested woman with the word “Loath” carved into her flesh.
As Love’s occupation, the site listed “super hero/serial killer” and he listed “Pizza, human flesh (barbecue only)” as his favorite meal.’
`When Willie Nelson’s bus was searched on Monday in Breaux Bridge, LA on Interstate 10, a “routine traffic stop” turned into a drug bust. Louisiana state troopers found more than a pound and a half of marijuana (0.7 kg) and more than three ounces (91 grams) of psilocibin mushrooms. See photo above’
`Two Canadians remained paralyzed Tuesday after drinking carrot juice contaminated with the botulism toxin, health officials said.
A week after Bolthouse Farms issued a continental recall of its carrot juice, at least 10 Toronto businesses still had the product on their shelves over the long holiday weekend, prompting health officials to call on the media to warn households and shopkeepers to throw away the juice.’
`A woman has suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.
Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at in her home in the Croatian city of Zadar when lightning struck the building.
She said: “I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.
“I don’t remember much after that [..]’
‘Not sure whats going on here but during a soccer game some player completely freaks out and keeps falling backwards.’
Seems a kick to the face makes you act strange.
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‘Doing a hand stand down the stair case seems like a really good idea right? It turned out to be a very painful decision.’
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`Greek authorities have denied knowledge of an alleged incident in which Greek officials threw illegal immigrants into the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey. On Tuesday morning, some 31 illegals were plucked out of the sea near the Turkish coastal city of Izmir. They claimed that the Greek Coast Guard had thrown them into the water. They did so, said one survivor, “without even asking if we could swim,” according to Turkey’s state-owned Anatolia news agency. Six people have reportedly drowned; three are missing.
Greek officials denied the charges in general terms. “We never throw people into the sea,” said Haris Bournias, a Greek Coast Guard commander on the island of Chios. [..]’
`Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president.
Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with “contempt for the office of the head of state” for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station. [..]
When told to show more respect for the country’s rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested.
Hoffmann was arrested and released on bail but failed to turn up at a Warsaw court early this week to be tried, and the judge in the case rejected an appeal by defence lawyers to throw the charges out. [..]
Instead the court ordered the police to start a nationwide hunt for the man, and interpol have been alerted.’
`A public school is requiring detention for parents who get their kids to school late.
Under the new rule at the Manhattan School for Children, parents who don’t drop off their children by 8:25 a.m. have to pick up late slips from the principal’s office and go to the auditorium to serve 20 minutes of detention with them.’
‘While scuba diving some dude felt a little too comfortable with sharks swimming around him and decided to try and kiss one. The shark rejects the kiss and bites the mans lips off.’
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`Sheriff’s officials said the paint-ball spree began Tuesday night and continued into the early morning hours.
When the men fired at a car about 2 a.m. near Green Hills Way on the northeastern edge of town, the occupants chased them down and pummeled one with a steel bar, sheriff’s officials said. They also smashed the paint-ball gun through the vandals’ car window and then took it with them.
The motorists fled, and deputies caught up with the two suspected vandals as they tried to leave in their car.’
‘Watch this unlucky shot. This is a professional tournament and this final shot was to win the game.’
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‘Sony may be forced out of the battery manufacturing business after today announcing a global product recall for batteries it has manufactured, Dow Jones reports. [..]
According to a statement issued by Sony, “Sony Corporation will initiate a global replacement program for certain battery packs that utilize Sony-manufactured lithium ion cells used by notebook computer manufacturers in order to address concern related to recent over-heating incidents,” the company said in a statement.’
`An inmate serving a life term for molesting and killing a 10-year-old girl named Katie somehow got “Katie’s Revenge” tattooed across his forehead, and prison authorities were trying to determine how it happened.
The Indiana Department of Correction placed Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, in protective custody away from the general inmate population last weekend after authorities discovered the tattoo, said Rich Larsen, a spokesman for the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility.
Stockelman was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to abducting, molesting and killing Katlyn “Katie” Collman. Katie was missing for five days before her body was found January 30, 2005, in a creek about 15 miles from her home in the southern Indiana town of Crothersville.’
‘A wedding singer belts out a tune on the dance floor when out of nowhere a dancing couple bangs into the back of the mic stand causing her to gag.’
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`The bill rejects the right to a speedy trial and limits the traditional right to self-representation by requiring that defendants accept military defense attorneys. Panels of military officers need not reach unanimous agreement to win convictions, except in death penalty cases, and appeals must go through a second military panel before reaching a federal civilian court. [..]
At the same time, the bill immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year. It gives the president a dominant but not exclusive role in setting the rules for future interrogations of terrorism suspects.’
`Ecstasy turned to agony for a South Korean lottery winner when he presented a winning ticket only to be told he could not claim the prize of one million dollars because of a printing mistake, officials said Tuesday.
The Prime Minister’s Commission on Lottery has called off the sale of Speetto-2000 instant scratch-and-win tickets after printing errors resulted in the circulation of more than 10 first-prize tickets instead of the regular four, a spokesperson for the Office for Government Policy Coordination said.’
`A western Iowa woman is recovering from the shock of finding a drowned bat in her tea mug – after she sipped from the cup all day. The brown bat, about the size of two tea bags, was found a few weeks ago by a 60-year-old Woodbury County woman, said Chuck Cipperley, an environmental director for the Siouxland health office in Sioux City. [..]
Mike Pentella, program manager at University Hygienic Laboratory, said the bat was a first for the lab.
“We test many, many bats,” he said, “but none that have drowned in a cup of tea before.”‘
`A baby died after rolling off a bed and falling into a bucket of her teenage mother’s vomit at a homeless shelter, police said.
The mother, Savarin DeJesus, 18, was charged with criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child, and could get five years behind bars. [..]
Authorities said DeJesus spent the evening of Sept. 15 downing gin and smoking cigarettes and then returned before dawn to the shelter where she lived with the 4-month old girl, Niah. DeJesus threw up into a bucket of cleaning solution next to her bed, then passed out on the bed, clutching Niah’s legs, authorities said.’
`Thailand’s coup leaders have banned go-go dancers from performing for troops on the streets of Bangkok, fearing soldiers may be distracted.
A troupe of scantily-clad women danced for soldiers near the Royal Plaza on Monday, as part of entertainments paid for by a local radio station.
But the coup’s leaders – who had earlier told soldiers to keep smiling – have now banned all dancing near tanks.
“We have to maintain the seriousness of the coup,” a military spokesman said.’
`Welsh-speaking cyclists have been left baffled – and possibly concerned for their health – after a bizarre translation mix-up.
For instead of a road sign telling them to dismount, the Welsh translation informs them that ‘bladder disease has returned’.
The temporary sign, placed in front of the roadworks at Barons Court roundabout between Penarth and Cardiff, correctly says ‘cyclists dismount’ in English, but says ‘llid y bledren dymchwelyd’ in Welsh.’
`A plan in the early 1970s to create a massive artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale has turned into an environmental mess with the U.S. Navy, Broward County and others trying to figure out how to remove about two million tires covering 36 acres of ocean floor. [..]
”They thought it would be a good fish habitat. It turned out to be a bad idea,” said William Nuckols, project coordinator and military liaison for Coastal America, a federal group involved in the cleanup. “It’s a coastal coral destruction machine.”’
‘If you were banging a blow up doll wouldn’t you lock the freakin door? I’ll let you be the judge.’
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‘A bunch of guys attempt to launch a model rocket. Not sure the launch could of gone any worse for the guy in the back.’
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`A grandad stuck down a manhole had his cries for help ignored by passers-by for almost an hour.
Clive Colins, 65, was about to open the boot of his car in a busy shopping car park when he stepped back on to a loose manhole cover and tumbled down a 5ft hole.
About 30 people walked past him, even though he was yelling for help and his head, a leg and an arm were stuck above the surface.
One woman even parked her car next to him. But she ignored the retired garage owner’s cries as she put the roof up on her convertible.’
`The world’s first ban on overly thin models at a top-level fashion show in Madrid has caused outrage among modeling agencies and raised the prospect of restrictions at other venues.
Madrid’s fashion week has turned away underweight models after protests that girls and young women were trying to copy their rail-thin looks and developing eating disorders. [..]
The Madrid show is using the body mass index or BMI — based on weight and height — to measure models. It has turned away 30 percent of women who took part in the previous event. Medics will be on hand at the September 18-22 show to check models.’
`A car hit a dirt hill at high speed and flew 200 feet into the second story of an apartment building on Tuesday, killing the driver, police said.
Two people in separate apartments at the time of the 9 a.m. crash escaped injury, and there were no injuries on the street.
Investigators did not know what led the driver, Vincent Pontillo Jr., to speed down a dead-end street. His 2004 Honda Accord, which was launched from a 4-foot dirt hill, penetrated the building up to its rear bumper, police spokesman Officer William Fairchild said.’
