Friday, April 21, 2006

Naomi Stamps, Jagger Fiddles, Friends Boggles, FDA doesn't 420, and Smashing Who?

1. One can now find Naomi Campbell's face all over 75 cent stamps in Austria. The Campbell stamp benefits AIDS charities and every letter recipient that wears crappy jeans. (Hello!)

2. Mick Jagger is currently negotiating for a role in an untitled ABC pilot about a group of New Yorkers who scheme to rob a celebrity (Jagger). Originally the comedy was titled I Want to Rob Jeff Goldblum, who apparently was never attached and has his own NBC show in the works. Who knew Mick Jagger would ever play sloppy seconds to Jeff Goldblum? (CNN)

3. California's Supreme Court threw out an ex-Friends assistant's sexual harassment case on her subjection to the writing staff's crude language. The court based its 7-0 ruling yesterday on their understanding that the crude language was to be expected, so as to not stifle the creative juices for an "adult-oriented" show, and was not directed to the assistant, but the actors. The papers reveal cracks on the doability of Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer's sexual preference, and turning the character of Joey into a serial rapist in the spinoff. Sort of disturbing to find all this out about the minds behind such a squeaky clean show. (The Smoking Gun)

4. Yesterday (coincindentally?) the FDA announced that "no sound scientific studies" support marijuana use for medicinal purposes, which apparently doesn't really matter as the enforcement comes from the DEA anyway...um, who agrees. (NYT)

5. "It's official" everyone. The Smashing Pumpkins ...*squeal*...are getting back together. I guess it matters if we were still in the 20th century. (MTV)

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