Blaine Does Bridge, Heat Does Hot Win, Aussies Steal From Children, Hussein's Defense Dead, and Jolie's Cause Overlooked

Gee, where will Blaine strike next?

1. After crying profusely a little over a month ago outside of his fishbowl at Lincoln Center, David Blaine is turning to the Brooklyn Bridge as the new spot to direct his craziness towards. "Challenging myself on this bridge has been my lifelong dream," Blaine told The NY Post. The most detailed he got about his next illusion is that it would be a "sphere stunt" about which "friends Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn (as well as "top brain surgeon, Dr. Murat Gunel")... were extremely concerned for my safety." Using Penn-Wright to market: sheer genius.

2. The Miami Heat became the third team in the past 60-year history to bounce back from being 0-2 in the Finals to win the NBA championship. Um... the Finals were happening? (LA Times)

3. Try to 'roo out of this one. In slightly disturbing news, 25% of Australian parents surveyed raid their kids' piggy banks. Worse yet, the parenting hooligans use the pennies to buy essentials like bread, pay off utility bills, and/or go on vacations. This does nothing for their land-of-convicts image. (Reuters)

4. Saddam Hussein's lawyers are dropping like flies, not because they don't want to defend him but because they're getting killed. The latest and third victim, Khamis al-Obeidi, was abducted from his home yesterday by men in police uniforms, shot several times, and dumped in Baghdad. ( BBC)

5. For gossip hens all over, the juiciest part out of Angelina Jolie's 30 gabillion-hour-long interview on Anderson Cooper 360 was Zahara's hating on the new baby. To demonstrate, People's headline, "Zahara is Jealous of Shiloh," and Gawker's snarky (I know, redundant) comments,

There was no soft lighting, no tears, no hard-hitting questions about Jennifer Aniston. Instead, we were faced unbelievable boredom: two straight hours of Jolie effusively discussing the plight of refugees, her face lighting up with every new country she could name-check. There was no new information (except that Zahara is jealous of the new baby, which is positively earth-shattering).

Does finding the plight of the poor and powerless boring/irrelevant make gossip hens callous or their perspective perverse? Nah.