FLASH LITES: RIP ‘N’ READ POP CULTURE RECAP

FLASH LITES: RIP ‘N’ READ POP CULTURE RECAP



ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Wireless Flash) – Who’s the boss of the Miss America Pageant? Well, this year it’s Tony Danza, who will be hosting the September 22 beauty contest.

LAS VEGAS – Coyote Ugly may have bombed at the box office but it could drink in profits as a bar chain. A saloon like the one featured in the 2000 movie will open in a few months in the Las Vegas hotel New York, New York.

ANDERSON, Ind. – Talk about just desserts: An Indiana teenager who urinated into another teen’s soda was sentenced to 60 hours of shoveling horse manure.

WASHINGTON – A Dutch musicologist and a computer programmer have reconstructed old music sheets of a previously unheard overture to Macbeth written by Ludwig van Beethoven. The piece went unfinished by Beethoven because its financier considered it “too gloomy.” The 10-minute piece will make its debut in Washington next month.

NEW YORK – Kevin Spacey, a crooner? You betcha. Parade magazine is reporting the caustic Oscar winner is developing a script about singer Bobby Darin and can trill just like the “Mack the Knife” tunester.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Taj Mahal may be a good musician but a lot of people don’t want to live on a street named after him. Plans in his home town of Springfield, Massachusetts to rename Monroe St. “Taj Mahal Way” hit a dead end after residents protested. Now a plaque will have to suffice.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Bra thieves have struck again in a Rochester, Minnesota, Victoria’s Secret store where 1000 bras were lifted earlier this month. This time, the kinky cons stole 75 bras worth $3000.

GENEVA – Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie will be given the title of United Nations goodwill ambassador next Monday (Aug. 27). Jolie showed interest in refugees when she visited a camp in Cambodia where some of the scenes for Tomb Raider were shot.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Relatives of a deceased Des Moines, Iowa, man are suing a funeral home for burying him in the wrong plot – twice. The family of Merril Aldridge says Sunset Funeral Chapel and Mortuary placed the man’s body in the wrong row, unearthed him and buried him in a grave that still isn’t correct.

CLUTE, Texas – Everything is bigger in Texas, including the cheerleading squads. The Houston Chronicle reports one local high school was forced to accept all 60 girls who tried out after it was discovered two judges had rigged the tryout scores.