FLASH LITES: RIP N READ POP CULTURE RECAP
FLASH LITES: RIP N READ POP CULTURE RECAP
BROOKFIELD, Pa. (Wireless Flash) A Pennsylvania man is suing the owners of a 600 pound pig which bit him while he was in the woods behind his house. The swine called Piggybaby wasnt supposed to be roaming free.
LOS ANGELES Talk about Oscar gold: An Oscar won by the composer of the 1945 musical Anchors Aweigh fetched more than seven times the expected amount at a recent auction. An anonymous bidder plunked down more than $150,000 for the statuette.
EDINBURGH, Scotland Maybe Macbeth was on to something: Witchcraft is on the rise in Scotland, with more than 10,000 practitioners at last count, reports Britains The Sunday Times.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. New York-based celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman has pleaded innocent to charges stemming from a July 7 car crash. Grubman is accused of intentionally backing her SUV into club-goers at a tony bar in the Hamptons.
LONDON 60-year-old Dallas star Linda Gray says she has no qualms about stripping down for a nude scene in the London stage play based on the 1967 film, The Graduate. Gray will play the Mrs. Robinson role made famous by Anne Bancroft.
REVERE, Mass. A senior citizen couple has made a dream come true by being wed at the McDonalds restaurant where they first met 20 years ago. The 82-year-old groom and his 75-year-old bride dined on fries and Chicken McNuggets following the ceremony.
PARIS A Paris court has rejected a lawsuit filed by Les Miserables author Victor Hugos great-great-grandson to prevent the writing of a contemporary sequel to the book. Pierre Hugo had claimed a new novel would break a French law protecting the integrity of art and fictional characters.
LOS ANGELES Following the World Trade Center collapse, the hip-hop group The Coup pulled the artwork for their new album cover, which depicts the group detonating a bomb which explodes the WTC. The group says they changed the artwork as soon as they saw the disaster.
LOS ANGELES Comic Paula Poundstone pleaded no contest to child endangerment charges yesterday after prosecutors dropped sex charges against her in a deal to spare her prison time. In a statement, the 41-year-old comic said, Today, the truth prevailed.