Flash Lites: Rip ‘N’ Read Pop Culture Recap

Flash Lites: Rip ‘N’ Read Pop Culture Recap



LONG BEACH, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – Insert your pun here: Sylvester Stallone was recently spotted shooting a sausage commercial on board the Queen Mary ocean liner. Sadly, E! Online gossip columnist Ted Casablancas reports the Italian Stallion’s meaty performance will only be seen on the airwaves in Italy.

LOS ANGELES – The Fox network’s latest dating reality show is undergoing a name change. I Want a Husband: Alaska will now be known as Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska and will premiere June 2.

NEW YORK – Baseball fans who speak Spanish or Japanese will have a chance to pick who plays in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the first time this year, because officials are also printing the voting ballots in Spanish and Japanese.

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego-based record label Three One G Records has released a Queen tribute record, featuring punk rock and noise bands taking on songs like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Under Pressure.” While you might not have heard of most of the bands on Dynamite With A Laser Beam: Queen As Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G, the record reportedly already has one big fan – Queen’s Brian May.

LONDON – From the looks of things, Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten hasn’t changed a bit since the late 1970s. According to NME.com, during a recent interview, Rotten called Tony Blair a “pompous, upper class twit” and told the journalist giving the interview, “I don’t like you, you stink, everything about you is appalling. Go away.”

Fri 05-10-02