Headlines for: 08-09-2001

‘THE OTHERS’ CO-STAR NEVER OUTGREW FEAR OF DARK LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – One of the co-stars of the haunted house movie The Others is confessing a deep, dark secret: She’s never gotten over her fear of the dark.

GIRL GROUP’S SIGN MISTAKEN FOR STRIP CLUB AD LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – Never underestimate the power of a sexy billboard. That’s what the girl group Mpress learned after folks in Treasure Island, Florida, mistook the group’s sign for a strip club ad.

ADULT FILM ACTRESS GETS FACE IN ‘AMERICAN PIE 2’ LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – An adult film star makes her big screen debut today in American Pie 2 – despite the fact she never set foot on the set of the teen sex comedy.

LIBERACE OF MARIACHI MAKES IT TO THE GRAMMYS NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (Wireless Flash) – Mariachi bands are finally getting honored by the music industry. For the first time in history, a mariachi band is up for a Grammy –

COUNTRY RAPPERS CHALLENGE TRACY BYRD NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Wireless Flash) – The future of country music may be determined in a high noon showdown between a country rap duo called the Southern Rap Commission and singers Tracy Byrd and Mark

PLENTY OF BATHROOMS AT KOOL-AID FESTIVAL HASTINGS, Neb. (Wireless Flash) – Drinking Kool-Aid all day could leave your bladder yelling “Oh yeah!” But organizers of this year’s Kool-Aid Days festival in Hastings,

MARGARET CHO GETS LAST LAUGH ON GENDER WITH NEW COMEDY TOUR PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (Wireless Flash) – Comedian Margaret Cho wants to do for gender issues with her new comedy tour, what Madonna did for sex with her 1992 book Sex.

BEYONCE KNOWLES INTERESTED IN EMINEM? NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) – Forget those rumors about Destiny’s Child’s Beyonce Knowles hooking up with Eminem. She tells the upcoming Seventeen there’s no truth to the

BRITNEY BEATS BARBIE IN BACK-TO-SCHOOL SHOPPING NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) – In the battle of back-to-school shopping trends, Britney Spears is creaming Barbie. That’s according to a new survey by America’s Research Group

FLASH LITES: RIP ‘N’ READ POP CULTURE RECAP NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) – Love may be in the air for wild child Jenna Bush, who has reportedly taken up with the son of a wealthy oil baron. The New York Daily News is reporting the First Daughter was