Month: June 2007

Culture

Sicko Message Belied by Weinstein Company’s Tactics

WEST CHESTER, Penna. – The message of Michael Moore’s Sicko, that the health-care-system deck in this country is stacked against poor people, is belied by the ethically questionable campaign of the film’s distributor, the Weinstein Company, to deny access to “their” film and its empowering message to anyone who can’t afford the price of admission. The Read More

Celebrities

Tom Cruise Brokered Spice Girls Reunion

LOS ANGELES – The Spice Girls are reuniting for a world tour, and we can thank Tom Cruise for that. The diminutive actor is rumored to have stepped in and brokered the reunion deal after negotiations between Geri Halliwell (Old Spice) and the rest of the group had broken down. Ms. Halliwell, 34, left the Read More

Celebrities

Paris Hilton Finds God in Jail, Starts Her Own Hotline

LOS ANGELES – Like many prisoners with time on their hands, Paris Hilton found god in jail. Ms. Hilton, 26, made the lord’s acquaintance in the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, where she served most of a twenty-three day sentence for violating the terms of her drunk-driving probation by operating a motor vehicle Read More

Celebrities

Angelina Jolie Blames Lack of Nudity for Movie Failure

NEW ORLEANS – Angelina Jolie believes the decision to eliminate her nude, steamy sex scenes from A Mighty Heart “cost this extremely important, serious movie the audience that it and I deserved.” A Mighty Heart describes the search for Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and ultimately beheaded in Pakistan five years ago. An ardently sensitive film Read More

Politics

President Bush Unpopular Even Among Illegal Immigrants

LOS ANGELES – The immigration debate, which has divided the Republican party, has divided illegal immigrants, too, with a slight majority of them believing President George W. Bush should be allowed to remain in the White House even though he “sneaked in through the back door.” By a six-to-five margin, illegal immigrants interviewed at rallies Read More

Culture

Summer Solstice a Gas, Gas, Gas in Amish Country

NEW HOLLAND, Penna. – Members of the Six-fingered Amish Church of the Propane Redeemer in New Holland, Pennsylvania, celebrated the Third Annual Summer Stoltzfus today. The celebration, which began at 2:46 a.m. and will last until sundown, is designed to counteract the “pagan influence” of Summer Solstice festivals held across the United States. The venerable Read More

News

Queen Elizabeth 2 Moving to Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Queen Elizabeth 2, the majestic traveler who inspired millions of people around the world during her fifty-five year reign, has been sold to a Dubai-owned company for $100 million. Istithmar, the state-owned company that purchased QE2, as she is known to her many admirers, plans to restore the venerable monarch Read More

Celebrities

Britney Spears News Blackout Urged by Satire Website

WEST CHESTER, Penna. – Postcards from the Pug Bus, southeastern Pennsylvania’s leading celebrity satire website, has called for a Britney Spears news blackout. Site founder and editor in briefs, Phil Maggitti, threw down the gauntlet yesterday afternoon, frightening his Boston terrier and nearly spilling a tall decaf latte in the process. “We haven’t written about Read More

Celebrities

Lindsay Lohan Drinking Guide

LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan and her culturally challenged publicity whore of a mother are gearing up to celebrate the younger Lohan’s coming of age, a rite of passage to be observed with all the pomp and circumstance befitting an event of its stature on July 2 through 6 at Caesars Palace’s Pure nightclub in Read More

Culture

Tony Soprano Sighting Reported in New Jersey

NEWARK, N.J. – Tony Soprano was sighted late Tuesday night leaving Satin Dolls, the gentlemen’s club on Route 17 in Lodi, New Jersey, where scenes that took place at the Bada Bing strip joint in The Sopranos had been filmed. “He looked good, man,” said Mario Fenestra, who reported the sighting to the Newark Star Ledger, the newspaper Read More

Culture

A&E Promises Better Sopranos Ending

NEW YORK – An executive for the A&E Television Network promises that its version of The Sopranos final episode, “Made in America,” originally broadcast on HBO last Sunday, “will be much more satisfying” than David Chase’s ambiguous closing that left so many viewers with their skivvies up their cracks. “This is still a Christian nation, thank God,” Read More