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Pondering the law of gravity with Kendra Wilkinson

kw-thumbWe all know that Kendra Wilkinson is pregnant and some of you also know that she recently had one heckuva baby shower, but how often do you see her soccer-mom’ed up and with no makeup? Thought so. Here she is (more below):

Kendra Wilkinson make-up free and heavily pregnant in Beverly Hills, CA.

And of course, no mom-to-be celebrity photo set would be complete without a profile view, so you can ponder the laws of gravity, physics and human epidermal elasticity while speculating about her delivery date.

Kendra Wilkinson make-up free and heavily pregnant in Beverly Hills, CA.

And now that you’ve seen her ‘Now’ photos, here’s a ‘Then’ pic of Kendra Wilkinson, Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend and current wife of footballer Hank Baskett.

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We’re still pondering the laws of gravity, physics and human epidermal elasticity, and loving every moment of it.

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How to predict lottery numbers

Derren BrownOn Wednesday magician Derren Brown predicted the lottery numbers in the British “Midweek Lotto Draw”. Last night he “revealed” how he did it or did he?

Derren Brown used “an ancient, powerful and beautiful secret, that can only be used when people get together.” He gathered 24 people, that studied the numbers from last year’s lottery draws. Each of them then wrote their predictions down on a piece of paper.

Brown then took the first number from the 24 people, added them together and divided by 24. He did the same with the five remaining numbers. The result were the numbers seen on television Wednesday evening.

According to Derren Brown, this trick won’t work if your actions are motivated by numbers. So if you plan on gathering 24 friends and doing the same thing, it probably wouldn’t work.

Now I’m no mathematician, but I’m pretty sure this wouldn’t work on lottery numbers. Sure if you were to guess the weight of a cow at some farmers market, and told 24 people to write down their guess and take the average of their guesses, you would probably get it right, but this is something else.

I smell help of technology, touch screens and computers. What do you think?

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Cookbook Plagiarism Suit Against Jerry Seinfeld’s Wife Dismissed

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New York, NY (CNS) – The plagiarism lawsuit against Jerry Seinfeld’s wife has been dismissed. A judge has thrown out the suit filed by another cookbook author against the comedian’s wife.

Missy Chase Lapine, author of “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals,” accused Jessica Seinfeld of copying Lapine’s recipes for her own cookbook, “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Getting Your Kids Eating Good Food.”

However, a federal New York judge on Thursday dismissed her suit, saying the similarities she identified are the result of similar medium used in cooking. She also noted that Lapine’s book is “a dry, rather text-heavy work,” while Jessica’s is a “bright and cheerful, full of different colors and various patterns.”

But the legal battle against Lapine and the Seinfelds doesn’t end there. Lapine also sued Jerry of defamation over the remarks he made on David Letterman’s late night show in October 2007.

Jerry joked that he was worried about the plaintiff’s name because many of the “three-name people do become assassins,” citing Mark David Chapman and James Earl Ray as examples.

While she dismissed the plagiarism lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge Laura Swain refused to rule on the defamation allegation, saying it was for the state courts to decide.

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Movie Review: Sorority Row ( ** )

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We just love slashing. When a stores slashes prices, an administrator slashes the budget, or a running back slashes through the line, we pay attention. Easy to understand.

But our addiction to slasher flicks remains a mystery for the ages. And the been-there-bludgeoned-that do-over, Sorority Row, will do nothing to clear it up.

Sorority Row is a loose remake and update of a 1983 horror thriller called The House on Sorority Row. So in a quarter-century we’ve lost a house but gained a…what, exactly? Well, as this high-body-count throwback illustrates, nothing much.

One of the characters is identified in the credits as “Bra-clad sister.” That may be all you need to know about this exploitation item, which panders to not only the bloodlust crowd but the voyeurism fraternity.

The plot: a group of college sorority sisters, members of Theta Pi, try to cover up the death of their sister after a prank backfires, and they end up stalked by a serial killer.

Remember I Know What You Did Last Summer? Well, color this one I Know What You Did Last Semester.

These nubile coeds, juniors all, are sworn to secrecy and solidarity, no matter what. But the loyalty they feel toward one another is sorely tested when Cassidy (Briana Evigan), Jessica (Leah Pipes), Ellie (Rumer Willis — yep, Bruce and Demi’s daughter), Claire (Jamie Chung), Chugs (Margo Harshman), and Megan (Audrina Patridge) participate in an extended practical joke at a party, staging a mock death that gets out of hand to the point that one of their number ends up very dead indeed.

Their initial guilt-driven instinct is to confess. But, in the name of protecting their threatened bright futures, they agree to keep the accidental murder to themselves and and hide both the corpse and their secret forever.

Not bloody likely.

A year later, as graduation day approaches, they plan one final big bash at the sorority house before they say their goodbyes and disperse to begin their adult lives. And it’s during the party that somebody begins sending anonymous cell phone videos to them that were apparently taken the night of the tragedy, threatening to turn them over to the authorities.

Then a serial killer — who this might be, they don’t know — begins stalking and doing away with the sisters and their boyfriends one by one, and in slobberingly, sadistically graphic ways.

Taking a page from Scream, the seemingly invincible maniac is, of course, dressed in a hooded graduation gown, just like many of the legitimate party guests. So we can’t identify the psychopath without a scorecard.

Desperately, our “heroines” try to figure out who let the secret slip, who wants them dead, and how they might fight back or escape. And they’re aided by their hard-drinking, tough-as-nails housemother, Mrs. Crenshaw, played by Carrie Fisher. (Who says this movie has nothing in common with Star Wars?)

Director Stewart Hendler (Whisper), working from a by-the-numbers screenplay by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger — with Mark Rosman, director of the original, as one of his two executive producers — embraces all the tired conventions and cliches of the genre. The pity of it is that before and in between the murder scenes, especially in the early going, Hendler shows that he’s capable of not only exhibiting a sense of humor but also raising the artistic stakes, directing his cast to deliver in a way that raises our hopes, only to slash and dash them when the revenge killing begins.

As for the who-dun-it aspect of the R-rated Sorority Row, when it is eventually resolved and revealed, it couldn’t be any more half-hearted and arbitrary and ridiculous and forgettable.

Hungry for a few slices of Theta Pi? Help yourself.

Bill Wine – Celebrity News Service Movie Critic/ AHN

100 minutes

In theaters September 11, 2009

Rating: R, Thriller

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D.A. Drops Charges against Shawne Merriman in Tila Tequila Assault Case

shawne-merriman-tila-tequila-charges-droppedThe charges alleging Shawne Merriman assaulted Tila Tequila by choking and assaulting her have been dropped by the San Diego District Attorney.

San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman was arrested September 6, for allegedly choking and restraining MySpace and MTV celebrity Tila Tequila. Tila Tequila (real name Tila Nguyen) made a 911 call at about 3:45am on the 6th saying she had been choked and restrained by her footballer boyfriend. When police arrived at her location, Tequila signed a “citizens arrest complaint” and Merriman was taken into custody pending charges.

On Friday September 11, San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis dropped the charges against Merriman because there was insufficent evidence to prove Tequila was actually assaulted.

But this is where it gets interesting – according to 10news.com, what led up to the fight between Merriman and Tequila was when Tequila walked in on Merriman and two other women in his bedroom. Tequila stormed out of the residence, threatening to have an affair with one of Merriman’s friends. That’s when the alleged choking and confinement happened.

But did the D.A. know something we don’t? Like did Tequila call the police as payback for Merriman’s infidelity? It would appear that way, wouldn’t it? Since there wasn’t enough evidence against Merriman for the D.A. to believe the charges would stick.

Sources: Popcrunch, 10News.

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