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The signing would be a big blow to the Los Angeles Clippers who had hoped to pair Brand with Baron Davis who has verbally agreed to sign with the Clippers.

Even though the Clippers were expected to let Corey Maggette go, league sources have confirmed to HOOPSWORLD that Maggette will sign with the Golden State Warriors for more than the mid-level offers he was getting from the likes of San Antonio, Boston and Utah.  One source said the deal is expected to be in the neighborhood of five years and $50 million.

The Clippers are now left with a couple of big holes to fill if the team has hopes of becoming the contender fans thought they might be with Davis and Brand, and one has to wonder if Davis might end up second guessing the verbal agreement he made.

The Clippers have some cap room to play with, but there is no one on the open market who can bring to the table what Brand did.  Assuming Davis keeps his word and signs with the Clippers, it's not like LA will be without talent on its roster.  A starting lineup that includes Davis, Al Thornton and Chris Kaman will be formidable.  That said, the Clips will likely have to add at least one more legitimate piece to be considered true playoff contenders.

For the Warriors, Maggette should fit in perfectly in Don Nelson's up-tempo system.  One of Mike Dunleavy's biggest complaints about Maggette was his shot-selection and sometimes lackadaisical attitude on the defensive end of the floor.  Both of those weaknesses will likely prove less problematic given the Warriors' style of play.

 

 

I never understood why celebrities need to advertise who they are dating. The ones who post their affection all over the tabloids are the ones who end up breaking up months later. So why do these people set themselves up for failure? They're celebrities. It's what they do.

Example 1- Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (Dodgeball) recently broke up. I know, who cares. Well they displayed their affection in front of posh restaurants for the paps so they must have been promoting something. Turns out the two have a movie coming out later this summer appropriately titled, "he's just not that into you". Was this all a ploy? Were they really dating at all? Does anyone care? I think not. Next couple.

Example 2- Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were the pop king and queen until something happened to make Britney now a joke in the public eye. These two need to be cut a little slack, though. I think they started dating when they were 16 and broke up when they were 20. That's not too bad seeing they only saw eachother at award shows. The only problem I have with this relationship is that I think the managers of the two had more to do with the publicity than Britney and Justin. Do you think agents and managers send their clients out to eat at the Ivy just so they can end up on the cover of US weekly? Hmmm... that's a thinker.

Example 3- Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Jumping on couches and yelling about Scientology gets a man to the top of the Hollywood crazy list. Katie Holmes used to be so private and demur and now she is sucked into the world of Cruise. I think Tom celebrates his love a bit less now than before but I think he needs to focus a little more on making some more box office bombs and less on his Scientology propaganda. Leave WILL SMITH ALONE!

Example 4- Paris Hilton and whomever she is dating that week. Paris is famous because she is dumb, blonde and skinny. If she dates someone they become famous. I don't understand or accept the Paris phenomenon because I think she is a piece of garbage. I have more respect for Nicole Richie and she was in rehab for god's sake. Why are we so fascinated by these non-celebrity pieces of garbage?! I will never understand how she got so famous and why her alone is bringing down America's IQ.

Celebrities who actually want their marriages to work move away from the glitz and glamour. You can tell who will make it and who won't just by the number of public appearances they make together. It's sad but I think the marriage success rate in Hollywood is about 10 percent... if not lower.

Mena Suvari's thick blunt-cut bangs, while I like the style, they're high maintenance because they need to be blow dryed & straightened every day and they need to be cut every couple of weeks in order to keep the shape. This style works best on people who already have straight hair naturally and oval or long faced shapes.

Paris Hilton's whispy side parted bangs are a much easier style to maintain and will work on a variety of hair textures and face shapes. Bangs with a whispy texturized finish are easier to grow out and will look good whether they're straight or curly. If you cut them shorter, they can be worn forward or to the side, and longer fringes are nice when they're connected to longer layers framing the face.

What I would recommend for anyone that has a long hair style with bangs is to go and get your bangs trimmed by your hairstylist in between hair cuts. This way your haircut stays looking fresh and you won't be so tempted to cut them yourself.

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So it goes.  I'll try to post as often as possible but life gets busy sometimes.

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So anywho... the offending footage that TMZ posted is MINI-MAL @ best!!! (DAMN we're fast with the one-liners...) Peep it below, followed by a clip from an interview (done by AVN, the Porn people) with the female on the tape, Renae Shrider.

crazy man. crazy.

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- A MTV tem agora um blogueiro para sacudir os armários do show business, o Diego Ferreira, do blog de humor ácido sobre o mundo dos famosos "Te Dou um Dado?".

Didi (não é o dos trapalhões!!!) comanda o Gay Show, que nesta terça-feira chega a sua segunda edição, exclusivamente pelo site da MTV.

Depois da bela Mari Moon, oriunda também da internet, agora é a vez de Didi ... Como se vê a internet é uma fonte de novos talentos.

Blog "Te Dou um Dado?"

- A ex-BBB e beldade Grazielli Massafera, foi escolhida para ser a protagonista de "Negócio da China", próxima novela das 18 horas da TV Globo, com autoria de Miguel Falabella.

A emissora do Rio cogitava a apresentadora Angélica para ser a protagonista da novela, mas a loira recusou o convite para o papel sob o argumento de que tem filhos pequenos.

Coisas de mãe ... Angélica tinha uns negócios da China para resolver. Ahahahah...

- A socialite Paris Hilton disse que seu namorado, o roqueiro Benji Madden, não a deixa fazer uma tatuagem porque a acha "pura", segundo o site Fametastic. Hilton afirmou que gostaria de tatuar seu amor ao namorado, mas que ele não concordou com a idéia.

O que Benji acha é a mais pura besteira... Ahahahaha...

- Os fãs de rugby da Nova Zelândia, na Oceania, que assistiam a um programa de esportes no domingo à tarde acabaram vendo cenas de pornografia pesada (eitcha!!!!) em um canal de TV local.

Quatro minutos de pornografia interromperam (opa!!!) a cobertura de esportes do canal Prime Television, depois do que um porta-voz descreveu como um engano de distribuição. As imagens pornográficas eram destinadas a um canal pay-per-view para adultos.

O que esse canal adulto fazia na programação do canal? O que os operadores de vídeo e áudio estavam fazendo no horário?

Nem te conto. Ahahahaha...

Angelina Jolie, Robert de Niro, Elvis Presley, Leonardo Di Caprio, Nicolas Cage, Paris Hilton, Robbin Williams, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks y Will Smith y Alfonso Ribeiro.

The hills slags celebrate the 4th of July the only way they know how - by dressing skankily and acting in an irritating manner (Lauren's stripy bikini is quite cute tho).

It's a little depressing to know these girls are role models for so many young girls out there but they are still a major upgrade from Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton. It would just be nice if once in a while one of them said something more intellectual than - "Oh, your outfit looks so cute today!"

Ranae Shrider, Mini-me's desperate-for-attention ex girlfriend, claims she's not "trying to cash in on my 15 minutes of fame." But then she goes out and talks to anyone who will listen to her about the few months she was polishing Mini-me's knob.

Most recently it's the UK's News of The World, where she dished about sex with Verne Troyer and the size of his mini-meat.

This girl wants to be a model/actress, I get it. But what I find perversely fascinating about this story is the possibility that sex tape fame-seekers like Shrider may feel that they now have to be even more extreme in what they do on camera in order to get noticed.

Professional hoes like Paris Hilton, Pam Anderson and Kim Kardashian have cornered the marked on celebrity sex tapes between "normal sized" people. So along comes sweet little Ranae who films herself grinding a midget in order to shock her way into Hollywood.

So my question is: given that Ranae has upped the ante, what's the next person gonna have to do to grab headlines?

Shrider's full interview is posted after the jump, but here's a taste...

"It was two weeks before we finally had sex, at his place. I was so nervous I wanted it over and done with—in case there was no chemistry or it just didn't work because of his size."

Mini Me Star Gave Me a Little of What I Fancied

By Georgina Dickinson

Sex with the 2 ft 8 inch Austin Powers Mini-Me star Verne Troyer was always going to be a tall order for the 5 ft 6 inch lover Ranae Shrider

NO SMALL PARTS: Verne as movie Mini-me

But as the explicit leaked video of the pair's pasionate romps proved to the world...they wouldn't let a little thing like that come between them.

And after a judge pulled the explosive footage off the internet, actress Ranae, 22, revealed to the News of the World her own red-hot tale of the tape—and just how 39-year-old Hollywood dwarf Verne measures up in bed.

Brunette Ranae admitted: "I never imagined one day I'd date a man who barely came up to my kneecaps.

"But as soon as I met Verne I was so captivated by his personality, his size didn't seem to matter.

"I liked him so much I even gave up wearing high heels for six months.

"But sex was very different from anything I'd experienced before, and I'd be lying if I didn't say it was tricky making everything work.

"I had to kneel down just to give him a hug. And anything but the traditional missionary position was just impossible. So I'd lie on the bed and Verne would crawl up my legs to have sex with me. And as he did it his feet would be tickling my knees!

"It wasn't quite as passionate as sex with a normal-sized man but he did his best. He didn't wear a condom. There was no point, they're all too big.

"On the whole though, he wasn't short of sexy skills and tried his hardest to make up in technique what he lacked in size."

Smitten

Now Ranae has given us the low-down on their extraordinary six-month fling and revealed how pint-sized Verne:

WOWED her with his Austin staying Powers, making love THREE TIMES in 20 minutes.

ALMOST DROWNED as she tried to seduce him in the bath!

STACKED phone books on chairs so he could eat with her at the table.

LOATHED her miniature pet dog—because it was taller than him.

It was New Year's Eve when Ranae first met Verne at Playboy boss Hugh Hefner's party in his Beverly Hills mansion. Ranae says the chemistry was instant. She told us: "He asked for my phone number. I didn't have anything else to do so I thought why not?"

Her first date with Verne—famous for playing midget clone versions of baddie Dr Evil in the smash Austin Powers movies—was a romantic dinner at seafood restaurant The Lobster overlooking the Pacific in Santa Monica.

Ranae recalled: "Verne told me not to reach down and hold his hand when we walked in as he didn't want it to look like a child out with his mum.

"When we got to the table he'd fixed for the restaurant to pile three thick phone books on the seat so he could be on the same level as me. Once he'd sat down it was just like having dinner with a normal-sized man.

TABLE FOR 1 AND A HALF: Verne and Ranae's 1st date

"We laughed all night and I noticed what amazing eyes Verne had. By the end of the meal I wassmitten.

"But Verne played the perfect gent and didn't lay a finger on me. He just dropped me home and I bent down so he could give me a peck on the cheek.

"It was two weeks before we finally had sex, at his place. I was so nervous I wanted it over and done with—in case there was no chemistry or it just didn't work because of his size.

"It was a normal-sized bed and once Verne had clambered up, I undressed and laid down next to him.

"For a small guy he's quite well endowed. I had no complaints.

"But the whole thing was over in three minutes.

"It was strange having sex with someone who couldn't reach to kiss me at the same time, except for my tummy that is! I was so relieved it was over.

"But minutes later Verne was ready to go again. That night we made love three times in 20 minutes, which most bigger men only dream about doing."

The pair's next romp came four weeks later when Verne took Ranae for a romantic Easter break to the luxury L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills.

It was here they made the infamous sex tape, which last week was sensationally leaked onto the internet after allegedly being stolen from the home the couple still share.

And it was here Verne almost DROWNED in a bubble bath as Ranae tried to spice up their love-making.

"I thought it would be fun to do it in the tub," she said. "Sadly I almost killed him. While Verne was watching TV I ran the bath, emptied a bottle of bubbles in it and called him in.

"But the bubbles were so thick and high that once he climbed in he got lost under the water and I couldn't see him.

Frantic

"Verne's voice is just like it is in the films and as he disappeared under the water, I heard this tiny yelp for help. I could just hear him crying, ‘Ranae, I can't see! Get me out, I'm drowning!'

"I was frantic and started to scoop the bubbles out so I could find him. The bath was only about 3ft deep but for someone of Verne's size it was like he'd fallen into the deep end of a swimming pool—and he CAN'T swim. I put my hand under and eventually felt his bald head and hauled him out. I couldn't believe I'd tried to do something sexy and ended up almost killing him. He looked like a drowned rat.

Click here for pics of Verne and Ranae

"Then when I asked, ‘Shall we have sex now?' he was so out of breath he just stomped off with foam on his shiny head and said, ‘I don't feel like it now.' It was dreadful."

So the next night, when Verne asked her to star in his DIY sex video, guilty Ranae felt duty-bound to agree.

She said: "Without a doubt there's nothing Verne enjoys more than seeing himself on screen. Watching his own films is his favourite hobby. So it was no surprise when he asked if he could film us having sex. He said we could use it to get ourselves turned on."

Verne then turned director...telling Ranae where he wanted furniture because he was too small to move it himself. She said: "Verne ordered champagne and strawberries to get us in the mood. Then we got down to it.

"First the tape shows Verne pleasuring me for 15 minutes which was amazing. The next 45 minutes is us having sex. And we really enjoyed ourselves."

Pizza

Within weeks the pair were so in love they rented an apartment in Hollywood together. But that's when their little-and-large romance began to unravel. Ranae said: "The fact is, because of his size, Verne can't do a lot of stuff. So I ended up feeling more like a carer than his girlfriend. We only had sex one more time after that.

"And at home Verne couldn't be bothered with phone books on the chair so we ate at the coffee table, him on a stool and me on the floor.

"Luckily I didn't have to cook much—because after two biscuits Verne is full. One slice of Hawaiian pizza and he's happy for the rest of the day!"

And Ranae discovered there were times when Verne's shortcomings did make him miserable. "Obviously part of him wishes he could be as big as a regular man," she said. "Verne absolutely hated looking in the mirror.

"And he detested my little Maltese dog Lacey because when she stood on her back legs she was bigger than him."

Booze was a problem, too. Last year Verne confessed he was battling to beat the booze after the collapse of his two-month marriage to 6ft2ins yoga instructor Genevieve Gallen.

Ranae said: "Verne regularly drinks five beers at a time, which for a man his size is lethal. I'd tell him he'd had enough but his pals just told him to ignore me. In the end Verne put his friends before me and now it's over.

"We live in the same apartment but have separate rooms. I still care for Verne—but sadly Verne cares more about himself."

And that's the long and short of it.

The American Family Association (AFA) is calling for a boycott of Mcdonalds for promoting as they say "the homosexual agenda".  I guess The King from Burger King is promoting the heterosexual agenda by showing up with a crossainwich in a man's bed?  Are you kidding me?

AFA founder and chairman Rev. Don Wildmon, McDonald's is "promoting a lifestyle that would utterly destroy the traditional family." 

O.K. can I ask you all something?  What is the traditional family nowawdays?  For real.  Does the traditional family still have picket fences?  Does a traditional family go to Mcdonalds because gas is so high they can only afford stuff from the $1 menu?  Just because Grimmace always seems happy doesn't mean that the Hamburglar has turned into the turdburgler and giving it to Grimmace every time Mayor McCheese isn't looking.

I could understand people boycotting McDonalds because it is bad for you (although their french fries are the boooomb and why does the soda there taste better than anywhere else while we are at it.) or boycotting Mcdonalds to put some meat in their dang burgers.  If you had a 2 cheeseburger combo from them recently, you know that ain't angus baby, but anus. 

Here is more info on this story: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/03/mcdonalds-boycott/

I guess the golden arches should be getting a rainbow around it.  Maybe Mcdonalds should get someone hot and straight and is fake like their burgers cleaning my car and getting it all soapy..oh wait..Paris Hilton did that a few years ago. -Dr.FB

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