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BOP Daily NewsFebruary 23, 2006The spirit of BOP News lives on in
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| Joe Pesci just got a great Oscar season present. And it's not a nomination ... it's a "get out of jail" free card. Palm Beach (Florida) prosecutors announced they are dropping assault charges against him because (get this) they don't know if Pesci could be convicted or not. In late Januaray, a 22-year old college student reported to police that the 62-year old (not to mention "height challenged) actor punched him during "an exchange" at a shopping center in Boca Raton. For taking a photograph of Pesci. Jill Estey Richstone, an Assistant State Attorney, confirmed that her office declined to pursue charges because officers could not determine who instigated the events underlying the assault charge -- Pesci or his alleged victim -- and no independent witnesses existed (or at least weren't willing to step forward). Luckily for Pesci, the shopping malls of Boca Raton were utterly deserted that day. |
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Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie) has accomplished what few celebrities of his generation -- or any generation, for that matter -- have managed to do: He stopped his sex-tape from becoming public. Red Light District, a company in California famous for releasing Paris Hilton's sex-tape "One Night in Paris" (we still wake up screaming over that one), had been set to release a complition video showing Kid Rock and Creed singer Scott Stapp [*censored 'cause we're a family operation here*] from four adoring female fans. Kid's attorneys successfully persuaded District Judge John Feikens to stop the release of the video, arguing that the tape violated the entertainer's privacy and trademark rights. William Horton, one member of Rock's flotilla of attorneys, reportedly told the Detroit Free Press: "We don't deny the authenticity of the tape, but they're using [it] without his permission to drive the sales of their other products." Oddly enough, no one brought up the issue of whether the tape would violate Kid Rock's copyright interests in "Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp." |
| Tom Gregory, an actor and collector living in Hollywood, submitted a winning bid for the two shirts from Brokeback Mountain in an eBay charity auction. How much did he pay? A cool $101,100.51 on a bid entered less than thirty seconds before the auction closed. Proceeds from the auction will benefit a children's charity in Southern California, and Gregory certainly earned the admiration of thousands -- if not millions -- for his generosity and love for the movie. Unfortunately, Mr. Gregory went just a little step too far by calling the intertwined shirts "[T]he ruby slippers of our time." Neither Toto nor Dorothy was available for comment, but every gay man over the age of thirty-five immediately went ballistic over the scurillous comment and vowed their very lives to retain the gradeur of the Blessed Ruby Slippers. |
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