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Reuters via Yahoo! News, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 6:27 PM PDT
Sharapova poised for title defense http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050616/lf_nm/sport_wimbledon_sharapova_dc_1
When Maria Sharapova shook up the world of tennis a year ago by beating Serena Williams to win Wimbledon, she did not even have a decent mobile phone with which to relay the news.

Sharapova poised for title defense By Bill Barclay
Wed Jun 15, 9:27 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - When Maria Sharapova shook up the world of tennis a year ago by beating Serena Williams to win Wimbledon, she did not even have a decent mobile phone with which to relay the news.

The sight of the pretty, long-limbed teenager trying vainly to call her mother using her father's mobile on the Center Court was one of the enduring images of an endearing triumph that transformed Sharapova's life permanently.

The art of communicating the Sharapova success story has since been honed to perfection.

A year later the 18-year-old with the looks of a model cat-walks back to the scene of her triumph having acquired the poise of a champion and a clear understanding of her financial potential both on and off the court.

"I've no butterflies yet, just a lot of excitement," Sharapova told a telephone conference call this week. "Being back here brings back all the great memories.

"This is where it happened, this is where I won my first grand slam. It's really exciting."

Born in Nyagan in Siberia, Sharapova journeyed from Russia to the United States as a nine-year-old with her father in search of a tennis career.

INTERNET SEARCH

Last year's victory marked the completion of her road from rags to riches and today she is the most marketable sportswoman in history.

Anyone poring over her WTA handbook profile will be rewarded with the revelation that, last October, she was the top search on the KaZaZZ! internet search engine ahead of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson, among others.

Sharapova has long been able to walk the walk and now the teenager who used to read prepared statements at post-match news conferences talks the talk perfectly.

"A lot of things have changed on and off the court," said the world number two who revealed last week that she will be launching her own eponymous brand of perfume in September.

"I feel like I'm a more complete player than I was a year ago.

"Off the court I've got to meet amazing people in different industries, I've got be associated with great companies and I've also been able to give back charity-wise. That's also very important."

In fact Sharapova's progress on court has not quite matched her success off it.

After winning Wimbledon she reached the third round at the U.S. Open and, this year, the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the quarter-finals of the French Open.

UNDER PRESSURE

She has won three tournaments in 2005 -- at Tokyo, Doha and last week at Edgbaston in England, where she repeated her 2004 win in the low-key Wimbledon warm-up event.

Given the relentless glare of publicity, those are creditable results achieved under considerable pressure.

"It's very difficult knowing that people are always expecting you to win," she said. "But it's impossible to win everything. People just have to realize that.

"Your fans obviously want you to win all the time but I think they respect the fact that you're just simply a human."

One of the biggest threats to her defense at the All England Club will be resurgent Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne, who exposed the weaknesses in Sharapova's game in winning their last-eight clash at Roland Garros two weeks ago.

Stretched thinly over her 1.83m frame, Sharapova's high center of gravity means that, against a wily opponent who makes her run, she can look more like a giraffe on stilettos than a future world number one.

On grass, however, her increasingly strong serve and clubbing groundstrokes down both flanks are usually more than enough to compensate.

"I'm not worried about playing her," Sharapova said. "I played Justine on her favorite surface (in Paris).

"She had a little bit of an advantage on that but obviously on grass everything is faster, points are shorter. If you're serving well and returning well, those are the keys on the grass."

USA Today, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 5:44 PM PDT
'Perfect' pals: Locklear and Duff http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-06-15-locklear-duff_x.htm?csp=34
Heather Locklear and Hilary Duff became so tight on the set of their new movie, The Perfect Man, that they developed a secret ...

'Perfect' pals: Locklear and Duff
By William Keck, USA TODAY
BEVERLY HILLS — Heather Locklear and Hilary Duff became so tight on the set of their new movie, The Perfect Man, that they developed a secret clenched-lip language that allowed them to gossip freely without anyone being the wiser.

Heather Locklear and Hilary Duff, who play a mother and daughter in The Perfect Man, bonded on the set of the movie. It opens Friday.
By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY

"I had good stories for her of things not to do," Locklear says, lounging with Duff on a sofa at the Four Seasons Hotel.

"All confidential," Duff says with a nod.

In the film, which opens Friday, Duff's character gets herself into a heap of trouble when she concocts an imaginary suitor for her single mom (Locklear). It was Duff, whose mother, Susan, is a producer on the film, who suggested Locklear for the part.

For more than two decades, Locklear has jumped from one TV hit to the next (T.J. Hooker, Melrose Place, Spin City) since her debut in 1981 at age 19 as Dynasty spitfire Sammy Jo Carrington. Duff, whose first role was a 9-year-old witch in 1998's Casper Meets Wendy, also has worked non-stop since making the transition from her long-running Disney Channel TV series, Lizzie McGuire, to a string of successful feature films (Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story). Last year, the actress/singer also found time to go on tour with her sister, Haylie, 20, and sell 11 million records.

Finally crossing paths, Locklear, 43, and Duff, 17, discovered that they share much in common: chiefly their love for rocker boys and clean living.

On the appeal of bad-boy rockers

Locklear, who was married to Motley Crue's Tommy Lee from 1986 to 1993 before he moved on to future ex-wife Pamela Anderson, has been happily married to Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora since 1994. And Duff, who for months has remained cagey about the nature of her relationship with Good Charlotte lead singer Joel Madden, acknowledges that the two are in fact an item. Plans are being discussed for Duff, 17, and Madden, 26, to "come out" as a couple as co-presenters at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami on Aug. 28, one month before she turns 18.

"What happens when you're 18?" Locklear asks.

"Nothing," Duff answers. "I don't feel like there's anything that I can do when I'm 18 that I can't do now. Nothing's going to change."

Duff says Madden is her perfect man because he shares her values. "Compared to any young Hollywood-actor dude, Joel is so normal. He's not a partier. He's not a crazy rock star. He doesn't trash his room. And I like the way he looks, obviously."

As a "good and honest girl," Locklear says her attraction to bad boys allows her to explore "the flip side of myself, the darker side."

"You see them on stage," Locklear says, "and it's pretty hot."

On 'dating' Tom Cruise

Locklear's string of celeb beaus, which include '80s heartthrob Scott Baio, began in 1982 with a handsome young Hollywood newcomer named Tom Cruise. But not really, she clarifies all these years later, acknowledging: "I don't think we kissed. It was more friends."

That admission sort of confuses Duff, who expresses her suspicions when she is shown a photo of the two out on the town.

"Oh God," Locklear sighs, telling Duff, "It's a long story. I'll tell you the secret part of it later. The real story."

"I think I know," Duff says.

"No, no. It's not bad," Locklear says, laughing. "He was new in town, and he was 18 or 19. He didn't know anyone, and so I said I would go to wherever with him. He called me 'Ma'am.' "

On maintaining squeaky-clean images

Maybe there's something to that never-changing blond hair. Locklear and Duff don't attract the kind of tabloid attention awarded such sometimes-blondes as Lindsay Lohan, Ashlee Simpson and Britney Spears.

Duff says the reason such stars constantly land in the tabloids is they crave that attention. "They choose to be seen like that," Duff says. "Which is fine. I just don't. It's not how I live."

The only negative stories Duff has read about herself paint her as a "drama queen" at odds with Lohan. That ongoing soap opera is part of the reason Duff is on her fourth publicist in one year. "I felt we needed someone who was going to get some positive stuff out there," she says.

Duff seems to be doing a pretty good job of that on her own, just by being careful. On the rare occasions she does go clubbing, she enters through a back door. "And I don't get drunk and dance on tables."

"I do!" Locklear interjects, calling Duff "much more sophisticated and mature" than she was at Duff's age. "I was like this dork."

As parent to daughter Ava, 7, Locklear says: "I have to wonder how all this could have happened to Hilary and yet she's still so grounded and has a good heart. How do you get that in a daughter?"

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Kid Rock has been slapped with a $500,000 ( 414,800) lawsuit, after a fight with a DJ in a Nashville, Tennessee strip club. Rock, who was once engaged to Pamela Anderson, was arrested in February after he allegedly punched DJ Jay Campos over his selection of music, reports allhiphop.com.

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Twin Cities Reader Summer Books Issue - Volume 26 - Issue 1280 - Cover Story
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The Barnstormer A few years ago, Doug Ohman was a theme-park executive with 600 employees. Today, he photographs barns. What happened? (Cover Story)
Fixing a Leak What happens when a reporter doesn't keep his word to an anonymous source? (Cover Story)
From the Beauty Parlor to the Barricades! Her warmhearted characters feel good about the world. Lorna Landvik doesn't. (Cover Story)
Love and Marriage To most of us, nothing sounds worse than a loveless marriage. According to Stephanie Coontz, it wasn't always that way. (Cover Story)
Life of Johnson It wasn't fun bringing up the rump of the avant-garde. B.S. Johnson felt compelled to do it anyway. (Cover Story)
Joe Coomer: Pocketful of Names (Cover Story)

Romance novelist Connie Brockway wants to know why people can't look past the unbound bosom and love-swollen member
The Dirty Parts

Connie Brockway: "I think it's interesting that in romance, the relationships are always totally monogamous. Once the hero and the heroine get together...that's it."

Image by Diana Watters
by Diablo Cody
June 15, 2005

"His engorged maleness pressed urgently against her throbbing delta."

Romance novels are known for such florid, circulation-fixated descriptions of garden-variety rutting. In fact, those unfamiliar with the romance genre often skip directly to the obligatory fucking passage. What young girl hasn't powered through Harlequin paperbacks in a hidden nook at the public library, flipping past key plot points in a preadolescent lather? There are even novelty bookmarks that declare their intention to flag "the dirty parts."

Based on this popular behavior, one might assume that romance novelists would be grateful for the universal crowd-pleaser that is engorged maleness. Surprisingly, romance writer Connie Brockway would sooner see the convention, um, deflated.

"What is it about 15 pages of a romance novel that has everybody focusing on it so much? Is it because it's written by women?" Brockway asks. "I really don't mean to sound defensive, but I think 'the dirty parts' is a vision that non-romance-readers have of romance."

Brockway has published 17 novels, starting with 1994's Promise Me Heaven. This year, she's been nominated for two RITA Awards (the most sought-after prize in romance publishing) and has a chance of being inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Talking in the kitchen of her spacious and airy Edina home, she's clearly passionate about the romance genre, especially historical romance. She's not reluctant to classify romance as "pop literature"--on the contrary, she believes that it's an insult to the genre to call it anything else. Rather, it's that pesky "paperback smut" stereotype that raises her hackles.


"Terms you hear classically about romance are 'bodice ripper,' 'trash,' and 'porn for women,'" Brockway says with distaste. "People who don't read [romance] always ask me about it. They say, 'That's bad, that's so not feminist, that's so sexist.' Then in the same breath, they turn around and say, 'Women should not write about sex.' The exact same people! You can't have it both ways."

Brockway says that she suspects the romance genre is often derided precisely because it is written and consumed primarily by women. "When I got out of college and I started writing romance, I got very defensive about that," she says. "I always thought it had a lot to do with a patriarchal, ivory-tower mentality."

Brockway attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota and received a degree in creative writing. She gravitated naturally toward romance owing to her passion for history and intrigue, but almost immediately after she began working in her genre of choice, she felt heat from those who felt her considerable talents might be wasted. "I got a lot of flak when I started. People felt like, 'You're leaving the sisterhood,'" Brockway says, alluding to the belief that the genre is sexist by design. "I did a lot of thinking about where the romance genre fits into society. What its function is. Why is it denigrated? Why is it looked down on?"

The prejudice against romance extends to popular media. "The Strib won't review any pop fiction, as far as I know, except mysteries. Why won't they review romance?"

Still, Brockway concedes that the genre functions mainly as high-quality fantasy fodder for its female readers. "It does romance a disservice to pretend it's something it's not. It becomes defensive. Saying it's literary is being embarrassed of what it is."

Despite this admission, the typical romance fan, according to Brockway, isn't a subliterate hausfrau slobbering after her teenage pool cleaner and Tivo-ing Passions. Rather, she reports, most romance readers consume a steady diet of quality literature, supplemented with their guilty pleasure of choice. "Readers are readers," Brockway says. "The one thing I'm always amazed by with my readership is what articulate and intelligent women they are. They're well-read; they're not segmented. They don't just read romance."

This informed readership isn't content reading about ditzy contessas being seized by swarthy pirates, either. Today's romantic heroine is the thinking woman's contessa. "Right now there are so many bluestocking [intellectual] heroines in historical romance novels," Brockway says. "Smart, canny heroines. Bottom line, that's what our readers identify with."

Desdemona "Dizzy" Carlisle, the heroine of Brockway's 1997 book As You Desire, is the very model of bluestocking pluck: The self-described "wunderkind of Egyptology," Dizzy can translate ancient glyphs, outsmart desert captors, and trade barbs with the wittiest of rakes. At the most inopportune of moments, Dizzy finds herself reunited with an old flame, devastatingly handsome scoundrel Harry Braxton. While Harry, a "complete jackal," excels at taunting and infuriating his steely companion, he secretly pines for her.

In a nod to more modern couple dynamics, Dizzy fulfills and emboldens Harry as much as she arouses him. When the pair finally marries at the book's end, Harry is suddenly flush with confidence, encouraged by his feisty new wife. "He'd never felt so empowered. So capable of doing anything. He might well author that treatise Sir Robert had for years been badgering him to do.... Anything was possible now."

Passages like this, depicting women as a source of strength and support, are common in Brockway's work. Dizzy is more evocative of a capable Indiana Jones sidekick than a submissive maiden pleading to be rescued. In fact, she's most often pursued for her translation skills, not her décolletage. And Harry? In chapter 26, the poor chap reveals that he can't read. One might say his accomplished bride has the upper hand in more ways than one.

Brockway's other books explore similar themes of empowerment and role reversal. My Surrender (2000), the third book of her Rose Hunters trilogy, showcases the spirited Charlotte Nash, a spy in Napoleonic England. She must pretend to have been "ruined" by fellow (dashing) spy Dand Ross in order to pose as an enemy's mistress. It's a coy twist on the concept of a woman's reputation as something that must be protected, as Charlotte herself is determined to inhabit the character. Naturally, Charlotte and Dand fall madly in love, and the naughty charade becomes reality. Who, exactly, is ruining whom?



Padding around making Earl Grey tea in the kitchen, Brockway may appear less glamorous than Dizzy or Charlotte, though she's every bit as engaging, with a sense of humor that hints at the series of rakes that parade through her storylines. She resembles any well-to-do suburban wife and mother, but her fluid, proselike conversational style suggests a life spent conjuring tales of more dramatic times.

Sounds like it's all about throbbing cerebrums these days, but have no fear--there are still plenty of bodices being ripped in every subgenre of romance. Even the juggernaut of political correctness can't squash the popular fantasy of lady-ravished-by-brute, and today's romance reader isn't afraid to cop to it. Says Brockway, "In spite of the fact that a certain percentage of the readership is always trying to jam PC stuff down the romance readers' throats, they're saying, 'Nope, I don't care.' Across the board, readers are saying, 'This is a fantasy, and for whatever reason, it works for me. And I'm not going to be apologetic about it.'"

Brockway is staunch in her belief that politics have no place in the labyrinthine boudoir that is the subconscious mind. "Just like you can't legislate morality, you can't tell people what fantasies should or shouldn't work for them."

And sometimes, what works is downright alien. "There's this huge surge now in fantasy romance where the heroes and the heroines are not human," Brockway reports with a gleam in her eye. One of her favorite examples of the extraterrestrial-turned-sexual occurs in a popular series of books by romance writer Sherrilyn Kenyon. "She writes about this group of people called the Carpathians. The men are a dying race, and once they meet a woman they're bound to her forever. Before they meet this woman, they see everything in shades of gray," Brockway explains. "But once they meet the woman, the world becomes colorful. Their senses awake. They can smell, they can taste. And it only happens after they meet their soulmate. A friend of mine, a very good writer named Eloisa James, had a really interesting take on [the Carpathian books]: They speak to a women's maternal instincts."

It seems odd that reproductive longing would manifest itself in escapist literature. After all, don't women read romance novels to quell the tedium of marriage and family? Not so, according to Brockway. In fact, stability is practically fetishized in most romances. "I think it's interesting that in romance, the relationships are always totally monogamous," she says, refilling our teacups. "Once the hero and the heroine get together--if we're talking romance, not erotica--that's it. There's no one else in the world."

Why would a fantasy be such a faithful reflection of many women's day-to-day reality? "I think it's sort of a biological imperative," Brockway says simply. After all, even headstrong Dizzy Carlisle is a blushing bride by the end of As You Desire, albeit in scandalous Egyptian-influenced garb.

However, monogamy isn't a form of surrender for modern romance heroines, even those who exist in Victorian times. "In the historical novels that I'm reading now, the hero is as conquered by monogamy as the female. He's probably had a little more sexual experience---talk about a double standard!--but in the end, she's not left at the homestead to raise the kids while he's out having a good time. In a lot of these books she's either running the estate or she handles his finances or she has an integral part in running his life." In other words, she's a power wife.


To hear Brockway talk, her world is as satisfying as those lived by her heroines. She just signed a contract to do a contemporary women's fiction novel, set in Minnesota. When asked how she continues to find inspiration in an environment that's often characterized as glacial and passionless, Brockway chuckles. "The winters are damn long! I hate winter and I hate being out in the cold, so you sit around and read and watch movies and listen to music and read articles, and soon you're living a rich internal life. It's either that or you turn into an axe murderer."

In her spare time, Brockway is more a romantic in the Thoreauvian sense: She enjoys the outdoors, is a "master gardener," and serves on the board of directors at the Minnesota Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, where she has volunteered for the past nine years. "I consider myself a Renaissance person," she says.

Though her imagination may tilt toward the past, advances in publishing have forced her to keep up with the modern machine world. "I've had to teach myself a lot of technical stuff," Brockway says. But she fears that fansites and increased internet exposure could have an adverse effect on authors, who, with the exception of corseted fan favorites like Anne Rice, typically haven't relied on their public image to sell books.

"As technology exposes the author to the fans, there's an ageism that comes into play," Brockway says. "You have to look hip and edgy on your website. Your books shouldn't rely on your age or your socioeconomic class or where you shop. But honest to God, it's working that way now." Although she chooses not to disclose her age, Brockway reveals that she'll have been married for 30 years this fall. This hint of real-life romance seems like a better endorsement for the genre than a lace corset or flamboyant image.

At the very least, crossing over to the women's fiction genre may provide Brockway with a welcome respite from writing the dreaded dirty parts. "They're boring," Brockway says of sex scenes. "I'll be the first one to admit that [writing them] gets boring. If you're writing a love scene and it comes naturally in the book, and it's going to somehow inform the relationship that you're trying to develop in the romance, then it works. But if you're putting them in there because of reader expectation, I think you can tell every single time.

"I've written 17 books, probably about 25 love scenes." She laughs. "Part A is going to go into Slot B every single time. There aren't many other ways to say it!"

Twin Cities Reader Summer Books Issue:

The Barnstormer A few years ago, Doug Ohman was a theme-park executive with 600 employees. Today, he photographs barns. What happened?

The Dirty Parts Romance Novelist Connie Brockway Wants to Know Why People Can't Look Past the Unbound Bosom and Love-Swollen Member

Fixing a Leak What happens when a reporter doesn't keep his word to an anonymous source?

From the Beauty Parlor to the Barricades! Her Warmhearted Characters Feel Good About the World. Lorna Landvik Doesn't.

Love and Marriage To Most of Us, Nothing Sounds Worse Than a Loveless Marriage. According to Stephanie Coontz, It Wasn't Always That Way.

Life of Johnson It wasn't fun bringing up the rump of the avant-garde. B.S. Johnson felt compelled to do it anyway.

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The Union, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 6:39 AM PDT
King wins Run for the Animals http://www.theunion.com/article/20050615/SPORTS/106150133
Nevada City's Dan King continued his dominance of the local 10K racing scene with his fourth win in five races this year.

American International Automobile Dealers Association, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 6:36 AM PDT
DRIVE YOUR FUTURE: The Mercedes-Benz USA Scholarship Program Awards $1 Million to First Generation College-Bound http://www.aiada.org/article.asp?id=42112
MONTVALE, N.J., June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) will award $1 million in scholarship funding to 500 college-bound students who are the first in their families to attend college.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:15 AM PDT
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Ravalli Republic, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 8:12 PM PDT
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 http://www.ravallinews.com/articles/2005/06/15/news/news04.txt
Celebrating community and the end of spring is the focus this Saturday of the 13th annual Darby Fun Day. This year, like every year, the community has really come together to help put on the celebration, said Thong Robbins with the Darby Main Street Association, the organization hosting the event.

Channel NewsAsia, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 4:29 AM PDT
NTUC to continue with job redesign and skills training http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/152893/1/.html
SINGAPORE : Singapore's National Trades Union Congress says it will continue with job redesign and skills training for workers. It will also give special attention to graduates.

Bangkok Post, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 6:44 PM PDT
Thaksin: Unhappy MPs free to leave Sanoh vows to miss vote on Suriya motion http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/15Jun2005_news03.php
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says Thai Rak Thai (TRT) MPs have the freedom to walk away from the party at any time and he will keep paying them until they find new parties.

Richmond.com, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 9:38 PM PDT
Feeling melancholy about the state of affairs in the River City? Here's a little pick-me-up http://www.richmond.com/viewpoints/output.aspx?ID=3722525&Vertical_ID=127&tier=1&position=9
Was justice served in the Michael Jackson trial? Send comments to editor@richmond.com. Feeling melancholy about the state of affairs in the River City?

Bangkok Post, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 6:48 PM PDT
Evergreen plans huge project near airport 5,000-room hotel will be centrepiece http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/15Jun2005_biz64.php
The Taiwan-based Evergreen Group plans to team up with local companies to develop a 100-billion-baht commercial complex on Bang Na-Trat Road to help serve greater retail and commercial demand in the area following the opening of the Suvarnabhumi Airport.

New Straits Times, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 5:52 PM PDT
COVER STORY: A Noble calling http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/Features/20050614173510/Article/indexb_html
He started young and low in the pecking order in the kitchen. But now chef Justin Hor stands tall with his creative, modern take on traditional Chinese cooking, served in a different way. He tells EU HOOI KHAW how it came about.

San Francisco Bay Guardian, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 6:07 PM PDT
The new age of truffles http://www.sfbg.com/39/37/x_back_burner.html
ERSATZ ERASER- textured meat substitutes, soy-based everything, from corn dogs to sour cream, and of course, often the worst offenders, desserts: certainly I have suffered through my share of bad vegan cuisine.

Wrestling News, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 7:50 PM PDT
eWrestling News [**SPOILERS** WWE SmackDown! Taping Results] http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/cgi-bin/headlines/7289.shtml
**SPOILERS** WWE SmackDown! Big Vito and Nunzio vs. Trevor Rhodes and Garrison Cade. Nunzio and Vito won via rollup by Nunzio. Akio and Kidman (returning) vs. Psicosis (debuting) w/ mask and Super Crazy ended with moonsalt from Super Crazy for the pin.

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bikini Teri Hatcher's Bikini Dilemma
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Sky News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 3:16 AM PDT
Teri Hatcher's Bikini Dilemma
Teri Hatcher doesn't half like to pretend she's just an ordinary chick.The Desperate Housewives star is claiming a place amongst ordinary women by revealing that she can't stand wearing a bikini.

Teri's Bikini Dilemma
Teri Hatcher doesn't half like to pretend she's just an ordinary chick.
The Desperate Housewives star is claiming a place amongst ordinary women by revealing that she can't stand wearing a bikini.
Despite having a figure that most people would sell their grandmother for, Teri insists that she's very insecure about her body.
"I wear a swimsuit, never a bikini," she admits.
"Maybe 50 per cent would say I look cute but the other 50 per cent would say that my ass is a little droopy."
Bless Teri, she clearly loves chatting about her dodgy body parts... just last month she was harping on about how TV bosses had to spend thousands of dollars to digitally remove her nipples from the show.
Her penchant for wearing sheer bras meant that any scenes shot outside were always a problem:
"I tried to wear thicker T-shirts and I even wore those heating pads you use for skiing.
"I thought the problem had been solved but apparently they just spent thousands of dollars digitally removing my nipples from the show," she confessed.

ABC News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 2:15 AM PDT
Govt defends 'bikini babe' pub grant
The Federal Government has defended a $500,000 grant to a Queensland hotel that the Opposition says has topless barmaids.

WMTW, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 9:42 PM PDT
Bikini-Clad 'Hot Dog Lady' Battles Shapleigh Selectmen http://www.wmtw.com/news/4610315/detail.html?rss=port&psp=news
SHAPLEIGH, Maine -- The Shapleigh board of selectmen versus the "hot dog lady" continued on Tuesday night in front of a packed crowd during a public hearing.

Forbes, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 9:25 PM PDT
World's Hottest Bikinis http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/travel/2005/06/15/bikinis-lifestyle-travel-cx_sb_0615feat.html?partner=rss
Bikinis may be getting smaller, but sales of them are growing to $1.4 billion per year.

The Australian, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 5:20 AM PDT
Topless pub gets federal grant http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15627014%255E1702,00.html
A TOPLESS pub in north Queensland has been given a $500,000 federal grant to help the Atherton tablelands develop a new image.

The Age, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 1:09 AM PDT
Topless pub gets government grant http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Topless-pub-gets-government-grant/2005/06/15/1118645860651.html
A topless pub in north Queensland has been given a $500,000 federal grant to help it attract tourists.

Jewish World Review, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 3:25 AM PDT
Pretty in Pink Meets Gold-Toothed Crew http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0605/stein.php3
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | People don't seem to like it when I joke about race. They have no problem when I make fun of their mothers, their deepest insecurities, Darfur, even Tom Hanks.

Rocky Mountain News, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:15 PM PDT
Collection explores dark edge of behavior http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/books/article/0,1299,DRMN_63_3855193,00.html
Colorado author Nate Liederbach tackles some rough terrain in his debut fiction collection, Doing A Bit Of Bleeding . These 11 stories collectively unearth and expose some of the darkest edges of human behavior.

Detroit Free Press, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 0:34 AM PDT
MADE IN TEXAS: Toyota ready to corral U.S. truck sales http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/nbatoyota15e_20050615.htm
SAN ANTONIO -- In the end, the NBA Finals are still just basketball games: entertaining performances that provide a temporary escape from the workaday world. But the next time that you read about Detroit defending against a powerful challenge from San Antonio, it is likely to be about Toyota driving its big new Texas-made pickup into the profit center of Michigan's automakers.

Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 3:34 AM PDT
'Beauty Shop' needs style beyond 'Barbershop' http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/06/15/pulse/movies/be187aa30157472786256fd500577b39.txt
Just one degree of separation now exists between Queen Latifah and Kevin Bacon. After seeing "Beauty Shop," you'll wish they'd never met.

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Govt defends 'bikini babe' pub grant






The Federal Government has defended a $500,000 grant to a Queensland hotel that the Opposition says has topless barmaids.

Labor's Kelvin Thomson says Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson approved the regional partnerships grant for the Atherton Hotel, known locally as The Stump, in far north Queensland in 2003.

Mr Thomson says Mr Anderson was later informed the grant was in breach of Government guidelines and has questioned why it was not withdrawn.

"Is the Deputy Prime Minister aware that one of the features of this hotel is its topless bar maids and performances by the Stump Bikini Babes?" he said.

Mr Anderson has defended the grant.

"This area of Queensland Mr Speaker has been very hard hit by a number of very difficult adjustment issues," he said.

Labor has also questioned whether the hotel used the Government grant to develop a poker machine venue.

Mr Anderson says it did not.

"What I can confirm is that no Commonwealth monies were used for the purchase of gaming machines," he said.

He says the grant assisted the development of the tourism facility in the region.

Teri's Boobs Are Too Perky
It's only been a matter of days, but Teri Hatcher's chest furniture is back in the news again.

After confessing she'd be happy to go topless for Playboy, Teri has been blabbing about how her nipples cause huge problems on the set of Desperate Housewives.

It seems her choice of sheer bras have forced the show's bosses to reach for the re-toucher to protect the former Lois Lane's modesty.

"When it's cold and it's 30, 40 degrees and you're shooting outside in a T-shirt, things arise," she delicately explained.

"I tried to wear thicker T-shirts and I even took those heating pads you use when you ski.

"I thought we'd solved the problem, but then I just heard from somebody just a few weeks ago that apparently they've spent, like, thousands of dollars digitally removing my nipples from the show."

As well as being hard-pushed to spot any protrusions on Desperate Housewife Susan Meyer, the eagle-eyed will see that Edie Britt, aka Nicollette Sheridan, is also nipple-less.

"Me and Nicollette both have the nipple erasing issue, I think," Teri confesses. Stay tuned for the next instalment in the eventful life of Hatcher's celebrity breasts.

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BreakingNews.ie, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 5:17 AM PDT
Kid Rock slapped with lawsuit http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=180662704&p=y8x663576&n=180663582&x=
Kid Rock has been slapped with a $500,000 ( 414,800) lawsuit, after a fight with a DJ in a Nashville, Tennessee strip club. Rock, who was once engaged to Pamela Anderson, was arrested in February after he allegedly punched DJ Jay Campos over his selection of music, reports allhiphop.com.

Security Pipeline, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 4:24 AM PDT
Celebrities Spread (Computer) Diseases pamela anderson? http://www.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=164303216
An anti-virus vendor named the top 10 celebrities who have been exploited by hackers in the hopes that their popularity will entice people to open e-mail attachments.

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BreakingNews.ie, Wed, 15 Jun 2005 0:31 AM PDT
Kid Rock slapped with lawsuit http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=62568964&p=6z569z66&n=62569344&x=
Kid Rock has been slapped with a $500,000 ( 414,800) lawsuit, after a fight with a DJ in a Nashville, Tennessee strip club. Rock, who was once engaged to Pamela Anderson, was arrested in February after he allegedly punched DJ Jay Campos over his selection of music, reports allhiphop.com.

The Jamaica Observer, Tue, 14 Jun 2005 9:44 PM PDT
JIMMY SOMMERS: IN SEARCH OF SOME ISLAND MYSTIQUE http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20050614T220000-0500_82412_OBS_JIMMY_SOMMERS__IN_SEARCH_OF_SOME_ISLAND_MYSTIQUE.asp
Their music may not be comparable, but in outlook, R&B/jazz saxophonist Jimmy Sommers, who comes to Jamaica this weekend courtesy of Appleton V/X, appears to have quite a bit in common with Margaritaville icon Jimmy Buffet.

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