Raymond Scott accused of stealing one of the most important printed works in the English language
Flashy book dealer in limo for Shakespeare trial
(AP)
Raymond Scott was accused of stealing the 1623 folio from England’s Durham University in 1998. The 53-year-old was arrested after a man took the volume to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, claiming he found it in Cuba and asking for verification that it was genuine.
Scholars consider the folio one of the most important printed works in the English language.
He arrived Wednesday at northeastern England’s Newcastle Crown Court in a silver Chrysler 300. For an earlier court appearance, he wore a kilt and came in a horse-drawn carriage led by a Scots piper.
Happy Juneteenth
Public Pianos in NYC
Pianos as Public Art, and the Public’s Playthings
By JAMES BARRON
Photographs by Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Jerome Ware Jr. pressed his palm into a tray of orange paint. Then he found exactly the right spot for a handprint on the top of an upright piano he had just painted gold.
“Contrasts, that’s what I’m going for,” he said.
Jerome, 16, was painting one of 60 pianos that will hit the city’s streets next Monday as part of a public art project called “Play Me, I’m Yours” (see map below). On corners, in parks, the pianos will be an eyeful as well as an earful, with attention-getting cases and living-color keys — green or blue, or all black instead of the usual allotment of 52 white and 36 black.
So before the whole city finds out who needs to brush up on the “Minuet in G,” volunteers have been putting brushes to the pianos.
The nonprofit arts group behind the project, Sing for Hope, is betting that transforming the pianos into something to see as well as something to hear will make the installation as captivating as art installations like “the Gates,” the orange gates and matching draperies that stretched across Central Park in 2005, or the four-waterfall exhibit on the East River in 2008. Painting the pianos also brought back memories of the fiberglass cows that took up residence here in the summer of 2000.
Casey Affleck Beats The Holy Crap Out Of Jessica Alba
Punch Drunk Love
By Rex Reed
I don’t pretend to understand movie audiences under 30 with an ever-growing lust for blood, bowels, vomit and torture. But they’ll get plenty of it all in an apocalyptic view of toxic humanity called The Killer Inside Me, another sweaty, feverish adaptation of visceral pulp fiction by the nihilistic gonzo writer Jim Thompson, who was not labeled “the dime-store Dostoevsky” for nothing. This movie is so staggeringly violent and stomach-souring disgusting that when it screens, it is occasionally greeted with boos and almost always accompanied by massive audience walkouts. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The Fabulous Beekman Boys Premiere – Report From James Frey
Thoughts on the First Episode of The Fabulous Beekman Boys
by James Frey, New York
Watch the first episode of The Fabulous Beekman Boys online!
This guest post was written by bestselling author James Frey.
Woohoo, woohoo, let’s all go to the farm, woohoo! Welcome to my first weekly recap of The Fabulous Beekman Boys, where I summarize Josh and Brent’s farmlife adventures and decide whether what I’ve seen makes it more or less likely that I leave New York for a simpler life. I’ll be ranking events in the episode using a scale of five goats, with one goat being the worst, and meaning there’s no way I’m following their example and leaving the city, and five goats meaning I’m calling a real estate agent to start looking for a house. I add up all the goats and whatever the average indicates where I am in my own decision making process at the end of every episode.
Snappy opening sequence. Nice theme music. Clearly Planet Green has taken great cares about and has spent some money on the show. If I were ever to have a reality show, I’d hope to have the same. Because I don’t want to be on one, the ranking is mitigated. Three goats.
We immediately get a brief history of our heroes, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, an advertising creative director and former drag queen, and Brent Ridge, a physician and former VP at Martha Stewart Omnimedia. They bought a farm, which is called Beekman Farm, and has a huge gorgeous Mansion on its grounds, in a small town in Upstate New York. Both were tired of city life, and wanted a place to escape. While there, they decide to try to make a living off the farm, in part because they need the money to keep the place, and in part because they’ve been inspired by Martha, who built an empire around her lifestyle. The farm is gorgeous, and empires are cool: five goats.
We meet Farmer John, a gay farmer who seems very sweet. He has a hundred goats, which are very cute, and seems to do much of the actual work on the farm. He also cries quite a bit, especially when talking about the goats. Farmer John, the goats and him doing all the work: five goats. Farmer John crying: one goat.
[ click to continue James’ take on the The Fabulous Beekman Boys Premiere ]
Malcolm-Jamal Warner Saves James Frey’s Ass
Three Older Women Stand in Line to Yell at the Author James Frey when Malcolm-Jamal Warner Stops By with a Two-Liter of Cherry Coke Under his Arm
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Helen: I’m really going to let him have it.
Susan: Oh, Helen, you’re too much.
Helen: He deserves it for what he did.
Rita: Well, don’t just get up there and immediately blow up at the jerk. You have to take him by surprise by being nice and sweet, and then you can let him have it.
Helen: He just makes me so mad!
Susan: He’s a liar.
Rita: Despicable.
Helen: Absolutely. I told you ladies about my brother, right…?
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Christina Aguilera Tries To Kick Whitney Houston’s Ass Before Game 6 of The NBA Finals – Aguilera Loses
(Now check out Whitney’s Anthem from Super Bowl 25 – still the best ever)
Goat Cheese Frittata
Quick Dish
Goat cheese frittata
Photo by Bill Hogan)
By Bill Daley
Chicago Tribune
It took Julia’s influential editor, Judith Jones, and her thoughtful book, “The Pleasures of Cooking for One,” to get me to slow down and let the eggs do their thing unmolested, as in the frittata, the Italian omelet.Simply mix into the eggs the ingredients you want, pour into a hot skillet and cook over low heat until set. Jones’ recipe was for one, of course; here I’ve expanded her frittata proportion to serve four.
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Squirrel Assault Course
Life in 4 Bottles
I’m not afraid to get sand on my tuxedo if you’re not afraid to let the wind mess your hair up a little bit when I take the top down. (00:50)
Strange Reaction’s Top 10 (Not Punk) Punks
8. Steve McQueen
A big time movie star who in his later years chose to live in an airplane hanger with his woman, motorcycles, and rare cars. Always cool.
7. James Frey
His incredible book, A Million Little Pieces set the stage for the type of books people would write about when dealing with recovery, or addiction. His second book, My Friend Leonard recounts him and friends slam dancing at a Vandals show.
6. Charles Bukowski
What do you say about Bukowski? A man who gave up a suburban life to live on the streets, and be a drunk. Through this life he found cult-like fame, and vindication. He traveled the hard road, and yet made it . . . his way.
5. Hunter S. Thompson
George Plimpton once wrote a book called Shadow Box. In the book he talks about flying to Zaire to cover the Ali-Foreman fight. On the flight was Thompson. Once they landed Plimpton went to the stadium to cover the fight. Thompson went into the jungle to get mind-altering drugs from a local Witch Doctor.
John Wooden’s Wisdom
Obituary: Coach Wooden, Whose Last Book Publishes in July
Besides being one of the most successful basketball coaches ever, winning 10 national titles in 12 years for UCLA, John Wooden, who died Friday at age 99, was a prolific author whose books aimed to spread his philosophy of life, a practical, wise approach that included the concept of the pyramid of success and such widely quoted aphorisms as these (there are many more):
“It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.”
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
“Be quick but don’t hurry.”
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
“Listen if you want to be heard.”
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
His titles, many published by McGraw-Hill, have sold more than a million copies and include Wooden (1997), My Personal Best (2004), They Call Me Coach(2004), Wooden on Leadership (2005), The Essential Wooden (2007) and Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success (2009).
Report from Shakespeare And Company
from Sion Dayson’s ‘Paris (im)perfect’
James Frey, After the Fact
Published June 4, 2010 Literary/Cultural Paris 2 Comments
Tags: shakespeare & co, literary, paris, james frey
Sex or violence?
This was the choice presented to us by author James Frey on Monday night at Shakespeare & Co. He would either read a passage of the sultry stuff or the gun stuff – the decision rested with us.
This being France, we went for the sex.
(Though wait! Immediately after, the audience then begged for the violence, too. I guess people always want it all).
For awhile, fact or fiction was the real question in regards to Frey. If you weren’t hiding under a rock around 2006, you probably remember him as the writer whose 2003 “memoir” A Million Little Pieces blew up into a big controversy. He was the man who duped Oprah. His memoir, you see, was partly “made up.”
I never read the book – I stayed above the fray (yes, pun intended) – but I can’t say I wasn’t curious to see the man behind the headlines, all these years later.
It’s a rare opportunity, really. Frey doesn’t do readings in the US anymore. Probably tired of answering the same questions.
But this is France, and Paris holds a special place in Frey’s heart. He came here as a 22 year-old, inspired by the “American writer in Paris myth,” he said. “Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller had “lit him up,” and he wanted to come here to experience the literary fire himself. It was something of a dream for Frey to return nearly two decades later as a visiting author to the famed Shakespeare & Co.
Mad Tenacious Rider
An uneasy ride with Dennis Hopper
A writer’s tortured 10-year relationship with the actor never produced the biography originally sought by Hopper, who feared opening a Pandora’s box of the past. What was revealed was a serious careerist who tenaciously managed his sobriety.
Dennis Hopper during an interview in Los Angeles in 1985. (Wally Fong / Associated Press)
By Richard Stayton
What went down behind those corrugated steel walls of Dennis Hopper’s Venice fortress as he lay dying at age 74?
He was divorcing his fifth wife after 18 years together, obtaining an “emergency restraining order” to keep her at a 10-foot distance. They battled over his valuable artworks. She also filed complaints about him keeping marijuana joints throughout his compound, ready to provide quick relief from pain, and loaded guns in strategic locations, ready to provide quick resolutions.
If a person’s manner of dying is a distillation of his life, then Hopper’s death seemed a revisit of the same stories about a man once called the “patron saint of the deranged.” Never an easy rider.
But the private Dennis I spent a decade alongside, working on his biography, had a different persona. The artist I came to know was a serious careerist calculating his return from illegality and literal madness, tenaciously managing his sobriety.
Number 4 Leaves No Trace
Dreamworks to pay for improvements to Allegheny County parks
By Matthew Santoni, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Two Allegheny County parks could get a Hollywood facelift this summer, after Dreamworks Productions finishes filming scenes for its teen sci-fi flick “I am Number IV.”
Dreamworks got approval from County Council to film in the parks as long as the movie company pays to fix up a North Park water tower and keeps a playing field at Deer Lakes Park pristine.
“Any time we allow outside organizations to use county facilities or county parks, we require them to restore the park or facility to the same or better condition than they found it,” county spokesman Kevin Evanto said.
In exchange for shooting scenes at the water tower, the company will donate $10,000 toward fixing up the terrazzo floor of its observation deck, Evanto said. The tile floor, which depicts constellations, needs repairs, he said.
The film company will take out a $50,000 bond to cover any damage it might cause filming scenes of a carnival on a freshly sodded soccer field at Deer Lakes Park, said County Councilman Nick Futules, chairman of the parks committee.
Finally!
700-Hour Silent Opera Reaches Finale at MoMA
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Marina Abramovic in the MoMA atrium. In her performance piece “The Artist Is Present,” visitors sit in a chair silently facing her. More Photos »
By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: May 30, 2010
At 5 p.m. Monday one of the longest pieces of performance art on record, and certainly the one with the largest audience, comes to an end. Since her retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art on March 14, the artist Marina Abramovic has been sitting, six days a week, seven hours a day in a plain chair, under bright klieg lights, in MoMA’s towering atrium. When she leaves that chair Monday for the last time, she will have clocked 700 hours of sitting.
Visitors to the museum were invited, first come first served, to sit in a chair facing her and silently return her gaze. The chair has rarely, if ever, been empty. Close to 1,400 people have occupied it, some for only a minute or two, a few for an entire day.
Sitting with Ms. Abramovic has been the hot event of the spring art season. Celebrities — Bjork, Marisa Tomei,Isabella Rossellini, Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright — did a stint. Young performance artists seized a moment in the limelight. One appeared in his own version of an Abramovic gown to propose marriage. Certain repeat sitters became mini-celebrities, though long-time waiters on line stared daggers at those who sat too long.
Her solo work from the early 1970s was hair-raisingly nervy. She stabbed herself, took knockout drugs, played with fire. For one piece she stood silent in a gallery for six hours, having announced that visitors could do anything they wanted to her physically. At one point a man held a gun to her neck. Her eyes filled with tears, but she didn’t flinch.
In 1976 she started collaborating with the German artist Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay. Some of their performances were punishing athletic events, as they slammed their bodies together or into walls. Others were almost aggressively passive. For a piece called “Imponderabilia” they stood facing each other, nude, in a narrow doorway in a museum. Anyone wanting to go from one gallery to another had no choice but to squeeze awkwardly and intimately between them.
Little Man With The Sticks Is Going To Get Chicks Forever When He’s Big
White Dog Rising
White Dog Rising: Moonshine’s Moment
by Josh Ozersky
“They call it that old mountain dew, and them that refuse it are few.”
So goes the old song, and it gets truer every month. Yes, the distilled spirit known as moonshine, white lightning, white dog or simply white whiskey is the liquor of the moment, bringing together whiskey geeks, home distillers and high-end mixologists, all of whom find in the formerly clandestine rotgut a new means of expression, both for their palates and their politics.
Why is moonshine making a comeback? For the same reason absinthe did a few years ago. Because it’s delicious. Because it’s illegal. And because it’s cool. Moonshine, both then and now, is whiskey as it comes out of the still: no oak barrels, no caramel color, no aging. It’s just straight liquor from fermented corn or wheat mash. None of the luxury-tinged language that surrounds its grown-up siblings, like bourbon or scotch, applies to the dog. There are no 12 years of “mellowing,” no “complex vanilla notes.” If you get one flavor out of a white whiskey, you’re doing well. Historically, you’re doing well if you don’t die or go blind after drinking it…
James Frey Tonight @ Shakespeare And Company (Paris) – 7pm
Monday 31st May 7:00pm
In his youth, James Frey spent many an afternoon at Shakespeare and Company and tonight we have the pleasure of welcoming him back into the fold. James Frey is the bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces,My Friend Leonard and more recently, a novel about LA, Bright Shiny Morning. ‘A furiously good storyteller’ – New York Times
James is a writer not afraid of a little controversy. There was a lot of noise surrounding his brilliant first book, A Million Little Pieces, which spawned a fact/fiction debate that captured America and the world. He has had highs and lows – but throughout them all, his writing continued to speak louder than all the brouhaha. James writes exhilarating books and posseses that rare quality – the ability to tell a truly good story.
Dans sa jeunesse, James Frey a passé bien des après-midi à Shakespeare and Company et c’est avec plaisir que nous l’accueillerons à nouveau ce soir. James Frey est l’auteur à succès de A Million Little Pieces, My Friend Leonard et, dernièrement, d’un roman sur Los Angeles, Bright Shiny Morning. James n’est pas un auteur que la controverse effraie. Il a connu des hauts et des bas mais la qualité de son écriture a toujours su rester au-dessus de tous les débats. James est l’auteur de romans grisants et il a cette rare qualité, le don de savoir raconter une histoire.
After battling with alcohol addiction and spending time in rehab, James Frey wrote A Million Little Pieces which was published in 2003 in America and the following year in the UK to critical acclaim. The New Yorker praised the book as “A frenzied, electrifying description of the experience”. He wrote the sequel, My Friend Leonard about life after rehab. His latest novel, Bright Shiny Morning, is all about Los Angeles, the city of contradictions. Home to both movie stars and down-and-outs, palm-lined beaches and gridlock, shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey’s trademark cinematic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment into blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless actresses-turned-hookers, or schoolboys-turned-gangsters, are doomed.
Praise for James Frey:
‘James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years’ – Irvine Welsh, Guardian
‘Totally addictive’ – Time Out
The Most Terrible Consequences Of A Very Bad Tea
American cage fighter ‘rips out still-beating heart of training partner after fearing he was possessed by the devil’
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Arrested: Jarrod Wyatt was allegedly found standing naked over his dead friend’s body in a room bathed in blood.
A U.S. cage fighter ripped out the heart of his training partner while he was still alive after becoming convinced he was possessed by the devil, it was alleged today.
Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell’s tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film, officers said.
They claim they found the 26-year-old standing naked over his friend’s body with parts, including an eyeball, strewn around the blood splattered room in Klamath, California.
Wyatt allegedly told police he had drunk a cup of tea spiked with hallucinogenic mushrooms and became convinced Powell was possessed.
According to an autopsy Powell, 21, bled to death after his heart was ripped out. The coroner said Powell had been alive when the organ was ripped out after his chest had been sliced open with a knife. Wyatt told the police he thrown the heart into a fire along with other organs that he had removed from the body, it was claimed.
He allegedly told investigators he cooked the body parts because he was fearful Powell was still alive and he ‘needed to stop the Devil’.
Justin Davis told police he returned to the flat to find Wyatt naked and covered from head to toe in blood. He noticed an eyeball lying in the middle of the floor and saw Powell’s mutilated body.
A lawyer representing Wyatt has claimed the wild mushrooms caused him to act in such a violent way and had not control over his actions. ‘My client was trying to silence the devil,’ said James Fallman.
The Rebel Is Gone. Thank you, Dennis Hopper. Thank you.
MTV Asks, Will Pittacus Lore’s “I Am Number Four” Be The Next “Twilight”
The Next ‘Twilight’: The Search Continues At BookExpo America
We pick five books that could live up to the hype to be your next book addiction.
By Brian Jacks and Sabrina Rojas Weiss
Mega-successful books series like “Twilight” and “Harry Potter” don’t come around every day. The flowery tales of Edward and Bella and the fantastical adventures of Harry and his schoolmates have entrenched themselves in the hearts of loyal followers, leaving room for little else. But the June 5 release of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” spin-off novella “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” marks the end of an era. That’s why the publishers, authors and booksellers at BookExpo America this week were eager to tout their upcoming releases as the next big thing.
MTV News scoured the trade show and soaked in the hype. Check back at our Hollywood Crush blog for reviews of many of these titles when they’re available. But in the meantime, here are five buzzed-about books whose mythical creatures and evil dystopias seem the most promising. Many of them are already being prepped for the big screen too.
What It’s About: A group of young aliens land on Earth after their own planet is destroyed, secretly integrating themselves into society where they slowly learn they’re developing powers. When those responsible for blowing up their planet track them down and begin killing them in sequential order, our hero John Smith (otherwise known as Number Four) vows to dish vengeance on the bad guys, all while juggling a hot and heavy love triangle involving his fellow extraterrestrial Sarah (Number Six) and a human girl.
What Could Make It the Next “Twilight”: The book by “Pitacus Lore” (the pseudonym of James Frey and Jobie Hughes) doesn’t hit shelves until August 17, but that didn’t stop Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay and the creators of “Smallville” from teaming up to produce a big-budget film that’s set for a 2011 release. Alex Pettyfer of “Beastly” and Dianna Agron from “Glee” are among the stars already attached. That alone could help the book shoot to the top of the pile, but at its heart the title is about one young man and his quest discover himself, get the girl and take down the enemy.
Mark Twain To Tell All At Last
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all
The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate, one of Mark Twain’s dying wishes is at last coming true: an extensive, outspoken and revelatory autobiography which he devoted the last decade of his life to writing is finally going to be published.
The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not want them to hit bookshops for at least a century.
That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a vault, will release the first volume of Mark Twain’s autobiography. The eventual trilogy will run to half a million words, and shed new light on the quintessentially American novelist.
15 Most Controversial Books In The Western Canon
10. It’s Paining Men
Who: Alice Walker
What: The Color Purple
When: 1982
Why: Rape, incest, homosexuality, and an unfavorable portrayal of men
How: Cutting right to the chase, The Color Purple famously opens with a graphic firsthand account of an incestuous rape. After bearing (and being separated from) her father’s children, Celie is forced into a loveless marriage where she is beaten and suffers spousal rape by her husband.
Her freedom eventually lies in having a lesbian affair with her husband’s mistress and leaving him to start her own business. For many readers, the mother/daughter/lesbian lover dynamic leaves little room for any male protagonists, which critics argue reinforces negative stereotypes about black men.
11. Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For
Who: Salman Rushdie
What: The Satanic Verses
When: 1988
Why: Irreverence toward Islam
How: In addition to other offences, Rushdie refers to the prophet Muhammad as Mahound, a derogatory, Crusader-era term, and names various prostitutes after Muhammad’s wives.
Initial backlash included rioting, bombings, and book burnings. In 1989, the Ayatollah of Iran issued a fatwa against Rushdie and “all those involved in its publication,” resulting in the assassination of one of the book’s translators and attacks against others.
Although Rushdie was unharmed, he spent the next nine years living in undisclosed locations under police protection, reportedly even staying at Bono’s house in Dublin from time to time. You know you’re in trouble when Bono’s letting you hide out in his mansion.
12. Lady in Red
Who: Bret Easton Ellis
What: American Psycho
When: 1991
Why: Extremely graphic descriptions of torture, murder, mutilation, cannibalism, and more
How: Although American Psycho can be characterized as a satire of American machismo, odds are you’ll be too distracted by the detailed first-person accounts of a serial killer to really appreciate the underlying message.
After Simon and Schuster backed out of the project, Vintage Books got the publishing rights to the novel – as well as a lot of heat from feminist groups for its portrayal of violence against women. (To be fair, the narrator also kills a few men and a dog.) As with guns, spray paint, or huff-able glue, many stores require that you be 18 in order to purchase this novel.
13. On the Origin of Pieces
Who: James Frey
What: A Million Little Pieces
When: 2003
Why: Intentionally deceptive marketing
How: Famously dubbed “A Million Little Lies,” James Frey’s so-called memoir incurred a horrible retribution after it was revealed that many of the more scandalous events in the story never actually happened.
Particularly damning was the fact that Oprah, who’d previously featured the novel in her book club (and bolstered its sales by about n-teen percent), made it her personal mission to rip Frey and his publisher into a million little pieces on national television. The media carnage and book returns that followed taught Frey one of the most important facts of American life: don’t mess with Oprah.
Where That Gristle In Your Egg McMuffin Comes From
Police: Man sucked into sausage seasoning machine
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) – Police said a cleaning man was taken to a hospital after being sucked into a machine at a sausage-making company in Danvers. The accident happened Thursday night as the man was cleaning the vacuum-type machine that is used to season the meat at DiLigui Sausage Co. Police said the man’s head and shoulders became stuck in the machine after it somehow activated while being cleaned.
Jake Abel to “I Am Number Four”
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I Am Number Four’ Gets ‘Percy Jackson’ Star Jake Abel
Posted 2 hrs ago by Adam Rosenberg in News
“I Am Number Four” is an intriguing project for a number of reasons. It’s an adaptation of a a young adult novel co-written by James Frey, controversial author of “A Million Little Pieces.” Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg are producing it. On top of all that, the still-growing cast includes Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer and Kevin Durand. Now MTV has learned that one more has joined the cast: “Percy Jackson” star Jake Abel.
The story follows nine aliens who survive the destruction of their homeworld at the hands of a rival race. The group flees to Earth, where they proceed to blend in among the human populace. Trouble starts when the enemy pursues the fugitive aliens to their hiding place. Pettyfer stars as the titular Number Four, who poses as a high school student. Abel confirmed to MTV that he’ll play one of Pettyfer’s social rivals.
Gussied-up Fried Chicken Is A Beautiful Thing
Fried chicken: A beautiful thing
Gussied-up fried chicken made simple at home – Los Angeles Times/Glenn Koenig
Nothing beats the simplicity of a tender, moist piece of meat, delicately seasoned and lightly dredged with a dusting of flour, and then baptized in a pool of sizzling fat to crisp, golden perfection.
Did He Bugger Or Did He Blow ‘Round The Redwood Tree?
from the San Jose Mercury News
Horse tied up, sexually assaulted in Felton
By Cathy Kelly
A Felton woman says her horse was sexually assaulted Monday evening in a pasture near Graham Hill and Mount Hermon roads, according to Santa Cruz County Animal Services.
The horse’s owner told Animal Services that she spotted a man on top of her horse. She said the man ran into the woods when he saw her coming, according to Lynn Miller, the agency’s interim manager.
“It’s very bizarre behavior and very alarming to have someone doing this and you wonder, where next and who next,” Miller said.
The California Penal Code outlines a specific, misdemeanor crime for sexually assaulting an animal, Miller said.
It is very rare that the agency gets reports of such crime, he said.
In Monday’s case, the horse’s owner said she could not initially find her horse when she went to the pasture and began calling out to her, Miller said.
The horse whinnied back and the woman followed the sound and then saw her in another area of the pasture, tied to a redwood tree, he said.
She saw the man pulling up his pants and yelled out and he took off into the woods.