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Rose McGowan was probably traumatized during high school. She probably constantly found herself wearing the same thing as everybody else, and now that she’s a star, uses that power to maintain balance. And not any kind of balance, color balance! She warned her female co-stars several times not to wear red to the LA premiere of ‘Grindhouse’, so her dress wouldn’t be upstaged. A source says:

"It caused quite a stir. The feeling is she's self-obsessed." Among the beauties ordered to do without red were Rosario Dawson, Jordan Ladd and Sydney Tamiia Poitier. But McGowan was in for a rude surprise when two minor cast members, twins Elise and Electra Avellan, paraded into the theater in bright red outfits. "It was basically a '[Bleep] you!' to Rose," said the source.

Too bad her dress actually looked good. It would have been ironic if she would have showed up wearing something stupid! Ironic, but oh how amusing!

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Cristina Aguilera has a weird affinity for orange. Or maybe she’s just colorblind, and orange is just gray to her. Regardless, she always seems to be a few shades more orange than the normal people. I don’t get it, was there a sale of orange make-up and tanner? Or does she just lack taste and takes every vulgar thought she gets to the extreme? Or both? Possible explanations, but she will always be a mystery! I mean, showed up to the Nylon celebration looking fairly decent, and then just a day later she was spotted leaving her hotel in NYC looking … well, let’s just say orange goo doesn’t need a famous face operation! Aguilera fixed it so they became impossible to tell apart!

Slavery was a terrible thing and it was abolished as soon as some men evolved enough to realize one human race is not better than another, and intelligent enough to understand that no human has the right to treat another as a slave regardless what the colour of his skin or where he was born.  Does the fact that we were once arrogant enough to believe ourselves a superior race mean that we should financially apologise for our past mistakes?  I don’t think so.  If we did, where will it end?

Will we pay financial compensation to
India Where we committed crimes in the name of sovereignty?  

What about all of the atrocities that were (and are still) carried out in the name of religion, the Inquisitions, the witch-hunts, the holy wars where the “in religion” heaped a multitude of inhumane acts upon their fellow man because he happened to be Catholic, or Protestant or whatever religion was not in favour at the time.  Will we be paying some form of financial penance for that?

What about the children we sent out to “populate the Empire”?  Children who were lied to and abused.  British subjects who were used as slave labour in many instances – child slave labour at that.  Are we to financially compensate these victims of their time?

There are atrocities happening all over the world, even today.  We are responsible for some of these, and with others we are responsible for standing aside and letting them happen – that doesn’t mean we should be expected to pay financially in years to come. 

Yes we took part in the slave trade.  Yes we should apologize, just as other nations need to stand up and say “Yes we did that.  It was wrong.  We are sorry!€�  But the acknowledgement should be enough - as Maya Angelou once said, “When we know better, we do better.€�  The slave trade was wrong, but what is worse is that we allow the people in the same country as the slaves come from to starve, suffer from incurable illnesses, and suffer at the hands of cruel and inhumane dictators – that is the crime for which our society will be held accountable in generations to come.  If the Church feels a need to give money, give it for the right reason – because there’s a country in trouble that desperately needs our help and standing by with our hands in our pockets waiting to apologize 200 years from now isn’t good enough!

Saturday night saw the yearly torture as we struggled to decide which of the awful songs was the best of a bad bunch, and so chosen to represent our country, and hopefully bring the
UK To victory in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.  Poor Terry made a major boob and had his Auntie Beeb blushing as it issued an apology for the “live” gaffe.

I couldn’t care less about the slip-up – always helps to see that there’s no funny business going on and things are as live as they’re advertised to be – but I’m concerned that this will affect Terry’s likelihood for being allowed to do the commentary for the Beeb at the actual event later this year.  Eurovision without Ol’ Tel is unthinkable.  He’s an institution.  He makes it bearable.  Who cares if he slipped up?  I certainly don’t.  It didn’t change who won.  It created a little bit of PR for the Eurovision entry that won.  No big fallout. 

But the BBC is a funny machine, and Terry’s at that age where they might think we’d prefer to listen to ear candy rather than Terry’s dry wit.  They’d be wrong!  I wouldn’t listen to the show never mind the ear candy if it weren’t for Terry’s droll and often catty but nevertheless true comments about the happenings on and off stage.  

This year the one thing I’m thankful for is that there’s no rap representing the
UK This year!  Eurovision is not an arena for rap, it’s the piazza of cheese – which means that things may just fly in the right direction for the song that won!

Finally we have had progress with the website.
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