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Michael Dare
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL URGENT ASSISTANCE - FROM USA
Dear Sir / Madam,
I are GEORGE WALKER BUSH, son of the former president of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush, and currently serving as President of the United States of America. This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to an account requiring maximum confidence. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance in acquiring oil funds that are presently trapped in the republic of Iraq.
My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then vice-president of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic republic of Iran. This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling-out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.
My father re-secured the petroleum assets of Kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion u.s. dollars ($61,000,000,000). Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by his partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Persian gulf monarchies, and sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by German and Japanese partners.
But my father's former Iraqi business partner remained in control of the republic of Iraq and its petroleum reserves. My family is calling for your urgent assistance in funding the removal of the President of the Republic of Iraq and acquiring the petroleum assets of his country, as compensation for the costs of removing him from power. unfortunately, our partners from 1991 are not willing to shoulder the burden of this new venture, which in its upcoming phase may cost the sum of 100 billion to 200 billion dollars ($100,000,000,000 -$200,000,000,000), both in the initial acquisition and in long-term management. Without the funds from our 1991 partners, we would not be able to acquire the oil revenue trapped within Iraq. That is why my family and our colleagues are urgently seeking your gracious assistance. Our distinguished colleagues in this business transaction include the sitting vice-president of the United States of America, Richard Cheney, who is an original partner in the Iraq venture and former head of the Halliburton oil company, and Condoleeza Rice, whose professional dedication to the venture was demonstrated in the naming of a Chevron oil tanker after her.
I would beseech you to transfer a sum equaling ten to twenty-five percent (10-25 %) of your yearly income to our account to aid in this important venture. The internal revenue service of the United States of America will function as our trusted intermediary. I propose that you make this transfer before the fifteenth (15th) of the month of April. I know that a transaction of this magnitude would make anyone apprehensive and worried. But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. A bold step taken shall not be regretted, I assure you. Please do be informed that this business transaction is 100% legal. If you do not wish to co-operate in this transaction, please contact our intermediary representatives to further discuss the matter. I pray that you understand our plight. My family and our colleagues will be forever grateful. Please reply in strict confidence to the contact numbers below.
Sincerely with warm regards,
George Walker Bush
Switchboard: 202.456.1414
Comments: 202.456.1111
Fax: 202.456.2461
Email: president@whitehouse.gov
'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Reader Comment
Re: Shania Twain
You asked for comments, well, here's one.
Shania Twain is not sexy. Period.
She's pre-manufactured fluff, as Mark Morford - one of the funniest essays in the business today - so aptly stated. She's dull, she's boring, she's lifeless. Yes, she's pretty. Yes, she's got a great body and a stunning face. But she's dull and boring and not at all sexy.
A friend of mine, Brian Henneman of the excellent Festus, MO band The Bottle Rockets, once called her "a pin-up poster for grown men." What he meant by that is, like all pin-up posters, she's nice to look at, but you wouldn't want to take a ride.
We've lost our sexiness in this country. As a straight guy, I can't really speak for what women think is sexy - but do you really think guys like Toby McGuire or Ben Affleck qualify - but I'm coming up snake eyes when it comes to sexy women. Gwen Stafani of No Doubt may be the sole exception off the top of my head. I can't stand her music, but great shades of Elvis, that woman is sexy as all get out. Ruyter Suys of Nashville Pussy is also pretty damn sexy, now that I think of it, and I feel privilaged to call her a friend as well.
(For the record, I'm a recovering music journalist, so that's how I know all these musicians.)
Frankly, though, that's about it. I have to reach back to the past for sexy women, like Lauren Bacall or Mae West. Sophia Lauren is still sexy as hell. Tina Turner, good Lord, that woman can still make the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight up (among other things). And while she's only in her fourties and doesn't really qualify for the "oldies but goodies" category, Joan Jett is sexy as sexy gets. She is rock & roll personified because you gotta remember what rock & roll originally meant: fucking.
We've lost sight of what sexiness stands for in this country, for women anyway. Nowadays, we confuse "sexy" with "slutty". It's all about cleavage and flesh, not attitude or personality. Your Britanys and Christinas look trashy and act like cheap pick-ups, and we brand them as sexy. Whether it's Victoria's Secret on prime-time TV or those insipid "Girls Gone Wild" videos, we have no concept of what sexy really is anymore.
Sexy is attitude. It's a strut. It's confidence. It's cool. Sexy is assertive but not bitchy (a word co-opted by a group of men and women and totally ruined). Sexy is classy but not stuck-up. Sexy is hip but not elitist. My friend Jenn is incredibly sexy even though she's over-weight. Why? Because she carries herself with confidence and attitude. She has the strut that Shania Twain just wishes she had.
And another thing. Shania Twain isn't country. She's part of the problem why country music sucks so bad these days (this from an old school fan for 27 years of country music). Just like her supposed "sexiness," her music is all fluff and product mass-marketed like McDonald's apple pies. Dolly Parton is a hundred times as sexy, and for more than just the two reasons most think.
Shania Twain is not sexy. Boring is next sexy.
~~ Matt T
Thanks, Matt! And, I must agree. Most of the really pretty boy actors are just eye-candy - fluff, with no substance, empty calories for vacant viewing.
A long time ago (1994?), got stuck behind Shania's bus on Las Virgenes Canyon. We were going to a company picnic, the same venue she was scheduled to play later that night (but not at 'our' picnic), with Willie Nelson headlining. Made a point of following her career after that, and regardless, she isn't a 'step-stooler'. By that I mean some people have to climb a ladder to success, while others have a step-stool. She's a beautiful woman, and why her handlers think they need to make her look like a space-whore is beyond me. It's not like she's going to end up
on 'Surreal Life'. It's time to let Shania be Shania - or whatever name she wishes to use.
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Straub Beer
Reader Comment & Reading Suggestion
Re: SF Gate Columnists
Below are two recent columns written by the great John Carrol of the San
Francisco Chronicle (sfchronicle.com).
THERE IS A staggering chutzpah to the Bush administration's approach to
public relations. They don't bother to deal with facts already in evidence;
they just say whatever they want us to believe and deflect all questions
and contradictions.
They believe that consistency doesn't matter because no one is paying
attention. They believe that policy analysis is for wonks, and that the
great American public wants broad strokes and stirring rhetoric. Already,
they have trotted out the increasingly resentful ghosts of the tragedy of
Sept. 11 to support everything from police-state surveillance measures to a
war against a nation uninvolved in the attack on the World Trade Center.
Soon we'll find out that the terrorists are all involved in a plot to
broaden abortion rights.
It used to be that Colin Powell sort of told the truth most of the time.
But now he's gone over to the dark side. He insisted last week that the
president had not made a decision about whether to go to war. The president
is consulting with allies and waiting for the inspectors to report. He has
no timetable.
AND
I love getting really smashed . . . and twins!
THEY KEEP SAYING satire is dead because reality is always weirder -- and
they keep proving it. Happened again during the Super Bowl. Just
unbelievable. First we had an ad brought to us by the U.S. government's
War on Some Drugs. It shows a couple looking expectantly at a strip from a
home pregnancy test. Apparently, the news is bad -- the test is positive. The
voice-over announces solemnly that they're about to become the youngest
grandparents on their block.
We cut to a different angle and see a teenage
girl sitting on a toilet and crying. Then the ad suggests that the girl
became pregnant because she smoked pot, which no doubt loosened her
inhibitions and caused her to go all the way with Jason. The rest of the
Super Bowl brought numerous beer ads featuring young dudes partying with
hot babes.
The babes gyrated and sucked their lower lips. The guys grinned and
slapped each other on the back. There were sexy twins in bikinis. There was
revelry. And the message was: Buy our beer. You'll have fun with our beer.
You'll get really hammered and meet twins who will leer at you seductively.
Oh yes, gals really like guys who are puking on the sidewalk.
Do women get pregnant because their inhibitions have been lowered by too much alcohol?
Oh, never. Beer is good and fun and legal. Pot is bad and dangerous, which
is why it's illegal. Smoke pot: lots of consequences. Drink beer: no
consequences.
from ~~ Jim L
Thanks, Jim - some mighty fine reading!
Reader Link
Re: Clearing Pete
Pete Townshend, who was arrested earlier this month on child-porn charges, claims he has evidence that backs up his contention that he visited child-porn websites for research purposes.
Townshend claimed at the time of his arrest that he had been in contact with the Internet Watch Foundation--a U.K. organization that works to minimize the availability of illegal content on the Internet--several times last year, but the IWF initially denied that claim.
The IWF now confirms that Townshend had, in fact, been in communication.
"The IWF was the correct body for Pete to approach but since some of the media have reported the fact that the IWF denied receiving any communication from him we thought it was important that this updated information was published," the foundation said in a statement on its website.
The organization said that it previously denied the contact with Townshend because he hadn't explicitly given it permission to release the information. "Because of the provisions of the Data Protection Act, we are unable to comment or disclose information about the personal details
of individuals who make reports to us unless they give their permission."
Townshend, in a statement posted on his official website, said: "You may recall that among the media frenzy of a couple of weeks ago, representatives of the Internet Watch Foundation told the press and the news stations that they had never heard from me. I, of course, know that I
did communicate with them several times last year and they have now supplied to us copies of my e-mails to them, one in August and the rest in November. My lawyers have written to the Founder of the IWF, Mark Stephens, who was adamant that they had never heard from me, asking for an explanation."
No charges have been filed against Townshend, though police are expected to question him further sometime in February.
Pete Townshend & IWF
www.petetownshend.co.uk/
from ~~~~ Roger G
Thanks, Roger!
'We Rule The World'
from Alvin
All I have in this world is balls and my word, and I don't break them for nobody.
MIDI
WE RULE THE WORLD
{Sung to 'We Are The World' by USA for Africa}
{instrumental intro}
{Dubya Bush}:
There comes a time when you have to go alone
{Colin Powell}:
When the world won't listen to your call
{Donald Rumsfeld}:
There'll be people dying
{Dubya Bush}:
It's time to bomb Hussein
{Dubya Bush and Rumsfeld}:
In the name of freedom everywhere!
{Dubya Bush}:
We can't go on inspecting everyday
{Condi Rice}:
That somehow, somewhere we'll soon find his arms
{Colin Powell}:
We're all a part of the UN's great family
{Dubya Bush and Rumsfeld}:
But the truth - you know war is what we need!
{Chorus}:
We rule the world
We are the Bushmen
We are the ones who will make the laws
To us, start bowing
There's no choice you're making
We will change your regime
It's true we can make you go away
Any time of day
{Dubya Bush}:
We'll send our troops
{Colin Powell}:
Let the world know we don't care
{Dubya Bush}:
We will use our power to remove Hussein
{Gen. Tommy Franks}:
We'll disable his weapons of mass destruction
{Dubya Bush and Rumsfeld}:
We will disarm Saddam alone!
{Chorus}:
We rule the world
We are the Bushmen
We are the ones who will make the laws
To us, start bowing
There's no choice you're making
We will change your regime
It's true we can make you go away
Any time of day
{Tony Blair}:
Time's running out
There seems no hope at all
{Poppy Bush}:
Saddam, better believe
No way my boy can fail
{Dubya Bush}:
Hell, hell, hell... hey boys - let's roll!
{Donald Rumsfeld}:
I'm telling you, war is inevitable
{Dubya Bush and Rumsfeld}:
We will disarm Saddam alone!
{Chorus}:
We rule the world
We are the Bushmen
We are the ones who will make the laws
To us, start bowing
There's no choice you're making
We will change your regime
It's true we can make you go away
Any time of day
We rule the world
We are the Bushmen
We are the ones who will make the laws
To us, start bowing
There's no choice you're making
We will change your regime
It's true we can make you go away
Any time of day!...
~~ Alvin D
Thanks, Alvin!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
While the weather was perfectly lovely, the day started off sadly, just like for everybody else. Hate when there's a reason to turn on the TV so early.
The local coverage was dreadful. Most of the pretty talking heads with great hair & vacuous eyes weren't old enough to recall the Challenger incident first hand, and their inexperience showed. And, the ones that are old enough, like Andrea Mitchell,
are more interested in a wargasm, and showing off new hair, than being a real reporter.
Kept hearing how well Raygun read Peggy Nooner's speech, and they kept quoting 'her' lines - "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth...and touched the face of God." - the first & half of the last line of a poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., who enlisted in the RAF, and was killed 3 days after America entered the war. The Spitfire V he was flying, VZ-H, collided with an Oxford Trainer from Cranwell Airfield while over Tangmere, England.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS opens the evening with '60 Minutes', follows with a FRESH 'Becker', then the weekly RERUN of whatever to kill a half hour - this week it's 'Raymond' [this time slot has had nothing but RERUNs since 'Bram & Alice', which was canceled back in October), and then a FRESH
made-for-tv-movie 'Brush With Fate'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', then a FRESH 'American Dreams', a FRESH
'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', and then the Series Premiere of 'Kingpin'.
ABC begins with a RERUN made-for-tv-movie 'Half A Dozen Babies', then a FRESH 'Alias', then the
Series Premiere of 'Dragnet'.
The WB offers the weekly RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', then a FRESH 'Charmed', and a FRESH 'High School Reunion'.
Faux starts with a RERUN 'King Of The Hill', followed by a FRESH 'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH 'Simpsons', followed by a
RERUN 'Simpsons', then a FRESH 'Malcolm' (Lois is pregnant), followed by a RERUN 'Malcolm'.
UPN has the weekly RERUN 'Enterprise', and 'Stargate SG-1'.
HBO starts running 'The Sopranos', with the very first episode tonight. A 'new' episode every Sunday night, in order.
And, on TCM is one of the finest films of all-time - Stanley Kubrick's
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964),
with Peter Sellers as Capt. Lionel Mandrake and President Merkin Muffley and Dr. Strangelove,
George C. Scott as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson,
Sterling Hayden as Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper,
Keenan Wynn as Col. 'Bat' Guano, and
Slim Pickens as Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and his wife, Midge, look at a small plush groundhog table favor before the annual Groundhog Eve Banquet, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, in Punxsutawney, Pa. The banquet precedes the annual
ritual were members of the Inner Circle make their way to Gobblers Knob with Punxsutawney Phil, their weather-predicting groundhog.
Photo by Keith Srakocic
Endorses Howard Dean
Martin Sheen
The man who plays the president on television is backing an ex-governor who wants to be president.
Actor Martin Sheen, who portrays President Josiah Bartlet on NBC's "The West Wing," endorsed Democrat Howard Dean last week when Vermont's former chief executive dropped by the set — on location, by the way, in Washington.
Sheen thinks Dean is "the best possible hope for the Democrats because he's not afraid to lose," said Glennis Liberty, the actor's publicist.
Dean's staff happily pointed out that the fictional Bartlet, like Dean, is a former governor of a New England state and a Democrat. Both also are married to physicians.
"People are familiar with the show: a New England governor whose wife is a doctor. That is our story line," said Susan Allen, Dean's campaign press secretary.
Martin Sheen
Howard Dean for America
"The West Wing"
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Restored By Museum
Rosa Parks' Bus
When the Montgomery bus boycott ended, then 20-year-old Jesse Daniels put on his best dress shirt, suit and tie, sat in the front of a city bus and rode to restaurant where he had previously not been allowed to eat.
Friday night, Daniels joined about 300 members and employees of the Henry Ford Museum to get a look at where historians say it all began — the Montgomery city bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man.
After nearly five months of work, the once-decrepit bus was unveiled, looking as it did on the day of Parks' defiant act.
The white, green and mustard-colored bus was rolled onto the museum floor to the tune of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." It will be on permanent display at the museum.
The museum bought the bus for $492,000 in 2001 at a national auction after it was discovered in a field in Alabama. The bus, a rusted shell, was gouged by bullets where it had been used for target practice.
It sat untouched until September, when a team that builds concept cars and automotive prototypes began work on it.
Rosa Parks' Bus
Japan's only Chinese giant panda, Ling Ling, walks in his cage as Mexico's Shuan Shuan looks on in the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. Ling Ling is in Mexico for a third attempt to impregnate
three females of the popular but endangered species. The middle-aged Ling Ling, now 17, was sent home last year to Ueno Zoo after failing a second time to romance females at the Chapultepec Zoo.
Photo by Jose Luis Magana
Dog Killed By Coyote
Kathie Lee's Chardonnay
Kathie Lee Gifford is grieving for her beloved dog Chardonnay, who was killed near the family's Connecticut home by a predatory coyote who pounced on the petite pooch.
Tuesday afternoon's attack on the 14-year-old Chardonnay near the family home in Riverside, Conn., highlights the growing problem of coyotes on the prowl in the Greenwich suburb.
Kathie Lee got the Bichon Frise as a 6-week-old puppy in 1988.
The Giffords - Frank, Kathie Lee, son Cody and daughter Cassidy have two other dogs, Chablis and Regis.
Two of Gifford's neighbors said the singer/actress had gotten a coyote trap - but could not use it for two reasons.
A local hunting license is required and she did not have one, according to the Greenwich Town Clerk's office. Also, by state law, she needed the consent of her immediate neighbors to set a trap - and not all of them were willing.
Kathie Lee's Chardonnay
Thanks, Marian!
Renewed
'Andromeda' & 'Mutant X'
Syndicated shows "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda" and "Mutant X" have both been renewed for the 2003-04 season.
"Andromeda," picked up for its fourth season, is carried in 148 markets reaching 88% of the United States. The Kevin Sorbo starrer has consistently been the top-ranked syndicated show with adult men since it debuted in 2000.
Renewed for its third season, "Mutant X" is carried in 103 markets reaching 76% of the U.S. Both are distributed by Tribune Entertainment.
'Andromeda' & 'Mutant X'
Dutch Money Probe
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Dutch Central Bank will investigate whether an organization founded by Beatles guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has violated the law by issuing currency in the Netherlands, a bank spokesman said.
The Global Country of World Peace organization of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian mystic living in the small southern Dutch town of Vlodrop, issued brightly colored notes of one, five and 10 "raam" last October.
The Maharishi brought "transcendental meditation" to the West more than 40 years ago. Among his six million followers worldwide have been the Beatles, who famously traveled to India in 1968 to meditate with him.
The organization said it issued the currency to finance aid programmes in developing countries.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Honored by King of Sweden
Roxette
Roxette was among Swedish artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and academics honored with achievement medals by King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson were honored Friday "for appreciated achievements in Sweden and internationally as the music group Roxette."
The king handed out 28 medals for achievements in a range of areas from science to the arts. Recipients included a judge, a gardener at one of the royal palaces and the
king's sister, Princess Christina, who was honored for her work as chairwoman of the Swedish Red Cross.
Roxette
Roxette Web site
Shocks Venezuela Museum
Stolen Matisse
For more than two decades, Henri Matisse's "Odalisque in Red Pants" graced the walls of the Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum, helping make the museum the envy of the Latin American art world.
But for at least the past three years, the museum now says, the painting that hung in the Caracas museum wasn't a Matisse. It was a forgery.
The 1925 painting of a topless, raven-haired woman kneeling on a floor, worth about $3 million, was stolen as long as two years ago and replaced by an imitation, museum officials said this week.
Now authorities from Venezuela and four other nations are hunting for the original. And the scandal has embarrassed museum officials, who can't say how long the roughly 15,000 people who visit the museum each month have been admiring a fake Matisse.
The painting is one of Matisse's "odalisques," paintings of Arab dancers in which he expressed his fascination with North African and Islamic culture.
The Sofia Imber museum purchased the painting from the Marlborough Gallery in New York in 1981 for more than $400,000. It had been on display ever since, except for a brief loan for a Spanish exhibition in 1997.
For the rest, Stolen Matisse
Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art
Art Loss Register
Softie At Heart?
Russell Crowe
Between barroom brawls and being surly to journalists, Russell Crowe might actually be a nice guy after all. The ornery Aussie recently sent a care package to a terminally ill 12-year-old named Michael, who is suffering from leukemia. One of Michael's counselors sent Crowe's management company a newsletter article about Michael saying "Gladiator" was his favorite movie, and that he hoped one day to be well enough to go to Disneyland. Weeks later, we're told, a package arrived at Michael's home. Inside the box: an autographed "Gladiator" poster and DVD, a "Master and Commander" baseball cap and T-shirt, a kangaroo stuffed animal, Australian candy bars, a $1,000 check and a hand-written note from Russell: "Enjoy your day at Disneyland with your mates. God bless. Love, Russell."
Russell Crowe
Withdraws Harvard Endowment
Jane Fonda
Actress Jane Fonda withdrew her $12.5 million donation to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, derailing plans to establish a research center to study gender in education.
Fonda will withhold the balance of her donation, roughly half, and the unused portion of her initial contribution will be returned to her. School officials declined to say how much of it is left.
The Boston Globe quoted unidentified Fonda associates as saying the actress was frustrated with the university's handling of her 2001 bequest, the largest single gift in the graduate school's 83-year history. She felt the school was
being slow in finding someone to head the center, the newspaper quoted sources as saying.
University officials called the action a mutual decision, citing the weak economy and President Lawrence H. Summers' policy that research centers should be established only when there is faculty leadership and funding for the future. Summers took the helm of the university in fall 2001.
Jane Fonda
No Longer Worries
Bobby McFerrin
Jazz singer Bobby McFerrin doesn't get nervous any more before a gig because he doesn't worry any more about what the audience is expecting.
"You're successful every time you perform, because everybody is moved — one way or the other," said McFerrin, participating in an artist-in-residence program last week at Denison University.
McFerrin said he came to the university, about 25 miles east of Columbus, because he likes being in situations where he doesn't know what he's going to do.
Bobby McFerrin No Longer Worries
Bobby McFerrin
Denison University
Raises Price for 'Lifetime' Membership
TiVo
TiVo Inc. in March will increase the price for a long term membership to its television recording service by $50 to $299, the company said on its Web site on Friday.
The new price, which is effective on March 3, covers the "Product Lifetime" of the TiVo machine, a digital video recorder (DVR) that allows users to save programs on a set-top box with a hard drive.
Alviso, California-based TiVo derives most of its revenue from fees for its service, which can automatically record programs based upon a user's personal viewing choices, or save an entire season of a particular show.
The increase come roughly one year after TiVo raised the "lifetime" price to $249 from $199.
TiVo
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Legal Woes?
Wesley Snipes
Actor Wesley Snipes has been sued for the second time in two years for failing to make mortgage payments on his 10,000-square-foot mansion in the gated community of Isleworth.
The lawsuit was filed two weeks ago in Orange County Circuit Court by Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp. The lawsuit said Snipes defaulted on his payments last October and owes the bank almost $609,000.
Snipes was sued by the bank for $640,700 in February 2001 for failing to make his mortgage payments. Chase Manhattan asked for dismissal of the lawsuit a month later, after payments were made.
Isleworth residents also include Tiger Woods, Ken Griffey Jr. and Shaquille O'Neal.
Wesley Snipes
Spanish fashion shoe designer Manolo Blahnik speaks next to one of his boots at the Design Museum in London, Friday Jan. 31, 2003. The museum is holding an exhibition of his work which spans over 30 years, working with designers
Calvin Klein, John Galliano for Christian Dior, and US fashion designer Proenza Schouler. The exhibition is open from Feb. 1 to May 11.
Photo by Alastair Grant
To Be Honored in Germany
Roger Moore
Roger Moore will be honored by the German government next month for his work with the U.N. Children's Fund.
President Johannes Rau will present the Federal Service Cross, 1st Class to Moore, best known for his James Bond films, at a Feb. 10 ceremony in Berlin's Bellevue Palace, the president's office said Friday.
Moore, 75, serves as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF's efforts to help children living in poverty in developing countries, including campaigns against the sexual exploitation of minors.
Roger Moore
Salacious Gossip
Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid is about to be hitched. "We're getting married," galpal Anna Poche has been gushing to people in Montreal, where Quaid has been on location shooting a $150 million epic called "Tomorrow." Quaid - who had a
messy split with Meg Ryan two years ago - brought Poche with him to Montreal in November and the pair has been spotted holding hands and kissing all over town, reports The Post's Linda Massarella. At the Mutt & Jeff Hair
Salon, Poche was seen showing Polaroids she had taken of Quaid while he was sleeping in their hotel room. "This is my fiancé," she told employees. "Isn't he cute?"
Dennis Quaid
Now A CBS 'Special'
Entertainment Tonight
Stars such as Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey are preparing to recount their first times ... as subjects on "Entertainment Tonight."
"The Stars' First Time ... On Entertainment Tonight With Mary Hart" will air Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. on CBS.
Among the highlights of the one-hour special, Hart said, is Winfrey's original interview. "She said, 'I know I made it now -- I'm on 'Entertainment Tonight,' and exuberantly sings the 'ET' theme song."
Hart's husband, Burt Sugarman, came up with the idea and will serve as an executive producer.
Entertainment Tonight
The official space shuttle mission patch for STS-107.
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