FLASH LITES: RIP ‘N’ READ POP CULTURE RECAP
FLASH LITES: RIP ‘N’ READ POP CULTURE RECAP
LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) – Reese Witherspoon says she won’t part with any of her wardrobe from Legally Blonde – because she’s afraid of perverts sniffing her clothes. She tells E Online she’s creeped out by the idea of someone buying her old duds on an internet auction because it means “Someone in Poughkeepsie could be smelling the seams and sniffing my shoes.”
ATLANTA – Supermodel Niki Taylor is finally returning home from the hospital after suffering severe liver damage caused by a car accident in Atlanta on April 30.
BAYOU BLUE, La. – A nude man was nabbed by Louisiana cops after he held up a store, stole a car and kidnapped a dog. The criminal said he thought stripping naked would make him invisible to cops.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game is being dragged into the Gary Condit scandal. Film fans have figured out that Condit is only three degrees separated from Bacon. Condit appeared in Return Of The Killer Tomatoes with George Clooney, who starred with Diane Lane in The Perfect Storm, who played Bacon’s wife in My Dog Skip.
NEW YORK – Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard is in a dirty mess. A New York judge has sentenced him to 2 to 4 years in prison for drug possession.
BOSTON – Grouchy cabbies may become a thing of the past in Boston, where more than 1000 cab drivers are attending a customer service class to improve their attitudes.
NEW YORK – A recent taping of a pop star episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire turned into an impromptu concert. The trilling tunesters included TLC’s Lisa Lopes, Belinda Carlisle and former New Kid On the Block Joey McIntyre, who sang Barry Manilow’s “Can’t Smile Without You.”
MEXICO CITY – Somebody is taking the old Exxon slogan, “Put a tiger in your tank” a little too literally. Mexican police say they rescued an endangered Siberian tiger cub from the trunk of a car that was pulled over for speeding.
LONDON – New Scientist magazine claims an invention by IBM may soon be in automobiles – a device to keep motorists awake by asking them trivia questions. Drivers who get the answers wrong will be punished with a squirt of icy water, an opened window or a joy buzzer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans don’t have high expectations for First Lady Laura Bush. Only 3 percent believe she will be viewed as the best first lady in history and only 6 percent think she’s the smartest.