Word: rantings
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Here’s a riddle: if a baby is born to a pair of Scientologist celebrities but there’s no paparazzi to photograph it, does the baby exist? Between Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic rant and Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock’s four wedding ceremonies, Hollywood was certainly working the headlines this summer. But in case you didn’t have the time or just simply didn’t care to follow the latest round of celebrity escapades, we’ve put together a Spark’s Notes...
...weapons. We think it is of no use and that it is against the interests of nations." He waved a hand dismissively when I couldn't grasp his logic in questioning the Holocaust. Asked to defend his claim that the Holocaust was a myth, he went on a rambling rant, claiming that those who try to do "independent research" on the Holocaust have been imprisoned. "About historical events," he says, "there are different views...
...rather than heed President Bush's urging to take al-Qaeda at its word, French officials saw no new danger in their starring role in Zawahiri's rant. "The alliance with the GSPC isn't new, in that the group pledged its loyalty and assistance to Zarqawi back in March of 2005," said one senior French counter-terror official, referring to the Qaeda In Iraq leader, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, killed in April. "Frankly, we still view any networks or projects Zarqawi's wider group may have begun before he was killed as more immediately dangerous than a new partnership...
...Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama that aims to give late-night comedy the West Wing treatment. After Wes Mendell (Judd Hirsch), the producer of a sketch show (also called Studio 60), is forced to kill a controversial skit, he lets loose a live on-camera rant. "We're all being lobotomized," he says, "by this country's most influential medium." He is fired and replaced by two former Studio 60 writers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford) with a history of painkiller and cocaine problems. Can they turn the show around while keeping their noses, so to speak...
...Until, that is, he began speaking about Israel. Perhaps still smarting from Mel Gibson's drunken anti-semitic rant, Ganji seemed to hit a raw nerve when he appeared to equate Jewish (and Christian) fundamentalists with Islamic extremists. "The U.S. has to stop its one-sided support of Israel," said Ganji, speaking in a large screening room adorned with an original Jasper Johns and other post-modernist art. That comment and others raised the hackles of many in attendance, including multibillionaire media mogul Haim Saban, who asked, "When was the last time you saw a Christian...