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Blackface-wearing Party Goers Racist?
Let me tell you a story about a party where one or more of the attendees were dressed in blackface as part of their costume. The students were having a great time. Drinks were flowing, music playing, stories were being shared. Each costume brought more and more laughter. Some were dressed as ball players, one as Madonna, others as astronauts and even a few religious figures could be seen. Then it happened. In walks a kid wearing blackface. The party guests, made up of different races, quickly begin to whisper and stare at the new guest as he walks over to get a drink. Not that it's important, but the rest of the costume is a dark 3-piece suit, sunglasses and a pendant around his neck. He's carrying a briefcase. There may have been a top hat too but I can't remember.
Daily Blabber Celebrity Gossip Blog from iVillage Entertainment
You can now forget you ever heard the name Riley Giles. Lindsay Lohan's rehab distraction of a boyfriend has ridden his set of coattails as far as they are going to take him. According to People.com (hi, Suzy!), Lindsay and Riley broke up just after he went home with the starlet for Thanksgiving. "They're over – they've broken up," a source blabbed. "She is concentrating on her life and her career," another pal said. Interestingly enough, Lindsay was out and about the other night with sometimes boy toy and Paris Hilton ex Stavros Niarchos. Hmmm... .
Ultimate Fighting's Ultimate Fight
We were losing millions upon millions. But fighters have always gotten paid, we never bounced a check. Our goal was to pay a fighter a million dollars. Little did I know that would be the start of our problems." To be sure, under White and Fertitta, Ultimate Fighting has gained a lot of respect. In the 1990s, critics like Senator John McCain were deriding ultimate fighting as barbaric, and the public was aghast at the mixed martial arts bloodbaths. The sport was banned in state after state. But the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization slowly built interest among young people, filling the void left by professional boxing, cleaning up the rules and marketing itself through the reality show The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV. The show helped humanize the fighters, managing to coax nobility out of their quests for martial arts fame.
PSN Roundup Review by Dan Whitehead
Like an enormous bag of anvils sliding down a hill, the PlayStation Store is starting to gather momentum - well, at least as far as retro downloads are concerned. After a sporadic few months of drip-drip PSone offerings, things seem to be settling into something resembling a regular service, with another trio of worthy games showing their adorable faces this week, all at GBP 3.49. Motorhead Overlooked by many when it was released in 1998, this semi-futuristic racer from Digital Illusions (them what did Pinball Dreams and Battlefield) is actually something of an unsung classic. Inevitably overshadowed by the more hyped blockbuster racers of the time, you'd be wise to splash a few quid in its direction while you wait for Rage Racer or Gran Turismo to show up on the Store. Ten cars and eight tracks await you, all carrying a rather downbeat dystopian flavour.
French officials visit to work on Cornbleet case
A team of French officials on Monday arrived in Chicago to begin its own investigation into the murder of a well-known Chicago dermatologist. The group of judges, prosecutors and police officers will pore over evidence collected by Chicago investigators to determine whether Hans Peterson should be prosecuted for the murder of Dr. David Cornbleet, a 64-year-old dermatologist from Lincolnwood and father of Naperville resident Jon Cornbleet. .
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