Sports Bowl bettors wanted to know if Eli Manning ran into Paris Hilton last night at Hugh Hefner’s legendary Playboy Super Bowl party. The Playboy Super Bowl party was at the Wild Horse Pass, which was in earshot of the New York Giants team hotel. Musician Common hosted the party that was attended by his Girls Next Door stars Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson and over 25 additional Playboy Playmates that wererunning around naked with only Body Paint on their skin. Actor Nick Cannon pulled DJ duties while Kevin Dillon and his Entourage were in the house. Cannon gave shout outs to Alyssa Milano, Gabrielle Union, Tiki Barber, Alyssa Milano, Heroes’ Milo Ventimiglia and The Hills’Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad. No reports of Eli Manning or Paris Hilton have been reported to Point-Spreads.com at this time. Sportsbook.com has the New York Giants as +12 point underdogs in Super Bowl 42 later today. This year attendees drove 30 minute in a cab out of Scottsdale to get to the Playboy Super Bowl Party but it did not look like that matter much because guys were paying between 2k to 3k each for a chance to meet Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Playmates.
sex tape socialite-turned-reality TV star Kim KARDASHIAN has confirmed reports she’s dating American football stud REGGIE BUSH. The couple hosted a pre-Super Bowl party in Arizona on Wednesday night (30Jan08), and Kardashian used the occasion to end months of speculation about her love life. The former best pal of who made headlines in 2006 when a sex tape she filmed with ex-boyfriend Ray J hit the Internet, says, “I’ve known Reggie for a few years and it’s been a slow progression.” And now she’s planning to settle down with the New Orleans Saints star: “In five years, I definitely will be married, hopefully. I am not getting any younger but he’s young and I definitely want kids.
A pregnant woman was killed and New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant was stabbed in the neck in an incident in Georgia, it was reported Sunday.Shots were fired outside a bar in Early County shortly after midnight, killing the woman, who was a bystander, WXIA-TV in Atlanta said.Grant was treated for his injury and released, authorities said.An investigator with the Early County sheriff’s office said Grant had been involved in an altercation at the bar.Grant and others were held by authorities but no charges had been filed, WXIA said.The Times-Picayune in New Orleans had this statement from Saints spokesman Greg Bensel.”We are aware of the situation. We are still gathering information. We understand that Charles was not seriously injured. It is an unfortunate situation and we will have no further comment until we gather more information
Saturday, February 2nd 2008, 4:00 AM ‘Duma Key’ Edgar Freemantle made millions in the construction business and then was crushed nearly to death by one of his own cranes. But hey, that’s Stephen King’s world. We crawl through on our stomachs, feeling everywhere for land mines before we advance even an inch or two, and in the end, there’s a pretty good chance one of them will get us anyway. That said, King’s latest dispatch from the dark side, “Duma Key,” is a long crawl. A really really long crawl. What’s made King one of the most popular writers in the world is his ability to tell a story, and he tells a reasonably good one here. But the reader must inch through so many complications, quasi-mythical allusions and just plain extraneous verbal matter that even hard-core fans will find themselves quietly wondering from time to time just how many hundred more pages lie ahead. The tipoff that this will not be a quick read comes in the leisurely pace at which King sets up Edgar Freemantle’s life after the crane crushed the truck in which he was sitting. He has lost most of his right arm, his wife and his ability to remember many words. He has also lost control of his temper, so at the urging of his therapist he has leftMinneapolis and rented a house on the almost deserted island of Duma Key, just below Sarasota. To pass the time he starts doodling and discovers he has a gift for painting. He has no idea where it came from or why his paintings of the Gulf include the odd things they do. But he loves it, and he’s good at it. His favorite daughter comes to visit him. He makes friends. The anger starts to melt away. And so, for the first 100, 150 pages, “Duma Key” reads like a guide to mending the soul. Except, of course, this is Stephen King, so we know that not all the folks we’ve met will be around for a happy ending. Their fates unfold over the next 500 pages, during which Edgar belatedly realizes what his paintings mean. The reader who suspects this meaning may involve supernatural lethal forces is a smart reader. Even smarter is the reader who has read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” which deals with many of the same themes, just without the references to Kurt Cobain, Styx, the Band and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. If you only have time for one, read “The Ancient Mariner.”
Welcome to the Captain , 8:30-9 p.m., CBS
By Barry Garron
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A classic comedy if ever there was one, “Welcome to the Captain,” with its dinner-theater characters and traditional boy-meets-girl romance, has a wide, multigenerational appeal. It’s not clear whether it has something blue, but this single-camera sitcom from John Hamburg definitely has something old, new and borrowed.
Inserted in the midst of the CBS Monday night comedy block, the show brings a light heart and a deft comedic touch to bear on the foibles and stereotypes of Hollywood. Considering the present state of the industry, the timing couldn’t be better.
Something new is Fran Kranz, who plays Josh Flug, a young writer whose short film won an Oscar five years ago but who has accomplished little since then. His girlfriend broke up with him, and he’s ready to return to New York. However, his former college roommate, Marty (Chris Klein), a womanizing business manager, urges him to try once more, starting with new digs at the fabled and fabulous El Capitan.
There, he meets the warmest and wackiest group of residents since “Hot L Baltimore.” Among them are terrific characters played by veterans Jeffrey Tambor (Uncle Saul, the building yenta who lives off writing residuals from “Three’s Company”) and Raquel Welch (as local femme fatale Charlene), who can still make hearts skip beats.
Competing with them to steal each scene is Al Madrigal, who plays doorman/desk clerk Jesus (pronounced the English, not Spanish, way).
What’s borrowed is the locale. Standing in for the hulking El Capitan (called “The Captain” by residents) is the El Royale Apartments, a showbiz legend on Rossmore Avenue that, at one time or another, housed Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Judy Holliday as well as Ben Stiller, Nicolas Cage and Cameron Diaz.
In the opener, Josh meets aspiring acupuncturist Hope, played by Joanna Garcia, whose skills as a comedic actress have progressed nicely since her stint as Cheyenne, the daughter on “Reba.” Hope has a boyfriend and plans to move back to New York, but we know better. The Josh-Hope romance becomes the center of this mildly absurd but sweetly conventional comedy http://www.reuters.com/article/reviewsNews/idUSN0346329820080203
