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Ewing, who directed 2003's "Breakfast With Hunter," also shows the planning and governmental approvals that organizers needed in order to honor Thompson's wishes for his send-off.

The adult news website added “She never mingled with the guests, but did enjoy dinner, drinks and the music."

So - what's little innocent 18-year old Hilary Duff doing at the premiere party of an adult movie release getting lap dances?

Stern will be forced to sit out Tuesday's show after getting hit with a one-day suspension for talking up his upcoming move to Sirius Satellite Radio a bit too much.

Infinity, which airs Stern in 20 markets, will replace his normal morning circus with a compilation show. He is expected back on air Wednesday.

Word of Stern's suspension was first broadcast by Sirius' Howard 100 channel, which is broadcasting news on the shock jock in advance of his arrival in January.

That Stern has been sounding off on his move to Sirius is nothing new. The Private Parts purveyor has been fuming on air over Infinity's purported mistreatment of him since he signed a $500 million deal to relocate his show a year ago. And he regularly extols the free-speech values of satellite radio.

It's not immediately clear just what comments the 51-year-old shock jock made that prompted the suspension.

HowardStern.com's daily show recap mentions that Stern talked about going furniture shopping for his new Sirius office early in Monday's edition of his syndicated radio program. Stern also apparently told a caller that "you get what you pay for," in reference to his forthcoming uncensored show. Stern will be replaced by various hosts next year, including David Lee Roth in New York and Adam Carolla in Los Angeles.

Of course, this is not the first time Stern has been pulled from the airwaves.

He was yanked off the air by Citadel Broadcasting in January for touting the wonders of Sirius. "Regrettably, Mr. Stern has transformed the content of his show into a continuous infomercial promoting Sirius, his new satellite radio employer," the company said.

And after being dropped by Clear Channel for indecent broadcasts, Stern filed a $10 million breach of contact suit against the radio giant. Clear Channel countersued for $3 million in July 2004.

In any case, Stern's last FM radio show is currently scheduled for Dec. 16.--if Stern and Infinity executives can coexist that long.

SOURCE: Associated Press

The gunmen never got close enough to board the cruise ship, but one member of the 161-person crew was injured by shrapnel, according to the Miami-based Seabourn Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corp.

After docking at the Seychelles, passengers boarded two buses for a tour of two of the resort islands and reporters were kept away. Most passengers were to continue from the Seychelles to Singapore, company officials said, although some who planned to tour Mombasa were to fly there Tuesday aboard a chartered plane.

Relieved holiday-makers praised the ship's captain for foiling the attack that lasted for more than 90 minutes, during which pirates fired their weapons on the bridge and elsewhere in an effort to cripple the vessel.

Some passengers were lucky to escape with their lives, said Charles Forsdick, from Durban, South Africa.

A woman survived an explosion in her stateroom simply because she was taking a bath at the time. Others flung themselves to the floor to avoid bullets that were zipping through the ship, Forsdick told Associated Press Television News.

"I tell you, it was a very frightening experience," WWII veteran Charles Supple, of Fiddletown, Calif., recalled by phone after the liner dropped anchor off Seychelles.

The retired physician and World War II veteran said said he started to take a photograph of a pirate craft, and "the man with the bazooka aimed it right at me and I saw a big flash.

"Needless to say, I dropped the camera and dived. The grenade struck two decks above and about four rooms further forward," Supple said. "I could tell the guy firing the bazooka was smiling."

Bob Meagher of Sydney, Australia, said he climbed out of bed and went to the door of his cabin shortly before 6 a.m. after hearing a commotion outside.

"I saw a white-hulled boat with men in it waving various things and shooting at the ship — at that stage it appeared to be rifle fire," he told Australian radio.

"My wife said `look, they're loading a bazooka,' which we later discovered was called an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) launcher."

"There was a flash of flame and then a huge boom — a terrible boom sound," he said, adding the grenade hit about 10 feet from where they were.

The liner had been at the end of a 16-day voyage from Alexandria, Egypt.

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Monday that the attackers might have been terrorists. But others said the attack bore the hallmarks of pirates who have become increasingly active off Somalia, which has no navy and has not had an effective central government since 1991.

Judging by the location of the attack, the pirates likely were from the same group that hijacked a U.N.-chartered aid ship in June and held its crew and food cargo hostage for 100 days, said Andrew Mwangura, head of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Program.

That gang is one of three well-organized pirate groups on the 1,880-mile coast of Somalia, which has had no effective government since opposition leaders ousted a dictatorship in 1991 and then turned on each other, leaving the nation of 7 million a patchwork of warlord fiefdoms.

Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has long urged neighboring countries to send warships to patrol Somalia's coast, which is Africa's longest and lies along key shipping lanes linking the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

U.S. and NATO warships patrol the region to protect vessels in deeper waters farther out, but they are not permitted in Somali territorial waters.

The International Maritime Bureau has for several months warned ships to stay at least 150 miles away from Somalia's coast, citing 25 pirate attacks in those waters since March 15 — compared with just two for all of 2004.

Illustrating the chaos, attackers in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, threw grenades and exploded a land mine Sunday near a convoy carrying the prime minister of a transitional government that has been trying to exert control since late last year.

The attack, which killed at least five bodyguards, was the second in six months involving explosions near Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, whose internally divided government spends much of its time in Kenya.

Even before the attack on the liner Seabourn Spirit, Gedi had urged neighboring countries to send warships to patrol Somalia's stretch of coast, which is Africa's longest and lies along key shipping lanes linking the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.

U.S. and NATO warships patrol the region to protect vessels in deeper waters farther out, but they are not permitted in Somali territorial waters. Despite those patrols, the heavily armed pirates approached the cruise ship about 100 miles at sea, underlining their increasing audacity.

The International Maritime Bureau has for several months warned ships to stay at least 150 miles away from Somalia's coast, citing 25 pirate attacks in those waters since March 15 — compared with just two for all of 2004.

Somali pirates are trained fighters with maritime knowledge, identifying targets by listening to the international radio channel used by ships at sea, Mwangura said.

"Sometimes they trick the mariners by pretending that they have a problem and they should come to assist them — they send bogus distress signals," he said. "They are getting more powerful, more vicious and bolder day by day."

Maritime officials worry that the pirates could one day open fire on a chemical tanker, causing damage that would likely disrupt shipping in the region, Mwangura said.

A British maritime union on Sunday called for the world's nations to provide more protection for ships sailing by Somalia.

Andrew Linnington of the National Union of Marine Aviation and Shipping Transport, which represents merchant navy officers, said the union would meet with ship owners this week to discuss the escalating piracy in that region.

"It's got to the stage where it's anarchy on the sea waves and this latest incident shows it's time governments got their acts together," Linnington said in London.

This summer, the Semlow was the first U.N.-chartered ship to be seized while on a humanitarian mission to Somalia and the 10 crew members were held for more than three months while the pirates tried to get the United Nations to pay ransom — which it refused to do.

The hijackers agreed to let the ship go after it ran out of fuel amid negotiations by clan elders.

The gunmen who shot at the Seabourn Spirit never got close enough to board the cruise ship, but one member of the 161-person crew was injured by shrapnel, according to the Miami-based Seabourn Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Carnival Corp.

The liner escaped by shifting to high speed and changing course. Its passengers, mostly Americans with some Australians and Europeans, were gathered in a lounge for safety and none were injured, the company said.

Mark Rogers, one of the passengers aboard the Seabourn Spirit, told AP Radio he was awakened Saturday by the sound of the bullets, then he said two rockets were launched at the boat.

He described the experience as frightening, but said the crew responded very well.

"It was absolutely amazing how little panic there was," he said

The liner was bound for Mombasa, Kenya, at the end of a 16-day voyage from Alexandria, Egypt. It was expected to reach the Seychelles on Monday, then continue on its previous schedule to Singapore, company officials said.

After Sun, Cash signed with Columbia Records and in 1963 had his first number one record with 'Ring of Fire', written by his wife June Carter Cash. The Columbia years bred the tracks 'A Boy Named Sue', 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Man In Black'.

In 1986, Cash joined Mercury Records and while there recorded with U2 on the Bono penned 'The Wanderer' which was featured on U2's Zooropa album.

His last recordings were the American Recordings with Rick Rubin.

Map of Max Palevsky Residential Commons at the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus
Photo: University of Chicago

The flap over the party led the university's president, Don Randel, to call for an open meeting on Tuesday to discuss the campus atmosphere for minority students and staff and seek suggestions from faculty on how to create programs about the issues raised by the incident. The school, which is surrounded by largely poor and minority neighborhoods, is worried that the party could reinforce the feelings of isolation minority students already feel on campus and undermine the outreach to the local community.

"The issues at stake ... are larger than this one distressing episode and raise questions about the campus climate for minority students, faculty and staff," Randel and other administrators wrote in a letter e-mailed to students last week. The letter called the theme of the October 14 party — also known as a "ghetto" party — offensive and said it "parodied racial stereotypes based on assumptions about economically disadvantaged members of society."

The immediate reaction to the party set off a flurry of e-mails and Web postings among students and a "tremendous" outcry from students of color that focused less on the clothing than on the appropriation of the terms "ghetto" and "thuggin'," according to the university's vice president and dean of students, Stephen Klass. "The issue was the blanket use of these terms as equaling black society in America in a demeaning way," Klass said. "The students who held the party were horrified that it was perceived this way, but for us the party is one thing. As much as we were dismayed, the larger issue is that a place like this is all about intellectual diversity and freedom of speech, but when things like this happen people feel marginalized and it affects our ability to have open and free discourse."

The party — at which some students drank beer, a violation of university policy — was registered with the resident advisors for the May House suite in the Max Palevsky dorm, but its theme was not. Klass said if the theme had been known, the party would not have been authorized. It was the second in a series of themed parties at May House, with the first celebrating the '80s and a third one that would have been '90s-themed.

Though one of the party's hosts denied that the term "ghetto" was ever used to describe the event, according to the Chicago Tribune, in the days before the party, some students put on their costumes to take pictures publicizing it and stopped the dorm's only black student to ask his opinion.

"They said, 'We are taking pictures for our "ghetto" party,' " sophomore Eve Ewing told the paper. "At that point they were using the word 'ghetto.' I don't know at what point the moniker changed. When they initially presented it, they did use that term."

A half dozen black students tried to check out the party but arrived too late. Freshman Galen Simmons told them that they "would have been the most thuggin' people there," Simmons, a New York native, told the Tribune, adding that he intended it as a compliment. "It was meant to say that they had appropriate clothes for the theme of the party ... most of us were ignorant about how our comments or actions might be taken."

Simmons' solution to the flap was a suggestion that the university do a better job of teaching new students about racial tensions on campus and in the community. A university spokesperson could not be reached for comment at press time.

Regardless of intent, a number of black students were offended by the party and some pictures of the event that were briefly posted on a Web site. "I was just totally flabbergasted," sophomore Kristiana Colon of Chicago told the Tribune. Of 4,667 undergraduates enrolled at the school, only 192 are black. "If that is what they think hip-hop looks like or black people look like, that is a serious problem."

Confidentiality rules prevented Klass from commenting on whether the students faced any disciplinary action, but a university official told the Tribune that they did not. One of the party's hosts wrote a letter in the school newspaper apologizing for the incident.

Phoenix, who seems to thrive on taking on difficult projects, admits that fear set in for this film only after it dawned on him that he was actually going to step into the iconic shoes of the man in black. "I mean at the beginning you just want to get the part so you're not going to admit to being anxious about it at all and so I must convince that I am the man for the job. Then as soon as you as get the job, the anxiety kind of sets in and, what have I done?" Phoenix, says, laughingly. "I met with Jim and then I think it was like a year-and-a-half before we started shooting as the film wasn't getting green-lit, and I made three other movies in between. So it was always kind of in the back but I didn't think it was going to happen and, I didn't think about it that much because I had to focus on these other films. Then I got the call from Jim saying, look, we're happening, and what do you want to do? I said I want to go out and start working with T-Bone in L.A. rather than sit in New York and think about it. So I went out to L.A. and went, 'oh, fuck'. Then finally the kind of enormity of it really settled in and that was tough."

At the beginning, neither he nor his co-star Reese Witherspoon had any idea that they'd be required to also do their own singing. So playing both a legend and sing his classic songs proved equally daunting for this Oscar nominee. "In most characters there's something in which you can seek refuge and kind of go: okay, well I got that, and then I can build off from that. Here I didn't know where to turn. I mean, every time I turn around to kind of settle and feel a certain level of comfort with some part of the character, the kind ground fell from under me." Yet, he adds, it's not fear that motivates him. "At times there's healthy fear that motivates you and then there's debilitating fear, and there were certainly times where I had debilitating fear on this when I thought I'm not going to put myself out there like that."

Yet Phoenix says that he finally found himself in the character "through the music, and that was what we worked on first. if I had to go in and start rehearsals, working on scenes and kind of jump in and try and find his speaking voice, I never could have done it. But working on the music first, finding the level of comfort with the guitar as my first step, and then through the singing finding his speaking voice, was the most important thing."

While Phoenix is more than happy to discuss his process, his comfort zone starts to dissipate when asking him to draw parallels between Cash's own troubled youth and himself, simply admitting that "everybody can relate to Cash in some way. I've got to start doing that when I work on a part and think of how I relate to him so I can answers these kinds of questions I don't see how that's really beneficial, because for me, the writing is everything. I've always had that experience where there's something in the script that kind of triggers a thought or a feeling, and that's really what, I think, what I draw from. But I don't see the benefit in sharing a personal experience."

Washington [AP] - President Bush's job approval has fallen to the lowest level of his presidency amid worries over the Iraq war, a fumbled Supreme Court nomination, the indictment of one White House aide and uncertainty about another.

A new AP-Ipsos poll found Bush's approval rating was at 37%, compared with 39% a month ago. About 59% of those surveyed said they disapproved.

Corina Taylor writes: I just wanted to write in and warn any girls in the biz that if they ever have any creepy guys following them around and sending the crazy love letters ..not to laugh it off as I have been doing for sometime now...I ended up being physically attacked by this wacko in apartment yesterday afternoon.

Unfortuantely, the pistol had been moved, had it not been I would have taken a shot at this person without thinking twice. Luckily, it hurt a lot worse than it looks. My head feels worse than anything today. Anyway, it could have been way worse of an attack than what it was and I thought I would just warn everyone and let them know that the crazy shit you see on t.v. really can and does happen. I am still waiting on info from the police. I ended up staying at my fiances (who happens to be a Dr.) place and he cared for me through the night Including giving me a benadryl at about 1 in the morning, after having had sex with a latex rubber and me having my usual latex allergic reaction LOL..

So, I ended up with a sore eye,cheek,head and pussy by the time I went to bed,but today is looking much much better :) I will be in Vegas for sure in January and I am really looking forward to signing for my friends at Searchextreme.I am listed for now on Agency X and desiredmodels.com websites. I will be available for work over the AVNS .I am bringing my fiance to work with in Vegas. For any bookings or info please contact Chico Travieso through desiredmodels.com.

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XOXO Corina