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37 of 37 http://media.kansascity.com/images/v15/arrow-right-horiz.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 5px; border: 0px initial initial;" onclick="return false" rel="/936/gallery/1153678-a1153646-t3.html" href="http://www.kansascity.com/936/gallery/1153678.html#"> Actress Jane Fonda arrives at the at the National Corporate Theatre Fund's "2009 Chairman's Awards Gala" in New York, April 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes) ent21 Photo Credit: Charles Sykes

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12 of 37 http://media.kansascity.com/images/v15/arrow-right-horiz.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 5px; border: 0px initial initial;" onclick="return false" rel="/936/gallery/1153678-a1153646-t3.html" href="http://www.kansascity.com/936/gallery/1153678.html#"> **FOR USE WITH AP LIFESTYLES** FILE-This Sept. 27, 2007 file photo shows a model wearing shoes as part of the Les Copains Spring/Summer 2008 collection presented in Milan, Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) ent21 Photo Credit: Luca Bruno

7 of 37 http://media.kansascity.com/images/v15/arrow-right-horiz.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 5px; border: 0px initial initial;" onclick="return false" rel="/936/gallery/1153678-a1153646-t3.html" href="http://www.kansascity.com/936/gallery/1153678.html#"> U.S. actress Mischa Barton arrives at a central London hotel for the launch of a new handbag collection Tuesday April 21 2009. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan) ent21 Photo Credit: Joel Ryan

3 of 37 http://media.kansascity.com/images/v15/arrow-right-horiz.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 5px; border: 0px initial initial;" onclick="return false" rel="/936/gallery/1153678-a1153646-t3.html" href="http://www.kansascity.com/936/gallery/1153678.html#"> Actress Halle Berry arrives at the premiere of "The Soloist" in Los Angeles on Monday, April 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) ent21 Photo Credit: Matt Sayles

Actors Uma Thurman, left, and Debra Messing attend the Cookie magazine Smart Cookie awards, in New York, on Monday, April 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) ent21 Photo Credit: Peter Kramer

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Animal Oddities A long-haired male Chihuahua named Heart-kun was born with a heart-shaped pattern of brown fur in Odate, Japan, May 18, 2007. Shop owner Emiko Sakurada said that of the 1,000 dogs she had bred, Heart-kun was the first puppy born with such a mark. There are no plans to sell the puppy.(Issei Kato/Reuters)

Nasty Practical Joke dspoon@fenix.Atlanta.NCR.COM (David B. Witherspoon)NCR Systems Engineering - Retail / Atlanta(laugh) And finally, the piece de resistance...find an untanned girl on the beach asleep in the sun face down with tanning oil on her back. Place a piece of paper on her back with something like "FREE SEX" cut out with stencils. The oil keeps it from blowing away, and after a few hours she has a nice message on her back. Note: I NEVER DID THAT!! In fact, I only heard people talk about it but never saw any proof. Sounds great but it's pretty mean. David B. Witherspoon (aka D'Spoon)[Ed: Reputed Source, MAD Magazine ]

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Oddly Enough News, but not the serious kind « Previous Post March 22nd, 2009 Honey, will you marry… Ewwwww!" Posted by: Robert Basler Tags: Oddly Enough, food, gadgets, humor, love, romance, wedding So now they’re selling a diamond and gold-leaf “carat cake” as a $2,500 gift for guys to give when they propose marriage. I see disaster ahead. “Honey, we’ve been dating for two years, and I have something to ask you… “Here, have some of this very special cake while I’m talking. Go ahead, dig in. “You know, I love you deeply, and I want… Ooooh, I guess your tooth fillings are reacting to those gold leaves, like chewing on a piece of Reynolds Wrap. Sorry. “Anyway, we’re so happy, and… Sweetie, your gums are bleeding. See, those things are real diamonds, not Jujubes. Looks like you’ve cracked your front tooth… “I didn’t think you’d cram all that gold in your mouth. You look like a fricking Colombian drug lord! “You know, when you chew with your mouth open like that, the blood just sprays out. The diamonds must have cut a mouth artery or something… What was I saying? Never mind. It wasn’t important…” Businessman Angelito Araneta Jr. shows a chocolate cake topped with 15 African diamonds and covered with 24-carat gold leaves, which he plans to sell at $2,558 to men for use as a marriage proposal gift. REUTERS/ Romeo Ranoco Follow my blog on Twitter at rbasler Join the Oddly Enough blog network! More stuff from Oddly Enough

Harrison Ford proposes to girlfriend: report Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:27am EDT [-] Text [+] 1 of 1Full Size WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Actor Harrison Ford is engaged to be married to longtime girlfriend Calista Flockhart, People magazine reported on Saturday. It quoted sources close to the couple as saying Ford, 66, surprised girlfriend Flockhart, 44, with an engagement ring during the Valentine's Day weekend while they were away on a family vacation with son Liam. The couple has been together for 7 1/2 years. No wedding date has yet been set, the magazine said.

From: AWARDCHESS To: ilievDate: Dec 22, 2008 @ 9:51pmSubject: Re: KFC AND CHICKENS Is it from here something? I just checked it at my Blog! Stop abusing chickens at KFC! « Blogs home Submitted by AWARDCHESS on Wed, 12/17/2008 at 6:19pm. by AWARDCHESSLos Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 5095 Stop abusing of chicken and Chess Players! Chickens! Get a Premium Membership and grow even more fast! by mozerdozerWethersfield, CT. United States Member Since: Feb 2008Member Points: 582 kentucky fried three » posted in AWARDCHESS's Blog | 64 reads | 2 comments Comments: Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 15 hours agoLos Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 5272 22nd December 2008, 12:57am #4 by ilievSofia Bulgaria Member Since: Nov 2008Member Points: 36 AWARDCHESS wrote: They will never meet and date each other! Just dreams! I am upseT! I will organise A Thematic Chess Tournament: "The Abusing Chickens of KFC undated!" Y E S !!!!! A very good idea !!!! Here are my examples for the tournament avatars: The motto may be :"KFC are chickens' enemies.Let's free chickens and let's eat all KFC staff". QUOTE 22nd December 2008, 12:58am #5 by ilievSofia Bulgaria Member Since: Nov 2008Member Points: 36 OUR FAMILY IDEAL : QUOTE 22nd December 2008, 04:16am #6 by mozerdozerWethersfield, CT. United States Member Since: Feb 2008Member Points: 645 You guys are a riot ! QUOTE Edit | Delete 22nd December 2008, 06:01am #7 by AWARDCHESSLos Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 5242 Let play our Annual OTB Chess Tournaments of "Abused Chickens" ... At KFC! Free food and milk... QUOTE Edit | Delete by AWARDCHESS - 22 hours agoLos Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 5272 21st December 2008, 09:01am #2 by ilievSofia Bulgaria Member Since: Nov 2008Member Points: 34 Yes,I agree! Mozerdozer is right as usual !!!!!! It is very disgusting that Kentucky fried three chickens!!!I hope their souls are in the Garden of EDEN! They had not had a chance to grow up as QUOTE Edit | Delete 21st December 2008, 10:05am #3 by AWARDCHESSLos Angeles United States Member Since: May 2008Member Points: 5233 They will never meet and date each other! Just dreams! I am upseT! I will organise A Thematic Chess Tournament: "The Abusing Chickens of KFC undated!" Big Brother came in and DELETED some of my posts !

On the Shakespeare Portrait As handsome as his prose Christopher Moore Thursday, March 12, 2009 PRINT E-MAIL SHARE COMMENTS (0) FONT | SIZE: On Monday, a new portrait of Shakespeare was unveiled to the world. The man portrayed could be a rake, a rascal, and a revolutionary; a poet, a painter, a clear-eyed critic of the human condition. This is not the iconic countenance of the studious shopkeeper, the bemused accountant of words that we've all grown up with. 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This was the best result to a blind date with literature, where we'd been told that we were meeting someone for drinks who was "smart, and had a great personality". In short, Will was a smokin' hottie, as we'd have suspected, if we'd never seen a picture of him, and had only read his words. Didn't you always want Shakespeare to be the sword-wielding Joseph Fiennes of "Shakespeare in Love," instead of the Mr. Whipple with a quill pen in former portraits? Didn't you know, upon reading or hearing Juliet's speech? Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. Didn't you know, right then, that man or woman, gay or straight, this poet had done the muse to exhaustion, and harvested the very essence of soul-shattering love? Those words were born of a beautiful creature, whatever the face he wore in life? So if paltry paint on canvas now gives us a face to match the master's art, we should pay thanks. What shallow, callow creatures are we that a curve of hip, a curl of lip, a sparkle, a glow, a finely drawn foot, will set our hearts to flutter. No. Not at all, for it's love's soft brush that paints the lover's faults to virtues. What ogre falls smitten into the warty arms, without they have been smoothed by love's sweet strokes? We are all beautiful in love. And Will deserves no less for the love of the world. There is some doubt of the provenance of the new portrait, as there was of that older, single image from which all other images of Shakespeare are taken. But like speculation on the authorship of the plays, Will's sexuality, whether the sonnets were written to a dark lady or a man, it's all irrelevant. It's the work and the words that stand constant and immortal and unsullied by doubt. "The play's the thing." Spend some time in Will's world, his work, and you come away not with images of the squalor and disease of 16th century London, but the spectrum of human emotion and behavior - love, rage, betrayal, ambition, lust, greed, revenge, whimsy, laughter - passion and poetry in every portrait. You come away with a sense of awe at the human experience, expressed as artfully as is possible. Is it accurate? Historically? Scientifically? No. But is it right? Oh yes. So right as to ascend the brightest heaven of invention. This new portrait of Shakespeare fits the time and the place - our time, our place. It is the real face of Shakespeare because it is the face of an ideal. This is the face that we deserve to see in our mind's eye, speaking the language of our hearts. Welcome home, Will. Christopher Moore is the author of "Fool," the comic retelling of Shakespeare's play King Lear. He lives in San Francisco. This article appeared on page A - 13 of the San Francisco Chronicle

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It's Good to be King Roberto Cavalli launches the Cavalli Card with lavish seated dinner in Milan 3/2/2009 4:30:00 PM (MILAN) "I may be crazy, but I'm a Scorpio," said Roberto Cavalli last night. "You have to support me a little bit!" Sure enough, everyone and their appetite turned out for the reigning king of Italian fashion last night, when he threw a lavish seated dinner for 300 guests to celebrate the launch ofthe Cavalli Card, a joint venture with Corpcom. The venue was the famed Franco Parenti theater, which was a shadow of its former self by the time the Cavalli team had finished with it. "I feel like I'm living inside this guy's soul," murmured one guest, gesturing at the dozen or so SmartCar-sized custom light fixtures that resembled contorted lampshades. They were decked out in Cavalli fabrics, which also covered every single chair set at five 100-foot long tables overflowing with wine glasses and arrangements of pink roses. "You could definitely use this stuff to make leggings," saidAnne Slowey, fingering the billowing yards of LYCRA melting off her seat. Everyone was so distracted by the opulence that HRH Sarah Ferguson, and daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, arrived in the room virtually unnoticed. In fact, a slew of international A-listers arrived, like Elizabeth Hurleyand Arun Nayar, Gary Dourdan, Valeria Mazza, and scores more. "You know, I like this music," Glenn O'Brien told her, referring to British chanteuse Imelda May while fashioning his own "Glenn O'Brien's Cavalli Card" out of paper and pen. As the party raged, Cavalli and wife Eva dug into their branzino surrounded by closest friends--and Joe Zee, Amy Astley, Hamish Bowles and Hal Rubenstein--while an army of white-coated waiters refilled wine glasses with Cavalli Tenuta Degli De and whisked away plates with aplomb. Angela Mariani brought the man of the evening around the table to greet Kate Lanphear, Anne Christensen, Jessica Diehl and Cindy Weber Cleary before grabbing a quick bite and trading gardening tips with O'Brien and Slowey. "The pans of beer really work," she said, referring to the old method of slug control. Around dessert time, a large video screen descended and played a highly amusing video starring Milla Jovovich and--who else?--Cavalli. The former struggles to find something appropriate to wear...and the Cavalli Card comes to her rescue. The final scene shows her riding off into the sunset with the designer. The screen ascended to reveal Jovovich herself, who brought Cavalli onto the stage. "This is the card of the season!" she said, shimmering in a dress made entirely of cream pailettes, as guests finished their biscotti and the disco-inclined retreated into an adjoining room, which was transformed into a raucous nightclub filled with a thousand beauties dancing to the tunes of London's DJ Ben Sowton. After dinner, guests waded through the theater and outside to the Caimi swimming pool, where a laser light presentation accompanied the projected image of the Mastercard. "Thank you so much for coming," the designer finished. "I can help you spend with pleasure."ASHLEY BAKER

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