DIVORCING THORNSTONS SLING NEW BLADES AT EACH OTHER.Byline: Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith Get ready for a media circus media circus n → excesivo despliegue informativo media circus n (= event) → battage m médiatique (= group of journalists); cortège m . We're talking about the Billy Bob-Pietra Thornton divorce hearing Wednesday. One of the ugliest Hollywood splits is getting uglier and uglier. We're still reeling from our long conversation with Pietra after Billy Bob's Billy Bob's Texas is a popular country & western nightclub on the outskirts of the Fort Worth Stockyards, Texas, United States. It promotes itself as "The World's Largest Honky Tonk" with 127,000 square feet (12,000 m²). legal response late last week to her initial complaint. The ``Sling Blade'' Oscar winner filed papers in which he denies all her accusations of abuse. His response portrays Pietra as jealous, insecure - to the point of wanting to accompany him even to business meetings - as the instigator in·sti·gate tr.v. in·sti·gat·ed, in·sti·gat·ing, in·sti·gates 1. To urge on; goad. 2. To stir up; foment. [Latin of fights in front of their young children, and as an exhibitionist exhibitionist /ex·hi·bi·tion·ist/ (ek?si-bish´in-ist) a person who indulges in exhibitionism. exhibitionist An exhibitor exhibiting exhibitionism, see there who goes around in inappropriate low-cut dresses and no underwear. He also charges it was she who verbally and physically attacked him - she who threatened his life - not the other way around. She says he bit her. He says she likes biting as a sexual thing. She answers, ``That statement is so disgusting it makes me physically ill.'' Thornton accuses his wife of staging a malicious campaign to destroy his reputation and career. Pietra counters that ``going public'' with her story, including her appearances on ``Extra'' and the Howard Stern show, is ``protection for me and my children.'' So, if things were so terrible, why did she go to the Academy Awards with Billy Bob? ``I was still going along with the act. ... And if I hadn't shown up at the Oscars with him, he would have been enraged en·rage tr.v. en·raged, en·rag·ing, en·rag·es To put into a rage; infuriate. [Middle English *enragen, from Old French enrager : en-, causative pref. .'' Besides, she says, ``I thought I could be Cinderella for that evening. I believe the night should have been both of ours because we both worked and struggled for that.'' Evidence including witness declarations will be submitted to the court at the Wednesday hearing, and orders for support will be made. Lining up on Billy Bob's side, by the way, is his first wife. He's had four in all. Mirror, mirror, on the wall Is Farrah Fawcett Farrah Fawcett (born February 2 1947) is an American actress. She became a noted pop culture figure and sex symbol of the 1970s and into the 1980s, shaping the landscape of fashion and pop culture. going through a midlife crisis midlife crisis n. A period of psychological doubt and anxiety that some people experience in middle age. midlife crisis or what? The 50-year-old actress is in Playboy with Farrah's Naked Art Special, a 14-page pictorial that features her painting with parts of her body. And as a follow-up, film of that original shoot along with footage of Farrah body painting will air in June as a one-hour pay-per-view program called ``Farrah Fawcett: All of Me.'' Surely this isn't the same woman who once complained how hard it was to bust out "Bust Out" is the twenty-third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the tenth of the show's second season. It was written by Frank Renzulli, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by John Patterson and originally aired on Sunday March 19 2000. of the ``Charlie's Angels'' image and struggled so desperately to be considered more than just another blond bimbo with a great haircut? In the mid-'80s, Farrah - whose popular hairstyle swept the nation like a plague - was proclaiming she would rather be known for her ``body of work'' than her hair. And, indeed, for a while she rose above the image with some stellar performances in such works as ``The Burning Bed'' and ``Extremities.'' But now, Farrah is calling her body-baring experiences a ``rebirth'' that is ``profoundly fulfilling.'' Perhaps turning 50 has compelled her to prove who is the Farrah-est of them all. We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . But she has almost reached her previous goal - instead of being known for her hair, she'll at least be known for her body, hmm? Speaking of hair ``George of the Jungle'' star Brendan Fraser is breathing a sigh of relief now that the Disney people have finally allowed him to cut his hair. It took Fraser a year and a half to grow the flowing locks needed to play George in the film opening July 16, and he had to wear it for more than a year throughout production and subsequent promo appearances. Fraser says of his new look, ``I haven't had hair this short since my fourth-grade class picture. ... I'm not growing it again unless they tell me we're doing a sequel!'' The videoland view Look out, ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' fans. Joss Whedon Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon[1] on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer, director, executive producer, and creator/Head Writer of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel , the creative mind behind the bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being cult hit WB series, tells us that in tonight's season finale, ``nothing you've been expecting to happen will happen, and everything will turn around.'' Whedon directed the special episode, in which Buffy confronts ``the master,'' a k a the most feared vampire of all. Gonzo team Finally, after all the filmmakers who wanted to do it and all the plans for it that have fallen through - they've got a firm start date for the big-screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's ``Fear and Loathing fear and loathing - (Hunter S. Thompson) A state inspired by the prospect of dealing with certain real-world systems and standards that are totally brain-damaged but ubiquitous - Intel 8086s, COBOL, EBCDIC, or any IBM machine except the Rios (also known as the RS/6000). in Las Vegas.'' The film will commence in July, with Terry Gilliam directing and Johnny Depp starring. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Billy Bob Thornton Says it ain't so (2) Farrah Fawcett Her ``Body of Work'' (3) Brendan Fraser Gets to cut his hair |
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