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  • Scary Spice gets even, and more

    Tracking the breakup aftermath for Spice Girl Melanie Brown and Eddie Murphy, it would seem that Scary Spice is coming out on top.

    After ending his romantic involvement with the pregnant Brown in 2006, Murphy famously said, “I don’t know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test.” Brown and Murphy went to court to determine the paternity of Angel Iris Murphy Brown, and it was determined that Murphy was the father.

    Since then, Melanie Brown has had a record year. (Story continues below interactive map.)

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    The Spice Girls reunited to release a greatest hits album and a world tour. Tickets for their first show in London sold out in 38 seconds.

    Brown juggled rehearsing for the Spice Girls reunion tour with practicing for her American television debut on ABC’s reality hit, Dancing with the Stars. She outshined her competitors, including Marie Osmond and Jennie Garth, and ended up finishing in second place.

    She also married her new boyfriend, Stephen Belafonte, in June, 2007.

    Meanwhile, Eddie Murphy lost the best supporting actor Oscar to Alan Arkin, and then had to have his publicist dispel rumors that he stomped out of the award show, upset at his loss.

    Murphy has made recent headlines for equally embarrassing reasons. After his breakup with Brown, he started dating film producer Tracey Edmonds. He proposed and they exchanged vows in a ceremony in Bora Bora on New Year’s Day.

    A mere two weeks later, the couple decided against legalizing their wedding vows in the U.S., releasing the statement: “While the recent symbolic union in Bora Bora was representative of our deep love, friendship and respect that we have for one another on a spiritual level, we have decided to remain friends.”

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    • #1.   Rose 01.19.2008

      Hah!! I absolutely love MEL B. she is amazing.. as for Eddie Murphy!!
      what a prik!! Mel B. Is way out of his leugue.. he should have felt blessed to be with her.. looks like he screwed that up!! what a nobber!!

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  • Holiday greetings from Muckety!

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    By Emily Morgan & A. James Memmott

    ‘Tis the season for re-runs: all holiday themed
    who can go a whole year without the Grinch being mean?
    Whether Jim Carrey or Boris Karloff is your Grinch of choice,
    after eggnog and presents, we’ll watch Whoville rejoice.

    Lionel Barrymore’s mean; a banker from hell,
    But an angel gets wings, when you hear a bell.
    Donna Reed, bless her heart, stands by her man,
    Tiny Bedford Falls remains life’s chosen land.

    To the south, in Manhattan, where life can be sweet,
    there’s a wonderful Miracle on 34th Street.
    Edmund Gwenn shows us that Santa is real,
    and Natalie Wood gets in on the deal.

    Bing Crosby, like Stewart, carved out a win
    when he sang White Christmas in Holiday Inn.
    He merits a present, as does Fred Astaire.
    In a movie together they make quite a pair.

    And let’s hear it for Home Alone, one, two and three,
    That Macaulay Culkin deserves a Christmas tree.
    Say thanks to Catherine O’Hara, also John Candy,
    going back to her kid, she finds his van handy.

    Tim Allen’s just right in Christmas with the Kranks.
    In skipping the holiday, he gets no thanks.
    But The Santa Clause makes Allen take a new role,
    And he starts his residency in the North Pole.

    Please sing a rousing Christmas carol
    in honor of the goofy Will Ferrell.
    He’s tall for an elf, but has a big heart,
    And how can he lose with a dad like Newhart?

    And let’s not forget Ed Asner, a familiar Claus.
    In a magical sleigh, he defies gravity’s laws.
    A Santa for the ages, he never gets old.
    Beneath a crusty exterior beats a heart of gold.

    A leg lamp for Dad is part of one Christmas Story,
    A tribute to BB guns in all their glory.
    “You’ll shoot your eye out,” we’ll happily call,
    as Peter Billingsley sits with Santa at his local mall.

    But if the traditional holidays aren’t what you love most,
    Turn your TV to Seinfeld, and Festivus we’ll toast.
    Complications ensue, and the plot thickens.
    It’s a holiday tale right out of Dickens.

    And speaking of Dickens, Charles, we mean,
    Bill Murray’s Scrooge lights up the screen.
    A nasty TV exec — how could that be?
    He finally appreciates what others see.

    Happy endings, of course, are part of the plot.
    Bad guys become good guys, like it or not.
    So we’ll echo the films and wish you good cheer.
    Have a happy holiday and a Muckety New Year!

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  • Scott Boras: The Ari Gold of baseball

    Like any sport, baseball needs its villains.

    And right now, there’s no better villain than Scott Boras, the California-based sports agent who has the audacity to seek and get really, really good contracts for his millionaire clients.

    Boras, 55, is so hateful, it would seem, that he will even upstage the World Series.

    While the last game between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies was being played last month, the word emerged that Boras client Alex Rodriguez was opting out of the last three years of his contract with the New York Yankees. In doing this, he was passing up $91 million to seek more money elsewhere.

    The writers were appalled that Boras — the presumed leaker of the info — didn’t wait until after the World Series to let the opting-out be known.

    “At the very least, the decision to announce Rodriguez’ decision violated baseball etiquette in the extreme,” wrote Jack Curry in the New York Times.

    Casual observers might wonder how a game in which the players spit frequently and scratch themselves could have etiquette, but baseball does.

    And there are lawyers who might argue that Boras, who is a lawyer and a former minor league player, was just doing his duty to his client.

    Regardless, the fuss over Boras, sometimes called the most hated man in baseball, may obscure the fact that he is a business powerhouse.

    His company, Boras Corp., has so many clients on so many baseball teams that he may be the best-connected person in the sport.

    According to an Oct. 29 profile by Ben McGrath in the New Yorker, Boras Corp. represents 65 major-league players.

    For its services, the company gets 5 percent of the major leaguer’s salaries.

    Daisuke Matsuzaka, a star player in Japan who signed with the Boston Red Sox last December, is a Boras client.

    To get Matsuzaka, Boston first won bidding rights by paying $51.1 million. Then the Red Sox agreed to pay Matsuzaka $52 million over six years, a figure that could reach $60 million if Matsuzaka reaches certain goals.

    Boras also got pitcher Barry Zito $126 million for seven years from the San Francisco Giants in 2007.

    And his bargaining brought outfielder Carlos Beltran $119 for seven years in 2005 from the New York Mets.

    Many other Boras clients have done very well.

    However, none has received the contract numbers Boras negotiated in 2000 for Rodriguez. The player signed a 10-year, $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. (Rodriquez went to the Yankees in 2004 and the contract remained in force.)

    According to reports, Boras now hopes to get Rodriguez, an extraordinary player who has had less than extraordinary results in the post-season, a new contract in the range of $350 million.

    With the exception of Rodriguez, it’s usually Boras and not the players who are accused of greed after big contracts are signed.

    And sometimes, too, it’s Boras, and not the team owners, who is blamed by fans for high ticket and hot dog prices.

    Boras, though, would seem to be able to take the heat, believing he has a role to play. “There’s a clear need for someone to represent the athlete and to explain the athlete’s value,” he told the New Yorker. “If that person is characterized as a villain, well, so be it.”

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  • Elvis, John Lennon and other top-earning dead people

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    When Forbes published its list of the year’s top-earning dead celebrities, we set ourselves a challenge.

    If everyone is separated by six degrees (or less), shouldn’t it be possible to link every name on the list?

    The ranking, headed by Elvis Presley, includes 13 people – musicians, actors, a cartoonist, a children’s author, an artist and a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. All 13 appear in the map above.

    Here’s the Forbes list of beyond-the-grave moneymakers for the past 12 months:

    The easiest link was between George Harrison and John Lennon. The Beatles connect to Elvis Presley and James Brown by way of Michael Jackson, former husband of Lisa Marie Presley and part-owner of the rights to Apple Records. Jackson also named Brown as his “greatest inspiration” when he spoke at his funeral.

    Andy Warhol’s celebrity-centric art links him to Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Albert Einstein, whom he painted. Another famous subject of Warhol’s was Elizabeth Taylor, who co-starred with James Dean in the 1956 film Giant.

    Einstein, Charles Shulz, and Theodor Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), share the same publisher: Random House.

    Bob Marley and Eric Clapton both recorded the song I Shot the Sheriff. Clapton’s ex-girlfriend Sheryl Crow found inspiration in actor Steve McQueen, and penned a song named for him.

    Finally, Tupac Shakur makes his way into the map by way of Elton John, whose sample the rapper used on his track Ghetto Gospel. Elton John’s famous song, Candle In The Wind, was written about Marilyn Monroe. It was later re-released as a tribute to Princess Diana, who is also on the map because her ex and Paul McCartney had the same divorce attorney.

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  • Cablevision’s James Dolan has string of losses

    As the chairman of Madison Square Garden, the company that owns the hapless New York Knicks, James L. Dolan should have already known a lot about losing.

    But Dolan, 51, who is also a blues/rock singer, has learned even more about embarrassing defeats during the last few weeks.

    Already vilified in the New York press as a rich kid whose dad gave him the Knicks as a plaything, Dolan is now depicted as a boss who tolerates bad behavior and bad language in the office.

    In addition, a Dolan family plan to make Cablevision Systems Corp. a private company has been rejected by shareholders.

    Cablevision, a dominant player in the New York City area, owns Madison Square Garden, which, in turn, owns the Knicks, the MSG Network, hockey’s New York Rangers, the New York Liberty of the Womens National Basketball Association and Radio City Music Hall.

    All in all, Dolan may be finding new wisdom in the first lines of one of his bands’ songs: “Who told you life would be easy? Who said you would smile every day?”

    On Oct. 2, a federal jury in Manhattan found that Madison Square Garden and Knicks coach Isiah Thomas had sexually discriminated against one of its executives.

    The verdict came after a trial that made the Knicks front office seem like a locker room where boys were, alas, boys.

    The Garden was ordered to pay $8.6 million to the executive, Anucha Browne Sanders. The jury found that the company had created a hostile work environment and that it fired Browne Sanders in retaliation for her complaints about inappropriate language and advances.

    The jury ordered Dolan, president and chief executive officer of Cablevision Systems, to pay Browne Sanders $3 million for the retaliatory firing.

    His father, Charles F. Dolan, the founder of HBO, is Cablevision’s chairman and founder.

    Several Dolan family members also serve on the company’s board. Among them is Lawrence Dolan, Charles’ brother and the owner of the Cleveland Indians.

    On Wednesday, shareholders rejected a $10.6 billion bid by the Dolan family to take Cablevision private. The Dolans had offered $36.26 a share. Some major shareholders said the price was too low.

    Charles and James Dolan, who have sometimes feuded, put the best face they could on the rejection, saying in a joint press release:

    “We see today’s outcome as a vote of confidence in the prospects of Cablevision, its management team, its 20,000 employees and the industry’s future.”

    James Dolan’s total compensation for 2006 was $8.71 million, Forbes magazine reported.

    Some of his earnings, over $300,000, have gone to political candidates, mostly Democrats. This year he has given to the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

    Dolan is also the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of JD & the Straight Shot.

    According the band’s website, mixing business and music gives Dolan “a sense of balance in his life.”

    The Rocky Mountain News in Denver described the band’s first album, as getting “grudgingly good reviews.”

    The grudging praise sometimes comes from Knicks fans. The team has not had a winning season since 2000-2001, despite a high payroll.

    After 2005-2006 losing season, the club found itself in a soap opera feud with its coach of one year, Larry Brown. The melodrama ended with the Knicks buying out Brown’s contract for $18.5 million.

    Last season, the team won 33 games and lost 49, certainly enough to make Dolan sing the blues.

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  • Lost but linked – Relationship Map for the TV show Lost

    All is not what it seems on the island.

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    The survivors of the crash of Ocean Flight 815 have untold connections that viewers of the hit ABC Lost glimpse in strobe-like flashbacks.

    The astute viewer (addict would be more appropriate) knows more than the characters. Jack and Claire, for example, have no idea that they’re step-siblings. Nor has Jack learned that Shannon’s father was in a car accident with Sarah, Jack’s future wife. Jack, the physician on duty, chose to save Sarah but not Shannon’s father.

    And Hurley has yet to discover that Libby gave Desmond her sailboat, or that John Lock worked for his box company.

    Sometimes, though, even these lost souls figure things out. Sawyer did tell Jack that he had a long conversation with Jack’s father shortly before his death.

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  • Lost but linked – Relationship Map for the TV show Lost

    All is not what it seems on the island.

    The survivors of the crash of Ocean Flight 815 have untold connections that viewers of the hit ABC Lost glimpse in strobe-like flashbacks.

    The astute viewer (addict would be more appropriate) knows more than the characters. Jack and Claire, for example, have no idea that they’re step-siblings. Nor has Jack learned that Shannon’s father was in a car accident with Sarah, Jack’s future wife. Jack, the physician on duty, chose to save Sarah but not Shannon’s father.

    And Hurley has yet to discover that Libby gave Desmond her sailboat, or that John Lock worked for his box company.

    Sometimes, though, even these lost souls figure things out. Sawyer did tell Jack that he had a long conversation with Jack’s father shortly before his death.

  • Anthony Pellicano: Hollywood undercover

    The ongoing federal investigation of private eye Anthony Pellicano is revealing connections that many Hollywood celebs would prefer to keep quiet.

    More than a dozen people have been arrested, and Pellicano is in jail, awaiting trial on charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering and illegal wiretapping.

    Entertainment moguls and other elites have sought Pellicano’s skills over the years. His client list included former Disney chief Michael Ovitz, rock star Courtney Love and attorney Bert Fields.

    It remains to be seen whether this case will establish itself as one of Tinseltown’s great scandals. A federal judge recently postponed Pellicano’s trial until 2008.

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    The Pellicano Case – Los Angeles Times

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