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I don’t care for award shows, because usually, deserving people don’t win. With that being said, it’s Emmy Award nomination day, & it’s the first time an animated series has been nominated for Best Comedy in 48 years — since “The Flintstones” was nominated back in 1961. And get this, it’s not ‘The Simpsons’!?!?! No, ‘Family Guy’ is up for the hardware. Now, while I think FG is hilarious, how can a show that’s been hailed by both critics and audiences as a true pop-culture phenomenon for 20 years, not get nominated……EVER! Somebody dropped a very large ball!
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Ski jumping athletes, from left, Meaghan Reid, Lindsey Van, Karla Keck and Jessica Jerome.
These women are appealing a court decision that prevents them from competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics, and I believe they have a legitimate beef. Men ski jumpers are participating but the door is closed for female jumpers!?!
A B.C. Supreme Court Justice ruled last week the International Olympic Committee is discriminating against women ski jumpers by keeping them out of the Games. But the judge said the court does not have the power to order the sport be included on the program when the Olympics begin in February.
The group of 15 former and current female ski jumpers went to court in April to argue their exclusion from the Vancouver Games violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The women wanted a court declaration that the Vancouver organizing committee, known as VANOC, must either hold women’s ski jumping in 2010 or cancel all ski jumping events.
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Normal people get one shot at a driver’s license photo — which explains why they’re so awful — but Paris Hilton … not normal.
Peeps at the DMV in Santa Monica say Paris paid a visit yesterday and got a new pic … after posing for 5 of them!!!!!!!
I also hear Hilton’s assistant called ahead and asked the staff for a little special treatment so the woman famous for doing nothing wouldn’t have to waitin a long line. They accommodated the request. Why? SHould’ve made her wait in line just like everyone else.
Oh, and employees were told to turn their cell phones off so no one would take a pic of Hilton getting her picture taken.
Who do you call to arrange an alien abduction?