Mandy and Wilmer Back On?

Mandy Moore and her ex, Wilmer Valderrama are both in Miami to celebrate New Years Eve and word is... these two are getting back together. Yuck... I like her better with Andy Roddick.

Star Magazine reported this on Friday by saying:

The pair, who split in the winter of 2001 after dating for 18 months, were spotted looking very much like a couple in heat, at Miami's Prive nightclub on Thursday night. "Wilmer and Mandy arrived together," a source tells Star, "but they were careful not to be photographed together. Nonetheless, Wilmer was doting on Mandy the whole time, and they were very close to each other the whole night. She was dressed casually with her hair in a ponytail and hoodie sweatshirt."

source: ONTD

Wired Music - VH1 Greatest One Hit Wonders - #20

We're pleased to announce that we're bringing music back, on Allie Is Wired.

Why? ... simply put, I miss posting about music.

My first string of posts will be on VH1's -100 Greatest One Hit Wonders, presenting only the Top 20 Countdown. Eh... it'll be fun,... just check back daily and enjoy.

20 - She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
[Click "play" below... or right click the song title above]

Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson, on 14 October 1958) is an English musician best known for his 1982 synth pop hit "She Blinded Me With Science". He is also a successful session musician, music producer, inventor and entrepreneur, whose company Beatnik, Inc. created the polyphonic ringtone software used in over 500 million mobile telephones.

Thomas was born in London, England. His father was a professor of classical Greek archaelogy and in his youth he lived in various Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Italy and France.

The "Dolby" nickname comes from the name Dolby Laboratories, and was given to him by friends impressed with his studio tinkering. Dolby Laboratories was reportedly very displeased with Robertson using the company name as his own stage name and sued him, trying to stop him from using the name Dolby entirely. Eventually, the case was settled out of court and it was agreed that he would refrain from using the word Dolby in any context other than with the name Thomas.

In 2006, Thomas Dolby announced via his blog his intention to produce a new "live" concert CD and DVD covering the US leg of the "Sole Inhabitant Tour 2006". The CD represents a recording of two gigs played by Dolby at Martyrs in Chicago, while the DVD was filmed at the Berklee Performance Center at Berklee College of Music. Both the CD and DVD were released in November 2006, and are distributed through CD Baby and iTunes. Dolby autographed and numbered the first 1,000 copies of the CD and DVD. He has also been in recent discussions with EMI over a possible DVD-release of his back-catalog of music videos.

Thomas Dolby also announced a return to musical recording with the intended release of an independently-produced and yet-to-be-named collection of new music in 2007.

Thomas toured through out the months of November and December of 2006 with elecronic phenomenon BT. This tour included a version of "Airwaves" that BT added his own technique to, and one new song.

A Bit of Trivia:

• Dolby married actress Kathleen Beller in 1988; the couple have three children together.
• Dolby's birthplace is sometimes reported as Cairo. This is a widespread falsity, originating from a 1981 press kit biography.
• Mobb Deep's song Got it Twisted contains the string line from "She Blinded Me with Science" at a slower speed.

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The Most Disgusting Person of 2006?

Oink, Oink.

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December 31st, 2006- This Day In History

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1969 : Jimi Hendrix's new band debuts

Jimi Hendrix's new group, the Band of Gypsies, debuts with its first album, Band of Gypsies. Hendrix's former band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, had dissolved after several productive years together.

Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942. He grew up playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well as early rockers. He joined the army in 1959 and became a paratrooper but was honorably discharged in 1961 after an injury, which exempted him from duty in Vietnam. In the early 1960s, Hendrix worked as a pickup guitarist, backing up musicians including Little Richard, B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner, and Sam Cooke. He moved to New York in 1964 and played in coffeehouses, where bassist Bryan Chandler of the British group the Animals heard him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and in 1966 brought him to London, where they created the Jimi Hendrix Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The band's first single, "Hey Joe," hit No. 6 on the British pop charts, and the band became an instant sensation.

In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience made its first U.S. appearance, at the Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix made a splash by burning his guitar and was quickly established as a rock superstar. In the next two years, before the band broke up in 1969, it had released such classic songs as "Purple Haze," "Foxy Lady," and "The Wind Cries Mary." The band's albums included Are You Experienced? (1967), Bold as Love (1969), and Electric Ladyland (1969).

After the band dissolved over creative tensions, Hendrix made his famous appearance at Woodstock, playing a masterful, intricate version of "The Star Spangled Banner." Later that year, he put together a new group called the Band of Gypsies, which debuted on New Year's Eve in 1969. The band put out only one album, Band of Gypsies (1969). (A second album, Band of Gypsies II, was released in 1986.) Hendrix then recorded another album, without the band, called The Cry of Love, released in 1971.

Hendrix played his last concert in August 1970, at the Isle of Wight Festival in Britain. He died in London in September 1970, having choked on his own vomit following a drug overdose. He was 28 years old when he died.

December 31st, 2006 - Happy Birthday Anthony Hopkins!

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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning Welsh-born film, stage and television actor.

He's 69!

Hopkins was born in Margam, Port Talbot in Wales. His parents are Muriel Hopkins (née Yeats) and the late Richard Arthur Hopkins. His mother is a distant relation of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

His schooldays were unproductive. A loner with dyslexia, he found that he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to instill some discipline, his parents insisted that he attend West Monmouth boarding school in Pontypool. He remained there for five terms, of which Hopkins does not have fond memories. He was then educated at Cowbridge Grammar School.

Hopkins was influenced and encouraged to become an actor by compatriot Richard Burton, whom he met briefly at the age of 15. To that end, he enrolled at the College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After a two-year spell in the Army, he moved to London where he trained at RADA, at the suggestion of Roy Marsden.

In 1965, after several years spent performing and honing his craft in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the National Theatre. Hopkins was given the opportunity to be Olivier's understudy, and got his chance to shine when the actor was struck down with appendicitis during a production of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death. Olivier later noted in his memoir, Confessions of an Actor:

"A new young actor in the company of exceptional promise named Anthony Hopkins was understudying me and walked away with the part of Edgar like a cat with a mouse between its teeth."

Despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in movies. In 1968, he got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard I, along with future James Bond star Timothy Dalton, who played his estranged lover, Philip II of France.

A Bit of Trivia:

• Hopkins was playing King Lear on stage at the National Theatre while Brian Cox was playing Hannibal Lecktor [sic] in Manhunter. Years later, during production of The Silence of the Lambs, the roles were reversed.
• He has received two Oscar nominations for playing U.S. Presidents. He played Richard Nixon in Nixon, and John Quincy Adams in Amistad.
• The drama school at the Southern Institute of Technology in New Zealand was named after him when he was in Invercargill filming The World's Fastest Indian.
• Lecter's slurping sound from The Silence of the Lambs was apparently improvised. However, Hopkins admits it may have been influenced by Bela Lugosi (with no remembrance from which movie).
• Hopkins' height is 5' 8½".
• Hopkins met and was photograped with America's tenor Daniel Rodriguez at Disney Mouseplanet birthday party in July 2003.
• Hopkins once landed a leading role in a film based on the book The Girl from Petrovka by George Feifer. A few days after signing the contract, Hopkins travelled to London to buy a copy of the book. He tried several bookshops but was unsuccessful. Waiting at Leicester Square underground station for his train home, he noticed a book apparently discarded on a bench. Incredibly, it was The Girl from Petrovka. That in itself would have been coincidence enough but in fact it was merely the beginning of an extraordinary chain of events. Two years later, in the middle of filming in Vienna, Hopkins was visited by George Feifer, the author. Feifer mentioned that he did not have a copy of his own book. He had lent the last one — containing his own annotations — to a friend who had lost it somewhere in London. With mounting astonishment, Hopkins handed Feifer the book he had found. "Is this the one?", he asked, "with the notes scribbled in the margins?" It was the same book.

Michael Jackson’s Farewell Kiss to James Brown

Um... I'm really sorry that James Brown died... BUT, this picture of Michael Jackson kissing his dead body... well, it's sort of nasty, no?

Saddam Hussein Execution Pictures & Video

In one final moment of defiance, Saddam Hussein refused to cover his face before his execution Saturday. He clutched a Quran as he walked to the gallows.

Before the rope was tied around his neck, Saddam shouted "God is great." He was calm before his death.

WARNING: The video is graphic, if this sort of thing will offend you, don't watch it. The video is void of audio.

December 30th, 2006 - This Day In History

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1985 : Rick Nelson dies in plane crash

Rock musician Rick Nelson is killed in a plane crash. Nelson got his start by starring in his parents' TV series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

Nelson was born in 1940 to famous parents: His father, Ozzie Nelson, was a bandleader, and his mother, Harriet, was a singer and actress. When Ricky was four years old, his parents launched their radio series, playing themselves, with actors playing their young sons. Five years later, Ricky and his older brother, David, suggested that they, like their parents, play themselves on the series. In 1952, the series moved to TV.

Nelson attended Hollywood High School and showed little interest in music until his girlfriend raved to him about Elvis. He boasted that he was about to cut a record himself. His father let him cut a demo with his orchestra; Nelson claimed he chose to cover Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" because it relied heavily on the two guitar chords Nelson knew how to play.

When Nelson played the song on the TV series, he became an overnight sensation. His first album, released in November 1957, topped the Billboard charts, and Nelson became one of the best-selling male singers of the 1950s, with 53 Hot 100 hits, 17 in the Top 10. Nelson later changed his name from Ricky to Rick. He also appeared in several movies, including Rio Bravo with John Wayne and Dean Martin in 1959 and The Wackiest Ship in the Army in 1960.

After Ozzie and Harriet went off the air in 1966, Nelson's music career fizzled until he discovered the emerging style of country rock. On two albums, he covered country material and scored a few hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although he would never be a superstar again, he continued touring aggressively, performing more than 200 nights a year. He put together a new band in 1985 and signed a new record deal, but on December 31, en route to a concert in Texas, he died in a plane crash at age 45. The last song he performed live was a cover of "Rave On" by Buddy Holly, who also died in a plane crash.

Britney Spears' New Year's Resolution - Inside

This cracks me up!

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December 30th, 2006 - Happy Birthday Kristin Kreuk!

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Kristin Laura Kreuk (born December 30, 1982 in Vancouver, BC) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles on the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont and on the American television series Smallville in which she stars as Clark Kent's star-crossed love Lana Lang.

She's 24!

Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch ancestry and her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese descent but born in Indonesia. Both parents are landscape architects. Kristin has a sister who is about five years younger. Kristin trained in gymnastics at the national level until high school but quit in grade 11 due to scoliosis. She attended Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver.

She had plans to study either psychology, environmental science, or forensic science at Simon Fraser University when a casting director for the CBC TV series Edgemont contacted her secondary school, looking for an exotic-looking girl to play the part of a Chinese Canadian, Laurel Yeung on the Vancouver-shot show. Kreuk's drama teacher convinced Kreuk, who had no previous acting experience other than in musicals at her high school, to audition for the role. To her surprise, she won the part.

After shooting the first season of Edgemont (a teen soap opera set at a Vancouver-area high school) and getting herself an agent, Kreuk landed the lead role of Snow White in a TV movie entitled Snow White: The Fairest of Them All. The film, shot in Vancouver, also starred Miranda Richardson and was directed by Caroline Thompson. It aired on ABC on March 17, 2002.

After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network entitled Smallville. The series (which was slated to be shot in Vancouver) revolves around the life of teenager Clark Kent before he becomes Superman. Gough and Millar called Kreuk to WB's studios in Burbank, California to audition for the role of Clark Kent's love, Lana Lang. Originally, Kreuk was unsure about auditioning for Lana's role, as the character was to be a popular, gorgeous cheerleader, so she assumed that the part would be that of a shallow idiot. However, upon reading the graveyard scene from the pilot, she was so impressed that when she was offered the role, she immediately accepted.

In 2003, Kreuk wrapped up her role on Edgemont.

In the summer of 2004, Kreuk took the role of Tenar for the Sci Fi Channel two-part miniseries Legend of Earthsea. The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, directed by Rob Lieberman and broadcast on December 13, 2004.

In 2003, she made her first feature film, a cameo appearance in the film Eurotrip, starring Scott Mechlowicz and Michelle Trachtenberg. The film, shot in Prague, Czech Republic, also featured cameos by Matt Damon and Lucy Lawless. It debuted in theatres on February 20, 2004.

In early 2005, Kreuk signed on to the independent feature film Partition. She plays Naseem, a vulnerable seventeen-year-old whose world is shattered by the trauma of the Partition of India in 1947, but falls in love with ex-British Indian Army officer Gian Singh (played by Jimi Mistry). Neve Campbell also stars. The film is directed by Vic Sarin and is a co-production between Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The Canadian release date for the film is scheduled for February 2, 2007.

In late 2005, Steve Carell (of The 40-Year-Old Virgin) revealed that he had approached Kreuk to play the lead female role of Agent 99 in the forthcoming Warner Bros. feature film Get Smart. However, in November 2006, it was officially confirmed that Anne Hathaway had been cast in the role of 99.

Other December 30th Birthdays:

Bo Diddley-Rock and Roll Originator 78
Michael Nesmith-Singer/The Monkey's 64 - His mom invented liquid paper [heh]
Davy Jones-Singer/The Monkey's 61
Patti Smith-Singer/Songwriter 60
Matt Lauer-TV Personality 49
Tracey Ullman-Comedian 47
Tiger Woods-Golfer 31

Broken Leg? No Problemo for Arnold!

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is finding a little rest in a comfy bed in some hospital, but those pesky politicians keep trying to make him work. Higher ups in Sacramento have put Arnold on a video conference phone right from his hospital bed, in Los Angeles.

For the record, Arnold broke his leg when he attempted to ski through a tree. [heh]

source: Gone Hollywood

Kelly Clarkson Performing at the Tony Bennet Tribute

Kelly Clarkson sang at a tribute for Tony Bennett on Nov. 9th 2006 at the Kodak theater. Here she is singing his song "It's alright with me". Apparently, this was a portion that wasn't shown on-air.

Jennifer Lopez-People En Espanol - Feb/07

Oh Snap! You Latina hot momma!

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Your Worst Nightmare... Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke was spotted in Miami on December 28th... our friends over at dlisted ask... "would you hit it", I say Hello No! [heh]

I don't know if it's his pasty pink skin with spots, the far span of his forehead... or his lack of hair (which is greasy and fake-lookin' to boot). Let's just say... the thought made me puke a little.

What Happened?

source: dlisted via Gone Hollywood

December 29th, 2006 - This Day In History

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1967 : Paul Whiteman dies

Jazz-band leader Paul Whiteman dies. Whiteman was one of the earliest white band leaders to popularize jazz. Although sometimes criticized for watering down and sanitizing jazz, Whiteman nevertheless had a powerful influence on jazz music by introducing the form to a white audience.

Whiteman was born in 1890 and raised in Colorado, where his father was superintendent of Denver's public schools. Whiteman studied viola and began playing with the Denver Symphony Orchestra while still in his teens. In 1915, he joined the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. In San Francisco, he first heard New Orleans-style jazz at a nightclub. In 1918, he quit the orchestra to join a jazz band but was fired when he proved unable to improvise-a key skill for jazz musicians.

Undaunted, Whiteman formed his own orchestra and set out to blend the discipline and precision of classical music with the unrestrained energy of jazz. In 1920, his band, now settled in New York, recorded "Whispering," which sold more than 2.5 million copies.


In 1924, Whiteman-always aspiring to make jazz more acceptable in mainstream music circles-booked a highly publicized concert at New York's Aeolian Hall. The first time a jazz orchestra played a major concert hall, instead of dance venues and nightclubs, the concert introduced a new piece by composer George Gershwin-"Rhapsody in Blue," which became one of the best-known American jazz works. The 26-year-old Gershwin himself played the piano solo during the show. The symphony influenced other composers to use rhythms and melodies derived from jazz in their work.

Whiteman became known as the "King of Jazz" and had his own radio show in the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote music for six Broadway shows, released some 600 records, and eventually became music director for ABC.

December 29th, 2006 - Happy Birthday Jude Law!

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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an Academy Award nominated English actor, who is known as Jude Law.

He's 34!

Law was born in Lewisham, South London, England to teachers, Peter and Maggie Law. His sister Natasha Law is a well regarded illustrator and artist. He was educated at John Ball Primary School in Blackheath and Alleyn's School in Dulwich. He started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre at the age of 12 and, at 17, he dropped out of school completely. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. which he later dropped out of.

Law's first major stage role was as Foxtrot Darling, the sexually ambiguous and manipulative teenager in Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock In The Universe. Law went on to appear as Michael in the West End production of Indiscretions, an imaginative re-working of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les Parents Terribles directed by Sean Mathias, a role he subsequently played on Broadway opposite Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees and Cynthia Nixon. After minor roles in British television, including a two year stint in the Granada TV soap opera Families, Law had his breakthrough with the British ram-raiding drama Shopping which also featured his future wife Sadie Frost. He shot to fame in Britain upon the release of Wilde, in which he played Lord Alfred Douglas, the glamorous lover of Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde.

Law subsequently moved to Hollywood; his performances include Gattaca, as a frustrated Olympic medalist bound by a wheelchair, in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as an ill-fated lover of Kevin Spacey's character, in Road to Perdition as a sadistic hitman in a critically-praised performance. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice; once as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000, and then again as Best Actor in a Leading Role for Cold Mountain in early 2003.

Law's career suffered a major decline during 2004. The remake of Alfie was a box-office flop, earning only about half of its estimated $60 million budget, and was voted one of the worst remakes of all time by subscribers to Screen Select. Writing in the Daily Mail in 2005 Laura Benjamin contended that though Law had been effective in supporting roles, his appeal was too limited to carry a film all on his own.

Other films of his in 2004, such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow also flopped. I ♥ Huckabees, which flopped at the box office, did obtain modest critical "indie" praise. Law was famously the butt of a joke by Chris Rock at the 2005 Academy Awards, which preceded Law's departure from the Creative Artists Agency. At the awards ceremony, Sean Penn, who had worked with Law rebuked Rock, but was notably one of Law's few supporters that night.

Law has sometimes chosen to hide his classical looks in unglamorous roles such as the evil, balding hitman in Road to Perdition.

Law is a fan of the seminal graphic novel Watchmen, by Alan Moore, so much so he has a tattoo of the Rorschach character. He has maintained an interest in being involved in a feature film production of the series, especially if it were directed by Darren Aronofsky. He has said that he would most likely play the character Ozymandias. This could be because he was, at one point, courted to play either Batman or Superman in Batman Begins, Batman vs. Superman, and/or Superman Returns, but he is said to have regretted it when he was not selected for the role.

In addition, he was asked by Superman Returns director Bryan Singer to play General Zod, but the character was eliminated from the script. However, recent news suggests Law will play General Zod in the Superman Returns prequel.

In 2005, he was one of many actors rumored to be a possible choice to assume the role of James Bond, as MGM decided not to renew Irish actor Pierce Brosnan's contract. Jude decided against auditioning for the role, stating that he didn't feel as though he was fit for the role and would prefer to play a villain in the popular franchise than its hero. The role would eventually go to fellow Englishman Daniel Craig, who would also go on to date Jude's girlfriend Sienna Miller.

Other December 29th Birthdays:

Mary Tyler Moore-Actress 69
Jon Voight-Actor 68
Ted Danson-Actor 59
Patricia Clarkson-Actress 47
Jason Gould-Actor 40
Kevin Weisman-Actor/Alias 36
Mekhi Phifer-Actor/ER 32
Jessica Andrews-Country Singer 23

Lily Allen Pleas for Safe Return of Dog

Singer Lily Allen posted a message on her "Myspace", claiming that her beloved pooch had been stolen this week. I know how she feels... as my court hearing to get my dogs back from Cruella DeVille isn't until January 18th. [that bitch]

My dog who i love very very much was stolen this morning from Capel Road, Forest Gate. London E7. My friend has been looking after her while I have been on holiday and she was taken from his van, parked outside his house.

Please, if everybody could pass this message on for me there may be a chance that I can see her again. There is a reward.

Mail me back with any information or call 07909 903565.

Not only am i devastated that my dog has been taken away, but i am also concerned for her wellbeing. She needs an operation on her stomach and is having medical treatment.

please anyone help.

no one will be angry - me and my family just want Maggie home.

Jennifer Lopez Comes to Aspen, Colorado

Living in the state of Colorado... I can assure you, we become completely infested with celebrities in the winter. It's like some sort of insect problem. Note the boots... not snow attire.

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Kate Bosworth Buying Food!!

Oh sure... she feeds the dog, yet starves herself. Yeah... ok... that makes sense to me.


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Guess the Nipples...

Should be an easy one... just look at how lop-sided the nips are.

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Gallery of the Most Beautiful Women

Natural Wonders of the World. Amazingly beautiful women -- natural beauties. Does anyone not belong on the list? Who's missing?

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Another Blow for Britney Spears

As a result of her actions, many of her "fans" have felt disappointed and even betrayed by the former pop star.

Now, WorldofBritney.com - the most popular Spears fansite - is shutting down! And they are citing Britney's recent behavior as a deciding factor!

In a press release announcing the closing of the website, the site's webmaster said:

As Britney keeps losing her identity and credibility within fans and industry people, so is WoB. We're moving on to greater, bigger things. I would therefore like to announce the permanent shut down of World of Britney.com beginning January 31st, 2007.

No worries though, Britney will still be covered and our relationship with her people, Larry etc....will remain intact.

I think that WoB has had its run.......its feet are not holding firm anymore, not because of my ability to run it, but because I believe Britney is unfortunately done (for me at least). No matter what anyone thinks or how they may disagree, it's very hard to maintain the respect needed to keep things going, so in turn, I'm trying to be a step ahead of it."

In all honesty, this shouldn't come as a surprise to Britney. Nobody accomplishes what she has with no brains at all. However, she may be a bit misguided as to what types of publicity is marketable.

December 28th, 2006 - This Day In History

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1895 : First commercial film screened

The world's first commercial screening of a film takes place at the Grand CafÝ in Paris. The film was made by Louis and August Lumiere, two French brothers who invented a camera/projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere brothers first demonstrated their machine to the public in March 1895 and began charging admission in December the same year. The first film, shown on December 28, featured short clips, including a humorous segment involving a gardener and a hose. The brothers made 2,000 short films during the next five years.