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Jessica and Honor pose for mag; Mena Suvari engaged

Jessica Alba poses with Honor on cover of OK!

One reason Jessica Alba named her baby daughter Honor was that she felt her own was pretty bland. "I was always irritated that my name was Jessica," the 27-year-old actress tells OK! magazine. She and hubby Cash Warren welcomed Honor Marie Warren last month. OK! magazine, which recently landed a million-dollar deal with new mom Jamie Lynn Spears, doesn't comment on its pacts with celebrities, though Alba reportedly sold the first shots of Honor to OK! for $1.5 million [1].

 

Mena Suvari gets engaged to music producer

American Beauty (and Pie) star Mena Suvari is engaged to music producer/concert promoter [2] Simone Sestito, who proposed during their vacation to Jamaica, her reps tell People magazine. The 29-year-old actress met Sestito last year at the Toronto International Film Festival while Suvari was promoting her film Stuck.

 

'Star Wars' video game bridges gap between films

Calling all gamers...and Jedi's! Consider it "Star Wars III and a Half" - complete with a pivotal plot twist. When LucasArts releases "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" on Sept. 16, the video game will serve as George Lucas' official median [3] between 2005's "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" and 1977's "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope." In the game, players become Darth Vader's secret apprentice and use The Force to hunt the remaining Jedi.

 

Barbie goes bad

Based on a D.C. comic superhero Black Canary, a new Barbie model by the same name is causing controversy [4]. She's complete with a motorcycle jacket, fishnets and boots. Religious groups are calling the new Mattel collection "filth." The doll is scheduled to be in stores in September.

Get a taste of the graphic novel original [5] whose known for her martial arts capability and high-pitched scream.

 

And you thought the pool at the Y was bad after work

Now that the Sichuan area in Western China has been deemed safe, thousands of middle-class tourists have flocked to the swimming pools [6] of this scenic spot for an inexpensive day trip. In May, nearly 70,000 died in this area after an earthquake hit, also leaving close to 5 million people homeless. Wonder what the water temp is like...

It's really that crowded!

 

 

Sleeping cop seriously injures driver

An off-duty cop in Phoenix fell asleep at the wheel and caused a three-car crash [7] Wednesday. One driver broke a leg and the other was not seriously injured. Believe it or not, alcohol or drugs was NOT a factor in this crash. The officer was charged with failure to control speed during a collision.

Now that you've procrastinated a bit with Cube Candy -

Get back to work!

 


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Links:
[1] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEOPLE_JESSICA_ALBA?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-17-02-44-10
[2] http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20212978,00.html
[3] http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAMES_E3_STAR_WARS?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=ENTERTAINMENT&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-17-00-30-06
[4] http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1428128.ece
[5] http://www.dccomics.com/heroes_and_villains/?hv=origin_stories/black_canary
[6] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035533/Anyone-seen-rubber-ring-The-worlds-crowded-swimming-pool.html
[7] http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2008/07/16/20080716abrk-officerinvolvedcollision071.html