High-quality prints of Akron landmarks, cityscapes, nature scenes and more. Trump Spares Beauty Queen. Donald Trump, whose empire includes oversight of the Miss Universe/Miss USA/Miss Teen USA pageants,is letting Miss USA Tara Conner keep her job ``despite allegations of drug use, underage drinking and sexual misconduct,'' says TMZ.
com.
``She's agreed to go into rehab. She knows that if she makes even the slightest mistake from here on, she will be immediately replaced,'' TMZ quoted Trump as saying.
``Fighting back tears, and with her voice shaking, Conner thanked Trump for the pardon,'' the Web site added.
Love Match. Still sort of on the Trump beat, former Apprentice winner Bill Rancic plans to get hitched to Giuliana DePandi, anchor for E!
``Rancic proposed to DePandi Friday night during a cozy helicopter ride over his hometown of Chicago,'' said a report at E! online. ``He sealed the deal with some deep-dish pizza, champagne, chocolate cake and a generous sprinkling of rose petals.
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The wedding is planned for late 2007 in DePandi's native Italy.
``Although DePandi and Rancic first met when she interviewed him following his Apprentice hiring in April 2004, they didn't get romantic until earlier this year,'' the online report said. ``During an interview for a Boys Girls Club charity event, DePandi asked Rancic on air if he was dating anyone.
He said no and, when the cameras stopped rolling, asked her out.''
At no point, apparently, did DePandi say, ``Oh, gosh, no, I'm the reporter and you're the subject, this might be a conflict of interest!'' And so love bloomed.
Rosie Wants Bob's Job. When she's not busy apologizing for slurring the Chinese, Rosie O'Donnell is thinking about hosting The Price Is Right.
Longtime host Bob Barker will retire in 2007, and O'Donnell told TV show Extra that she wants to replace him.
She even has a clause in her contract with The View that allows her to take the game-show job.
Still, she said, ``They apparently don't want me..
. which is sort of sad.''
DVD Beats VCRs.
Anyone who has a deluxe multidisc boxed set on his Christmas list will not be surprised by this. But it's more or less official: More homes now have DVD players than have old-school VCRs.
A Nielsen Media Research study says that 81.
2 percent of U.S. homes have DVD players, while 79.
2 percent have VCRs. In 1999, when Nielsen began tracking this stat, DVD players were in 6.7 percent of homes while VCRs were in 88.
6 percent.
Other gearhead news in the study: 73.4 percent of homes have a computer; 95.
4 percent of people with Internet access go online at least once a week, and 37.3 percent go on more than once a day; 78.2 percent of online users have made purchases on the Internet, and 46.
8 percent of those 12 or older have downloaded music.
Gossip Wars. Internet gossip Perez Hilton (often quoted in the HeldenFiles)is feuding with X17 photo service over what constitutes fair use of X17's celebrity snaps.
As the Los Angeles Times reported recently, X17 filed a $7.6 million federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Hilton. Hilton denies wrongdoing.
``The list of allegedly infringed photos is an almost poetic inventory of the state of pop culture and people's obsession with it: `Pregnant Katie Holmes,' `Kevin Federline Pumping Gas,' `The New Slim Britney Spears,' `Britney Spears Exposes Her Derriere,' `Britney Spears Exposes Herself (Again),' '' wrote the Times' Robin Abcarian.
Although serious legal issues are involved, in a battle between a gossip and paparazzi, Abcarian said, ``It's hard to know whom to sympathize with.''
Trivia Time.
The answer to Sunday's question -- what NFL team was O.J. Simpson's for most of his career -- is the Buffalo Bills.
From the correct answers, the one by Jeff Worobel was randomly chosen as winner. He'll receive something from my Archive of Leftover DVDs and Ridiculous Promotional Items.
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