Keira Knightley refuses digital breast enhancement
July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
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British actress Keira Knightley has refused to have her breasts digitally enhanced for her new movie The Duchess.
The slender 23-year old Pirates of the Caribbean star has demanded that her chest not be “photoshopped” — after a digital boost for another recent film drew unwanted publicity, according to The Sun.
“She is proud of her body and doesn’t want it altered,” a source was quoted as saying.
Knightley blamed marketing teams for a busty transformation during the 2004 promotion of King Arthur.
“Those things certainly weren’t mine,” Fox News quoted her as saying in 2006.
Although the actress has previously revealed she “would love to have tits”, she said she would never have a boob job, declaring “I’m naturally who I am”.
Despite a corset-assisted lift in The Duchess, Knightley appears flat-chested throughout the 18th-century aristocratic drama.
But she did require another type of aid during filming.
The small-framed star used a specially designed headrest on set to ease the weight of her massive hairpiece, the Sun reports.
Man gets life for decapitating teenager
July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Morgan Jay Shepherd was just 17 when he was stabbed 133 times and decapitated, before his head was used as a puppet and bowling ball.
His two killers attacked him “completely without motive” after a drunken argument broke out between the trio, the Brisbane Supreme Court was told.
Mr Shepherd, who lived at a Brisbane youth hostel, was drinking with Christopher Clark Jones, 24, and James Patrick Roughan, 28, at Roughan’s home on March 29, 2005, when the fight erupted.
The 17-year-old died after being repeatedly stabbed, and his head was sawn off.
Police found a tomahawk, knife, and saw stained with the victim’s blood in Roughan’s shed, as well as bloodstained clothing featuring Jones’ DNA.
Several witnesses testified that they overheard Jones and Roughan boasting about the killing.
Jones also told friends that Roughan used the severed head like a puppet and a bowling ball.
The court was told they also stuck the head on a pawpaw tree stump.
Roughan was given an automatic life jail term on Tuesday after being found guilty on Monday night of murdering Mr Shepherd.
After killing the teenager, Jones and Roughan enlisted a friend to help dispose of the body.
The court was told they wrapped Mr Shepherd in carpet and put him in a car boot, while the head was placed in a plastic shopping bag.
The friend who owned the car only realised he was helping to dispose of a body when he got out of the vehicle at the burial site and saw two legs sticking out of the boot.
The killers later drove back to Dayboro, northwest of Brisbane, to bury the body more carefully, throwing their shovels off a bridge on the way home in an attempt to dispose of evidence.
Mr Shepherd’s body was found on April 1, 2005.
The guilty verdict was the second time Roughan has been convicted of Mr Shepherd’s gruesome murder.
He and co-offender Jones were both sentenced to life imprisonment in April last year after being found guilty following a lengthy trial.
Roughan appealed the verdict in the Court of Appeal in Brisbane and in December last year won a retrial.
At the start of the second trial, he pleaded guilty to one count of interfering with a corpse, and to a charge of accessary after the fact to murder.
However, the crown proceeded with the murder trial, presenting evidence that was accepted by the jury which returned a guilty verdict late on Monday.
Three people have already been sentenced for helping to dispose of the corpse.
Guards Go Stiff at Local Army Base
July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I have heard stories about local police departments using empty parked cruisers to scare drivers into obeying the speed limit, but this is the first I have heard of an Army base pulling the same trick.
Locals in TaoYuan Province, Taiwan, noticed that the guards around a local Army base always seemed to stand in the same position without moving.
The soldiers were actually dummies dressed up as soldiers and armed with fake rifles.
As the news spread, many locals began visiting the Army base to see the fake soldiers.
An official from the base explained that the reason they assigned fake soldiers to posts was due to a manpower shortage. They figured the fake soldiers would be sufficient in scaring away any attackers.
The Army base has now removed the dummy soldiers after being harshly criticized for the “ridiculous act”.
The mum, the stain and missing girl Caylee Anthony
July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
A FLORIDA woman is under investigation over the disappearance of her two-year-old daughter, who was missing for more than a month before authorities were told.
Two-year-old Caylee Marie Anthony from Orlando has been missing since June 9, but her disappearance was not reported until July 15 when her grandmother, Cindy Anthony, made three emergency calls, FOX news reported.
In the first call she said she wanted to press charges against her daughter Casey, 22, for “grand theft”, then in a second call she said she had someone in her home who needed to be arrested in relation to a missing toddler. In the third call she said it “smells like there’s been a dead body in the damn car”– a claim which she later disputed, saying the smell was just garbage.
Orange County sheriff’s deputy Carlos Padilla told FOX News the smell was “overwhelming” and completely different to that of rotting food.
Dirt, strands of hair similar to Caylee’s and a “mysterious” stain had allegedly been found in the boot of the car.
Casey Anthony told police she left her daughter with a babysitter named Zenaida Gonzalez and that she had been “stupid” in trying to find the girl by herself. However, the Orlando-Sentinel reported that when police went to the apartment Ms Anthony said belonged to the babysitter, they found it had been empty for almost five months.
On another occasion she told police she had dropped her daughter off at a friend’s house with whom she had since lost contact.
The Orlando-Sentinel also said Ms Anthony said she worked at Universal Studios and gave a list of people who could vouch for her – but officials found she had never worked there and neither did the people on the list.
A neighbour told the newspaper that Casey Anthony had borrowed a shovel for a few hours around the time the toddler went missing.
Mother arrested
Ms Anthony has been arrested and charged with child neglect, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation. She has been named as a person of interest in her daughter’s disappearance and is in jail trying to raise $US500,000 ($523,234) for bond.
At a hearing, Judge John Jordon said: “You left your two-year-old child with a person who does not exist at an apartment you cannot identify and you lied to your parents about your child’s whereabouts. You cared so little about your child.”
The Orlando-Sentinel said that in her first phone call from jail, Ms Anthony expressed little concern over her missing daughter and was primarily interested in getting her boyfriend’s phone number.
Local6 TV reported that Cindy Anthony said her daughter knew who had Caylee.
“She is fearful of something,” Cindy Anthony said. “She doesn’t want to hurt me or have me hurt mentally or physically about something. But I know with her calm demeanor that she is confident that Caylee is alive.”
Questions over concrete slab
FOX News reported Cindy Anthony refused to answer questions about a new concrete slab that was reportedly poured in her backyard over the July 4 long weekend.
Orange County Sheriff’s detectives said they searched the property with cadaver dogs and didn’t know anything about the concrete slab.
“The sheriff’s office knows everything that we’ve done in that yard over the last year,” Cindy Anthony told WFTV. “We’ve disclosed everything. If they had any concerns, I would think they would have followed up on it already.”
Florida Today reports Cindy Anthony told The Early Show on CBS that they had received many calls about Caylee, including possible sightings. She told the show she wondered why so much suspicion was on her daughter and why no one was looking for Zenaida Gonzalez.
“She has been kidnapped by a person the local authorities said doesn’t exist,” Cindy Anthony said.
“There are nine people with that name in Orlando, Florida. There are four people with that name in Winter Haven, Florida and there are people with that name in Miami and four people with that name in New York City and three in the Bronx. So come on folks, someone needs to start listening to my daughter and if it is not the local authorities, will the FBI please get involved in this case and come and interview my daughter like she has been requesting.”
Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up
July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions - but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.
Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as ‘little people who look strange to us.’
He said supposedly real-life ET’s were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Chillingly, he claimed our technology is “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and “had they been hostile”, he warned “we would be been gone by now”.
Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
“I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real,” Dr Mitchell said.
“It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.
“I’ve been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes - we have been visited. Reading the papers recently, it’s been happening quite a bit.”
Dr Mitchell, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics claimed Roswell was real and similar alien visits continue to be investigated.
He told the astonished Kerrang! radio host Nick Margerrison: “This is really starting to open up. I think we’re headed for real disclosure and some serious organisations are moving in that direction.”
Mr Margerrison said: “I thought I’d stumbled on some sort of astronaut humour but he was absolutely serious that aliens are definitely out there and there’s no debating it.”
Officials from NASA, however, were quick to play the comments down.
In a statement, a spokesman said: “NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.
‘Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.’
