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“One Tree Hill” Season 8 Spoilers
by thetodaynews on Aug.26, 2010, under entertainment
In the Season 7 finale cliffhanger of the “One Tree Hill” TV series, Quinn and Clay were shot by Katie. (Not that we watch the show or anything.)
An astute reader of TheTodayNews.com was recently in Wilmington, NC, where the CW series is filmed. She stumbled across an outdoor scene shooting for Season 8 of OTH and snapped this photo of Quinn and Haley outside of a hospital. Whew, are we relieved Quinn is OK! (Again, not that we watch the show or anything.)
In reality, filming location used for the “hospital” was the Hanover County Library in downtown Wilmington. But throw a couple of extras walking around dressed in nurse scrubs and voilà! Now it becomes a hospital.
We Still Love our Aging Rock Stars
by thetodaynews on Jul.12, 2010, under celebs, entertainment
Bands such as Bon Jovi and KISS have been writing hits and touring for decades for one simple reason: they rock.
Unfortunately our lifelong stage heroes are starting to show their age. Jon Bon Jovi suffered a painful torn calf muscle while performing in his home state of New Jersey on Friday, but the singer/actor/arena-football-team-owner continued to perform and finish out the show to the delight of the fans.
Jon’s injury comes at a time when several prominent rock bands are stumbling, literally.
The most famous rock band on-stage injury was star Steven Tyler’s fall from the stage in 2009, which resulted in a broken shoulder and the end of Aerosmith. A less damaging, but still embarrassing, tumble was delivered by KISS’ Paul Stanley a few years ago when he slid (intentionally) across the stage into a live camera (not intentionally) during a nationally televised performance.
Wonder Woman’s New Outfit
by thetodaynews on Jul.01, 2010, under entertainment
Wonder Woman has traded in her Mary Lou Retton leotards for a biker jacket and pants.
The DC Comics super-heroine has been given a new look by artist and co-publisher Jim Lee, who no doubt designed the outfit to be more “theater friendly” and go hand-in-hand with the planned Wonder Woman movie. So those of you who had visions of Jessica Biel running around the big screen in a tight red, white, and blue one-piece are out of luck!
Interestingly Wonder Woman is not the only person being reinvented in this story. Writer J. Michael Straczynski, known mostly for his 1990s “Babylon 5″ TV Series, is taking over the comic book series. I wonder if he can get Claudia Christian to play Wonder Woman in the movie…
Germany’s “Fräulein Wunder”
by thetodaynews on Jun.01, 2010, under entertainment
Germany’s 19-year-old Lena Meyer-Landrut won the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest this weekend, prompting the German newspapers to dub her dub her “Fraeulein Wunder” (”Miss Wonder”).
Many Germans use the annual Eurovision vote tally as a barometer of the country’s popularity in Europe. If that is true, then this year’s win would indicate approval over Germany’s leadership in stabilizing the current Euro crisis, compared to 2008 when German girl band “No Angels” got zero votes from 40 of 42 countries participating.
Lena is only the second German to ever win Eurovision, with the last being folk singer Nicole who won in 1982.
Willie Nelson gets a Haircut
by thetodaynews on May.27, 2010, under entertainment
Country music star Willie Nelson, whose signature waist-long reddish pigtails have been around longer than most people have been alive, has cut off his iconic pigtails.
Nelson has been kicking back in Hawaii recently and got his hair cut within the last couple of weeks according to his spokeswoman.
The 76-year-old singer-songwriter always seems to be on perpetual tour, but maybe Nelson’s new look means he wants to re-invent himself into a Jimmy Buffet style entertainer, settle down in a nice Hawaii club, and live out his golden years on the beach instead of in the bus.
Miley Cyrus Goes to the Dark Side
by thetodaynews on May.05, 2010, under entertainment
Not even six months after Miley Cyrus declared Twilight “a cult” (as previously reported by TheTodayNews.com), Miley has changed her tune and decided that a darker, sexy, more Gothic image might be good for her Louis Vuitton after all.
In her newest video, “Can’t Be Tamed”, Ms. Cyrus dons a pair of black feather wings, elbow-high leather gloves, and knee-high leather boots, an outfit whose imagery is clearly intended to be reminiscent of a naughty angel fallen from grace.
Maybe she can parlay her new image into an opportunity to write a song for the next Twilight movie!
You can watch the Miley Cyrus video for “Can’t be Tamed” by clicking here.
The TARDIS gets a Bumper Sticker
by thetodaynews on Apr.25, 2010, under entertainment
Fans of the British Sci-Fi series “Doctor Who” know that the interior of the TARDIS has changed over the years.
The exterior of the time machine, however, has looked the same for most of the 40-plus year history of the classic television series, appearing as a blue British Police Box designed to blend in with 1960’s England (which is when the series was created).
In the newest season of Doctor Who, a circular sticker has appeared on the TARDIS door. It is actually a St. John Ambulance badge, added by new show boss Steven Moffat.
The badge had actually been present on the original 1963 TARDIS, as well as in the 1960s films starring Peter Cushing, and then vanished from the TARDIS for more than 40 years.
Maybe The Doctor finally got that chameleon circuit working again…
“South Park” Satire Gets Radical Muslims in a Tizzy
by thetodaynews on Apr.22, 2010, under entertainment
Radical Islamic group Revolution Muslim has threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone with death for portraying the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit on the recent 200th Episode of South Park.
The episode shows several religions figures from around the world including Jesus, Moses, Krishna and Buddha as typical stylized cartoons, but depicts Muhammad first as a “Censored” bar and later in a bear suit as a satire on the Muslim belief that any depiction of the prophet is forbidden, fearing it could lead to idolatry.
“We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show,” a posting on RevolutionMuslim.com said. Theo Van Gogh was murdered in 2004 by an Islamic militant over a movie he made that accused Islam of condoning violence against women.
Harry Potter Sex Scene: Keeping up with the Cullens
by thetodaynews on Apr.17, 2010, under entertainment

The final film installment of the Harry Potter franchise, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, is rumored to include a sexy nude dream sequence between Hermione (Emma Watson) and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe).
Although the mature content was not in author J.K. Rowling’s original manuscript, director David Yates created the scene to keep up with the competition, specifically the perpetually shirtless Twilight vampires.
If Yates really wants to keep up with the Twilight saga though, he should instead make a dream sequence between Hermione and Draco Malfoy, mirroring the romantic friction between Twilight’s Bella and rivals Edward and Jacob.
Due to the large size of the book, 759 pages in the US version, the film is scheduled for release in two parts with the first opening in late 2010.
New “Asteroids” High Score
by thetodaynews on Apr.08, 2010, under entertainment, tech
If you are like a certain editor at TheTodayNews.com (we’re not naming any names), then you’ve wasted countless quarters and hours of your 1980s youth in video game arcades.
John McAllister of Seattle, Washington may have just vindicated his own playing time by breaking the all-time Asteroids high score after 58 hours of continuous play, racking up 41,338,740 points on the classic 1979 coin-op game. The previous record of 41,336,440 was set in 1982.