Brad Pitt

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Thank God for grounding. This one could have gotten ugly. 

Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has one dream he will never achieve - he wants to be a rock star.

Pitt admits he would love to be a music icon and play gigs to thousands of adoring fans - but he has accepted it will never happen as he lacks musical talent.

He says, “Every guy has fantasised about playing to an audience. I still play the guitar but at my age I know I suck. I love music but that dream has gone.”

Whew! Can you imagine how humiliating that could have been? Brad Pitt trying to be a rock star… for REAL? Up on a stage in skin-tight leather and making his “O face” when striking the high chords on his axe?

Pitt has the money to put out a vanity record and indulge his ego like so many actors, but I like the guy even more now for acknowledging that he sucks at something and knows how it feels to have a dream he’ll never realize. Such humility makes it easier to swallow that he’s a gazillionaire that millions of women would love to sleep with and he gets to sex up Angelina Jolie at home.

Okay, scratch that, I hate him again. 

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Source: IMDB

Would you pay to see these two in a movie?

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Eva Mendes is calling on Hollywood’s casting directors to find her a part alongside Cameron Diaz, because she’s desperate to appear onscreen with the blonde beauty.

The two are apparently close friends but have yet to work together, leading Eva to say, “I am dying to work with Cameron. She is just a really good person and I would love, love, love to work with her.”

Get in line, sister! I’ve been wanting to hire Cameron for my, ahem, “movie” since I saw her in “There’s Something About Mary”. There were some dark days when she fell off the hottie radar (damn you, Justin Timberlake!), but Cameron’s still one of the coolest, hottest chicks in movies. 

An Eva Mendes/Cameron Diaz movie with lots of gratuitous nudity and girl-on-girl action? Is it too early to buy a movie ticket for that?! Throw in Penelope Cruz and I’m totally down with that. 

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Source: IMDB

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And you thought the guy who ran that crematorium and gave families charcoal dust instead of their relatives’ ashes was a douchebag!

Two brothers who ran a funeral home and crematorium admitted Tuesday that they sold corpses to a company that trafficked stolen body parts. Louis and Gerald Garzone pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy, theft, abuse of corpse and welfare fraud.

The gruesome allegations read in court drew gasps, murmurs and tears from about two dozen people who had entrusted the bodies of their loved ones to the Garzones’ facilities in Philadelphia.

The brothers allowed at least 244 corpses to be carved up without families’ permission and without medical tests, prosecutors said. Skin, bones, tendons and other parts — some of them diseased — were then sold around the country for dental implants, knee and hip replacements, and other procedures.

All together now: EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Some bodies were only torsos by the time the hacking was done, said Assistant District Attorney Evangelia Manos.

The mastermind of the scheme, Michael Mastromarino, pleaded guilty Friday to hundreds of charges that could send him to prison for life. He is already serving 18 to 54 years for running the scam in New York.

Mastromarino’s company, New Jersey-based Biomedical Tissue Services, took bodies from funeral homes in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Among the corpses plundered was that of veteran BBC broadcaster and “Masterpiece Theatre” host Alistair Cooke.

In Philadelphia, he paid the Garzones and their partner, James McCafferty, more than $245,000 for at least 244 cadavers between February 2004 and October 2005, prosecutors said.

Mastromarino would then send a “cutting” crew, led by former nurse Lee Cruceta, to Philadelphia to dissect the bodies. Cruceta pleaded guilty in January to abusing corpses and other charges; McCafferty pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy and theft charges.

The tissue plundered from a single body often fetched about $4,000, and Mastromarino made millions from the scheme, prosecutors said.

Authorities were able to identify only 49 of the 244 bodies, since the scam entailed falsifying names, ages and causes of death to disguise corpses that were too old or too diseased to be harvested legally. The Garzones burned their records in the crematorium when investigators started asking questions, Manos said.

Right… They fire up the oven when they get in trouble, not when they’re supposed to be cremating grandpa!

Both Gerald Garzone, 48, of North Wales, and Louis Garzone, 66, of Philadelphia, also pleaded guilty to defrauding the state public welfare department, which reimburses funeral homes for services provided to impoverished families. The Garzones filed for about $77,000 in unentitled reimbursements, prosecutors said.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we may just have set a new benchmark for scum-baggery!

I signed up as an organ donor because, really, I won’t miss my eyes when I’m dead in the ground, but I think I’d be pretty pissed from the Great Beyond if I looked down and saw some douche-bag treating my corpse like a car to be raided for spare parts from the junkyard. There’s probably no difference, but somehow, yeah, there is. 

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Source: CNN

John Renehan spotted his father, John Delaney, by chance on a program about missing people. Unknown to his family, Mr Delaney had spent the intervening years living in a care home just a few miles away from them, using a new name because he could not remember his own.

Police have apologized for an extraordinary series of errors which led to him being declared dead and an unidentified man being cremated in his place. Oops!

Mr Delaney, now 71, was reported missing in April 2000 after he failed to turn up at a hostel in Oldham, Greater Manchester, where he was staying.

When he turned up just nine days later, six miles away, he was admitted to hospital and seen by a police officer who failed to make proper checks of records of recent missing people in the area. Suffering amnesia caused by a head injury, he was soon handed over to local services who cared for him ever since.

All that staff could say for sure was that the man they called David Harrison retained a strong Irish accent from childhood and made regular references to “Tipperary” and “boxing”.

When, three years later, a man’s badly-decomposed body was found in bushes at Manchester Royal Infirmary - it was assumed to be him.

Despite an offer of a DNA sample from a family member, no genetic tests were carried out and no dental records analyzed.

Believing they were finally able to grieve for their father, the family held a wake and had the body cremated.

Can you spell L-A-W-S-U-I-T?

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Source: The Telegraph

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The NFL season kicked off Thursday with the New York Giants beating the Washington Redskins 16-7.

The NY defense held the Redskins to 11 first downs and 209 total yards. So much for the Skins’ new West Coast offense opening this one up. Jason Campbell completed 15 of 27 for 133 yards and one touchdown. Washington had the ball for less than 25 minutes because they were totally ineffective on third down (converting only three of 13).

On the other side of the ball, Eli Manning completed 19 of 35 for 216 yards and an interception. John Carney kicked the rest of the Giants’ points. 

I’m sure Redskins coach Jim Zorn would have preferred a different outcome in his debut game, but at least it wasn’t a total blowout. 

It was a pretty good game to watch in the first half, but the second half was a bit of a snoozer. 

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Source: ESPN