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What The Hell?? Woman Dies After Husband Beats Her For Not Paying The Cable Bill

SMH: A Staten Island woman died a day after her husband beat her for not paying for cable TV while he was hospitalized over Thanksgiving , law enforcement sources said. Blanche Scala, 59, died on Nov. 27 after her husband, Thomas Scala, 57, attacked her inside their New Dorp Beach home when he came home from the hospital, the sources said. The husband, who was just released from another 3-month hospital stay on Thursday, was charged with assault and criminal mischief for the alleged attack – but could face a murder rap once the case goes before a grand jury, sources said. The medical examiner ruled her death a homicide due to blunt impact trauma to the head. Scala, who has a long history of health issues, was angry at his wife for not visiting him at the hospital and because she refused to pay for premium cable channels during his stay, sources said. “Things escalate,” a source said. “Things get thrown.” Investigators believe one of the objects was an ashtray that caught his wife in the head. The woman hurriedly packed her clothes into a cart and tried to escape the Finley Ave. home, but the enraged husband doused them with rubbing alcohol and used hairspray to set them ablaze, sources said. She burned her hands putting out the flames. The wife was treated for the injuries at Staten Island University Hospital and took shelter at a friend’s house. Her husband found her at the home and began harassing the woman before cops were called and he left, sources said. As the shaken wife tried to go to sleep that night, she complained to her friend of nausea and headaches, sources said. The friend found her on a couch the next morning not breathing. She was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, but couldn’t be saved. Autopsy results showed she died as the result of the bleeding of an existing subdural hematoma, a collection of blood on the surface of the brain. Investigators learned that Scala hit the woman just a week before on Nov. 19, sources said. Detectives believe the ashtray she was hit with just before she died struck the same injury and caused her death. Scala has admitted to family members that he had hit his wife, sources said. He was released on his own recognizance after his arraignment on Friday. Wow, this story is crraaazzzyy. R.I.P. Source

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Kids Still Seeing the Worst Things Imaginable: Dora the Explorer DVD Mixed Up with Porn

Kids: They see the darnedest things! You may recall that a group of seven-year-olds mistakenly watched Saw 3D instead of Megamind 3D because of a theater mix-up last November. Well, those traumatized youngsters can take solace in the fact that they didn’t see something called Bubble Butt Bonanza No. 17 , which is what happened when a pair of Queens youngsters popped in their new Dora the Explorer DVD.

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Chris Medina’s ‘American Idol’ Story Recalls Danny Gokey’s

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Chris Medina, a 26-year-old barista from Chicago, has been with his girlfriend Juliana for eight years and they#39;ve been engaged for two years. On Oct. 2, 2009, Juliana was in a car accident, which Medina says caused “everything to change.” Julie suffered a traumatic brain injury. Luckily, Juliana woke up, but Chris and her mother act as her caretakers. Medina wore her engagement ring around his neck during the audition. On “American Idol,” there#39;s sometimes sob stories you are skeptica

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Kyle Richards on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Feud: Second Worst Time Ever!

There was a sisterly spat on this week’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season finale , and that may be more of an understatement than saying Justin Bieber has a passionate fan base. Kyle and Kim Richards absolutely went at it inside a limo, screaming over long-simmering grudges and personal family issues, such as the latter’s battle with alcohol. It’s worth watching: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Clip At the conclusion of the episode, Bravo told viewers that Kim checked in and out of rehab in the week following events from the finale. What is Kyle’s reaction to this trauma? She took to her network blog today and expressed remorse, regret and love for her sibling: After this horrible argument between Kim and I, we didn’t speak for a long time. My heart was broken and I suffered an incredible amount of anxiety and panic attacks. Next to losing my mother, this was the most difficult time of my life. It is so difficult for me to even write about it now. The details of what happened with Kim after that night, is her story to tell. I will not go into that here. I do want to say that I have learned a lot about my sister and myself during the taping of this show. I have been able to look at our relationship from an outsider’s point of view. I’ve realized that my pain and worrying about her comes off as anger. It was not helping Kim or our relationship. I love my sister and only want the best for her. Kim knows that.

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Emily McCombs: The Mr. Skin Skinterview

Asylum.com’s “Token Girl” Opens Up for a Q&A on Celebrity T&A Mr. Skin has long admired AOL’s guy-centric entertainment site, Asylum , and one major reason (or is it two) has been Emily McCombs and her uproarious video reports from “ A Woman’s Perspective .” Raven-maned, tattooed funnylady Emily grew up in suburban Oklahoma (“It’s the middle of the Bible Belt,” she notes, “and secular entertainment was frowned upon, so any nudity I managed to see on television or in movies was enjoyed with one eye on the door, one finger on the channel change button, and a sizable dollop of guilt”). At present, Emily resides in New York City where, for kicks, she sings in an all-girl barbershop quartet. She swears. Alas, Asylum will be closing up shop this week. However, Emily will continue to amuse and inspire online via “A Woman’s Perspective” (though it will be called something else). Do be on the lookout for her and dive on in now to her Mr. Skin Skinterview. *************************************** What’s the first movie and/or TV nude scene you remember seeing? The breast-baring scene at the end of Just One of the Guys made a real impression on me. I loved that movie so much I would pretend to be sick and stay home from school when it was going to be on television. As for more serious nudity, I found Sliver very sexually enlightening as a young adult. There’s something like 50,000 nude scenes in that film, and the creepy/sexy plot that Billy Baldwin is spying on his female tenants with video cameras everywhere. What’s your all-time favorite nude scene? Everybody made a big deal out of Halle Berry ’s nude scene in Monster’s Ball , but I love the scene with Amber Rules as the hooker who strips down all matter-of-factly and takes it from Heath Ledger from behind. I don’t think it’s supposed to be hot, necessarily, but the dirtiness and transactionality of it really does it for me. Thora Birch in American Beauty is also great, just because she has some of the best breasts ever. And Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in Bound is one of my all-time favorites. I’m not a lesbian, but I feel like I could be when I watch that scene. Who are the three sexiest actresses presently working in movies and/or TV? Christina Hendricks , Sofia Vergara , and Salma Hayek . All three of them have bodies that are difficult to even comprehend. Truly dangerous curves. I’ve never understood guys who are obsessed with these tiny actresses like Natalie Portman . It seems like all these guys want to have sex with Natalie Portman. I like these larger-than-life, ridiculously proportioned women. I’m a big Russ Meyer fan. Who are the three sexiest actresses from the past? Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC , Jane Fonda in Barbarella and a tie between Ann-Margret and Brigitte Bardot . Again, the common denominator seems to be their incredible figures. So sue me. What is the sexiest favorite movie genre? Low-budget horror movies are the best for nudity, because all these kids who want to be filmmakers figured out that if you hire one decently hot chick to show her boobs in your movie, you can probably get it distributed. Sometimes they’ll have boobs right on the DVD menu page. I was really traumatized by those Sleepaway Camp movies when I was a kid, but they were also full of boobs, which was titillating. So that combination of scary/arousing is sort of nostalgic for me. What’s the funniest nude scene you’ve ever seen I always take nudity very seriously. Have you ever been strangely turned on by a movie, TV show or individual scene that seemed “inappropriate”? Recently, I found myself super-aroused by the scene in the new Bad Lieutenant where Nic Cage ’s unhinged cop forces Stephanie Honore to give him a handjob while her boyfriend watches. The throughline here seems to be that I like creepy dudes. You describe yourself as a bit of a “chubby chaser” with guys. Does that go for women you find beautiful as well? I picked all curvy women for my sexiest actresses, but I also love plus-size models Kate Dillon , Crystal Renn and Mia Tyler . And Anna Nicole Smith usually looked amazing, even when she was on the “large” side. We’re terribly sorry to learn about Asylum shutting down. What’s next for you? Thank you. I’m sad about it – I loved my job at Asylum every day that I did it. I’m leaving AOL and joining a media startup to help launch some new websites. I’m also working on a book proposal, and I hope to keep doing “A Woman’s Perspective” in some form, although I’m no longer allowed to call it “A Woman’s Perspective.” And it’s not 100% for sure yet, but you should actually be able to see me doing my own segment on a television talk show starting this year. I’ll be posting the deets on my Facebook page here .

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When Camille Met Kayte…

Camille Grammer met her still-husband’s fiancee for the first time yesterday. And the experience was so personal and so traumatic that she had to share it with the world on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live last night, following the most recent episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills . “It was interesting to say the least,” Camille told Andy Cohen. “I was delivering the kids to Kelsey, and he texted me and said, ‘Kayte will be there.’ And my girlfriend Deidre, who’s on the show with me, said we have to go down and meet her.” And?!? “She was nice, we both said hello. She has a very strong handshake… it was uncomfortable.” As it stands now, Camille won’t let Kelsey go through with a hasty divorce, while Kesley wants to marry Kayte next month and… do you really care?

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Joanna Krupa in Her Bikini of the Day

My first internet job was helping my friend who was an internet journalist, if that even exists, back in 2004. He didn’t pay me, but he would give me free beer, I am ghetto like that, and I am into selling myself short…. I used to have to transcribe interviews he did with d-listers. It was 2004 and Joanna Krupa was one of the people I had to listen to as I did my best job transcribing her bullshit answers without jumping out of his fifth floor window. I don’t remember much about her and apparently either does the rest of the world, because she doesn’t matter. She practically doesn’t exist and never did. She was nothing by a Stuff / FHM / Maxim model turned Dancing with the Stars star even though she was never a star, just a self-proclaimed one, and Dancing with the Stars was the biggest thing she ever did, which is kinda against the whole model of the show…. I guess, she’s used to that shit, because she did it with her whole “Polish” act, considering she never faced the iron curtain or communism like I real mail order bride, she just decided it was good for marketing and used it as much as she could….she moved to America at 5….who the fuck rememeber the traumatic experiences before 5….I mean most of us were probably molested before 5 and haven’t got the slightest repressed memory…but here this cunt is talking about rationed toilet paper like she was in a concentration camp….and I just hate bullshit for attention…unless that bullshit is her in a bikini…even if she’s thicker than she once was…she’s still okay by me…plus me and her go way back…she just doesn’t know I masturbated to her voice and her tedious and obvious answer back then…but I do…

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Black Executive Sues After Being Tasered By Ohio One-Time, Says Race Was Definitely A Factor

John Harmon was coming off a late night at work when he left his downtown marketing firm for his Anderson Township home just after midnight in October 2009. The 52-year-old longtime diabetic’s blood sugar levels had dipped to a dangerously low level causing him to weave into another lane. A Hamilton County sheriff’s deputy spotted him on Clough Pike and suspected drunken driving. What happened over the next two minutes and 20 seconds should never happen to anyone, Harmon said. Deputies broke the window of Harmon’s SUV, shocked him seven times with a Taser, cut him out of his seatbelt and wrestled him to the ground, severely dislocating his elbow, and causing trauma to his shoulder and thumb. The deputies’ actions prompted a state highway patrol trooper to pull one deputy away from Harmon because he was so concerned about how Harmon was being treated. That trooper alerted his bosses to the deputies’ actions. Even after learning the incident was a medical emergency, deputies charged Harmon with resisting arrest and failing to comply with a police officer’s order. “I thought for sure I was going to die,” Harmon said. “I remember praying to God, ‘Help me through this.’” Harmon, a tall and burly black man, owns a marketing company with his wife. He said he moved to the mostly white township for its good schools, and said he believes he wouldn’t have gotten the same treatment if it was a white man. “I do think that maybe (race) was a factor,” Harmon said. “Just out of common decency some of the things that were done here don’t make sense, even if I were drunk.” Harmon and his wife, Stephanie Harmon, filed a civil rights lawsuit Dec. 20 in U.S. District Court against Hamilton County, the sheriff’s office and four deputies: Ryan Wolf, Matthew Wissel, John Haynes and Shawn Cox, and their supervisor, Sgt. Barbara Stuckey. The couple allege that Harmon’s civil rights were violated because of his false arrest, malicious prosecution and the excessive force used. They also cited battery; malicious prosecution; intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of consortium. They want an unspecified amount of compensation. Settlement talks that started with a demand of more than $1 million deteriorated earlier this month. That’s when Harmon filed the lawsuit. A sheriff’s office investigation found excessive force was used, and four of the officers involved were punished. The deputies involved were asked through sheriff’s officials to comment. None returned calls. Damn, we hope he gets the settlement he deserves. Shady f*cking cops. Source

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Adrienne Nicole Martin death at 27

Adrienne Nicole Martin, was deceased when paramedics and officers arrived, the release said. The news release did not say if the death was considered suspicious, or why news of the death was not announced until four days later. Adrienne Nicole Martin, an aspiring model, has been found dead at the St. Louis home of ex-Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV. There were no signs of illness or trauma, says St. Louis County forensic administrator Suzanne McCune. An autopsy was conducted, reports CB

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