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- Snoop Dogg in the IRS Doghouse - Motley Fool
- Back Talk: Martha C. Nussbaum - Nation
- Spotted: Hilary Duff's Engagement Ring Turns Heads - MTV
- Kylie is racy in red as she enjoys a night of burlesque cabaret - Daily Mail
| Snoop Dogg in the IRS Doghouse - Motley Fool Posted: 25 Feb 2010 02:08 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Recs 4The headline to this story practically writes itself, which makes it hard to pick just one. To sum up the latest celebrity financial foible, here are three other titles that didn't quite make the cut:
Now, the Snoop scoop: The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $598,309 lien against Snoop Dogg for back taxes owed, according to The Detroit News. Snoop (a.k.a. Calvin Broadus) is an accomplished rap star (a leader in the "gangsta" oeuvre), gifted actor (consider his nuanced performance as Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch), and impassioned environmentalist (his name is synonymous with marijuana advocacy). Oh, and he's a repeat offender: Last April, the state of California put a tax lien on Dogg's home for failing to pay $284,053 he owed. That's pretty much all we know at the moment, since Snoop's publicist is keeping mum and the IRS bafflingly does not Tweet about its dealings. We do know that Mr. Dogg is not the only celebrity to fail to file his Form 1040-EZ by the deadline.
IRS Goes After [Insert Celebrity Name]
And those are just the folks reported so far this month.
What's the deal with celebrities and big tax tabs?
Don't these people have people for these kinds of things? Actually, we can answer that last one: Yes, they do have people. Sadly, those people don't always have their back. Nicolas Cage had a guy to manage his affairs. Last November, Cage sued that guy for mismanaging his finances, leaving the actor with $6 million-plus in tax liabilities. Steven Spielberg, Kevin Bacon, and Kyra Sedwick also had a guy. His name was Bernie Madoff. Not all financial pros mess up their high-profile clients' finances. When her handlers brought in a guy to help Britney Spears deal with her spendaholism, she learned to live on a monthly budget of "just" $1 million. (Hey, that's one-fifth of what it was previously.) Michael Jackson left a money mess in his wake. But the guy he hired to write his will and set up a trust did a bang-up job, saving his family from ugly courtroom showdowns and helping his lawyers usher his estate through probate.
Today's "teaching moment"
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| Back Talk: Martha C. Nussbaum - Nation Posted: 25 Feb 2010 12:06 PM PST [fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] It's an aversion to being sullied by something one views as degrading or foreign. The things that inspire that idea are typically reminders of our animality and bodily nature, particularly mortality and the weak decaying aspects of our bodily nature ... This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Spotted: Hilary Duff's Engagement Ring Turns Heads - MTV Posted: 25 Feb 2010 09:50 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that's why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild. Do you realize how long Hilary Duff has been a star? It's longer than you think. The 22-year-old actress and musician first burst onto the scene on "Lizzie McGuire," which premiered all the way back in 2001 (when Duff was only 13 years old). She dropped her debut album in 2003 and headlined her first film by 2004. And now the voice behind hits like "So Yesterday" and "Come Clean" is getting married to hockey player Mike Comrie, who gave Duff a ring reportedly worth a million dollars, which she showed off during a meal at Los Angeles restaurant Katsuya. In addition to getting married, she'll also be starring in a handful of movies in 2010, including the indie favorite "Stay Cool" and "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," a biopic that features Duff as legendary outlaw Bonnie Parker. She wasn't the only star out on the town, as several stars of the hit vampire show "True Blood" — including Alexander Skarsgard and Stephen Moyer — hit the red carpet for the premiere of "The Pacific," a Tom Hanks-produced miniseries about the Pacific theater during World War II. Click here for these photos as well as the entire "Spotted!" archive, which contains over 400 candid shots of stars like Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Jessica Simpson, Mariah Carey, Katy Perry, Rihanna, the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and Diddy! Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Kylie is racy in red as she enjoys a night of burlesque cabaret - Daily Mail Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:47 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. By Georgina Littlejohn The animal in Kylie Minogue was out in full swing last night as she enjoyed a night of sexy cabaret. The petite singer was a vision in a Dolce & Gabbana red leopard print dress as she attended Miss Polly Rae: The All New Hurly Burly Show in London. Having staged her own Showgirl tour in 2007, there was plenty on offer to inspire her for her next world tour.  Lady In Red: Kylie looked stunning in a red Dolce&Gabbana leopard print dress as she arrived at Miss Polly Rae: The All New Hurly Burly Show in London last night Having fun: Kylie and her friend William Baker, who directed the show, lark about for the cameras
But her main aim for being at the Leicester Square Theatre was to lend her support to good friend and stylist William Baker. The show, which Baker directed, stars Preston-born Polly Rae, who has already been dubbed as a potential rival to Dita Von Teese. It features songs by Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Destiny's Child and Madonna, that have all been given a burlesque makeover. All are sung live by Polly Rae, which makes her unique among her peers. And the show has already attracted a host of celebrity fans, including Kylie's little sister Dannii, who attended the show on Tuesday night.  Good golly: Kylie watched the Miss Polly Rae dancers in action
 Quite the showgirl: The showstopping performance was directed by Kylie's stylist and friend William Baker Last night, Kylie and Baker were joined by Boy George, who happily posed for pictures as he arrived at the show. And over the next few nights, celebrity guests such as Lady Gaga, Denise Van Outen and Leona Lewis are all expected to attend. Baker said of the show: 'It's a traditional burlesque revue/strip show. Erotic cabaret all done in the best possible taste. 'Burlesque has become too sanitised and watered down. We wanted to revolutionise it, to go back to what it was originally intended to be - something that's very provocative, political and sexy.'  Boy George, in an baby pink skull and crossbones hat, was also the event
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in the three pics of her with the red dress, she looks like she has a baby bump!
- Mama Sam, Brighton, 26/2/2010 01:01
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