Category: Defies a category!

Collins: Sex Preserves Beauty
LONDON, England (Reuters) – For really old 69-year-old really old looking British actress Joan Collins, sex is one of the best and cheapest beauty treatments there is.
The actress, currently on husband number five, said she was not a fan of plastic surgery, telling BBC World Service in an interview: “I think liposuction is something so horrible — they have so many disasters with it.”
“Dolly Parton has face like a doll, you know, it doesn’t look right to me,” said the actress, currently promoting her new book “Joan’s Way — looking good, feeling great.”
Collins said she was convinced that sex was “one of the best and cheapest beauty treatments there is.”
One word- “Ewwwwwwwww!”

SHREK Moves to Broadway
Dreamworks is in negotiations to turn its hit animated film, SHREK, into a Broadway musical that will bow in 2005. Sam Mendes (AMERICAN BEAUTY) may direct the adaption.

A Great Discovery!
IUsedToBelieve.com asks users to share what they thought was true when they were children.
A recent post: “My Dad used to always say ‘Born in a barn’ if I left the door open. I believed this to be true and told all my friends I had been born in a barn like Jesus.”
Give it a read and have some fun!

Anyone? Anyone?
If you need to alleviate some stress, try reading the entire script for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off online.

DVD Commercial breaks?
Do you enjoy watching your favorite movies and television shows on DVD commercial free? Although that paradigm may not be going away, Tommy Boy (The label not the film with Chris Farley) is experimenting with the idea of commercials during DVD presentation. Not prior to the presentation, but during regularly scheduled commercial breaks during the feature.
The upcoming series of DVDs Kung Faux, a series of Kung Fu parodies, will make regular commercial breaks for product placement from companies including Target, Levis Jeans and Showtime.
Although this doesnít seem like an appealing idea, Tommy Boy is hoping this will appeal to a niche audience who enjoys watching commercials. Best of luck guys.

TUMMIES FULL OF GUMMIES
Until now, the most alarming way for people to keep weight off has been through vices – smoking, drinking, skipping meals. But the latest trend in weight loss among young women is possibly worse, and definitely weirder, than all of them: The All-Candy Diet.
Suddenly – and secretly – young ladies are considering bags of fat-free Gummi Bears to be entire meals. The result? Pounds shedded, cavities accumulated, and a good chance adult onset diabetes will hit before 30. Even Elizabeth Hurley recently admitted that her post-partum weight-zapping indulgence was Gummi Bears.
“Oh my God, I’m awful,” said Robin Immerman, 25. The associate beauty editor is 5 feet tall and weighs 95 pounds. “I probably consume more calories in candy than anything else.”
Her daily diet consists of some mÈlange of Swedish fish, Gummi frogs, Taffy Lites, and candy peanuts – for breakfast, for part of dinner, and as a post-meal aperitif. “I could quite possibly live on candy alone,” she said.
Leah Wasielewski, a 23-year-old publicist at Simon & Schuster, admitted to regularly delaying meals with high-end Haribo fruit salad gummies, a $5-a-day habit. The fat-free aspect of gummi candy, she said, is “the ultimate bonus.” And 31-year-old photo editor Susannah Davis said that chewy Sprees curb her appetite at night. “If I’m eating something before dinner, I’ll go for candy. And then you’ve eaten so much candy that you’re not even hungry!”
Dylan Lauren, owner of Dylan’s Candy Bar, has herself been known to substitute a grab bag of gummies for a brown bag lunch. “I think I’ve lost weight by eating candy,” she said, adding that women are the store’s “big gummy eaters.”
Ultimately, for gummi aficionados, the bottom line is the waistline. “Jelly Bellies are four calories per bean,” said Mary Ann Zissimos, 23, who ratcheted up her intake while publicizing her upcoming book about the making of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” “Pure Imagination.” The great thing about the gummy tummy tuck, she said, is that “you’re losing weight, but you feel like you’re not dieting because you’re enjoying these secret pleasures.”
Unsurprisingly, health care professionals are horrified. “Sure, you can lose weight if candy is all you eat,” said Manhattan-based nutritionist Ellie Krieger, who once treated a dancer who subsisted solely on Twizzlers. “But the cost is your health.” Potential complications, she said, include anemia, malnutrition, osteoporosis, and skin and hair problems.
And then there’s rotting teeth. Danielle Blaine, 25, is a graduate student in psychology whose daily candy habit – which starts with fro-yo and ends with Peppermint Patties – has given her cavities in “every single one of my teeth,” while Wasielewski said she has more than 15 and Davis said she “basically paid for my dentist’s second home.”
In fact, possibly the only people really benefitting from this trend are dentists: “Candy and popcorn are keeping me in business!” said Dr. Michael Iott, while Dr. Steven Brisman warns that such compulsive candy intake has catastrophic results: “There are bacteria in the mouth, and food feeds the bacteria and holds the bacteria there because it’s sticky,” he explained. “Then the bacteria excrete acids, and the acids rot the teeth . . . I like this kind of girl!”

Can’t You Do Without?
Chain smokers of the world, unite: This site lets you take an online cigarette break.

Skunks are top of the pongs
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (Reuters) – Dirty nappies are disgusting and rotten eggs smell rancid — but skunks really stink!
That’s the finding of a light-hearted U.S. survey sponsored by Renuzit, Dial’s air freshener unit.
Skunks led the list of the bad odours in the nationwide survey, with 59.7 percent of respondents rating it a six, the stinkiest rating. Rotten eggs came in second at 47.2 percent, dirty nappy bins received 45.1 percent, bathroom odours were fourth at 37.9 percent and dairy farm smells were fifth at 31.6 percent.
Participants were allowed to rank more than one smell as the stinkiest.
The poll was conducted on America Online websites and select subsidiaries. The poll was conducted in conjunction with the launch of a new Renuzit air freshener, Renuzit Super Odor Neutralizer.
Respondents also nominated their own malodorous offenders that were not part of Renuzit’s original suggestions, with the top being spoiled meat, sewers and pet urine.
Also receiving votes: “Politics” and “the guy I have to work with”.

WHAT ABOUT “WOOKIEE”?
The newest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary including “Jedi” and “Klingon” among the new entries. Not making the cut, however: “Muggles.”

What’s For Lunch?
What is the best sandwich in the universe? Thanks to The Sandwich Project, we may finally get some answers.