Category: Defies a category!

Lennon’s Killer Named Rock’s Vilest Villain
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Mark David Chapman, the deranged fan who shot John Lennon to death, has topped a list of rock ‘n’ roll’s most dastardly villains.
The roster of rock’s 25 worst nemeses, published in the upcoming issue of music publication Blender, also includes Tipper Gore, the motorcycle club Hell’s Angels and several record executives.
Chapman is serving 20 years to life after pleading guilty to gunning down Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment on Dec. 8, 1980.
The other killer on the list is the Rev. Marvin Gay, who fatally shot his son, soul legend Marvin Gaye, in 1984. Gay, who was sentenced to five years on probation for involuntary manslaughter and died in 1998, ranked No. 4.
R&B icon Ike Turner, the “husband from hell” who beat Tina Turner, ranked No. 2, followed by the Hell’s Angels, who stabbed to death one fan and beat countless others with pool cues at the Rolling Stones’ infamous 1969 Altamont concert. Gore, wife of former vice-president Al Gore, ranked No. 7 for her efforts to censor music.
The tongue-in-cheek roster also lists “white people” at No. 9 for ripping off black musicians; Muzak at No. 21 for its bland mood music; and the pioneers of power flight, the Wright Brothers, at No. 24 for the aviation deaths of such music stars as Buddy Holly, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Aaliyah.

SINCE GET CARTER TANKED
Sylvester Stallone is suggesting he might revive his Rambo character for a new film, possibly taking on terrorists. The aging action hero’s last Rambo movie was back in 1988.
Bad idea, Sly! Booooooooooooo!

She’s Kind Of Cute
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‘Star Wars’ fans religiously devoted
May the Force be with you. Amen.
More than 70,000 fans of the “Star Wars” movies have upset Australia’s statistics agency by identifying their religion as “Jedi” during last year’s national census.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday that 0.37 percent of the nation’s population of 19 million, or 70,509 people, had written Jedi or a related response to an optional question about their faith when the head count was taken last August.
Jedi is a mystical faith followed by some of the central characters in the “Star Wars” films.
The prank began early last year when “Star Wars” fans circulated an e-mail across Australia saying the government would be forced to recognize Jedi as an official religion if at least 10,000 people named it on the census.
When made aware of the campaign, the statistics agency announced that respondents faced a fine of 1,000 Australian dollars ($540) if they were found to have given false information.
In a statement Tuesday on its Internet site, the agency did not say whether it would try to fine the Jedi faithful. But it warned that the Australian public ultimately paid the price for census-related pranks.
“If, for example, people of a particular religious affiliation do not provide the correct information, certain facilities might not be built that otherwise would be,” the agency said.
The government uses data recorded in the national head count every five years to determine population levels and help in policymaking.
The bureau said the Jedi response has been categorized as “not defined” for census purposes. The criteria for recognizing a religion go “beyond the number of responses a particular answer receives in the census,” it said.

Price of Elton John Tickets? 38,000 Grasshoppers
A concert by pop star Elton John had music fans hopping in Canada’s farming heartland as they braved a plague of grasshoppers in an unusual quest to win a pair of tickets.
“All I kept thinking is, is this enough?” Brandy Elliott told Reuters on Wednesday after winning a radio contest for the prized tickets by capturing 38,000 grasshoppers.
“I knew I was grossed out and, honestly, every night I went to bed all I could dream about was grasshoppers — and just bags and bags of grasshoppers,” she said.
Elliott was one of more than 100 Saskatchewan residents to respond to the contest launched by a popular Regina radio show.
The rules were simple: whoever collected the most grasshoppers over a two-day period, would win the two highly coveted tickets to see Elton John at a sold-out concert.
“When we first thought of this contest we thought, oh you know, we might get a few hundred, maybe even a thousand grasshoppers from people. She (Brandy) showed up with 38,000 grasshoppers which blew us away,” said Buzz Elliot, a morning show host on Z99, the station that launched the bug-gathering gimmick.
Elliott rigged up five-foot nets made out of window bug-screens and plastic tubing. She then recruited her room-mate and some young nephews and nieces to ride in the back of a large pick-up truck and help with the harvest.
“We drove in the ditches and stirred up the grasshoppers and they all just flew into the nets,” said Elliott.
Her team, over a 10-hour period, managed to stuff two large garbage bags, a big bucket and several old detergent containers full of the grasshoppers, which have plagued Canada’s drought-stricken Prairie provinces this summer.
Saskatchewan, a province known for its vast fields of wheat, also has a reputation for vast, cyclical grasshopper invasions. The green and brown insects devour crops and have even been known to eat the paint off of barns.
“You can’t walk through a park without being pelted by them, basically. We just thought we’d have some fun with it,” said Elliot, who is also the music director at Z99.
“It was way beyond our expectations. It just goes to show you that people will do anything for Elton John tickets.”
The British rocker will perform in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on Friday to an audience of about 13,000.

What The…!?!? Who the…!?!?
CBS is scouting for ‘Real’-Life Beverly Hillbillies.

Celebs Enlist for Fox ‘Boot Camp’ Special
Celebs including rapper Coolio and former pop idol Tiffany have signed on to participate in the two-hour Fox special “Celebrity Boot Camp,” which will air Sept. 30.
Taped at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base’s Camp DeLuz, the special will follow the recruits as they complete mental and physical tasks.
Two former Marine Corps drill instructors will shuffle the celebs through various missions; they’ll then rank the strongest players and eliminate the four weakest. Elimination continues until just two celebs are still standing.
The two finalists will compete in a series of eight competitions (called the “Gauntlet”) and vie to become the winner. The top recruit is chosen by the mix of votes and “Gauntlet” victories.
Others on board include house guest Kato Kaelin; “Married…With Children’s” David Faustino; surviving ex-Milli Vanilli member Fabrice Morvan; “Baywatch” babe Traci Bingham; singer Vitamin C; “Renegade” star Lorenzo Lamas; “Brady Bunch” star Barry Williams; and “Price Is Right” spokesmodel Nikki Schieler Ziering.
The special is based on the reality series “Boot Camp,” which aired on Fox in spring 2001. It started off strong for Fox but eventually tapered off with viewers.

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Has the world really changed since last September?

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It’s not every day you get the opportunity to watch a video of Leonard Nimoy singing The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.