spikedcylinder:

Simon Cowell to Get $144m per season.



144 million dollars per season. 144 million. Dollars. One hundred. And forty-four. Million. Dollars.  Per season.  Which is five months long. 144 million dollars for five months.  Five months. One hundred and forty-four million dollars to judge “American Idol”. For five months.

spikedcylinder:

Simon Cowell to Get $144m per season.



144 million dollars per season. 144 million. Dollars. One hundred. And forty-four. Million. Dollars. Per season. Which is five months long. 144 million dollars for five months. Five months. One hundred and forty-four million dollars to judge “American Idol”. For five months.

lumydee001:

I don't think it's true, how much will the producers gain ,how much will they pay other judges and other participants and where did u get ur story??

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06302009/tv/enormous_money_176757.htm
http://www.hotfeeder.com/entertainment/simon_cowells_american_idol_salary_144_millionyear_1936387
http://www.whyfame.com/gossip/simon_cowells_american_idol_salary_144_millionyear_10968
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07012009/tv/king_imon_176905.htm
http://talkingmoviezzz..com/2009/06/144-million-for-simon-cowell.html
http://www.celebnewswire.com/archives/simon_cowell_to_earn_144_million_for_ame.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/cowell-seeks-144-million-per-year-to-stay-on-american-idol-2009-6
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/06/30/2009-06-30_american_idol_judge_simon_cowell_could_earn_144_million.html
http://www.flixster.com/news/2009/06/30/simon-cowell-offered-144-million-per-year-to-remain-on-american-idol


You want more?

tpia.:

Renee Zellweger is gearing up for[i] Bridget Jones 3[/i]. She's not finding it easy gaining weight for the part though- said its too much trouble to shake off afterwards.

Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, is lining up the King of Pop's children for a world tour as The Jackson Three — despite family members accusing him of trying to "exploit them like Jacko."

Former Jackson Five manager Joe is said to have approached Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and seven-year old Prince Michael II — known as Blanket — to hit the stage next year.

But one of Jacko's familymembers is said to be "livid" at the scheme, which will add fuel to the bitter custody battle for the youngsters.

spikedcylinder:

Joe Jackson Wants to Form Jackson 3 With Michael Jackson's Kids.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531940,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31894749/ns/entertainment-access_hollywood/

   http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-07/11/content_459090.htm

Nearly 600 years ago, 20 Chinese sailors swam ashore an island off Kenya's east coast, having escaped from a shipwreck.

They went on to marry local women and convert to Islam.

Now a 19-year-old girl who claims to be one of their descendants has come to China to study, having been given a scholarship by the Chinese Government.

tpia.:

A Kenyan girl from some remote village has been discovered to have Chinese blood through DNA testing.

She was hosted to a state dinner and given a scholarship to study in China, by the Chinese authorities.

Her supposed Chinese ancestry is from 600 years ago when Chinese seamen were alledgedly shipwrecked off the east African coast.

Stranger than fiction? More like stranger than the lost colony of Roanoke. The Chinese who were brought over in the 19th century nko? What happened to them?



I think I should test my DNA for real. I need some fancy schmancy ancestry somewhere.




Obama una well done.

afam4eva:

Looking at her face you can see some chinese traits.

A native of New York, McCourt was good company in the classroom and at the bar, but few had such a burden to unload. His parents were so poor that they returned to their native Ireland when he was little and settled in the slums of Limerick. Simply surviving his childhood was a tale; McCourt's father was an alcoholic who drank up the little money his family had. Three of McCourt's seven siblings died, and he nearly perished from typhoid fever.

"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood," was McCourt's unforgettable opening.

"People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty, the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters; the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years."

The book was a long Irish wake, "an epic of woe," McCourt called it, finding laughter and lyricism in life's very worst. Although some in Ireland complained that McCourt had revealed too much (and revealed a little too well), "Angela's Ashes" became a million seller, won the Pulitzer and was made into a movie of the same name, starring Emily Watson as the title character, McCourt's mother.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_mccourt

His ex Shar Jackson laughed off criticism.

"It's daddy weight!" she told Usmagazine.com at the time. "When you are a full time parent, sometimes you can't focus on you. If gaining a few pounds is your only problem, life's not too bad!"

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/kevin-federline-shocks-fans-over-new-size/25741?nc

lumydee001:

I don't think it's true, how much will the producers gain ,how much will they pay other judges and other participants and where did u get ur story??