Thursday, January 31, 2008

Showbiz Top 5 for Thursday

Girls can get guys to do the dumbest things...

Here's Tony Romo, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, embarrassing himself for Jessica Simpson. Right now, a little piece of every armchair quarterback just died inside...

Enjoy ladies...I am sure you've gotten your boyfriends/husbands to do similar things:

You Tube makes people crazy...

London commuters got a little free entertainment on the tube the other day when a group of people got out of their seats and busted out Michael Jackson's "Thriller." They performed the routine and then sat down like nothing ever happened.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Showbiz Top 5 for Tuesday

Big Al's Weekend Wrap Up



Making Justin Guarini look cool...


This is for all you claymates out there-Today Clay Aiken debuted his new blonde do on the view, what do you think?

Oscars announced.....

Here's a full list of this year's Oscar Nominees:


1. Best Picture: "Atonement," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "No Country for Old Men," "There Will Be Blood."

2. Actor: George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"; Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"; Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises."

3. Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From Her"; Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"; Laura Linney, "The Savages"; Ellen Page, "Juno."

4. Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"; Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"; Hal Holbrook, "Into the Wild"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"; Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton."

5. Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"; Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"; Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"; Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"; Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."

6. Director: Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; Jason Reitman, "Juno"; Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"; Paul Thomas Anderson, "There Will Be Blood."

Monday, January 21, 2008

Bill Clinton has a dream...

In honor of MLK Day...

Straight Up Don't Tell Me....


Here's the brand new Paula Abdul single, "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" off Randy Jackson's upcoming CD. I guess it's not that bad, but seriously where is MC Skat Kat?

Friday, January 18, 2008

Showbiz Top 5 for Friday

Kellie's Naughty Fashion Show



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Attack of the Clones....for real!



This guy cloned himself. For real.....Check out the story here:



According to the UK Daily mail:

A scientist has achieved a world first... by cloning himself.

In a breakthrough certain to provoke an ethical furore, Samuel Wood created embryo copies of himself by placing his skin cells in a woman's egg.

The embryos were the first to be made from cells taken from adult humans.

Although they survived for only five days and were smaller than a pinhead, they are seen as a milestone in the quest for treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

But critics fear the technology could be exploited by mavericks to clone babies and accused the scientists of reducing the miracle of human life to a factory of spare parts.

Researchers from the Californian stem cell research company Stemagen employed the same technique used to make Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, to create the embryos.

They took eggs donated by young women having IVF and replaced genetic material with DNA from the skin cells of two men.

The eggs were then zapped with an electric current to induce fertilisation and the creation of embryos.

Some of the skin cells came from Dr Wood, Stemagen's chief executive officer and a leading fertility specialist, while the others came from another member of staff.

The result was a handful of embryos, at least three of them clones of Dr Wood and the other man.

Although all were destroyed in the process, the technique is seen as a vital step in the creation of cloned embryos rich in stem cells, which are "master cells" capable of becoming any type of body tissue.

Such stem cells could be invaluable in the study of diseases and the testing of drugs.

They could ultimately be used to replace the damaged tissues behind diseases from Alzheimer's to diabetes.

Stem cells taken from cloned embryos would be a perfect match to the patient, whose body would not reject them.

Dr Wood, who has degrees in medicine, psychology, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, called the research "a critical milestone" in the development of treatments.

The unmarried father of two, who is in his forties, is working on extracting stem cells from such embryos - a process that inevitably leads to the death of the embryo.

John Smeaton, of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: "We have got scientists wandering around in an ethical wilderness, forgetting about matters of justice relating to our fellow human beings.

"We have people creating human beings with the intention of destroying them. That's appalling."

And the Vatican condemned the cloning of human embryos, calling it the "worst type of exploitation of the human being".

"This ranks among the most morally illicit acts, ethically speaking," said Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, the Vatican department that helps oversee the Church's position on bioethics issues.

Stem cell experts gave the U.S. breakthrough, published in the journal Stem Cells, a cautious welcome.

Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research, said: "This is another step along what has turned out to be a tortuous road.

"However, it is still a long way from the goal of achieving embryonic stem cells."

U.S. researcher Professor Robert Lanza questioned the validity of the research and said the embryos looked "very unhealthy".

Josephine Quintavalle, of the campaign group Comment On Reproductive Ethics, said: "Human cloning is unethical, unsafe, and completely unnecessary.

"It is time that scientists started to put some brakes on."

Dr Calum MacKellar, of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, said the creation and destruction of human embryos was "extremely offensive to millions in the UK".

Although Dr Wood's team is the first to create human embryos from adult cells, human embryos have been cloned before.

Scientists at Newcastle University created cloned human embryos in 2005 using cells from embryos rather than adults, seen as less useful in creating potential treatments.

British law says created embryos must be destroyed in 14 days and cannot be implanted in a woman.

The news came as it was revealed that animal-human hybrid embryos will be created in British laboratories within weeks after the research was allowed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Two teams have been licensed to make cow-human hybrids for research into incurable diseases.

Scientists say they are needed because of a shortage of human eggs for research.

The embryos would be more than 99 per cent human and would have to be destroyed after two weeks.

But Mr Smeaton said: "It is creating a category of beings regarded as sub-human who can be used as raw material to benefit other members of the human family.

"How wrong can something be before a scientist understands you cannot just do it because of the perceived good for human beings."

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Just in case you don't know a lot about Scientology....

Mission: Incomprehensible


Who said Scientology was crazy? Just watch Tom Cruise explain it all and you'll want to convert immediately....or not.


John Mayer covers Justin Timberlake

JOHN MAYER's admiration of JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE might be getting a little weird. In November, John wrote on his website how much he adored Justin's song "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows," especially the "I Think She Knows" interlude part, which he called "45 seconds of ultimate sonic bliss." Now, John has posted a video on his blog of him playing an instrumental version of "I Think She Knows" on the guitar.

John describes the video as, quote, "My (anticlimactic) take on "I Think She Knows (Interlude)." It's probably not all that close to the actual recording. I'm too lazy to learn it for realz [sic]."


Wednesday, January 9, 2008

David Letterman Loses the Battle of the Beards!

He shaved! Can you believe it? David Letterman no longer looks like Captain Gordon! You can still vote though on who's beard you liked better his or Conan's, so be sure to get your vote into our poll!




Feedback!

Last night on New Music Tuesday Drew premiered the brand new comeback single for Janet Jackson "Feedback!" Here's the video for the song...let us know what you think! And be sure to listen every Tuesday to the night show with Drew for more brand new hits!

Showbiz Top 5 for Wednesday!

Monday, January 7, 2008

Plastic Payoff


Uh oh! Go a little crazy over the holidays? Spend a little (or a lot) of money you don't *really* have? Swimming in credit card debt ON TOP of your regular monthly bills?

It's cool - Kidd Kraddick in the Morning and Z96.3 The Hit Music Channel want to PAY YOUR BILLS!

We'll start calling out names again starting today.

Click here to submit ANY of your bills online and then listen for your name. When you hear it, call us back within 10 minutes and we'll PAY YOUR BILL! It's just that easy.

Kellie Rasperry Showbiz Top 5

Big Al's Weekend Wrap-Up

Friday, January 4, 2008

Take My Babies one more time....


Check out this Article about the big Britney Spears incident last night from the AP:


LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police were called to Britney Spears' home Thursday night in a custodial dispute that lasted nearly three hours before an intoxicated Spears reportedly turned over her children to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Officers were called to the home around 8 p.m., and the 26-year-old singer turned over the children around 10:50 p.m., Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman, told City News Service.

Aerial footage from KTLA-TV showed Spears being lifted in a gurney into an ambulance. It was unclear where she was being taken.

Lee said Spears was under the influence of an unknown substance, and no injuries were reported.

The incident involved a family dispute that police worked to resolve "peacefully by court order," he said.

An Associated Press photographer outside the gated community that includes Spears' house saw six police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck enter around 10:30 p.m. A dispatcher with the fire department referred calls to the police department.

Spears and Federline are fighting over custody of their sons, 2-year- old Sean Preston and 1-year-old Jayden James.

Federline, 29, has temporary custody of the children because Spears, who has limited visitation rights, has defied court orders. The two were married in October 2004 and divorced in July.

Calls to attorneys for Federline and Spears were not immediately returned.

Earlier Thursday, the singer appeared for a deposition in the custody dispute.

She was deposed for just 14 minutes, attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan told reporters after she left.

Spears called in sick for a Dec. 12 court-ordered deposition, but was photographed that day driving with a friend. She also didn't show up for a session Wednesday, Kaplan said.

Spears' attorneys from the firm Trope and Trope on Wednesday filed a court motion asking to be relieved due to a "breakdown" in communication with their client.

Kaplan said Spears' attorneys were present for what became a very abbreviated session.

"The deposition proceeding did go forward today. It was scheduled for 9:45 to 11:45," Kaplan said. "However, it wasn't able to commence until 11:32."

"You can imagine in 14 minutes there's not a lot of time to develop questions," he said.

Kaplan said another deposition would be scheduled.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Battle of the Beards




Last night the Late Night guys returned and both Conan and Dave had crazy homeless beards! Which one do you think is better?