REEKS OF WIN

Kelly Brook pays homage to Princess Leia as she recreates Star Wars bikini scene… with no Jabba the Hutt in sight

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Kelly Brook has long been a success in the modelling world thanks to her stunning curves.

But as she sets her sights on becoming the next Hollywood bombshell with her new movie Piranha 3D, the 30-year-old has found some inspiration in some classic movie bombshells.

The Kent-born model pays homage to some on Hollywood’s most famous bikini scenes in a series of sexy shots for the new issue of Total Film magazine.

Ahead of her nude Playboy shoot, the brunette flaunts her figure in a bronze bikini as she pays homage to Carrie Fisher’s Star Wars character Princess Leia.

Wearing metal wrist cuffs and her hair plaited in a bun on her head, Brook ape the style of the Princess Leia, who wore a similar bikini when she was held captive by Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi in 1983.

Ms Brook, who split from rugby player boyfriend Danny Cipriani last month, also proves a fitting follower to Raquel Welch’s cavewoman Loana from the 1966 classic One Million Years B.C.

Also in the shoot, taken by photographer Randall Slavin, Brook also pays homage to Sophia Loren in The Millionairess and Brigitte Bardot in A Very Private Affair.

Brook’s film-themed shoot comes ahead of her first major movie release in five years when she had a small role in Deuce Bigalow: European Bigalow.

She plays a party girl who meets a sticky end in Piranha 3D, which also stars Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd and Elisabeth Shue.

LOS ANGELES — The actor who played the principal in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has been charged with failing to update his sex offender registration status.

Actor Jeffrey Jones failed to update his information with California officials after his birthday in September, Los Angeles county district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

Jail records show the 63-year old was arrested by Los Angeles police on June 23 and released after posting $20,000 bail.

Jones has appeared in numerous films including “Beetlejuice” and “Sleepy Hollow,” but is probably best known as the malevolent principal, Edward Rooney, in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

He pleaded no contest in 2003 in Los Angeles to a felony charge of employing a 14-year-old boy to pose for sexually explicit photos.

It is the second time the actor has been arrested for failing to keep his sex offender status current.

He was arrested in Florida in 2004 for the same offense.

He is due for arraignment on July 14.

HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said.

The fire fight occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the Arizona border, near the city of Nogales, that is considered a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.

The Sonora state Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of the shootings, six of whom had been wounded in the confrontation. Eight vehicles and seven weapons were also seized.

All of the victims were believed to be members of the gangs.

The shootings occurred near a dirt road between the hamlets of Tubutama and Saric, in an area often used by traffickers.

Gangs often fight for control of trafficking routes and sometimes steal “shipments” of undocumented migrants from each other, but seldom have they staged such mass gun battles.

Gang violence near the Arizona border has led to calls from officials in the U.S. state for greater control of the border and is one reason given for a controversial law passed in April requiring Arizona police to ask people about their immigration status in certain situations.

In a city on another part of the U.S. border, gunmen killed an assistant attorney general for Chihuahua state and one of her bodyguards.

After being chased by armed assailants through the darkened streets of Ciudad Juarez, the vehicle carrying Sandra Salas Garcia and two bodyguards was riddled with bullets Wednesday night.

Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, said the second bodyguard was seriously wounded.

Salas was responsible for evaluating the work of prosecutors and special investigations units in Chihuahua.

Drug violence has killed more than 4,300 people in recent years in Ciudad Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas.

More than 23,000 people have been killed by drug violence since late 2006, when President Felipe Calderon began deploying thousands of troops and federal police to drug hot spots.

IS this as hard to believe as it would seem? Is this the reality we face in the future? One of anarchy, violence and fear? What does it take for us to realize that this cannot be accepted as the behavior of civilized culture?

People say its a bad idea to send troops to this troubled area of the world. I am not one of those people.

Child welfare authorities are investigating a shocking Facebook photo of a Florida baby clutching a bong.


The 11-month-old boy can be seen sitting with his legs around the large glass pipe and his left hand around its neck.


His face, which has been blurred, is over the mouthpiece.


The Florida Department of Children and Families launched an investigation after the image was sent to Jacksonville’s WJXT Channel 4.


But the boy’s angry mother, aged 19, claimed it was a joke.


“If u look at the picture u can see that there is no bowl in the TABACCO [sic] pipe,” she reportedly told Channel 4 in a Facebook message.


“And i took a pic to show one [expletive] person and it was a mistake.


“I would never ever ever let him get high.”


It is believed welfare officers have visited the family home twice since the photograph circulated. The infant underwent a hospital drug evaluation yesterday.


“Do you realize how serious this is? i can go to jail and he can be taken away from me,” the mother reportedly said in another message to the TV station.


“WHY would you do something so [expletive] stupid? i know what i did was stupid but i would NEVER put by baby in harm.”


No charges have yet been laid.

TFA

Lady Gaga

Yankees — No Ban for Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga wasn’t banned from the clubhouse at Yankees Stadium — but she doesn’t have free reign there, either.

Gaga went into the clubhouse after the Yankees lost to the Mets on Friday night and met with Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano. A report in the NY Post said Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner was furious about Gaga being in the clubhouse and banned her for life — but that’s not true, said GM Brian Cashman.

He told reporters, “She’s not banned … Celebrities aren’t banned. If Michael Jordan showed up here he would have access [to the clubhouse], but not after a loss.”

Even Lady Gaga has to play by the rules.

BILLINGS - A tornado that ripped the roof off a sports arena Sunday evening
also tore through businesses, damaging a bar and a casino and leaving just the
walls of an auto glass shop standing.

The tornado struck at about 4:30 p.m. as a big storm system with golf
ball-sized hail passed through the area, National Weather Service meteorologist
Keith Meier said.

After running through Main Street in the city’s northeast area, the twister
quickly moved toward the 10,000-seat Rimrock Auto Arena about a half-mile away,
where it hovered for about 15 minutes, snapping trees and telephone poles.

"It would touch down and suck back up and touch down and touch down again,"
said Trooper Toman Baukema of the Montana Highway Patrol, who saw the tornado
from a patrol station about a mile away.

Big pieces of metal could be seen hanging from power lines near the arena,
and tangles of insulation and metal debris were strewn for hundreds of yards in
the surrounding industrial area.

There were several employees inside the arena when it struck, but there were
no reports of injuries, Baukema said.

Billings police Lt. Mark Cady said the only reported injury was from someone
who got hit in the head by a hail stone. City officials were struggling to deal
with power outages and flooding from the storm, which sent about 2 feet of water
into many city streets.

Wind speeds from the tornado were estimated to range between 111 and 135 mph,
Meier said. The last time Yellowstone County, which includes Billings, had that
scale of a tornado was July 2, 1958, he said.

John Schilling said he saw the tornado approach Sunday as he was driving
north on Main Street with his son. He had taken shelter under a carport at a
motel because of the heavy hail and strong winds.

After a few minutes, Schilling saw the twister envelop the Main Street Casino
and a laundromat, then start to head south in his direction, hitting other
businesses as it went.

"Then the roof came flying off that print shop, so we kept going," the
42-year-old said. "I wasn’t going to stick around."

The tornado also picked up the roof from the Fas-Break Auto Glass and dumped
it into a nearby creek. At least 10 businesses along the street suffered some
sort of damage.

Fas-Break owner Kevin Massick and several members of his family picked
through the rubble of the shop, trying to salvage what they could. But there was
little left.

"I’m in a total daze," Massick said, his face creased with emotion and tears
welling up in his eyes. "It’s a total loss, I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Start over, I guess."

Main Street was shut down in one direction several hours after the tornado
struck as bulldozers cleared debris. The other direction was jammed with cars
that slowly moved northbound as drivers and passengers gawked at the
destruction.

Buildings near the arena at the MetraPark expo center, which also includes a
racing track and several pavilions, appeared to have suffered little damage. The
arena is the center’s main venue and often hosts rodeos, monster truck shows,
concerts and graduation ceremonies.

Crews were working to shut off a gas leak at a commercial strip mall near
Main Street, authorities said. Utility crews were also working to repair downed
power lines.

Popular Hitler parodies from the German film ‘Downfall’ have been removed by YouTube over a copyright issue.

The 2004 drama features a scene where Bruno Ganz as the German dictator rants in his Berlin bunker. But it has led to a series of parodies, with users inserting new subtitles in the clip.

There are around 70 comedy versions of the clip, with one of the more famous ones see Hitler bemoan not being able to access X-Box live, while another finds him disgusted at how poor the eagerly awaited Avatar trailer was.

Despite the film’s director Oliver Hirschbiegel conceding that he enjoys the parodies, Constantin films have demanded that video sharing sites remove the clips.

The follow-up to the James Bond adventure ‘Quantum of Solace’ has been put on hold because of the uncertainty surrounding MGM studios.

Work on the 23rd Bond movie, which would have seen Daniel Craig once again playing the suave superspy, has been postponed, with the franchise’s producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, releasing the following statement: “Due to the continuing uncertainty surrounding the future of MGM and the failure to close a sale of the studio, we have suspended development on Bond 23 indefinitely.

”We do not know when development will resume and do not have a date for the release of Bond 23.”

Craig added, “I have every confidence in Barbara and Michael’s decision and look forward to production resuming as quickly as possible.”

The movie, which has Sam Mendes listed as a director, was set to be released next year.