News Roundup
April 6, 2010 · by SHJ
Once-popular actron and female impersonator Nicollette Sheridan is suing Desperate Housewives creator, Marc Cherry, for allegedly smacking her in the face and then killing off her character after she confronted him about the assault. Cherry’s explanation for why Sheridan’s character, “Edie,” took a hit? “Edie’s already slept with most of the guys on the street and has caused about as many problems as she could.” No double-meaning to see here, folks, none at all. [Defamer]
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A lady who is NOT a hooker talks about what it’s like to do things with rich men for money that do NOT in any way make her a hooker. Ever. No hookers here. Zero. If you want to see a hooker, do NOT click on this link. [NY Magazine]
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Harvard Law School admits to its job-challenged Class of 2010 that the “HLS experience” hasn’t quite been the pot of gold at the end of the Crimson rainbow that its students thought it might be—and then hits them up for twenty bucks. [Above the Law]
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Poor Jesse James. He’s off trying to lead a virtuous, quiet life in “sex rehab” and the press just won’t leave him alone. His lawyer, Joe Yanny, outraged with the media for their constant coverage of the scandal and James’s treatment, explained, “The First Amendment was not meant to cover the sexual lives of people who are not in office,” says Yanny. “It’s disgusting.” Such an apt description. For so many things. [People]
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For all you aspiring Yale profs: The university has officially banned faculty members from having sexual relationships with not only their own students, but any Yale undergrad, period. Sorry. [NBC Connecticut]
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Put away your wands, friends. A New York City “preacher,” the Reverend Billy Talen has been arrested for placing a “holy hex” on JPMorgan Chase. Protesting what he believes is JP Morgan’s financing for mountaintop removal in Appalachia, Talen led his Life After Shopping Gospel Choir to two Chase bank branches, where his singers “deposited” mounds of “sacred dirt” from the mountains of West Virginia all over the banks’ lobbies. [Courthouse News]
