NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs

FROM ‘BLOHAN’ TO ‘BROKEHAN’: Lindsay Has Literally Blown Through $7 Million Lohan quickly earned millions from films like Mean Girls and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen — but she has spent it even quicker. She lived for most of last year in Hollywood’s opulent Chateau Marmont hotel, spending $450,000 on her $1,200-a-night suite, as well as another £500,000 having chauffeurs on 24-hour standby. “And the amount she has wasted putting cocaine up her nose is disgusting. Even she has lost count.” Added to that were endless bottles of Cristal champagne at $550 a pop — until the unpaid bills […]

NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs

RICH MAN’S ASSPANTS: BRANSON LITERALLY HOISTS SELF BY HIS OWN PETARD The billionaire entrepreneur and serial self-publicist had decided to descend 407ft from the top of the Palms Casino Hotel, Las Vegas, to promote Virgin America, a new airline offering domestic flights in the U.S. It all started so well. Strapped in a harness and attached to a cable, the 57-year-old tycoon beamed confidently before taking a running jump from the roof. As he descended rapidly, he pulled airline tickets out of his pocket and scattered them to the ground as part of the bungee-cum-abseiling stunt. But instead of gliding […]

RADIOHEAD: A Kind Of Hush All Over The World

BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER At 2:39 a.m. Philadelphia time, an e-mail went out to the world — or more accurately, a select group of Golden Ticket holders — announcing that the digital ghost of an album was born. The new Radiohead album, to be exact. Though e-mail is largely silent, this particular one would make a big noise. This particular e-mail bore a link to a Web site where the beneficiary was directed to click and download this brave, new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, sans cover art or album credits. Just a bare skeleton of MP3s to hang […]

INSTA-REVIEW: Radiohead In Rainbows

BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER It’s difficult after just three or four listens to rate this album, but my initial reaction is that In Rainbows (****) is as fine a Radiohead album as I have ever heard. The devoted will be immensely gratified, and converts will be drawn in by all the buzz — and what proves to be bewitchingly ethereal, yet altogether visceral, rock music. The 10-song In Rainbows collapses into one tidy package all the Radioheads we have come to know: folk-rock Radiohead, electronica Radiohead, alt-rock Radiohead, prog-rock Radiohead. Not only does the band seem to nail […]

NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs

AWOL G.I. BUSTED IN GREAT PUMPKIN HEIST BENTLEYVILLE, Pa. — A soldier accused of deserting the Army and two other men tried to steal a 200-pound pumpkin from a grocery store, state police said. A trooper on patrol early Thursday saw a pickup truck driving fast out of the store parking lot with two men drinking beer in the truck bed next to the giant gourd, police said. One of the three men, Jordan Ivill, was arrested on a warrant accusing him of leaving the base at Fort Benning, Ga., without leave, police said. Summons charging the two other men […]