The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - (PG-13) Explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex, wife Evelyn and her brother, Jonathan. And this time, the O’Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress to spend eternity in suspended animation, China’s ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O’Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. As the monarch roars back to life, our heroes find his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force… unless the O’Connells can stop him first.

Swing Vote - (PG-13) Bud Johnson, an apathetic, beer-slinging, lovable loser, is coasting through a life that has passed him by. The one bright spot is his precocious, over-achieving twelve year-old daughter Molly. She takes care of both of them, until one mischievous moment on Election Day, when she accidentally sets off a chain of events which culminates in the election coming down to one vote… her dad’s.

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Miley Cyrus used her golden touch to reach the top of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with her new album Breakout. Nas fell from #1 all the way to #9 as his album is falling on deaf ears in it’s second week of release.

Sugarland’s Love On the Inside: Deluxe Fan Edition was the only other album making a debut in the top ten this week.

Here is a look at the top 10 Billboard Albums.

1. Breakout - Miley Cyrus
2. Love On The Inside: Fan Edition - Sugarland
   
3. Soundtrack - Mamma Mia!
   
4. Rock N’ Roll Jesus - Kid Rock
5. Tha Carter III - Lil’ Wayne
   
6. Liva La Vida or Death And All His Friends - Coldplay
7. Soundtrack - Camp Rock
   
8. Untitled - Nas
9. NOW 28 - Various Artists
10. Beautiful Eyes (EP) - Taylor Swift
    

source: Billboard: Issue 2008-08-09

Actress Kate Hudson wasted no time getting over Lance Armstrong before letting former NHL star Eric Lindros hop aboard the Hudson Express according to Perez.

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that Hudson is once again seeing an ex-boyfriend of hers, a fella by the name of Eric Lindros.

“Kate and Eric have been holed up at her parent’s [Goldie & Kurt’s] house Muskoka, Canada,” a well-placed insider tells us. “She went there immediately after she and Lance ended things.”

Kate is wasting no time on the celebrity merry-go-round these days. It sounds like she already had a deal with Lindros locked up before exiting Senor Armstrong’s bike. Armstrong and Hudson dated for nearly four months.

Kate better be careful to not bang Eric’s head into the headboard or else he could be out of commission for 3-4 months with another concussion.

Extremely eccentric Boston Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez has been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-team trade that also involved the Pittsburgh Pirates sending all-star outfielder Jason Bay to the Red Sox.  The blockbuster trade brings the trading deadline to a close with a BANG!

DODGERS GET: Manny Ramirez (LF)

RED SOX GET: Jason Bay (LF)

PIRATES GET: Adam LaRoche (3B) and Bryan Morris (P) from the Dodgers,  Brandon Moss (OF) and Craig Hansen (P) from the Red Sox.

Instant Analysis: Manny should be happy. The Dodgers should be happy for the remainder of this year.  The Pirates are getting a lot of talent for just Bay.  The Red Sox seem to be giving up a lot for Bay in dealing Manny along with Moss and Hansen.  The silver lining for the Sox is that Bay is under contract for two more years for a bargain.

Leo Dicaprio’s extremely beautiful model girlfriend Bar Rafaeli shows the entire world just exactly how a tiny pink bikini is suppose to fit.

Bar is a 23-year old Israeli model and has been dating Leonardo since 2006.

View the Bar Rafaeli Bikini Video at TMZ

Give Up? Who is She?

It didn’t get more controversial Luther ‘Luke’ Campbell and the 2 Live Crew back in the late 80’s. Almost every teenage boy (and some girls) had the Crew’s ‘Banned in the USA’ or ‘Me So Horny’ cassettes hidden under their bed. Now Luke is back on VH1 with his own reality TV show, ‘Parental Advisory,’ about being married with children. The show welcomes us to a new Luke with many glimpses of the old Luke lurking around as well.

Here is a sneak into what Luther’s ‘Parental Advisory’ will be all about:

Parental Advisory gives viewers a look inside the day-to-day life of the man who introduced the “booty-shaking”element to hip-hop known as “Miami Bass,” and won the music industry’s biggest freedom of speech battle in the Supreme Court which resulted in warning labels on music. Today, Luke’s hands are full with planning his wedding to Kristin, a successful lawyer and beautiful 27 year-old fiancée, giving his 17-year old daughter Lacresha’s boyfriend the third degree, and confiscating pornography tapes from under 15 year-old Luther Jr.’s bed. Also central to Luke’s life are his weekly trips to the local barbershop, Cut It Up, where the lively regulars listen to Luke pontificate and then bring him right back down to size.

But make no mistake, Luke Campbell has not totally traded in his former lifestyle for the straight and narrow road. Luke vows to have the bachelor party of all bachelor parties, plans to wear hip-hop attire instead of a tuxedo, and wants a cake designed as a silhouette of a woman on his wedding day. Luke and his family and friends will also be active on FamousVh1Friends.com - an innovative new social network that allows fans to connect directly with every member of the cast, view their personal pictures and video blogs and meet other fans of the show.

VH1.com will sneak peek episode one beginning Monday, July 28 – one week before the on-air premiere and will be home to exclusive video content throughout the season. Each episode will be available on VH1.com every Monday beginning at 11 PM ET. VH1 Mobile will also offer select “Luke’s Parental Advisory” video throughout the season.

Hey don’t laugh too hard yet. With the success of Flavor Flav’s ‘Flavor of Love’ and Bret Michaels‘ ‘Rock of Love’ it is possible for any reality TV show to be an entertaining hit.

For you youngsters the 2 Live Crew is why explicit CD’s now have the ‘Parental Advisory’ stickers.

The Cincinnati Reds have traded Ken Griffey, Jr. to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for pitcher Nick Masset and infielder Danny Richar according to Ken Rosenthal at FoxSports.com. Both teams are willing to see if Griffey will accept the trade given that he is a 10-5 player and can refuse any trade.

The Reds have traded Griffey to the White Sox, pending his approval. Griffey will decide Thursday morning whether he will approve the deal, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. It is not known what the Reds would receive in return.

Griffey, as a player with at least 10 years of major-league service, five with the same club, has the right to block any deal. The White Sox attempted to acquire him from the Reds at the trade deadline in 2005, but the trade reportedly was nixed by Reds ownership for financial reasons.

If Griffey agrees to the trade the White Sox will become the third MLB team he has played for. He came up and spent several years with the Seattle Mariners before returning to his childhood home of Cincinnati where injuries curtailed many of his years there. Griffey hit his 600th home run earlier this year and is one of the few players most believe has been clean (without steroids) for his entire career.

MLB’s trading deadline is today for unrestricted trades.

Britney Spears won’t extend her restraining order against Osama Sam Lutfi who was acting as Spears agent/manager/know-it-all earlier this year. The court had issued a restraining order that Lufti stay 250 yards away from Britney. Lufti and Brit’s dad, Jamie Spears, talked and agreed that the order was no longer necessary.

“Britney has made clear to everyone that she does not want to be further harassed or contacted in any way by Osama ‘Sam’ Lutfi, now or at anytime in the future,” Spears’ attorney Samuel D. Ingham III said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Lutfi, for the time being, seems willing to go along with those wishes.

He called the AP late Wednesday and released the following statement: “Mr. Lutfi and Mr. Spears have mutually agreed in private that no hearing or order is necessary at this time.”

According to Britney’s lawyer, she still wants to have no contact with Lutfi. Britney’s mom accused Lufti of keeping Britney hostage in her home and drugging her while he was close to her.

Former model and France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is trying to insist that a lyric on her new album ‘Comme si de rien n’etait” (As if nothing had happened),’ that references her “30 lovers,” was more of an exaggeration than the truth. She claims to have only had 15 lovers.

The 40-year-old ex-model insists the controversial lyrics “my 30 loversâ€? were a result of “poetic license.â€?

“It’s not that I had a lot of lovers. It’s that I never hide them. It’s a different thing. I have not one day of regret,” she told Paris Match. She says in actuality she has had 15 lovers.

Before marrying 53-year-old President Nicolas Sarkozy in February, Bruni dated a number of high-profile celebrities, including rockers Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton.

Not a huge difference between fifteen or thirty. She was a foxy model that bedded some of the biggest celebrities in the world. She is now married to the leader of a major country and is using the fame associated with being France’s first lady to help give her career a bit of a second wind. I find no fault in that and admire that she is still trying to shake it up, rather than fade into the distance with age.

RELATED: Nude Photos of Carla Bruni Make Hero of French President

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“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

Socially challenged rapper Ludacris is back with a new rhyme bashing Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, President George W. Bush, and telling Jesse Jackson to not apologize because he meant it. The rap is basically a campaign advertisement for Senator Barack Obama

And here are the lyrics to ‘Politics’ by Ludacris from Live Leak:

I’m back on it like I just signed my record deal
yeah the best is here, the Bentley Coup paint is dripping wet, it got sex appeal
never should have hated
you never should’ve doubted him
with a slot in the president’s iPod Obama shattered ‘em
Said I handled his biz and I’m one of his favorite rappers
Well give Luda a special pardon if I’m ever in the slammer
Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that b**** is irrelevant
Jesse talking slick and apologizing for what?
if you said it then you meant it how you want it have a gut!
and all you other politicians trying to hate on my man,
watch us win a majority vote in every state on my man
you can’t stop what’s bout to happen, we bout to make history
the first black president is destined and it’s meant to be
the threats ain’t fazing us, the nooses or the jokes
so get off your ass, black people, it’s time to get out and vote!
paint the White House black and I’m sure that’s got ‘em terrified
McCain don’t belong in ANY chair unless he’s paralyzed
Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped
Ball up all of his speeches and I throw em like candy wrap
cause what you talking I hear nothing even relevant
and you the worst of all 43 presidents
get out and vote or the end will be near
the world is ready for change because Obama is here!
cause Obama is here
The world is ready for change because Obama is here!

The Barack Obama camp has condemned the lyrics and states Luda should be ashamed:

“As Barack Obama has said many, many times in the past, rap lyrics today too often perpetuate misogyny, materialism, and degrading images that he doesn’t want his daughters or any children exposed to,” said spokesman Bill Burton. “This song is not only outrageously offensive to Senator Clinton, Reverend Jackson, Senator McCain, and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these lyrics.”

And Bill O’Reilly, Luda’s nemisis, has yet to weigh in, but he for sure will. Luda knows how to stir it up and bring attention to himself and his rhymes. He has done just that yet again.

RELATED: John McCain Uses Britney Spears/Paris Hilton in Campaign Ad

Multiple all-star and Gold Glove winner Ivan ‘Pudge’ Rodriguez has been traded from the Detroit Tigers to the hated New York Yankees.  The Tigers got well-traveled relief pitcher Kyle Farnsworth in the deal according to ESPN.

Rodriguez, who is in the final year of the contract he signed with the Tigers in 2004 that will ultimately pay him $50 million, waived his no-trade clause to join the Yankees.

“Pudge has always wanted to play in New York and Detroit felt it needed a relief pitcher, so both sides were able to get what they wanted to some degree,” Rodriguez’s agent Scott Boras told The Associated Press.

The Yankees must think they have a chance to compete this year.  Although the price they paid for Pudge, Kyle Farnsworth, isn’t exactly all that much.

Pudge is hitting .295 but his power has mysteriously been missing since MLB started testing for steroids a couple of years ago.

Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears is planing to marry boyfriend Casey Aldridge by the end of this year according to OK! magazine.

Now OK! can exclusively reveal that the former Zoey 101 star has already started planning her wedding, and that she and Casey will walk down the aisle together before the end of the year.

Despite their worldwide notoriety, the young couple won’t be swapping their vows at some 5-star celeb-filled resort, but will be sticking close to home. Jamie Lynn’s new house is in Liberty, Miss. — just 30 minutes from her mom Lynne Spears’ house, Serenity, in Kentwood, La. — and it sits on three acres, which is more than enough space to put up a tent for a private, late fall ceremony.

Jamie gave birth to a baby girl, Maddie, on June 19th in Mississippi.  Her maid of honor would very naturally be big sister Britney Spears.

A new MTV movie is set to premiere August 11th at 9pm EST called ‘The American Mall’.  The movie is geared towards teens and naturally takes place in a mall.

Here is a brief synopsis of ‘The American Mall’:

“The American Mallâ€? is the story of Ally, a hardworking young woman whose mother has owned a music shop that’s been the soul of the mall ever since it opened when Ally was a kid. Ally’s singer/songwriter dreams seem to come closer to fruition when she meets Joey, a musician who’s moonlighting as a janitor at the mall in order to support his own rock star ambitions. While Joey understands her songs (and heart) like no one else, Ally’s happiness and the fate of the music store are threatened when the mall owner’s spoiled daughter Madison – who will stop at nothing to get what she wants – becomes involved.

If you happen to tune in and watch it, then please come back and leave a comment with your thoughts on it.

See ‘The American Mall’ Trailer

I really don’t like to pick on Owen Wilson or even his fashion because I know he has battled some hard times in the past year, but Owen is our ‘Worst Dressed Celeb of the Day’.

photo: PEOPLE

NHL player Dan Hinote married Jenny McCarthy’s kid sister Amy McCarthy in Keystone, Colorado over the weekend according to The Big Lead.

St. Louis Blues defenseman Dan Hinote got hitched over the weekend to gorgeous pin-up Amy McCarthy - well, to get all technical, she was a cyber pin-up at Playboy.com.

Guests at the wedding were asked to dress in 1950’s costumes which meant that Jenny’s boyfriend Jim Carrey got to be his nutty self in a communist kind of way.

The wedding party of 10 groomsmen and 10 bridesmaids wore traditional garb for the ceremony, but the guests were asked to show up in their favorite ’50s costumes, which would explain the dead celebs who attended the wedding.

Castro, in full military garb and a fake beard, was among the last guests to arrive, which seemed a bit odd because he had a reserved front-row seat on the bride’s side. After the nuptials, Mr. On the Town spotted Castro walking arm-in-arm with the bride’s sister, actress Jenny McCarthy, out to the parking lot.

Was it? Could it have been? Yup, superstar Jim Carrey, Jenny’s beau, slipped in and out of the ceremony almost undetected except when Jenny’s 5-year-old son, Evan, started getting spooked by the get-up. “It’s me, Jimmy,” I was told that Carrey said while pulling down his beard to soothe the troubled young ‘un.

I have to say I would be a bit weirded out with someone dressed as Fidel Castro in the front row at my wedding.  Marriages between hockey players and Playmates have an expiration date of four years or less.  But we are hoping that Dan hits many high notes with Amy over the next half century.

Oliver Stone has released the trailer for his new controversial political movie ‘W’ which is about President George W. Bush.  The screenplay is by Stanley Weiser and stars Josh Brolin as George W, Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, James Cromwell as George Herbert Walker Bush, and Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfield.

View the ‘W’ Movie Trailer HERE at BSC

A woman has found a Cheeto that she claims looks like Jesus and she is calling it Cheesus.  I just hope God doesn’t get too pissed for looking like a piece of toasted cheese (or whatever the heck they are made of) in this woman’s eyes.  It looks more like a bicycle air pump to me.

John McCain uses clips of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in his latest campaign commercial ad to show that rival Presidential candidate Barack Obama is just a popular celebrity like they are and not ready to lead the country. It’s starting to heat up folks! Get ready for an intense three months from both Barack and John. Be sure to watch the video above. It is creative if nothing else.