The Dukes of Hazard movie will not be released

It might not the greatest idea in the world to get legal council from someone whose email starts with “SmoothB” (although Anton Scalia’s email is BadMuthaFukka19, so maybe I should) but worldly reader and local heartbreaker Tom sent in two stories yesterday in regards to an injunction that went down yesterday afternoon and will prevent Warner Brothers from releasing the feature version of The Dukes of Hazard, previously due out August 5th. The full public record can be found on the website for the Federal District Court for the Central District of California. The heart of the record says the following:

“Order by Judge Gary A. Feess: granting motion for preliminary injunction. WHEREFORE, IS IT HEREBY ORDERED that … Warner Brothers … (is) preliminarily enjoined during the pendencey of this action from preparing producing, editing, distributing, advertising, exploiting, copying, publishing, or licensing, for theatrical sequels based on or derived from the feature motion picture “Moonrunners”

Moonrunners is the 1975 movie that is credited as the premise for the Dukes of Hazard, and they were so similiar they both even featured Waylon Jennings as the narrator. I never saw that movie because I hadn’t been born yet and also because, based on a recent poll of my grandparents, I’m adorable and a precious angel and shouldn’t watch movies like that, although you’d never know it by reading my t-shirt with a kitten in sunglasses on it and the phrase “Here Comes Trouble!”.

Below is a screen cap of part of the Judges directive, which is worth reading just to see the phrase “Jessica Simpson is extremely hot right now” written down in a legal document to be recorded in the halls of justice forever. And thanks again to Tom who pretty much did all the work on this. Although it wouldn’t have killed him to write some funny jokes, unlike the crap I threw out here. Jeez, I don’t wanna throw around the word “lazy”, but…

Note - I do feel compelled to mention that The Dukes of Hazard website is still up, which would seem to violate the advertising portion of this injunction, so I can’t say for sure how serious this sort of thing is. It may happen all the damn time for all I know. I tried asking my life-size Torie Wilson cut-out about it, but she was all oiled up and only had one thing on her mind, baby.

The Superficial News

• Beyonce broke into tears this Wednesday when she was asked about the split of Destiny's Child on TRL. Boy, it sure is funny when girls cry. I guess that's why I walk up and down the street telling strangers that they're fat and smell like poo.

• Hermes has apologized to Oprah Winfrey for turning her away from one of its Paris boutiques last week, saying it was closed for a public relations event when she came knocking. Seems the power of the internet is also capable of making luxury stores lie through their teeth. Liars!

• Howard Stern is leaving the E! channel and will most likely end up on Spike TV. I think this is a pretty brilliant move, because Spike TV is awesome. They're always playing reruns of Maximum Exposure, and that fills me with happiness.

• Overseas reports are saying that Tom Cruise recently introduced Katie Holmes to his ex-girlfriend Penelope Cruz at a Scientology center. Upon meeting, they all removed their clothes and started washing each other in tomato sauce. Or at least that's what I like to pretend happens behind those crazy Scientology walls.

• Martha Stewart says she already has a catch phrase for her new reality show but won't reveal what it is. My guess is it's something like "I am Lucifer, I will eat your soul!" But that's just a guess.

Where was Katie Holmes in April?

This story has been around for a few days now, but Fox has a pretty nice summary of the details and the timeline as it's known. The gist of it is that Katie Holmes, who has always been extremely close to her family and friends and always appeared devoted to her agent and manager, disappeared for 16 days in April. 16 days where no one knew where to find her, 16 days where she had no contact with anyone she had always been close too, 16 days that immediately proceeded her explosion on the public scene as the girlfriend of Tom Cruise and a new convert to the church of Scientology.

Some people might find it curious that things like this seem to keep happening to people immediately before pledging allegiance to Scientology. And that weirdness is a completely random event that seems to follow these people 100 percent of the time. But Katie Holmes insists on wearing hilariously high heels whenever she and Tom Cruise are in public, so there’s at least an once of resistance left in the girl. She does blink a lot however, and someone who knows morse code might want to look into that. I knew this dude who got duped by Scientology one day and ended up stuck in their center in Hollywood for like 10 hours. I totally meant to go save him, but then his girlfriend gave me a hand job and I got pretty sleepy.

I think his name is Baala Xenu now.

The Superficial News

• Lindsay Lohan threw a tantrum at the premiere of Herbie: Fully Loaded because her song was played during the credits and not the race scene. Then she did a line of cocaine and gave oral sex to ten guys just for the heck of it. That girl is crazy.

• Scarlett Johansson dropped out of Mission Impossible III because Tom Cruise was trying to convert her to Scientology. Jokes on her though, because Scientology is totally credible and not full of crap at all.

• Leonardo DiCaprio is filing charges against the woman that hit him with a beer bottle last week. If it was me, I would have just had her set on fire. Them's the perks of being famous. You can have whoever you want set on fire and nobody cares!

Sharon Stone approached by Playboy

According to a friend of Sharon Stone, Playboy has been approaching her to do another photoshoot before she turns fifty.

A friend of the actress said: "Sharon's sizzling and Playboy noticed. And she has been asked to pose again before she hits the big 5-0." The details have yet to be worked out, but if Stone accepts she will flaunt her curves in a tropical location.

Unfortunately, I don't think anybody is interested in seeing Sharon Stone naked in Playboy. Not that she doesn't look decent for a 47-year old, it's just that I can't imagine there's a very big market for leather-skinned ice queens out there, although I've been wrong about this sort of thing before. Actually no, no I haven't. I've never been wrong. About anything. Ever. And I'm awesomely good looking, so I guess everything really worked out for me. Except for this damn penis. It's just too big.

Ben Affleck doesn't care

If there one thing I hate more than robots from the future who try to kill me - and I fuckin hate robots from the future who try to kill me - it’s idiots who chain smoke around pregnant women. And Jennifer Garner is clearly pregnant at this point. And based on that cloud of smoke around Ben Affleck, he’s either a magic dragon or he’s smoking five cigarettes at a time. I’m no filthy hippy who freaks out about second hand smoke, but I also acknowledge that there’s probably a reason gynecologists don’t insert a pipe filled with rich tobacco during prenatal exams.