Monday Morning Spice

23 May 2011

The Parlotones Take Best Music Video At SAMAs – Saturday night saw the 17th South African Music Awards take place at Johannesburg’s Montecasino. The Parlotones, Prime Circle, Locnville, Jax Panik, Kurt Darren and Die Antwoord were among the winners. [channel24]

Arnold Has Two More Secret Kids - Randy Arnold Schwarzenegger has at least two more secret love children, a Brit actress alleged yesterday. Jane Seymour, who moves in the same social circles in Malibu, claimed it was common knowledge. She said: “I heard about two more children. I met someone who knows him well.. [thesun]

Apocalypse Not Now - Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world’s time zones, with those “saved” by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet. [guardian]

Bids For Princess Beatrice’s Ridiculous Wedding Hat Top $120,000 – Auction bids for Princess Beatrice’s bizarre royal wedding hat exceeded £75,000 ($120,000) on Saturday as the online sale headed into its final 24 hours. Some 38 bidders were competing on eBay to get their hands on the “used” headpiece, which sparked controversy among fashionistas following William and Catherine’s big day. [nypost]

SA Govt Vows To Find Hammerl’s Body – The government will do everything in its power to repatriate the body of South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, the department of international relations and cooperation said on Sunday. Local authorities were working closely with the Austrian government to find his body, said spokesperson Clayson Monyela. [mail&guardian]

‘The Tree Of Life’ Wins At Cannes – Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life has won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, which just handed out its awards. The reclusive director did not attend the ceremony, and the award was picked up by producers Bill Pohlad and Dede Gardner. The meditative drama stars Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn. [deadline]

O’Bama Comes Home - As the residents of Moneygall ready themselves to play host to Barack Obama on May 23, many hope the visit will bring the Irish village exactly what the President’s great-great-great-grandfather sought when he left there 150 years ago: prosperity. [time]

DSK’s Maid Vomited After Attack - The luxury-hotel maid who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn was found by a supervisor in a hallway where she hid after escaping from the former International Monetary Fund director’s room. Hotel workers described her as traumatized, having difficulty speaking, and immediately concerned about pressing charges and losing her job, according to sources familiar with the investigation. [dailybeast]

DSK’s Wife Stands By Her Man – She was much more famous than her husband, and much wealthier, too. Now she joins the unhappy club of wives standing by their man in the face of a crescendo of tales of sexual betrayal, spurred in her case by extraordinary and tawdry criminal charges of attempted rape of a hotel maid. [newyorktimes]

British Soccer Star Sues Twitter Over Super-Injunction Tweets – For weeks, British tabloids were prohibited from outing a soccer star who allegedly had a longtime affair with former supermodel and reality-TV star Imogen Thomas. It was due to something issued by British courts called a “super-injunction.” Of course, information wants to be free, so that little roadblock didn’t hold back the aptly named @InjunctionSuper. [wired]

New ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ Breaks Overseas Box Office Record – The reengineered “Pirates of the Caribbean” sequel “On Stranger Tides” found its smoothest sailing overseas, where it took in a record $256.3 million at the international box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. That surpasses the previous record foreign opening of the sixth “Harry Potter” film, 2009′s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” which earned $236 million internationally. [abcnews]

Iceland Airport Closes Due To Volcanic Ash – as of Monday morning in Australia, Iceland’s main international airport at Keflavik, just outside Reykjavik, is completely shut down due to the volcanic ash from the Grimsvötn volcano eruption, with all flights showing as cancelled. [ausbt]

Ukraine Parliament Havoc - Vice speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Adam Martynyuk took matters into his own hands during a recent debate when he throttled a deputy legislator. The fisticuffs began when Martynyuk refused to allow politician Oleg Lyashko to make a speech that he had not signed up for “in accordance with regulations,” according to the Kyiv Post. Video. [huffpo]

Swaziland Must Cut Spending, Says World Bank - Swaziland may be forced to devalue its currency unless the crisis-hit southern African kingdom can urgently cut government spending, a World Bank economist warned. ”It is getting to the point of reckoning — when Swaziland will no longer be able to sustain its deficit,” said World Bank economist, Jean van Houtte. [afp]

Apple Signing Big Labels To Cloud Service – Apple Inc. has reached agreements with three major record labels to let users of its new music service access their song collections from handheld devices via the Internet, people with knowledge of the deals said. The new iTunes offering will let users store content on Apple’s servers and access it using the Web, rather than loading songs into a device’s memory. [bloomberg]

The Royal Honeymoon Is Over - Britain’s newly married Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, have left the island nation of the Seychelles after a 10-day honeymoon, officials said Saturday. ”They left happy and clearly content with their stay,” said the head of the Seychelles tourism board, Alain St Ange, who saw the couple leave Friday. [associated]

It’s Not Gay If It’s A Three-Way - When Justin Timberlake signs on to host an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” a stand-out Digital Short is something of a given. Lady Gaga was bound to just be icing on the cake. So we weren’t surprised when reports emerged this week that Timberlake and Andy Samberg were spotted in New York, sporting their “Dick in a Box” costumes alongside “Mother Lover” co-stars Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson. But it was Gaga who played the leading lady in this latest installment of the chin-strapped duo’s saga, “Three-way. [zap2it]

Russell Brand Deported From Japan - Katy Perry was up in arms on Twitter yesterday, after officials in Japan deported her husband, British comedian Russell Brand, right out of the country. So why was the 35-year-old funnyman booted from the Land of the Rising Sun? Apparently old arrests on Brand’s record are to blame. Blind. [popeater]

David Beckham Launches ‘Bodywear’ Line - David Beckham has lent his face and body to Armani in the past, starring in the Italian label’s underwear ads to the joy of female fans worldwide, but it seems the star athlete has had enough of sharing revenues earned with his good looks. According to Women’s Wear Daily, Armani‘s turnover almost doubled during the time Beckham was spokesmodel for the brand. [luxuo]