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Mindy McCready heading back to jail

September 29th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Here we go again…

Emulsion Compulsion’s favorite country and western crazy will voluntarily surrender to authorities Tuesday to serve 60 days in a Tennessee jail. Mindy McCready, 32, appears to be spending more time in rehab and behind bars than in the recording studio. If you’ve heard her music, this is not necessarily a bad thing.

Mindy was arrested for violating her probation for prescription drug fraud in June. Last September, McCready was sentenced to jail time for violating probation from a 2004 drug arrest. She was required to serve two years’ probation. The violation occurred when McCready allegedly falsified information on her community service report. She turned herself into the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department and was free after posting bail two hours later.

The headline grabbing singer had entered rehab July 16, 2008 “for undisclosed reasons.”

In an excluseive statement to People Magazine, Mindy said “”I am working very hard to put all of this behind me as quickly as possible so I can get back to what I like to do most: sing, write songs, and entertain. I would like to thank my fans for their unwavering support as I continue to work on my recovery and to regain custody of my precious son, Zander.”

Hurry up and get out, darling, so you can spill your guts on Larry King Live.

Not the real thing, but an amazing simulation:

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Dig A Hole: Jerry Reed, C&W singer/Burt Reynolds co-star

September 2nd, 2008 by Scott Marks

“Director” Hal Needham, Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed on the set of “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977)

Jerry Reed, a country singer who played Burt Reynolds sidekick and appeared in all three Smokey and the Bandit movies, died Monday of complications from emphysema at age 71.

Jerry Reed Hubbard was born in Atlanta, Georgia on March 30, 1937. Jerry’s parents parted company four months after his birth. He and his sister spent 7 years in foster homes and orphanages before being reunited with their mother in 1944. By the time he reached high school, Reed was already a prolific singer, songwriter. In his late teens, Reed was signed by Capitol Records to a three year contract. Working for publisher and record producer Bill Lowery, Reed first gained recognition when Gene Vincent covered his Crazy Legs in 1958.

When his committment to Capitol reached its end, Lowery signed Reed to his National Recording Corporation. While at NRC, Reed functioned both as a recording artist and a member of the studio back-up band.

After a stinit in the military, Reed moved to Nashville in 1961 to continue his career as a recording artist. He achieved his first bonafide chart hit with 1967’s Guitar Man, a song Elvis Presley soon covered.

His easygoing, good-old-boy persona soon found a home on television. In 1972 he starred in the short-lived variety show, The Jerry Reed When You’re Hot You’re Hot Hour.After a stint on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, Jerry was forever immortalized in ink and paint when he appeared as “Himself” in Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters. Dino took notice and before long Reed was a regular on Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers.

In 1976, Reed cracked the big screen with Gator, his first of five features (and two TV series) opposite his good buddy Burt Reynolds. Not that I would ever again subject myself to W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, any of the Smokey films or…gulp…Stroker Ace, Jerry Reed never got on my nerves. As Burt’s tall, good-lookin’ cornpone sidekick, Jerry was a prince of amiable hicks who would have been right at home living upstairs of Floyd the Barber in Mayberry. Don’t get me wrong. He was no Jimmy Hampton. (I still tear up when the the exploding light bulb permanently removes Jimmy from The Longest Yard.) Still, Reed did what he did with style and a good-natured sense of fun.

According to the Tennessean, Reed’s health declined in recent years and he focused on spiritual studies and on bringing attention to veterans’ issues.

“For 50 years, all I’d done was take, take, take,” he told The Tennessean’s Tim Ghianni in 2007. “I decided from now on it is going to be giving. And I’m way behind. We’re all way behind. We live this life like what’s down here is what it’s all about. We’re temporary, son, like a wisp of smoke.”

Reed is survived by Priscilla “Prissy” Mitchell, his wife of 49 years and two daughters Charlotte and Seidina.


Jerry on “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour”

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Liza Minnelli: Former chauffer sues for rape, assault and battery

June 27th, 2008 by Scott Marks

The Addams Family in happier times

What good is sitting all alone in your limo? Judy Garland’s daughter Liza Minnelli fought and won the battle to personally defend herself against claims she sexually forced herself on her former driver.

M’hammed Soumayah is suing the 62-year-old superstar for $50 - $100 million. Soumayah claims that in 2004, Minnelli wanted him to drive more than just her limo. According to Soumayah, the Rent-A-Cop star forced him to have sexual relations “without his consent.” In reality, he probably found it impossible to follow Martin Scorsese. (It has always been my contention that the only reason Scorsese went with her was because he wanted to f–k old Hollywood.)

Soumayah is also alleging that he suffered assault and battery and that his pay was withheld until he performed…err…uhh… certain services for the star. It’s enough to make a cuckoo sterile!

As reported on WENN, “Soumayah’s lawyer suggested the star give testimony by video, as Minnelli ‘has been known to have professional commitments to meet.’ But Minnelli’s rep has insisted the request is’ just a way to embarrass’ the singer and would suggest she isn’t sound enough to appear for the deposition in person.”

If Soumayah really wants to embarrass her, all he has to do is bring a copy of Stepping Out to court.

Minnelli is scheduled to make a pre-trial statement in Manhattan Supreme court on August 15. Minnelli’s lawyers have previously called the Liza Driver’s lawsuit “a quicksand of untruths and misstatements” and accused him of an attempt to “shakedown” Sid Luft’s step-daughter for financial gain.

This is not Minnelli’s first experience dealing with a sexual harassment lawsuit. Liza’s suit against her former husband David Gest was thrown out of court by a New York federal judge in 2006 before the couple’s divorce was finalized the following year. Gest later accused his ex-wife of physical brutality.

Can’t wait to see what Liza wears on the stand. The judge had better allow cameras in the courtroom.

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Mindy McCready arrested for parole violation…again!

June 26th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Looks like Mindy McCready has a thing for jail. TMZ reports that on Monday, the country and western “singer” was once again arrested in Tennessee for violating her probation.

The violation occurred when McCready allegedly falsified information on her community service report. She turned herself into the Williamson County Sheriff’s Department and was free after posting bail two hours later.

Last September, the 32-year-old McCready was sentenced to jail time for violating probation from a 2004 drug arrest. She was required to serve two years’ probation.

In April, Emulsion Compulsion reported that the songbird turned jailbird confirmed a New York Daily News report that she began a relationship with baseball’s 28-year-old married father of two Roger Clemens when she was just 15.

Mindy has recently been questioned by the FBI about her long relationship with Clemens. Investigators are trying to determine if Clemens lied to Congress about taking performance-enhancing drugs.

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R. Kelly acquitted on all charges - Lock up your daughters!

June 13th, 2008 by Scott Marks

After six years and a highly publicized case, R. Kelly will not move from out of the closet and into a jail cell. It took the jury assigned the R&B singer’s child pornography trial less than three hours to clear him on all 14 counts filed against him.

Kelly was charged with videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl, who prosecutors say was as young as 13. If convicted, he faced a minimum of four years in prison and a maximum of 15 years. He would also have had to register as a sex offender in Illinois.

The jury—nine men and three women—deliberated for about three hours Thursday and part of today before reaching their verdicts.

As the first “not guilty” was read, R. Kelly dipped his head and kept it bowed during the entire reading of the 14-count verdict. It must have felt more exciting than a splash of warm urine to the face.

Kelly never took the witness stand during the trial. After being cleared, he removed a baby blue handkerchief from his pocket and dabbed away his tears of joy.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports, “When word of the verdict spread through the courthouse, some Cook County deputies — as well as lawyers walking through the building’s first floor hallways — cheered.”

Outside the courthouse, approximately 75 of Kelly’s supporters applauded when the verdict was read.

Kelly did not talk with reporters, but a spokesman said, “Most of all, he wants to thank God for giving him the strength to get through this.”

The key question for the jurors was whether they believe it was Kelly in the video, as prosecutors contend. Kelly’s attorneys say it wasn’t him. There were questions concerning a distinctive mole on Kelly’s back that doesn’t appear on the videotape.

The Sun-Times noted, “Defense attorneys keyed in on the fact that the victim, now an adult, has denied she’s the one on the tape. They noted that Kelly’s goddaughter is a ’sweet, nice young lady,’ and certainly wouldn’t have accepted cash for sex, as the girl in the tape is shown doing.”

Links:
R. Kelly jurors shown graphic sex video…again & a discussion of Trapped in the Closet

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R. Kelly jurors shown graphic sex video…again

June 12th, 2008 by Scott Marks

I envision an Elks Club smoker where after the stag reel winds it way through the 8mm projector, some sloshed joker in the back cocks his fez and shouts, “Let’s see it again!”

Perhaps the textural nuance and dialectical montage were too much for the jury to absorb in one viewing. This morning, prosecutors at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial replayed the graphic sex tape at the center of the case, working to lay to rest any doubts in jurors’ minds that the couple depicted on the video were indeed the R&B singer and an underage female.

Emulsion Compulsion has kept quiet long enough. Child porn accusations notwithstanding, R. Kelley is a God. This opinion is not based upon his accomplishments as a singer / songwriter. As a vocalist, I know as much about R. Kelly as I do Kelly Clarkson.

It is the auteur that I embrace. Only the jury will ever get to experience R.’s complete oeuvre. For the rest of us, there is Trapped in the Closet.

It appeared to me on some noxious entertainment program. Kelly was interviewed, clips were shown and my head cocked like a dog’s hearing a can opener. You won’t go hungry with this one.

I have only witnessed Chapters 1-12 mainly because the place where I buy my cigarettes has yet to get a used $3.00 copy of 13-22. There is something to live for!

With a nod to Chaplin, Kelly wrote, produced, co-directed, scored and stars in this serialized video soap opera that’s worthy of Ed Wood. The technical ineptitude is indescribable and there are more racial stereotypes than a ‘Snowflake’ retrospective. It’s certain that Closet devotee and EC lifer Joel Wicklund will have more to add in the comments section. And now back to the news…

During closing arguments, Kelly’s attorney’s insisted that that neither Kelly nor the alleged victim are the people on the tape. And I suppose that wasn’t Marilyn Monroe on her knees and Sylvester Stallone isn’t The Italian Stallion. Defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. told jurors that charges stemmed from people trying to extort money from the Grammy winner and noted that the man on the tape “may favor him.”

Kelly’s latest video, People’s Exhibit No. 1, shows a female dancing and urinating on the floor—the man out of view. Back in view, he has sex with her. In one scene near the end of the video, alluded to in one count of the indictment, the man urinates on the female.

Now do you understand the jury’s need for an encore presentation?

What’s with all the bodily functions? This water sports stuff is almost as indefensible as Kelly’s inability to rhyme (”He’s opening the dresser / I pull out my berreta”). At least he didn’t pull a Chuck Berry.

Kelly, 41, has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography. Both he and the alleged victim, now 23, deny being on the tape and neither testified at trial.

As reported on Breitbart, defense attorney Adam said that the alleged victim’s relatives know it’s not her on the video because “any solid man in that family, any solid woman in that family would have gone over there and broken his legs, would have gone over there and beat the crap out of him.”


Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22 (2007)

 

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