Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Real Dottie Hinson, Lucy Lawless, Boobs And A Few Other Stories You Might Have Missed

Here are a few news stories you may have missed this week.


1. League of Her Own

Lavone paire Davis, left. Gina Davis as Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own.


Lavone "Pepper" Paire Davis died on February 2, 2013 at the age of 88. She was one of the 

inspirations for the character Dottie Hinson in the 1992 film, "A League Of Their Own". Lavone played professional baseball in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League and by all accounts she was one of the best female baseball players of the day.

She started her 10 season career in the AAGPB at age 19. "I know what it's like for your dream to come true, mine did,"  she told the AP in 1995.  "Baseball was the thing I had the most fun doing. It was like breathing." 


Rest in peace, Pepper. See you in the great big ball park in the sky.



2. He's A Dog-Person

Meet Tonik. He's creepy cute.



Tonic the...dog?


Apparently Tonik is up for adoption. If you're looking for a human/shih tzu mix, I have the dog for you. Check out his PetFinder profile page here. 



3. She Fought the Law and Lawless Won.



Lawless atop the Noble Discoverer in 2012

Last February television actress, Lucy Lawless, joined a handful of other Greenpeace activists in protesting Shell Oil's plans on drilling in the Arctic by boarding the Noble Discoverer and delaying it's voyage. Lawless and the six other activists spent 77 hours aboard the ship, perched on top of a 174 foot tall tower.

Lawless and her compatriots were sentenced this week in Christchurch, New Zealand. 120 hours of community service and a $547US fine isn't bad considering the group was facing 3 years in prison and over $500,000 in reparations that Shell was demanding.

"I consider it a great victory that the court has struck down the reparation demand from Shell, which I think was absolutely ludicrous," said Lawless. She added on Twitter "Day 4 of a liver detox is a helluva time to go to court. I'm just sayin'."


4. Bush in the Bathroom


W's Self Portraits. Nice back muscles.


The Bush Family's email was hacked this week. Among all the personal details of the twice former first family's lives that were exposed, nothing is as interesting as some of George W. Bush's paintings. They appear to be self portraits. In the bathroom. He's actually quite good but the questions is why the bathroom? Maybe it is the solitude and privacy that the room offers. No one can make jokes about you when you are alone in the bathroom. Well at least not before this week.




5. Two Boobs. Oh and a topless chick.


Boobs.
If you had asked me who's the coolest guy in Hollywood was I would have said Leo DiCaprio. Until I saw this.

Leo and friend Jonah Hill have taken their talents to South Beach. They were recently photographed going for a swim together in Miami with their shirts on. OK, fine. Maybe they're concerned about UV rays. Fair enough.

They are then joined by a topless brunette. I would think that Leo sees boobs all the time. No big deal. In one of the photos Leo is pointing towards the young lady in all of her topless-ness. Then after the brunette swims away the two friends high five. To be fair they could be high five-ing because of anything; a good joke, the weather, looking forward to their dinner plans that evening. Or it could be because of boobs. I suppose we'll never know. But my questions is would George Clooney ever be photographed high five-ing over boobs? I vote no.

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