Janet Jackson made headlines in 2004 when she was dancing with Justin Timberlake and accidentally flashed her sun-encrusted nipple for the entire planet.
Today, the Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to re-examine its ruling in favor of CBS Corp in the legal fight over Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.”
The high court directed the appeals court in Philadelphia to consider reinstating the $550,000 fine that the FCC imposed on CBS over the incident.
CBS said that it wasn’t surprised at the ruling and expressed confidence that the court will find again that the incident couldn’t have been anticipated by their network.
The appellate court said the incident lasted nine-sixteenths of one second and should have been regarded as “fleeting.” The FCC previously deviated from its nearly 30-year practice of fining indecent broadcast programming only when it was so “pervasive as to amount to ’shock treatment’ for the audience,” the court said.
It wasn’t anticipated by anyone. They need to let this go already. They’re bringing more attention to the incident over the years than the incident itself received in the first place.
Liv Tyler finally found love after painful breakup with ex . She is spotted smooching boyfriend, trainer guru David Kirsch. April 22, 2009.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel kiss at the Los Angeles Lakers vs Utah Jazz game at Staples Center on April 21, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
Geri Halliwell enjoys a day of skiing in the French Alps with a man who appears to be the former Spice Girl’s new love, Henry Beckwith. April 10, 2009 Courchevel, France.
LeAnn Rimes, after allegedly cheating on husband Dean Sheremet with co-star Eddie Cibrian, kisses her partner goodbye in Los Angeles on March 22, 2009.
Angelina Jolie didn’t win any awards for her role in Changeling but at least she is still winning stuff on sex lists right?
According to a new poll by online dating websites Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com people were asked which celebrity would they give their partner a sex pass to sleep with.
The usual people are included on the list like Angelina, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
Shira Zwebner, who works for Date.com said “this poll is the complete opposite of an indecent proposal. In fact, most men and women wouldn’t just grant their significant others permission to go for it with their celebrity of choice - they’d brag about it all over town, Johnny Depp’s appeal is more than just physical attraction, he is the complete package, and women envision that one night of passion with this Pirate will leave them more than just sexually satisfied. Angelina Jolie, meanwhile, tops this list because both men and women worldwide have crushes on her and - if she ever invited someone other than Brad Pitt into her bed - not even the most committed couple would walk away from that opportunity.”
Here is the list of women that men could sleep with:
Angelina Jolie 25.9% Jennifer Aniston 24.1% Halle Berry 23.8% Penelope Cruz 22.4% Eva Mendes 20.7% Nicole Kidman 20.7% Sandra Bullock 19.0% Jennifer Garner 18.9% Lucy Liu 17.2% Reese Witherspoon 17.2% Demi Moore 16.7% Julia Roberts 15.5% Kate Winslet 15.3% Kiera Knightly 12.1% Scarlett Johansson 11.8% Natalie Portman 8.6% Katherine Hiegl 6.9%
As for who the women can sleep with:
Johnny Depp 32.2% George Clooney 29.0% Will Smith 28.4% Brad Pitt 25.8% Matthew McConaughey 25.8% Hugh Jackman 19.4% Sean Connery 16.1% Patrick Dempsey 12.9% Tom Cruise 12.9% Justin Timberlake 11.5% Bruce Willis 9.7% Howard Stern 8.4% Robert Pattinson 6.5% Jake Gyllenhaal 6.5% Gerard Butler 3.2%
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Who would you let your significant other have sex with?
Rumors have surfaced before suggesting that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake’s relationship is on the rocks. It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything new lately. Two close friends of the couple insist that there is trouble in paradise.
The couple are living together, but a friend of Jessica’s says, “Things are not going as smoothly as Jessica and Justin would want people to think they are.”
A snitch in Justin’s camp says, “I can always sense when Justin is beginning to get itchy in a relationship…While he’s still very public about being seen with Jessica, it’s interesting…He hardly talks about her when she’s not around. The same thing happened with Cameron and it was also the case with Britney.”
Another friend close to Jessica calls BS on the whole thing, saying, “I don’t think this is true. I was just with them and I’ve never seen them look happier…I think this is someone out to unnecessarily cause trouble.”
After cheating on Justin Timberlake, getting married to Jason Alexander for 55 hours, marrying Kevin Federline and dating snapper Adnan Ghalib, Britney Spears has really had her share of man troubles.
She says that she’s on the hunt for a new man and a friend of hers says that she “feels like a failure without a guy who she can love and loves her back.”
She’s reportedly obsessed and desperate to find a man as she gets ready to go on her “Circus” tour. Daddy’s probably got all of her prospects on lockdown, my guess is that he fears she’ll procreate with another deadbeat.
Another friend says, “She looks around and sees other women her age in successful relationships and says to herself, ‘Why can’t that be me?’ Finding a man she can love is becoming an obsession for Britney. Britney really wants to get her life back on track. She has her family around her and a couple of assistans, but no one to really share things with.”
The source adds, “I think Britney would be happier living in a trailer park, looking after her kids and working as a hairdresser as long as she had a guy by her side who really loves her.”
I agree. Britney definitely belongs in a trailer park.
McAfee have just released their list of the most dangerous celebrity to search for online, this time Brad Pitt has come out on top of the list, replacing Paris Hitlon. The list:
1 Brad Pitt — When “Brad Pitt screensavers” was searched, more than half of the resulting Web sites were identified as containing malicious downloads with spyware, adware and potential viruses.
2 Beyonce – Inputting “Beyonce ringtones” into a search engine yields risky Web sites that promote misleading offers to gather consumers’ personal information.
3 Justin Timberlake – Interest in his high-profile relationships makes him an easy target for spammers and hackers. When searching for “Justin Timberlake downloads” one Web site advertised free music downloads that were flagged as directly leading to spam, spyware and adware.
4 Heidi Montag – “The Hills” star is a popular search term when it comes to searching for wallpaper. A host of wallpaper Web sites contained hundreds of malware-laden downloads.
5 Mariah Carey – Spammers and hackers are using Mariah Carey screen saver Web sites to link to other sites proven to contain spyware, adware and other threatening downloads.
6 Jessica Alba – Red-ranked risky sites were identified when searching for “Jessica Alba” and “Jessica Alba downloads.” The sites contained hundreds of malicious downloads, links to other bad sites, misleading offers to gather information, and a high number of spam emails when an email address was provided.
7 Lindsay Lohan – This young Hollywood starlet is as dangerous to search online as she is famous. Searching for “Lindsay Lohan downloads” resulted in several dangerous Web sites laden with hidden adware.
8 Cameron Diaz – Cybercriminals use download Web sites related to Cameron Diaz’s image to link to other harmful sites containing spyware.
9 George Clooney, Rihanna – The technology found one Web site embedded with hundreds of dangerous wallpaper and photo downloads after inputting “George Clooney downloads.” “Rihanna pictures” was also a risky search term, as McAfee identified a site that spammed its test email address.
11 Angelina Jolie – When “Angelina Jolie downloads” was searched, the software highlighted a risky site with 978 hidden malware-infected wallpaper and photo downloads, as well as links to other potentially dangerous URLs.
12 Fergie – A Fergie screen saver site was flagged as offering 111 risky downloads that could seriously compromise a PC’s privacy with unwanted spyware and adware.
13 David Beckham, Katie Holmes – The “David Beckham” search term generated a great deal of wallpaper and screen saver downloads veiled with malware. Consumers should also exercise caution when searching for “Katie Holmes” online — one download site advertised free screen savers that, if
downloaded, would infect your computer with malicious programs like spyware.
15 Katherine Heigl – Hollywood’s big headliner in recent years is now susceptible to Internet lurkers too. “Katherine Heigl” was searched and a site was identified containing hundreds of malware-infected pictures.
But why do you need to search for celebrities when you can just come here?
Despite selling over 60 million albums, Justin Timberlake has said he still struggles to “accept his artistry“.
“It’s painful for me to either watch or listen to myself,” Timberlake stated. “But even when you’re not fully satisfied with the outcome, that’s what makes you hungry.
But there is gratification in the fact that you a. make people smile, b. make people dance, c. make people laugh or d. make people make babies.”
Baby-making aside, Timberlake has a very unromantic take on the acting arena.
“Acting is a totally different process than music. Music is a study in the romanticizing of human behavior,” he explained. “I have found that acting is like the un-romanticizing, that’s not a word, it is the opposite of the romantics of human behavior.”
Perhaps JT just needs a good love scene, as it seems the aspiring actor only chooses gritty roles like a drug-dealing gang member in “Alpha Dog,” a disfigured Iraq war veteran in “Southland Tales” and a hairy, Speedo-wearing hockey player in “Love Guru.”
The U.S. government’s campaign against television indecency was dealt a blow on Monday when a court overturned a $550,000 fine against CBS Corp television stations for airing a glimpse of pop singer Janet Jackson’s breast during the 2004 Super Bowl broadcast. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said the Federal Communications Commission had “arbitrarily and capriciously departed from its prior policy” that exempted fleeting broadcast material from actionable indecency violations.
Jackson’s right breast was exposed to almost 90 million TV viewers for a fraction of a second during the live 2004 Super Bowl football halftime show in what fellow pop singer Justin Timberlake later called a “wardrobe malfunction.” Timberlake ripped off part of Jackson’s bustier exposing Jackson’s breast during the show. Despite the brevity, lawmakers and regulators were outraged and vowed a crackdown on broadcast indecency.
The judges rejected the FCC’s argument that the “fleeting” policy had only applied to words, not images. “Like any agency, the FCC may change its policies without judicial second-guessing. But it cannot change a well- established course of action without supplying notice of and a reasoned explanation for its policy departure,” Chief Judge Anthony Scirica wrote for the three-judge panel that heard the case.
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The decision got a sharp rebuke from the Parents Television Council, an indecency watchdog group. It said the ruling “borders on judicial stupidity” and urged lawmakers in Congress to pass a bill to strengthen anti-indecency enforcement. “If a striptease during the Super Bowl in front of 90 million people, including millions of children, doesn’t fit the parameters of broadcast indecency, then what does?” the group asked.
But, of course, it wasn’t a “striptease” but rather an instantaneous “Did I just see what I thought I saw?!” moment. And, while I don’t believe for a moment that Jackson and/or Timberlake didn’t plan the incident to generate precisely the buzz they got, it’s simply bizarre to fine CBS for airing something that happened outside their control during a live broadcast.
Steven Taylor, whose post on the subject is entitled “Janet Jackson’s Right Breast Ruled Constitutional,” guesses this will be appealed to the Supreme Court. Too bad we don’t Potter Stewart isn’t around any more.
“It’s painful for me to either watch or listen to myself,” Timberlake stated. “But even when you’re not fully satisfied with the outcome, that’s what makes you hungry. 
