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Posted Nov. 7, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Paul McCartney Canoodles, Britney Spears Gets an Asterisk, Felix Da Housecat Hates on Justice
By Gary Pini
1. While Paul McCartney was spending a "romantic weekend in the Hamptons with his rich MTA-board gal pal" (NY Post) his former drummer was hard at work in L.A. Ringo Starr spent yesterday standing on the roof of the Capitol Records building in Hollywood promoting the DVD release of the Beatles' 1965 film Help!
2. Britney Spears’ new LP Blackout is going into the Billboard Top 200 at number two with an asterisk. She would have been number one, but the trade magazine this week changed their chart eligibility rules to allow "proprietary" albums (those only available in one store or chain) to appear on the chart. Number one? The Eagles’ first studio album in 28 years Long Road Out of Eden, which was available only at Wal-Mart.
3. Felix Da Housecat disses Justice: "Justice is nothing but Daft Punk without the robot. It's like Daft Punk had a baby and kicked the baby out." (via rythmism.com)
4. Flashback to the summer of 2006. Nicky Hilton was launching her "sexy, glamorous" Nicky O hotel chain at the Breakwater Hotel in South Beach and she was doing the designing. Over the weekend we noticed this ad in The Wall Street Journal: "For Sale By Auction on November 19th 2007, The Breakwater Edison Hotel, Free and clear of brand and management, Redevelopment partially completed."
5. Four people were killed and several wounded by gunfire at a rave in Venezuela over the weekend. British DJ Carl Cox was just a few minutes into his set when the violence began. The incident was captured on video and (briefly) posted on YouTube but has since been removed.