Going Like Sixty

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, will have their first official photos printed in People Magazine. 

Pitt and Jolie will be paid $20 million by the magazine, which they already agreed to donate to charity. The previous top dollar for baby photos was paid to JLo and Marc Anthony for their kid photos, and that was a paltry $6,000,000. In the bidding frenzy for exclusive rights, the photos were thought to bring as high as $20 million.

Below are the top 10 most expensive baby photos.

1. $20 million – Knox Leon & Vivienne Marcheline (Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie)

2. $6 million – Max & Emme Anthony (Jennifer Lopez/Marc Anthony)

3. $4.1 million – Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (Brad Pitt /Angelina Jolie)

4. $3 million – Levi Alves McConaughey (Matthew McConaughey/Camila Alves)

5.  $2 million – Dannielynn Smith (Anna Nicole Smith/Larry Birkhead)

6. $2 million – Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt)

7. $1.5 million – Max Liron Bratman (Christina Aguilera/Jordan Bratman)

8. $1.5 million – Honor Marie Warren (Jessica Alba/Cash Warren)

9. $1 million – Harlow Winter Kate Madden (Nicole Ritchie/Joel Madden)

10. $1 million – Maddie Briann Aldridge (Jamie Lynn Spears/Casey Aldridg)

Xer’s seemed to be just totally overwhelmed that Randy Pausch actually died. He actually did. He said he would, he had a deadly form of cancer, he told his family he would die sooner, rather than later.”But, but,” Xer’s seem to be saying… “we never thought he would actually do it!”

Heavy man.

Randy Pausch was a teacher who died of pancreatic cancer.

Lots of people die of pancreatic cancer, so what made him such a star?

Randy Pausch knew nothing more than anybody else about dying from cancer. He just knew how to present.

He was a great presenter.

• white
• male
• handsome
• well-educated
• witty

Pausch benefited from the Tim Russert Effect. If you are a great presenter and can muster an audience, you will become a star. It’s not what you know, it’s how you present it.

At the end, as Dr. Pausch’s body was clearly failing, Mr. Seabolt said he told his friend that it was okay if he felt like he needed to “let go.”

Dr. Pausch’s reply: “I’ll get back to you on that.’’

And those, according to Mr. Seabolt, were the final words of Randy Pausch.

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Shigeo Tokuda, or better known as just ‘Tokuda’ in his line of work, is a 73-year-old who gets more action in the bedroom than most men do in their dreams!

Tokuda is a star in elderly porn movies. He sleeps with women between the ages of 20 and 80 - and even gets more than one woman at a time.

Tokuda has starred in over 200 adult videos and hopes to continue to do so until his 80s.

“I retired and didn’t have anything to do,” the porn star, who works for Ruby Productions, said.

This is my second life. I don’t know how long I can keep living, but I want to enjoy the rest of it.”

“In his generation, Tokuda is a superstar,” said adult video director Gaichi Kono.

“He encourages older people to think, ‘I can do this because that old man can do this.’”

Apparently Keira Knightley’s bodice-ripping acting was incredible hot in The Duchess, as you can see from the trailer above.

The Duchess will premier at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September. The film is based on the raunchy life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. The biography from which it is taken was authored by Amanda Foreman.

The movie cast includes Ralph Fiennes (Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies), Hayley Atwell and Dominic Cooper (Sky in Mamma Mia!) along with some amazing period costumes.

During the movie, Knightley and her lover boy apparently were turned on by the action in front of the cameras as behind the cameras, there were plenty of lip locks.

McDonald’s has very cool interior designers at work in Europe.

European readers may be surprised at my surprise at how cool this McDonald’s design is. It seems that McDonald’s has been very successful in Europe, not because of the wonderful, healthy, fast, food, but because of the store design.

Well, duh! I haven’t been inside a McDonald’s in ages, not just because of the ankle biters, but because of the cold, boring predictable, and lame interior. If this comes to the U.S., it would revolutionize fast food store design. Could it be that McDonald’s will knock off Starbux as the new cool place to be seen?

Would you hang at a place like this?

Heath Ledger made a commitment to an old friend that he would invest in his new restaurant. When Ledger died, it had to put some doubt in the owner’s mind, but Ledger’s father said he knew how much the project meant to his son. He has now put forward the moolah to finish up “Five Leaves,” the tentative name of the eatery.

Formerly a hair salon, the unusual triangular building in New York was on the market for $2.6 million. The bistro reportedly is designed along the line of a transport ferry and English butcher shop.

So the illustration exaggerates a little. KVVU Fox in Las Vegas didn’t substitute a McDonald’s Iced Coffee for one of the morning news anchors. But the station is getting paid by McDonald’s to have a cup of iced coffee on the desk. Product placement has been pretty standard in television and movies for a long time, but most tv news sets have steered clear because of the appearance that the news was for sale. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? This will be interesting to watch. Station management says if a negative story about McDonald’s appears the cups would disappear.

Remember Reese’s Pieces product placement in E.T.? Originally it was M & M’s but they wouldn’t pay up.

The WNBA had a good old cat fight. This is good. Cat fight means everybody is writing about the WNBA. That’s a women’s pro basketball league in case you didn’t know. So a couple of all stars from LA and Detroit got into a shoving match (no punches thrown, girls! Gotta at least make a swing!) One of the players ended the brawl on the floor with an injured knee (girls! NEVER get hurt during a fight.) It’s obvious that the female race car drivers have it figured out. 1. Put a fence between you and opponent. 2. Only throw a towel.

Things never get lost around our house, they just disappear for a short while and the pop back into view. Is it the same at your house or are you just so organized that if it’s gone, you know it will never return?

Thus is the case with our video camera. It decided to reveal it’s hiding place whilst I was rummaging around for some other treasure. It was in a closet not six feet from where I sit. Inside one of those storage boxes, but nonetheless it was right on top.

Now I can’t wait for the battery to charge to see what’s on that tape!

Also in the box were other electronic gadgets that I just couldn’t throw away.

We all have a dozen unused remotes, right? Or is that just me? So what will we accumulate in the next couple of years?

• mouses
• film cameras
• digital cameras
• headsets
• miles and miles of cables
• power supplies

The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is one of the fastest production cars to come out of GM, and at the heart of its stunning performance is the LS9 engine. Debuting in January of this year at the Detroit Motor Show, the 638hp (476kW) and 819Nm (604lb-ft) LS9 powerplant is capable of pushing the ZR1 from standstill to 60mph in just 3.4 seconds and onto a top speed of 205mph.