Scorsese and Jagger to team up

Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese is already planning his next project. Just three days after "The Departed" nabbed him Oscars for best director and best picture, Scorsese announced a collaboration with music legend Mick Jagger for a movie called "The Long Play".

According to a statement from Paramount, the movie is set in the music business, spanning three decades. The film is based on an original idea by Jagger, who will co-produce. There is no mention of whether he will also appear on screen.

Jagger and Scorsese recently collaborated on a feature-length Rolling Stones concert documentary, shot at The Beacon theatre in New York, to be released later this year.

Two big deals for The Becks

David Beckham isn't the only one making it big in the US. Victoria (Posh) Beckham has such a "hilarious sense of humor" that NBC is willing to pay her millions for some sort or reality show. So David will be the LA Galaxy soccer team and Victoria will be doing her NBC thing. They are moving to the US this summer.

Blu Ray to compete with PlayStation 3

In an attempt to boost sales for its stand-alone Blu Ray players, Sony announced a cheaper device for this summer, which will be sold for only $599.

Facing sluggish sales for its expensive $999 S1 Blu Ray player, Sony decided to cut the price and offer the BDP-S300 for about $600- about $400 cheaper than Sony’s current BDP-S1.

Apple's iPhone "Hello" commercial

Apple introduced the iPhone last night during the Oscars in a clever tv commercial using movie and tv icons answering phones and saying, "Hello". Old clips started with Lucy from "I Love Lucy" and included Ralph Cramden from "The Honeymooners," Betty from "The Flintstones" and Carrie from "Sex and the City," also Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, Billy Crystal and many others. You can actually see the commercial here.

Mark Wahlberg to celebrate at Oscars

According to USA Weekend: there isn't another Oscar hopeful walking the red carpet Sunday with a résumé that includes an assault conviction, rap star, Calvin Klein fashion model, TV producer and actor. More here.

Guru Orman Wishes She Could Wed Partner

Financial guru and best-selling author Suze Orman says she wishes she could marry her partner Kathy Travis, partly because it would save them both a lot of money. More here.

The Oscars

ABC is hoping that Ellen can bring up ratings for the slumping Oscars. It appears the ratings have been dropping year after year as people just not as intersted as in past years. For those who care, the show is on tomorrow night on ABC at 8 pm eastern, 5 pm pacific time.

Hand art

When Italian artist Guido Daniele was hired by an ad agency to create body painting of animals, he loved the idea. "I researched each animal in depth to see how I could transfer it to a hand, and then set about bringing it to life," he says.

The hardest part of his job is watching his creations disappear down the drain after they're photographed. "I'm getting used to it," Daniele shrugs.

"At least I get to start each day with a fresh canvas." Guido Daniele lives and works in Milan.

Whole Foods set to buy Wild Oats

Whole Foods Markets said that it agreed to acquire smaller rival Wild Oats Markets for about $565 million. Story here.

Presto! Photos!

Are your parents or grandparents afraid of the computer? Do they still want to receive emails and photos from you? Well with Presto, they can.

It's a system where you send them email, photos and all, and they can directly print the emails and phoitos out without a computer! Check it out here.

Listen to music without wires

Enjoy stereo music, wireless connectivity and unbeatable clarity. O ROKR™ is the next generation of BLUETOOTH® eyewear from Oakley and Motorola. It combines HIGH DEFINITION OPTICS® (HDO®) with technologies that let you stay connected to calls and music while hiking, biking or doing virtually any activity* where cords and wires would get in the way. O ROKR™ gives you absolute wireless freedom, digital stereo fidelity and patented optical clarity.

Logitech Harmony 1000 remote control

The Logitech Harmony 1000 allows you to use one remote instead of five. It includes a striking, color touch-sensitive screen and is easy to set up.

"The Harmony 1000 remote is the interface that people crave for their home-entertainment system it's sleek, it's easy to use with its one-touch activity based control, and it comes without a prohibitive price." said Bryan McLeod, vice president of Logitech's remote control products.

More here.

XM and Sirius want to merge

XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio plan on merging into a giant radio satellite company.It's up to federal regulators now to approve the deal.

Square Chair

Soft in all the right places, the Square Chair is cut from a geometric grid. It's available in your choice of fabric exclusively through the Harry Allen Showroom.

Ghost rider rides to top

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC.

1. "Ghost Rider," $44.5 million.
2. "Bridge to Terabithia," $22.1 million.
3. "Norbit," $16.8 million.
4. "Music and Lyrics," $14 million.
5. "Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls," $12.1 million.
6. "Breach," $10.4 million.
7. "Hannibal Rising," $5.5 million.
8. "Because I Said So," $5 million.
9. "The Messengers," $3.8 million.
10. "Night at the Museum," $3.7 million.

LaserComb seems to work in growing hair

The HairMax LaserComb has been granted approvel from the FDA. Apparently the device is clinically proven to promte hair grown in men with certain types of hair loss. More here.

Bismarck claims snow angels record

Nearly 9,000 people showed up to flap their arms and legs in the snow, apparently shattering the world snow angel record in Bismarck, ND, on Saturday. More here.

Good deeds

Here's a slide show -- with sound -- of a neighbor helping neighbors. He helps get rid of the massive snow in a Binghamton, NY neighborhood with his trusty snow blower. Give it a few seconds, the slide show will start up by itself.

Year of the pig

Asians around the world ussured in the Year of the Pig. You ready to party? Google is.

Britney is bald!

Looks like Britney had all of her beautiful hair shaved off. She's bald now! See the clip at KABC-TV.

Charlize to play Anna Nicole?

I was trying to think of someone who would be good as Anna Nicole Smith in the inevitable movie and it appears that Charlize Theron may be the one. Anna's body isn't even cold yet, but you knew there would be something in the works already. More here.

ND House rejects bill to honor Bono

Lawmakers in the North Dakota House defeated a resolution 58-35 Thursday to honor U2 frontman, Bono, for his advocacy of debt relief for Third World countries, saying the Irish rocker had no connection to the state.

Makes sense to me. What has any of this to do with North Dakota? Has Bono ever even been to North Dakota?

More here.

Kenny Chesney: 'I'm not gay'

Kenny Chesney talks to Anderson Cooper about his breakup with Renee Zellweger and the gay rumors this Sunday on "60 Minutes".

New dollar coin

The new dollar coin comes out today. Will anyone use them? Time will tell. I say no.

Happy Valentine's Day

As usual, Google is up for the occasion. This is their Valentine's head today.

HP joins cell phone market

The iPaq 500 series Voice Messenger is a slim candy-bar handset that will run Windows Mobile 6 when it appears later this year. Story here.

$25 million up for grabs to stop global warming

British businessman Richard Branson (above left) is offering $25 million to scientists for research into a way to suck carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.

Al Gore (above right), of course is on his side and it will be interesting to see what comes up.

The project is called the Virgin Earth Challenge. Branson urged governments to match the prize money he's offering.

A panel of six judges, including Gore, will decide the winner. They're hoping the prize money will inspire innovators to get to work.

Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid'

The Financial Times is reporting that concerts "bigger than Live Aid" are being planned for July to bring attention to global warming. Al Gore is scheduled to announce the event this weekend.

Here and there

Three ancient Egyptian sarcophagi unearthed. USA Today.

Samsung unveils IPhone AP Story

"Hannibal" is dull Seattle Post Intelligencer

Will Police's Grammy night reunion last? MSNBC

Law would ban iPod use when crossing streets. USA Today

$25,000 dinner

The "meal of a lifetime," a 10-course dinner at $25,000 a head is planned for tonight in Bangkok.Six

Six European chefs are fixing the dinner at the Lebura Luxury Hotel for 40 "Epicurean Masters of the World." More here.

Lisa Nowak items selling fast

There is always some nut out there ready to make money on someone else's tragedy. Someone is selling a signed photo of the Astro-Nut Lisa Nowak on ebay.

The bidding is up to $10,000 at the time of this posting.

I don't know why it would be so valuable. I shudder to think of what Anna Nicole Smith items are going for.

Virtual laser keyboard

I found this great new keyboard to be used with cell phones and Blackberrys and such. It is a laser virtual keyboard from I-Tech and what it does is project an actual size keyboard on any surface, so when sending text messages or emails from your cell phone you don't have to deal with the phone pad. You can actually type on a "keyboard" and it will go right into the phone.

It may not be great for a person constantly on the go, but it would work great in restaurants or hotels or places where you might be stationary for awhile.

I can imagine someone using it at Starbucks -- "Your coffee is on my keyboard, would you mind moving it!"

Amazon to offer Tivo downloads

Amazon.com will let customers buy or rent movies and tv shows and download them directly to some TiVo digital video recorders. Story here.

Empowering the frequent flyer

There's a new website called ExpertFlyer.com which allows you to see inside info on airline flights -- thing the airlines don't want you to know about.

While you cannot purchase tickets there, you can see which seats are available on flights before you book the flight and you can see the difference between "Y" and "B" fares -- the airlines only post "Y" fares, which are the more expensive fares, but ExpertFlyer.com will allow you to see the "B" fares that the airlines hold back -- these can be half the price of "Y" fares.

Also, for frequent flyers -- ExpertFlyer.com will allow you to see which seats are available on particular flights and you'll see which are premium frequent flyer seats and which are not.

There is a small fee, to use the service, but right now they are offering a five day free trial.

Colts programs available

One of the most popular Super Bowl items at the CBS Sports Store is the actual program. It's selling for $14.99.

Wonder how much that would go for with Payton Manning's signature.

Hmmm. Either way, it's a nice item to have. They have the usual shirts and caps there, too.

Lost

Lost is back tonight on ABC, 10 pm, 9 pm central time.

Look for all new episodes for the next 16 weeks. Without reruns in between.

Sony Ericsson debuts 8 new phones

Sony Ericsson is introducing eight new cell phones -- including new Walkman phones and Cybershot digital camera phones as well as four low-end phones. More here.

Sony Ericcson's website is here.

Ozzfest tix are free this year

Ozzfest is free this year. Yup, you read right.

"It's our 12th year and we wanted to shake it up a bit and do something different," Sharon Osbourne told The Associated Press today.

"It's not saying that I'm now Mother Teresa or that Ozzy is a saint, but you know what? He's been doing this a long time and his audience has been really good to him," Sharon said. "So if he goes out one summer of his life and he doesn't get paid, big deal."

The tour kicks off July 7 in Los Angeles, with stops planned in San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, New York, St. Louis and several other cities. A final list of dates and stops is still in the works.

The music roster is till in the planning stages.

More info at http://www.ozzfest.com

Bringing sexy back -- the Ford Taurus

The bull is back.

For Motor Company's Five Hundred model (shown here) is not selling so well, so they decided to resurect the Taurus name, which was retired last year after more than 20 years. The original Taurus was a car that became the nation's top-seller at one time.

Officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition they not be identified by name because the official announcement had not yet been made. The announcement is expected to be made Wednesday at the Chicago Auto Show.

Ford launched its full-size Five Hundred sedan series less than three years ago. But the car didn't sell as expected due to the less than stellar performance and the public wasn't crazy about the look of the car. Apparently Ford worked on the look and performance and the new car (Taurus) will be more eye appealing and have a better performance record.

Jay-Z and Cherry Coke

Jay-Z's new Cherry Coke ads are set to start tomorrow.

According to the New York Post, he was paid $3 million to be the spokesman.

Wal-Mart offers movie downloads

Starting today you can download over 3000 movies at Wal-Mart.com the same day they come out on DVD. The downside is that you can keep the movie and see it as many times as you like on your computer but you cannot transfer it to a TV. You can burn DVDs, but they can only be played on the computer.

Not sure how I feel about this. You can see what they offer here.

The Pod Hotel

The new Pod Hotel in New york City is the city's newest secret. The rooms are tiny (but chic), they are called "pods", hence the name. You can get a pod for as little as $89.00 per night if you're willing to share a bath or $139.00 with private bath. They offer queens, doubles, singles and bunks.

There are ipod docking stations and free wifi and LCD tv's.

It's in a great midtown location on 51st Street (formerly the Pickwick Arms). Check em out here.

PlayStation 2 wins

Now that the holiday season is over, the results are in: PlayStation 2 outsold all next-gen consoles this past season. In December alone, 1.4 million were sold. PS2 continues to dominate. Story here.

Sweet Valentine's treats

Appetizers To Go is offering some sweet deals (up to 65% off caterers prices) for super Valentine's meals. Check them out now.

You don't have to order a meal, they offer great Bacon Wrapped Chicken Brochette or Duck a l'orange filo bundles. Shown here is their Brie with Raspberry and Almond in filo.

Order now and receive free shipping and a special gift worth $50.00.

Prince at the Super Bowl

Here's the show from the Super Bowl.

Part One




Part Two

Naked Sunday

This scene may be common pretty soon in Amsterdam. Fitworld Gym in the town of Heteren is starting "Naked Sunday" on March 4th.
Story here.