The Weekend Starts Now And I Am So Fully There
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
• Joker trumps all: Hey you guys! Heath Ledger is TOTALLY going to win the Oscar. And don't let anybody tell you that this Sam Rubin didn't say so first. ANYBODY.
• Scandinavia rocks!: Indie darlings Bjork and Sigur Ros will play for their native audience in Reykjavik, Iceland tomorrow. (Luckily, you can watch it online.) Any chances the two artists' singing is more intelligible to their fellow countrymen?
• Turbulent priest: The head of the largest Methodist congregation in the country has launched a pro-Obama website. He also happened to serve as the officiant at Jenna Bush's wedding. You don't get more ecumenical than that.
• Taco party: A rising peso and a weak dollar are allowing border-jumping Mexicans to buy up Texas real estate and reclaim the land the US stole from them in 1845. More importantly, they're bringing tacos.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• It's not a tan; he's black: Conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist calls Barack Obama "John Kerry with a tan." Obama counters by calling Norquist "John Candy with fat."