Saturday, April 25, 2009

Henry Ian Cusick

Henry Ian Cusick is being sued for sexual harassment. According to TMZ.com, a young lady named Chelsea Stone claims Cusick touched her inappropriately while she was working on the set of "Lost." The kicker: Chelsea says she was fired about two weeks after the situation occurred. The lawsuit also names ABC and Grass Skirt Productions as defendants. She is seeking unspecified damages.
Stone told police that Cusick placed his hand on her butt and caressed the back of her body while making moaning sounds. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, also says Cusick "placed his face on top of [her] breasts, moving his face from side to side." A woman who claims she was sexually harassed then fired from the TV show "Lost" is suing ABC and actor Henry Ian Cusick.
Henry Ian Cusick, who plays Desmond on the show “Lost,” is being sued for sexual harassment. According to a lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, Chelsea Stone claims that while working on the show, Cusick placed his hand on her buttocks and caressed the back of her body while making moaning sounds. - from TM

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Sidney Korshak

Sidney Korshak whom the FBI once called "the most powerful lawyer in the world": Korshak started out in Chicago and moved to Beverly Hills, where he was the "fixer" for Chicago mobsters doing business there, labor bosses and politicians, and good friends with men like Lew Wasserman, Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, Barron Hilton and Hugh Hefner. "He was the godfathers' godfather, and he was my godfather," Evans told Page Six.
Within months of opening his law practice, according to extensive research conducted by Seymour M. Hersh and Jeff Gerth for The New York Times in 1976, he was defending members of the Al Capone crime syndicate. His reputation was made in 1943 when a mobster on trial for extorting millions of dollars from Hollywood movie companies testified that when he had been introduced to Mr. Korshak by a high-ranking Capone mobster, he had been told, "Sidney is our man."
Mr. Korshak, who sometimes boasted that he had paid off judges, solidified his standing among Chicago's business, civic and social leaders by giving ribald late-night parties featuring some of Chicago's most beautiful and willing showgirls. * * * He added to his reputation and his usefulness when it became known that he could arrange loans of millions of dollars from the teamsters' infamous Central States Pension Fund, which, among other things, helped finance the growth of the Las Vegas casino industry, often with Mr. Korshak serving as the intermediary and sometimes as silent partner.

Baby Shaker

Baby Shaker users are presented with a series of baby images. As the baby begins to cry, players are supposed to shake their iPhones until a pair of X's appear over the baby's eyes. The App was released on Monday, but appears to have been taken down. (I found a "Bible Shaker" "Salt Shaker" and "Stress Shaker," but no "Baby Shaker.") Apple confirmed, via email, that it has removed the application.
According to the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, a non-profit group, the App starts up with these words: "On a plane, on the bus, in a theater. Babies are everywhere you don't want them to be! They're always distracting you from preparing for that big presentation at work with their incessant crying. Before Baby Shaker there was nothing you could do about it." A developer called Sikalosoft is listed as the App's creator.
Probably a good thing that Apple took the thing down. The company has been playing up the fact that it is about to hit the billion download mark for its App Store. Seems like it would be a bit embarrassing for the company to have to tell the world that download number 1,000,000,000 was something called, ummm, "Baby Shaker."
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