Panty News Archive - 31-Dec-2006
In 2006, it seemed like denizens of the entertainment world, like visitors to the Twilight Zone, increasingly crossed over into another dimension. They moved to a place where reality means nothing; all that mattered was attention, good or bad.
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Is Britney Spears' lack of undies seriously undermining her fan base?
The Iraq war has been called many things, but until "Babylon by Bus," no one has touted it as a place to party. Authors Ray Lemoine and Jeff Neumann went to Baghdad in 2004 because they were bored and looking for excitement. Their most notable previous accomplishment had been selling off-color T-shirts outside of Boston's Fenway Park.
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The heat was on in 2006. A sweltering summer claimed lives and crops, spinach turned scary, and the hot breath of scandal wafted from several boardrooms. California's celebrity governor staged a blazing ballot-box comeback - while other stars found themselves in hot water.
"Dear Kelly: I have three random questions for you: Are chandelier earrings 'out'?"
TRAIN WRECK OF THE YEAR: With all the chemically imbalanced, anorexic and bulimic Hollywood starlets showing their private parts to the world, how to narrow it down to just one lost soul? But it was hard to top the queen of the ick factor, Anna Nicole Smith (pictured, right).
The entertainment world in 2006 was enough to make you long for a more genteel time -- when ladies only flashed a mere breast to the public, not their entire nether regions. When stars only offered befuddled looks and mussed hair after a DWI -- not diatribes from Mein Kampf. And when you were acquitted of murder, you enjoyed your good luck in relative obscurity -- you didn't write about how you ...
Ah, celebrity lows ... so many to choose from, but we're trying to be selective. Here's the best of the bunch, from the drunk to the dirty to the downright disgusting.
