The tumultuous past few weeks since James’ infidelity was made public has seen a spate of scandalous allegations and admissions from the owner of the West Coast Choppers motorcycle dealership.

When reports first appeared that James had been having an affair with tattoo model Michelle McGee, many wondered whether this single act of betrayal would be enough for Bullock to leave her beau. The Oscar-winning actress made this abundantly clear in the days following the revelations, however, as more dirty secrets emerged.

The latest embarrassing gaffe shows james, an fast declining TV personality in the US, wearing a Nazi hat while raising his extended palm aloft in the notorious “heil Hitler” salute, which is sure to outrage millions across the globe. James apparently also attempted to mimic the moustache of the former German leader by using two fingers on his top lip.

Not content with self-induced public shock, the biker has also become the victim of yet another allegation – this time that he was a participant in a group sex session in a San Diego tattoo parlour last year with two women and another man.

The other man in the alleged foursome, who owns the tattoo parlour, apparently stated that Bullock should visit her local GP and undertake tests for HIV/ AIDS and general STD’s.

Police at the scene have advised that no evidence was found that would indicate any foul play, and that they were awaiting the coroner’s autopsy before making any further statements.

Already there is widespread speculation that Haim has become yet another tragic Hollywood victim of overdosing on prescription medication. Police authorities did confirm that Haim had been taking both prescribed and over-the-counter medication at the time of his death. He had also been suffering from flu-like symptoms in recent days.

Haim is best remembered for his partnership with Corey Feldman, leading the pair to be labelled as The Two Coreys, with both seemingly set for celebrated careers on film and the big screen. However, Haim’s descent into drug abuse strained the relationship.

Haim had previously admitted to smoking marijuana while on the set of Lost Boys. He later developed a cocaine and crack habit which led him into several bouts of rehab. As is becoming increasingly common, his illegal drug habit was replaced by a prescription one, with Haim taking both stimulants and sedatives in a bid to overcome the non-prescription habit.

Gamblers have taken to the Oscars in recent years with a dedication more suited to Las Vegas than Hollywood, and the odds-makers are quick to capitalise on the popularity of the event. So what exactly are the odds on this year’s awards?

Jeff Bridges is the firm favourite to take home the best actor Oscar, so favoured in fact that in order to win just $1 you will need to lay-out $6. In betting parlance, Bridges is a lock. This also means that there will be significantly better returns for betting on an outsider in this category, with George Clooney always a good option. His Up In The Air role of frequent flyer could provide a bonus at 13-1 odds, although Jeremy Renner from The Hurt Locker is closer to 28-1.

However, favouritism does not guarantee success at the Oscars, particularly when there are two strong candidates dominating the event. The Hurt Locker is favoured by most to take home a string of awards but Avatar remains the evening’s dark horse. These two are neck-and-neck in the best movie award, although Kathryn Bigelow remains well ahead of James Cameron in the best director gambling.

Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock appear to be engaged in the Academy’s other two-horse race for best actress, for The Blind Side and Julie & Julia respectively.

The Los Angeles gig, a one-off show, was void of any television cameras and marked Radiohead’s first performance since their performance at the Reading festival last year.

The band, which is in the middle of creating their eighth studio record, had announced the charity gig Friday of last week – only about fifty hours before hitting the stage.

According to the Los Angeles Times, concert tickets were sold at an online auction and each fetched between $475 (£293) and $2,000 (£1,230) each.

The intimate concert, before a select crowd including notable Hollywood players such as fellow performer Justin Timberlake and actresses Drew Barrymore and Jessica Biel, was played in front of only 1,300 people.

The band performed through a dozen hits, two encores as well as a new track – Lotus Flower, which Thom Yorke had previously sang at his solo gig.

Later during the evening, he was handed a card which read “$572,774”, the total amount raised by the amount.  Proceeds will go to charity organization Oxfam.

The Radiohead charity Hollywood concert was part of an ongoing fundraiser programme organized by Oxfam which also included auctions for memorabilia donated by other famous bands such as Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay.

Fans have until 2 February to participate in the auction.

His earning stated in the deal is considered to be a guaranteed minimum salary for the motion picture in which he portrays Captain Jack Sparrow, but the amount is set to increase as it will surely be another box-office hit.

The figure puts the quirky performer on top of the high-earning Hollywood actors, beating the likes of Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey and Mel Gibson, who each average at about £18 million per film.

Disney studio bosses have agreed to the unprecedented pay agreement due to the absence of Depp’s high-profile co-starring pirates, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, in the next film.

Captain Barbossa is set to be played once again by Geoffrey Rush and Penelope Cruz is expected to carry out the female lead, although the news concerning the young actress still needs to be confirmed.

Depp was paid £15 million for Dead Man’s Chest, the third film, and is likely to collect about £50 million from the four-film series.

Depp now enters the realm of the extravagantly paid Hollywood gang actors.

The list incudes:

Harrison Ford (£38m) Indiana Jones 4
Tom Hanks (£29m) Angels and Demons
Cameron Diaz (£28.5m) What Happens in Vegas
Jim Carrey (£23m) Cable Guy
Will Smith (£18m) Hancock
Sacha Baron Cohen (£16m) Borat
Mel Gibson (£17m) Lethal Weapon 4
Matt Damon (£15m) The Bourne Supremacy
Tom Cruise (£12m) Mission: Impossible III
Robert Pattinson (£10m) Twilight Saga

The participation of Depp to various films has generated over $4.8 billion worldwide. The actor got three nominations at the Academy Award for Best Actor, Screen Actors Guild Awards four times and Golden Globe Awards eight times. He won the Best Actor Awards from the Screen Actors Guild for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and from the Golden Globes for his role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Director of The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky, will co-produce and direct the movie which will feature the 2006 armed robbery at Kent’s Securitas Depot which yielded £53m in cold hard cash.

The Securitas depot robbery took place in the night of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 AM, an operation which was responsible for the theft of the largest sum of cash in Britain’s crime history.

During the heist, a further £153m had to be left behind as the getaway van proved to be too small.

Subsequently, some of the money was recovered through various police operations and five individuals were charged and jailed for their part in the robbery, during which the manager of the depot as well as his family had been kidnapped and held at gunpoint.

In a partnership involving XYZ Films and Time, the cinematic feature will stem from Howard Sounes’ book Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery.

The movie will also be based on adaptations of articles published in Time.

Last year, Aronofsky’s The Wrestler set the stage for Mickey Rourke’s Oscar win for best actor for his role as Randy “The Ram” Robinson.

When executive director Eric Ritz was asked what he though was the goal of the park, he quipped, “to show there are no free rides in life.” Not exactly the kind of talk one has in mind when thinking of theme parks, and far from the usual bright shiny, and probably terribly pollutant, kids stuff.

Nevertheless, Environmentaland does have some fun things to do; there are Eco-friendly exhibits which include an Energy Playground (complete with Energy Battle Royals), a Desert Mini Golf Course, a Mini-Bin Exhibit and Designing Station, a Planetarium, Alternative Energy Golf Carts and a Recycled Paper Plane Takeoff station. If you’re lucky, you can even try to arm-wrestle a polar bear and win prizes! But sadly, if you win, the animal must return to a melting iceberg somewhere.

“When we’re placed on the Earth, we have a certain responsibility to give back or evolve in a very positive way. People go and they take and take and take and they don’t give. If that’s what we do, we’re going to be in a very bad shape very soon,” said Eric Ritz.

Steadily gaining momentum with the green theme park, Global Inheritance, the organization behind the project, is even planning to take the park available in other cities by putting up parks in malls around the US.

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