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The filmmaker who ate nothing but McDonald’s meals for his Oscar-nominated film, “Super Size Me,” apologized for a profanity-laced, politically incorrect speech at a suburban Philadelphia high school.

Among other things, Morgan Spurlock joked about the intelligence of McDonald’s employees and teachers smoking pot while speaking at Hatboro-Horsham High School last week.

“It is never my intent to insult or demean anyone and I understand how some of my remarks may have offended some in attendance and if you feel they did, then I am deeply sorry,” Spurlock wrote in “A Letter of Explanation” posted Sunday on his blog.

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Now that George Clooney’s an Academy Award winner, he and his crew are returning to their thieving ways.

Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon will star in “Ocean’s 13,” the third flick in their franchise about a gang of lovable crooks, distributor Warner Bros. announced Monday.

A supporting-actor Oscar winner for the oil-industry thriller “Syriana,” Clooney will reprise his role as leader of the pack Danny Ocean, with the group pulling off a new heist in Las Vegas.

Clooney’s producing partner Steven Soderbergh, who made the 2001 hit “Ocean’s Eleven” and its 2004 sequel “Ocean’s Twelve,” will direct again

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The filmmaker who ate nothing but McDonald’s meals for his Oscar-nominated film, “Super Size Me,” gave a profanity-laced, politically incorrect speech at a suburban Philadelphia high school, but not everyone was lovin’ it.

Speaking at Hatboro-Horsham High School’s first-ever health fair, Morgan Spurlock joked about the intelligence of McDonald’s employees, about “retarded kids in the back wearing helmets” and teachers smoking pot in the balcony.

The special education students in the back row were led by teachers out of the hour-long presentation.

“If you put the whole package together, the use of the F-word and poking fun at teachers and the comments about special-needs students, it just wasn’t appropriate,” Superintendent William Lessa said.

Most of the 700 students laughed, gave him a standing ovation and mobbed him for autographs. A speech Spurlock was to make at the school later Friday night for community members was canceled.

Spurlock said he has never had a complaint after giving similar talks at other high schools and colleges. He said he had been told shortly before his appearance not to talk about McDonald’s because a board member of the Hatboro-Horsham Education Foundation, which sponsored the appearance, owns a franchise.

The association’s director did not return phone calls seeking comment.

“The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech,” Spurlock said.

WASHINGTON (March 27) – The Senate Judiciary Committee approved election-year immigration legislation Monday that clears the way for millions of undocumented workers to seek U.S. citizenship without having to first leave the country.

After days of street demonstrations that stretched from California to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, the committee also voted to strip out proposed criminal penalties for residents found to be in this country illegally.

The panel’s vote cleared the way for the full Senate to begin debate Tuesday on the emotional immigration issue.

“All Americans wanted fairness and they got it this evening,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who played a pivotal role in drafting the legislation, approved 12-6.

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It was a fantastic voyage indeed.

Sci-fi legend Richard Fleischer, the Academy Award-winning Hollywood director whose career spanned five decades and dazzled moviegoers with such genre classics as Fantastic Voyage, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Soylent Green, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

Fleischer died of natural causes at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital.

After breaking into the business making documentaries for RKO in New York, the fledgling filmmaker set out for L.A. In 1947 at the age of 31, he won his only Oscar for a documentary he produced but did not direct called Design for Death, which was written by Theodor Geisel, who would later find fame writing children’s books as Dr. Seuss. Later that year, Fleischer segued into feature filmmaking full-time with the crime drama Bodyguard.

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Although no talks have even begun, Lindsay Lohan thinks playing the role of Wonder Woman in the upcoming feature would be “cool.”

Everybody is wondering which woman will be Wonder Woman. If it were up to starlet Lindsay Lohan, she says she’d take the pilot’s seat in the invisible jet in a heartbeat. Buffy the Vampire Slayer vet Joss Whedon is currently developing a feature film based on the comic book superheroine for Warner Bros. Pictures.

While Lohan admits that she’s currently looking for roles outside her current milieu of teen a kiddie films, she thinks playing Diana Prince would be too cool. “Wonder Woman would be cool. I’m trying to find roles right now that are different to anything I’ve done to show my abilities, to show that I have some sort of stretch in me. Because most of the things that I’ve done so far are aimed at younger girls and are light-hearted,” she recently told OK! magazine.

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Mini Series Starts Tonight @ 9pm, EST. Check it out on The SciFi Network, check your local listings

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Europe, the Dark Ages. When the evil Twin Kings betray the King of Xanten, the slain monarch’s infant son, Prince Siegfried, narrowly escapes with his life, spirited away by the kindly blacksmith Eyvind.

Eyvind raises Siegfried as a simple blacksmith and tells the boy nothing of his true kingly heritage. But then the gods hurl a fiery meteor to Earth, to propel Siegfried toward his true destiny. The flash of impact leads him to the meteor, which is rich with the metal of the gods — metal that he and Eyvind forge into his weapon, a sword like no other on Earth.

Discovering the meteor also leads young Siegfried to the woman who becomes his one true love: Brunhild, the Valkyrie warrior queen. Duty drives them apart, but they both swear to reunite — and to never love another.

Siegfried journeys to the kingdom of Burgund, where he earns the respect of King Gunther and the romantic desire of Princess Kriemhild. Gunther reveals to him that a powerful evil plagues his land, an evil that he is unable to defeat. It falls to Siegfried, armed only with his sword forged from the gods’ metal, to slay the wyrm Fafnir — and to claim the dragon’s gold as his own.

With this treasure, however, comes the curse of its rightful owners: the mystic Nibelungs. Siegfried’s success also draws the ire of King Gunther’s adviser, the villainous Hagen, who covets the Nibelungs’ gold for himself.

To seize the treasure from Siegfried, Hagen uses black magic to make the noble prince fall in love with Princess Kriemhild and forget Brunhild, the love that the gods themselves had chosen for him. But Hagen’s curse takes on a malevolent life of its own, spinning an expanding web of betrayal, deception and greed that ensnares everyone — plunging a world in chaos, and a kingdom into twilight.

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From the Smoking Gun:

MARCH 27–Not content with humdrum stories of poverty, heartache, and distress, the producers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” have compiled a creepy wish list of woe for the next season of the hit ABC television series, The Smoking Gun has learned. In an e-mail forwarded earlier this month by an ABC executive to network affiliates, the program’s casting agent details the exact kind of tragedies and rare illnesses being sought by the Top 20 show. Families featured on the program have their often ramshackle homes renovated for free by a platoon headed by handyman/heartthrob Ty Pennington. The show is maudlin, tug-on-your-heartstrings television, “Queen for a Day” with finish carpentry. Based on the ABC e-mail, it appears that victims of hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television. And the show would also absolutely love to feature those battling skin cancer, Lou Gehrig’s disease, and muscular dystrophy. Oh, and families with multiple children with Down Syndrome would be ideal, whether the kids are “either adopted or biological,” the e-mail notes. And, shooting the moon, the program’s “family casting director,” Charisse Simonian, would love to locate a kid suffering from Progeria, the rare condition that causes rapid aging in a child (for those unaware of Progeria, the ABC e-mail helpfully describes it as “aka ‘little old man disease.’”) As if that terrible affliction weren’t enough, Simonian is also on the hunt for a child with congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. “This is where kids cannot feel any physical pain,” she notes. But the hunt for a young victim–who will likely die before 30–will not be easy. “There are 17 known cases in US,” she writes, before chirpily adding, “let me know if one is in your town!” Such spirit in the face of tragedy.

A taxpayer-funded trip to the Cook Islands wasn’t all fun in paradise for Labour MP Shane Jones, who arrives home today with stitches after he was injured in a scooter accident.

Mr Jones was one of four New Zealand MPs who went to advise the Pacific Island nation on financial transparency and scrutiny of public expenditure.

The trip, being made by members of Parliament’s finance and expenditure select committee, was not publicly announced.

Mr Jones, the chairman of the committee, crashed his bike on Tuesday (07 Mar) while riding around Rarotonga with the other MPs on the trip – the Maori Party’s Hone Harawira, National’s Murray McCully and New Zealand First’s Doug Woolerton.

Mr Jones told the Cook Island News he was looking for the place his ancestors departed by canoe, near the Avana Passage at Ngatangiia, when he crashed.

“I think it might have been a Rarotongan dog walking around like an unguided missile that threw me,” he said. “I wasn’t going very fast.”

Scooters are a popular mode of transport for tourists in the Cook Islands and accidents on the hazardous roads are so common the locals have coined the name “Raro tattoo” to describe injuries sustained.

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