Seriously? OMG! WTF?

INDONESIAN Police have arrested the country’s first Playboy model following accusations the shoot was indecent.

Playmate Kartika Gunawan posed in lingerie for the publication’s debut.

Authorities are now investigating claims she broke a decency violation law.

The magazine’s Indonesian debut caused a stir in the predominantly Muslim nation of 220 million, prompting the publisher to relocate its offices from the capital Jakarta to the more liberal island of Bali.

As a professional model, Gunawan believed she was dealing with a legal magazine that publishes images within limits set by the government.

She was being investigated for breaking an article of Indonesia’s criminal code, known as a "decency violation," and could face a maximum penalty of two years and eight months imprisonment.

Gunawan said she was worried, but had the "full support of her family."

She said: "I am not sorry, because every decision I made was well considered. I was not trying to make a sensation, many more people have posed more vulgar than I did."

 The Sun

I know Brenda Hampton probably isn’t the first person you guys want to hear from right now — it was, after all, her show’s 11th-hour pickup that chopped down our beloved Everwood — but it seems only fair that we give the woman a chance to weigh in on the whole controversy. So, when I heard that my colleague Ileane Rudolph was interviewing Hampton (you didn’t think I was going to talk to her, did you?), I naturally slipped her a few Everwood-related Qs specifically for the Ausiello Report.

TVGuide.com: Do you think 7th Heaven‘s huge finale ratings gave the show the edge over Everwood?
Hampton: I don’t think that’s it. If you look back over the years, Everwood never had our ratings. It’s a very good show — a critically-acclaimed show — but it never was close to us in the ratings. I don’t think that it’s just the ratings from the last two episodes that would have made them choose us. It’s the ratings over the last ten years.

TVGuide.com: Fans and critics are not happy that Everwood, which many feel was still in its prime, got axed in favor of Heaven. There’s a backlash brewing. Any thoughts?
Hampton: Again, I liked Everwood. It was a good show. I don’t think the ratings were building. Were they? I don’t know. Our ratings were not building but they still were higher than anyone else’s. The bottom line is we have held the position of number one for many years now. And we continued to do so last year in our tenth season…. I don’t even like the notion that we kept Everwood from surviving. I think that each show is competing against itself. It’s just that our ratings were higher than anyone else’s ratings — even before the last two episodes. Again, I like [Everwood]. It’s a terrific show. The 9 pm time slot is very difficult; nothing has done that well following us. I think one of the reasons is that we’re a family show. We go off at 9 pm and families go to bed. (Laughs) It’s difficult to maintain that family audience.

Personally, I don’t hold Hampton accountable. It’s not her fault that CW prefers their family dramas old and severely worn down. Now, be sure to pick up next week’s issue of TV Guide magazine for more from Ileane’s interview with Hampton, including how the scribe plans to write herself out of that whole triple pregnancy corner

Ausiello Report

I’m told Warner Bros.’ Superman Returns opened Wednesday with $19 million at the U.S. box office. That’s only OK — not great, not terrible, prompting box office guru analysis that the gay whisper campaign which crescendoed into newspapers and on the Internet hurt the movie’s viability as did its star Brandon Routh’s anonymity. Predictions are that Superman Returns could muster $100 million for the long July 4th weekend which in many American households will continue from Friday through Tuesday. But the problem is not only the film’s $200 mil-$250 mil budget, but that the movie will get swamped its second weekend out by Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean 2, which continues tracking as the biggest movie opening ever. Major film critics have been split almost down the middle reviewing this film, although Bryan Singer’s direction is generally lauded. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has been desperately re-tooling its marketing campaign for the movie in light of the studio’s failure to stem the gay buzz surrounding Superman Returns. As late as this week, new TV ads transformed Routh from doe-eyed softie to macho techno-man of steel, borrowing heavily from other comic books successes like Spiderman and X-Men in its look and feel, with special effects set to pounding rap music (cue Terminator-like eyeball suck-out) and no thumpa-thumpa Gloria Gaynor within earshot. For more Hollywood summer movie madness, read my latest LA Weekly column, Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters.

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 OhNoTheyDidn't

Wow, she is sincerely one of the prettiest brides.  

<div class=”text”><p>Blogger Mario Lavandeira, better known as Perez Hilton, is on-board with World of Wonder Productions for his own reality show. The company, which has produced shows such as <strong>Showdog Moms and Dads</strong> for Bravo, is being slightly coy on its blog, reacting with mock surprise to his announcement.</p> <p>The show is filming now, and, assuming it finds a network, may air in 2007. Lavandeira tells andPOP that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;a hybrid show, so it&rsquo;s got elements of some of my favorite other reality shows. It&rsquo;s a little bit &lsquo;Real World,&rsquo; a little bit &lsquo;Surreal Life,&rsquo; a little bit &lsquo;Punk&rsquo;d&rsquo; all rolled into one.&rdquo; </p> <p>He says that he was the one who approached World of Wonder. &ldquo;I wanted it to come about, so I had a concept for a show and I auditioned production companies. I met with people that did a bunch of reality shows, but I ended up going with this great production company called World of Wonder.&rdquo;</p> <p>Lavandeira came to blogging fame by making fun of the celebrities who he now hangs out with and calls his friends. Basically, then, all bitchy bloggers want is to be embraced, loved, and affirmed by those very things they make fun of. But what happens if a blogger comes to fame by making fun of Lavandeira and his reality show, and then gets his or her own reality show as a result?</p><p><a href=”http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/future_shows/2006_Jun_29_world_of_wonder” target=”_self”>Reality Blurred&nbsp;</a></p></div>

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