8A -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Aaron, Anna Nicole,
Cleo gone wild
Gossip COLUMN
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Yes, you, random undergrad, can Indeed become part of a future "Real World" cast. Godspeed.
WEIGHT OF TH 'WORLD
SCOREKEEPERS HOSTS MTV AUDITIONS
Fall's arrived. It's getting
dark before you're even
out of class, the tempera-
ture's changing four times with-
in the hour and girls
fresh off Welcome
Week exploits are
covering themselves
up again (except at 3
Rick's). The dreary
mood inevitably
leads to the death {
knell of music and
film releases. And
with nothing to pro-
mote, the celebs who PU
typically fill tabloidNIA1
headlines step aside
and make room for the always
enjoyable D-listers to extend
their 15 minutes.
In possibly in his most nota-
ble move since being recog-
nized as Backstreet Boy Nick
Carter's brother, Aaron Carter
broke off his engagement with
former Playboy Playmate Kari
Anne Paniche, only a week
after proposing to her. Combin-
ing the best of both his white
trash and celebrity upbringings,
Carter proposed only five days
after meeting her and described
the move as a "mistake." Even
better, she used to date Nick.
Aaron has always spoke of
wanting to follow in his broth-
er's famous footsteps - but I
didn't realize that he meant to
the bedroom.
Possibly reeling from his
own breakup, Jason Wahler,
of "Laguna Beach" and "The
Hills" fame, was recently
arrested after assaulting a
Department of Transportation
worker and tow-truck driver.
Wahler already faces legal
problems stemming from an
incident during the MTV Video
Music Awards, during which
he was arrested for obstructing
traffic.
After resisting arrest, cops
discovered cocaine in his pock-
et and he attempted to bribe the
officers to avoid any charges.
This time around, he promptly
laid down on his stomach on the
road. Officers later realized he
was merely attempting to snort
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the lane divider.
Speaking of drugs. Willie
Nelson got caught for posses-
sion of pot and 'shrooms. Sur-
prise!
On a more serious
legal note, "Girls
Gone Wild" cre-
ator Joe Francis was
fined $500,000 for
not maintaining age
records of the girls
he placed in his vid-
eos. After placing
thousands of classy
NIT ladies willing to
shed that last piece
of dignity on tape
for a trucker hat (one of whom
may be sitting next to you right
now), he indirectly admitted
that some of the topless girls
that college males have been
routinely enjoying late nights
on E! or when their roommates
were in class may have actu-
ally been underage. His offer
of three videos for $9.95 each
didn't go over too well with
the judge. Surprisingly, neither
did his inspired plea that "old
enough to pee is old enough for
me."
Late nights of "Girls Gone
Wild" ads are nothing without
a visit from "world-renowned"
psychic, Miss Cleo. The L.A.-
born "Jamaican" queen of
horrifically bad infomercials
revealed in a recent interview
with The Advocate that she is
a lesbian.
As obscene as Miss Cleo's
moves toward profit are, how-
ever, nothing in recent memory
can top Anna Nicole Smith's
marriage to a businessman old
enough to be her grandfather.
But last night she tipped the
scales of absurdity, with an
announcement from her law-
yer, Howard K. Stern, that he
was the father of her newborn
child.
Don't even ask how she won
her $100 million in court.
- Mattoo has never tried
to snort a lane divider. OK,
maybe once. Email him at
mattoop@umich.edu
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By Kimberly Chou
Associate Arts Editor
Remember Trishelle Cannatella? She was
cherubic Louisiana-born girl with a rockin'
body and penchant for making out with her
cast members on the Las Vegas installment
of MTV pop culture institution "Real World."
Regarded as a do-nothing floozy on subsequent
seasons of"The Gauntlet" - a extreme-sports
battle royale pitting former "Real World"
cast against participants on its travelogue sis-
ter show "Road Rules" - she's parlayed her
three months of fame into a Playboy magazine
spread and post-routed her way to Lingerie
Bowl III's Most Valuable Player.
University students now have the chance to
reach such heights as Cannatella's. Or "Real
Wgrld"San Diego's arrest-prone Brad Fiorenza.
Or Cannatella's "Real World: Las Vegas" cast-
mate/hookup buddy Steven Hill. All three have
been gracing second-tier dance clubs as "celeb-
rity hosts" and "guest DJs" since their respective
stints on the show.
MTV is holding casting calls in select cities
across the nation for the 19th season of the hit
program. The network, specifically the reality-
TV Svengalis at production company Bunim-
Murray, has chosen Ann Arbor asa location for
an open call.
Producers and MTV representatives will
be on hand at Scorekeeper's Bar & Grill
tomorrow from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Those
interested are asked to bring a recent photo
of themselves and picture ID - applicants
must be between 18 and 24 years old - to
interviews at the popular Maynard Street
bar. The seven lucky strangers culled from
MTV's nationwide casting calls and video-
tape submissions will be picked to live in a
house and have their lives taped. Assumedly,
the network's viewer demographic will once
again find out what happens when people
stop being polite and start getting real.
This is the first time Skeeps has hosted a
casting call, but not southeastern Michigan's
first taste of "Real World" buzz. Gossip was
heavy in 2004-2005 that the show's 18th sea-
son would be filmed in Detroit and its cast
members would work in some capacity pro-
moting Superbowl XL. Of course, it wasn't
going to be set in Detroit: MTV scouts were
reportedly looking into renting out one of
the high-end lofts in the safer, hipster-yuppie
enclave of Royal Oak. In the end, plans fell
through and Bunim-Murray chose a Denver
location instead.
MTV has not disclosed the location of the
upcoming season for which they are cast-
ing, Scorekeepers' manager Aaron Eleby
said. The bar's staff knows few details about
tomorrow's event.
"All we've been told is they'll be having a
casting call here and they (the producers) will
be doing their thing,' Eleby said.
Eleby said that since receiving the intitial
phone call from MTV a month ago, Score-
keepers has received calls from all over the
Midwest, according to Eleby, from residents
of Kansas City and elsewhere who want to be
part of the Ann Arbor casting call.
Ann Arbor has been an MTV recruitment
focus as of late. Last year, local high schools
were invited to host open casting calls for the
reality makeover show "MADE." Ann Arbor
Huron's Dylan Wood, then a freshman, was
chosen and realized his dream of becoming a
fashion designer when MTV coached him to a
design contest win at his high school.
As for future "Real World" cast members,
showing up at Skeeps on Thursday will be their
best bet. Manager Eleby will be there himself.
"Actually, I am trying out,' Eleby said.
"Who knows?"
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Pop's
social
side
exposed
By Alex Dziadosz
Daily Arts Writer
Turns out you're just as likely
to pilfer opinions as playlists
when you raid your roommate's
iTunes - at least according to
Columbia University sociology
Prof. Duncan Watts. In a new
study, Watts argues that the pop-
ular success of "cultural objects"
- from Of Human Bondage by
Maugham to Kelis's "Bossy"
- is determined by how much a
demographic knows about what
other people like. Thanks to the
University School of Informa-
tion, Watts will be in room 340
Designer Marc Jacobs's epon-
ymous New York City store is
now doubling as an porno set
- at least for this week.
Adult film company Michael
Lucas Entertainment started
filming their newest skin flick,
"La Dolce Vita," early Monday
morning on Bleecker Street.
Window shoppers as well
as scribes from The New York
Times caught an eyeful of Ray
Star and Savannah Samson hard
at work on the main floor of the
store, with shopping bags and
other items with the Marc Jacobs
logo prominently displayed in
the background.
An email published by
Gawker.com from porn director
Michael Lucas noted that Jacobs
and Co. "even offered up their
store workers as extras."
Pity: Nothing says Manhattan
like high fashion and profession-
al sexual encounters.
of West Hall tomorrow from
noon until 1:30 p.m. to discuss
his work.
With his studies, Watts var-
ied the amount his test subjects
actually knew about others' per-
sonal tastes while the subjects
were developing their own pref-
erences.
Watts discovered that "under
some conditions the perceived
success of a song became a
self-fulfilling prophecy." This
does more than help cultural
cognoscenti understand why
Toby Keith keeps making qua-
druple-platinum albums while
they struggle to find some-
one who can credibly discuss
David Mamet's latest play. Or
the legions of Kanye West fans
versus the number of people
who have read Chaucer. It helps
explains social phenomenon
from the rise of Nazism to the
use of laugh tracks.
Saying that Watts is a big deal
in his field would be an under-
statement. His work has been
published in Science, Nature
and American Journal of Soci-
ology.
Despite predictably cerebral
titles - "Multi-scale recurrent
epidemics in a hierarchical com-
partment model" is a classic -
Forget discovering the next big
artist. Forget long years of careful
collecting. Screw it all. If you got a
couple thousand dollars - or a cou-
ple tens of thousands of dollars -
then can rentyour very own legit art
collection. The indomitable Charles
Saatchi is putting out a catalogue of
600 works in his private collection
now available forrent. If thef£7,000-
a-year price tag for a single artwork
is a little steep then perhaps the 20
works of art for £100,000 is right up
your alley. Almost every single art-
work is contemporary - i.e. from
the last ten years. Works include
watercolors by Chris Ofili and
prints by Damien Hirst.
I can see it now - the nest
"Sweet 16" episode is going to
have the same so-horrifically-
trite-it's-funny-but-not-real-
ly-she's-just-horrifically-trite
debutante with her ilk ... but
with great art in the background.
I'm ready.
Courtesy of Columbia University
Watts will speak tomorrow at
noon in West Hall.
his work has thought-provoking
implications for everyday life.
In one article, he famously mod-
eled the small world phenom-
enon, the theory that spawned
the overly famous conversation
repellent "six degrees of sepa-
ration" (or "Kevin Bacon," in
some cases).
If you've ever wondered what
causes your friend to relentless-
ly quote Will Ferell and stare
blankly at Truffaut, check this
guy out.
Watts's lecture won't give you
all the answers, but it'll certain-
ly be an interesting trip.
The digital wilderness just
got a lot more useful. Universal
announced that for the first time
they will simultaneously release a
DVD and make the film available
for internet download. That film?
"The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo
Drift" CinemaNow is releasing the
digital version of the film, which
not only plays on computers but
can be burned to a blank DVD and
shown on an standard DVD player.
Such technology has been
available for years, but piracy
fears prevented any major studio
from making digitally down-
loaded films burnable.
Sadly, most of America will
most likely ignore this quiet Hol-
lywood revolution simply because
they couldn't less interested in
watching Bow Wow in Tokyo.
- Complied by Kimberly
Chou, Andrew Sargus Klein and
Evan McGarvey.
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