1. Lost toughie Michelle Rodriguez, for good prison etiquette during her sh*t and a shower stint in a Hawaii prison. Rodriguez, who was released after serving 65 hours of her five-day sentence for drunk driving, said she had an amazing experience in the hoosegow. “I love people, and it was a primal crew. The only thing that keeps them going is fighting for salt and making dice out of soap,” she said. “I wouldn’t take it back for anything.” Imagine the life lessons learned had she served her full sentence.
2. Supermodel Tatyana Simanava, for going to extremes. But when you gotta go… Simanava was almost killed this week when she mistook the exit door of a luxury bus for a bathroom door–and dropped onto a Brooklyn highway. “There were no signs,” the Belarus-born model, who suffered bruising to her right arm and jaw, said. “I opened the first door I saw, and I don’t remember anything after that. My friends told me the bus driver saw me fall.” Apparently, the blasting gusts of wind weren’t indicative enough.
3. Hollywood babe Halle Berry, for going at it solo. On the set of her new movie Perfect Stranger, Berry had to writhe around (yes, writhe) on a bed alone while the crew played a tape recording of Bruce Willis‘ voice—because her onscreen lover couldn’t make the shoot. Awe, Bruce. Editors later used computer technology to put the pair together–the first time the technique has been used for a sex scene.
4. Just My Luck’s Lindsay Lohan, for getting purely physical. During a recent interview with Hollywood.com, LiLo said likes to drop and do pushups to keep her skinny arms buff. And with that, she dropped and gave us twenty–and they weren’t even girl pushups. We were pumped.
5. Booted American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry, for having energy to burn. Rock group Fuel, who is searching for a lead singer after frontman Brett Scallions quit in February, offered Daughtry a job just hours after viewers voted him off the Fox talent show. Daughtry performed Fuel’s “Hemorrhage” on a recent Idol show.
6. Game maker Gameloft, for putting up with Paris. Or maybe they should have just known better. When Paris unveiled her new game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, she inexplicably called it by the wrong name. “Sorry I’m late,” the hotel heiress quipped. “I’m really excited to have my new video game, Diamondquest.” Too bad the name of the game is Paris Hilton’s Jewel Jam.
7. O.J. Simpson, for being funny. Swear. As part of the pay-per-view show Juiced, Simpson pretends to sell his infamous white Bronco at a used car lot, telling a prospective buyer, “It was good for me–it helped me get away.” That’s sort of funny, isn’t it?
8. The Securities and Exchange Commission, for their juicy proposal. The SEC is planning a proposal requiring media companies to divulge how much they pay top-earning non-executives, including actors and news anchors. CBS, The Mouse House, and Viacom may oppose it, but Hollywood is all abuzz over the newly-dubbed “Katie Couric” clause. The label comes from reports Couric will earn an alleged $15 million over five years when she becomes anchor and managing editor of The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric at the end of the month. And in the immortal words of Don Henley, ”We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.”
9. Comcast, CBS and General Motors, for testing a new concept in video on demand. Starting Monday, cable viewers in select cities will be able to watch Survivor Finale and Survivor Reunion at no charge because GM will be the sole sponsor. Now if only CBS could offer viewers shows worth demanding.
10. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres, for being a lesbian, because sometimes it takes one. Portia de Rossi credits her girlfriend DeGeneres with saving her from anorexia, the eating disorder she suffered since she was a teenager–and intensified when she was cast as Nell Porter on Ally McBeal. Said de Rossi: “Ellen has never really worried about her weight and is more on the side of feeling angry that for women to be perceived as beautiful, they need to be skinny.”
