A Little of the Old In and Out

(Note: No posts on Monday, due to a writing assignment)

In: Dolly Parton, Tramp. Manstealers, hoochie mamas, homewreckers ... mmmhmmm -- She's sung about them a plenty, but Dolly Parton -- of whom The Corsair has been a fan of since the 70s, growing up in Ottawa, Canada, where country music was all over the radio -- she was influenced by 'ho's, according to FemaleFirst:

"Country star DOLLY PARTON modelled her image on 'the town tramp' when she first started out in showbusiness because she thought the prostitutes she saw in magazines looked glamorous.

"The singer, who turned 59 on Wednesday (19JAN05), admits she never turned back after dressing like a hooker for the first time - and she still likes to use them as the basis for her image. She says, 'My look came from a country girl's idea of glamour. I would see pictures of women in magazines - what they called the town tramp - but I thought they were beautiful.'"

If anyone other than Dolly had said this ... it wouldn't have come out just right.

Out: Rob Brown, The Errant Tongue. The Coach Carter star has been in the acting game long enough to know that actors stage kiss without tongue. The 3AM Girls say Ashanti called out Brown:

"R&B STAR Ashanti has revealed how a co-star on her new movie Coach Carter got too frisky in a love scene.

"The American singer was filming with Rob Brown, her boyfriend in the US smash-hit, when he tried to put his tongue in her mouth during a snogging scene. 'I don't mind doing the kissing thing, but he shouldn't stick his tongue in my mouth,' she said off-air to Choice FM DJ George Kay yesterday."

Don't tell Nelly.

In: The Dominican Republic. As we oscillate wildly here in frigid NYC for warmth, bracing for a blizzard, it's good to know (grr) that someone (ahrr) is enjoying the sunny Dominican Republic (rrr), luxuriating in the rays, according to Fashionweekdaily:

"Once Susan was ordered to put her mobile e-mail contraption away, the crowd kicked up their heels and danced to Gloria Gaynor�s 'I Will Survive.' Everyone, including actor and comedian Chris Tucker, clad in a white linen Ralph Lauren Purple Label ensemble, partook in the festivities, which spilled over post-dinner into the village�s Pepperoni Caf�. Word has it that he has his eye on a penthouse at Los Altos de Chavon.

"The scene there, reminiscent of Ibiza or St. Tropez during the on season, certainly didn�t disappoint. Tucker relaxed at a nearby caf�, a stone�s throw from where Yankee great Alex Rodriguez was enjoying a nightcap with Los Altos developer Willy Bermello�s son, Willy Bermello, Jr., sipping a cappuccino with the elder Fanjuls."

Does it make me a bad person that we were mad at reading that just now?

Out: The Pump Judge. The Courts are prone to all sorts of corruptions. According to TheSmokingGun:



"The Oklahoma judge who was forced from the bench last year for using a penis pump in court (among other really gross acts) was charged yesterday with indecent exposure for his judicial indiscretions. Donald Thompson, 58, entered a not guilty plea yesterday to three felony counts during an appearance in Creek County District Court, where he worked until resigning last August. According to the below yucky probable cause affidavit, Thompson exposed himself during three separate 2003 cases (two of which were murder trials). For example, on May 13, while he was presiding over State v. Kurt Arnold Vomberg (who was accused of killing his girlfriend's 21-month-old daughter), Thompson loudly pumped himself up."

Freak!

In: Scarlett Jo. According to Rush and Molloy, the Sir Edmund Hillary of Social climbing is still trying to get into royalty, "Scarlett Johansson brought a posse of 20 to Duke and Duchess."