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Book says bin Laden had crush on Whitney Houston
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If the book excerpts published Monday in the New York Post are on the level, Whitney Houston could single-handedly halt global terrorism. Of course, like the work of any true patriot, it would require some sacrifice.
In this case? Hooking up with Osama bin Laden.
In a juicy excerpt by former bin Laden concubine-turned-“Days of Our Lives” soap opera scribe Kola Boof, 37, she writes that the terrorist mastermind was obsessed with the Alpharetta pop star during her tenure with him.
In her memoir, “Diary of a Lost Girl,” Boof dishes that “He [bin Laden] told me Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. He had a paramount desire for [Houston] and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke someday of spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try and arrange a meeting. In his briefcase, I would come across the Star [magazine] as well as copies of Playboy. It would soon come to the point where I was sick of hearing Whitney Houston’s name.”
No, no, dear reader, please allow us to voice it for you — Osama bin Laden carried a briefcase?!
Regardless, Boof goes on to say that bin Laden also happened to mention in passing that he was contemplating a hit on Houston’s hubby, Bobby Brown.
Alas, it’s extremely doubtful that bin Laden had access in his basic cable-impaired spider hole to Houston’s recent antics on “Being Bobby Brown,” where she frequently waxed poetically about her bathroom habits while screeching “Bobby, the forest is over!”
Still, it probably couldn’t hurt if Houston and Brown formed a neighborhood watch in their Country Club of the South community to sniff out any suspicious new Wisteria Lane-esque-type neighbors.
After all, according to Boof in “Diary of a Lost Girl”: “He said he wanted to give [Houston] a mansion that he owned. He explained to me that he wanted to possess Whitney. He was willing to break his color rule and make her one of his wives.”
K-Fed live!
Thanks to the sympathetic folks at YouTube.com, we didn’t have to suffer through the actual televised indignities known as the annual Teen Choice Awards (broadcast on Sunday night on Fox) in order to catch the show-ending performance of budding hip-hop star Kevin Federline. In blissful white trash splendor, the world’s most famous househusband somehow persuaded his gum-smacking, plenty preggers wife, Britney Spears, to waddle to the stage to introduce “my man.”
Federline, clad in his trademark white tank top and matching, hip-back-in-2002 trucker cap, then proceeded to accost the stage for the next three minutes while performing his single, “Lose Control.” Through the magic of rap, K-Fed managed to inform us of the following: a) how much his Ferrari costs, b) that he is personally financially responsible for his ever-widening brood of children, c) his brand of music is “that hip-hop flavor mixed with a little bit of rock ‘n’ roll” and d) “don’t hate ‘cause I’m a superstar.” While we can’t exactly attest to that, we can report that the K-Fed Teen Choice Awards video footage worked brilliantly as a tool to vacuum up around Buzz Central …
Quote of the day
“People go crazy. They love it. Everyone’s like, ‘Who is this?’ I don’t tell. Because I don’t want someone putting their phone up and recording it and making a ring tone off of it. I think when people don’t know it’s me, they won’t judge it. But if they know it’s me, then they’ll be like, ‘Ugh.’ They won’t even dance. I, like, cry, when I listen to it, it’s so good.” — Socialite singer Paris Hilton on her debut album, “Paris” (due in stores today), in the September issue of Blender.
Celebrity docket
The rap artist once known as C-Murder has been ordered back into house arrest in Louisiana to await a second trial on a murder charge.
The state 5th Circuit Court of Appeal ruled last week that a judge improperly allowed Corey Miller to move around Orleans and Jefferson parishes with a curfew. State District Judge Martha Sassone, who freed Miller from house arrest, issued an order Thursday requiring him to stay home except for court hearings.
Prosecutors had opposed letting Miller out of house arrest, saying he had already violated terms of his release, and wanted him to return to jail.
Miller, 35, is charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Steve Thomas, 16, on Jan. 12, 2002, during a fight at a now-closed nightclub in Harvey, La.
A jury convicted Miller, who faced a mandatory life prison sentence without parole, but a judge threw out the conviction after ruling that prosecutors hid the criminal backgrounds of some state witnesses from the defense.
For those wishing to send the rapper a Christmas card this holiday season, be advised that since his legal problems began, Miller has changed his stage name to the more juror-friendly C-Miller.
Celebrity birthdays
Author Ray Bradbury is 86. Actress Cindy Williams (“Laverne and Shirley”) is 59. Singer Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears is 45. Drummer Debbi Peterson of the Bangles is 45. Drummer Paul Doucette of Matchbox Twenty is 34. Singer Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys is 33.
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