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Celebrity slapdown at theMuchMusic Video awards

Chargeslaid inslayings

A man is accused of murdering his fam-ily in a townhome in Surrey Sunday.

Mahendra Singh Johal, 66, appeared inSurrey provincial court yesterday on twocharges of second-degree murder and onecount of attempted murder.

Investigators said Johal is married to awoman identified in court documents asSukhwinder Kaur Johal, 35, who policefound clinging to life when they arrived at atownhouse in the 6300 block of 126th Street.

Police found the woman’s sons AmarjitGill, 17, and his 15-year-old brother Ra-manjit Gill dead inside the home.

Sukhdeep Sandhu, 13, a friend of theboys, said their biological father had diedin an accident in India. He added the boys’mother had been struggling to adjust tolife in Canada.

“[Amarjit] told me, ‘Everyday my uncleis fighting with my mom,’” Sandhu said.

South Asians often use the term “uncle”as a sign of respect.

Balraj Basra, 15, said the pair had arrivedfrom India with their mother about eightmonths ago and were planning to move intoanother apartment later this month.

“I’m sad,” Basra said. “I’m crying. He’smy best friend, like he’s my brother. Thesmaller brother liked to play hockey andthe big brother would do gym and playbasketball.”

Johal will be in court again on Friday.- DHARM MAKWANA, 24 HOURS

- CARMINE MARINELLI, 24 HOURSSEBASTIAN ALBRECHT, on his sixth climb, plans to break Grouse Grind’s previous record of 12 ascents, hopingto make it 13 times and to raise money for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation charity. Story, P. 4.

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The dome hasgone flat. Flat-paneled

TVs, to be precise.B.C. Place Stadium

has replaced its 1980sboob tubes with 126

LCD units fromSamsung for lux-

ury suites andconcessionstands.

Freedomof Informa-

tion docu-ments show the

shipment actu-ally arrived at

Vancouver’sOlympic stadium

on Jan. 15, 2008.The TVs, however,

were put in storage.Best Buy Canada part-

nered with the South Ko-rean electronics compa-ny and invoiced B.C.Place $147,998.07 on Jan.18, 2008.

Samsung is the 2010Winter Olympics’ mo-bile phone sponsor, butPanasonic has the TVdeal. During Torino 2006,an army of volunteerscovered Samsung TVlogos with black tape.

Samsung is launchingits 2010 Games’ market-ing plan today at theWestin Bayshore withWayne Gretzky, JaromeIginla and Hayley Wick-enheiser.

- BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

Suiteused asbrothelVancouver’s last homi-cide victim was killed ina swank Yaletown broth-el, according to police.

Jeffrey Bian, 29, diedafter being stabbed at acondo at 1067 MarinasideCres. just after midnightJune 11.

Police revealed yesterdaysuite #1802 – the murderscene – was actually beingused as a “brothel.”

Insp. Rob Rothwell saidBian had been renting thecondo for five months andhad a role running thebrothel – until robbersburst in the night he waskilled.

“[The suite] was targetedfor robbery for that reason… in the belief that thoseindividuals would be reluc-tant to come to [police],”Rockwell explained.

On June 19, 20-year-oldJustin Lam was chargedwith first-degree murder,unlawful confinement, useof an imitation firearm androbbery.

Another 20-year-old, De-rick Wong, also faces thelatter charges, but is ac-cused of manslaughter in-stead of murder.

- MATT KIELTYKA, 24 HOURS

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Silent protest for IranSilent Scream protest against the outcome ofthe June 12 Iranian election results continuesnightly at 9:30 p.m. outside Vancouver ArtGallery. The 10-day demonstration, opposingthe allegedly rigged re-election of PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad, began June 16.Black-clad Iranian-Canadians have been gath-ering for silent candlelight vigils.

Fries with that hot dog?A real bandit apparently doesn’t need a dis-guise. So it goes with the guy who stole anorder of fries at a Wendy’s drive-thru in LangleySaturday. A naked man streaked past the drive-thru window and snagged a bag of fries as theserver handed them to a customer. The bucknaked robber was last seen sprinting towards asilver van.

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Sebastian Albrecht hikesthe Grouse Grind 13times in a row for a

charity.

Attention CFL fans:please leave your nun-chuks, bear spray, hashpipes, air horns and cow-bells at home.

If you bring any to B.C.Place Stadium for Tues-day’s exhibition game --or any other event – youmay never see themagain.

Records for the 2007season obtained by 24hours via Freedom of In-formation show SwissArmy pocket knives andLeatherman multitoolswere also among theitems seized at gates.

The Search Procedures2008 document said sur-rendered pocket knivesand other so-called“promised items” may bereturned.

Items that should notbe promised for return in-clude alcohol, weapons, il-licit drugs and parapher-nalia, surrendered foodand beverages, air horns,pepper spray, permanentmarkers and fireworks.

“Reminding footballfans as we head into thenew season would behelpful,” said generalmanager Howard Crosley.

Searches are random,but fans who refuse aredenied dome entry. Smug-glers of prohibited items,including outside alcohol,are also denied.

Evidence is supposedto be placed in one of 18security bins and docu-mented.

Liquor must be docu-mented and disposed bysecurity supervisor EricBorglund “at first avail-able opportunity,” ac-cording to dome policy.

A June 15, 2007 formsigned by Borglundshows two 375 ml bottlesof rum and vodka and awater bottle containingan unknown liquor wereseized.

The biggest haul was atthe Nov. 18, 2007 Westfinal when 10 cans ofbeer, one mickey and onecooler were seized.

A February 2007 West-ern Management Consul-tants report probed al-leged theft of alcoholseized at events. JeannieWexler interviewedCrosley, Borglund,then-operations di-rector Brian Griffinand business ad-ministration di-rector Bob Star-key.

None identi-fied a culprit.

Wexlerwrote thattherewere“flaws inthe previ-ous pro-cess” becausenobody was certain howmany keys existed to thebooze lockup room andthere was no confirma-tion of liquor disposal.

Her report said the lockwas fixed and only Bor-glund and the locksmithhave keys.

- BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

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Surrey deathA woman was found dead inside a home in the 14800block of 104 Avenue in Surrey around noon yester-day. Police say the deceasedis in her 30s but offered littleelse to identify her. Mountiestook a man into custody whowas found inside the home.Police say emergency callscame from outside the apart-ment.

Taser inquiryWhile fallout continues overlast week’s news that the sec-ond phase of the BraidwoodInquiry has been delayedseveral months because ofthe late release of key infor-mation, the report on the useof Tasers, also part of the in-quiry’s mandate, has beendelivered to Attorney GeneralMike de Jong. The report willbe released publicly later.

Bad dog searchDog training company BarkBusters is conducting asearch for Canada’s Naughti-est Dog. Winners will get anin-home dog training service,and a donation on their behalfto an animal shelter or organi-zation of their choice. En-trants are being asked to sub-mit a video clip or a photo andletter to www.Canadas-NaughtiestDog.ca. The con-test runs until August 22 andthe winner will be announcedin September.

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$1.14M raised in the rainEASTER SEALS 24-HOUR RELAY

GROUSE GRIND

A slight shower earlySunday couldn’tdampen the spirits ofabout 3,400 runnerswho took part in theEaster Seals 24-HourRelay.

The round-the-clockevent at Burnaby’s Cen-tral Park saw 105 teamsof people walk, jog andin some cases sprint toraise $1.14 million tosend more than 800 B.C.children with disabilitiesto one-week camps thissummer in Squamish,Shawnigan and Winfieldhosted by BC Lions Soci-ety for Children withDisabilities.

“This is all for thekids,” said Daniel Bren-nan, who looked restedafter logging an hour onthe track at SwangardStadium for the Pricewa-terhouseCoopers team.

“They’re the future.We’re busy people butnot too busy to come out

and do charity work.”The Bobbleheads were

the top fundraising team,tallying $50,668 for thecause.

Some took on the chal-lenge of running the all-day relay on their own.

Glen Pace ran 175.7kilometres while 74-year-

old Michael Breeze ran100.4 kilometres over 24hours.

- DHARM MAKWANA, 24 HOURS

A Vancouver realtorembarked on a journeyso epic yesterday thatit went well beyond ourpress time.

But barring completecollapse (and who couldblame him?), SebastianAlbrecht should be theholder of a world recordthis morning – complet-ing the grueling 2.9 kilo-

metre Grouse Grind anamazing 13 times in a row.

“It’s an incredible chal-lenge,” said Albrecht,around the midway pointof his attempt. “Most peo-ple do it once and that’sdifficult. So to do it 12, 13times, it’s a huge chal-lenge for me. I can’t walkfor a few days after I dothis.”

Albrecht held the old

record, along with anoth-er hiker, for doing theGrind 12 times in a row.

So when he set out tobeat his own record, Al-brecht decided to raisemoney – with a goal of$10,000 – for the RoyalLePage Shelter Founda-tion in support of peoplewho have suffered fromabuse.

“That’s what you real-

ly think about,” he said.“You’re doing it for agreat cause, that’s whatreally keeps me moving.”

His effort was the talkof the trail at GrouseMountain yesterday.

“He’s pretty brave,”said first-time GrinderTahnee Fales. “I definite-ly won’t be able to live upto that, not today.”

- MATT KIELTYKA, 24 HOURS

The B.C. government’scommunications branchdelayed the release of sta-tistics that showed an al-most 50 per cent jump inwelfare caseloads untilafter the provincial elec-tion, documents obtainedby the opposition NDP sug-gest.

The documents outlinea series of e-mails betweenstaff at B.C.’s Ministry ofHousing and Social Devel-

opment and the province’spublic affairs bureau, dis-cussing the release of a re-port on the March 2009 B.C.Employment and Assis-tance program.

They show a ministryanalyst had scheduled a re-lease date of April 30, lessthan two weeks before theprovincial election. Butstaff in the public affairsbureau ordered that the re-lease date be postponed

until after the election.“Can we please hold off

on posting these updatesuntil after the election,” amember of the bureauwrites.

The figures were then re-leased May 15, three daysafter the election.

The statistics showedthat the number of ready-to-work people receivingwelfare grew significantlyin March, with cases in the

expected-to-work categoryup by 5.5 per cent from Feb-ruary to March, and up 50per cent from a year earlier.

No officials were imme-diately available to com-ment on the story beforepress time yesterday.

But NDP leader CaroleJames said the documentsshow the B.C. Liberals put“political interests” aheadof the public.

“I think what this really

shows is the governmentwasn’t being up front aboutwhat kind of economic sit-uation we’re facing inB.C.,” James said in an in-terview.

Darrell Evans, an advo-cate for freedom of infor-mation reform in B.C.,called the released docu-ments a “smoking gun” forpolitical interference inthis province.

- IRWIN LOY, 24 HOURS

- CARMINE MARINELLI, 24 HOURSLISA NIELEN, with team Bullhousser and Tupper at the Easter Seals 24-Hour Relay to help raise money to send B.C. Children with disabilities tocamp for the summer.

Taking it to the limit with 13 climbs

Gov’t delayed welfare stats release until after election

Big bucksspent onOlympiccar rentalsThe 2010 Federal Secre-tariat is spending $2.625million to rent almost1,000 vehicles with win-ter tires for governmentofficials for the WinterOlympics.

Enterprise Rent-A-Carin Surrey was awarded thecontract May 21 to providecars, minivans, vans, pick-up trucks and sport utilityvehicles from Dec. 14, 2009to April 16, 2010 in theLower Mainland, Whistler,Fraser Valley and Victoria.The amount of cars hasnot been set, but the re-quest for proposals esti-mated 992 of all types.

The secretariat is alsospending $2,478,659.90 onrooms for government of-ficials from Jan. 1-April 16,2010 through Prime Strate-gies, a company that spe-cializes in corporate andworkforce accommoda-tion. The request for pro-posals said the govern-ment needed up to 212land-based rooms or cruiseship cabins.

The contract was award-ed April 20, but Prime pres-ident Jonathan Buchwalddeclined comment until itis finalized in July.

Secretariat director gen-eral David Robinson re-ferred 24 hours’ queries toPublic Works and Govern-ment Services Canada.

- BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

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I don’t want an election. Cana-dians don’t want an election.

- Federal Liberal leaderMichael Ignatieff

I’m a political pundit – it’s justwhat I do.

So when I heard very disturb-ing reports that there might notbe a federal election this sum-mer I sprang into action.

Canada doesn’t want an elec-tion? Canada needs an election,dammit!

How elsecan we pun-dits pontifi-cate endlesslyabout thehorse race,trash the par-ties’ cam-paigns, belittle the candidatesand look oh so smart while doingit?

And what else would Canadi-ans have to talk about?

The weather? Don’t make mesick!

Anyway, I knew there wasonly one organized crime groupthat could pull off this no-elec-tion caper – the Parliament HillGang!

And quite the collection theyare – they’ve taken more moneyfrom innocent Canadians thanif Al Capone, Ronald Biggs andBernie Madoff joined forces!

Here’s the rundown – Gilles“Frenchy” Duceppe. Calls hisBloc Quebecois election cam-paign plane “Deb-o-naire” – toocute by demi.

Jack “The ’Stache” Layton.Who’d ever thunk an NDP

leader would become hero toevery used car dealer in thecountry?

Layton’s about as trustworthywith your family silverware –he’d nationalize Tim Hortons ifhe could get away with it.

There’s Michael “Count Iggy”Ignatieff. Also known as “TheProfessor” and “That AmericanGuy.”

Then the gang boss – for now – Stephen “Thugsy” Harper,

a.k.a.“Little Stevie Blunder” and“Helmet Hair”.

No election eh? Who’s wiseidea was that?

I grilled ‘em like a sockeyesalmon on Canada Day.

“Who’s holdin’ out on callin’an election? Talk or I send youout to a media scrum wearinganother hair net!” I threatenedDuceppe.

“Mais, je ne connais pas, rien,”he whimpered.

“Don’t know nuttin’ eh?” Isneered.

I didn’t evenbother withLayton – oncehe startstalkin’ henever shutsup.

Iggy was smilin’ like aCheshire cat and Harper, well, Icould just tell somethin’ was upbetween those two.

“Listen you punks, Canadaneeds an election this summer –I got nuttin’ to write about,” Iyelled.

They looked at their feet likechoir boys caught smokin’.

They knew I was right.“Sorry – what was we thinkin’

bout?” Iggy replied, dropping hisusual pompous pronounce-ments.

“I dunno what came over me,”Harper added. “This coopera-tion crap is stoopid!”

I decided to go easy on ‘em.“I’m gonna give you till Sep-

tember to call an election on acount of I’m a charitable kindaguy,” I said. “But I tell youse, anymore deals and my press gallerygoons will rub out the lot of you– now get outta my sight!”

It’s a tough job some days buthey, I’m a political pundit – it’swhat I do.

Read more from Bill Tiele-man at www.thetyee.ca

Hear Bill Mondays at 10 a.m.on CKNW AM 980’s Bill

Good Show. Email: west-star@telus.net Website:

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No election?I’m a political pundit, dammit,

and this country needs an election!

NEWS, VIEWSAND ATTITUDEBILL TIELEMAN

What’s on your mind?■ IT SEEMS TO me that when people call for police,many seem to to miss the fact that police are alsofrustrated with the judges when, after all their efforts,they see criminals out on the street next day. It is thejudge’s prime job, in my opinion, to protect the public.Little thought seems to go to all the victims of crime, Iwonder what judges would feel like on the receivingend? Would the situation improve? What can be doneto bring about a change?

- Otto Koppe, Burnaby

■ I WAS SADDENED and angered to read that thecougar who attacked the kid in Squamish has been“destroyed.” I prefer the word “murdered” - we en-croach on nature so much that it’s no wonder it (right-fully) fights back in defence. And I can’t help but ques-tion how they are 100% positive they had the right cat.

- Beth Baisch, via e-mailE-mail us at:

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Rowdy duo comes to townBefore his 2001 “I Get Wet”breakthrough album, AndrewW.K. grew up in Michiganwhere he found bootleg VHStapes of Nardwuar the HumanServiette’s cable TV interviewcompilations.

Intense research and an ec-centric style help Nardwuar dis-arm interviewees and elicit can-did comments, said the hardrockin’, hard partyin’ singerwith the trademark white shirtand jeans.

“I think Nardwuar is as good aperformer can get, and certainlyas good as an interviewer canget,” Andrew said. “He’s upthere with Larry King or Bar-bara Walters.”

Nardwuar interviewed An-

drew in 2002 and he shared a Van-couver stage last December withNardwuar’s band, the Evapora-tors. They combined for A WildPear split EP featuring Andrew’sversion of the Leather Uppers’Don’t Sell Hot Dogs Tonight andthe Subhumans’ Oh Canaduhpaired with the Evaporators’ TheBomb’s In My Pants and a coverof Oh Non (by Les Hou-Lops).

They’ll perform those songsat a free, all-ages show at 4 p.m.in Neptoon Records and latertonight in the Biltmore Cabaretat 2755 Prince Edward St.

Andrew’s Canadian tour con-tinues Wednesday and Thursdayin Calgary, Friday in Saskatoon,Saturday in Edmonton and Sun-day in Winnipeg.

- BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

She hoped signing up to bepart of a coupon book wouldbe a handy promotional tool.Instead, it’s costing a Yaletownbusiness owner money andcustomers.

Jenny Truong says she agreedto list her Yaletown Nails Spabusiness in what she thoughtwould be a coupon booklet featur-ing local stores. She said sheagreed to offer a free “mini-mani-cure” in the coupons, a serviceworth no more than $10.

But then customers startedshowing up with brochures offer-ing treatments that normally sellfor more than $400. Customerssaid they paid $55 for the appar-ent discounts.

It was news to Truong, who

says she’s received no moneyfrom the marketing company whofirst sold her on the coupon idea.

Now, both she and her would-be customers are getting rippedoff, she says.

“People are really mad,”Truong said. “They want to sueour company. They want to callthe police.”

Truong guesses some 50 peoplehave come in with the brochuresso far.

Customer Marina Levinbought the $55 coupon from some-

one on the street. She says shehasn’t been able to get in touchwith the company that sold it toher.

“You can’t call them. They don’tanswer. You can’t get a refund,”she said.

For Truong, it’s coming at acost to her two-month-old busi-ness, she says, because she triesto appease the customers withlimited services short of the $400offer advertised on the brochures.

“It’s not right,” Truong said. “Iwant my customers to be happywith the promotion, not to beripped off.”

A call placed to the companylisted on the brochure, EliteImage Marketing, Inc., wasn’t re-turned yesterday.

- IRWIN LOY, 24 HOURS

- PHOTO SUBMITTEDANDREW W.K. and Nard-wuar the Human Serviette willperform at the BiltmoreCabaret tonight.

Coupon scam costly for local spa

“They want to sue ourcompany. They wantto call the police.”

- Jenny Truong

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CanadaCOLDPLAY’S WINDSHIELD BEEFA writer for UK band Coldplay’s blog said the van the bandrode in from Edmonton airport for a concert last week had acracked windshield. It’s illegal to drive with one in the UK.

TRASH STRIKE HITS 500,000 HOMEOWNERSTemperatures rose yesterday and so did tempers after municipal em-ployees formed picket lines across Toronto, shutting down daycaresand sealing up garbage cans, and leaving union representatives pre-dicting a long, stinky summertime strike. The services affected in-clude garbage pickup, city-run daycares, recreation centres, ferryservice and summer camps. Toronto is now offering a contingencyplan to the 500,000 homeowners affected by the garbage strike.

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A terrorist plot to blowup two Toronto build-ings was designed to un-leash a mass wave offear, crippling the econo-my and force Canada topull troops out of Af-ghanistan, a court heardtoday.

The sentencing hear-ing of Saad Khalid, oneof the so-called Toronto18, began yesterdaymorning before JusticeBruce Durno. In an un-contested statement offacts, the court heardKhalid was an associateof the group — none ofwhom can be named be-cause of publication ban— who plotted the attackon CSIS headquarters

and the Toronto StockExchange in downtownToronto as well as an un-specified military basebetween Toronto and Ot-tawa.

The attacks wereplanned on successivedays in November 2006and the ringleaders

thought they would“screw Stephen Harper,the government and themilitary.”

They hoped the at-tacks would cause peopleto fear leaving home anddraw “$500 trillion” outof the economy and forcethe government to with-draw from Afghanistanbecause “Canada is nottough like Britain or theU.S.”

One of the alleged ter-rorists was overheard bya government agent say-ing: "Casualties would begood because it wouldprove we are not afraidto kill people."

— SUN MEDIA

“Casualties wouldbe good because itwould prove we arenot afraid to killpeople.”

Terrorist overheard by

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Terror plot targetedCSIS, court told

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World WHY DID THE TORTOISE BOARD THE PLANE?Ukrainian customs said yesterday its officers had seized 250tortoises that a passenger had tried to smuggle across the for-mer Soviet republic’s eastern border aboard an overnight train.

Subway crash deadly in D.C.At least six people were killed when a Washington D.C. Metrosubway train derailed and smashed into another train, shown inthe above video grab, on tracks on the outskirts of the city duringyesterday's afternoon rush hour. Scores of others were injuredaccording to Washington mayor Mayor Adrian Fenty, who addedit would be considered the deadliest crash in their Metro transit’shistory.

Obama signs key tobacco lawPresident Barack Obama yesterday signed into law a landmarkbill that gives the U.S. government broad regulatory power forthe first time over cigarettes and other tobacco products.Obama,who began smoking as a teenager, said the law would curb theability of tobacco companies to market their products to children.

briefsworld newsPolice broke up a

protest in Tehran yester-day hours after the hard-line RevolutionaryGuards said they wouldcrush any fresh resis-tance from “rioters.”

Residents said riot po-lice and members of thereligious Basij militiawere out in force.

One witness said thathe had seen a groupchanting slogans being at-tacked by the Basij, whodragged the protestersout of a nearby house.

“The Basiji were reallyaggressive and swearingat me to go inside,” thewitness said. “I wasscared they were going tobreak into my house too.”

The statement yester-day by the Guards clearlysignalled a crackdown onany fresh unrest over there-election of hardlinePresident Mahmoud Ah-madinejad.

“In the current sensi-tive situation ... theGuards will firmly con-front in a revolutionaryway rioters and thosewho violate the law,” saida statement on theGuards’ website.

Meanwhile, CanadianPrime Minister StephenHarper condemned whathe said was Tehran’s to-tally unacceptable use of“brute force and intimi-dation” to deal with pro-tests.

“The regime has cho-sen to use brute force andintimidation in respond-ing to peaceful oppositionregarding legitimate andserious allegations ofelectoral fraud,” Harpersaid in a statement.

In February, Harpersaid the Iranian regimehad “an ideology that isobviously evil.”

– REUTERS

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PROTEST: A man uses a mobile phone to record images of aprotest in Tehran yesterday. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard prom-ised to crush any further protests against the re-election ofhardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Lohan ticketedLindsay Lohan’s was ticketed by LosAngeles police recently for noise viola-tion, reports imdb.com.

The Mean Girls star outraged her Hol-lywood Hills neighbours by playingloud music into the early hours of Sun-day morning.

According to TMZ.com, authorities re-sponded at 4:20 a.m. local time by is-suing the actress a ticket for excessivenoise.

Movie strikes outJust days away from the start of shoot-ing, Columbia has taken Steven Soder-bergh’s baseball drama Moneyballstarring Brad Pitt off the field.

Pulling the plug this close to produc-tion is extremely rare for studios butsources said Columbia’s president ofproduction Amy Pascal wasn’t com-fortable with the script, which hadchanged considerably since the moviewas greenlit.

Farrah to marryAfter years of asking longtime com-panion Farrah Fawcett to marry him,actor Ryan O’Neal says she has finallyagreed, even as she nears the end ofher life after a long battle with cancer.

“I’ve asked her to marry me, again,and she’s agreed,” O’Neal says in aninterview with Barbara Walters for ABCtelevision show 20/20 to air on Friday,according to publicists for the show.

R&B singer Chris Brownpleaded guilty yesterday to as-saulting his former girlfriend,pop star Rihanna, in an agree-ment with prosecutors thatcalls for him to spend five years

of probation.Brown also will have to per-

form at least 180 days of com-munity service in his homestate of Virginia.

The 20-year-old singer en-tered the plea at a prelimi-nary hearing in a Los An-geles courtroom.

“I think it’s commenda-ble that you took responsi-bility for your conduct sir,”Judge Patricia Schnegg toldBrown.

Brown, dressed in a plaid

gray suit and accompanied byhis mother, was also issued astay-away order to keep his dis-tance from Rihanna.

Rihanna also appeared incourt but only after Brown left.Her attorney, Donald Etra, hadsaid that she was prepared totestify against him.

“Rihanna believes this is afair and just resolution to thiscase,” Etra said outside thecourthouse.

— REUTERS

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EntertainmentGIBSON DIRECTS VIDEOMel Gibson has directed a music video for hispregnant 39-year-old girlfriend, Russiansinger/pianist Oksana Grigorieva. Say MyName is the first video from her upcomingdebut album, Beautiful Heartache.

24 hours • Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Perez Hilton – who normally spreadsthe word on celebrity spats – seems tobe at the centre of one himself.

The celeb blogger – born Mario Ar-mando Lavandeira – claims he got inan argument with Black Eyed Peasfrontman Will.I.Am and was subse-quently assaulted by the band’s man-ager, Liborio “Polo” Molina, at an afterparty following Sunday night’s Much-Music Video Awards.

Molina, 36, of California, turned him-self in for questioning at downtown 52Division station around 7 a.m. yester-day.

He was charged with one count of as-sault before being released from custo-dy on a promise to appear in court Aug.5, Toronto Police Const. Tony Vella con-firmed.

“The allegation was that he (Lavan-deira) was assaulted by a security guardthat is associated to the band the BlackEyed Peas,” Staff Sgt. Robert Brownsaid. “The assault is minor in nature.”

Drama hit the online world around 3a.m. yesterday with a tweet from La-vandeira.

“I’m in shock. I need the police ASAP.Please come to the SoHo MetropolitanHotel now. Please,” Lavandeira postedon his Twitter page, twitter.com/PER-EZHILTON.

The message was followed by thispost: “I was assaulted by Will.I.Am ofthe Black Eyed Peas and his securityguards. I am bleeding. Please, I need tofile a police report. No joke.”

He later goes on to say that he filed areport with Toronto Police.

According to the police report, La-vandeira was found with “a mouseunder his eye ... like a little reddish

mark,” Brown said.It appears Will.I.Am, born William J.

Adams, created a Twitter account (twit-ter.com/iamtherealwill) to respond tothe allegations.

“I just made a Twitter account be-cause it isn’t cool for someone to blameyou and blast you with lies...,” he postedaround 4 a.m. This video response wasposted an hour later.

“This dude twists it and says that Iassaulted him when I was the one thatcame to him with respect and he wasthe one that called me a f--- outside theclub,” Adams said in the video. “What-ever. Um. I hit you Perez? Come ondude. I didn’t hit you. I told you that Ididn’t like the fact that you disrespectedus.”

— SUN MEDIA

Perezpunched

by Peas’ manager?

Oprah Win-frey has treatedher staff to a lux-ury cruisearound the Medi-terranean, reportsimdb.com.

The talk show host haspaid more than US$750,000 totake 100-plus employees andtheir families on a ten-dayholiday. The ship left Chica-go, Illinois on Saturday andwill stop at destinations in-cluding Spain, Italy, Turkey,Greece and Malta.

Winfrey will join her staffon the cruise and will coverthe cost of their transporta-tion, food, drinks and activi-ties at port stops.

— 24 HOURS NEWS SERVICES

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Levi — are expectingtheir second child, reports Peo-ple.com. McConaughey re-vealed the news on his websiteSunday night:

“Happy Father’s Day... Wehave more blessed news to cel-ebrate this Father’s Day that(will) make this time next yeardouble the fun. Levi is going tobe a big brother... Yeah, wepulled off the greatest miraclein the world one more time, Ca-mila and I are expecting oursecond child, bringing morelife into the world, makingmore to live for...”

— 24 HOURS NEWS SERVICES

Plea deal reached in Brown case

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10 ENTERTAINMENT 24 hours • Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Drummer Steve Shelley ofSonic Youth is 47.

Singer Chico DeBarge is 39.

Actress Selma Blair is 37.

Singer KT Tunstall is 34.

Singer Virgo Williams of Ghos-town DJs is 34.

Singer-songwriter Jason Mrazis 32.

Singer Duffy is 25.

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King books backFour books that have been longout of print by the Rev. MartinLuther King Jr. will be publishedagain under a new deal withBeacon Press brokered by King’syoungest son.

Dexter King called it a historicpartnership that will bring his fa-ther’s words to a global audi-ence. Beacon, a department ofthe Unitarian Universalist Associ-ation, publishes books on socialjustice, human rights and racialequality.

The Boston-based publisher willrelease new editions of StrideToward Freedom, Where Do WeGo From Here: Chaos or Commu-nity?, Trumpet of Conscienceand Strength to Love in 2010.

Jailed scribe dealA journalist jailed for fourmonths in Iran on charges of es-pionage has a book deal.

Iranian-American Roxana Sabe-ri, 32, is working on a memoirthat HarperCollins will publish inMarch 2010. Saberi’s book, cur-rently untitled, will tell of her ar-rest in January, her initial sen-tence to eight years in prisonand her release in May afterbeing granted a two-year sus-pended sentence.

According to a statement issuedyesterday by HarperCollins, thememoir will also be “a penetrat-ing look at Iranian society.”

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12 TECHNOLOGY 24 hours • Tuesday, June 23, 2009

When I was a child myparents bought me a fish ina tiny bowl and told me if Itake care of it properly Icould eventually get a dog.

Unfortunately I failed toproperly go through theowners manual where it

specifically mentioned tokeep the little bugger inwater at all times. In hind-sight, I probably shouldn’thave been given that littlenet that’s used to snag thefish from its bowl. To me itwas as simple as wanting

to pet him.In the end I went through

guppies like Q-Tips.As a teen I caught my

first fish and watched inhorror as my uncle pickedit off my hook and bashedits head in against the side

of the boat. I never thoughtthat far in advance. I as-sumed they past away thesecond they left the water.That little open water trau-ma pretty much ended myfishing career.

As a person of proud Brit-ish heritage, I have had myfair share of fish-and-chipdinners. Nothing quite saysauthentic like walkingdown the street with yoursupper tucked under yourarm wrapped in newspaper.Of course it’s all well and

good until some fish cookforgets to put the meal on awax liner before wrappingit up in print. I’m a bigsports fan but do I reallyneed to see the golf resultstattooed on the back of fishbatter?

And the fish hits justkeep on coming. A fewyears ago thanks, to a sus-pect filet o’ fish, I spent thebetter part of a SuperbowlSunday locked in my bath-room in what could only bedescribed as a heads and

tails kind of situation.Every orifice was at DEF-CON 1 that day. Safe to say,I ruled out fish for good.

Then last week, after ex-plaining to a friend aboutmy sad fish history, he rec-ommended I try it again. Heinsisted that if I ate freshwater fish before I went tosleep there was an excellentchance I would have a sexu-al dream. Well, if there wasa way to get me to eat fishagain this was probably thescenario with the best in-

centive.That evening I got out

my little barbecue andcooked myself a nice thickfish fillet, and boy was itgood. The only thing left todo was hit the hay whilequietly chanting MeganFox’s name.

That night, I dreamt Iwas inappropriatelyspooned by a trout. Sigh.

— Find Devon on Facebook orTwitter, or e-mail him at

devon_swift@yahoo.com

When the chips are down, I really do hate fish

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No. 1: Nemo Pillow ... To-night little Jimmy sleepswith the fishes. Item num-ber: 230349718265

No. 2: Freeze Dried Piranha ...Aka — Susan Boyle’s eye-brow trimmer. Item number:12043774019

No. 3: Sushi G-String ... Warn-ing! If you buy this for a loverit may be perceived as send-ing a message. Item number:200353625268

No. 4: Fish Pond Spitter ... Heis aware that’s the samewater he craps in right? Itemnumber: 230350419430

No. 5: Fish Car Emblem ... Inyour face Darwin & Jesus.Item number: 350111630011

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14 UPCOMINGasdfSports

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14 ONE FOR THE TEAMWhistler halfpipe snowboarder Crispin Lipscomb, known forwearing a Vancouver Canucks’ jersey under his bib, wasnamed to Canada’s 2009-10 team yesterday. Sports

24 hours • Tuesday, June 23, 2009

briefssportsFed roars inRoger Federer turned up atWimbledon yesterday re-sembling an army generalready to conduct his latestcampaign and soon dis-armed the opposition. TheSwiss strolled on court in awhite monogrammed mili-tary-style outfit, and wassoon firing winners past Tai-wan’s Lu Yen-Hsun to se-cure a 7-5 6-3 6-2 win in thefirst round.

Tiger unhappyTiger Woods clawed hisway back to a sixth-placefinish at the U.S. Open onMonday and was left tolament what might havebeen had he swung a hotputter. Woods posted afinal-round 69 for a level-par total of 280 at soggyBethpage Black where theworld number one missed aboatload of birdie chanceson rain-softened greens.

- REUTERS

Suspended VancouverWhitecap Charles Gbekecould be gone until lateJuly, but for a good reason.

The star striker wasnamed to Canada’s 23-manroster for the CONCACAFGold Cup yesterday. Histwo-game ban for the June12 on-field fight with team-mate Wesley Charles expires Tuesday when theCaps visit the ClevelandCity Stars.

Gbeke earned two capslast fall. He hopes to wearthe red maple leaf jerseyJuly 3 when Canada opensagainst Jamaica in Los An-geles. First round oppo-nents also include El Sal-vador and Costa Rica. Thefinal is July 26 in NewYork.

Canada’s interim headcoach Stephen Hart calledGbeke’s suspension “un-fortunate,” but said the bigIvory Coast-born, Montre-al-raised forward could bevaluable offensively.

“It’s a matter of tryingto get the balance right,”Hart said. “We were in a

situation where we’re notblessed with depth up frontand Charles would give ussomething different.”

Toronto FC star DwayneDe Rosario declined Hart’sinvitation while the Reds’captain Jim Brennan quitthe national squad last fall.The roster includes Van-couver’s Kevin Harmse, aToronto FC defender and

midfielder, and PrinceGeorge-born defenderRichard Hastings, whoplays in Inverness, Scot-land.

Ex-Whitecaps’ coachTony Fonseca is Hart’s as-sistant while goalkeepercoach Paul Dolan was aVancouver 86ers’ main-stay.

- BOB MACKIN, 24 HOURS

Griping about gruntsMartina Navratilova

thinks it is cheating, Sere-na Williams does not evenknow she is doing it andnow there is a Portugueseteenager who appears tocry out in agony when shehits the ball.

Grunting is back on thetennis agenda at theworld’s most famous tour-nament, which startedyesterday, and the bignoise at Wimbledon couldbe 16-year-old MichelleLarcher de Brito.

At the French Open, heropponent Aravane Rezaicomplained about theracket across the net,telling the umpire it wasdistracting her.

Larcher de Brito hassaid grunting is “justsomething I have done al-ways since I started play-ing tennis. I am going tokeep on doing it because itis really part of my game.”

Nine-time Wimbledonchampion Navratilova,who found the grunting ofMonica Seles off-putting,feels tennis officials

should take a stand.“The grunting has

reached an unacceptablelevel. It is cheating pureand simple and it is timefor something to be done,”she said in Paris earlierthis month.

A lion’s roar is reckonedto reach 110 decibels. For-mer Wimbledon champi-on Maria Sharapova, whosays she grunted since theage of four and cannothelp it, has been measuredat 101.

- REUTERS

- CARMINE MARINELLI, 24 HOURSCHARLES GBEKE, seen here against Toronto FCearlier in June, will play for Canada in the Gold Cup.

- REUTERSGRUNTING in tennis isa problem for some.

Gbeke joins Canada’s squad

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SAGITTARIUSA spontaneous night on thetown with your friends couldput you in close proximity toyour soul mate.

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Yesterday’s Answers

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Q: I have this femalefriend who I have beenfriends with for almost 10years. We dated for a shorttime in that friendship. Webroke up because I didsomething really bad. NowI have feelings for her likeI did before when we weredating. I told her aboutthese feelings, and I haveasked her to go out withme again, and she said shewill think about it.

What I want to know isthere a chance she willtake me back? I reallyhave come to the decisionthat I love this girl.

— Signed, Waiting Guy

A: I sense that it’s goingto be very hard work foryou to convince her to giveyou a second chance. Shelost a lot of her feelings foryou when you were to-gether due to being hurt.If you can get her onboard, my concern is thatthe relationship will beshort lived because in theromance department, youhave grown so far apart.

I can see the friendshipbetween you lasting forev-er, but can’t really senseanother love affair be-tween you that will go thesame type of distance.

I say take your best shot,because if you don’t it willalways bother you, butdon’t bet everything youhave on it bringing backyour long lost love.

Daily AffirmationBe careful of your actions

for there is not always sec-ond chances.

— Miki is a professional psy-chic. Contact Miki at 416 537-5955 or askmiki.ca . E-mail ques-tions, with photos and birthdatesto: askmiki@aol.com

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