Darryl Hannah Arrested for Going Green While Mark Hoppus Gets a Nod from PETA

Darryl Hannah, star of the Quentin Tarantino film, Kill Bill, was arrested together with 30 other protestors on charges obstruction and impending traffic.

The actress with the other rallyists were blocking the road that leads to a coal mine in Raleigh County. They were advocating against the “opencast mountaintop mining”. The protestors claim that this mining practice has unfavorable effects on the environment.

According to Hannah, “There is no need to destroy our planet to power our future. I have been on renewable energy for about 20 years, so I know it works.”

Hannah is not the only Hollywood star, who opts to go environmental and advocate a cause such as animal rights while earning some publicity for it. Musician, Mark Hoppus of Blink 182, a self-professed advocate of animal rights and environmental protection, showed his dedication for the cause on his Twitter account when he posted a comment about buying a $1000 octopus prop so he does not have to use a real one for a photo shoot.

MarkHoppus: I’m doing a photo shoot this week and paying nearly $1000 for a movie octopus prop so a real one does not have to die. do I get an award?
9:21 PM Apr 20th.

The twit was, apparently, spot on for PETA. The organization even gave their nod to the musician as posted on one of their PETA files.

Miguel Cotto – Joshua Clottey what’s next

And while we are not ruling out a possible rematch for these two fighters, there are plenty of other options that they can explore in their foreseeable future. These options are explored by ESPN’s Dan Rafael in a recent blog post. Here is an excerpt:

Cotto scored a flash knockdown in the first round, which was worth a valuable extra point on the scorecards, and overcame a brutal gash in his left eyebrow from an accidental head butt in the third round. The blood flowed freely from the cut for most of the rest of the fight and certainly had an impact on Cotto's ability to see Clottey's right hand coming. After the fight, Cotto needed six stitches in a cut below his eye and 14 in the bad one above his eye, according to Top Rank spokesman Lee Samuels. Given that adversity, Cotto gets a gold star for showing heart.

Clottey can complain that he was robbed all he wants, and some contrary fans and writers can join the chorus, but the reason he didn't win is because of his own shortcomings, not poor judging. Clottey had ample opportunity to put the fight in the bag, but he did not do it. He let Cotto off the hook, especially late in the fight, but he was posing too much, going long stretches without being active and he simply did not let his hands go against an opponent at a serious disadvantage because of the cut. Cotto, meanwhile, fought all three minutes of the rounds and fought smart. Can't say the same for Clottey, and it cost him dearly.

The win sets the stage for what would undoubtedly be an action-packed fight between Cotto and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. Top Rank's Bob Arum talked up that fight big-time after Cotto's win, and Pacquiao was ringside. It could happen this fall, but it remains to be seen exactly what will go down, especially in light of the postponement of Floyd Mayweather's comeback fight against Juan Manuel Marquez because of a training injury. Perhaps Mayweather will try to bypass Marquez and go right to the monster fight against Pacquiao. Either way, there are some big fights in store for the fall.

As for Clottey, he's still one of the best welterweights in the world, and Arum promised him another significant fight. One that he won't get is a rematch with Cotto, not when there are so many other fights fans want to see. But maybe Clottey will get an opportunity against titlist Andre Berto. Maybe even Shane Mosley would fight him if Mosley can't land Pacquiao. Clottey could also move up in weight and look for a fight with Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez or Kermit Cintron, all of which would be interesting bouts worthy of the HBO platform.

Christian Bale – Batman versus Terminator

Christian Bale played Batman in the Dark Knight and it is a resounding success. He also played John Connor in the recent installment of the Terminator series. And while both movies are not exactly in the short list of the approved movies by Christian magazines, here is what the actor thinks of the characters that he portrays based on a recent interview:

Exactly. The Connors are the story. But then I was in Hong Kong on the very last week of shooting The Dark Knight. I had been to some teahouse where this local guide insisted I drink this tea he’d made. I don’t know if he’d spiked it, but within half an hour I turned to my wife and said, “Eh, I kind of feel like doing this.” So I called McG up, said, “If we can get a new script, then yeah, let’s go for Connor.” I felt good about it, because we really did have a lot of time. And then…ffffuck, writers’ strike. I learned a lesson then about movies like The Terminator and Batman. Most people assume that if you’re risking that amount of money, you don’t begin until you’re completely ready. In fact, that’s what they do only with the lower-budget movies. With the bigger ones, the ones that keep the studios afloat, they have to release it on a certain date. In my naïveté, I thought, Of course we’ll push back filming. No. Ain’t a possibility. And that strike kept going on, and we were getting less and less time to get it together. In the end, it was a film experience unlike any I’d had before. A real balls-to-the-wall kind of effort.

Adam Lambert – Ring of Fire

One of the most memorable performances in the past season of Idol was “Ring Of Fire” by Adam Lambert. The tone and arrangement was so out there that a Christian magazine cringes when the performance was aired. Here is what he said in a recent interview about the song:

I loved it. I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. I heard the version by a woman named Dilana, who was on Rock Star: Supernova, I found it hypnotic and really cool. It was country week and I don’t really like country music, I’m going to be honest. The first song that came to mind was a country song was the Johnny Cash song “Ring of Fire.” It’s a cool song. It’s sexy. So I was like I’ll do something sexy. So I figured why not.
Is any part of you disappointed with America?
I have to say it was a little bit of social pressure projected on me by just trying to be the quote un quote “different one” — all the supposed insights into my sexuality and my alternativeness and all my what have you, I think there were some people who were kind of like, “Well, he’s changing your Idol and all this hype and pressure to make a change for America. It kind of got over hyped a little bit.