American actress Adrienne Bailon, of Disney’s prefab musical group the Cheetah Girls, claims her laptop computer was stolen and photos on the drive intended for her boyfriend Robert Kardashian were made public without her knowledge. The shots show virtually nothing, as you can see yourself, and don’t seem the sort of pix a lustful boyfriend would snap. There’s an axiom in this business: if the nudity isn’t fully revealing the photos ain’t legit. Ever since Cecilia Cheung’s sex pix got out, our standards have risen—and our requirements too. But clumsy publicity stunts date back to the earliest days of Hollywood, which means we can post Adrienne’s photos without feeling duped, because fake or not, they’re pulp. Ass for Ms. Bailon, we’ll just say fame is the most addictive drug of all, and we are never surprised what people will do to attain more.
1967—Ché Executed in Bolivia
A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed in Bolivia. In an attempt to make it appear as though he had been killed resisting Bolivian troops, the executioner shoots Guevara with a machine gun, wounding him nine times in the legs, arm, shoulder, throat, and chest.