“Mr. Norsigian has been claiming these negatives were made by Ansel Adams for many years,” Matthew Adams told the
L.A. Daily News in 2009. “I am unaware of anyone knowledgeable agreeing with him.”
From the "I'm a blind fool" department.
Artist Rick Norsigian sat on a box of Ansel Adams glass negatives for 10 years before making the connection that these may be pictures that Ansel Adams took early in his career. Historians thought they were destroyed in a darkroom fire but they turned up at a garage sale in California.
Way to go Rick.
You're a Tack.
Super Sharp.
You're also going to be an estimated 200 million dollars richer so that make me hate you for being stupid and lucky.
I'm with Ansel Adams Grandson who thinks this dude is a scammer - in his words:
“Mr. Norsigian has been claiming these negatives were made by Ansel Adams for many years,” Matthew Adams told the
L.A. Daily News in 2009. “I am unaware of anyone knowledgeable agreeing with him.”
Lindsay's lawyers are hot on this issue - asking her to
reveal every details of her experience in a deposition. If she in fact did get
strip searched in the Lynwood Correctional Facility, class action suit that is
getting prepared will allege unlawful strip and body cavity searches, performed
by the L.A. County Sheriff's deputies. This supposedly happened to another
inmate - when Lindsay checked into the jail. But they figure - if it happened
then, it happened to Lindsay as well. That is why they want her to spill all in
the deposition.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs have filed with the Federal
Court yesterday to make sure she files the deposition while she is in the jail
and they also sent a letter to Shawn Chapman Holley - Lohan's lawyer asking
Lindsay would agree to the deposition.
The suit basically claims that female inmates were openly
strip searched in a parking lot and their privacy rights were violated.
Needless to say that something like that is definitely not sanitary. And since
sherrif's officials did say that Lindsay has been treated just like any other
prisoner....
As much as she couldn't believe that she actually had to go
to jail, she is there now for just over a week and doing OK.
Lindsay checked herself into a facility in West Hollywood -
her mom, her sister and Sam Ronson were doing their best to keep her spirits
up. And we all already heard that Robert Shapiro has been hired to help Lindsay
either reduce or eliminate the jail sentence. Shapiro will try to go for
sending Lindsay to rehab immediately - we will see what the judge will say to
that.
Part of Lindsay's sentence is to check into a rehab for 90
days after her jail time so not sure what Shapiro's strategy is in asking to
have her go into rehab right away. But if it would give her double the rehab
time , that would be definitely beneficial and she could get back on her feet
quite nicely.
There was a recent report from the Lynwood Correctional
Facility - and we hear that Lindsay is not getting any special treatment - the report
actually said that some of her closest friends are murderers. That is because
most of the women where Lindsay is housed are in for killing someone. Does that
not seems a little weird to have her there? But - apparently, she is being very
nice, mostly keeping to herself and handling the whole situation calmly.
Either way and whatever comments are coming out - we hope
she gets the help she needs and will make some positive news when she comes out
of rehab!
They are so dissatisfied with their contract situation that
they decided to refuse to shoot scenes for the upcoming third season . On no uncertain
terms, Ronnie, Sammi, Pauly D, Vinny and JWoww said they were not doing
anything until their contracts are fixed. And The Situation and Snooki joined
the rest of the cast shortly after - they are all saying they can just do
appearances for couple of months and make more money that way.
The producers form 495 Productions are not being
co-operative and are ready to close the door on the whole show. They claim the
cast is now hurting the show and this is the last straw.
The current contract gives each cast member $10,000 per
episode and that was agreed on for season 2. So the cast feels they are being
cheated since that was Miami and now it is the Shore.
We have noted that The Situation is being tempted by a very
sweet new contract and that made the rest of the cast and the crew even
angrier.
The bottom line? We will have to wait and see, but rumour
has it that MTV feels they have the right group right now and wants to keep the
cast the way it is.
Interesting developments are surely still to come!
It sure looks like all hell broke
loose over Mel Gibson and his somewhat unreal activities. They include domestic violence, child endangerment
and assault with a deadly weapon - so it is a pretty sure thing that the case
will be on its way to the prosecutor's office - and fast.
Oksana Grigorieva has told the
investigators that Mel physically abused her and was making threats many times.
There were a number of violent incidents in January and February and apparently
Mel knocked out one of her teeth. She says she feared not only for her safety
but also for the safety of her child, because Mel's behaviour was so violent
and abusive. And she does report that she told her dentist in January that Mel
knocked out her tooth and chipped another one. The interesting thing is that
the dentist never reported the incident
- and under California Law, a health practitioner must report to the
police if he or she "reasonably suspects assaultive or abusive conduct". So
this dentist could be an interesting witness if Mel is prosecuted for domestic violence.
Mel of course denied hitting Oksana
in the face and knocking out her tooth and his lawyers have filed legal papers
in the custody war, asking the judge to hold Oksana in contempt.
Why the contempt charges? Oksana
is allegedly responsible for leaking secretly-recorded tapes of Mel's furious
statements and there was a restraining order against Oksana late last month
that prohibited her from releasing the tapes. The common belief is that she
sold the tapes for pretty big bucks.
Of course Oksana denies that,
stating that she never meant for those tapes to get to public and has
absolutely no idea who is responsible for the leak. Oh - and that she feels
terrible about it. The tape she secretly recorded actually has Mel saying :"You
f***ing deserved it" when it comes to the teeth incident.
Still - Mel and his lawyers are
not buying the story that she didn't leak out the tapes and there is a lot of
documentation that proves Oksana trying to get money from Mel in exchange of
keeping the tapes secret.
So now Mel's lawyers are planning
to meet with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department to present evidence - and that
would include evidence of alleged extortion.
Stay tuned - this story is only
just beginning.....
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