How’s this for a late post? Apologies for the truancy. Here’s a round-up of today’s news stories:
According to the New York Post, the advertising genius behind the Rice-A-Roni jingle will possibly file a lawsuit against United Artists for unlicensed use of the likeness of Hitler’s globe in Tom Cruise’s latest film, “Valkyrie.” Apparently the aforementioned ad wizard, Robert Pritikin, has an extensive art collection that includes the globe in question and has copyrighted its likeness in order to prevent its use by neo-Nazi groups. The globe’s historic significance lies in the fact that Hitler infamously used the globe to plan his U-boat attacks. Pritikin is selling his Hitler artifacts and supposedly wants Cruise to purchase the globe as a potential out-of-court mea culpa-style sentiment? Yeah, as if the whole “Rice-A-Roni jingle writer owning Hitler’s globe” thing weren’t odd enough to begin with.
In tragic news, John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s son, Jett, was found dead while on family vacation in the Bahamas.
The young Travolta, 16, had a history of seizure activity, which was the cause of death. Condolences go out to the Travolta clan. What a scary incident…
[via Yahoo!/AP]