So yesterday I went up to Whistler for the day to check out the ladies downhill and also to do some snowboarding of my own. Conditions were prime with bluebird skies, great snow, no lift lines and stunning views. On the lift up the mountain I got to see a number of the athletes heading up with their coaches and support team to do some training for the slalom and super g, which was cool to see.

The parts of the downhill course that I saw looked just scary especially at the speed that the ladies were skiing down it. I heard that there were a lot of crashes lower down the course and I could see why, they must have been exhausted by that point.

Even the cops were checking out the action. Skiing and carrying a gun? Great idea.

Oh and the crazy Swiss guy with the huge cowbell attached to his belt was my highlight of the day…

Anyway the Canadian Men’s Hockey is about to start… time to go and throw on my patriotic red t-shirt!

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Get famous, and it’s guaranteed you’re going to get sued. Get famous from writing a book? Plagiarism allegations are right behind you.

Popeater has the details about Harry Potter author, J. K. Rowling has just been named in a plagiarism law suit. The estate of author Adrian Jacobs claims that ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ is taken from ‘The Adventures of Willy the Wizard: No. 1 Livid Land’. Willy Wizard?

Rowling has given this as a response.

“I am saddened that yet another claim has been made that I have taken material from another source to write Harry,” Rowling said in a statement.

“The fact is, I had never heard of the author or the book before the first accusation by those connected to the author’s estate in 2004; I have certainly never read the book,” she added.

“The claims that are made are not only unfounded but absurd and I am disappointed that I, and my U.K. publisher Bloomsbury, are put in a position to have to defend ourselves,” the author continued.[via Popeater]

Jacob’s estate is claiming that the ideas of wizard prisons, schools and hospitals were the topics stolen from the Willy Wizard book.

Hmmm, does that mean that any story that involves prisons, school and hospitals is stolen from Jacob’s? I mean, I think there was a Berenstain Bears book where one of the little kids goes to the hospital, it was a BEAR hospital! Maybe they, too, stole the idea! SCANDAL!

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After lighting the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony last week, Wayne Gretzky took his family out on the town. Yesterday, Wayne, his wife Janet, father Walter, and kids Ty and Tristan took a walk around Vancouver.

I’m liking the sweater. Ok, not really. But it’s Wayne, and he can get away with it.

Actor Colin Firth has been making the rounds promoting his movie, A Single Man, for which he is NOMINATED for an OSCAR! WOOOOHHOOOOO.

In the movie, co-starring Julianne Moore and directed by Tom Ford (yes, designer Tom Ford), Colin plays a gay professor whose long time love dies. Julianne Moore plays his best friend, who is in love with him. There is a scene where she makes a move, and it’s not SUPPOSED to be returned. But that was more difficult for Colin than he expected.

He said: “It never occurred to me that there was any issue about playing gay until Julianne kissed me and I had to resist. Julianne made that moment very difficult as I wasn’t supposed to enjoy it.

“That was the one moment when Tom Ford had to get on my case.

“He said: ‘You’re supposed to be a gay man! Jesus Christ! Keep your hands to yourself and get your tongue out of her face!’” [CelebrityNewsNow]

Oh my gawd, just imagining Tom Ford saying that makes me laugh. “get your tongue out of her face!”

Let’s hope that the academy considers just had difficult this role was for Colin and gives him that flippin’ Oscar!

THE Kissing Scene

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