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"It's a place where I plan to build back for my community, where my mom and pops was born at, so it's basically my home too," Snoop
recently told MTV News. "I'm going to build, like, Disneyland, and I'll call it Doggyland." "At this point in time, [starting a theme park] is only a thought," a Snoop spokesperson stressed to the New York Post. "But this is
definitely something that he feels would be a good way to give back to the community, and it is something that he will seriously look into doing." My guess is that ol' Snoop'll probably take a shot at it. - - - - - - - - - - - - Wasting away in Margaritaville.com "I have a plan. Something tells me there's a dot-com in it." -- Jimmy "Cheeseburger in Cyberspace" Buffett on the hot-wired ideas that are rolling around in that parrothead of his. - - - - - - - - - - - - Taking it up with the Powers that be Bad mojo continues to rage in toyland after a Georgia
woman named Tamatha Brannon filed an obscenity complaint Tuesday against
Toys 'R' Us. Her beef? The Austin Powers "Ultra 'Cool' Action Figure" asked her 11-year-old son the following questionable questions: "Do I
make you horny, baby? Do I?" (Oh, behave!) Brannon felt compelled to explain to her son just what the randy horn-rimmed man o' mystery meant, which she was none too tickled
about. "I feel this toy had basically pushed us into a vocabulary word that he would never [have] known to ask," Brannon said of the "sick
and disgusting" plaything. (Couldn't she have just told her inquisitive offspring to "Zip it" like
another loving parent we could name?) Toys 'R' Us said the doll, clad only in chunky eyeglasses, sad-looking socks and trademark heart-shaped
shag-carpet chest hair, was stocked in error and will be replaced by a "parental guidance" version that gently inquires of the kiddies, "Would you fancy a shag?"
(No joke!) Good thing the Brannon boy didn't pick up a frickin' Fat Bastard doll. - - - - - - - - - - - - Don't touch that dial (It might be sticky!) Our litigious Georgia peach Tamatha might also find herself grappling with this concept -- female wrestling. (Does it make you horny, baby? Does it?) Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! "Women of Wrestling" (WOW) is gearing up to make its debut flying mare on a pay-per-view channel near you. Fork over a little peep-show dough and you can cheer on scantily clad pro-wrestling gals with nicknames like "The Farmer's Daughter," "The Beach Patrol" and "Femme Fatale." So will the weekly TV show be just like men's wrestling, minus the testosterone and plus a little extra face powder? Better even, says promoter and producer David McLane. "Our audience will be broader than men's wrestling because unlike men's wrestling, we will also have women watching," he said at a news conference on Tuesday. "Women will be proud to watch WOW and young girls between the ages of 9 and 15 will be proud to come to matches and watch the WOW women as role models." Proud, y'hear? The Reform Party might want to start scoping out future candidates right now. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Flashback! One hapless person caught in the now-rusty zipper of the White House scandal has been brought to justice. Monica Lewinsky's former psychologist, Irene Kassorla, the "shrink to the stars" who informed the world that her lusty ex-patient suffered from depression and low self-esteem, has been put on probation by the California Board of Psychology for repeated acts of negligence in her practice. No, lending patients sets of presidential kneepads was not among her alleged breaches. My pick for bone-headed burglar of the week: A Berlin-area bank robber who handed over his I.D. to a bank teller mid-robbery -- and then accidentally left it behind. He was arrested within hours and charged with robbery and extortion. Doh! His ex-Brothers in Doobiness might consider calling Michael McDonald "Mr. Modest." It seems the aging pop-rocker got a little embarrassed when it came to singing the lyrics to "Through the Eyes of a Child" for the "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" soundtrack. The offending wordage: "They've yet to realize the bastards that they really are/Sure life is kinda gay/But it doesn't seem
that way/Through the eyes of a child." Producer Arif Mardin says McDonald found it difficult to sing the word "bastard"
without dissolving into giggles and expressed concern that it would offend his pastor. The demure Doobster sounds like a man after a certain Georgia mom's heart, eh?
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