Actor Dennis Farina, from Law & Order, Get Shorty and the Chicago Police Department, was charged with a felony on Sunday when a loaded .22-calibur gun was found in his luggage. Farina – who is 64, but doesn’t seem that senile – claims that he forgot the gun was in his bag.

Usually, a concealed weapons charge results in a fine, but this is a felony. Why? Find out after the jump.

Nick Bollea (Hogan), the son of Hulk Hogan, plead no contest to felony reckless driving charges stemming from the horrible accident on August 26th that left his friend, John Graziano, in bad shape.

Nick was sentenced to eight months in a Florida jail, beginning immediately. After he gets out, he still has five years probation, 500 hours of community service to look forward to. That’s while he’s required to be sober and after they take away his drivers license for three years.

Props go to the Florida judge who saw past CelebJustice and brought down the hammer. It was a horrible incident that no one intended, so though he has to serve the time, the felony will be wiped from his record when he turns 18 this summer.

The ex-manager of OJ Simpson is coming out with a tell-all book that claims OJ confessed to murdering Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman:

He said Simpson had smoked pot, took a sleeping pill and was drinking beer when he confided at his Brentwood home weeks after his trial what happened the night of June 12, 1994. Simpson said he went to his ex-wife’s condominium, but did not bring a knife with him. Simpson told him Nicole Brown Simpson had one in her hand when she opened the door.
In a soft mumble, Simpson told him: “If she hadn’t opened that door with a knife in her hand … she’d still be alive.”

And get this; his book is titled: How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse.

That’s Juice-y.

When British tabloids reported the arrest of Amy Winehouse this morning, there was a certain amount of skepticism surrounding the report. It failed to mention why Amy had been arrested, though we could all very well guess.

The story developed to include the tidbit that Amy had, as predicted, been arrested on drug charges. Just not new ones.

On the set of My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma Thurman received a card from a fan. It depicted drawing of an open grave, a headstone and a man standing on the edge of a razor blade. A spiral of random words referred to “chocolate, mouth, soft, kissing” and declared, “My hands should be on your body at all times.”

The card was from one Jack Jordan, and Uma super-fan who had also threatened to kill himself if Uma refused to meet him.

Though Los Angeles is frequently called LaLaLand by our New York-based B&U staff, it is called that lovingly because it is so intertwined with the highly absurd industry of making entertainment.

New York, on the other hand, is the capitol of piracy, with over 50% of the pirated films you find on the internet and in the hands of your immigrants with DVD burners shot in New York movie houses.

That’s about to change and your pirated access to films currently in theaters is the target of new New York anti-piracy law that, for the first time, includes the threat of up to a year in jail for first time offenders.

Past that: Felony. No joke.

For recording movies!

Details on the penalties after the cut!

Another former nanny has added her sexual harassment claims to the previous, this time the allegations are leveled at Sheryl Lowe, Rob’s wife.

From People:

Laura Boyce, who worked for the couple for seven months in 2007, claims Sheryl Lowe created an “extremely sexually offensive and hostile work environment … behaving in a … perverted, disgusting and crude manner.”

Boyce also alleges that Sheryl used the “n” word in reference to Boyce’s boyfriend, who was an NBA player.

Sheryl also allegedly “walked around naked, completely exposing herself” to Boyce, asked about her boyfriend’s private parts and talked about Sheryl’s sex life with Rob.

Boyce also claims wrongful termination against both Rob and Sheryl, in addition to unpaid wages and other labor code violations.

We know these are all rumors flying around, bt by far the most offensive (and therefore semi-entertaining) one is that Sheryl once told Laura not to get “strep throat from sucking ni***r dick. I mean black dick.”

Uhhhhhh. Let’s just let that one sit.

Of course, the Lowes are denying it, and of course this new cliam has been folded under celeb-sycophant lawyer Gloria Allred, which makes us believe that all these accusations are false.

Allred is treading the fine line of believability here, which is why we can laugh at n-word cock.

Oh, you know, we’re going to hell. But that was a sure thing in the first place.

No one is really surprised that Dennis Rodman was busted last night under suspicion of domestic abuse.

You know that thing your mother used to tell you about tattoos and piercings? How people would judge you differently if you were full of holes and inked? It’s sort of like that, except add in some hair dye, a brief fling with Carmen Electra and some long-forgotten basketball talent.

Dennis and his current girlfriend were pretty drunk last night in a Century City hotel when they started arguing and Rodman grabbed his woman heartily by the arm, leaving a tell-tale bruise and getting himself busted.

He posted his bail and won’t face formal charges until May 22nd (someone isn’t seeing Indiana Jones!)

DenRod’s manager said that Rodman will be going to rehab after this all clears up because his drinking “has been escalating in the last six weeks due to a nasty divorce and not seeing his children in over two months.”

Listen, bro. There are a lot of divorcees out there not seeing their kids. This is America we’re talking about. Get over it.

Oh, TMZ and your limitless budget that allows you to have people stationed at courthouses to intercept paperwork…bless your shamelessness.

“CSI’s” Gary Dourdan was busted in Palm Springs yesterday on suspicion of possessing heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ the actor was asleep in his car at 5:21 AM when they approached the vehicle and made the bust.

We’re told Dourdan was taken to Palm Springs jail where he posted $5,000 and bailed out.

Heroin, Coke, X, and pills? Damn, Gary, where’s the party?

We told you this was going to happen yesterday, but unlike the many threats of prison those Brits through around like so many bangers in mash, this looks like it’s actually happening.

Bail is expected soon:

A rep from Scotland Yard just told TMZ they have arrested Amy Winehouse on suspicion of assault.

She is currently at the Holborn Police Station. She should be released within the hour.

Wino is accused of allegedly headbutting a guy outside a bar in London earlier this week. The maximum sentence for common assault in Britain is six months in prison.

Wesley Snipes got three years for tax evasion, the maximum penalty.

Writes the Times Online:

Snipes sat expressionless as the sentence was handed down. Asked if he had any reaction, he spread his arms and shrugged. One of his lawyers, Carmen Hernandez, complained: “Mr Snipes was sentenced because he’s Mr Snipes.”

The decision by US District Court judge William Terrell Hodges came two months after a jury convicted Snipes on three counts of willfully failing to file federal tax returns from 1999 to 2001.
The court heard yesterday that Snipes dodged $15 million (£7.5 million) in tax through a campaign in which he concealed millions offshore, falsely applied for tax refunds and bombarded the Internal Revenue Service with frivolous correspondence that threatened government employees, railed about extortion and used twisted legal interpretations to back his claim that taxation was unlawful.

“For nearly a decade, Snipes has engaged in a campaign of criminal tax conduct combining brazen defiance with insidious concealment,” the prosecuting attorney, Robert O’Neill, told the court in a sentencing memorandum. “In the defendant Wesley Snipes, the court is presented with a wealthy, famous and inveterate tax scofflaw. If ever a tax offender was deserving of being held accountable to the maximum extent for his criminal wrongdoing, Snipes is that defendant.”

He ain’t in the clink yet, but he does have to surrender himself at a later date. Is this racism? Is this because he once bought some land previously owned by religious fanatics? Is it because he simply didn’t pay his taxes and he just happened to be a black actor who owed $15 million dollars?

Who knows. All we know is that Sylvester Stallone is the only principal from Demolition Man still kicking at the box office, and if you would have told us that when the movie came out, we would have slapped you.

Wesley Snipes is in some deep shit for not paying his taxes.

A jury found the 45-year-old action star guilty of willfully failing to file taxes for three years, in which the government said he owed $2.7 million. Snipes was acquitted in February of three identical counts and two felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy.

Still, prosecutors are pressing the judge for the maximum sentence of three years in prison. They say Snipes is a “notorious” offender who dogged the IRS for years.

Hey, we would totally not pay taxes if we could get away with it. The guy just thought he could get away with it, why all the fuss?

Luckily, Snipes had his celebrity backers with him and The Smoking Gun got their grubby hands on the character reference letters from Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson.

Woody Harrelson has a great little story about Snipes lecturing him about racism on the set of Wildcats and Denzel Washington goes into a weak “mighty oak” metaphor.

At least the guy has real lawyers.

Read the Harrelson and Washington letters after the jump!

Yesterday, a whole bunch of Amy Winehouse pictures from her “crazy night out” went flying around the internet, and we spent most of our lunch break playing Wino or Zombie.

Our favorite photo is the one above, because she had to stop moving briefly and let her eyes roll up into her head what must have been about 20 feet away from her paparazzi swarm.

We couldn’t post the picture in good conscience until there was some news to accompany it.

Luckily, Wino head-butted a guy trying to get a cab.

“Police are investigating an alleged assault on Chalk Farm Road at approximately 3:20 am on April 23,” says a Metropolitan Police spokesman. “A 38-year-old man [contacted] Kentish Town police station and alleged a 24-year-old woman had assaulted him. No arrests have been made as yet but inquiries continue.”

Winehouse, 24, was alleged to have headbutted a man outside of a bar who tried to hail her a taxi, according to a detailed account in The Sun. The article is accompanied by a slideshow sequence of photos which include one of the “Rehab” singer walking into a lamppost.

The lamppost picture can be seen here, but it’s not as entertaining as just picturing Amy Winehouse headbutting a guy, then turning around right into a lamppost.

Ah, Wino, always entertaining, possibly jail-bound.

Yoko Ono is kind of a bitch. Yeah, sorry. We had to say it.

She broke up the Beatles, she seems incapable of doing anything worthwhile as an artist, she pays for crappy soft-serve ice cream at Sarah Lawrence (where she went to college) and she keeps suing people for stupid-ass reasons.

There are lots of reasons to hate Yoko, but John Lennon apparently never discovered even one. Over time, our opinion of John Lennon has actually mutated to: “Great musician, pretty good thinker, horrible taste in women.”

Why are our panties in a twist now? Because she’s needlessly suing again. Two different lawsuits in two days.

Yesterday, from AP:

Footage of John Lennon smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon’s tea is the focus of a court case starting in Boston next week over whether the video should be made public.
The case pits Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, against Lawrence, Massachusetts-based World Wide Video, which claims ownership of nine hours of raw footage of the former Beatle and Ono that was filmed just weeks before the “Fab Four” broke up in 1970.
World Wide, a New England consortium of Beatles collectors, wants to release the black-and-white footage as a two-hour film titled “3 days in the life” about Lennon during a pivotal and turbulent time for the most celebrated band of the 1960s.
Rolling Stone magazine dubs it “awesome John Lennon footage you might never see.”

What makes this even more stupid is that World Wide bought the videotapes from the man that shot them: Yoko’s ex-husband Anthony Cox.

Cox sold the tapes to World Wide who had them stolen. They eventually recovered the tapes, but when they did, Yoko had bought copies from a man in Florida who claimed to rep World Wide and now she says she has the copyright.

This is Yoko’s fault because: Lennon knew he was being filmed, World Wide bought it from the guy who shot it and WE WANT TO SEE IT!

Now. Today from Reuters:

John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, and his sons are suing the filmmakers of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” for using the song “Imagine” in the documentary without permission.

Yoko Ono, son, Sean Ono Lennon, and Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s son from his first marriage, along with privately held publisher EMI Blackwood Music Inc filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to bar the filmmakers and their distributors from continuing to use “Imagine” in the movie. 

They are also seeking unspecified damages.

The documentary, which features Ben Stein, an actor, comedian and former speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, looks at alleged discrimination against scientists and teachers who support so-called intelligent design as an alternative to Darwin’s theory of evolution.

This one makes a little more sense. First, because we’ve gotten the “Ben Stein supports intelligent design” SPAM e-mail, like, 50 times. Also, the Lennon estate should have a certain degree of control over it’s songs and if Expelled used it without permission, they should get sued.

But…why sue for damages now? Part of the suit is just to bar the use of the song in the film, though just a cease and desist letter from the Lennon estate would probably do the job right quick. Why should we pay Yoko Ono et al for using “Imagine” of all things?

It just seems like a stupid way to settle something that should have never been an issue.

Anyway, we have tons of more reasons to hate Yoko Ono. So many that when she stood amongst a table of guns, inviting people to shoot here as an art piece, we looked into the legal ramifications of shooting Yoko Ono.

Turns out she legally could have prosecuted us, even when she asked as part of the piece.

Judging from just these two days, she would have sued us too.