Denver Nuggets All-Star Carmelo Anthony was arrested yesterday morning on charges of drunk driving after weaving in traffic and failing to pass a field sobriety test.

The two-time All-Star, 23, failed a series of field sobriety tests and was taken to a Denver Police Department lockup where he consented to a blood test and posed for the [above] mug shot. The Smoking Gun

Carmelo was later released to a “sober responsible party,” and has a court dater set for May 14th. News of this incident shouldn’t come as any surprise. Anthony’s past is littered with controversy. In 2004 he was cited for marijuana possession, although his friend, James Cunningham, signed an affidavit assuming responsibility for the incident and in 2006 he took part in the infamous Knicks-Nuggets Brawl at Madison Square Garden.

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A book signing turned deadly. Apparently signing a book is not gangsta enough for some people.

All hell broke loose late last night, April 13, at a release party for the new exposé book on super producer Dr. Dre. “Rolling With Dre” is a tell-all book written by former Dre business associate Bruce Williams, in which he details his supposed tumultuous time spent with the producer. The party was held in Tukwila, Washington at Gordon’s on the Green, a restaurant owned by the city. It is not known what exactly started the fighting but by 2AM shots rang out and people started dropping. Two unnamed men were hit, one pronounced dead.

One day, back in the 1950’s, Marilyn Monroe performed fellatio on an unidentifiable man… and captured the full 15 minutes on 16 mm film!!

The footage, which shows Marilyn Monroe on her knees pleasuring a man who’s face is never shown, was discovered 10 years later by Keya Morgan, who was doing research for a documentary. J. Edgar Hoover found out about it and tried to pin it on John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy. He was un-suck-cessful (ba da bum).

The FBI confiscated the original footage - but not before an informant made a copy of it, which is what was just sold by his son, Morgan said.

“She’s smiling, she’s very charming, she’s very radiant, but she’s known for being radiant,” he said. “She moves away, and then it [the footage] stops.”

Monroe never directly looks into the camera, but she had to have known it was there as cameras in the 1950’s were noisy and bulky.

Joe DiMaggio was said to have offered $25,000 (according to declassified information), but today the film sold for $1.5 million to a wealthy New Yorker. Fortunately for Monroe, he has decided not to share it with anyone else.

“He said he’s just going to lock it up,” Morgan said.

“He said, ‘I’m not going to make a Paris Hilton out of her. I’m not going to sell it, out of respect.’

There are still good people in the world.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling may have created the most lovable fantasy characters since The Fraggles (well, I thought they were lovable anyway), but DO NOT FUCK WITH HER. Rowling testified today in a New York City court against a fan who she said committed “wholesale theft” of her intellectual — and extremely profitable — property.

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling said that Stephen Vander Ark, the author of the Lexicon fan site and a companion book, had, in a way that was “lazy” and “sloppy,” taken from her creations.

“I believe that the book contains wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work,” she said. “It desecrates what I worked so hard to create.”

Vander Ark is 50 years old, and used to work as a teacher and librarian in Byron Center, MI, before moving to London recently to pursue a career in writing (writing other people’s characters, apparently). Vander Ark even has a fan site dedicated to him. The Web site, Lexicon, was started as a hobby. Vander Ark said that he’d never been contacted regarding the site in the past and had even declined previous offers to turn the Web site into an encyclopedia because he believed it was copyright infringement.

Rowling filed a lawsuit against Vander Ark and his publisher a year ago, and the court battle is expected to last through the week. Sucks to be that guy, I guess. Well, anyway, here are the Fraggles.

Mischa Barton got popped for a DUI right after Christmas was just given probation. At this point she’s almost as well know for consistent public displays of nipples and getting in various degrees of trouble as she is for her role as Marissa Cooper on “The O.C.”

From Reuters:

Actress Mischa Barton, who starred on the TV drama “The O.C.,” was sentenced on Thursday to three years unsupervised probation and ordered into an alcohol education program after pleading no contest to drunken driving.

As part of the plea deal, which spared the London-born actress any jail time, prosecutors agreed to dismiss a marijuana possession charge and reduced a charge of driving without a license to an infraction, a court official said.

Barton, 22, was not present for the proceedings in a Beverly Hills court. Her lawyer entered her no contest plea, the functional equivalent of pleading guilty in California, on her behalf.

“Ms. Barton understands the seriousness of this situation and assumes full responsibility for her actions,” her lawyer, Anthony V. Salerno, said in a statement following the hearing. “She and I are grateful to the court and the District Attorney’s Office for the prompt and respectful resolution of the case.”

In addition to probation, Barton was ordered to complete a three-month alcohol education program and was fined about $2,000, a Los Angeles County court official said.

We already posted about Vanilla Ice’s dumb ass and how he punched his wife last week but this video from KTLA news (that’s in LA of course) featuring anchor Jessica Holmes doing her rendition of “Ice Ice Baby”.

Now that was classy (and actually on the news). Edward R. Murrow just rolled over in his grave (again).