Sir Paul McCartney (my favorite Beatle, BTW) will be facing a bitter 64th birthday next month due to a divorce settlement with his current wife, Heather Mills McCartney (aka "stumpy, the gold-digger"). The settlement, expected to be the largest in UK history, could net the former model upwards of hundreds of millions. McCartney's net worth is believed to be in the ballpark of 800 million British pounds sterling - that's $1.5 billion dollars to you and me. Whew.

Not bad for sucking in a grieving pop culture icon and only putting in 4 years. It actually makes you see Linda McCartney in a new light. At least she was in for the long haul.

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Having completely lost their country music following for disparaging President Bush while on foreign soil, the Dixie Chicks are resigned to fact that their record sales and tours will never return to their previous heights.

"I'd rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith," [Band Member Martie] Maguire said. "We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."

Then again, the Dixie Chicks aren't owed any record sales whatsoever, either. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

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1 What previous heights of success have the Dixie Twits attained? They weren't on anyones radar until one of them decided to use politics to highlight how vapid they really are. Seriously, they need to keep up pseudo political innunendos, because their music isn't making much of a statment.

Posted by: SKYE at May 22, 2006 12:48 PM (ZFuWB)

2 Blogged on this today, since they seem to be getting undeserved media attention. I don't think it takes a lot of guts to retract an apology and release a defiant album at a time when President Bush's poll numbers are in the tanker. It is a marketing ploy, capitalizing on their earlier misfortune of backlash sentiments. Even in 2003, how much courage did it take for Maines to "disown" the President in a foreign land? If she knew the horrible backlash that would follow, I seriously doubt she would have had the plums to stick to her convictions and publically say what she did.

Posted by: Wordsmith at May 22, 2006 04:23 PM (nrGCx)

3 ex donkey blog? you made it as far as the back end...

Posted by: d milne at May 28, 2006 10:35 PM (4fpj4)

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