Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008, visited Gitmo last week and blogs that it is a "looooot of fun!" and the bay is "soooo beautiful!"

The 22-year-old model, who won the crown while representing Venezuela, joined Crystle Stewart, Miss USA 2008, on a USO tour of the Guantanamo military facility, according to the USO’s web site.

"All the guys from the Army were amazing with us," she reports on the blog.

But it wasn’t all just hanging out by the beach and chatting with the troops.

"We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books," she reports. "It was very interesting."

Nor, like some recent Gitmo residents, was she eager to move on.

"I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful," she says.

Update at 2:25 p.m. ET: The link to Mendoza’s blog has been changed once again. Instead of linking to the Gitmo blog, it took the readers to a year-old entry about her visit to Indonesia. Now that one has been replaced with an item about Fashion Week in Miami on March 20. She ends the blog by saying, "On Friday, we left for Jacksonville for one night because the next day we were going to Guantanamo, Cuba!!!! Wow, my job is amazing!!!! I love it, I let you guys know next week how Guantanamo was  .." So perhaps the Gitmo blog may surface yet again!

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Some Floridians aren’t too bleeping happy with the Ozzy Osbourne and his family’s new variety show, Osbournes: Reloaded – the head of Panama City Fox affiliate WPGX says he watched six minutes of the show and subsequently felt uncomfortable, the Associate Press reports.

Right now the show is scheduled to air at 8:20 pm on Tuesdays, advantageous to grab the audience directly from American Idol.

According to the report, WPGX General Manager David Cavileer says a later time slot for Ozzy, Sharon and co. would’ve worked, but now he’ll be airing The Simpsons instead. That’s fine by Fox Broadcasting, as a spokesman says it’s up to the affiliates to deem which programs are appropriate.

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ShoWest First Look at Sherlock Holmes

Sometimes, ShoWest does pull out a few unexpected surprises, and while it was always known that Warner Bros. President and COO Alan Horn would be giving the welcome remarks at the State of the Industry Update, he used his time to also give a preview of some of Warner Bros.’ upcoming movies, including showing the first footage of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.

An even bigger surprise was the actual presence of Downey, who took a break from preparing for Iron Man 2 to introduce the footage to the theater owners in the audience. After coming out to applause and being hugged by Horn, Downey Jr. joked that Horn hugs him every time he sees him now though that it wasn’t always that way.

Before showing the footage, he told the audience how he came to the project, how after the opening weekend of Iron Man, he was told he probably could do anything he wanted to do "for the next hour and a half," so he went to Joel Silver, who gave Downey his first job 25 years ago (Weird Science), and gave him some ideas what he might be interested in doing. He learned about Guy Ritchie’s plans to update Sherlock Holmes. Ritchie thought that Downey was too old for the role, but Downey convinced him and then also convinced him that Rachel McAdams wasn’t too young to play his love interest. (He made a joke about using "Benjamin Button"-like CG to minimize their age difference.) Downey claimed that part of the reason Ritchie’s movie will be different from the previous incarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character is that besides going back to the original source material, the other projects never had the money to do it correctly.

The footage, a pseudo teaser-trailer, that followed had never been shown before, although we did glimpse a few scenes we saw being filmed and that were shown to ComingSoon.net during our set visit last year, including Holmes’ bare-knuckle fight and the early fight with Blackwood’s henchmen. Otherwise, there was a lot of information going by very fast, as is always the case, so we tried to take notes and remember what we could.

It opens with eerie music and shadowy scenes of Victorian London and we see a shot of Downey’s Holmes running down a spiral staircase and another of him smoking his trademark pipe as a voice-over tells Holmes that he needs to "widen his gaze" because he’s underestimating the "gravity of coming events." The voiceover tells Holmes that at the dawn of the new day, the world as he knows it would end, to which Holmes responds playfully, "Well, there isn’t any time to waste then" and he jumps out the window.

We get a brief glimpse of Eddie Marsan’s Inspector LeStrade saying something about someone seeing Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong’s villain in the film) rising from the grave, and Holmes is asked to find and stop him, which Holmes claims will "take every ounce of my not inconsiderable experience." To that, LeStrade comes back with a slam about it maybe being a hobby to Holmes, but that he does it for a living. (This confirms what Marsan told us last year about their working relationship not being a particularly friendly one.)

Holmes says that he needs to have someone with him that he can thoroughly trust, at which point we see him greeting Jude Law’s Dr. Watson and we get a bit of the rapport between them, as the two of them squabble about the things roommates normally argue over, Law complaining about Holmes playing the violin late at night and his "lack of hygiene."

After that, we get a bit of the interaction between Holmes and Rachel McAdams’ Irene Adler, as they scuffle, her pulling out an ornament from which sharp blades jut out to threaten Holmes. That interaction ends with him left chained to a bed. Watson finds him in that state and asks, "Holmes, does your depravity know no bounds?" to which Holmes replies, "No." (Later we see Adler in a very sexy outfit, as McAdams’ credit is shown.)

Another scene shows Holmes facing a much larger opponent, who looked like Nathan Jones, the giant from the opening of Troy, atop what looked like a clock tower. Jones is wielding an enormous sledgehammer while Holmes is carrying just a standard everyday hammer, which he promptly throws at the giant hoping that would do some damage. (It doesn’t, and the giant attacks.) This scene got a huge laugh from the audience.

There was a quick-cut montage of more action scenes before a scene where a maid walks into a room and screams, dropping the tray she was carrying. We cut to Downey chained to a bed naked except for a pillow covering his genitals, and he asks her to remain calm and that under the pillow is the "key to his release" and the shocked woman runs out screaming.

It was a very funny and exciting first look at what will surely be Guy Ritchie’s most high profile film to date, and it got a great reaction from the exhibitors in attendance. It’ll be interesting to see where and when this teaser trailer will surface, as it definitely did its job in showing what the movie is all about.

Sherlock Holmes opens on Christmas Day. Look for more from ComingSoon.net’s visit to the set shortly.
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Real Housewives of New York City newcomer Kelly Killoren Bensimon faced a judge this morning for allegedly assaulting her ex, Nick Stefanov.

The reality star, 40, was arrested earlier this month for reportedly punching her 30-year-old beau in the face, causing lacerations below his left eye and “substantial pain,” according to the complaint he filed with police. She could face up to a year in jail if convicted.

Bensimon’s lawyer Ed Hayes argued Stefanov was responsible for the altercation because he refused to leave her apartment after they split up.

“I can’t believe the guy went to the police,” Hayes told New York’s Daily News. “It is very, very mean-spirited. It’s not like she’s in his apartment. He’s in her apartment.”

“I don’t even know if I qualify him as lover. How about a jilted moron?” he continued to Extra.

Prosecutors asked for an order of protection against Bensimon to be extended, but Hayes charged Stefanov — who wasn’t present at court — was sending his ex threatening e-mails that said, “I’m going to make your life misery.”

The case was adjourned until June 8, a clerk at NYC Criminal Court confirmed to Usmagazine.com.

“If he doesn’t show up from now until then, they’ll dismiss the case. It’s not a real case,” Hayes told Extra. “He just wants to make her life uncomfortable.”

“I’m devastated my girls and I have to go through something like this,” Bensimon told the Daily News. “They don’t need to be exposed to something like this.”

She has two daughters, ages 8 and 10, with her French-photographer ex, Gilles Bensimon.

Bensimon said she was confident the case would be resolved in her favor. “The only time I’ll ever be here again is for jury duty,” she declared.

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John Krasinski went for a coffee run on Sunday morning before meeting up to take his girlfriend Emily Blunt to a movie that night. Both John and Emily had films out last weekend, though we have a feeling they may have picked a movie that neither worked on. In the end, John’s Monsters vs. Aliens beat Emily’s Sunshine Cleaning at the box office but it doesn’t look like there were any hard feelings.

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In this week’s NME… (30/03/09)

Inside the new issue of NME, on sale across the UK from Wednesday April 1, as the official paper for Reading and Leeds 2009 we exclusively reveal the line-up to this year’s rock extravaganza.

Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and Kings Of Leon are all confirmed headliners, but who will be joining them?

Find out how KOL plan to treat the crowd to their longest-ever set.

Magistrates explain how they got Damon Albarn to help with their forthcoming debut album.

Plus…

Who did we discover at SXSW 2009?

What are the ten tracks you need to hear this week?

NME delivers the verdict on Doves’ long-awaited new album.

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Traveling with an 8-month old? No big deal, says Matthew McConaughey.

“Levi is doing well, man. Five stamps on the passport,” he says on the 500th episode of the Rachael Ray Show (airing Wednesday). “Check this out, perfect tank of gas before he wakes up and is ready to eat. So as soon as it gets below a quarter of a tank and I gotta pull off to get gas, Levi’s waking up. So far so good. We’re…

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Alyson Hannigan celebrated her 35th birthday … by giving birth.

The How I Met Your Mother star and her husband, actor Alexis Denisof, welcomed a baby girl in L.A. on March 24 — the same day the star turned 35 — her rep tells

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Fifteen employees were fired for peeking at the medical records of octuplet mother Nadya Suleman, a Kaiser Permanente spokesman said Monday.

“We always provide training on the importance of patient privacy and confidentiality,” said hospital rep Jim Anderson. “We knew from the time she was admitted to the hospital in December, this case would attract attention. Numerous training sessions were held…

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