The Sexy Rabbi
He dished about intercourse on “The View” and offered sex toys to Matt Lauer on the “Today” show, but Rabbi Shmuley Boteach insists he’s just a nice Jewish boy. That’s not to say that “Kosher Sex,” Boteach’s frank book about the pleasures of the flesh, hasn’t changed his life. He’s constantly stopped for autographs. Flight attendants bump him up to first class. Still, he doesn’t want people to get the wrong idea. “I don’t see myself as a sex guru,” says Boteach, 32, a married father of six. “My strength is that I’m not sexually experienced. Innocence is the sexiest thing in the world.” You’d never know that by reading chapter two.
Another Parks Protest
After all these years, you’d think people would know better than to take on Rosa Parks. Last week the legendary Montgomery bus boycotter threatened to sue the hip-hop group OutKast to stop them from selling their hit single “Rosa Parks.” Parks says the song about a party exploits her name, even though her name isn’t actually in the lyrics. The band says they meant no disrespect. “We really thought we were educating the younger kids who have no idea who Rosa Parks is,” says rapper Andre Benjamin. And in rhyme, too.
David Blaine Digs Himself a Hole
Magician David Blaine has always drawn inspiration from the streets of New York, but he may be taking that concept too far this time. This week Blaine plans to hop into a see-through coffin, bury himself under Manhattan’s West Side and stay there for seven days–no food, no potty breaks and only a liter of water for the entire subterranean week. It’s not unlike a trick Houdini once planned. “But what I’m doing isn’t a trick,” says Blaine, who’s also hyping his April 14 ABC special, “Magic Man.” “It’s not an escape. It’s a symbol of endurance.” Especially once the dog walkers find him.
