World's tallest Lego tower built in Budapest

Imagine the size of the box this one came in -- a Lego tower stretching 36 meters into the sky above the Hungarian capital Budapest.

The 34.76- meter (114 feet) tower, which was completed on Sunday, has been certified as the world's tallest toy brick structure by Guinness World Records.

It beat the previous record holder, a 34.4-meter structure constructed last year with the help of U.S. students from a school in Delaware.

A spokesman for Guinness World Records confirmed that the tower qualified as the "tallest structure built with interlocking plastic bricks."

He said the record was officially registered to Lego Store Budapest on May 25.

The Budapest tower, topped by a Rubik's cube -- a Hungarian invention -- was also built with the help of Hungarian primary school children, according to local news websites.

The structure, built in front of the city's St. Stephen's Basilica, used hundreds of thousands of blocks.

Culled from CNN.com

Twitter page gives out cash

It's a scavenger hunt for cash through the most modern of means: social media.

An anonymous, wealthy California man is hiding up to $100 or so in public places in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and then posting clues to the money's whereabouts through his Twitter page, appropriately dubbed Hidden Cash.

San Francisco residents find hidden cash

The $100 bills or envelopes containing several $20 bills are amounting to $1,000-a-day philanthropy in what the Twitter account calls "an anonymous social experiment for good."

The results have been a feel-good sensation in California: The Twitter page features selfies of joyous people who found the money -- flashing smiles and cash -- with testimonials of what they're going to do next. The cash hunts ventured into a third city, San Jose, on Wednesday.

The anonymous donor and owner of the Twitter page is a real estate investor who's had the good fortune of joining the wealthiest 1% of American society, especially in the past few years, he said.

When he recently closed a deal with a six-figure profit, the philanthropist decided to "give some of it back" through random acts of kindness, he told CNN.

Robert De Niro to release dcoumentary on his Gay father.

Robert De Niro says it was his "responsibility" to make a documentary about his father, artist Robert De Niro Sr., he told Out magazine in an interview.

De Niro's father was a gay man who divorced De Niro's mother when the actor was a child. The elder De Niro is the subject of a new documentary, "Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.," which premieres on HBO June 9. (HBO, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner.)

In a chat with Out, De Niro says that though he and his father weren't close -- he grew up with his mother -- the senior De Niro had a profound influence on his actor son. De Niro wants to pay tribute in the documentary, partly for the sake of his own children.

"We were not the type of father and son who played baseball together, as you can surmise. But we had a connection," he said. "I wasn't with him a lot, because my mother and he were separated and divorced. ... But my father wasn't a bad father, or absent. He was absent in some ways. He was very loving. He adored me ... as I do my kids."

T.I. punches undefeated boxing champion.

Floyd Mayweather’s next fight isn’t until September, but the undefeated boxer got an unexpected tune-up Sunday morning in Las Vegas.

Mayweather and rapper T.I. got into it at Fatburger on the Las Vegas Strip, according to TMZ, where chairs and fists were flying in the early-morning hours.

The brawl allegedly stemmed from a photo shared by T.I.'s wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, posing with Mayweather's daughter on Instagram, calling the young girl her "new boo," TMZ reported.

A photo from Tameka "T.I." Cottle "s Instagram account, "majorgirl," shows the rapper with Floyd Mayweather"s daughter: "Had to come celebrate with my new boo."


The comment sparked fiery tensions and two videos from the scene — one before the fracas and another during the row — show testosterone escalating with Mayweather shouting, presumably at T.I., “control your b---- motherf-----," before throwing punches.

The second clip shows the chairs flying through the Vegas grub hub, a spot Mayweather swears by.

A fight breaks out between undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather and Grammy-winning rapper T.I. in Las Vegas early Sunday morning.

Chairs fly inside Fatburger as Floyd Mayweather and rapper T.I. get into an altercation inside one of the undefeated boxer's favorite spots on the Strip.

Floyd Mayweather unexpectedly gets a tune-up for his September bout, as he gets into it with T.I. early Sunday morning.

Witnesses told TMZ that T.I. approached Mayweather while he was eating and started mouthing off. The website also reports that T.I. took a swing at Mayweather. Cops reported one minor injury and an uncooperative witness at the scene.

T.I. claims the photos disrespected him, so he confronted Mayweather about it.

Drug abuse in the music industry

There are concerns that the music industry has been over-run with drugs and alcohol amid a culture of ‘self-destruction’ among young male and female musicians and entertainers alike. Many have embraced the dark side of the music industry and ended up in more trouble than they courted.
Does the music industry overly glamorize and perpetuate the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol? An entertainer operates in an environment that gives positive reinforcement to damaging behaviours like none other, and hundreds of thousands -find themselves coping with the fallout from that. Celebrities may be at special risk but speaking with some stakeholders in the Nigerian entertainment industry, they revealed that they are addressing the menace.
The shocking stories are familiar – lives being cut short and dreams shattered by costant alcohol and drug abuse. Cocaine contributed to Whitney Houston’s death. She drowned in her bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel. Michael Jackson died not far from the same location in 2009 after his doctor administered a lethal dose of the sedative Propofol. British singer Amy Winehouse was troubled by addiction and died of alcohol poisoning.