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Let's see what has changed about Rob's art from when X-Force first came out and compare his art to now. What has changed 1. Rob's colorist 2. Cable's gone to the Hair Club For Men and now has a full set of hair. 3. Cable's lost about 200lbs aka those big ass shoulder pads he use to wear. And that's pretty the only things that have changed about Rob's art since the early 90's.

The acoustic verison of Plush by Stone Temple Pilots. It was so popular that it went on to become a hit on the radio.

http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showth...?threadid=28296 WHAT IS MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099? Marvel Knights - founded in 1999 - has been a symbol of cutting-edge quality not just for Marvel, but for the entire industry. Now, on the fifth anniversary of this imprint, Marvel is shooting 100 years from the start date for a special event - Marvel Knights 2099. These five one-shots are set in a familiar time for longtime Marvel fans, but will turn the future upside down, just as Knights did for classic characters over the past five years. MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099: DAREDEVIL #1 Written by Robert Kirkman Penciled by Steve Epting Cover by Pat Lee Samuel Fisk carries on his shoulders the burden of a legacy that has lasted over 100 years. He struggles to balance his life with the duty he has accepted in order to continue the works of those that have come before him. Samuel Fisk is Daredevil! 32 PGS./MARVEL PSR …$2.99 UPC: 5960605629-00111 MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099: BLACK PANTHER #1 Written by Robert Kirkman Penciled by Kyle Hotz Cover by Pat Lee T'Challa is gone, but Wakanda stands strong. The vibranium mines are still active and it remains one of the richest countries in the world. T'Challa left no heir, and since his passing a succession of Wakandans have attempted to claim the throne. Doctor Doom of Latveria has turned his sights on Wakanda; an invasion is imminent. But where is the Black Panther? 32 PGS./MARVEL PSR …$2.99 UPC: 5960605631-00111 MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099: INHUMANS #1 Written by Robert Kirkman Penciled by Cliff Rathburn Cover by Pat Lee After the mutant registration act being reinstated spurred a battle between mutants, super heroes, and the government, it was clear to the Inhumans that anything more than human... was not welcome on Earth. So they left for a life amongst the stars, but after an over-fifty-year journey they have arrived at their destination... but where could they be? 32 PGS./MARVEL PSR …$2.99 UPC: 5960605633-00111 MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099: PUNISHER #1 Written by Robert Kirkman Penciled by Pop Mhan Cover by Pat Lee Cassondra Castle is old, her time is coming to an end, but there are still plenty who need punishment. Her son Franklin has never known her terrible secret... he never knew where she spent her evenings... but someone has to pick up the torch... someone has to continue the legacy. Franklin's life is about to change drastically. 32 PGS./MARVEL PSR …$2.99 UPC: 5960605632-00111 MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099: MUTANT #1 Written by Robert Kirkman Penciled by Khary Randolph Cover by Pat Lee Registered mutant 2099, Chad Channing, is a mild-mannered high school student at Baxter High. He takes his mutant gene suppression pills every morning and his parents couldn't be more proud of him. With the mutant threat neutralized the world is a safer place, crime is down, a Sentinel is on every corner, and life is pretty much perfect. But all that changes when Chad finds a secret basement located under the Baxter Building that houses the living brain of rebel leader Reed Richards. 32 PGS./MARVEL PSR …$2.99 UPC: 5960605634-00111

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...health_aids_mtv MTV chief says Bush AIDS policies will not halt condom adverts BANGKOK (AFP) - The president of cable music giant MTV vowed not to stop the channel's hard-hitting AIDS (news - web sites) and condom messages despite the US government promoting a sexual abstinence programme to counter the pandemic. "We get criticised quite a bit, we even get penalised quite a bit and I am here to see that we will continue to take those risks," said Bill Roedy, at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, where the debate between strict sexual abstinence versus a pro-condom approach has emerged as a key issue. Roedy said MTV's no-nonsense specials on AIDS and condom use had also found the televised music giant in hot water in many countries outside the United States. The MTV president sat on a panel with Hollywood icon Richard Gere, who joined Roedy in criticising the approach of President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration to condom and AIDS awareness. "We may well have hopefully another administration in about four months in the US and along with that some sanity on this subject," said Gere. An adviser on women's issues to the United Nations (news - web sites) on Friday partially blamed a rising AIDS rate among women in the US on popular media such as MTV. "Among young people in America, there is a feeling that sex is cool, that it's okay to be growing up and to be sexually experienced," said Stephanie Urdang. The number of American women with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS leapt from 180,000 in 2001 to 240,000 two years later, she said.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103794/?GT1=4244 Bill Cosby America's granddad gets ornery. By Debra Dickerson Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 11:22 AM PT Lately, Bill Cosby has been making a comeback—as Shelby Steele. The 67-year-old comedian—who became America's Dad in the 1980s and America's Granddad more recently—has launched a series of surprising assaults on the pathologies of low-income blacks. "They think they're hip. They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere," he said in Chicago at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference on July 1. This followed an attack launched at the NAACP's Brown v. Board of Education 50th anniversary gala at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., in May. No laugh tracks there. The Cos has chastised young black men for "beating up your women because you can't find a job," blasted poor parenting in the ghettoes, heaped scorn on Ebonics, and lambasted aimless blacks for squandering the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Symbolically, he made his comments in high-profile "public" (read: where whites could hear) venues. Many critics expressed shock that the beloved figure of Americana—the genial observational humorist; the wise paterfamilias of the beloved The Cosby Show (1984-1992); the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002—should offer such a pointed, and conservative, political message. Yet those who were fooled by Cosby's silliness into surprise at his newfound ferocity were just that—fooled. Cosby has long been a good "race" man on an all-too-serious mission. There was always darkness in the Cos' light. From humble beginnings in the projects of Philadelphia, raised by a domestic and a laborer, Cosby parlayed his impish nature and keen insights into the transcendent in daily life into a successful comedy career during the early 1960s heyday of stand-up. In 1963, he was chosen as the first black guest host of The Tonight Show and in 1965 as the first black star on a white drama. On I Spy, he and Robert Culp played intelligence agents gone undercover as an international tennis player and coach. Overnight Cosby became the "Jackie Robinson of television," a crucial figure in bringing unapologetic but unconfrontational blackness into the mainstream. It is almost impossible now to convey the watershed I Spy represented in American life. Those were the days when blacks called each other in wonderment to make sure that no one missed seeing one of their own in America's public square. That Cosby's "Scotty" was an abstemious, multilingual Rhodes Scholar and devoted family man while Culp's "Kelly" was a womanizing boozehound from the wrong side of the tracks was no accident. Cosby himself lobbied to make Scotty the brains of the outfit, the one who traveled the world and tended to national security matters. Nonradical elements of the black community always embraced strategic racial inroads like this as exactly the type of gains they were trying to make—securing a place at the table instead of dismantling the table. Radicals like the Black Panthers, socialists, and Amiri Baraka, of course, considered Cosby a sell-out—a judgment for which his recent comments merely provide them the final proof. Once Cosby found the upward path, he worked hard to stay there and to help bring the race along with him. His philosophy was always to play by the rules so as to beat the master at his own game—to be clearly black-identified, but not, you know, militant about it. Like that of Nat King Cole, Flip Wilson, and Diahann Carroll, television's other black pioneers, Cosby's appeal lay in presenting the universality of black life "apolitically," on its own terms (or, if you're Amiri Baraka, in the least discomforting way possible for whites). Their sudden presence in public life was all the rebuke that pre-Civil Rights Act America could face. But Cosby's critics are wrong to say Cosby is either "incognegro" or an appeaser. The man always had a plan. While his humor is nonconfrontational, his attitude has been anything but; like Oprah Winfrey and Magic Johnson's inner-city focused business empire, Cosby sees the acquisition of power as a civil rights strategy. He's worked to be in the meetings where decisions are made rather than outside picketing them, though he was an ardent supporter of the civil rights movement and used his shows to pay homage to it. And he succeeded. Once his star took off, Cosby was rarely without either a sitcom, a game show, an animated series, best selling non-fiction, or a comedy album riding the top of the charts. His power allowed him, among many other good deeds, to support black higher education by donating millions to schools, sending deserving, hardscrabble youngsters he'd read about in the newspaper to college, and challenging universities to ambitious fundraising goals by offering generous matching funds of his own—facts he's been advertising in a PR counteroffensive after the harsh reaction his recent comments provoked. So why now? Why is Bill Cosby suddenly so sour, so publicly? Perhaps it was watching one of his four daughters struggle with a drug habit in the 1980s. Perhaps it was losing his only son, Ennis, to random violence in 1997. (Ghouls click here for a guide to the murder site.) Perhaps it was having to acknowledge having cheated on his wife of 40 years, Camille, who is nearly as beloved by blacks as he is. To make matters worse, the news of this infidelity broke when a young woman tried to extort hush money from him, and he helped the FBI send his (probable) love child to prison. But perhaps the final straw was watching Eddie Murphy reprise his history-making I Spy role on the big screen in 2002, not as a jet-setting, high-minded patriot but as a jive-talking, barely literate boxer who couldn't care less about national security; Cosby has long been vocal in his disgust with what he sees as the minstrelsy, vulgarity, and low artistic value of modern black comedy, film, and television. Don't even get him started on rap music. "I'm a tired man," he said recently, but he wasn't talking about the energy required to defend himself. He was talking about still fighting battles his generation thought would have been long won by now, and he's talking about how draining it is to watch black complacency with its pockets of stagnation. But true acolytes will recognize the Cos' own personal progression through the stages of life, territory he just about owns. One of Cosby's standards bits was in ribbing his mother for coddling her grandchildren after having been so tough on her children. "That's not the same woman that raised me," he'd claim in mock confusion. Watching our beloved Cos take his people so publicly to the woodshed, it's our turn now to marvel at the evolution of the man we thought we knew so well. Debra Dickerson is the author of The End of Blackness and An American Story.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/12...n.ap/index.html Cache of child porn found at seminary Monday, July 12, 2004 Posted: 4:06 PM EDT (2006 GMT) VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A vast cache of child pornography and photos of young priests having sex has been discovered at a Roman Catholic seminary, officials said Monday, leading politicians and church leaders to demand a criminal probe and the resignation of the bishop in charge. Bishop Kurt Krenn, who oversees the diocese, refused to step down, however, dismissing the images as a "childish prank." Leaders of the Catholic diocese of St. Poelten where the seminary is located, about 50 miles west of Vienna, spent much of the day in an emergency meeting. The seminary's director, the Rev. Ulrich Kuechl, resigned along with his deputy, Wolfgang Rothe, the diocese said after the meeting. It did not elaborate. As many as 40,000 photos and an undisclosed number of films, including child pornography, were found a year ago on computers at the seminary, the respected news magazine Profil reported. It published several images purportedly showing young priests and their instructors kissing and fondling each other, and said others showed them engaging in orgies and sex games. The child porn came mostly from Web sites based in Poland, the magazine said. Hannes Jarolim, a spokesman for the opposition Socialist Party, urged the Interior Ministry on Monday to launch a criminal investigation. Public prosecutor Walter Nemec said police were examining the material, which he said showed seminarians "in perverse situations together with their superiors." The Austrian Bishops Conference issued a statement pledging a full and swift internal investigation. "Anything that has to do with the practice of homosexuality or pornography has no place at a seminary for priests," it said. Krenn, a conservative churchman, told Austrian television he had seen photos of seminary leaders in sexual situations with students, but he described the images as part of an elaborate prank that "had nothing to do with homosexuality." His nonchalance drew swift and scathing reaction across the overwhelmingly Catholic nation. "Collecting child pornography cannot be dismissed as a prank," said Thomas Huber, a Green Party politician. In the mid-1990s, Austria was stung by allegations that Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer, who died last year, had molested students at an all-male Catholic boarding school two decades earlier. The affair had prompted Groer to step down. A group of St. Poelten Diocese officials planned to ask the Vatican to remove Krenn as bishop, Austrian radio reported Monday. Martin Walchhofer, who supervises the alpine country's seminaries, said Krenn ultimately was responsible and "must answer before the church and before God for all of this." Asked whether he intended to resign, Krenn said bluntly: "No." The Vatican said it had no comment. Krenn, 68, issued a statement calling the accusations groundless while conceding that he "may have made some wrong personnel decisions" at the seminary. Rothe, the former deputy seminary chief, was a legal adviser to the bishop.

They don't see the camera. Or the lights. Or the boom guy. Hey, they're busy EMOTING! One of my favorite "The camera's not there skit" is when The Rock came back and Angle was a face. Rock and Angle are talking and Rock is trying to get Angle to sing. The Rock then turns to the camera and ask the folks "Would you like to hear Angle sing?" and Angle has a confused look on his face and asks Rock who's he talking to. And Rock tells him to never mind. To funny.

Obviously. Kane's presumably only previous experience with a girl was a dead chick. Yean and fucking Lita was a huge step down for Kane.

For me it would be the X-Men first followed in a close second by Spider-Man.

And don't forget you gotta love how that had former Batman Adam West do the voice of the Grey Ghost. A very fitting choice if I do say so myself. I also love how this episode was referenced in an episode of Batman Beyond, when Bruce Wayne dons the Grey Ghost's mask in order to help Batman but keep his true identity a secret.

In my opinion, the "Lana falls for another guy" thing is getting pretty old. I kinda hope Jason doesn't end up as another psycho with a superpower. No kidding. I swear I think Lana is the dumbest person in Smallville. Everytime she dates a man, he turns out to be a superpowered psycho. Clark then tries to tell her about it but, Lana doesn't believe him and thinks that he is jealous. Ok, never mind the fact that Clark has been right about it the last HUNDRED times or so and had to save her ass because of her being a dumbass, you would think Lana would get a clue and believe Clark for once. At least, Chole has a clue and believes him, more or less, no matter how off the wall things Clark tells her.

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Don't forget during the reboot there was a story with Venom were Brock and suit were apart. Brock know that Parker was Spider-Man but, when the suit and Brock bonded and became Venom he wouldn't have any idea who Spider-Man really was and the suit made no effort in telling Brock.

Speaking of NOES. Does anybody remember the show Just The Ten Of Us about the fat coach and his teen daughters? It was a spin off a Growing Pains and it last 2 seasons I think. Anyways, out of his 4 teen girls 3 of them were in Elm Street movies. One of them was Heather Langenkamp.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5402763?GT1=4244 Fast-food giant accused of failing to reduce fat in cooking oilThe Associated Press Updated: 9:00 a.m. ET July 09, 2004SAN FRANCISCO - McDonald’s Corp. was hit with a lawsuit Thursday accusing the fast-food giant of failing to reduce fat in the cooking oil used in its french fries and other foods. Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald’s pledged in September 2002 to switch to a lower-fat oil by February, 2003. The suit, filed in federal court on behalf of a California woman, says McDonald’s has not disclosed “to the public in an effective manner that it had not switched to a new, healthier cooking oil.” The restaurant chain had announced it planned to cut the trans fat levels in its fried foods. But McDonald’s has delayed the plan, citing concerns of product quality and customer satisfaction. McDonald’s spokeswoman Lisa Howard said the company could not comment on the complaint’s specific allegations because it had not seen the lawsuit. Howard said McDonald’s has reduced trans fatty acid levels in its McNuggets and other chicken dishes. “In February 2003, we made a broad public statement that the change in our cooking oil was taking longer than anticipated and would be delayed,” she said. “We continue to work hard to achieve our ambitious goals for reduction of TFAs in our cooking oil.” Heart-clogging trans fat is made when manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil — a process called hydrogenation. © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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I guess it's the editing to that makes her look that way but, here's the thing. Her dad is the executive producer and has alot of say in what is shown. So am I the only one thinks it's messed up that her dad is editing the show to make her look like a dumbass? Even if it's getting them ratings? Of course, I do wonder about her dad. Remember the ep were they were filming the video for Sweetest Sin and they're doing the love making and her dad is standing RIGHT THERE like a few feet away watching very closely. Hell even Nick said something about it in a joking manner but, even he seemed not to like it.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news04/040702f.php "X3" & "Fantastic" Casting Talk Posted: Friday July 2nd, 2004 11:29pm (Au-EST) Author: Garth Franklin Handbag.com reports that Halle Berry will not be back for a third "X-Men" movie because her character, Storm, isn't going to be in it enough. According to their insider, "Halle was ready to do X-Men 3, but only if Storm was given more storyline, but the studio sees the third movie as a means to wrap up the trilogy, and that means Storm won't be featured more than Hugh Jackman's Wolverine. Halle has now passed on the third movie because she's not into bit-parts. She's an Oscar winner and she wants roles that test her". As a result, producers are now apparently looking to singer and actress Christina Milian as a possible replacement In more solid news, Latino Review has learned that "Not Another Teen Movie" & "Cellular" star Chris Evans has been offered the role of Johnny Storm (aka. The Human Torch) in Fox's "The Fantastic Four". Tim Story wants Evans and that he loved him so much that he apparently offered him the role right there on the spot. The final list now according to the most solid rumours seems to be Ioan Gruffodd ("Horatio Hornblower", "King Arthur") as Mr. Fantastic, Rachel McAdams ("The Notebook", "Mean Girls") as Susan Storm, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm, and Michael Chiklis (TV's "The Shield") as Ben Grimm. An official announcement is due any moment. Thanks to 'Pat' & 'Kellvin'

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14470,00.html UPN: Amish Next Hot Thing by Lia Haberman Jul 8, 2004, 1:30 PM PT Bondage babes, horny bachelors and bug-crunching fame seekers need not apply for UPN's newest reality series. Indeed, the network's tapped into a large pool of previously unjaded participants for its latest TV experiment, Amish in the City. UPN announced today that the fish-out-of-water series, starring the horse-and-buggy set, would premiere in less than three weeks, with back-to-back episodes airing July 28. The Real World-style series pairs five Amish youths with six of their big-city counterparts, including a party girl and a club promoter, in a swanky Hollywood Hills home and tracks the ensuing culture clash as the housemates take a helicopter ride to a resort island, work with the mentally disabled and walk the red carpet at a movie premiere. Casting for the Amish youths was conducted mostly in the Midwest during the coming-of-age period known as rumspringa (Pennsylvania Dutch for "running around"), when the Amish are allowed to experience more "normal" teen activities, such as dating and driving, before deciding if they want to join the church. But "running around" is a relative term for the simple-living Amish. When the concept was first announced in January, it provoked an uproar from TV critics, advocacy groups and political types, with 51 members of Congress lending their John Hancocks to an anti-UPN petition. But network execs denied any allegations of exploitation. "Foremost in our minds as we went forward was to treat with the highest respect the young Amish people who were entering a world they had never before experienced," said a statement from UPN prez Dawn Ostroff. "In working with our producers, two of whom produced The Devil's Playground, a film that touched on many of these same issues, we believe we have succeeded in developing a program that is both serious and entertaining and ultimately very thought-provoking." As such, the series had to be filmed in secrecy and wasn't touted on the network's upcoming schedule at its upfront presentation to advertisers in May. The secrecy paid off for the network--CBS was forced to indefinitely postpone a similar series, the Real Beverly Hillbillies, after critics accused the Tiffany net of conducting a "hick hunt" through the Appalachians.

Yeah and they didn't really do much of not besides get there asses kicked by Brock for months on end.

Yeah he did and I remember him doing it a few times during the later days of Johnny B. Badd. You know when Badd started looking less and less like a queer.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14487,00.html Stone Kills "Basic" Lawsuit by Joal Ryan Jul 9, 2004, 7:45 PM PT Sharon Stone is surrendering the ice pick. The star has dropped her multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the producers of the long-planned, as-yet-unmade Basic Instinct sequel, she confirmed to E! Friday. Stone even hinted that the project itself was being freed from the depths of development hell. "Supposedly we are now back in the process of making Basic Instinct 2," Stone said. "You never, ever know, but it would be fun." The actress' comments came as she was promoting Catwoman, the Halle Berry-in-leather excuse in which Stone costars. The comments also came amid a tough PR week for the actress--a week in which the Smoking Gun ratted out Stone as both a perk-seeking diva and an overtime-denying boss. Per the document-downloading Website, Stone's three-year-old Basic Instinct 2 lawsuit finally was to go to trial this month. Stone filed suit against producers Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna in June 2001, shortly after the sequel was scrapped by MGM. Complaining she'd lost jobs while waiting around to reprise her role as ice pick-wielding author Catherine Tramell, Stone sought the $14 million she said Kassar and Vajna had agreed to pay her up front. She said the producers orally agreed to the contract; they maintained nothing was official. If Stone didn't get her paycheck specifics in writing, it appears she gets her perk requests in triplicate. As a marked-up, five-page document leaked last week to the Smoking Gun shows, Stone requires many things during the movie-making process, including: dibs on wardrobe and jewelry; caterer approval (a private chef's okay, too); a first-class motor home with such first-class amenities that "no one receives [will] better facilities"; and a Pilates Cadillac--a piece of exercise equipment, not an SUV. While lengthy contract riders are the rule, not the exception among Hollywood stars, Stone's may have become an issue if her lawsuit had gone to trial. The producers reportedly were ready to argue her demands were among the project's sticking points. In addition to requesting motor homes and the like, Stone also uses her contract to set boundaries: No cigar smoking on the set; no commercial tie-ins involving firearms or "feminine hygiene products"; and no nudity of the unplanned variety. (Nude scenes she's already read about, and approved, are okey-dokey.) It was Stone's lack of wardrobe in the original Basic Instinct that lifted her up from costarring and B-movie roles, and helped establish the film as a Top 10 box-office hit of 1992, with $117.7 million in domestic ticket sales. Stone was the only major Instinct player slated to return for the sequel. Star Michael Douglas, director Paul Verhoeven, and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas were long ago out. Names of potential leading men were floated--Pierce Brosnan and Harrison Ford, included--but no name ever landed. This week, Stone told the Australian newspaper the Advertiser that if the new movie went ahead her love/hate interest would be wrinkle free. "Somebody should be younger," the 46-year-old Stone said in the Advertiser. "We are discussing it now." There were no details on the lawsuit settlement. Owing to the ever-watchful Smoking Gun, however, there were details this week on the nearly $20,000 California labor officials ordered Stone to pay a former personal assistant, who complained the celeb stiffed her on overtime and vacation pay. With legal matters settled, Stone on Friday sounded as if she was looking forward to rediscovering her Basic Instinct. "I'm good at being the villain," she told E!

I remember back in WCW Kidman, more times then not, did kick ass shooting star presses. Hell he even pulled out a few springboard to the outside ones. Hell it was because of Kidman's SSP that I made it the finisher for my e-wrestler when I first started e-feds. But, ever since he came to WWE his SSPs have been pretty sad and shitty. I don't know why it is. Age, injury, the WWE style, or Kidman just isn't happy and thus isn't trying anymore but, it's real sad watching him do the SSP now.

I was an Ahmed fan to and I still think he was very over after he came back from injury. But, I think what killed his overness was joining the NOD out of nowhere while he was still feuding with them. And the thing is they never really explained why Ahmed joined them. I do remember JR saying something like Ahmed joined them because of his past as a youth he was in gangs. But, even then it was half-assed explained.

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14482,00.html Lindsay Lohan: Pop Star by Josh Grossberg Jul 9, 2004, 2:15 PM PT Just call her L.Lo. Lindsay Lohan, Hollywood's latest It Girl thanks to sparkling performances in such hit flicks as Mean Girls and Freaky Friday, is officially a multihyphenate, having just inked a record deal with Tommy Mottola's Casablanca Records. "I can confirm Lindsay has indeed signed with Casablanca," Peter Lofrumento, a rep for Casablanca's parent company, Universal Music Group, told E! Online. No further details were disclosed, but it's believed Lohan has locked up a long-term, multi-album pact. Lohan, who turned 18 a week ago, does have a musical pedigree--and we're not talking about her role as a rocker in Freaky Friday or as girlfriend to popster Aaron Carter. Her mom was once a Rockette at Radio City Music Hall and Lindsay knows her way around a studio. In 2002, she signed a five-album production deal with producer Emilio Estefan Jr. with the idea that he would shop her around to a major record label. She also sang the song "Ultimate" on last year's Freaky Friday soundtrack and contributed three tracks this year to Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. It was her made-for-soundtrack cuts that caught the attention of Mottola, the former boss of Sony Music. "I'm thrilled we have her," Mottola told the New York Post. "I think she's the next big star on the horizon. She has the potential--if not more--of any of the big ones I've worked with." That would put Lohan in some elite company. Mottola is known for nurturing the mega-successful careers of Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, and ex-wife Mariah Carey (they divorced in 1998), while heading Sony's music label for a decade and a half. After leaving Sony, Mottola linked up with Universal Music Group and formed his own label, Casablanca Records. According to the Post, Casablanca recently signed a deal to distribute all of Miramax Films' soundtracks, including Shall We Dance?, an upcoming musical starring Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere. The Post says Mottola wants to put Lohan on the same musical trajectory as Lopez. Lohan's first album on the Casablanca imprint is expected to hit record stores by the end of the year. Besides recording, feuding with Hilary Duff, partying with Paris Hilton and purportedly dating That '70s Show's Wilmer Valderrama, the Parent Trap star has several high-profile flicks in the pipeline, including Herbie: Fully Loaded, an update of Disney's Love Bug; Dramarama, in which she plays a rich kid forced to attend public school after her family suffers economic misfortune; Gossip Girl, a comedy about dueling rich girls; and Fashionistas, in which she plays a young fashion designer out to exact revenge on a former editor.