Weird News

54-year-old former child actress Denise Nickerson claims she blazed through "cartons and cartons and cartons" of Bazooka gum while shooting the 1971 classic ... and ended up with a mouthful of rotting teeth.

A rep for the Pet Adoption Welfare Services (PAWS) tells TMZ ... Vinnie had kept all 4 animals in above-ground plastic storage bins, clearly marked as graves ... with little memorials written on them -- and even though it's really creepy ... it ain't illegal.

TMZ broke the story ... Vinnie was arrested for allegedly beating the crap out of his wife ... and while cops were at the home, they noticed the dead animals and called PAWS to investigate.

A couple HS students were filming in a parking lot outside some L.A. mall earlier this week -- and just their luck ... they ran into Mike Epps.

The two students struck while the iron was hot, asking Mike for his opinion on littering in L.A. -- and the actor responded by tossing a crumpled up piece of paper on the ground ... and saying, "Sometimes you don't want sh*t in your car."

Goodwin filed name change papers in Los Angeles County Superior Court last month ... requesting to officially change her first name from Jennifer to Ginnifer. The name change became official yesterday.

A rep for American Auctions -- the company behind the sell-off -- tells TMZ the auction's scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 22nd ... and you can expect to bid on everything from Alicia's furniture, fitness equipment, pool table, and trampoline ... to her creepy doll collection.

The man at the center of the controversy is Charles "Mask" Lewis -- who was killed by a drunk driver back in 2009. Mask was cremated at the request of his sister Carla ... who had executive power over Mask's remains.

After Mask's death, Carla claims she was approached by the co-founders of TapouT -- men calling themselves Skyscrape and Punkass -- who wanted to "borrow" Mask's ashes and urn for a public memorial service.

In a lawsuit filed in San Bernardino County, CA -- Carla says she agreed, but demanded the two men return Mask's remains immediately following the service.

Here's where things get CRAZY -- Carla says when she arrived to the memorial service, she noticed "various booths and tables" set up around the cathedral ... one of which contained, "a large shoebox-size box containing several miniature vials that were on display."

Carla says the vendor informed her, "each of the vials contained a small amount of the cremated remains of Mask, and were reserved for, and to be given to, 'special people' whose names were on a printed list."

Carla believes somewhere between 50 to 100 vials were either "sold, given away, donated or otherwise distributed to several unknown persons."

Not only is Carla PISSED about the vials ... she claims TapouT still has possession of the urn and the remainder of Mask's ashes ... and the company refuses to return them.

We gotta ask...

TMZ spoke with the president of the frat, who tells us some of his brothers approached Charlie on campus on the day of the show -- and they gave him their frat's shirt.

Charlie ended up wearing the shirt during his show -- and gave the guys a shout out from the stage.

After the show, they got to hang out with Charlie backstage -- and get this, they even offered him an honorary alumni spot in their fraternity. He thanked them for the offer, but hasn't taken them up on it thus far..

In case you missed it -- today, 4/20, is an unofficial stoner holiday.

In fact, TMZ just spoke with Tommy Chong -- who told us he plans to celebrate by taking 420 hits from one of his favorite pipes at 4:20 PM. (Side note -- that can't be good for you.)

So, in summary, 4/20 seems like every other day for these guys.

Eden was hanging at The Grove in L.A. -- when the dude with the body art asked Barbara to put her signature above the Eden tat on his leg ... and of course, she obliged ... with a big ol' smile.

The guy told us he was going straight to his tattoo artist to make the signature permanent -- so he could match a similar tattoo on his OTHER leg featuring "Wonder Woman" star Linda Carter.

Mischa's face is on the package of the sexual device -- and according to the guy who bought it (for research purposes) the disposable toy was offered as part of an array of "Western" amenities in his Chinese hotel.

We investigated the possibility that Mischa released a super secret line of sex toys on the Asian market -- but sadly, the actress' rep told us it just ain't true ... saying, "Um. No. She’s not endorsing any such toy."

No word if she'll pursue legal action.

MiLo, who was involved in a fiery drunk driving accident back in 2005, recorded a public service announcement for a website called drinkinganddriving.org.

Salem-based spellcaster Christian Day -- who even runs his own little witchcraft shop called HEX -- is pissed at Hollywood for its constant negative portrayals of warlocks in movies ... and now, he's calling for an all-out boycott of "Your Highness" for its anti-warlock messages.

Christian calls the movie an "assault on taste" for casting a warlock "who hopes to deflower helpless virgins and rule the world" -- telling TMZ, "Hollywood continues to cast Witches and Warlocks as negative roles when we're the good guys and gals!"

Christian adds, "I hope people boycott this movie and movies like it so that Hollywood is inspired to release more positive films about Witches and Warlocks."

Kirstie Alley had to pick herself up off the ground last night after Maksim Chmerkovskiy suffered a "charlie horse" type pain that made his leg give out.

We’re told the girl with the lovely caboose is a die-hard fan ... who had been doing a little drinking ... and was thrilled when Corey scribbled the message: “To Heather, with all my love, Corey Feldman"