A group in Los Angeles wants to buy billboard space on Sunset Boulevard so they can put up a sign of Mel Gibson's face with the international sign for "no" over it in red, according to MSNBC's The Scoop. But the group's leader, publicist Andy Behrman, says billboard companies keep turning them down. Behrman told The Scoop, "We wanted to make a statement that anti-Semitism is not okay in Hollywood - or anywhere else. They tell us it will be fine, and then when they learn we want to protest Mel Gibson, there's suddenly some problem. "

Chart-topping group The Pussycat Dolls, whose hit 'Don't Cha' got everyone to wish their girlfriends were as hot as them, have seen their plans to launch a line of dolls scrapped. According to Billboard, toy maker Hasbro decided the dolls were "inappropriate" and that Pussycat Dolls and their record label Interscope were aiming for a more mature audience.

The judges for The Turner Prize announced Tuesday that sculptures of cartoon-like women with huge knobby breasts and disco-dancing Palestinians are among the works shortlisted for Britain's most prestigious and controversial art award. Abstract painter Tomma Abts, video installation artist Phil Collins, billboard artist Mark Titchner and sculptor Rebecca Warren have been nominated for the 25,000-pound (47,000-dollar) award, says AFP.