Just a reminder, if you haven’t submitted your marriage/commitment proposal story yet for a chance to win a FREE two-night trip to Napa or Vegas, get your submission in now to proposalcontest@gmail.com. The prize includes roundtrip airfare and hotel for two, as well as a rental car. All you have to do is bring your gambling and/or drinking money!

Here are some of my favorite submissions so far. Can you beat these? Then send in your stories so you can win the prize! Read the full rules here.

It was 1972 and I had been dating my future-ex-husband for most of our junior year of high school and into our senior year. One night, he told me he had a very important question: did I believe in pre-marital sex. I answered “no”. Then he said “In that case, do you want to get married?” Believe it or not, I did. We actually were married for 13 years before I got fed up and bailed.

And another one …

I was supposed to listen for a horse in the house, but of course couldn’t hear anything. After I yelled out, “What horse could be in my house?” Alex came “riding” into the room on a horse (a child’s toy with a horse’s head on the end of a stick), wearing a full suit of armor. I couldn’t help laughing as I thought, “What in the world would make him do something as crazy as this?” He then drew his sword (which even made sound effects), got down on one knee and said, “Sarah, I want to be your knight in shining armor. Will you be my wife?” I was caught so off-guard that I couldn’t respond right away and started to shake my head, apparently to keep from passing out. (Alex later told me that he grew more nervous by the second as he waited patiently for an answer, and at the same time watched all of the color drain from my face.) However, once I came back down to earth and realized what was happening, I nodded “yes” through lots of happy tears.

Is your proposal sweeter or funnier or just plain more interesting than these? Get it in, and get your chance at the prize.

We’re running this contest in honor of the DVD release of the Sandra Bullock flick The Proposal, which hits stores tomorrow!!!

Cameron Diaz behaved like a totally normally person in between shooting scenes on her new movie with Tom Cruise Wichita in Boston, MA today. She flailed about in the streets waving a toy pistol, seemed to be interpretive dancing and even held a mailbox a gunpoint. I’m tellin’ ya, either homegirl is going to get an Oscar or wind up in a psych ward after this movie because the photos coming in from set? They’re all bananas.

Funnyman Will Ferrell and Super Serious Actor Mark Wahlberg are in NYC right now filming The Other Guys, which also features The Rock, Eva Mendes and Samuel L. Jackson. I’m not sure what the chemistry between these two is going to be like, as they both come from completely separate worlds, but it’s a cast full of stars and it was written by Adam McKay, so I have faith that this flick could actually turn out to be pretty good.

Kourtney Kardashian’s rep told People Magazine yesterday that the reality TV star and sister of Kim “Very Serious Business Woman” Kardashian is expecting a baby boy. Oh great! Hopefully I can start sleeping again starting tonight!

Kourtney, who recently watched her, ahem, “other sister” Khloe walk down the aisle in her wedding to LA Laker Lamar Odem, is due around Christmas and she and baby daddy Scott Disick couldn’t be more excited about the news of the sex. A source close to Kourtney told People “Kourt and Scott are psyched about having a baby, but having a boy is really exciting for them. She can’t wait to buy all sort of boy’s clothing. And [her brother] Robert is also eager to have a little nephew.” Ya hear that? She’s psyched. And she can’t wait to go shopping. Because that’s what having a baby is all about. Shopping.

Here’s what’s going on around the rest of our network this week:

From Film.com, our go-to site for movie and TV insight:

• The Girls Next Door: Where are they now?
• Review: An Education Proves Charming

From Zelda Lily, our women’s issues site:

• Are children who are babysat more likely to be unhealthy?
• Your birth control pill is emasculating your partner, apparently.

From Lilly Likes, our women’s entertainment site:

• Spencer Pratt is making damn sure Heidi doesn’t get pregnant
• Tyler Perry’s being brutally honest about the abuse he suffered as a child — and we’re loving the hope it’s creating.

From Rhapsody, our streaming music site:

• A new Backstreet Boys album? Listen to it here.

From GameHouse, our casual gaming site:

• New this week: Sally’s Quick Clips!

And, finally, a reminder that WE ARE GIVING AWAY A FREE TRIP TO NAPA VALLEY OR LAS VEGAS to celebrate the launch of The Proposal on DVD. Click here to find out how to enter.

The Real World is filming in Washington DC right now and as always, stories are popping up left and right in local news about the cast. However, the most recent news out of the house is more about production than the actual castmates.

Apparently people who went to a recent “Put Your Best Foot Forward” dating event in Washington, DC were asked to sign a waiver, as I guess some members of the cast where there. There were a couple of stipulations: 1) You couldn’t be a union actor (or else they would have had to pay them a SAG or AFTRA fee to use their image or likeness) and 2) You had to be OK possibly getting an STD if you decided to have sex with any of the castmates. Ummm, what?

This clause makes sense. The Real World has always been one of the first shows to represent differences in humanity that are hot button topics at the time, whether that be someone with AIDS or a transgendered person, so I’m sure they don’t screen their cast for STDs. Secondly, anyone who would bone anyone in The Real World house has to be the kind of idiot who would follow up with a lawsuit when they discovered it was impossible to urinate without a burning sensation. The new clause reads as follows:

“IF I CHOOSE TO ENGAGE IN CONSENSUAL SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OR INTIMATE CONTACT WITH ANY SUCH PERSON I DO SO VOLUNTARILY AND KNOWINGLY AND I ASSUME THE RISK THAT BY ENGAGING IN SUCH ACTIVITY I MAY CONTRACT CERTAIN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. PRODUCER MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT ANY SUCH PERSON IS STD FREE.”

Well, there ya go. The entire contract, which can be read below, is an interesting and for the most part is the standard for reality TV waivers. Now I wonder if this whole STD thing is just a precautionary measure or if there’s actually someone with an explosive case of the herp in the DC house…

You may have heard that Beastie Boy Adam Yauch was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer this summer.  He’s taking some time off after returning from a seemingly restorative trip to India.  He emailed his fans about it:

i’m feeling healthy, strong and hopeful that i’ve beaten this thing, but of course time will tell. i’m taking tibetan medicine and at the recommendation of the tibetan doctors i’ve been eating a vegan/organic diet, which surprisingly enough was harder to do in india than it is now that i’m back home. here i can just shop for the right food and cook… a lot easier than depending on restaurants.
when i was in india i visited an ani gompa (a nunnery) called jamyang choling. they did a puja (religious ceremony) for me to help me get well. one nun said to me “we do prayers and then you are better.” so i’ve got that going for me, which is nice.