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Barry Bonds and his bronzed marshmallow head will be coming soon to HBO, according to this Variety report. Based on the succinctly titled book Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports, the HBO Films project will be directed and co-written by veteran sports film director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Cobb and Tin Cup). His Tin Cup writing partner John Norville will script with him again.

Bonds is accused of taking illegal performance enhancing drugs to boost his game after the McGwire/Sosa home run record season. He eventually set both the single season and all-time home run records. He's currently indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath when he told a grand jury that he didn't take any performance enhancing drugs. He was just trying to make his head as big as everyone kept saying it already was.

Maybe Barry Bonds had the song, "Opposites Attract" in his head when he decided to dress up like Paula Abdul for a recent publicity stunt. If anything, Barry Bonds is the Simon Cowell of baseball.

Why was Barry Bonds all dressed up like Paula Abdul, you ask? He was judging a mock singing contest for a charity event in Arizona. Nobody expected Bonds to dress in drag, so he got quite a response from fans and his teammates.

Said Bonds, "I'll never tell my wife to hurry up anymore, because it took me forever to get ready. I couldn't get the hair right."

I think he looks more like Star Jones.