Paris Hilton & Brandon Davis - Alleged Australian Drug Dealer Drops Their Name At His Arrest

I think we can put all those Paris Hilton and George Clooney dating rumors to rest. Apparently Paris is doing the dirty this week with Brandon Davis while over in Sydney. I am sure the people in Australia are grateful that none of their citizens will be forced to hook up with either of the couple. Can you imagine what a petri dish would look like if you combined Paris and Brandon? It would be like the second coming of the Ebola virus.

In addition to the general nastiness which would be a Brandon and Paris hookup comes this interesting piece of news. About 3am on January 1st, a man was pulled over in Sydney for allegedly driving drunk. After he blew a .05 which is legally drunk in Sydney, the cops decided to search the vehicle in which he was driving.

In the vehicle the cops found three small resealable bags containing 2.5g of white powder, believed to be cocaine. The driver allegedly claimed it did not belong to him.

Officers also allegedly found a small number of tablets - the sex pill Viagra and sleeping pill Normison - in the driver's wallet.

OK, so far, nothing too out of the ordinary. But, when officers asked the driver where he was going he told them he was on his way to pick up Paris Hilton and Brandon Davis and take them to their hotel. Interesting. But, wait it gets better. I know, I know you are still stuck on the Viagra and Normison. I think the Viagra is for Brandon and the sleeping pill is for Paris. I mean even she doesn't want to be awake for Brandon Davis on Viagra.

So, now the police have stated that John Ibrahim owns the vehicle in which the alleged coke was found. Who in the hell is John Ibrahim? Well, it turns out that John Ibrahim is the promoter who was paying Paris' fee for New Years Eve. Interesting huh? Now the driver sounds a little more real and a little less like the David Lee Roth impersonator in Canada.

Mr. Ibrahim has always claimed he is a legitimate businessman and has no part in the drug trade of Australia. He says that he does not own the vehicle in which the alleged cocaine was found and that he is just an acquaintance of the driver.

Wow, I wish this had happened in LA. So, what do you think? Just a coincidence or are Paris and Brandon lucky that they driver was not pulled over, say 30 minutes later.

Your Turn

You know, I really thought about just having everyone list their New Year's resolution and then we could revisit them in six months to see how everyone is doing, but it kind of sounds boring. So, instead I thought about something completely inane and stupid because that is what I do best. But, before I do, I have to say that last week's Your Turn was incredible. If you did not take the time to read about the worst presents ever, you need to go back and look and I guarantee you will feel better about yourself as a person.

For the first Your Turn of the year, I thought I would just let you plug away. This is your chance. Lots and lots of extra people reading this week so if you have a company, charity, blog, or a rash that you need some help dealing with, now is your chance to share it with the world.

If you don't have anything to share, than how about your porn star name. Pet's name combined with the name of the street you grew up on.

Go on, give it a try.

That's it for today. Back to normal on Monday.

Random Photos Part One

I have to put this on top. I was staring at the photo of Jennifer Garner and Violet all week. So, explain to me again why it seems as if celebrities need one nanny per child.

Yeah, not a big fan of Adam Levine and don't think I ever will be. Feel free to love him if you want though.
I think AnnaLynne McCord is wearing that new line of makeup called stoned.
I can't believe Christian Audigier thinks he's cool. I can't believe anyone actually buys that crap he sells either. What a tool.
The lovely Christina Applegate. The antithesis of the tool from above.
"My mom made me this hat for Christmas."
Yeah, Alex, I will take Carmen Electra is pregnant for $200.
I must be in a good mood or really tired, but Chloe Sevigny looks really good here.
Yeah, I think I like the crew cut Drew Carey much better.
Emmanuelle Chriqui rocking the leather pants and doing some charity work on NYE.
Fergie - Las Vegas
I admit that I am not up to date on my George Hamilton gossip. Sure, I know who his offspring are and who they have been married to, but I really have no idea who this woman is or why she is wearing a ring.
One of my favorite photos of the day. James Franco and Ahna O' Reilly in Miami.
Which Lindsay Lohan would you rather fight with? #1
Or #2?
Lady Gaga - New York
Miley Cyrus - Irvine, California
Can someone tell if that is a phone in Mickey's hand? I want to know if he texts.
Start out the new year with Molly Sims. There are worse ways to start it out. Hangovers are up at the top of the list.
"Come on baby. I will wash it and wax it later. I want to play with my new Wii."
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lemonjello model their Ace Ventura hair.
"Hi, I'm Paris Hilton and the only company that would pay me anything in Australia is called Bongo Virus. I don't think I have it yet, but I'm sure I will catch it sooner or later."
Wow. I can't even imagine how many people this guy killed in a past life to end up married to Paulina Rubio.
Jeans are the new bikini for Solange Knowles.
Topher Grace looks like he is wasting away to nothing. Eat man!

Jett Travolta Dies

According to TMZ, Jett Travolta died today in the Bahamas. According to a statement from Rand Memorial Hospital, Jett died while on vacation with his family. Right now, there has been no word on the cause of death and I don't want to speculate. I also don't want to get into the whole game of whether he was autistic or not. I would really like to know how this happened though.

Fire Up The YouTube Machine - Verne Got A TV Gig

The smile of good fortune has fallen upon all the people in the UK. Celebrity Big Brother starts over there tonight and Verne Troyer is the most famous of the bunch of them. This will be must see television. Oh, how I hope there is free booze for everyone and a urinal in the corner of the living room for Verne. Wow, this should be good. I will be hitting that refresh button all night long just waiting to see him. Now, according to the list of people on the show, I have never heard of really any of them. They could be famous in the UK. You just have to realize that I am ignorant of anything that happens outside of the US. No, you know that isn't the case completely, but I am lacking in shall we say a knowledge of the UK celebrities who are going to be calling the Big Brother house home for the next few weeks.

It does look as if LaToya Jackson will be living there. Wow. Oh please, oh please let LaToya and Verne hook up. That would be the greatest moment in the history of television. Forget the last episodes of Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers or MASH. None of those would compare to Verne and LaToya getting it on while Gotta Be Starting Something plays in the background. It almost makes me tear up.

Oh, I recognize the name Lucy Pinder from the cast as well. Figures right? The woman most likely to walk around naked during the entire show and of course I know who that one is.

No Musical For Hugh

For those of you who had your heart set on seeing Hugh Jackman starring alongside Catherine Zeta Jones in a the 3D musical version of Cleopatra, well prepare to be crushed. Hugh has dropped out of the project because of X-Men conflicts. Apparently he has too much publicity to do for the film and so won't have time to do the Cleopatra movie.

According to Variety Steven Soderbergh, who is going to direct the film, sees it as a kind of Elvis musical. Yeah, well maybe that is the reason Hugh took a pass on it. Either that or the idea of spending three months alongside Catherine. Then having to go do publicity for the film with her and having to pretend to enjoy it every step of the way while Michael Douglas is off in the background, mumbling, "Mama. Where are you mama? I think I need to change my diaper."

No, I know. That is rude of me to say. It is making fun of the elderly, or people who wear adult diapers for medical reasons. But, it would be ok to make fun of him if he wore them because he was lazy right? OK, so just pretend he is lazy and then we can go back and have a laugh.

The Office Superbowl Episode Just Gets More Bizzare

I guess at some point all of the writers of The Office probably just decided to go for it. If they were going to stunt cast Jack Black and Jessica Alba in a movie within the show, I guess they figured they could probably get even crazier. I think I had previously suggested some kind of weird sexual thing where Jack Black was a woman and Jessica Alba a man, but the writers have done even better.

Cloris Leachman is going to be another guest star in the episode. In one specific scene in the movie, Cloris and Jack have a sex scene. Yep. You read it right. The script calls for Cloris to be naked in a bathtub. Jack comes into the bathroom, bends down and lifts Cloris out of the tub. While he is doing this they make out. Yep. Then he carries her into the bedroom and, well, you know, they umm, yeah.

So, I think to top this, Verne is going to have to be brought out and have a sex scene with someone also. Maybe he could be in the tub, and Jessica Alba could come in and lift him out and get some of that Troyer tongue. You have the image now don't you? Yeah, sorry about that. Hey, I am. I have the image in my head as well. I'm just used to the pain because I have to look at Denise Richards photos almost every day so I am kind of numb to all horror.

This Is Why You Should Love Eddie Izzard

Sure, Eddie Izzard is one hilarious comedian. Sure, you might be disappointed at his performance in Valkyrie, but I doubt he will be blamed for any of it. He looked like he was having a good time and sometimes you do things for the paycheck. The thing that makes Eddie so great though is not only his humor and wit, but the fact he has a really big heart. A fan;s father wrote a note to Eddie saying that the fan was not going to be able to attend Eddie's show in London because he had been hurt in the Mumbai attacks back in November.

The dad had simply asked Eddie to send along a note to the hospital in an attempt to cheer up his son. Eddie went way better than that. Eddie showed up at the hospital and performed for the fan as well as every other patient in the hospital. Now, he didn't just say a few jokes. Nope, Eddie did his entire set. The entire 90 minutes. You just have to love that and the person that makes that kind of effort when a much simpler gesture would have been sufficient. Instead of making one person happy though, he decided to make everyone happy. Wonder if he wore a nurse's uniform.

Well, Yeah, The Other One Might Get Dirty

Apparently Simon Cowell didn't get the memo that people have no money for anything and so has decided to go ahead and blow $15M on a second mansion in Barbados. Apparently his $7M mansion on the island just was not enough. I mean he does smoke. Maybe he wants to give the other one a chance to air out or something. I'm trying to figure out why anyone, no matter how rich needs two vacation homes within a mile of each other. Do you build it thinking that while you are on vacation you might want to go on vacation?

According to The Mirror, his new home will have floor to ceiling mirrors in each of the six bedrooms. Apparently this is so he never goes a second without seeing the only person who thinks he is a decent guy. Can you imagine going on vacation with him? God that would be awful.

I just am trying to picture him discussing any subject that does not involve himself or how perfect he thinks he is. To be forced to listen to that for a week or two while you are trying to relax would make me need a vacation when the other one was done. Ooooh, maybe that's why he is building the second house. That way when people become so annoyed with him they don't have to go back to their home, they can instead head over to the other home. OK, so maybe that makes sense. I am doubting this story is true, but you know what? He is exactly the kind of guy who would do it, so it is not that big of a stretch to believe it.

Heather Gets Off But Not With Jack Wagner

Is the headline rude? Sorry. I'm a little tired. Hell, I'm a lot tired. Apparently the human body actually needs sleep. Who would have thunk it? I saw that Heather Locklear managed to get that little DUI thing of hers dismissed. Instead she plead no contest to reckless driving and got some probation and has to take a driving class. Yeah. I feel good about this. Just got done reading about all the drunk drivers all over the US who managed to kill people this week and heard that a friend of a friend's mom was killed by a drunk driver the other night.

I admit that the details surrounding Heather's arrest were a bit sketchy, but I still am not having much sympathy for her. I think she should be grateful that she got pulled over as quickly as she did that day or perhaps she would be looking at something much more serious, and much more life altering. It's not that difficult to not drink and drive. You pick up the phone and call a cab or get someone to drive you home. Hell, I have even slept in my car just to avoid any kind of chance of causing damage to myself or others.

So, now she can honestly say she has not been convicted of a DUI and the people of Southern California can only pray that she keeps to the terms of her probation. I know I have ranted about these kinds of things before, but a DUI is just completely avoidable and is one of the most self centered acts anyone could ever perform. Hopefully she takes this as a lesson learned and we will never have to speak of it again.

NY Post Blind Items

WHICH newly married starlet gave a guy she trysted with a nasty STD right before her wedding .

WHICH on-the-rocks couple have been headed for divorce for a while? The rock star was cheating on his actress wife immediately after they got hitched and has been carrying on with his comely female sound technician .

WHICH television actor should ask his new fling for her secret photo album? While she was in college, she took some nude pictures that are floating around the hard drives of local frat houses. Somehow, we don't think the actor will be turned off.

Friday

After all the posts of yesterday, I am sleeping in this morning. Posts will start this afternoon.

Happy New Year

That is it for this time around. The next reveals will be on July 4th so hope you will be around for them. Hey, it is only six short months from now.

Since I have all of you here, I wanted to take a moment to thank each one of you for making this past year the best ever. I think the site has come a long way in this past year and all of you keep making it the best. The site would be nothing with out all of you. I know that, understand that, and appreciate that. Through your e-mails, comments, tips, and everything else you do, this blog is really all about you. I'm just the guy who gets the conversation started.

I need to thank some people who help get that conversation started and who seem to always be there to lend their support or encouragement or material. These are in no particular order.

Marc Malkin at E!.
Michael K at Dlisted
All of the people at Gawker and Defamer
Kate at Celebitchy
Spicy at CelebritySmack
Everyone at the NY Daily News and the Daily Mirror
New York Magazine


All of the people who have contributed this year, whether it was something regular, a one time review, or just a tip. There are lots of days I just have no idea what to write about, and magically some tip or article or suggestion will show up in my inbox and it gets me going. I would list you individually, but as soon as I do that, I know I would forget someone and inevitably tick you off, so just know that I am grateful for everything and everyone.

When I think about the assignments I have found for people to write about over the year, I can't help but think about poor Richard who was singled out at The Wackness for removal. Poor guy didn't know what he was in for being associated with the site, but he came back and wanted to write more. For all of the "celebrities" you saw posing with signs some were like Elijah Wood who ran away screaming when they saw them come out. OK, most ran away screaming. So, I appreciate those writers in New York and LA who kept asking anyway.

To all my spies and tipsters and friends of the site, thanks for keeping all the good gossip coming and for taking the time to report things when you see them.

To all of you are who reading this, I hope that 2009 is the year that you have always wanted. The year where your hopes and dreams come true. The year where every resolution happens and you make no mistakes. A year where you don't suffer or see pain. A year where everything is exactly as you would have dreamed. Thanks again for a great 2008. I really do appreciate each of you.

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Nick Verreos

All My Children

Brittny Gastineau

Ten Travis

Robin Bain

Reichen

PJ McCarthy and Kira Costello

Patrika Darbo

Page Kennedy

Nick Wilcox

Manuj Gulati

JP Caren

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Blind Items Revealed

December 30, 2008

This one is out there for you to discover. I just thought you might have fun trying to dig this one up because it does have a holiday connection and it has some pseudo incest which I know is always intriguing.

What we have here is an actress who was definitely considered A list at the height of her fame. Academy Award nominated and in one of the most popular films of all time. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Married to a director who, although, not as big as his actress wife, still happened to direct one of the most famous films of all time. Our director had been previously married and had children from that marriage. One of those children was a son. Well things happen as they say and the step mom actress and her step son just could not control what happened and eventually wound up in bed together. One day, the dad/husband/director came home to find his son and his wife having, umm relations. Well it turns out that the wife during the course of this marriage had children both from her director husband and also from her stepson.

Gloria Grahame & Nicholas Ray

Blind Items Revealed

December 24, 2008

This B list actor and sometime director, now married was once in a highly publicized relationship. While on location in another country the actor found himself in the VIP room of a member’s only gentleman’s club. Rumors swirled about what happened that night and ended up costing his relationship, but the popular guess was second or third base, at best. What really happened was captured on tape by a security camera of the actor, two ladies, and a lot of um let’s say marital aids of all varieties.

When one of the ladies let it ‘slip’ after the encounter that it was all recorded on security camera the actor demanded the tape from the club owner. After several phone calls and exchanges of all sorts the actor left with tape in hand.

But what the actor didn’t know was that the club had made several copies before the actor even knew it existed and he was just one of several actors caught in the same scam at the exclusive anything goes club. The whereabouts of the other tapes are unknown but I’m sure wherever they are, they came at a high price.

Ben Affleck

Blind Items Revealed

December 22, 2008

#1 - This kindness is not anything spectacular, but since it happened this morning, I thought I would share it. B-/C+ television actor with about six years on the same crime show. Also one of my all-time favorite characters from one of the biggest films of all time. Anyway, our actor was in line at LAX this morning at the ticket counter with about 100 "everyday people" in front of him. People in line were asking for photographs and getting autographs and so a ticket agent asked our actor if he wanted to be moved to the front of the line. Our actor said, "Why?" The ticket agent said they had a special policy for celebrities which caused our actor to say, "Let me know when you see one."


#1 - Vincent D'Onofrio

Blind Items Revealed

December 19, 2008

#1 - Let's start off with a kindness. This B list actor, who does more than act with a name everyone recognizes, but maybe not always from his films spent several hours visiting wounded military despite the fact he had an event that night. Plus he chose not to let anyone know he was doing it, and just did it to do it.

Kevin Bacon

Blind Items Revealed

December 17, 2008

I guess she is a C list actress now but with A list name recognition. Anyway, she had her "people" lie to news outlets about her recent trip to rehab. Instead, her "people" gave an exclusive about her rehab visit so she could get a cover story when she gets out of rehab in the hopes of jump starting her career.

Tara Reid

Blind Items Revealed

December 15, 2008

#1 - What former American Gladiator is now making a living by offering massages on Craigslist?

Raye Hollitt/Zap

Blind Items Revealed

December 12, 2008


#1 - This guy is an A list television star and probably B in films he has done. Probably not any higher than B list on name recognition though. Oh, he stars in one of those crime dramas. Anyway, for the past year he has just had his paychecks sent to directly to various charities in the city where he films his show.

#2 - I guess this actor is considered an A list television actor although honestly, it is just the name of the show everyone remembers. Anyway, our actor spends about 5 hours a week every week at local hospitals reading to kids who are there and playing games with them.

#3 - This actress is B list. Hit network drama which I refuse to watch. Totally in contrast with her earlier more famous television role, this actress has a big soft spot. Over the past few years she has arranged for about 20 disadvantaged kids to go to private schools. She pays for all the books, uniforms and tuition. It costs her about $200,000 a year.

#4 - This actress is also B list probably by definition but has A list name recognition. She is also on a hit network comedy. She and her boyfriend have contributed many tens of thousands of dollars to various food banks and other food programs and spend countless hours volunteering at them as well.

#1 - Normally, I reveal all of the kindness items. However, in the case of #1, it is really important to him to remain anonymous. So it shall be.
#2 - Michael C. Hall
#3 - Marcia Cross
#4 - America Fererra

Blind Items Revealed

December 5, 2008

#1 - This just confirms that this A list supermodel is in fact, an idiot. Our supermodel was seen making out and groping with some random guy in the corner of a party while her zillionaire boyfriend was nowhere to be seen.

Naomi Campbell

Blind Items Revealed

December 2, 2008

This former A list R&B female singer was a really big thing back in the day. Well after she stopped performing so much she gained a few pounds. Well, more than a few actually. So, when she finally came back and did a new CD, she was a little concerned about the photo on the cover of it. The record label offered to airbrush the photo and make her look as skinny as she wanted to be. Well, she said no, and that she would just go ahead and get some photos taken on her own. A few weeks later the label got some photos of her in the mail. They were great photos. The problem was they had all been taken fifteen years and fifty pounds earlier. She insisted that the photos were taken all in the past week or so and those were the ones she wanted on the cover of the CD. With no choice in the matter, the label did as she said. Then she also decided that she couldn't do any concerts because if she did, people would see she looked nothing like the cover photo, so she did no promotion for the CD at all.

Anita Baker

Blind Items Revealed

November 10, 2008

Even an A lister gets unlucky sometimes. There was some previous discussion whether this individual is actually A list. If he isn't A then he is right on the cusp. Apparently all the women surrounding his table thought he was A list or at least wanted him to think so. Allegedly dating someone everyone thought he was behaving himself except in the drinking department until a model walked by. He immediately ran over to the model and began trying to hit on her. Apparently though she didn't know who he was. When he informed her drunkenly who he was and what he had been in, she said, "I don't really care. Plus if you need to list your accomplishments to get a date, you really have not accomplished all that much." It would have been nice if this had been a quiet conversation, but unfortunately for our film actor the entire group surrounding the table all heard it. Nice.

Gerard Butler

Break Time

Taking a minute here to talk about someone who reads the blog all of the time and who I wish was a spy, because, she knows it all. The person is Adrianna Costa. You might have seen her as the host of On The Lot, and also she was on CNN as their entertainment anchor for awhile. Well, as her friend, I wanted to brag on her because FOX just picked up her show Who Am I which is a celeb reality show and she is going to be working the red carpet during the entire award season for TV Guide Channel. I like her so much I pretend she is not dating some guy from The Hills. So, you know I must like her. You can check out her website here.

Blind Items Revealed

November 5, 2008

Today is more of an update to a blind item. Within the past month or so I think I posted about a celebrity chef who was cheating on his wife. The celebrity chef is known to all of you. Would he be A list? Sure. Definitely. Anyway, the update is that I was unsure who he was cheating with. Turns out it is one of his restaurant employees. Not someone who works with him on television or with his books, but a restaurant employee. This could of course be the reason why he is spending so much time at that particular restaurant lately.

This isn't a reveal, and it isn't Gordon Ramsay. Think the US for this one.

Blind Items Revealed

November 4, 2008

A list actress. Hell, she isn't just an actress, she is also a producer and a very successful one at that. About three months ago our actress was in downtown LA and was headed for dinner. She saw a family that was huddled about 50 feet from the restaurant. Obviously homeless, the dad had a sign while the mom watched their two children. Our actress could have just gone into her dinner, but, instead walked over to the family and started asking them about their life. It was during this that one of her dinner companions also showed up at the restaurant. Through no fault of their own this family was stuck. This actress could have walked away, but instead she canceled her dinner plans, got the family to a hotel and got them some food. Over the course of the next week she found them a place to live, hired the husband for her company, helped the mom get the kids in school and found a job for the mom as well.

Drew Barrymore

Blind Items Revealed

October 24, 2008

#2 - Kindness - I guess she is a C list television actress, but until a few years ago would have been considered B list when she was on a long running hit comedy. Well, despite the fact she is married with child/ren, she finds the time each week to spend about 15 hours weekly serving food to homeless people. She does this in the mornings before then coming home and seeing her kids off to school. Often she will go again in the evenings and take her kids to help.

#4 - Kindness - Former B list television actress. Now, she is still a B, but is not really doing anything. A list name recognition though. Oh, and she's married. Last year she gave away every penny she earned for a show she was working on. Every penny and it was a substantial sum. It is not like she is hurting for money, but she gave away well over $3M to charity.

#2 - Patricia Heaton
#4 - Lisa Kudrow

Blind Items Revealed

October 23, 2008

Something a little different today. Always willing to change things up. This one is actually about the wife of a B list television star on one of the biggest comedies on television. It is not that hard, but when someone e-mailed me the story I just had to post it. It also takes place in Iowa which is odd because this is the second or third one we have had from the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Before our subject got married she was a writer in the workshop. While there she met a male writer. This male writer did really well in the program. He graduated with tons of prospects--got himself a big agent, some money to support himself while he wrote post MFA, etc. While at Iowa, he became close friends with our subject. After a year of writing, he was ready to go--had his short story collection done, was going to hit the road to become the next Big Writing Star.

Except that he came home one night and everything--computer, disc drives, backups, paper copies, etc--of his work had been stolen in a burglary. A year's worth of work---out the door with a crackhead looking for some quick cash. Our male writer went into a tailspin--his life's ambitions were stolen from him in one night.

His support during this time came from our actor's wife, who continued to
encourage him to write, and who just helped him through that dark period, which lasted well over two years.

This feel-good story has a sweet ending, too---ten years later, our male writer
is back with a short story collection, and continues to write. Friends have helped him to set up a mini-midwest book tour, from connections he made while at Iowa, and a reading at the Knitting Factory in LA for him later this month, set up by his friend, our actor's wife.

Holiday Reinhorn - wife of Rainn Wilson

Blind Items Revealed

October 17, 2008

#3 - This is an unusual one. Just the name of a show rather than a person. What brand new television show, filmed outside the US, has pretty much ruined it for all companies that want to film there in the future. The reason? The crew working the show had never been treated as badly in terms of verbal abuse, lack of respect and working conditions. In addition, a local girl was severely burnt in the face and upper body when a light exploded on set. By way of compensation she was offered a job in a city 300 miles away from the village where she has lived her whole life. Obviously she could not do it, and the production company just didn't care. It gave her one option, and one option only.


Crusoe

Blind Items Revealed

October 16, 2008

Former A list rock singer. Now, just someone we love to sing with at clubs and see in the odd film cameo is going blind.

Billy Idol

Blind Items Revealed

October 9, 2008

Last week, this A list director of some very huge films was shooting his new movie. After work, our director went to a local restaurant (as was his routine) where he picked up two local floozies. After buying them a few drinks and impressing them with his big-shot “I’m a Big Hollywood Director” come-on, our director took the two tramps back to his hotel for a night of debauchery. Little did our director know what he was getting himself into!

Turns out that this pair of hometown hotties weren’t as dumb as our director thought. In fact, there were certified pros, if you get my meaning. (Word has it ugly pros, too – but hey, whattaya want.)

Anyway, flash forward a few hours

Our director wakes up the next morning feeling all kinds of groggy. He discovers his wallet missing, and worst of all – his laptop stolen. On the purloined laptop was reportedly the script to his new movie and several highly secret, ultra-confidential, For-His-Eyes-Only visual FX sequences for the new movie that could be leaked any day now. Not surprisingly, the studio is furious with our director and his utter lack of discretion.

Michael Bay

Blind Items Revealed

October 8, 2008

So, I have had this story for about a year. I got it at the same time as what turned out to be Timmy/Shimmy. I can tell you that the person who gave me all my great classic Hollywood stories passed away within the last year, but he did manage to pass along a few more before he passed. A great man who will be missed a bunch, but his stories live on.

For this one, we need to start way back. Even really before classic Hollywood. Hell when this started there really wasn't a Hollywood yet. This is about an A list actress for almost all of her career. Acting was what she was most famous for, but she was probably better at other things. Academy Award winner? Nope. She was in a nominated film or two though.

When our actress was still a very young teenager, she got pregnant by a man. Some say that the father of the baby was a man she later married, while others think she may have got pregnant by a relative. In any event, the fact is that the person who impregnated her was unable or unwilling to marry her at that time. She gave birth to a boy and gave the boy up for adoption.

The years pass and our actress grows into a fine woman, and starts to make a name for herself. Finally she ends up in Hollywood. It isn't where she was planning on going necessarily, but when she finally made it there, she made it really, really big.

Now, although there wasn't really open adoption back when she gave up her child, there was what was called family adoption. In this case, our actress who had a cousin who was of suitable age to have children, already had one or two of her own with her husband so took the infant in, and raised it as their own. This was not a particularly close cousin. Maybe a 2nd or so, but even 2nd cousins want their share of fame by being close to a famous relative and so the whole family always wanted a piece of our actress. At some point, the son of our actress came out to Hollywood. He didn't know he was her son. All he knew was that he had a cousin or an aunt or someone who he saw in the movie theatre each week and thought maybe she could give him a job.

Well he was a good looking guy and our actress said she could probably help him out when he showed up out of the blue one day and landed on her doorstep. At the time he showed up, she was in between marriages. Kind of. When he explained who he was, she knew it was her son. The thing is, she decided not to inform him of this face and apparently the three or four people who also knew, chose to not inform him either.

Our actress always had men with her. Always helping her out or running errands. She was never without some kind of company for flirtation. Well one day, apparently things got a little carried away in the flirtation department and our actress and her son ended up rolling around in the sack. It was the first time, but not the last. It went on for about six months. Not everyday, but a few times a week.

She never told him how she was related to him. What she did though was at some point get a conscience or got guilt and she set him up with some extra from some film she was working and she was one hell of a matchmaker because the couple fell in love and moved back to where our actress was from. It is somewhere in that time frame, that her son either told someone in his family, OR, he told the extra he married and she passed it along to someone in the family. Apparently only one person in the family found out. That person confronted the actress who admitted it, but begged that it be kept quiet. No one would have printed anything anyway, but she still wanted it kept quiet. On the home front it was kept quiet. But, over the years, as our actress aged, she would be telling stories of men she had been with and every once in awhile would let it slip out that she had a very illicit affair. There are probably a handful of people she told the story to, and one of them was the man who told it to me.

Mae West

Blind Items Revealed

October 3, 2008

#1 - Former A lister but he hasn't been one in awhile. I guess technically he would be about a C lister now but with some A list name recognition. Always films. He was trying to make a career comeback. His agent and manager have a brand new television show lined up for him, but he hasn't done anything about it, returned any calls or met with the people he needs to because he is newly in love and can't bear to be apart from his girlfriend. Manager and agent are ready to let him go unless he gets his act together.

Michael Keaton

Blind Items Revealed

September 17, 2008

#1 - What film brother/sister duo in an upcoming blockbuster film are having to keep their relationship secret because of fears that the general public will not make the distinction between film and real life?

Robert Pattinson/Nikki Reed

Blind Items Revealed

September 8, 2008

#2 This famous twin is doing whatever she can to start pregnancy speculation just to get some positive publicity. She's gone so far as to make sure that others know she can't drink or smoke, especially in public, and taking to wear even more hideous and baggy clothing than usual.

Mary Kate Olsen

WD

Time for a bit of a break, but still a reveal. Last year my wonderful friend America Young made me that poster for my one year anniversary of doing the blog. Of course I then begged her to blog for awhile which she did as WD. I never used the photo because it would have given everything away. But, I am using it now and also because I need to brag on her for a bit. If you went out and got Tinkerbell. Yes, the one Brittany Murphy all but screwed up, you will notice that America plays Wendy Darling, hence, the WD. In addition to all of the things that she always blogged about, America also produces, directs and a million other things. She wants to be the female George Clooney but without the Sarah Larson episode. One of the things America has done is a series of webisodes and below you will find one from her series called Groupidity.

This first episode is called "I have counseling experience."


Groupidity Ep-1 from Groupidity on Vimeo.

Blind Items Revealed

September 5, 2008

#1 - To show that not all men behave badly, I thought I would share this little kindness about a B- list comic film actor with a franchise which you would think would make him A list under the rules, but, then you would all laugh. So, anyway, our actor when he goes to dinner parties at restaurants or even at the houses of friends, has all the doggie bags given to him, and passes them all out to homeless people he sees on the way home. In addition to that, he will also raid the dinner parties for extra food and bring it to homeless shelters to serve.

Rob Schneider

Blind Items Revealed

August 29, 2008

#4 - This A list actor who had some serious health and emotional issues last year, but was allegedly on the straight and narrow either doesn't care or had a huge slip over the weekend. At the same party that brought us two blinds from yesterday, our actor managed to consume almost an entire bottle of vodka all by himself. Sweet and very quiet was how the spy described him.

Owen Wilson

Blind Items Revealed

August 28, 2008

#1 - Despite being a couple of years underage for drinking, this B- list actress from a top rated network drama kept downing shot after shot after shot after shot at a party this weekend.

#2 - At the same party, these two related celebutantes shared a few joints with their bad girl hero. Of course the bad girl hero is now about 15 years removed from her height of fame, but hey, she has another chance again starting next week. I'm trying to think if the trio have slept with any of the same people.

#1 - Hayden Pannettiere
#2 - Paris & Nikki Hilton with Shannen Doherty

Blind Items Revealed

August 25, 2008

This B list film and television actor from a famous family and an infamous marriage really doesn't like to be bothered. How much so? Well in a hotel he was staying at, he decided he wanted to work out in the hotel gym, but only if no one was in the gym with him at the same time. See, he can't be around everyday people. So, when he walked in to the gym to work out and saw two teenage girls there, he freaked out. Instead of perhaps asking them when they were going to be done, or if he could have the room to himself, he instead, picked up the phone, called hotel security and had them removed so he could be alone. Nice huh?

Alec Baldwin

Blind Items Revealed

August 8, 2008

#4 - Virgin record store on Hollywood Blvd. Former teen A lister and now basically a has been bum, although still fairly young. Walks through the entire store just randomly throwing CD's and DVD's into a basket. Must be 100 of them. Not looking at any, just grabbing them by the handful and throwing them into this basket. Goes to checkout and wants them all for free. The cashier says they don't really do that. Our has been wants a manager. One comes over and our has been says they are for a kids organization he is working with. The manager looks at the pile and knows the has been is lying. Says he just can't help him. Our has been does the don't you know who I am routine, and the manager says he knows exactly who the has been is, but can't do anything about it. The back and forth continues, and then the has been gives up. Before he leaves though he asks the manager for $20.

Corey Haim

Blind Items Revealed

August 4, 2008

#1 - Well this former B list television actor and now hanging by a thread anyway he can C lister must have given up on ever getting his girlfriend back. Either that or she appreciates when her boyfriend hits on women by saying, "you look just like my ex."


Jesse Metcalfe

Blind Items Revealed

August 1, 2008

#1 - This sister singing duo from a foreign country were performing a show in Los Angeles one time and as usual it was completely sold out. Not a huge place, and as a result there were lots of people who were sent away without getting in. Well, there was a group of about ten girls who were not going to go anywhere and they decided they would at least sit outside the place in the hopes they could hear a few notes at least. Well somehow that news made it to the two wingers and they decided to take the entire group of girls and brought them backstage and let them watch the entire show from the the side of the stage. After the show they posed for photos, signed autographs and gave away practically anything that was giveable.

#2 - This former A list television actor on a very huge super sized hit network comedy and now someone who is trying to find some other identity other than that character either in television or film makes sure that he gives blood every two months like clockwork. He has been doing this now for almost ten years all with no fanfare or attention.

#3 - Wow this actress is the epitome of a B/C lister. Everyone knows her because she has had some great roles on some great television shows and some films. Everytime she gets her own series, it doesn't do so well, but she is incredibly well liked. Right now she is filming a remake/sequel to one of my favorite films of all time from the 70's. I'm cheesy that way. Anyway, when she is in LA, she volunteers at an after school program which helps kids with their homework and to give them adult guidance they may not get at home. When she is filming in a different city, she calls around and tries to do the same thing at other schools on a temporary basis.

#4 - Is this actor A list? Interesting question. He was an A list action film star and then kept giving it all away. Now he is probably still considered A list by definition, but probably more a B. Well in the past several years, this actor has without any publicity given away about $250,000 to various SPCA charities and other pet organizations. Turns out the guy everyone always thinks is a jerk is actually a pretty nice guy.

#1 -The Veronicas
#2-Matt LeBlanc
#3-Carla Gugino
#4-Vin Diesel

Blind Items Revealed

July 23, 2008

#1 - This one really shouldn't be a blind, but I told them I would keep it kind of secret. Didn't say how hard the secret would be though. These two actors are on an NBC dramedy and think they are keeping their relationship hush hush. Nothing juicy. I mean she is divorced and he is single. It's just funny that the only people on the set who think it is a secret are the couple themselves.

#2 - Now for something juicier and we will stay at NBC. This time a comedy where the two stars of this hit show used to laugh and get along and just be best pals. Well best pals to the extent people can fake being best pals. However now it is to the point where the only time they communicate is through their lines on the set. The other problem is that other cast members are having to pick sides and if you speak to one, then the other won't speak to you. Yes, these are adults.

#1- Lindsay Price & Robert Buckley
#2 - Tina Fey & Alec Baldwin

Blind Items Revealed

July 15, 2008

This one is a little hard to disguise because honestly there are not that many directors names that would just pop in your head. Yes, I know you can name a million, but think of the average person. How many directors can they name? This is one of them. Oh, and he always writes his own stuff as well.

So, this director bought a farm/estate about 4 years ago. It has been in existence for awhile and so had a number of employees already there when he bought it. Even though it isn't really related to the kindness, our director has treated the employees who remained much better in the past four years then they ever were treated by the past employers.

One of the guys who worked on the estate was given some new jobs when the director took over. The director hired him to work on his films as an electrician, handyman, and bartender for parties on the sets. He even gave the guy some bit parts in his films. Well about a year ago, the worker was diagnosed with liver cancer. Over the course of the year our worker had his ups and downs but finally died last week. From the time he was initially diagnosed, our director made sure that the worker received the best care in the world wherever in the world it could be found. He made sure the worker's girlfriend could travel with the worker.

The director made phone calls, called in favors, consulted with the best doctors in the world all for his employee. No matter what he did though, it just was never enough. The director now feels he could have even done more to help, and has been in terrible shape over the past week since the worker's death.

M. Night Shyamalan

Blind Items Revealed

July14, 2008

I would expect this kind of behavior from this B- list film and whatever else he can get actor who used to be an A list television star. I did not expect this kind of behavior from this C list television and film actress who is the offspring of true Hollywood royalty. Despite our actress being married, it hasn't stopped her from going out with our actor whenever possible and isn't shy about expressing her affection towards him in public. We can only imagine what they are doing in private while the hubby sits at home waiting for his wife to return.

Natasha Gregson Wagner & Matthew Perry

Blind Items Revealed

July 11, 2008

#1 & 2- So this C list television actress with A list name recognition was supposed to star in an old family standby. Everyone was excited to have her on board and thought everything was great. Then at the filming of the promos for the show, our actress was a no-show. Apparently she was too tired to come in and film, but would try and come in a few days or perhaps they could just film out at her place. Whatever was more convenient for her. The producers, instead of putting up with crap and creating some kind of diva monster, cut her loose from the project right then and brought in an old nemesis instead who has been a perfect angel.

#3 - What former NY Yankees pitcher and still in the major leagues as of last year had an affair with a teammate's wife, and then later with that same teammate's girlfriend. (This has nothing to do in any way, shape, or form with Alex Rodriguez except who knows, maybe he slept with them both as well. I don't know.)

#1&2 - Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty
#3 - David Wells

Blind Items Revealed

July 7, 2008

#1 - This vegetarian A list rock star has been on and off with his baby mama. She thinks they are on. He apparently thinks they are off as he was off with this former B list actress from a hit television show who loves taking care of strangers in the park.

#2 - This singer/actress who seems equally known for both, but it has been awhile since there has been a hit song. Hell, it has been awhile since she had a hit movie too. I guess she would be about C list on the scale of acting but definitely A list name recognition. Anyway, she just broke up with her longtime boyfriend. Just one of those things or did that certain UFC fighter she spends so much time hanging around possibly have something to do with it.

#1 - Anthony Kiedis, Laura Prepon
#2 - Mandy Moore

Tomorrow

No blind items today. Sorry, but it is a lot of work to get ready for tomorrow. Looking at the initial numbers it looks like tomorrow will be the most reveals ever. Also tomorrow I will recap in one post all of the most recent reader photos. In addition, there will be some other surprises which I think you will find fun. Oh, and maybe a return of Verne one last time for 2008. The fun should start around 9am Pacific Time. New posts every fifteen minutes until they are all gone. At this point it looks as if the posts will run for a good 8 hours so there should be plenty for you to look at. Be safe tonight. I want all of you here in one piece tomorrow.

Random Photos Part One - With Lots Of Reader Photos

Gipsy Kings - Los Angeles

Never really see photos of Amy Adams when she is not on a red carpet so thought this would make a nice change.
Ashlee Simpson has transformed into someone completely unrecognizable. She probably enjoys that.
David Beckham training in Dubai.
Julie Benz doing some great charity work last night at an event she hosted for groups doing work in Burma/Myanmar.
Mystery Jets - Lorne, Australia
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I can't believe how big Samuel L Jackson is smiling. If someone tried to pass off an empty liquor bottle as an award to me, I would be pissed. Not at the idea, but the fact it should have been full.
For Sylvester Stallone, he really does not look that bad.
"Dad. Wait."
"Yeah, yeah, I will get you the money for some new pants if Valkyrie starts to make some money. Meanwhile, Suri needs a Chanel baby blanket."
The Dodos - Lorne, Australia

What Do You Think?

So imagine you are on an airplane flight with Jamie Lynn Spears. I know. Not exactly your holiday fantasy is it? Well imagine it anyway. Oh, and you are a woman who kind of looks like her or a man who doesn't mind putting on a wig and sunglasses. OK, got it?

Well according to Adessa Eskridge she was on a flight with Jamie Lynn Spears last September 11th. When she landed, she says in a complaint filed against the City of Los Angeles that cops surrounded her and told her she needed to help them. Apparently that is all they said and they led her though the airport acting as a decoy for Jamie Lynn who was making a break for it and headed off to the cement pond.

Adessa is now threatening to file suit against the City for false arrest and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Uh huh. I think why she is pissed is that she was not able to catapult her five seconds of fame into a reality show or Playboy or some other act she felt she was entitled to as a five second celebrity. I really find it hard to believe that a gaggle of cops did not explain what they were doing and why. I also find it hard to believe just as a matter of course that Jamie Lynn Spears needs that kind of ruse performed. She was on a middling tweener show and got pregnant at 16. Does she really deserve all those extra precautions?

So, what do you think? Do you think this woman was told the truth or is she just looking for a quick buck. TMZ has the entire story with quotes from the lawyer for you to make an informed decision.

Daily Mirror Blind Item

Which celebrity is so hygiene-conscious he insists female prey shower before jumping into the sack with him...?

Quick Hits

Charles Not In Charge - Charles Barkley was arrested last night in Arizona on suspicion of drunken driving. As is the custom in Arizona he was given a ticket and sent home in a cab. Don't you think part of the learning process is to actually be taken to a police station, and thrown in a cell for a little while? Otherwise it just feels too much like nothing. According to TMZ, the former NBA star and now big eater, was pulled over after he ran a stop sign. He was probably running it because he had been out partying with Jaleel White. Yep. Urkel. Probably wanted to rush home and relive the experience while watching Family Matters reruns.

Brothers - Apparently Dane Cook's brother was not happy with his 10% that he was getting from Dane and so he decided to allegedly forge a $3M check and deposit it into his own account. Of course you are going o get caught when you only have $1.89 in your account and do that. Plus the fact that he put a smiley face after his signature was a big give away to cops. Why? Because that would almost be considered funny and as we all know, Dane Cook is not funny.

Puerto Rico bound - Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are headed to Puerto Rico for the rest of the holiday season. There they can fight in peace and not have to read tabloids. Some tabloids would have you believe they will be going there to hammer out their divorce agreement. Whatever. He will find someone 18 and she will find another guy willing to shell out big bucks on her. Hello Sean Combs. Is that a wad of cash or are you just happy to see me?

It's A Rental

Matt Dillon was arrested last night in Vermont. He was arrested for speeding. I guess I should say allegedly speeding. I mean they gave him a citation, but by signing it, he is not pleading guilty. I mean it could have been that he was filming something for a movie, or had bees in his car or was trying o get up to a certain speed so he could go back in time and find his career. It must be really strange for him to find himself looking up at his brother now as the most popular in the family.

Of course, I think the most logical explanation for why Matt Dillon was clocked at 106mph in a 65 zone and then hauled off to jail to get photographed and fingerprinted was that he was driving a rental. Everyone knows you don't care about a rental. Never smoked in a car before? Do it in a rental. Don't eat food in your car? You will in a rental. Hell, you don't even mind spilling your drink or half your Whopper down the front of the passenger seat. Can't fit in that tight spot in the parking lot? In a rental you will give it a shot. Never been to a crack house? You will in a rental. A rental car gives you a freedom you have never had before when it comes to a car because you honestly don't give a crap about it because you would have never bought it for yourself and you can't get the damn radio to work and so you are pissed.

I think Matt Dillon was just pissed he was driving a Chevy and decided to see if he could burn the engine or he just didn't want anyone to see him. Unfortunately some Vermont policemen did. But, hey no drinking or drugs. I'm happy about that.

Mischa Barton Will Lie Right To Your Face

You should know by now that I am a sucker for all things Mischa Barton. If there is any kind of story or photo I can post about her, of her, or where I can reference her, I will do so. Therefore, it goes without saying that I read her blog. I mean, it is where she probably delivers to the world her insights and thought and shares all of her knowledge with the world to her fans. Uh huh. It is also makes me laugh so hard I sometimes can't see the screen because I am crying so hard.

In her latest entry, Mischa takes us all with her on her journey to India where some financier has decided she is actually worth paying as an actress. I know, I know. But he thought Mischa could introduce him to Rachel Bilson so he thought it was worth it. Let's take a look at the very first paragraph of what Mischa filed in this post shall we? (Now close your eyes and imagine Eddie Murphy in Mr. Robinson's neighborhood inviting you in with his hand)

So guys India has been amazing. A little frenetic, as they do things a little different here! So it's been tough with the long shoot days to check in much! But the people are amazing, so eager to please and I've learned so much from them.

OK, well as you can probably guess, when I first read this part I thought I was going to write about how Mischa is lazy and complaining when she is lucky to even have a damn job. You do realize that even on the longest day imaginable, she probably only actually works an hour of those days right? OK, and she is telling her fans that because of these incredibly long work days she can't write. She makes it seem as if she would love nothing more than to write to her fans, but damn this Bollywood they won't even give her five minutes to catch her breath. But you see, that is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth, because Mischa spends all of the rest of the post explaining what things are more important than her fans.

1. Visiting as many temples as possible. She has seen plenty.
2. Eating and drinking - ok. I will give her a break there.
3. Playing the sitar and trying to have a lesson each day.
4. Coming up with as many references as she can in one post to remind people she is British and not American. I don't think the UK is actually raising their hand and saying "yes please" to having her. I think they would prefer she stays in the US.
5. Goa for her vacation.
6. Para sailing
7. Jet skiing
8. Swimming in the ocean for ages everyday.

With all of that I'm just wondering when she even has time to film, let alone post for her readers. As always, the comments on the fan sites are truly what makes it gold.

Oh, and as a bonus, check out the photos of her Christmas from this year. They include two solely consisting of her dogs. The other photo is from when she is five and posing with her younger sister. Yeah, the sister that kept having to go to rehab thanks to you know who.

DNfromMN - Movie Review - Revolutionary Road And Many More

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
The Story: When they met in their early twenties, Frank and April (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) were bright, naïve, and full of dreams. Pregnancy happens, so they move to the suburbs; to Revolutionary Road. Kathy Bates sells them the perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood, with the perfect neighbors. After several years of feeling stifled, Frank and April plan an escape from the “hopeless endlessness”. This is not a happy movie.

Sam Mendes directed Kevin Spacey to an Academy Award for playing the role his real life wife Kate Winslet plays in this movie. She deserves it. She remains the most reliable excellent actress in every movie (even in fluff like The Holiday).

DiCaprio, on the other hand, did not do so well. It was a very stagey performance. Something that would work well projecting to the back of the theater but does not work in a two-shot. His frustration and anger come across like a childish temper tantrum, not as an adult.

To me, the second hour succeeds so much more than the first. All the tension comes to head, people face their issues, and makes the movie tolerable. However, it feels like the pitch line for this was: From the director of American Beauty, with the stars of Titanic: I give you – American Beauty 2: The Prequel (if Lester Burnham was a 1950s housewife).

What it’s worth: $5.00. Revolutionary Road showcases Kate Winslet’s great acting, and some very memorable supporting actors and actresses, but the second half really doesn’t pay off enough to sit through the first half in its entirety. Read the book, or wait for rental.

QUICK REVIEWS OF THE LAST FEW BIG MOVIES
Australia: The first 2 hours are great. The last hour is a separate unnecessary movie (except for the last 5 minutes). The child actor who plays Nullah is so charismatic, watch the tourism ads with him in them that Baz Luhrmann directed. They’re worth your time. And yum, Hugh Jackman. $8.50, but leave early.

Doubt: See it. Amy Adams needs to stop playing naïve innocents though if she doesn’t want to stay typecast (she’s good, but it’s essentially her character from Enchanted as a 1960s nun). Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in an acting battle to the death over suspected priest abuse of a minor. $15.

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway goes dark, playing a recently rehabbed sister-of-the bride. Emotionally this is a bit of a roller-coaster, but any even mildly dysfunctional family will have been witness to one of these scenes in real life. I didn’t understand the multi-cultural-uber-hipster wedding at all, but that’s the only thing I don’t recommend about this. Note: lots of shaky camera, take your Dramamine. $10

Benjamin Button: My pick for movie of the year. I love a good epic, and this did it. Seriously. See it. Just know you’ll be sitting there for 2.5 hours, fully engrossed. I blinked like four times, I was glad when I cried because my eyes were getting dry from staring at how beautiful and amazing this was. $25 – take a friend, buy popcorn, but only a small soda so you don’t have to leave to pee; then see it again.

Seven Pounds: It’s not bad, it’s just about an unlikeable guy. It is a mistake to have the first scene be your movie star verbally abusing a very kind blind man over the phone. It gets better, but more predictable after that. $5 – wait for rental.

The Spirit: Gabriel Macht is hot ,and the first scene of him walking around in his boxer shorts is quite uplifting (to my crotch). The rest of the movie would have made a good Sci-Fi channel TV pilot. It has that rushed, unfinished, not-quite-sure-what-we’re-doing quality that most TV pilots have, and it could have been a great campy TV series like Dark Angel. $2 – wait for cable, don’t spend any money on this.

Slumdog Millionaire: See it. The story of a man who grew up with nothing and only a self-made education goes on India’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The story of his life and how it plays into how he answers questions is so worth seeing. (Note: I have loved all movies directed by Danny Boyle except for The Beach). $15 – buy popcorn, but eat it before the first flashback, you’ll thank me for that later.

Thailand Is The New Rehab?

While reading the humorous account in the NY Daily News about Jeremy Piven and how he picks up women, I was reminded of a blind item I wrote about him which I can't seem to find anymore. OK, I could find it, but I'm lazy, but it was basically about a guy who texts multiple women to meet him at a restaurant and if they show up, then he chooses which one he is going to have sex with. It's nice to know that he is still up to his old tricks. If you can find it in the list, consider it an early reveal because I don't think I have revealed it before.

But what really interested me in the article was the fact that somehow I must have missed Bangkok becoming the world's leading authority on mercury poisoning. Yeah, I know. All of the specialists in the world go there. The best doctors in the mercury research field are there. Out of all the doctors in the world, we are expected to believe that Jeremy was sent to Bangkok on the advice of his doctor to get treatment for his mercury. Uh huh. And did you know that due to the wonders of science and medicine that he will be fully treated by January 10th and the Golden Globes. Oh yeah, those Thai doctors will have him cured by then.

This is by far the biggest bunch of crap on the planet and no one seems to care. Everyone just nods their head and prints the crap. I have nothing against Thai doctors or Thailand, and it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. They do cheap plastic surgery with great doctors. However, as far as I know they do not have a monopoly on the world's best mercury poisoning doctors.

Have you noticed this latest strategy by celebrities? First it was Taylor Momsen and now Jeremy Piven. They throw a doctor out there who makes some kind of pronouncement and then all the reporters say to themselves, "well a doctor said it so it must be true." How does that make it true? A doctor's oath is to his or her patients, not to the media. Last I checked a doctor's oath does not have a section about how to deal with The Enquirer.

I think it is a great idea someone came up with because it just quiets all questions and speculation. Not with me.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which quiet TV starlet proclaims to the world that she's a teensy-weensy size when, in fact, she's actually an average-sized 6?

Today's Blind Items - Old Hollywood Blind Item

This one is out there for you to discover. I just thought you might have fun trying to dig this one up because it does have a holiday connection and it has some pseudo incest which I know is always intriguing.

What we have here is an actress who was definitely considered A list at the height of her fame. Academy Award nominated and in one of the most popular films of all time. Has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Married to a director who, although, not as big as his actress wife, still happened to direct one of the most famous films of all time. Our director had been previously married and had children from that marriage. One of those children was a son. Well things happen as they say and the step mom actress and her step son just could not control what happened and eventually wound up in bed together. One day, the dad/husband/director came home to find his son and his wife having, umm relations. Well it turns out that the wife during the course of this marriage had children both from her director husband and also from her stepson.

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos Sure To Make Someone Jealous

And then Tiffany came and knocked it to the floor.

Eva Longoria in Glamour. OK, I will admit she looks pretty good here. They have some good airbrushing people over in their art department.
Ahh yes. Cash needs that cell phone just in case, well, umm, he wants to know what time it is.
There was not a lot to choose from today so you are going to have to make do with Kristin Cavallari who looks upset at the intrusion. Please. A few years from now she will be begging anyone to take her photo.
Apparently Kristy Hinze has discovered that you can indeed make money just by ringing bells in Australia.
Oh please, oh please to everything that is holy, let Katie Holmes say these jeans belong to Tom Cruise.
I swear I thought this photo of Kate Hudson was actually a guy at first.
Oh please, oh please to everything that is holy, let the UPS driver not see Kim Kardashian standing there. OK, that would be wrong. It is the holiday season after all. Notice the guy way in the background running to get a photo. Relax pal. No need to run. Kim is not going anywhere as long as there are cameras around and a chance to get free stuff from Burberry.
You know what? No snark for Keanu Reeves today. He went to the play of one of his friends and that was pretty decent of him.
Yes, Nicole Richie needs that cell phone at all times because you never know when her career may call. Seriously, it is ok to let your voice mail pick up a call. It was invented for just that purpose.
I preferred the shot of Carmen Electra in the rain in Scary Movie over this one of Owen Wilson. But hey, to each his own.
And what exactly is Prince Harry licking off his fingers?
Reader Photo #1
And yes, that is Viggo with Reader #2
Obviously during his retirement from acting, grooming has not been on the top of Joaquin Phoenix's to do list.
The Drones - Lorne, Australia
TZU - Lorne, Australia
Congratulations to Woody who finally got married.

Quick Hits

Tara Reid Is Paying For Rehab - Want to know when a tabloid is going to get sued? When the post a story about Tara Reid getting rehab for free and not having to follow the rules of a facility. When the story is blasted by the rehab facility as in this case, Promises and the story is pulled from the website, in this case Star in about two minutes. Star had claimed that Tara Reid was taking advantage of a free offer from Promises for any celebrity to come do some rehab at their place in order to get some free advertising. Star also alleged that Tara was allowed to bring in to the facility whatever she wanted, i.e drugs and that Promises didn't care. Yeah. Call those lawyers.

Beyonce - I know, I know but it is quick. Apparently Beyonce doesn't like going to parties because people stare at her. She wishes they would stop looking at her and that she feels like she is in a cage whenever she goes out. Uh huh. If it's a cage it's gilded with 24k gold and the people doing the staring are the ones who paid for that 24k cage so shut your mouth and if you don't like it then stop performing or just do everything for free. Wouldn't like that huh? What was she signing up for? She wanted to make money. To do that people have to buy your product. You want them to pay and then not look at you? Get a damn life. Be grateful.

Mickey Says His Mind - Some guy decided to share a text message that Mickey Rourke had sent him which I kind of find surprising because I am not 100% sure Mickey even texts at all. Anyway the text message basically says that Sean Penn is an average actor at best and that he is the biggest homophobe he knows so he did ok in Milk. Oh, and Sean is a friend of his. I'm just not buying this story. Mickey is self-destructive, but I just don't see him doing this one.

Just Collecting Luggage - This is the time of the year I always feel sorry for my Australian readers. No, not because you have to celebrate Christmas at the beach and use a BBQ to cook dinner because it's so warm, but because this is the time of the year when someone is actually dumb enough in Australia to pay Paris Hilton a huge sum of money to show up at some event and utter words of two syllables. When Paris landed in Sydney she thought hundreds of fans were there to meet her. Turns out it was a bunch of senior citizens who were waiting for their luggage to come off an airplane.

Daily Mirror Blind Item

Which chart-topping star is hiding a Santa secret from his model girlfriend? He's already put her presents to him up for sale on eBay.

Greenlight That Quicksilver Sequel

If you think Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick worked a lot in the past, I don't think you have seen anything yet. Reports are swirling that Kevin and Kyra lost all of their money in the Bernard Madoff ponzi scheme. Apparently Kyra and Kevin lost everything except for their checking accounts and the land they own. Their publicist refused to confirm or deny this to The Huffington Post but if true would certainly crush them. Not crush them as if they were people who couldn't go out and work and make a few million each year for the next few years, but still, crush them in the sense they probably had to drink themselves to sleep for a few nights until they realized they can make more money in a few months than most people make in their whole lives.

See, it is their story that is going to make headlines because they are the celebrities, but lets face it. They can and will make a ton of money still in their lifetime. Sure, they might have to cut back on private jets for a few months until the paychecks start rolling back in, but the sad fact is they are not going to really struggle. It makes for great headlines but chooses to ignore all the people in the world who don't have the luxury of being able to get $1M for six weeks work.

It does show that even when you are decent couple as Kyra and Kevin are, that even they can fall victim to certain acts and hopefully their situation will throw some light on people who are not as fortunate as they are and are just hoping everyday they get that minimum wage job at the mall to try and support their family.

When Naked Cell Phone Photos Go Bad

What started out as a girlfriend taking some nude cell phone photos and steaming up some sex by letting a boyfriend take some more photos of the act has turned ugly. Who would have thunk it? I know, I know because everyone knows these stories always have a happy ending. Way down at the far end of celebrity are some women who play in the lingerie football league. No, I swear it's a real league in different cities and everything. Apparently the starting linebacker for the Tampa team (yes, I said linebacker) was dating a guy who had started a dating site which prided itself on being a safe dating site. I know, the story keeps getting better. He is 45 and she was 24. I think he probably took the photos just to show everyone he was actually dating someone young enough to be his daughter.

Actually Melissa Berry was the one who took the photos of herself but on the guy's phone. He then later took photos of her performing "a particularly private, intimate sexual act." I'm guessing that it was not something Archie ever got from Edith but I could be wrong on that.

At some point, the guy decided to show a couple of his friends the pictures. Melissa found out about it. I'm guessing when one of the friends called her and asked how come he didn't have any photos as well. Melissa got ticked off, took her boyfriend's phone and smashed it into the ground. Thinking that everything was done she felt happy. But, of course her boyfriend had already downloaded them to his computer.

He then asked her for $500 to replace his phone or threatened to release the photos. Melissa declined to pay so the guy e-mailed all of the photos to Melissa's mom. Yeah, so much for posting them online.So, Melissa is suing the guy now. In response, this is what the guy had to say, and become the nominee for ass of the year.

“I could have had her arrested and I didn’t. All I wanted was this phone back. I am a decent guy … It’s girls like this I fight against in the work that I do.”

Umm yeah. He's decent. Anyone want to go out with him?

Well They Are Just "Everyday People"

In what will probably be the only post I ever write about the new Hills spinoff show The City, I found it humorous that "everyday people" seem to resent the "star" that is Whitney Port. According to the NY Post, the people who toil and sweat each day in the offices of Diane von Furstenberg are not actually allowed to do any work. The reason? Well, Whitney is supposed to be working at Diane's office but barely shows up and when she does show up she flubs her lines on a fairly regular basis. Who knew there were lines on a reality show? Wow. The next thing you will tell me is that Rock Of Love is fixed.

Because MTV has so many reshoots they need to do each day they have instructed the people at Diane's office to not change anything on their desks. As a result, no work is actually getting done at the office because nothing can shift positions until a scene has actually been shot. Hey, here's a thought. Why not actually show a reality show that is reality and have people wander up to Whitney and ask her who the hell she is, how she got a job at Diane's at the first place and wtf they should care she is ruining their life. Then we could have them crank call her, send her porn filled e-mails and wait for the inevitable tears as they send her back to LA where she came from.

Too harsh? I just think that reality television was at its best when it actually was reality. Sure there was lots of editing involved but at least what the cameras picked up was actual reality and not some scripted show. At this point, if what the NY Post says is true, at the very least MTV should be paying all of the people in the office as extras and buying them lunch everyday. If not, I would just say f**k it if I were an employee there and do everything I could to make the filming even more laborious and I guarantee you if everyone joined in, MTV would decide that Whitney really didn't need to be at the office "working" very much at all.

Seriously?

I feel like I fell asleep and woke up after a three week nap or something. That would be a first for me. I have managed to pass out for an entire three day weekend before on a combination of NyQuil( which is the greatest invention known to man) and a bottle of tequila. That is one President's Day weekend I will never get back. I wake up this morning and saw that apparently Britney Spears flew to Jodphur for a three day fling with a Bollywood dance instructor who she fell in love with when he directed her Womanizer video.

Wow. I really need to pay attention more. Apparently they have been dating for three weeks which is how long anyone should date before flying around the world to see their prospective partner. According to the Daily Mirror the pair exchanged homemade Christmas presents. Yeah, when I think of homemade, I think of some crudely drawn stick figure with a huge cartoon balloon saying, "Mery Chrismass."

Apparently though the couple found this charming as they hand fed each other Indian food. In my head I just keep hearing Britney saying, "When do we eat the grits?" I know, I know. The southern stereotype. I'm wrong and I should be punished. I promise, I will watch Mother May I Sleep With Danger later today.

Has anyone seen any photos from this intimate dinner the two spent together? I can't believe no one has tried to make a buck off this thing yet. The Mirror has quotes from sources about the dinner, not that having quotes makes the story actually real, but they were fairly inventive so I'm assuming some kind of dinner actually occurred. I mean the whispering and giggling could have been Britney trying to explain how the credit crisis destroyed the economy of Iceland and it's chain reaction effect on the citizens of Europe and Asia.

Forget The Cigars - OxyContin For Everyone

Joe Simpson must be screaming in his sleep right now. No, it's not because he looked in a mirror, it's because Bristol Palin and her brand new baby are the subject of a bidding war unlike anything see in the tabloids since, well, in a while. While Pete and Ashlee had a few nibbles at $50,000 for the first photos of Manhattan Jungle Book, the starting price for photos of Bristol's new baby started at $100,000 with any additional bids also in 100K increments. The winner was of course People who loves to spend money to show babies. They spent $300,000 for the privilege of showing photos of the baby and presumably will get a permanent discount on OxyContin from Bristol's future mother-in-law. Or as she likes to call it, "coffee."

In the case of celebrities, sometimes there is the question of whether the money will go to charity or not. In the case here, I think the question is whether it might be scooped up by a respective parent either for their legal defense or to pay their Saks bill.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which TV actress has a new boyfriend with a temper? Her hipster beau is known for smacking around girls if they don’t put out. Luckily for him, she does.

Today's Blind Items

Before we get started today, I need to make a correction. Even in the blind items I strive to be 100% accurate. I know I don't have to, because you would never really know, but it is important to me. On Friday's blind item I accused someone of having an affair. It was based on a tip from a photo the source had seen. I went with the item without seeing the photo. I saw the photo this weekend and it was not the woman that had been originally claimed to be. Instead it is, as far as I know a single woman who is just an "everyday person." Therefore it is just a new relationship and not a scandal tainted relationship. I apologize.

Now for today's item.

This former hugely popular B list television star and now really in absolutely nothing happens to be married with child/ren. She has been in this space before. She has never had what one would describe as a quiet sex life despite what her image was when she was younger. Well at this point it is getting out of hand. Seems that she and her husband have always done swinging in a very exclusive club where anonymity is guaranteed. But now, she is branching out and with that branching she is losing some of her anonymity. In fact she is seriously looking for work because of a situation she got herself into about six months ago that involved several men at once. One of them threatened to expose it all and she has had to pay hush money since. She would turn the guy into the cops for extortion but feels the aftermath would be more than any attempt at a comeback could take. Meanwhile she needs to make money to keep paying out all the hush money.

Random Photos Part One - With Reader Photos

I had to put them on top. Seriously. I didn't think anything could be more ridiculous than the matching red outfits, but I was wrong. I actually think Mariah Carey or Nick Cannon went and bought the dog because it is white also. For a second I thought the dog was stuffed.

Augie March - Lorne, Australia
British India - Lorne, Australia
Gone is the smiling Baz Luhrman from the pre-opening days of Australia. Now is the look of a man who directed a bomb.
Why the hell not right?
Heather Graham celebrates the world of cross-stitching
Hugh Jackman is obviously standing because he is enjoying the Knicks game.
Or it could be because of the cheerleaders.
Especially that one.
Even required a little adjustment.
Actually it is one of my favorite Jessica Alba photos.
Lindsay Lohan looking at bikinis because obviously she needs a vacation with all the hard work she has done lately.
Wow. Madonna is not looking so good.
Paul Young on the other hand looks fabulous.
As does Robert Davi who is one of my favorites.
Reader Photo #1
And Reader Photo #2
Happy Birthday to The Veronicas

Quick Hits

Samantha Fires Back - Apparently Samantha Ronson just wants to keep the feud alive between herself and Michael Lohan. Instead of just letting things dies, she decided to tell Page Six that Lindsay Lohan did indeed write the blog post the other day in which she accused her dad of having an affair and fathering a child out of wedlock. It was also the one where Lindsay kept saying Aliana in reference to Ali. Anyway, Sam said that she doesn't ghost write MySpace blogs and basically called Michael an ass. Like that's news.

The Zooey - In Touch is reporting that The Zooey got engaged last weekend to some guy who doesn't deserve her and that she thought about refusing because she wanted to spend her life with an old fat guy who lives in his parent's basement. OK, I know. So, I hope she is happy. I hope it lasts forever. But if not, there is room on the futon.

Chyna - Chyna took her birthday party to a whole new level. She drank and cut herself right into the hospital. Apparently Chyna decided that booze and pills mix well so got drunk of her ass, started cutting herself and her friends called 911. At the hospital they said she was too drunk to do a psych evaluation. I don't think it matters if she is drunk or sober for that. Just pop in The Surreal Life and you will get your answer.

Daily Mirror Blind Item

Which TV and radio pair, supposedly best chums, can't stand the sight of one another... they spend every ad break bickering?

Don't Say I Didn't Get You Anything For The Holidays

So, what do I get everyone who reads the site for the holidays? Well, I could say it is the reveals on Thursday, but many of you want something more. I know that and so, without further ado. Here are about 20 photos of Daniel Craig half naked on the beach here and here. For those of you who enjoy looking at his girlfriend, she is also in a half a dozen shots in her bikini.

I'm Trying To Decide

This is one of those decisions in life that haunt me. This would be decision that will keep me up nights for the next few weeks as I weight the pros and cons of each side. You may be asking yourself what could possibly disturb me enough to keep me from my alcohol induced sleep? Well, I saw a report today that Heather Mills is being sued for a lack of a better word. It is not really a suit, but more of an employment claim that her nanny filed against her claiming sex discrimination and intimidation.

From reading the reports I really don't see where the nanny was discriminated against sexually. Perhaps they use a different definition in the UK. In any event, I do see the intimidation though. Turns out the nanny was forced to spray tan Heather while Heather was naked. Not really nanny duties, but Heather is on a budget after all. $40M does not go as far as it used to. The nanny was also forced to work as early as 730am and as late as midnight. I'm not really sure how that can be intimidating except as it relates to seeing Heather without any makeup on.

The question and thought that is going to drive me bonkers each night is this. Who would you rather spray tan? Denise Richards or Heather Mills?

Now That's A Shocker

According to The Daily Mail, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have been receiving death threats from an anti-Scientology group. Apparently Tom and Katie have called in the FBI and security has been increased. Have you seen Anonymous? I love them, but they are not the death threat type. They are the I will go on the protest if I can get past the next level of Guitar Hero.

The thing I love about the story is that they are so fearful of being killed that they have decided to maintain separate residences. Wow. That's a shocker huh? Even when they are in the same residence, it is not like they are sitting in bed together talking about the day's events. Oh sure, Katie comes in at night to find out her schedule for the next day, what she should wear, which cameras she should look in and everything else that their PR machine needs to hum.

Supposedly Tom is so scared of dying that he built a $10M bunker in Colorado to keep him safe. Seriously? Who does he think is after him? Does he think someone is going to send in the military to kill him? Does Xenu have friends in the universe that are pissed at Tom? I'm guessing hat if there is a Xenu and it has evil friends that a bunker dug into some hillside is not going to slow them down much.

He Probably Wishes He Could Hibernate

According to ESPN, Tony Romo collapsed in the shower yesterday after his team got killed by Philadelphia 44-6. I need to stop right there, because honestly if I type the word Philadelphia I need to eat a cheesesteak. Now, I am a Pat's kind of guy. I know, I know and so for those of you who love Geno, I'm sorry. Anyway, back to our regular program.

According to ESPN, Romo damaged some ribs. Whatever. The team choked like dogs and the reason Tony was on the shower floor lying in pain was the fact that he realized he was not going to get a two or three week delay on the inevitable family vacation. No, not the family vacation with his own family, but the three weeks he will now have to spend with the entire Simpson clan in Cabo.

That is the kind of vacation where you long for a rib injury so that way you have an excuse when you start combining pain medication and alcohol so Joe Simpson and his plans for you and his daughter and your future business plans all comes out as a kind of hum. Plus, now Tony will have to hear about how two years of Jessica has equaled two years of losing. Kind of like her career. Well at least they have that in common.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which frisky royal ditched his own party to have sex on a nearby yacht? The playboy snuck off with a bombshell, leaving his security staff looking all over for him.