#1 & #2 - This B list movie actress in a franchise had to get an abortion in order to keep filming the franchise. She didn't tell her boyfriend because it wasn't his baby. It was the baby of a co-star on a different film who is a married C+/B- movie and television actor who is slowly moving away from television.
#3 - This C list movie actress with A list name recognition who used to be kind of a big deal, but now is only a big deal in her mind chain smokes constantly when she is doing any kind of photo shoot. The reason? Her goal is to make the clothes smell so bad that the designer or magazine will give them all to her for free.
#4 - This former A/B list movie and television actor is driving producers crazy with demands on the set of his new movie. It seems that our actor has some very odd spiritual beliefs and he is willing to only shoot during certain hours of the day because to do otherwise will harm his soul. I think he has smoked way too much pot.
Adrien Brody has never been on top. He is an Academy Award winner. He deserves it. Plus he was out and about supporting his photographer mother, Sylvia Plachy. Ace Young trying to sell you a Ford Festiva. When you get Ace Young to endorse your product you can really see how important it is to the company. Do you think Billy Ray Cyrus has someone do his makeup for him, or do you think he does it on his own? If it weren't for that soul patch, I swear he would look more feminine than Miley. You have to admit that Britney Spears looks good here. Demi Lovato takes her younger sister to a red carpet. Look how much she is loving it. I wish Eva Mendes would take me to a red carpet. Or throw me down on the carpet, or just roll me up in her carpet and take me home. You can kind of see Haley Joel Osment's face when you look at Emily Osment. I don't think I have seen a picture of Haley in a long time. The first time Princess Eugenie has been spotted in public smoking. Although she has smoked for awhile, she normally never smokes in public places. I guess because she was in Australia she thought it was safe. Hilary Duff looks pretty good considering she might have a hangover or tired voice from screaming. From Gawker. Thanks Marisa. I don't think I ever said congratulations to Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs for the pregnancy thing. I don't usually mention them, but, hey it is Idina and Taye. 8 hours after their baby is born, Jamie Oliver dragged his wife and kid outside and made them pose. They named their kid a bunch of nouns. Petal Blossom Rainbow. Yeah. Good luck with that name. Of course she has two sisters. One is named Poppy Honey and the other is Daisy Boo. I'm guessing Jamie isn't the one picking out these names. It sounds to me like they are just looking at books about spring and picking random words and then combining them. Kevin Spacey alongside the director of his new play. Lily Allen - Los Angeles Melora Hardin and her husband Gildart Jackson and their kids. Nicole and Joel. She has become so much more popular now that she isn't on television anymore. Unlike Paris who figures if Lady GaGa can make this work she can. Paris only wore it so people would post her picture. Mission accomplished. A random Italian actor named Raoul Bova. I just thought you might like him. So, these ShoWest awards are just a big scam. They gave Sienna Miller an award. I can understand giving Rachel McAdams an award but they also gave Zac Efron an award. And Rumer Willis. Yes, she got an award for her acting. I know, I know. It's like one of those fake modeling agencies that say a 400 pound man can be a star if I give them some money for fees and photographs. Michael Caine got a lifetime achievement award. They ran out of trophies but gave him Sienna for the night. Hey, he's married. She didn't mind. Stevie Nicks doing a little dance. Does Tatyana Ali even act anymore? I know she was on a soap for a little while. Oh, she did some singing right? Teri Hatcher looks almost wrinkle free from this distance. Must have been botox week. Taylor Swift with that Jennifer Lopez squint.
This week in Your Turn, I thought we would take a little trip to the dark side. No, you don't have to dress up as Darth Vader and call everyone Luke. What I am wondering today is if you have ever committed a crime. It can be something as simple as shoplifting some gum when you were a kid. Or it could be something more serious. Does anyone know you committed the crime? Did you serve time? Is it a secret from people in your life? If you haven't ever committed a crime, then what crime have you thought about committing? Don't say you have never thought about committing one. No one is that perfect. Even the Pope would run over Paris Hilton if given the chance.
Universal Pictures decided that with all the focus on Madonna and her adoption proceedings that this would be the perfect time to release some stills from Sacha Baron Cohen's new Bruno movie. The photos are Bruno with the child he adopted. In the movie he is quotes as saying, "Madonna has one. Angelina has one and now Bruno has one."
In what I am guessing will be several rounds of verbal warfare between Peaches Geldof and Ed Westwick, Peaches has certainly made it be known that she will speak her mind. Apparently Peaches thinks Ed is a bit of a prick and accuses him of emphasizing his English accent to win over American women. She doesn't comment on whether he does the same thing to win over American men.
Peaches didn't stop though with just the remark about the English accent. No, remember this is Peaches. The girl who got fired for asking pointed questions of a celebrity on an entertainment show.
"He acts up to this personification of some sort of Pete Doherty character - some really wasted English guy with a poet soul and it doesn't really work. It is a bit like, 'Mate, you're on Gossip Girl and you're in a sh**ty band.'"
Hey, but at least she knows what show he is on and it sounds like she watches it. As for her musical taste. Did you see who she married? Have you heard his band?
"We spoke for a bit and he was quite lecherous. But he was lecherous to all the girls. He's very small, too. Smaller than me. I'm 5'7" and I think he must be 5'6". He's ripped. But when you're small and ripped you get into Tom Cruise territory, like a little overgrown gorilla."
Oh. Ed. Damn. She compared you to Tom Cruise and not in a good way. Well, in a good way in the sense that apparently both of you are ripped, but that you are very similar to a little overgrown gorilla. I don't know if she means Ed and Tom are both excessively hairy or that they have strong bodies in a really tiny frame.
For the past several months I have been waiting and waiting for a US cable network to pick up what is quite possibly the greatest reality show ever. It is a Canadian show called Mantracker. The premise is that a team of two friends or couple get a 2 kilometer head start and have to make their way across 40 kilometers of Canadian back country and avoid the Mantracker who is on a horse with a partner of his own. The prey have a map and compass and know where they are going. The Mantracker who is crazy good at looking for signs and picking up trails has no idea where the finish line is and is trying to capture the prey before the finish. The show has been on three years and I have seen about half of the episodes. The prey win about twice a season, but the editing and location and premise just make it a great show. Plus, Mantracker seems like a great guy and he searches for lost hikers and kids in the Canadian wilderness when he isn't on the show.
Anyway, instead of just buying the rights to the Canadian version, CMT has decided that a Ted Nugent led reality show would be a much better choice. They could not be more wrong. I know many of you outside of Canada have never seen Mantracker and don't give a crap, but this would be the equivalent of Lily Allen hosting a UK version of Survivor. Except it is even more than that, because the Mantracker is the only permanent cast member. It has to be perfect.
In the Ted Nugent version scheduled to start airing in August, each week Ted and his 18 year old son will teach 3 people basic survival skills and then will leave them on their own while Ted and his son attempt to hunt them down.
Listen to me CMT. I know your audience and they will respond much more favorably to a guy who is a real cowboy and not some aging rocker and his teenage son. You might as well have got Hulk Hogan and his son. Yes, I know Ted is an outdoorsman, but not like Mantracker and with this show you have ruined the chance that any US network will want Mantracker.
The photo above was taken in Hawaii on Wednesday as Rihanna was arriving at the airport. Everyone was shocked to see her because no paps had even seen her in LAX and so she got clean away to Hawaii. OK, so if that is Rihanna on Wednesday arriving in Hawaii how can she have got into a traffic accident last night in New York?
Sure, she could have arrived and departed from Hawaii on the same day, but who has ever done that. Even from Los Angeles it is still a fairly long flight and everyone wants to stay at least one night right?
Well according to a news report from last night, Rihanna was leaving a restaurant in the West Village and was riding in a SUV when the SUV got into a car accident. While the drivers dealt with the accident, another SUV was dispatched and Rihanna was taken back to where she was staying.
How is this possible? Are there two Rihannas? Are there two of them running around the US and Caribbean to throw off the scent of paps and reporters so she can get away from it all? Is there someone pretending to be Rihanna and cashing in on it? Is this just the case of some bored New York reporter making up a story he wished happened and that he was the driver taking Rihanna home? Does she invite him in for a drink to thank him?
If it was Rihanna in both places she needs to slow down. She has been traveling all over the place and it isn't even for work. Vacations are supposed to be about sitting your butt in one place and not moving.
Do you want to know how you can tell when you are famous at a level above anyone else? It really has nothing to do with money or if people know your name. Sure, that is one level of fame. Everyone knows who Paris Hilton is and she has made some money, but, she is just one of many fish in the celebrity sea. Sure, she is a little more diseased than the rest of the fish, and her colors are not as bright as the rest of the fish, but she is just there swimming with all the rest of the wannabes.
JK Rowling also knows what it is like to be famous. She is known all over the world and has gobs and gobs of money. So, what makes her different than all of the other celebrity fish swimming in the sea? She has world leaders lined up like a kid at Comic-Con wanting her autograph in books not only for their own children, but for themselves. According to The Telegraph, at a dinner prepared by Jamie Oliver, it was not Jamie who was the star, but instead, JK Rowling who sat there patiently and signed books for Barack Obama, the Russian President and his wife and several other world leaders who all stood patiently waiting their turn.
When you can literally stop the world in its tracks when you show up at a party, you have pretty much achieved a level of fame not many people will surpass. The only other time world leaders would be that excited to meet someone would be if they were a lobbyist handing out free money.
Just when the German people were beginning to forget the horror of actually purchasing David Hasselhoff albums and making him one of the top selling singers in that country, here comes more trouble. No, it isn't David singing a live album, but rather his two daughters.
It turns out that Taylor and Hayley besides watching each of their parents freak out over the past couple of years are also burgeoning singers. Well, singers in The Hoff mold no doubt. David is organizing it all and has reserved them studio time and hired some of the best songwriters to give them material.
Their music is being compared to Miley Cyrus, Disney level pop music. So, exit Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana and look who comes calling, The Hoff and his two children. I'm sure Disney will hear from David at some point about his idea for a reality show or a show loosely based on their recording an album, etc. Meanwhile David can play the single father who has to deal with it all. It already sounds predictable and boring and it hasn't even been green lit. Oh, The Hoff Drops name? It is totally real. Hopefully they can talk him out of it. And, if the whole Disney thing doesn't work out, at least they know they can tour as a trio all over Germany.
Do you really think that the ruling today in Malawi will stand? Please. Madonna will be leaving that country with Mercy James. Do you remember earlier this week, Madonna was in court? On Friday Madonna wasn't in court. She knew this was going to happen, and would be the result. Immediately after the hearing her lawyer said they would appeal to the Supreme Court.
I thought the judge made some good points when he said, Madonna had not met the residency requirements. That is an open and shut rule as far as the law. Plus, he said the child is treated fine in the orphanage and she wouldn't have to wear crazy white sweat suits and pretend to like Swept Away.
The events of yesterday should have told you the fix was in. Think of today like someone getting convicted in a a country for some crazy crime that isn't against the law in any other country. All this pressure comes to bear on the government and the convicted person is pardoned and sent to their home country. In this case, The Welfare Minister stated Madonna would be getting the kid. In a country like Malawi, I think that says more to her chances than what a lower court judge says. The judge made the right decision according to Malawi law. He also said something really interesting when he said that because Madonna donates so much money to the orphanages in the country, he is sure Mercy will be treated very well. What the judge doesn't understand is Madonna holds big grudges and if for some reason she doesn't get Mercy, there won't be any more money flowing in from Madonna. The government knows this.
There is no way Madonna is leaving without the baby.
I know what you're thinking: Is anybody in Hollywood straight? Skanky David Duchovny is. Brad Pitt maybe. I think that might be it!
But seriously, the town's full of pooftahs. Get friggin' used to it. Always has been that way—always will be. It's a community full of creative types, babe, that's just the way it goes!
Take Saucy Bossy, for ince. He's made a living by exuding the easy, cool side of powerful in his acting, his looks, his walk, all his endeavors. Ya know, he's just one of those handsome, effortless figures who command authority, with just a touch of kink on the side.
Well, doll-babes, I'm here to tell you...
It's a helluva lot more than just a damn "touch" for Saucy's libidinous bent! He sneaks dudes right and left into wherever he's hanging, whether it's his house in L.A. or whatever hotel room he happens to be partying in while on location.
Oh, and all those (female) big-butt babes Bossy's always feeling up in public, at events, in clubs, etc.? "It's all an act," said a member of S.B.'s management team, which is terrified somebody's gonna catch Saucy getting vroom service from the guys.
Jeez, I swear.
It's one thing for a single guy to live a lie like this. But should a dad being doing this? What a horrible message of deceit this sends to Bossy's kid! (I mean, it's only a matter of time before the kiddo discovers pops is a down-low kinda man).
And It Ain't: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Denzel Washington
Unbelievably shocking. It is just an affair. Those things happen everyday, but this one is mind blowing. Married. Child(ren). Academy Award Nominee/Winner. Actress. Permanently B list. Probably won't ever move up or down from that position. She is having an affair with one of her trainers. She has a couple. He comes to her place when her husband is not around. No hotels, no sneaking around. Only at her place. It has been going on for almost 9 months.
It's Tom Ford. Enough said. Ummm. Wow. Valentino must have just decided to take a bath in tanning liquid. Sure, I know Anne Hathaway is pale, and so the contrast is going to be greater. Oh, who I am kidding, that is the worst tan I have ever seen. Ever. Didn't he notice he was orange when kids with knives started following him thinking he was a pumpkin. What exactly does Avril Lavigne do now? Amy Winehouse actually looks clear and alert here. What makes it more shocking is that the event happened in the evening so she must have behaved all day. The lovely Carla Gugino who we haven't seen in about two weeks. For some reason Dwayne Johnson has been doing the Race To Witch Mountain press runs solo. I have never really seen Emma Roberts looking like this. It is a new style. A little bunny payback for the Fatal Attraction scene. I hate to say it, but Gwyneth Paltrow actually looks normal and not that bad. Did Janice Dickinson get more work done? The randomness photo of the day. Jane Kaczmarek, Kristen Bell and Perrey Reeves. Is the new hairstyle so we can't make fun of her squint anymore? It just looks stupid and also must make walking or seeing anything in front of you very difficult. Of course if you were married to this, you might want to be blind as well. Last week was Rory Culkin, so this week you get Kieran Culkin. Why is it they always wrap Suri in a million blankets? Kate Moss looks like a living Jolly Green Giant commercial. That is Mercy James. That is Megan Fox with an entirely new look and next to her is Amanda Seyfried. Mickey Rourke takes his beer with him. I have no idea why Nick and Lemon Jello are so dressed up. Maybe they need a loan. Or a job. Meh. I know, it's Rosario Dawson, but she just looks meh. I would like to compare Rose McGowan's squint with Jennifer Lopez to see who has the bigger one. Did Rita Wilson get a boob job? Shane West trying to cash in on some of that Vitamin Water money. Now that Victoria is overseas so much, there are not as many pictures of her everyday. I like that.
Instead of taking her children to dinner or to a movie, Dina Lohan decided to take her eldest daughter and her 15 year old daughter Ali to Villa nightclub last week. Dina was shocked that the club would not allow Ali to enter the club. I mean she is Ali Lohan. Why would things like laws apply to her? Dina did the whole do you know who I am thing, but, come on it's Dina Lohan. What security guy cares what she thinks or does. What is she going to do? No one listens to her and she can't really go to the cops and complain that the club decided to follow the law.
What kind of mom takes a 15 year old to a club? Well, I guess in a sense she is better than Taylor Momsen's mom who just lets her 15 year old go to clubs by herself. At least Dina would have been there to chaperon Ali as she danced with guys in their 30's and Dina danced with guys in their 20's and the eldest daughter screamed into her cell phone while showing off her fake tan.
To me, just thinking that it is a good idea to take your 15 year old to a night club should get your kid taken away. Ali is a minor. Where was Cody while all of this was going on? Another minor he was probably back in New York going to school and living with grandma because he can't contribute any money to the Dina Lohan doesn't want to get a real job fund. Is Ali even going to school? If she is being home schooled it is not by Dina because that would be against the law unless Dina has a teaching credential. My guess is that Ali just sits in her room all day and listens to her older sister and Sam yelling and fighting while Dina makes plans for them to go find guys together.
A police officer in Loxley Alabama had an encounter with Robert O' Ryan who is the man arrested for allegedly stalking Dancing With The Stars contestant Shawn Johnson. O'Ryan was pulled over on his way to California for driving with expired tags on his license plate. He was also given a ticket for driving without insurance. During the police stop, a dashboard camera in the police car captured the entire sequence of events.
I understand the police can't know everything and we are second guessing which is much easier, but here is the conversation they had, and you tell me what should have been done.
The policeman asked O'Ryan where he was heading. "California," replied O'Ryan who went on to say he was meeting a friend. "Who is she," asked the officer. "Shawn Johnson," mumbled O'Ryan. "She's an Olympic gymnast. She's on TV now."
During the 29 minute stop, O'Ryan talked about Johnson at least three times, and when asked if he'd ever spoken to her personally, he said only in his dreams.
He also said that he was going to marry her. OK, see to me that is a red flag. You have a guy driving on expired tags in Alabama talking about marrying a woman he has seen only on television and never spoken to personally. At what point if you are the policeman do you start asking more detailed questions? I mean in 29 minutes he kept bringing her name up repeatedly, and each time was more bizarre. Again, I know we are second guessing and that policeman had no way of knowing the guy was going to buy some guns and duct tape and get her to marry him that way. The policeman also has much more experience dealing with people he has pulled over and it was 29 minutes, so he was being very careful.
The policeman didn't know who Shawn Johnson was and maybe he thought the guy was just trying to impress the cop. I do know that if O'Ryan had been successful with his kidnap plot or marriage proposal or whatever he is calling it, this tape would have been much more than just a curiosity thing.
Life & Style is reporting that the winner of Paris Hilton's BFF show Brittany Flickinger isn't even a friend of Paris' anymore. I think all of us saw that about two months ago when Flickinger started to show up on red carpets all by her lonesome. A source from the Paris camp told Life & Style that "They haven’t spoken in two months. All that girl wanted was the free trips, the goodie bags, staying at Paris’s mansion and the parties and clubs. She was desperate for money."
Umm, I don't know what Paris expected. Who wants to be friends with Paris? People just like her. So, it shouldn't come as any surprise that they want to get famous the same way she did. By doing nothing except getting their photo taken and showing up on red carpets. The only thing the contestants did was realize that by being on the show with Paris they could skip about five years of Phoebe Price-ing it on red carpets and just have that instant access Paris could provide.
The fact they didn't stay friends shouldn't surprise anyone. It is kind of like The Bachelor for celebutards. No one on The Bachelor ever works out so I don't see why BFF's would work out any better.
It seems that Zooey Deschanel is getting a little miffed that instead of being recognized for everything she has done in movies she is instead being mistaken everywhere she goes for Katy Perry. In an interview with MTV, The Zooey says, "It's a little bit annoying, to be totally blunt. The only similarity that we have is that we look a little bit alike."
It would suck to have worked for years and years trying to be recognized for what you have done and then all of a sudden people are probably running up to her and making really bad kissing a girl jokes.
The good thing about The Zooey though is she is happy for the success of Katy, she just wants her to maybe dye her hair blonde or something. If I were The Zooey I wouldn't worry about it too much. Give it another six months or so and then people will forget all about Katy Perry.
Back in the day, Kathy Ireland was one of the select group of supermodels who seemed to be in every ad or on ever cover. It was always Cindy, Kathy or Christie unless you wanted a 12 year old boy and then you used Kate Moss. Anyway, Kathy left modeling and then became this successful business person who is never in the limelight unless she puts herself there.
Well, this week she decided she wanted to be in the limelight because she has a new book to sell. She also wanted to be the center of attention so she gave the photo above to People and it has now been splashed all over the internet. In the interview with People she talks about how her new book will help you look just like her. It isn't a diet book but it is full of life lessons or something like that and how when her son pointed out she looked fat how that changed her world and blah blah blah. Kathy Ireland is so smart and crafty that I wouldn't put it past her to gain some weight on purpose and then take the most unflattering pose she could. She was a supermodel after all. She knows how to look good and bad. Whatever it is, she certainly knows how to market herself which is one reason she is so rich.
I think it has been just about a month since Shanna Moakler and Travis Barker announced they were getting back together. Apparently though at that time Travis didn't realize that Shanna had been doing the dirty with Gerard Butler while Travis was in the hospital recovering from his nearly fatal injuries. While Shanna was telling the press how much she loved and cared for Travis and was taking care of him, at the same time she was helping herself to Gerard on a fairly frequent basis. For some reason, this revelation led to a split this week. Each side has their own publicist so if you like Shanna you should believe that "Shanna never cheated on Travis while he was in the hospital." Notice the word while. That should tell you something. If you believe Travis, and you should, Travis had his heart crushed by his cheating wife for about the 20th time.
They remind me of Tommy Lee and Pamela except for the fact that Shanna is a gold digger and is completely willing to dump whoever she is with for a shot at more money or more fame. The problem is that they can't stay away from each other and so they will get back together in a few months until she cheats on him again in the hopes of finding someone better or more famous. If you are a Gerard Butler fan, you have to wonder how great he is. Shanna is probably on the same level as Paris or Lindsay when it comes to the whether it is safe to go somewhere else after you have been there.
If you believe Jamie Spears and everything he says or does, then you can understand why he is spending massive amounts of Britney Spears' money to keep Sam Lufti away from her. Yesterday was another day in the hearing to determine whether Sam Lufti is going to have to continue staying away from Britney, or if he can get that restraining order lifted and have contact with her. The last time the two sides were in court we heard all about the cell phone that was confiscated from Britney's purse. Well yesterday, Sam Lufti's sister testified that she was the person who snuck the phone to Britney.
According to Christina Lufti, Britney called Christina in mid January asking for her help and for a phone. Britney arranged with Christina where to meet and the phone was handed over to Britney in a hotel sauna. January is only a couple of months ago. I'm assuming that Britney is taking her medication or whatever else she is supposed to be doing and yet she is still reaching out to Sam and to Adnan and to Christina. Why is she doing that? Well, according to one lawyer it is because Britney feels like she is in prison which she has said before.
On the other hand, Britney's former lawyer Blair Berk testified that Britney wanted Sam put in jail for what he was doing to her. At this point I don't know what is true and what isn't. What I would love to have happen is for a judge to rule that Britney is competent enough to testify about what she thinks and feels because right now we just have Jamie vs Sam.
Jamie brought Britney back from the edge of self-destruction. I'm not arguing with that at all. I am wondering though if the public self-destruction has just been traded for some private self-destruction we can't see and that the end result will be the same. If someone feels they are in jail and will never get out no matter what they do, that has to lead to frustration or resignation or an explosion.
Which starlet turns a blind eye to her athlete boyfriend's philandering ways? Her dream is to get a diamond ring so she can finally leave the business.
This A list actress is more famous for one lucky television role than the truly awful acting she has done in movies. Well, she had a recent breakup. Her publicity machine cranked out every story it could to say she was the one who had done the breaking up with her singer boyfriend. Well, this may be true, but then why would the singer have to change his phone number and e-mail address after she wouldn't stop trying to contact him? When she couldn't reach the singer why would she start calling all of his friends to beg them for his number? What she is telling his friends is that she can't move on without some kind of closure.
Happy Birthday to Shirley Jones. She looks really good for 75 and having to put up with Danny Bonaduce for several of those years. The happy couple of the day goes to Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper. You would think that Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn would go on the top, but they lost points because Nylon has whats her face on their 10th anniversary cover. - ECA Britney Spears for Candies. Oh, its clothing. My bad. I thought I was going to get some food. Holy crap. Christina Aguilera actually looks normal and pretty. Chris Brown surrounded by many of his women fans. Notice his pose. Nice. Thanks to TMZ for the photo. Chace Crawford on the set of Gossip Girl, and probably your next star of Footloose. If you can't get Zac, you might as well get his more cooperative twin. Diane Krall - New York I have to say that Donald Trump looks like he is genuinely smiling and not that smirk of his. He must have found a better hairspray. Yes. I will admit it. Eva Longoria looks good here. Posing with the same car was the lovely Sofia Milos. The I look out of my mind award goes to Zach Braff who is standing next to Emily Mortimer. Guy Ritchie in much more conservative attire than normal. In film class today, Hayden P shows you how to attach a microphone to your clothing. I want to rant on this photo so much. Why? Let me tell you. Look at Jennifer Aniston's coat. It is completely buttoned. It is not going to open or fly up. She is putting her hand on her stomach for one purpose only. Publicity. She knows this picture will show up in some tabloid with another suggestion about her being pregnant or wanting to be pregnant. She knows it as soon as she puts her hand there. Give me any other explanation. Johnny Depp makes up for all of the anger from above. Yeah, Hi Jay Z. Look behind Jay and notice the guy with his tongue sticking out about to drop acid. "Hi I'm Lydia Hearst. I'm worth more money than God, dress like crap, and weigh approximately 4 pounds. Oh, and I also f**ked Cisco Adler." Michael Imperioli - New York Maksim and Karina will have lots of time to plan that wedding now that both are finished with DWTS for the season. The Ronson I would actually like to meet with Jimmy Fallon. Is Michelle Trachtenberg trying to look sexy or just ticked off she is having to pose? A blast from the past. Marcia Wallace. Vandals knocked out the back window of Octo-Mom's car last night. You would think she would have some security. If you spend thousands on MAC and BeBe, you can afford a security guard. I don't think I have ever seen Peaches Geldof all dressed up. She looks nice. Is that a tan or chemical peel on Sienna Miller's face? I rarely do the whole congratulations thing for babies, but for Scott Wolf and his wife Kelley, I will make an exception. So, I think Taylor Momsen should spend more time doing homework and less time going out and playing the pap game. She went to two parties last night and changed clothes and makeup so she would have a better chance of her photo being used. How about putting that much effort into something useful? Mmmm. You can lick a Simpson soon. The US Post Office is issuing Simpsons stamps later this year.
Yes, I know the headline makes you think about whether there are in fact photos of Johnny Depp and SpongeBob making sweet love, but actually it is the news that Johnny is going to be guest starring on SpongeBob on Friday April 17th as a part of the 10th anniversary of the show. Johnny is going to play the love interest of Mr. Krabs as Mr. Krabs finally decides to come out of the closet. No, I'm joking. Johnny is going to play Jack Kahuna Laguna a world famous surfer and a hero to the rest of the characters. It is cool that Johnny is doing this, but I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the fact he has kids and so they probably watch SpongeBob. With the exception of Pirates, this is probably the coolest thing Dad can do.
I think all of us at one time or another has been hooked on daytime soaps. Whether you were stuck at home sick or in college or just were home during the day, almost everyone who watches can get hooked on them for at least a short time. When I first started watching soaps I was a CBS guy. Most of my friends would alternate between NBC and ABC depending on the soap which was on then, but I was a lover of CBS. When Capitol went off the air I found myself starting to watch more ABC, but originally I was CBS. So, I was sad today to hear that Guiding Light is going off the air. It has been on for 72 years. It was airing before there even was television. It used to be a radio soap and made the transition to television back in 1952. It is the longest running television drama and I can't imagine it ever being surpassed.
The show will air its last episode in September. Now, what I would hope they would do is do something most soaps have never done and which is why they end up making us nuts and that is to actually end a story line. I would love if they did that or if they could figure out a way to write in roles for every featured actor that has been on the show and is still alive and willing to do it.
I went through IMDB to find some of the more well known people who have appeared on the show and I found Peter Gallagher, Christopher Walken who was on for three years, Mira Sorvino, Taye Diggs, Allison Janney, Calista Flockhart, Ian Ziering, JoBeth Williams, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, James Lipton who was on one episode in 1953, Brittany Snow, and Hayden Panettiere.
Which TV actor won't stand next to his male co-stars in photoshoots fearing his lack of height will be exposed? He even wears wedged shoes to give himself a lift....
Airlines have started charging a fee for just about everything. Checked bags, seat assignments, food, and a whole lot more. In fact, I saw that Spirit Airlines is going to start charging a fee for you to buy their ticket anyplace other than in the airport. Considering that no one really buys a ticket at the airport, it basically amounts to a fee for the privilege of giving them some of your money. Whatever.
Apparently Nine Inch Nails loves airline fees and surcharges and making sure their fans get hosed as much as possible. Instead of making things easier or less expensive for their fans during the recession, Trent Reznor and company have decided to screw all of you over.
How so? Well, when you go to the NIN website, you can download their new album Strobe Light. Of course you have to pay $18.98 to get a copy, but that is not my problem. My issue with Trent and the other money hungry a-holes who advise them is that if you choose to download the album off their site they are going to charge you an extra $10 which they are calling a digital delivery convenience fee. Ummm. I'm confused. If I buy a CD at a store it is much more expensive for the record company than if I just download it digitally. There are packaging and marketing costs. They might have side deals with the retailer which cuts into the margins on the albums. Distribution expenses. So many additional expenses.
You would think that instead of paying $18.98 online which is the same price as the store, the band would actually knock a few bucks off for the money you are saving. Nope. Instead they want to make sure their most loyal fans pay extra. If you are a die hard NIN fan and want the new album now and don't want to go to the store, they are going to screw you over by making you pay an extra $10 for the privilege. This seems to me to be a way to drive all your fans to look for the album for free in other places. Why am I going to pay you an extra $10 for something that is probably already saving you $10? How effing greedy do you have to be?
Did you enjoy the movie Sideways? Sure you did. Most people did. In Japan though it wasn't as big of a hit, so some Japanese producers decided to do their own version. Instead of focusing just on wineries around Santa Barbara they decided to also include Napa and other wine regions in California. The remake was a big hit in Japan and also increased California wine sales in Japan.
The producers decided to offer Paul Giamatti a cameo in the movie, but he declined, saying, "I said no. I felt my career hasn't hit that low yet. I thought, 'What am I gonna play - the sushi chef or something?'" That is a really nice attitude to take. It is just a cameo. Actors do cameos all the time as favors and I think it would have been kind of cool to see him in it and probably would have made people watch the original Sideways again and possibly generated additional revenue for Giamatti. Maybe he could have done some commercials in Japan also and made some money. Accepting a cameo isn't going to hurt your career even in the worst movie of all time. It is a cameo, and nothing more.
Paul didn't just leave it at that though, he decided to trash the actor who played him in the remake. "They got a strange, little troll to play me." The strange troll, Giamatti is referring to is Fumiyo Kohinata. I don't know what mirror Paul uses every morning, but he isn't exactly the best looking guy to ever walk the earth. I also think that he has probably ruined any chance of any of his movies doing any kind of business in Japan. In the US we always remake Japanese movies, and I don't think I have ever heard of one of their original actors calling any of the actors in a remake a derogatory term.
I know that you are reading the headline and thinking that I have lost my mind. I haven't lost it all. I just love celebrities who consistently just do things or say things which are totally unrelated to anything that occurs in the real world or relevant.
Gwyneth Paltrow, in addition to all the other ways she is trying to convince you that she is normal and an "everyday person" has now decided to publish a travel guide to London. This being Gwyneth it won't be an ordinary run of the mill guide to London. It seems that Gwyneth is besieged by her friends for information on London all of the time, and so Gwyneth, bring uniquely qualified to give advice on all things London has decided to give you a taste of her London.
"Many of my friends, or friends of friends, have asked me for 'my London'." Gwyneth feels that her London is the London all of you should see as well, and if you don't see her London than, you are just not doing it right. Her London consists of you spending $1,000 a night on hotels. Michelin starred restaurants and the places where she shops for clothes. Uh huh. Yep, "everyday people" will just be clamoring for that. To make herself seem normal, Gwyneth offers a pub suggestion but you get the feeling she has never been in one before and if offered Shepherd's Pie would check to make sure it didn't have chocolate in it.
I just get the feeling that Gwyneth has no concept of reality. For too long she has lived in a world where price doesn't matter and everyone says yes to her and so she has become convinced that is how life really is. I don't think she goes grocery shopping and I bet if you put her on The Price Is Right or asked her to name the price of 20 items from a grocery store she wouldn't come close. At the same time though, she is convinced that she can be Oprah or Rachel Ray and that we all want to be a Gwyneth follower. I don't.
So, when Michael Jackson decided he wanted magic tricks and illusions for his shows in London this summer, it makes sense that the accused child molester would go searching out the accused rapist and give him his business. They both probably feel like they have got away with something and are still getting rich off the rest of us in the process. Michael of course was acquitted a few years ago of child abuse charges and paid out a bunch of money to make all those other whispers go away.
I don't know what David Copperfield has done to make that federal grand jury in Seattle go away who were investigating the allegations he had raped one woman in the Bahamas and maybe others. I'm guessing the prosecutors had complimentary tickets to his Vegas show or their kids had the ultimate birthday entertainer. The guy who performs magic in the living room and hits on mom in the kitchen.
We all hate Chris Brown for beating the crap out of Rihanna and most people have vowed to never spend another dollar helping Chris Brown, but we are fine with someone who, as a grown man has admitted sleeping with and being in bed with kids that are not his own. We sell out David Copperfield shows all around the world. And now, the two of them are doing business together. I wonder if they will go find some mother son combination together.
I know the entire publishing industry is hurting right now. Newspapers are closing or going to online only, and magazine ad sales are down almost 50% in some cases. Therefore, I understand that a magazine might try and pull a gimmick to generate some extra sales to translate into ad dollars, but putting Miley Cyrus on the cover of Glamour is not it. Oh, I'm sure in the past Glamour has probably had a 16 year old model on the cover, but they probably looked 25, and no one knew they were 16.
Glamour is an "adult" magazine that has sold out now and doesn't care about their reputation, only sales. Glamour is hoping though that by putting Miley on the cover tweens all over the US will buy the magazine and jolt their sales. Umm, yeah. So, what do you tell your 12 year old child when they want to buy Glamour and you have to discuss with them, "25 Things You Do Guys Secretly Love And Six That Freak Them Out."
They are also going to show your tweener 131 ways for them to get a better body and how to lose 8 pounds this month. Nothing like starting those image issues early in life. Of course maybe Glamour isn't trying to boost sales through kids. Maybe they think all of you are anxiously awaiting the issue to come out because you can't wait to read all about how Miley thinks she and Justin Gaston are perfect together and how he is the most respectful person she has ever known and how she loves both Angelina and Jen equally.
Oh, and if that isn't enough, you can also read about how she has not been this happy in many years. She is 16. WTF? If you are 16 and getting paid millions of dollars a year, every damn day should be a happy day. I don't want to hear anyone complaining who is in that situation about anything.
This married, aging, Academy Award winning actor is no stranger to divorce. If his current wife gets wind of what he's doing there may soon be another. Our actor has been "researching" a role for a new movie and to help with that research he has been flying in a B list Venezuelan soap and movie actress he met on a recent trip there. She recently quit the soap on which she is starring because our actor was paying her more money to fly to the US every two weeks than she would earn on the show. Our actor has met her in at least four cities over the past two months. Not Sean Penn.
Andy Hallett - RIP It is always a good thing when Will Arnett and Jason Batemen get together. If only this was them filming Arrested Development. Alec Baldwin and his "guest." At this point she looks so drunk, it is like he is carrying a mannequin around. Come to think of it, with Alec, you just never know. Alyssa Milano looking lovely at her book signing. Ed Westwick walking the runway in a kilt. Kellie Pickler was there, but not in a kilt. Mike Myers making me laugh. The GEICO caveman, because, everyone knows kilts were big back then. I will let you make your own comments about Marcus Schenkenberg. The tool of the day goes to Billy Ray Cyrus. Demi Moore in Paris and probably Twittering away. Entourage is back! I'm guessing the box Hugh Jackman is carrying is not empty. Hollywood baby contest, Day 43 PETA makes another statement. The one wearing the fur coat was given by Kim Cattrall. Is she seriously wearing plastic around her legs? And Sean Connery killed his wife right there on the red carpet. The cast of The Tudors. Tina Turner - Manchester
As I have said several times on the site, I have read all the Twilight books. I didn't think they were the greatest things ever, but I did think as the series went on and the author had better editors, the books were decent. I have yet to see the movie due to an ongoing bet which is neither here nor there, but does involve whether or not $240 makes a certain amount of pudding. It is long and complicated unlike Whitney Port.
Whitney decided to go ahead and just drive a stake(nice pun huh) through her career as a reality star by trashing the movie Twilight. I don't care if it is the worst thing she has ever seen, you don't tell an MTV reporter that it was bad or that the acting was bad. Has she seen her own show? Note to Whitney. Besides thinking you are too good for yourself, you might want to take a look at the demographics of your show. The people who watch your show are the ones who love Twilight, whether it be the books or the movies. And, when it comes to them choosing who they would rather watch, I'm pretty sure they are going to stick with Twilight.
You don't tick off the fans who gave you just enough ratings to earn another paycheck for a year. What you do is you tell them how much you love Robert Pattinson and leave it at that. Instead she called the acting horrible, the chemistry between the two stars awful and that doesn't see what all the fuss is about. Hear those crickets? They are the only ones who will be watching your show next season.
I was reading an Associated Press report about Mercy James which, lets face it is a great name for a band, and everyone AP interviewed is a relative of Mercy. Previously, Madonna or her people or someone had said that the mother died during childbirth and no one had any idea where the dad was.
To me, that seems like a good person to adopt. Then, Madonna gets to Malawi and reporters start sniffing around and the next thing you know, grandma comes out of hiding yesterday and says her piece. Well, grandma isn't the only relative to speak out. Now it turns out Mercy has uncles who are involved in her life and her father does see her. The reason he doesn't see more of her is unclear, but one report suggested it is because he is off earning a living in a different part of the country, and is unable to afford to come back very often.
I am all for adoption and understand Mercy would have a much better chance of succeeding in life and living longer if she lived with Madonna. However, I also don't know about this taking a child from so many extended relatives who are there if Mercy needs them. This is such a tough concept and the frame of reference here in the west is just completely different.
Oh, and yesterday, Madonna confirmed she is trying to adopt. Umm, yeah, we kind of got that when you showed up in court before a judge, but thanks anyway for the heads up.
15 people over at Kaiser have lost their jobs and another 8 were disciplined for looking through Nadya Suleman's medical file. The sad thing is they probably could have got just as much information from reading the internet or watching the news. It doesn't appear that anyone sold anything to the tabloids. I can't believe none of them thought about selling the information. They knew they would be fired for looking if they were caught, so you might as well get something in return. It isn't like you will ever get another job in a hospital. It probably doesn't look very good to go to any employer, let a lone another hospital and when they ask why you were fired you reply that you were snooping through private medical records.
I understand human nature is a very curious thing, but to lose your job over her just seems pointless. Apparently the hospital knew in advance that their employees would be curious and actually held training sessions and reminded them daily about patient confidentiality. I understand why they were fired. I just wish if they were going to be nosy and get fired they could have picked someone other than Octo-Mom to file snoop. How about Tom Cruise or Suri or whether Pamela Anderson has just been making up this whole Hepatitis thing for the past few years.
Not content to just bide her time for the next few days until she is kicked of Dancing With The Stars, Holly Madison is trying to stay relevant and look important. Do you remember the Kim Kardashian airbrushing controversy from last week? Well, yeah, I didn't think it was world economic crisis material, but it is always fun to see the before and after.
It was a one day thing and Kim K released an idiotic statement and it should have been over. Instead, Holly decided she also had something to contribute to the discussion. She said that Kim was beautiful, and that she shouldn't have to change a thing. I agree. Hey, I agreed with Holly Madison. Then, she took the time to remind us of what an important figure she was over at the Playboy empire. I seriously was going to write about this yesterday, but everytime I would reread the article I would start crying from laughing so hard and had to write about other things.
"One of my pet peeves is too much Photoshop. When I worked at Playboy, I was always really strict that the Photoshop we used on the girls was minimal."
So, I gather from this statement that if we looked at before and afters of Holly's photos there would be very little airbrushing. Uh huh. Right. She is so full of crap and such a hypocrite. But what made me laugh hysterically was the part about her being really strict. Umm. Who here thinks Holly made any decisions whatsoever about anything that went into the magazine, let alone laid down the law about how much Photoshop to use. Please. Her job was to pretend to make decisions while the cameras were running and even then you could see that Hef was just playing along.
Strict implies she was in charge of someone or something or the photos that went into the magazine. I don't think she was, and if she was, I would like to see the before and afters of not only her photos, but the ones she "supervised."
Last week when Lindsay Lohan's assistant wrecked Lindsay's Maserati, I was thinking to myself that her leggings must be doing much better than I thought for her to be able to afford that car. Yes, it could be a lease, but she already leases a Mercedes and she doesn't have that much income. Lets face it, there is only so much that one woman can take from another woman's purse before she catches on. A Maserati payment is likely to be noticed.
Well, TMZ asked themselves the same damn question and they found the answer. See what happens when you actually do this for a living instead of as a hobby. They tracked down the actual owner of the car. You won't know who he is, but he is one of the bigger porn kings in LA. That is all he does is produce XXX porn. No soft porn for Cinemax or shadows and lights, just hard porn. It is very interesting that he let Lindsay just borrow the car and is paying to have it fixed and going to let her continue borrowing it. TMZ says there is no XXX trade off in all this, but I'm wondering if there isn't some other kind of trade off involved in all of this.
A brand new $115,000 car and you are letting Lindsay Lohan borrow it? Now, I am no stranger to letting people borrow a car as long time readers of the blog know, but it is generally limited to very good friends and the dollar value of the vehicle is much, much lower. They also haven't been arrested for DUI or been on a high speed chase.
I can't decide if the guy is hoping for Lindsay in a porn, or if she is sleeping with him or he wants Sam to DJ a party for him. The photos are courtesy of TMZ.
I love the coincidences in the entertainment business. Who would have thought that on the day Countess Luann de Lesseps book tour begins for "Class With The Countess," she would also reveal that she is getting a divorce from her husband Count de Lesseps. The timing is amazing.
According to the NY Post, the Countess is devastated. Not stay at home and cry with the kids devastated. I mean the book tour must go on. The husband doesn't even live in the US. He just comes over when he wants to see the kids or have sex with his wife. One day he wouldn't answer the phone when she called and he later admitted he was seeing a woman while staying in Geneva.
She doesn't say when that incident occurred or when he e-mailed her to let her know he was having an affair. But, whenever it was, the Countess made sure it was announced just in time for the book. I think this happened quite awhile ago. There have been to many sightings with Luann and other guys she has been allegedly dating.
The Countess plans to remain friends with the Count, and blah, blah, blah. Oh, and she wants you to buy her book.
I like the headline. You know it couldn't actually be about Oprah. Honestly, I don't know if I could envision an actual Oprah sex scandal like a sex tape or something. That would probably be the most shocking gossip ever. This one is actually about Oprah's school. It hasn't been in the news since last year when there was a sex scandal there.
Now, according to the NY Daily News, seven students have been suspended from school for violations ranging from sexual harassment to being caught fondling each other, to attempted coercion of fondling.
Oprah must hate that the school is back in the news again for this. Her school will never be in the news for anything good it does. I'm not actually sure how much good it does do. I'm also extremely curious to find out whether any of the students suspended were in fact any of the 15 people sexually abused by the matron at the school last year.
I'm still not satisfied at all with the way Oprah handled that entire situation last year. It also seems there is still a lot of activity that is going on which is not being reported. The only reason this came to light was one of the girls was really strong arming every other girl in school to lie about what she had sexually done to another girl. It just got to be too much.
Last week, I told you about the actress who was bulimic. Well, guess what. It turns out that bulimia is not limited to actresses. How can I describe this person without giving it all away? The problem is that he does everything in the business. Singer. Actor. Even more actually. While not A list at any of them, he definitely has B+/A- name recognition. You might not put the face with the name, but when you hear the name, you will have heard of him. That is a really long description, but a blind item like this deserves a nice build up.
This weekend our actor was at Katsuya. He goes there frequently, although this was only the second time our spy saw him. Our actor ordered 2 orders of the rock shrimp tempura. Here is where it gets interesting, and a little wasteful if you ask me. Our actor chews the shrimp, but never actually swallows them. Instead he chews them, and then spits them out into a cup. He is a nice guy though. The first time he did this there, he went to the back of the place and washed his own cup. Anyway, this time while he was there performing his ritual, he accidentally swallowed some of the shrimp, and immediately ran for the bathroom where he stayed for the next 20 minutes. He then returned to his seat and started chewing and spitting again.
Sam Roberts is your Artist of The Year at this year's Juno Awards, so he gets the top spot. It is also his first time in the photos, and has therefore achieved the rare double double. Yes, the award is named after the In-N-Out burger of the same name. So, you know it is truly a prestigious honor. I feel bad because I'm always posting photos of Zac and Vanessa and tend to ignore Ashley Tisdale. Well, today, Ashley can have the spotlight. How long has it been for Bo Derek and John Corbett? Do you remember when Jerry Springer would have shows about moms in their 40's who were acting like their teenage daughter? Yeah, I know it also usually involved mom trying to have sex with her daughter's friends, but you miss the point. Actually, I don't even know what my point was going to be except that Cameron needs to stop dressing herself. The Emily. It just doesn't work as well. I need to come up with a nickname for Emily Deschanel. Sure, Mrs. Enty would work. I don't know if I have ever seen the entire Ethan Embry family out somewhere. Ellen Pompeo out doing some good work at Boston's Children Hospital. Judging by the sign, they knew she was coming and to have the cameras ready. I'm also guessing that most of the kids have no idea who she is, but at least she went, so I will keep my mouth shut. Frankie Muniz and as he made perfectly clear, his girlfriend, Elycia Turnbow. He said it so many times, it makes you wonder how often he has had one. One of my favorite people in the world. Gabrielle Anwar. The deer in the headlights award goes to Ginnifer Goodwin. Halle and her daughter. And Halle again. Yes, I love Halle. Just because I know all of you are curious about whether or not Heather Mills is still alive. Angelina must have been hit by a car or something. Speaking of cars. That is a very nice car occupied by Johnny Depp and Aaron Eckhart. A very rare appearance for Jason Isaacs in the photos. "In the Navy." Madness - Gold Coast, Australia Sarah McLachlan & Melissa McClelland - Vancouver It has been a long time since Maggie Q has been in the photos. She looks lovely as usual. Michael Vartan and Marley who I fear they will keep trotting out for the next 30 years. So, every time I talk to any Canadian, they all without question condemn Nickelback. Everyone hates them. So, how come they won Group Of The Year? Prince - Los Angeles The Queen is 39. Happy Birthday Queen Latifah. Rachel McAdams doing some press for State Of Play. Also present was Ben Affleck. The very classy Reba McEntire. In the game, "Would You Rather," is there an option C, like killing yourself? Not a bad way to end. A little Viggo Mortensen.
Star Magazine is reporting this week that Angelina Jolie is considering giving money to Nadya Suleman. Yeah, and I'm considering cutting back to five meals a day. Just because I'm considering it doesn't mean I am going to actually do it. I hate articles that say someone is considering doing something or might be doing something. None of it has an ounce of truth in it. It is just a magazine that didn't have enough news to make up an entire issue and since they probably had Jennifer Aniston considering getting pregnant or adopting a baby last week, they had to have some celebrity considering something different this week.
Would Angelina give money to Octo-Mom? Who knows. Nadya will let us know if she ever does though, because she will probably have it copied, framed and then tattooed on her body. Angelina, her hero giving her money. I think what Angelina should do is just buy the babies off Octo-Mom. Just make her one big offer and add them to her brood. 14 + 6 = 20. That should keep Angelina happy for a year or two, and Nadya would have the money to get some more IVF treatments and start the whole process again.
Do you think Brad and Angelina could handle 20 kids? They would have to lease a larger plane and hire a few nannies, but other than that, the only thing that would change much is learning new names and just having a once a month birthday celebration rather than celebrating birthday's individually. You know, have one of the nannies run down to Baskin Robbins and get an ice cream cake, and everyone can sing a half hearted happy birthday to whatever kids are a year older. Yes, I know the octuplets were all born on the same day, but if you spread them out evenly over the course of one per month for eight months they will probably feel at least a little more appreciated.
The way it stands now, Nadya will probably give them a joint card and take herself out for some spa treatments because it was after all, she who gave birth to them. Yeah, I bet she thinks that way.
On Thursday I broached the subject of inviting the band Bad Flirt over to the house for kind of a going away dinner for the group on Saturday night. They had spent a week in Los Angeles and mom loves them and so I thought for sure she would want to have a little party. Ummm. Wrong. Not that she doesn't love them, but it was her turn to host her monthly Bunco game. As soon as she said the word Bunco, I knew it was a no go. The woman keeps three dice in her pocket at all times just in case she runs into anyone who wants to play at some given moment in time.
Forced out of the house, I was looking for things to do, when America Young suggested The Room. Apparently I was not the all knowing sophisticate I thought I was because I thought it was some new club. Nope. Turns out it is the worst movie ever made, and a must see if you live in Los Angeles. On the last Saturday of every month there is a screening of the movie and the director shows up and takes a bow and fields questions from the audience before the 100 minute masterpiece is shown.
At that point, I was like what the hell, and decided to ask the band if they would be interested in going. Well, it turns out that what I don't know, is something that four French Canadians know all about. One of them even started shaking like a 10 year olds going to a Jonas Brothers concert at the thought of actually getting to meet the director of the movie, Tommy Wiseau.
I envisioned one theatre half filled with mostly drunk patrons like myself. What it turned out to be was three screens jammed full with another 500 or so people left to wait until next month after they couldn't get tickets.
America had told me that Judd Apatow or one of his bunch was usually in attendance every month and Kristen Bell has apparently been 20 times, but I still had no clue. Well, Drew Barrymore and Justin Long had a clue, because right in the middle of the line, waiting patiently just like "everyday people" were the couple. For the record though they didn't really act like a couple. They acted like two friends in a group of three or four other friends. No hand holding or kissing or anything remotely romantic. They spent the entire time in line repeating their favorite parts of the movie. I guess this was not their first time either.
Promptly at midnight, the director came in and answered questions amidst the applause and squeals of the audience. Tommy may have spent $6M on a movie that looks like it cost 40 dollars, but you would never have known it by the way people treated him at the screening.
For those of you who have not seen the movie, it really is awful. I think the plot is man has girlfriend who cheats a lot. That is pretty much it. It is supposed to be a drama, but you just can't stop laughing. The audience treats the movie as one big Mystery Science 3000 kind of situation. For a first timer, you really have no choice but to just listen as the audience yells at the screen, notes flaws in the script, and on occasion run en masse to the front of the theatre to participate in a scene.
The whole thing is overwhelming when you have not seen the movie before. I think you really need to go several times before you get the true feel of what everyone in the audience is saying and why. You can't rent the movie, but it is for sale on Amazon. Someone told me over the weekend that tomorrow night it will be premiered on Adult Swim which will probably spawn screenings of it all over the place. I know there are some in many cities, but showing it nationally will probably make it much more likely that you too can see Tommy Wiseau in all of his acting, writing and directing glory.
The first clip below is from a screening a few years ago, and the quality is terrible, but will give you an idea of how the audience participates. The second clip is one of my favorite scenes and gives you an idea of how disjointed this whole movie is.
I think all of you know what a fan I am of Bridget Moynahan. She is amazing and she handled the whole break up and being pregnant with Tom Brady in a really fun and cool way. She got back at him, but was still mature about it.
With that said, I don't think Bridget would have a problem with what Gisele Bundchen has been quoted as saying in her Vanity Fair interview.
"I understand that he has a mom, and I respect that, but to me it's not like because somebody else delivered him, that's not my child. I feel it is, 100 percent. I want him to have a great relationship with his mom, because that's important, but I love him the same way as if he were mine."
Why is this wrong that she wants to love him as her own? She has been with Tom Brady since he found out he was going to be a father and has been with him ever since. Gisele didn't give birth to the child, but has probably seen him from the day he was born. I don't understand why everyone is jumping on her for what she is saying. I can understand the jumping on her part, but not for her comments.
She recognizes that he has a mom and that she is not his mom and I think it is better to love him as if he were her own than as someone she really doesn't want to deal with because she didn't give birth to him. I don't understand how she is supposed to feel? Does someone want her to feel less for this child because it isn't her own? I understand if you come into a relationship and someone has a child who is 5 or 10 or 15 or whatever. Your relationship with that child may be completely different. But Gisele came into this relationship when he discovered he was going to be a dad, and has now married this man. Presumably she will be there over the course of this child's life.
I don't think Bridget really cares that Gisele said this and understands what she meant while saying it.
Candy Spelling recently did an interview with People, and said the only reason she put her home up for sale ($150M) is that she doesn't think she will ever see her grandkids and so there is no reason to keep such a big house.
I remember on the second season of Tori and Mr. Tori that Candy had sent presents to Liam's birthday and had seen Liam. Well, I'm guessing that Mr. Tori didn't like Tori communicating with her mom because Candy says she hasn't seen Liam in a very long time and has never seen Stella.
I remember in one episode of Tori's show, she is talking to her long time friend and business partner about Candy and Tori's partner said they should try and make up and reach out. Mr. Tori then walks in and says, "hell no." Why? Why does Mr. Tori have an issue with it? You would think he would want some of those Spelling millions all at once instead of having to wait for Tori to keep earning her own.
Candy Spelling had this to say about her relationship with Tori. "I've tried to talk to her, but that doesn't work. She may not even know why she's angry. If I had any hope that I would have a relationship with my grandchildren I would never sell this house. I've fantasized for years about a wonderful playhouse on the grounds for children."
Well, the last part seems a little self serving. Candy is a piece of work in her own right, but in this case, I honestly believe that if Mr. Tori was kicked to the curb that Tori and her mother would reunite pretty quickly.
Over the weekend I watched with some interest as an alleged tape of Ashley Biden snorting coke was shopped around to the tabloids. Of course, whether it is the Vice-President's daughter or not on the tape, the damage has been done. Of course, from the descriptions the tabloids have used, they all seem pretty convinced the tape was made using a hidden camera and shows Ashley snorting several lines of coke.
It also sounds like the tape was shot by her boyfriend, so I'm sure he is a real winner of a guy. The lawyer who was acting as the broker between the owner of the tape and all the tabloids suddenly quit representing the seller. He said he stopped because of the publicity. Uh huh. If you are a lawyer who is willing to broker this kind of a deal, you are probably not the kind of lawyer who minds a little free publicity.
The asking price for the tape was $250,000, but as of this morning there were no takers. I think it is embarrassing and scandalous, but I also think no one really knows who she is, and so it was deemed to not be worth the $250K tag. Unless you are from Delaware, you probably don't know she was arrested for possession of pot or a later arrest for obstructing a policeman outside of a bar. Now, if this was Bristol Palin who got taped snorting coke, then you would be talking about way more than $250K for the tape. I think eventually someone will spend $50K on the tape of Ashley and we will all watch it and then we can make comments about how she will probably lose her job as a social worker for children and get kicked off the board of the Delaware YWCA organization. She might even go to rehab.
JFX Online managed to get their hands on a message from January that was allegedly left by Britney Spears on the voice mail of a lawyer who previously tried to get the conservatorship of Britney lifted.
The message sounds like a follow up to a previous conversation Britney had with the person and is Britney basically seeking reassurance she will still get to see her children and that her father had previously threatened to take her children away from her if she ever tried to remove the conservatorship.
This if course is the same father who has managed to turn around Britney's life, but has in turn become something of an a-hole when dealing with Britney Spears fansites that don't follow the Britney company line which is that Jamie Spears and all his decisions are the right ones and if you don't like them you can suck it.
What I can't decide is if the recording is actually Britney. It sounds like someone speaking in almost a whisper. It sounds rushed, and it also sounds very intelligent. I can picture Britney hiding in a closet somewhere on an unknown cell phone leaving this message while her dad wanders the hallways of her home, "telling Britney to come out and that no one was going to force her to take her meds."
It looks like Madonna has until Friday to spread some more cash around Malawi. A judge today delayed ruling on Madonna's application to adopt 3 year old Mercy James until Friday. After deliberating for an hour and making Madonna reenact parts of her Sticky & Sweet tour, the judge said he needed more time to decide. Currently Madonna is trying to get around the two year adoption process normally required under Malawian law. I'm guessing she is able to do this because she is probably spending massive amounts of money with promises of more if they keep letting her adopt more kids.
Mercy James' mom died and the location of her father is unknown. However, Mercy's grandmother is still very much in the picture and is accusing Madonna of stealing her grandchild. Not, that she wants Mercy to live with her, she just wants everyone to know Madonna is stealing the child. See, this is the part I don't understand yet. Oh, I understand the part about Madonna using her money and fame to get a child whenever she wants.
What I don't understand is why a grandmother says things like Madonna is stealing her grandchild, or saying she will go to court and not let Mercy go, but leaves the child in an orphanage. There is no indication she even sees her grandchild, and if Madonna doesn't take Mercy, she will go right back into an orphanage. I can understand if she was taking care of the child, even if it was a low standard of living, but she isn't. Is it because it is Madonna or because Madonna is single, or is it simply because, she too has been subjected to Swept Away and Shanghai Surprise?
