Sean Penn Decides To Keep Robin Wright Penn

Lets face it. The headline might seem a little harsh, but that is what it is. Sean Penn dismissed his legal separation papers today and apparently that means the couple has reconciled. Or, in other words, Robin Wright Penn has agreed to whatever demands Sean has imposed and is willing to accept them. At this point it probably means that he will just have several full-time hookers living with him so he doesn't have to bother going out. I'm sure he will want Robin to cook for all of them and do whatever else he needs to have done.

I don't understand this at all. He dismissed the papers which means he changed his mind. She should have been grateful to have him out the door, and instead she was probably begging for him to stay. I had been posting lots of photos this week of Robin to celebrate her new independence in Cannes and reigniting her own career and her own image. It seems like that was just a wasted of time as she is right back to being whatever it is that Sean wants her to be. Someone needs to have a chat with her.

Cannes Photos Of The Day

Josh Hartnett
Verne Troyer
Claudia Schiffer
Peaches Geldof
Donatella Versace
Annie Lennox
Paolo Coelho
Alison Lohman, Justin Long & Sam Raimi
Debora Bloch
Laura Neiva

I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - NBC Is Ruining It

I don't know if many of you even remember the first time I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here aired. It was on ABC and I thought it was the greatest show. All of these celebrities stuck out in the middle of an Australian jungle and the entire first episode all they did was bitch and complain because it wasn't what they were expecting. I think they were all expecting nice air conditioned trailers and that while the actual show was taping they would be brought out and be forced to sit in the elements for an hour.

The show aired back in 2003 and I was glued to the set every night in which it aired. The contestants were Cris Judd who had just got divorced from Jennifer Lopez. It was so interesting to see every celebrity on the show ask him a million questions just like any of us would. They wanted gossip. Melissa Rivers was on it and I remember her talking about her new boob job at the time and she and Nikki Ziering had a very long discussion about what size is a good size to get. John Melendez was on and that is what eventually got him the Tonight Show job. Other than Howard Stern listeners, no one knew who he actually was, and when they saw him, they liked him. Bruce Jenner was on and he was such a control freak and Tyson Beckford was on there and Robin Leach. Alana Stewart was on and also Downtown Julie Brown and Maria Conchita Alonso.

Even today you have heard of all these people, and probably would still find what they have to say interesting, especially when you put them all together in the Outback. Unfortunately no one really watched I guess and the show never aired again.

Every year it has aired in the UK, and I have wanted it back ever since. Well, now I finally got my wish, and they are basically ruining it before it even starts. The only saving grace to the show is that it will have Stephen Baldwin, who is in my mind the best celebrity reality contestant ever. Whatever you think of him personally, this is what he does best.

Speidi is going to be on the show which is a disaster. The only thing intriguing about that is if they will throw each other under a bus. Sanjaya is on the show. Why? Does anyone care what he has been doing? Was William Hung unavailable? How hard would it have been to get Clay Aiken? Ruben? Fantasia? Katharine McPhee? You don't think they are above taking a decent sized paycheck? John Salley is on it and he is a decent enough guy, but it is just going to be like watching paint dry. Janice Dickinson is on and she has been on the UK version. I just don't know who she is going to play against in this. For her to be funny and to work, she needs to find someone to rail against, and I don't see that person here. Maybe, maybe Heidi or Spencer.

Lou Diamond Phillips will be interesting, but only if he decides to flirt with Torrie Wilson. Otherwise I think he is going to sit in a corner and mumble about how he was in La Bamba once and that his wife left him for another woman.

And the final spot? The wife of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Seriously? You could have had Verne Troyer or anyone else from any Surreal Life episode and you pick her? Why? What is the point? Does NBC think that all the celebrities are going to have long, in depth discussions with her about politics?

And finally, to make the show even more unwatchable NBC brought in Mylene Klaas. Who you ask? Well, to be fair Mylene is a huge deal in the UK and hosts their version and is great at what she does, BUT, no one here knows her and they are paying her a salary like she is on the cover of People every week. They are paying her about $500,000 for a month's work to host this thing.

I had such high expectations when they announced the format was returning, and the way they have handled the casting is just atrocious and will result in some really low ratings and I doubt we will ever see the show again.

Michael Musto Blind Items - Lots And Lots

I don't even need to post any blind items today. Michael Musto has a ton. In his column yesterday he just kind of lumped them all together. Lucky for us, a reader was kind enough to break them all down and number them for easier guessing. Enjoy these. There are 40 of them.

(1) Which supposedly cleaned-up star was spotted at a hot West Village
restaurant, going to the bathroom about every five minutes to take care
of business? Anyone buying the weak bladder excuse?

(2) Which once-hot pop star can barely sing a note and needs mucho
enhancement in the studio, getting help from a songwriter who's also
vocally stepped in for that working-class rock band?

(3) Similarly, which famous young lady actually does the singing for
her more famous sister?

(4) Which quirky director who gives the wife a lot of work must be
doing so in exchange for some heavy bearding? (He's rumored to be one
of them there closet cases.)

(5) Which still-closety '70s superstar gets regular mansion visits from
a local gay promoter?

(6) Which TV starlet has freaked out from her (mid-level) success and
doesn't want people on the street to even look in when she's doing a
photo shoot in an establishment? Wouldn't she freak out even more if
they didn't look in?

(7) Which married actor is wildly flamboyant among friends and business
associates, but when he sits down with an interviewer or goes out in
public, he suddenly reins in the swishing and tries to pass for
straight? Who's buying it?

(8) Which French actor, who's now part of a franchise, is known=2
0for
having a "dick of fire"? (I.e., he can't seem to stick it in enough
orifices—all of them les girls', alas).

(9) Which trannie, poignantly enough, got a cut-rate sex change and
can't feel much of anything down there?

(10) Which belter is such a drinker that she had to be pushed onstage
for her entrance at that concert, after which she started singing eight
bars early, thereby throwing off the whole number (and, in fact, the
whole show)?

( 11) Which male Tony nominee for musicals is such an egomaniac that
people dread sitting at his end of the table?

(12) Which old-time crooner only does interviews via e-mail, so his
people can provide canned answers that are often verbatim repeats of
what they fed other publications?

(13) Which Brazilian hustler keeps his cash in his mattress rather than
report it to the authorities? (Not that I know any Brazilian hustlers,
mind you. I got this from a friend of a friend.)

(14) Which comeback chanteuse lost her lower register due to all those
times she took injections to get over health problems and/or exhaustion?

(15) What diva's light-skinned son strangely has trouble getting it up?

(16) Which semi-star was supposedly busted for posting anonymous
threads about how she was better in that hit show than the woman who
replaced her? Is it any wonder the semi-star was caught screaming,
"Noooo!" when her replacement won the big award?

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17) Which erudite actor who's currently on the boards was seen—by
me—wiping his nose as he left the bathroom at Hiro? (Well, he had the
next day off.) Anyone buying the weak sinus excuse?

(18) Which well-chosen wife of a major star is so dumb she didn't know
that a drag performance she'd just seen was indeed a collection of
males in dresses? Does that explain why she married that husband?

(19) Which American author's birthplace studiously omits his
homosexuality from all materials and resents any attempt to get it
mentioned?

(20) Which author's birthplace doesn't?

(21) Which director supposedly got married to deflect accusations
(baseless, I'm sure) that he was sleeping with his young discovery?

(22) Which husband of that too-thin personality is a cheater (and a
beater, too, if you believe the horrid murmurs)?

(23) Which hubby didn't want to pose for photos with the wife at her
book party because, as he mouthed to her, "It's your book"? (Free
answer: Dean McDermott.)

(24) Which surprise Broadway star is a shameless womanizer who tried to
get a young lady who was auditioning for a part in his show to come
over and rehearse in private? When she couldn't find the time to do so,
how did he respond to her later request for tickets? (Angrily, I assure
you.)

(25) Which talented blonde stage star picks her nose as if burrowing
for gold and is fond of saying about job offer
s, "They can't afford
me"? Who turned down the illustrious chance to replace her? (Free
answers: Ashley Tisdale, Hilary Duff, and Brittany Snow, for starters.
I guess they couldn't afford them.)

(26) Which screen legend would seem to be a great icon to get to know,
but at least one person who has done so reports, "Not so! She's boring
and needy!"?

(27) What biggie didn't talk to a stage co-star who happened to have
gotten even better reviews than she did?

(28) Who wrote that movie by dredging up her perspective on her sister
and other family situations, but told the press it was totally original?

(29) Which Oscar winner hides her head in her hand whenever she sees
me, even though we're fellow rabid liberals?

(30) Which teen idol could the character named "Zack" in Dance
Flick—you know, the one who sings the song about being a big
gay—possibly be based on?

Which legendary restaurant that was priced out of business is reopening
in a boutique hotel—this time, with a big stage, rather than have
performances on the counter? (Free answer: Florent.)

(31) Which Post gossip diva has written a Broadway show that I hear the
Weislers will bring to a really big stage?

And now, kindly hold your noses and prance down memory lane with me for
these far more vintage items:

(32) Which scriptwriter of two classic musicals once managed to solicit
a blowjob out of a you
ng lady auditioning for a revival, never
realizing she was a chick with a dick (not to mention a very good
friend of mine)?

(33) Which actor who once worked in a trannie bar slept with at least
one of the gals? (Again, I'm connected.)

(34) Which multi-octave superstar started out so rough and untrained
that she wouldn't bother to bathe and, at dinners, would turn to the
person next to her and demand things like, "Cut my meat"? (And no, this
has nothing to do with the discount sex-change item above.)

(35) Which superstar couple's run supposedly ended when she gave him
the gift of herpes? What kinds of kinky activities were the male half
of that duo into? (Free answer: fisting, to name just one earthly
delight. Yes, hetero fisting! I'm not making this shit up!)

(36) What always-acclaimed actress's marriage has lasted so long partly
because the non-bizzy husband turns a blind eye whenever she beds her
male co-stars?

(37) Which legend's first album was a hit by mistake? (On a budget,
they accidentally sped up the music, which made it all the more
danceable).

(38) Which ethnic multi-talent had a breakdown when her then-boyfriend
was arrested? (In fact, she threw herself on the prison floor and
started foaming at the mouth—a far better performance than anything
she's achieved on celluloid.)

(39) Which star of that cable phenomenon didn't thank her husband at
the Emmys because he20was fucking his female co-star on Broadway around
that time?

(40) Which lesbian singer did it with a man—once, from what I can
tell—and he reports that she just laid there, practically comatose? I
mean, can you blame her?

Mariah Carey Confuses Me

I understand that once you reach a certain level of fame and wealth that you enjoy having a stylist do your hair and makeup. Also, I understand the stylist is probably going to make you look better than you can do it yourself. I mean they are professionals and so they should make you look better. What I don't understand is how, if there is an emergency, how it is possible that you can't do your hair and makeup yourself. I am presuming that at some point throughout her life that Mariah Carey managed to do her own hair and makeup. In fact, I would say that probably even still, she is at an age where she has probably done her own hair and makeup for about half her life.

On Saturday, Mariah took to her Twitter, or at least had her assistant or her toy Nick Cannon do it and said, "I'm still in Cannes (with) a whole day and night of press events ahead of me and the hairdresser has abandoned me!"

Apparently the one she hired failed to show. Mariah's people found a new stylist, but I guess the one they found didn't speak English, and so she again turned to Twitter and said, "OK, so he got me someone else but he doesn't speak English at all, so I'm hoping for the best... Whhhhhhyyyyyyy!"

Because of this drama, Mariah and Nick were a fashionable three hours late for a party to celebrate her new movie. The question I have to ask is why? Is she that incompetent that she couldn't manage to do her own hair and makeup? Is this is a skill that you forget? Instead of trusting a complete stranger, wouldn't it have been more wise to just do it yourself? Has she become so entitled that she would refuse to go out in public rather than just do it on her own?

All she has done by showing up three hours late and with this awful reason is just show the world that no matter what, and that no matter if producers and guests were expecting her to be on time, that her personal needs have to come first. It isn't like she even looks that great when a professional spends hours on her, so I doubt she could do much damage on her own. Do your hair, throw on some makeup and squeeze into one of her teenage hooker outfits and she is ready to go. It is this kind of inability to see beyond the mirror or think of anyone else that I really despise the most about celebrity entitlement.

Bring George Clooney A Drink And He Will Date You

I drink a lot. I'm guessing I probably spend more time drinking than George Clooney. How is it that when I go drinking and hit on cocktail waitresses they call a bouncer or the cops, and when George Clooney hits on them they become his girlfriend. Yeah, I know the answer. It's because I drive my parent's mini-van.

Anyway, as you will recall George's last girlfriend was cocktail waitress Sarah Larson, who he met in Vegas, and now he is dating a Miami cocktail waitress and a model-wannabe Lucy Wolvert. I'm guessing at some point the whole wannabe model thing is going to turn into wannabe actress and that she will reach the 9 minute fame mark of her predecessor. I say 9 minutes because I think Sarah Larson has another 6 minutes left in her of her fame window. I don't think we have heard the last of her yet and that she will make one more comeback into our collective consciousness.

Of course George, being the quiet kind of guy he is wanted his new girlfriend to keep things quiet. Yeah, like that is going to happen. According to US Weekly she has pretty much told everyone she knows that she is dating George. She probably also thinks it will last.

I think, but I am not sure that Lucy is the former girlfriend of Landon Lueck who was on The Real World Philadelphia. I believe the picture I found is Landon and Lucy. Lucy is the woman on the far right.

Follow Up To Some Crime Stories

It seemed like a few months ago there were all these crazy crimes that were happening all over the world, and in the past few weeks there has been some resolution to at least two if them.

Do you remember the Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim who was killed in her apartment in Dubai because she was leaving her lover? Well, an Egyptian court sentenced her former boyfriend, Hisham Talaat Moustafa and retired police officer Mohsen al-Sukkari to death by hanging. Her boyfriend ordered the killing while the police officer is the one who actually carried it out.

Her family said, "We have full faith in the Egyptian judicial system and we are awaiting the final ruling. The family is all gathered and we are following this closely."

The final ruling to which the family refers is the fact that the sentence must be approved by the mufti, which is an interpreter of Islamic law. This was such a tragedy.

The other case which has some resolution involves the 17 year old girl who ran away to Brazil to be with her boyfriend and then he killed her, cut her up, and put her in a suitcase. He did this because she was going to tell his parents about his drug use. For his part, he revealed that he only wanted to be with Cara Maria Burke so he could get permission to live in the UK. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison for her death. After killing her while high on crack, he sent a text message to a friend saying, 'the b**** is in the bag', accompanied by a smiley face.

Ben Widdicombe Blind Item

Which (straight) male designer had a major hissy fit with the security of New York's SoHo Grand Hotel on Saturday night when he was denied access to a V.I.P. party happening in the penthouse?