Enjoy Your Late Night Shows Tonight

When the WGA meets tonight at the LA Convention Center, the leaders will be telling the writers it is time to walk out. Union leaders have been advising all members to take their personal items with them when they leave work this afternoon. Although a strike could have begun at midnight, the general consensus was that Monday would be the soonest a strike would occur because the WGA wanted to look as if they were trying to negotiate with the new federal mediator. Now that may change.

While your favorite comedies and dramas have enough episodes filmed to keep you happy for a month or two, the late night talk shows will only have enough for tonight. Say goodbye to Jay Leno, and Conan O'Brien. Say adios to Jon Stewart and David Letterman. Love SNL on Saturday nights? Say buh bye. These shows all depend heavily on writers on a daily basis and will shut down after tonight if a strike is called. So enjoy them tonight, because it may be awhile before you see a new show again.

You notice I didn't mention Jimmy Kimmel saying goodbye? That's because he may stay on and take advantage of the other shows going dark to pick up some ratings for his struggling show.

The WGA will be all alone on the picket line as the other Hollywood guilds including the actors and directors have specifically reminded their members about the no-strike clauses in their contracts. SAG did say that if members wanted to picket with WGA members on their free time they could, but were not encouraging it.

NY Daily News Blind Item

Which famously un-single hip-hop powerhouse recently had a booty call with three women in a private third-floor room of that very trendy restaurant on Greenwich St.?

CDANCON Thanks

I would like to take a second here to thank everyone who participated in the CDANCON event. From the very beginning it was Hez' brainchild and she saw it through to the end. None of it would have happened without her efforts and so any credit should go to her.

I'm sure she is already planning to make next year's event bigger and better and with an entire year to plan, it will be incredible.

Thanks to all the people who came to the events whether it was from LA, or other spots around the globe.

Thanks to all the people and companies who contributed prizes for you the readers so you could feel involved even if you couldn't attend.

I also wanted to give a special shout out to Anna Kosturova. Many of you may know her from her incredible swimsuit collections and other great sportswear fashions. Anna was here recently for Fashion Week and she opened her gifting suite to many of the people that make this blog possible. She took care of my spies as well as other celebrities who serve up much of what you read in the blind items. I can't begin to thank her enough, and thanks to Hez again for introducing me to Anna. I encourage all of you to check out her site which is linked above.

The Winners

Sorry about the delay in announcing the winners of all the CDANCON giveaways but there was some confusion about what was given away at the lunch.

It turns out that only one thing was drawn at the lunch, and therefore last night I had DS draw for everything except for the one thing already drawn at the lunch.

You will get an e-mail later today from me, confirming you won.

M From Mariah -

(1) Alex' from France (person DS selected at the lunch)
(2) Jennifer Dunham

Amber Tamblyn Books (if you want them signed to you, rather than just her signature, you need to let me know this week, what you want it to say)

(1) Sherri Smith
(2)Karyn McKeown

Fay Aiyana CD's (if you want them signed to you, rather than just her signature, you need to let me know this week, what you want it to say)

(1)Marisa Picker
(2)Eileen Kane
(3)Quinn
(4)Matt Pollock

Full Bloom Tea Set

First one mentioned in post
(1)Jacqueline Holcome

Second one mentioned in post
(1)Leslie Trewhitt

Your choice of Dominique Swain DVD autographed personally to you.

(1)Pamela Haskin
(2) Sarah Brooks

Congratulations to all of you, and if you didn't win anything, don't despair because I have some things to give away next Friday that you will love. More details tomorrow.

Today's Blind Items

#1 The scene. B list film actor who used to be on the edge of A list but can't quite seem to get there. Our actor has a little get together. Our actor invites another couple over as well as a lady friend he is dying to get into bed with. At some point in the evening, the lady friend our actor lusts for decides to use the restroom. While doing her business, she feels something ticking her bare leg. Looking down she sees a huge cockroach crawling up her leg. As she screams, she notices there are several others throughout the bathroom. Needless to say, our actor didn't get any that night.

#2 This C list television actress/reality star has been spending some time with a married couple who are half A list celebrity, half regular in the past few weeks. Our actress thought it was just about friendship, but it turns out the couple would like the actress for much more than just friends. Promising they could help her career and get her noticed around the world, our actress is on the fence about it, but so far has said no.

Random Photos Part One

This doesn't really have anything to do with gossip, but it is a great photo and the "Crusty Demons" came up with one hell of a promotion to get people to come see their tour.
Speaking of crusty demons. Blake kind of reminds me of Matthew Broderick in Election after the bee sting except paler and closer to death. I also am guessing Blake doesn't drive a Ford Festiva, but you never know. Amy Winehouse is actually looking better each day, and will make a great widow. Maybe she can start a WILF tradition or something.
One day there are the scary photos of the spider veins, but when Angelina Jolie looks like this, there are not many women in the world more naturally beautiful. Doesn't mean I like her, although without getting into the morality of who is better, I would rather have sex with Angelina rather than Jen.
America Ferrera in Marie Claire.
Lindsay Lohan goes for pizza for the 5th time in 8 days. I think she is looking for the magic pizza. But like I told you before, they only deliver the good stuff. You can't get it at their store.

I have to say Jennifer Hudson looks really good here. Heard she is finally getting off her diva stool also because the SATC women put her in her place in about 5 seconds.
Jessica Biel shows off the latest in cafeteria ladies going to church fashion trends.
While Thandie Newton at the same event looks breathtaking. You know the term eyes bugging out of your head. Look at the guy behind her. I think he likes what she is wearing also.
Wow. Heath Ledger dresses like he is the offspring of Tim Burton and Helen Bonham Carter. OK, maybe not that bad. They are the two worst dressed people on the planet. Heath is just a hippie who had to leave the house during the day and didn't want to.
Shar Jackson and Ian Ziering. Great couple I think. They didn't go together though. Ian went with some random girl who was still wearing a Live Strong bracelet and kept calling Ian daddy so I know how that one turns out. Shar went with some random guy, but you have to admit these two look good together.

Not looking good is Ryan Cabrera. I remember when BP (Before Pimpa) he used to look normal. Now he looks like he has been shell shocked and only wants oatmeal.
"Summer lovin had me a blast."
Is Meg Ryan dating anyone because I heard she has a thing for fat guys, and she is looking pretty good.
This is the moment in life when you really regret doing all that shopping BEFORE going through security.

Tom And Katie Done?

I want you to read these excerpts from an interview which will be broadcast on Entertainment Tonight tomorrow. I know things sometimes appear differently when read rather than spoken, but to me this seems very formal and not very "I am in love with her."

Tom Cruise said of his marriage to Katie Holmes: "I feel lucky. I have a lot of respect for her as an artist, as a woman."

Now it is entirely possible he said this with passion, but to me it seems like he read some lines that he memorized.

He added: "She's a very strong, gracious woman. She's very funny, a great comedian."

He could be talking about anyone here. He probably has made the same remarks about all of his female co-stars. I think it is becoming clear that she is the co-star in all of this.

Married life, he continued, is "all very good, all very lovely."

Next time one of your friends asks how your marriage is doing, why don't you answer with these exact six words and see what their reaction is. It will probably be something along the lines of , "are you sure?" They will know you are not telling them the whole story. Who the hell says that? It's like he is talking about raising a dog or his new house. It is completely generic. The whole damn interview is generic.

He referred to Holmes as "Kate" throughout the interview.

As for raising daughter Suri, 18 months, he said he and Holmes share parenting duties "just like everybody else, you just work it out. You make it work. We've gotten pretty good at organizing everything." Laughing, he added, "I don't sleep much anyway."

They share parenting duties with a staff, but the interesting thing to me is the last part about not sleeping much. John Travolta in a recent interview said that he stays up alone all night and that sleep isn't important. Is this some tenet to Scientology that husbands stay up all night and look at porn or something while their wife and kids sleep?

The interview was held in Paris, and Cruise said the city "has great significance to me in this time period of my life. It's the city where I proposed to Kate."

He makes it seem like there will be a different period of his life where the city will not have great significance to him.

I just find this whole interview very strange and formal like he is trying to distance himself from Katie and setting the whole thing up for him to say bye bye.

Kim Kardashian Playboy Photos Leaked

For a woman who said that she wasn't going to do anything in Playboy that showed her entire body, and doesn't want to have to explain her current actions to her grand kids, this might take some explaining from Kim Kardashian. There are 8 photos in total, and some are full frontal. Guess she thought her grandsons might like looking at what grandma used to look like and what her grand daughters might achieve in life if they really work hard at acting like a slut.

Here are the photos and of course, they are NSFW.