Cookiepuss's Celebrity Gossip Column

[MC Moot]

I think about ten years back Gilligan got snagged sending Marianne some herb through the post...:confused:

[MC Moot]

Fly Guy Ritchie Be Free!

Madonna and Guy: Scheduled To Split?

It's rumoured the pop icon will leave Guy in fall '09.

'Could Guy Ritchie be going where Sean Penn, Warren Beatty, Jenny Shimizu and Vanilla Ice have gone before? Into Madonna's discard pile? The News of the World claims that Madonna, 49, and her director husband Guy, 39, have pulled the plug on their eight-year marriage. Madonna is making arrangements to move off her sprawling English estate and relocate to New York City, accompanied by her staff and three kids: Lourdes, 11; Rocco, 7; and David, 2. Guy will stay in London, where he's purchased a pub with his buddies. The pub will be called Mid-Life Crisis's.

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Madonna and Guy will keep up appearances for the next 18 months before announcing their split in fall '09, according to the U.K. paper. By then, Madonna will have sucked all the sugar out of her new album, Hard Candy, and the world tour that's expected to follow. But in the meantime, they'll be able to enjoy all the whispers and speculation that get stirred up every time they do something separately. For example, when Madonna was inducted into the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame last Monday, Guy stayed home with the kids, horses and chickens on their London estate. Gossip ensued.

Madonna's rep denies her client is either single or ready to mingle, but it seems like a breakup is inevitable. Madonna has done her best to keep this thing going. She showed an interest in what appears to be Guy's only passion--pubs. And she stood by him during a long period of career stagnation. Guy, in turn, hasn't gotten in between Madonna and her typically ambitious plans, such as adopting baby David from Malawi. But how could anyone stay married to Madonna? Every time she gives you a Vitamin B shot in the ass, your manhood dies a little."

[abcdefz]

Dang.



Driving 124 mph in Maserati, actor Thomas Jane arrested on suspicion of DUI
Associated Press
Article Launched: 03/18/2008 07:11:23 AM PDT

BUTTONWILLOW - Actor Thomas Jane is facing drunken driving charges after being pulled over in his Maserati in Kern County.

The California Highway Patrol says Jane was pulled over on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow around 2:43 a.m. Monday and arrested on suspicion of DUI.

The CHP says he was driving his black 2008 Maserati at 124 mph when he was stopped.

The star of "The Punisher" and "The Mist" was described as cooperative and underwent field sobriety tests and a blood test at Kern Medical Center.

The 39-year-old Jane was booked into the downtown jail and later released.

Information from: The Bakersfield Californian.

[na§tee]

anthony minghella died. but that's not really gossip. it's someone who is dead. for sure. matter-of-factly. and he's not really a celebrity per se. yeeup. /walks out of thread.

[cookiepuss]

Fly Guy Ritchie Be Free!

Madonna and Guy: Scheduled To Split?

Madonna is making arrangements to move off her sprawling English estate and relocate to New York City, accompanied by her staff and three kids: Lourdes, 11; Rocco, 7; and David, 2. Guy will stay in London, where he's purchased a pub with his buddies. The pub will be called Mid-Life Crisis's.




HHHAAAAAA. Hilllllllarious! don't beleive it for a second but that's awesome!(y)



Oh Thomas Jane, tsk tsk. I like that guy.


Nastee...it's still celebrity "news". we don't have to adhere strickly to just gossip.;)

besides, I've got another celeb death to report...

[cookiepuss]

Please Let This Be the End of ABBA


Ok it sucks that the guy died in a freak accident, but I just really hate ABBA


MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A drummer for the Swedish pop group ABBA has died after an apparent accident at his home in Spain, a Civil Guard spokeswoman said Monday.

Ola Brunkert was found dead late Sunday at his home in the town of Arta on Spain's Mediterranean island of Mallorca, the spokeswoman said.

Police believe Brunkert may have fallen against a glass partition separating his home's kitchen from the garden, and the glass broke and fatally cut his throat, she said.

He was found in the garden and is believed to have bled to death, she added. An official cause of death is pending until after an autopsy.

Brunkert, born in 1946 in Sweden, played drums on ABBA's first single, "People Need Love," according to Abba's official Web site.

He was not among the four best-known members of ABBA whose faces adorned the album covers -- Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Faltskog -- but he was a key supporting musician for the group as it achieved stardom.

The group's hits included "Dancing Queen," "Waterloo," "Take a Chance on Me" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You."

"Ola toured with ABBA in 1977, 1979 and 1980," the official Web site said. "Together with bass player Rutger Gunnarsson, Ola is probably the only musician to appear on all ABBA albums -- he was one of the most frequently used Swedish session musicians during the 1970s

[MC Moot]

Heather Mills throws water over Paul McCartney lawyer over £24.3m divorce

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3572346.ece

class act...:rolleyes:

[hpdrifter]

Yeah, I just posted about this in your other topic in "Other Music".

She is a piece of work. Jeez.

[cookiepuss]

OOOOOHHHHHH PUNKY!???

Soleil Moon Frye gave birth to a daughter on Monday in Los Angeles. Jagger Joseph Blue Goldberg (barf) is the second daughter for the former Punky Brewster star and husband Jason Goldberg. The couple also have a two year old daughter, Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg.

geee, that's too bad, cause I think Yeigermiester Fuschia Pretzel Goldberg has a nice ring to it.

[abcdefz]

Heather Mills throws water over Paul McCartney lawyer over £24.3m divorce

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3572346.ece

class act...:rolleyes:



...and didn't she accuse Paul of abuse?

[cookiepuss]

AS IF YOU DIDN"T ALREADY KNOW: Michael Stipe is a homo.

In what was surely the most pointless admission ever, Michael Stipe admitted in an upcoming issue of Spin that he was gay. The REM singer claimed he lived most of his life in the closet, which seemed a bit odd to me, because I assumed everyone on the planet knew homeboy was into dudes.

“It was super complicated for me in the ’80s,” he tells Spin. “I was totally open with the band and my family and my friends and certainly the people I was sleeping with. I thought it was pretty obvious.”

The singer, who had always deflected questions about his sexual orientation, says he “didn’t always see” how coming out could help others.

“But I see now, of course, that’s the case,” he says. “I’d just never felt strongly enough about a particular relationship to say, ‘Yeah, he’s my boyfriend, that is what it is.’

“Now I recognize that to have public figures be very open about their sexuality helps some kid somewhere out there.”

Despite the press attention garnered by Michael’s interview with Spin this month, he already announced he was gay and in a relationship with another man during a 2001 interview with Time. Michael used that interview as an opportunity to put to rest rumors that he was suffering from AIDS.

[abcdefz]

That's a few years old, isn't it?

[cookiepuss]

^ yeah read the last part. he did annouce it back in 2001, but apparently he's just making sure we all know. again.

[abcdefz]

Oh, yeah. New comeback album coming out.

[abcdefz]

get it? "coming out."

[MC Moot]

...and didn't she accuse Paul of abuse?

Unless she's signed a non-disclosure agreement under the terms of the settlement I expect her to spending alot more time working on a scathing "tell all" as opposed to all those charity's she's sooooo concerned about...


"All will be revealed..." Paul McCartney

yeah,but by whom?....

[hpdrifter]

"All will be revealed..." Paul McCartney

yeah,but by whom?....

Yeah, that was pretty cryptic. What did he mean by that. Seems odd that he'd court more attention on the matter.

[cookiepuss]

Britters & Mel Gibson: BFF's?

Britney Spears and Mel Gibson shocked on-lookers when they turned up to have dinner together over the weekend, but according to sources, it wasn’t the first time they’ve met. The Malibu neighbors reportedly met multiple times since Britney left the psych ward last month.

“Mel and his wife Robin clearly saw a woman in crisis and wanted to extend themselves in any way possible,” the source says.

“There’s just a handful of people in the world who understand the kind of intense attention that Britney goes through, and how to raise a family with some semblance of privacy and how to keep one’s family intact and out of the limelight,” the source adds.

“There are no expectations, there is no agenda. It’s simply an act of human kindness, one neighbor reaching out to the other.”

So… Britney Spears hooks up with Mel Gibson, and a short time later, her Hebrew tattoo disappears? Hmm.

[abcdefz]

From IMDB:

Arrest Warrant Issued for LaBeouf

An arrest warrant has been issued for actor Shia LaBeouf after he failed to show up in court on Tuesday to face an unlawful smoking charge.
The Transformers star was cited for lighting up in a non-smoking shopping area in Burbank, California last month and was scheduled to appear
in court early on Tuesday. Authorities have issued a $1,000 bench warrant for his arrest, according to Tmz.com. LaBeouf's latest legal woe
comes just a few months after the actor was arrested for trespassing in a Chicago, Illinois drugstore. The 21-year-old was charged with
a public misdemeanour in November , after refusing to leave the store while drunk. The charges were later dropped.

[hpdrifter]

Oh Shia, we hardly knew ye. Hopefully this isn't the beginning of a Britney-esque too much too soon meltdown.

[abcdefz]

Maybe he's just out somewhere stoned, stealing a yacht.

[Rock]

lindsay lohan has a sex tape that is going around the internet now.

http://thesuperficial.com/2008/03/lindsay_lohan_sex_tape_is_appa.php

[abcdefz]

I can't believe, in this day and age, that women would trust their boyfriends/hookups with stuff like this.

[hpdrifter]

I don't either. I absolutely never would.

[abcdefz]

While we're on the subject, can everybody send me my pictures of me with that sheep back, and delete them from your files? 'ppreciate it. (y)

[abcdefz]

From IMDB:

Ledger Worth Only $145,000 at Time of Death?

The late actor Heath Ledger, who earned millions during his career as a film star, may have wound up with only $145,000 in assets at the
time of his death, the Sydney Sunday Telegraph reported, citing will documents filed by Ledger's family in New York on February 29.
The documents, according to the newspaper, list furniture and fixtures worth $20,000, a Toyota Prius worth $25,000 and $100,000 in
miscellaneous bank accounts. The figure was challenged by Larry Williams, father of actress Michelle Williams, who had separated from
the actor before his death and who was the mother of their child Matilda. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Williams, a well-known
stock trader, urged the Ledger family to "come clean with everything" and asked Heath's father Kim "to say where the income went and
where the assets are. ... I have no idea what Heath Ledger was worth [but] they certainly haven't stated all of the assets to the court."

[paul jones]

lindsay lohan has a sex tape that is going around the internet now.

http://thesuperficial.com/2008/03/lindsay_lohan_sex_tape_is_appa.php

ah how romantic(y)

[cookiepuss]

So I'm back from being uber ill, and it's nice to see you kids have been gossiping without me!(y)

anyhoo....

What Happened To Our Old Friend John? Hughes that is...

80s director John Hughes is responsible for the concept for the new film Drillbit Taylor, written by Seth Rogan and Kristofor Brown, but his name appears nowhere in the credits. The film is based on one of his old ideas, and a producer who still keeps in touch with him, Tom Jacobson, got his permission to use it. Jacobson is the husband of Donna Arkoff Roth, who produced Drillbit along with Judd Apatow.

The thing is, this Jacobson guy is just about the only person who knows how to contact Hughes, 58. When Hughes left Hollywood in 1995 after creating teen classics like Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Breakfast Club, he shut that world out entirely and never looked back. Hughes lives in Chicago now but no one knows where. Even director Kevin Smith says he can’t get in touch with him for a little fanboy Q&A:



“John Hughes wrote some of the great outsider characters of all time,” says Apatow, the writer-director-producer whose new film, “Drillbit Taylor,” is loosely based on an old Hughes story idea. “It’s pretty ridiculous to hear people talk about the movies we’ve been doing, with outrageous humor and sweetness all combined, as if they were an original idea. I mean, it was all there first in John Hughes’ films. Whether it’s ‘Freaks and Geeks’ or ‘Superbad,’ the whole idea of having outsiders as the lead characters, that all started with Hughes.”

Hollywood is full of older masters who’ve been mentors to younger acolytes. But Hughes, 58, is the only one who’s disappeared without a trace; he quit directing in 1991, moved back to Chicago in 1995 and has basically stayed out of sight ever since.

“He’s our generation’s J.D. Salinger,” says Smith, whose film “Dogma” shows its heroes, Jay and Silent Bob, on a pilgrimage to Shermer, Ill., a mythical town that only exists in Hughes’ films. “He touched a generation and then the dude checked out. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be doing what I do. Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words.”

Smith says whenever he’s in Chicago promoting a film he asks his local publicist if they know how to find him, to no avail. The one person who made contact was Vaughn, who grew up in the North Shore suburbs and met with Hughes when shooting “The Break-Up” in the area in 2005. It’s in keeping with this aura of mystery that while Hughes came up with the idea for “Drillbit Taylor,” the Owen Wilson comedy that opened Friday to lackluster reviews, his name isn’t anywhere on the film. But his handprints are everywhere.

[From The LA Times via The Huffington Post]

If Hughes never made those amazing 80s movies that defined my generation, we might not have all the quirky characters and excellent coming of age films now. It’s nice to hear these younger directors say he’s their primary influence.

You wonder what kind of incredible films this guy could have produced if he kept working, but maybe he assumed that his best work was already out there and he got sick of the Hollywood scene. Hughes also directed Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck and Curly Sue Home Alone, and his work branching out into adult comedies was not as well received. (Update: Thanks to Keith for pointing out that Hughes wrote, but did not direct, Home Alone.)

According to The John Hughes Files, Hughes moved to Northbrook, Illinois, at the age of 13. He started out working as an ad copy writer and ended up writing for National Lampoon magazine, where his short story “Vacation ‘58″ became the basis for the Chevy Chase film.

Wikipedia notes that Hughes has not granted any interviews since 1994. He did record a director’s commentary in 1999 for the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off DVD, and there was a photo taken of him in 2001 visiting his actor son on a set.

Fan Site The John Hughes Files claims he is still working as a writer behind the scenes for Disney, but that news seems to be old because he is not listed with many writing credits after the late 90s.

This story really intrigues me and I would like to see Kevin Smith and Judd Apatow be able to do a joint interview with him. He probably thinks he’s just a boring regular guy and doesn’t want to make a big deal out of his success, but his self-imposed exile comes off as such a mystery.

“Catcher In The Rye” author JD Salinger is still alive at 89, but no one has interviewed him since 1980 and he has not published anything since 1965. It might be little early to compare Hughes to Salinger, but there are definite parallels, as Kevin Smith mentioned.

[na§tee]

i was going to say i was at an opening night party with john hughes once, but it was not. it was john waters. two very different johns. you kinda can't miss john waters (http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/original/balt_John-Waters.jpg). he looks like a really dapper skeletor.

[na§tee]

oh, oh, also - who the fuck are these heidi montag and spencer pratt characters? (yes, i know they are on some tv show, but is that it?)

they need a great fat javelin in the face. i've never seen a couple more obviously posing for staged photo opportunities in my life.

arghh (http://thesuperficial.com/2008/01/heidi_montag_and_spencer_pratt.php?bfm_index=15&bfm_page=1)!

this one just kills me (http://socialitelife.buzznet.com/images/2008/03/heidimontag-spencerpratt-easter-photos-032408-12.jpg).

even better - staged crying (http://socialitelife.buzznet.com/images/2008/02/heidi_montag_021808_03.jpg)!

oh man. when i get home i'm going to search for more because they just keep on getting more and more nauseating.

please tell me they are universally reviled in the states. please.

[cookiepuss]

^ oh yeah they are on some staged "reality" show called the Hills or something. and I think that Hedi chick has been attempting a singing career with a shittastic new single/video out. it's pretty awful.


and now...

Henry Rollins FTW!!!!!!!
During his radio show this week, punk pioneer Henry Rollins called out Britney Spears for using studio tricks to enhance her shitty singing voice. The Black Flag frontman claimed he spoke to an engineer who worked with Britney, and revealed that Britney doesn’t know how to sing… like, at all.

“They have the black chick come in and sing, and Britney sings over it, and they mix them together.”

“(Britney) gets her phrasing basically from this older R&B woman. I found that out talking to an engineer.

“Britney apparently isn’t actually the worst singer, she just has no feel. So they bring in this older black woman who sings the song, then Britney sings to it, and they kind of make a mix of the two voices, and that’s what you hear on the records.”

Have you heard the song “Hot as Ice” on the Blackout disc? It is literally the most ridiculous song I have ever heard. They should fire the older R&B woman responsible for that track.

[cookiepuss]

Robin Williams and Wife: DUNZO

dude, 19 years down the drain....

Robin Williams, wife are divorcing

2 hours, 38 minutes ago

After nearly 19 years of marriage, Robin Williams and his wife are getting divorced.

Marsha Garces Williams filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on March 21 in San Francisco Superior Court, citing irreconcilable differences.

The two met when Garces Williams worked as a nanny for Williams' son Zachary, whom he had with his previous wife, Valerie Valardi.

Robin and Garces Williams also have two children together, Zelda and Cody.

Williams, 56, won an Academy Award for his role in the film "Good Will Hunting." He also starred in the 1980s sitcom "Mork & Mindy," and has acted in a number of movies including "Dead Poets Society" and "Patch Adams."

Williams' agent Mara Buxbaum confirmed that the couple is splitting, but had no further comment. An attorney for his estranged wife would not comment on the case.

[cookiepuss]

Richie Sambora is a douchebag of a father

Earlier today we heard that Richie Sambora was arrested in Laguna Beach last night on DUI charges. Homeboy was reportedly swerving all over the road at 11pm. Now we here Richie had a passenger for his wild ride: his ten year old daughter, Ava. Father of the year?

Richie Sambora was busted for DUI with his 10-year-old daughter Ava in the car, along with another juvenile and another adult — a woman. If Sambora was driving drunk, he could be charged with endangering the two kids.

Police sources tell us Sambora has not been charged with endangerment but the Laguna Beach P.D. is “actively investigating.”

After the arrest, police called Ava’s mom, Heather Locklear, to come pick up her daughter. Nice.

[hpdrifter]

please tell me they are universally reviled in the states. please.

Oh yeah, absolutely. I find them so uninteresting. Its like when Jessica Simpson took over the tabloids and I had nothing to do for about a year while standing in line at the grocery store.

I mean, I like US weekly and Life&Style and stuff. But I just get bored hearing about those two.

[cookiepuss]

Maybe Married: Are They or Aren't They ? (and does anyone even give a shit at this point?)


I spent the weekend waiting for details on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s reported nuptials in New Orleans. Star Magazine sent out a blast email Saturday evening that claimed the couple married a few hours earlier at the French Quarter Wedding Chapel in New Orleans. Other sources picked up the story, and before long, OMG, it was a straight up wedding frenzy.

What did they find? Collectively, nothing more than a firm denial from the chapel’s minister, Rev. Tony Talavera, who says he didn’t perform any such marriage. Furthermore, Talavera told OK! that Star had offered him $3,000 to stick with its story (he couldn’t be bought) and he told In Touch that it was Pitt’s rep that asked him to set the record straight with the media.

People magazine did reach Pitt’s rep, Cindy Guagenti, who said she had “no idea” whether Pitt and Jolie married. Us Weekly chimed in with a source who called the whole thing “complete and total bullsh–.”

Although Star amended its original story to say that its source was no longer standing by their information, there’s still no straight answer. It’s odd for a publicist to not follow up “I have no idea” with a clear yes or no, so what gives?

One publicist said that Guagenti and Pitt don’t communicate as often as you’d think. “When she says she has no idea, she really doesn’t. They don’t talk regularly.” (A request to Guagenti for an updated response went unanswered.)

Fuck, dudes, I wasted like… idk, at least 15 minutes researching this shit over the weekend. That’s 15 minutes I could have been eating McGriddles or watching Gangland, so I’m thoroughly pissed at Star right now.

[cookiepuss]

Heath's got another love child?

You know how Heath Ledger played Cassanova on the big screen? maybe he wasn't acting....

Heath Ledger’s estate problems just got more difficult: the actor may have fathered a child with an older woman while he was still in high school. Reports from Australia claimed 17 year old Heath had an affair with a 25 year old woman in Perth that resulted in a daughter.

If it is confirmed Ledger is the girl’s biological father, it could split his multi-million dollar estate between his two-year-old daughter Matilda Rose with Hollywood actress Michelle Williams, and his secret love child.

Ledger’s uncle, Hadyn Ledger, in Heath’s home town of Perth, Western Australia, told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper exclusively: “There is a very real possibility that Heath was the father.

The latest report states that Heath was still at school at Guildford Grammar in Perth when he began the affair with the woman, then aged 25.

Another family source told the newspaper: “She had the baby. Everyone lived under the assumption that she was the daughter of the mother’s boyfriend and that is how she has been brought up.”

Heath died in January of an accidental prescription drug overdose. He left behind an out-dated will that made no mention of Matilda, leaving his estate to various members of his family. A legal battle is expected to occur sometime in the future, and will undoubtedly be complicated even further if the little girl in Perth is Heath’s biological child.

[cookiepuss]

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Madonna to remake Casablanca?

Oh. F. No. *vomits*

It's only Monday morning and already we have a Bad Idea of the Week! And yes, this is entirely rumorific right now, but the mere thought of it is so appalling to me, I had to vent.

Madonna. Remaking. Casablanca.

Of course, the remake — possibly set in a modern war zone like Iraq — would be a starring vehicle for the Queen of Pop herself. Apparently, a "source" told the Daily Mail, "Madonna is talking about taking the Ingrid Bergman role for herself, even though Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50." Um. Yeah. To see what else there is to say about this, read more.

Age is the least of the issues I'd have with Madonna taking the role of Ilsa in a remake of Casablanca. First and foremost I have a problem with the words "a remake of Casablanca." And in general, Madonna is simply all wrong for the part. Ilsa (Bergman) had that sweet, vulnerable face,] and a gentleness to her that I don't quite see Madonna achieving.

Again, this is totally just a rumor right now. But if it is true, it annoys me to think that just because Madonna wishes to reclaim some credibility in the movie world, she has to go after one of the most — if not the most — well-loved classic films of all time.

If this is true, I . . . I don't even have the words. I really don't. But maybe you do? What do you think about this idea?

[hpdrifter]

I heard about that on the radio this morning. They said she also wants to relocate it to war-torn Iraq.

[cookiepuss]

^ wow. it's gonna suck so bad, if it gets off the ground.

while we are at it...let's remake Gone With the Wind and cast Lindsay Lohan as Scarlett and Dane Cook as Rhett Butler, except lets not have it take place in the south during the civil war...that's totally out and too many racial issues. I think maybe the Bosnian war would be a better location/time period.:rolleyes:

[cookiepuss]

Cameron Diaz Wants To Bone Boys....

We haven’t seen Cameron Diaz in months, so I almost forgot she existed until she gave British GQ a few soundbites about her love life. Cameron apparently hasn’t gotten any since breaking up with Justin Timberlake last year, and now she’s on the hunt for some ass.

“It’s been nice not having a boyfriend for the past year. In fact, it’s the first time I haven’t had one in 10 years, and I’m enjoying what I’m getting out of this moment.

“I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven’t finished doing what I’m doing,” she added.

“I like boys, a lot. I’m boy crazy. That hasn’t changed since I was very young.”


dude she's a little old for "boys". She ought to try a man.

[cookiepuss]

Amy Winehouse Isn't Dead Yet: but her new album's material implies that she wishes she was.

Although I kind of assumed Back to Black was a rather dark disc, The Sun claimed Amy Winehouse’s next disc will be even darker. The singer decided to work with dreamboat producer Mark Ronson again, but the lyrics on the new disc reportedly involve themes such as death and despair.

Sources described the new material as “sucidal music.” Sounds like a party!

A source said her skin complaint was dragging her mood down further and added: “Her next album is darker than ever. Amy’s got low self-esteem anyway but her skin has made her want to hide away from the rest of the world. And we have started noticing more and more cuts on her arms.

“Her problems are pushing her over the edge and she’s turning into a depressed recluse. It’s not good for her to stay in so much. People try to get her to leave the house and tell her not to worry about what people say. But she’d rather sit around her dingy flat all day writing about death.”

“She’s written quite a lot of the third album already. It is very, very dark but she produces some of her best music when she’s in pain, and the past few months have been hell for her. She might have all this fame and wealth but she’s never been so down as she is now.”

As long as we get a third disc from her, I’m not going to be picky about the material. I’m just happy she isn’t dead yet.

[MC Moot]

BAD IDEA OF THE WEEK: Madonna to remake Casablanca?

Oh. F. No. *vomits*

I think exposure to the finished product may provide an acceptable alternative interogation pratice to replace "water boarding"...sure it'd be less humane but likely more effective...(y)

SERIOUSLY...SHE MUST BE STOPPED

[cookiepuss]

Spark up the Tom Cruise Purple!

ahhahahahaha! I'm running out to my local cannibus club right now. this shit is gonna be a collectors item!

Forget Northern Lights and White Widow — there’s a new strain of medical marijuana on the scene, cleverly dubbed the “Tom Cruise Purple.” Tom Cruise, like the actor! Coincidence? Not really. Rush and Molloy say

… Licensed cannabis clubs in Northern California are selling vials of pot featuring a picture of Cruise laughing hysterically. Word is that the actor’s lawyers are taking a serious look at the strong brand of bud after we brought it to their attention. One weed devotee said, “I heard it’s the kind of pot that makes you hallucinate.”

I suppose that’s better than the being the kind of pot that makes you believe that the aliens souls implanted with false memories and flown to Earth in DC-10s and blown up with H-bombs in volcanoes are to blame for your being a closet homosexual with abandonment issues. Talk about your fucking buzzkill!


Also:

Jay-Z and Beyonce: Married.

big whoop. I'm not even going to post a link or a story. because I just don't care.

[hpdrifter]

I think its rather sweet. I just love those two! Though a bit anticlimatic. For us, I mean. Obviously a great day for them.

[cookiepuss]

Vanilla Ice Doesn't Just Wear Wife-Beaters...

apparently he actually beats his wife...

Police arrested Vanilla Ice last night for allegedly beating his wife’s ass at their Palm Beach home. Vanilla, real name Rob Van Winkle (why is that name so funny to me?) spent the night in jail while waiting to go before a judge.

Ice was booked by Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies at 10:43 PM ET on a charge of domestic battery. Sources tell TMZ he got into an argument with his wife, Laura, and he pushed her.

You’re totally shocked that this dude has an anger management problem, aren’t you?

[hpdrifter]

Not suprised at all. Actually surprised it made news, I kind of assumed he was already doing it. He just seems like that type of guy.

[MC Moot]

Good News,i liked them as a couple,they work well together...good on them...(y)


The Sean Penn/Robin Wright Penn marriage is back on after that thing with the model

Here's something you don't see every day. A celebrity couple deciding against divorce. Oscar-winning hothead and lefty political activist Sean Penn and his wife, actress Robin Wright Penn, have withdrawn the divorce petition they filed in December.

This after Penn made the rounds at post-Oscar bashes with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Petra Nemcova, who is most famous for surviving the 2004 Thailand tsunami by clinging to the top of a palm tree. They were spotted canoodling at Elton John's AIDS fundraiser together and posed on the red carpet for photos. Nemcova (incidentally?) bears a not dissimilar resemblance to Wright Penn in her Buttercup ("The Princess Bride") days.

No word yet on what happened to end that fling, but one can speculate, perhaps, that Penn expects a certain level of intellectual discourse in his relationships. Not that models can't also be Mensa members! Or maybe it came out that Nemcova is a Republican.

The divorce proceedings had some zigs and zags. Sean originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7. That the petition was dismissed December 18. Wright Penn followed up with the papers on the 21st. That's the case that was dismissed this week. It came a day after they attended an Eddie Vedder concert at the University of California, Berkeley, where Penn reportedly went on stage to dedicate a song to his wife for her birthday.

They have two children; daughter Dylan Frances.

[cookiepuss]

Good News,i liked them as a couple,they work well together...good on them...(y)


The Sean Penn/Robin Wright Penn marriage is back on after that thing with the model



The divorce proceedings had some zigs and zags. Sean originally filed divorce papers in Marin County December 7. That the petition was dismissed December 18. Wright Penn followed up with the papers on the 21st. That's the case that was dismissed this week. It came a day after they attended an Eddie Vedder concert at the University of California, Berkeley, where Penn reportedly went on stage to dedicate a song to his wife for her birthday.

They have two children; daughter Dylan Frances.

Yep. dedicating a song to a woman will melt her heart everytime...getting Eddie Veder to sing it? priceless.

[cookiepuss]

since you people post on the B-Boys message board you should probably already know this (esp if you go in beastie general)...but obviously a press release went out today...

this ain't no gossip...it's NEWS...


Beastie Boy makes basketball documentary

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 1 minute ago

Some of college basketball's brightest stars, including Kansas State's Michael Beasley and UCLA's Kevin Love, are featured in Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's new documentary, "Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot."

And while it's less than two years since he followed the then-high school players for a week, he still can't get over how much they've changed.

"They already look different, and I think it will be really interesting to look at this doc five or 10 years from now and see these guys when they were high school students. There's a good chance that several of them may be superstars in the NBA," Yauch told The Associated Press in an interview this week. "They were like babies in this picture."

Yauch took his camera to Harlem's famed Rucker Park, made famous by streetballers, in September 2006 to document some of the nation's top high school talent, who were playing in an event there.

Yauch said he was struck by how the players — who also included Jerryd Bayless of Arizona, Donte Green of Syracuse and Kyle Singler of Duke — could act like kids one minute, yet live in such an adult world.

"They have this infrastructure around them, and they are being groomed for stardom," he said.

"When I was in high school I wasn't getting the quantity of media that these guys are," he said. "But it's not necessarily a bad thing."

Yauch, 43, said the documentary, which premieres April 28 at the Tribeca Film Festival, doesn't make a judgment on the world where the precocious teens lived, but does give viewers a glimpse into it. He added: "The people around these kids really do care about them."

"Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot" is slated for wide release June 27.

[paul jones]

Vanilla Ice Doesn't Just Wear Wife-Beaters...

apparently he actually beats his wife...


http://www.sheknows.com/articles/entertainment/celebrities/803433-Vanilla-Ice-arrested-in-Florida.htm

I swear it's Turdbergler!:eek:

[abcdefz]

Classy. Smile for your "I beat my wife" mug shot. :rolleyes:

[cookiepuss]

Oh No: They Procreated

ugh. Birth control, people. please use it.

Ashlee Simpson pregnant: report

38 minutes ago

Pop star Ashlee Simpson and her fiance, rocker Pete Wentz, are expecting a child together, US Magazine reported on Monday, just days after the couple announced that they were engaged.

Representatives for the 23-year-old performer, the younger sister of actress and singer Jessica Simpson, had no immediate comment on the report and no further details were available.

Ashlee Simpson has been romantically linked to Wentz, 28, the bassist for the band Fall Out Boy, since 2006.

On Thursday the couple posted a statement at the social networking Web site friendsorenemies.com in which they announced that they would be getting married.

"We are thrilled to share that we are happily engaged. We consider this to be a very private matter, but we wanted you to hear it straight from us," the announcement said.

In addition to her career as a singer, Simpson had a role in the U.S. television show "Seventh Heaven." Her new album, "Bittersweet World," is to be released later this month.

Wentz co-founded Fall Out Boy in 2001, and the band, for which he is also the lyricist, has built a loyal following with albums that include 2005's popular "From Under the Cork Tree," which included such hits as "Dance, Dance," and "Sugar, We're Goin Down."

(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb, editing by Patricia Zengerle)

(please visit our entertainment blog via www.reuters.com or on http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/ )

[cookiepuss]

Oh, What A Relief: Pete says Ashlee Not Preggers

Pete Wentz spoke out against rumors that claimed fiance Ashlee Simpson is pregnant with his child. The Fall Out Boy called the fetus allegations a “witch hunt.” Um, ok, calm down a little?

“There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood,” he wrote to MTV News Monday. “This is all news to me. I can’t wait for the story about how I’m really in a gay relationship and this is all just a cover … I mean really, this is crazy … I mean we’re engaged, that’s true, and happy about it.”

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I do believe you are actually in a gay relationship, and Ashlee is just your beard.

[cookiepuss]

Did Rob Lowe get Naughty with his Nanny?

A former nanny for Rob Lowe claims abuse

By KEITH ST. CLAIR, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 9 minutes ago

One of three former employees being sued by Rob Lowe says the actor sexually abused her for years but she continued to work for him and his wife because she loved their two boys and needed the job.

In legal papers filed in Santa Barbara, Jessica Gibson says Lowe touched her inappropriately several times between September 2005 and January 2008.

Gibson worked for Rob and Sheryl Lowe on and off for seven years before quitting on Feb. 24.

"I always thought it would be different when I went back, but it was not," Gibson said in the suit. "I stayed as long as I did because of the children and because I needed a job."

Last week, Lowe sued three former employees, including Gibson. He said she demanded $1.5 million to remain silent about the abuse allegation, which his attorney dismissed as "outrageous" and "untrue." In that suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Lowe also accused another nanny of spreading lies about him.

Lowe's lawyer, Larry Stein, said Gibson never gave any indication she had a problem with Lowe during all the years she worked for him.

"She left at least two times, to pursue other jobs, and returned each time asking for more hours," Stein said. "She sent two e-mails the day after she left, both saying she loved the Lowes and her leaving had nothing to do with them but her heart wasn't into being a nanny anymore.

Gibson's attorney, Gloria Allred, told The Associated Press Lowe filed his suit after his attorneys saw "the original content of our suit."

"They may have thought their pre-emptive strike would intimidate our client," Allred said Tuesday. "I can assure them it will not."

Gibson's countersuit, filed Monday, seeks unspecified damages.

Lowe, 44, is a former star of "The West Wing" and currently appears on ABC's "Brothers and Sisters."

He gained attention in the 1980s as a member of Hollywood's so-called Brat Pack, appearing in such films as "The Outsiders," "Class" and "St. Elmo's Fire."

At the height of his Brat Pack career in 1989 Lowe was embarrassed when a sex tape of him with two women surfaced. It had been recorded the year before in Atlanta, where he had attended the Democratic National Convention.

[hpdrifter]

I saw the nanny on the Today show this morning with Gloria Allred (*vomit* seriously, how does one woman manage to single-handedly insult and curtail the entire legal profession) and she looked very smug.

My gut says old Rob didn't do anything. But who knows, my gut's been wrong before.

[cookiepuss]

Are Country Music Fans tone deaf and blind???


cause they gave Kelly Pickler three awards? Kelly Pickler is one of the worst singers ever to make it to the top 12 on American idol (besides Sanjaya). She has no range and is as dumb as a box of rocks...she got sympathy votes cause her daddy was in jail and her mama is dead.(n)

Also what the fuck was Snoop Dogg doing there?:confused:

Swift, Pickler snag CMT awards

By JOHN GEROME, AP Entertainment WriterTue Apr 15, 7:32 AM ET

Taylor Swift won video of the year and female video for her smash "Our Song" while newcomer Kellie Pickler took home three awards during Monday's Country Music Television awards.

"I wrote that song in the 9th grade for a talent show," said the 18-year-old Swift, who won the night's top honor over Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley and Sugarland. "I never thought it would be on an album, never thought I'd record it, never thought it would be a single, never thought it would be No. 1 and certainly never thought it would win video and female video of the year."

Pickler, 21, won breakthrough video, tearjerker video and performance of the year for "I Wonder," a song about a daughter's feelings for her mother that she says connects deeply with fans. Like Carrie Underwood, Pickler is a former "American Idol" contestant.

"Thank you 'American Idol,' you are the rocket that launched my career," Pickler said from Scottsdale, Ariz.

Paula Abdul, who introduced Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's performance of "I Need You," remarked, "There are so many 'American Idol' alum here that I feel this is a reunion and I'm a proud mom."

Trace Adkins won best male video for "I Got My Game On." Adkins was something of a surprise winner, topping videos by Chesney, Paisley, Toby Keith and Keith Urban.

"I'm having a good year. So far it's been great. I never felt the support from the fans like I do this year," said Adkins, who recently finished second on NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice."

LeAnn Rimes and Bon Jovi won best collaborative video for the steamy video "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore." Rimes, who accepted the award without Bon Jovi, cracked, "I had a lot of fun rolling around with Jon in bed." Then she looked over at her husband in the crowd and added, "Sorry, honey. I love you. You're hotter."

The show was hosted by "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus and her father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. The pair performed their duet "Ready, Set, Don't Go." During their opening segment, Billy Ray Cyrus joked about his daughter's popularity.

"I know what's going on here, OK. I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday ... it's pretty obvious what you're all doing. You're just using Miley to get to me."

Alison Krauss and former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant won wide open video for their duet "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)."

"I'd like to say how peculiar it is to be here. It's a great honor to have made a record in Nashville that sounds so good. I'd like to thank Don and Phil Everly for getting me through my teenage years, and I'd like to thank Alison for helping me get through my late 50s."

Paisley's "Online" won comedy video, while Sugarland's "Stay" won duo video. The two were the most nominated artists of the night.

The show opened with a skit about Adkins trying to get tickets to the show and featured presidential candidates Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Urban opened the musical portion with "Raise the Barn" and was joined by Brooks & Dunn.

Sugarland, Little Big Town and Jake Owen performed the '80s hit "Life in a Northern Town" by the British folk rock group The Dream Academy.

Snoop Dog joined Jason Aldean to introduce Alan Jackson's performance of "Good Time." The rapper wore a black outfit and cowboy hat in honor of the late Johnny Cash, who he said was the inspiration for his single, "My Medicine."

The fan-voted awards show aired live on CMT from Belmont University in Nashville.

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On the Net:

CMT Music Awards: http://www.cmt.com/cmt-music-awards/

[cookiepuss]

Brett Michaels on Rock of Love 2

ok, so I love watching Rock of Skanks and therefore I'm posting this awesome interview with Brett here. deal with it.

After the finale of Rock of Love 2 Sunday night we are all left to wonder: Did Bret Michaels truly find his ‘Rock of Love‘ this season?

Last years winner Jess didn’t have a connection whatsoever with Bret and it was revealed at the reunion show that the two never saw one another after taping ended. Was it the same with Ambre?

The Associated Press interviewed Bret and asked him these things as well as a few other interesting tidbits about the show and himself. And yes, they talk about the hair!! Check out the interview along with my translations of what Bret is really saying. Heh.

AP: Is this just a show for entertainment, or did you really go into this thinking that you were going to find true love?

Michaels: I said this from day one: I went into this to have fun and maybe find someone to like. True love is not going to be found instantly on a TV show. That is only for scripted shows. Scripted reality, they give someone a show. It is the reason “Rock of Love” has been the No. 1 show. It has been kept as real as possible. Anyone thinking they are going into a TV show finding love, they might find someone that they like and eventually learn to like them more. I think finding true love, I never went in with that intent.

(Spicy’s translation: No. Just hoping for a little publicity, a couple BJs and maybe a good lay.)

AP: Did you find true love this time?

Michaels: I found someone who is really nice and cool and gets rock ‘n’ roll. We can see where it goes from here.

(Spicy’s translation: No true love, but I am gittin’ some..)

AP: Do you feel that doing a reality show hurts your credibility as a rocker?

Michaels: I am a rock star/musician who has had, with a lot hard work, a continuous and long career with or without reality TV. When I went in and they came after me when I was going to do “Rock of Love,” they gave me this novelty concept. They were trying to go back to ‘86. I lived ‘86. I loved ‘86, but I live in 2006/2007. I love my spandex and cowboy boots from ‘87. I thought it was fantastic. (But) I didn’t want my show to be a novelty. I have generations of fans. I think the show has been a plus for this reason: it has exposed my solo act. It has exposed that this is really me.

(Spicy’s translation: Nope, because I haven’t been a recognized as a credible rocker in twenty years.)

AP: What are the most important lessons you learned from being in a house with a bunch of women?

Michaels: One good lesson that I have learned is patience. Even if you are not listening, act like you are listening. Even if you are in the background watching ESPN, listen or pretend to be listening. If you are going to use the same nice charm and jokes, try not to take three women on a date at the same time so that each of them does not know you’re using it.

(Spicy’s translation: Lie your ass off.)

AP: Isn’t it every man’s dream to date three women at once?

Michaels: The date is the dream because it looks good for your image. However, saying lines while the other ones can hear it and then turning to another and saying the same line is not a smart move.

(Spicy’s translation: Yes, but not on this show.)

AP: Did you get overwhelmed dating three women at once?

Michaels: No, I was thinking it was actually awesome. It is a lot like the tour bus. It is like backstage. I had years to prepare me for the show.

(Spicy’s translation: I want everyone to know I still have a tour bus and groupies backstage!!)

AP: On the first season, you picked Jess. The relationship did not work out. What went wrong?

Michaels: No one explains to you in the world of reality TV that when you are done, you spend five or six months a part. This is told to you at the end of the show. You get done — there are months where you can’t be traveling and doing stuff (together) because they don’t want anyone to take a picture of you. If I get out at LAX, they have the TMZ people there. If someone gets a picture of you on vacation together with a cell phone, it’s over.

(Spicy’s translation: Helloooo TMZ, are you reading this? You can catch me at LAX!)

AP: Did you have a conversation with Jess about breaking up?

Michaels: When she came back from the show, she was cold as ice and angry. I put her on the spot. I said, “Listen, if it is for show, why would I be inviting you to dinner?” At the reunion, they never showed this, but I said, “How long have you been with your boyfriend?” Her boyfriend and her sell shirts in Chicago. Maybe you should ask her who is for show. I thought she was a pretty girl and intelligent and funny. All the other girls told me she has a boyfriend who sells shirts in Chicago and that was the shirt she was wearing the whole show.

(Spicy’s translation: I’m good at twisting things.)

AP: How difficult is it to find out the truth about these women?

Michaels: Therein is the challenge — getting to the bottom of what the truth is. You know if anyone goes on a date it is the face of a stranger. The true colors (eventually) come out. I am what I am. I tell them, “I play flag football with my friends on the weekends. I like to race motorbikes. I have muscle cars.” I am not saying change is bad. You can look and see what I have been doing for the last 20 years.

(Spicy’s translation: Me, me, me….!!)

AP: Will there be a “Rock of Love 3″?

Michaels: I don’t know … We are looking to do a show called “Bret Michaels Big Rock Road Show” which is just rockers gone wild on the road. I never say never. Right now I am not mentally there. I am having fun doing it and I am thankful to the fans that made the show number one. The girls made the show great.

(Spicy’s translation: As soon as possible.)

AP: What are you hiding under that bandanna?

Michaels: My hair is combined of my hair and the finest extensions Europe has to offer. I do the show without it on all the time and they wont film me. They are like, “Put your bandanna back on. It is your image.” It is my signature thing.

(Spicy’s translation: Liver spots.)
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[hpdrifter]

Ok, I am revealing my closet obsession with Rock of Love here, don't hate.

So, throughout the season and indeed in the season finale did Bret not say he was looking for his rock of love, not lust or like, love? And the very next day he gives an interview saying exactly the opposite?

I am disillusioned.

[cookiepuss]

Ok, I am revealing my closet obsession with Rock of Love here, don't hate.

So, throughout the season and indeed in the season finale did Bret not say he was looking for his rock of love, not lust or like, love? And the very next day he gives an interview saying exactly the opposite?

I am disillusioned.

oh yeah, "real as possible" translates to "a complete lie" in tvland.

1. I never figured out why Ambre (why does she spell it like that?:rolleyes:) wanted Brett's herpes. She seems like she could do better...(I'm guessing it cause she's a tv host and wanted to get her face into a new market. yeah think?)

2. Why the fuck isn't he with Heather from the first season? oh wait he probably is still sleeping with her. anyway, I'm completely stoked to see Heather beat Daisy's ass on the reunion show! Heather vs. Daisy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa-rLbCjjVI)(y):cool:

[cookiepuss]

Chris Angel Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Criss Angel moved on from ex-girlfriend Britney Spears. The magician recently began dating Miss Nevada, Veronica Grabowski, and has taken an interest in her pageant career. After Veronica lost the Miss USA crown over the weekend, Criss reportedly lost his shit, and attacked anyone who he could find.

Shortly after Angel’s honey didn’t make the finals of the Miss USA pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort, Angel, who flipped the NBC cameras the bird, wigged out when he saw Las Vegas Review Journal columnist Norm Clarke. Angel was ticked off that Clarke ran an interview with preliminary judge Sandy Mecca, in which Mecca claimed Angel exhorted her to give Grabowski “high marks.” Mecca said the comments made her uncomfortable and disturbed pageant owner Donald Trump. When Angel ran into Clarke after the show, he screamed, “You’re a [bleeping] idiot!” Angel then screeched at Clarke, who wears a patch over his right eye, “Don’t ever write another word about me or you’ll need an eye patch over your other eye.” “Good one,” Clarke shot back “Never heard that one before.” Angel’s rep told Clarke, “It was an emotional night for everyone.”

ok wait, when did spear and angel hook-up? was that for like a millisecond or what?????

anyway the guy is nuts. and hairy. he's got a full beard now and he kinda looks like a wolf man biker.:eek:

[abcdefz]

My gut says old Rob didn't do anything. But who knows, my gut's been wrong before.



"....My gut's got shit for brains."

[Rock]

remember when rob lowe got busted for having sex with a 14 (?) year old on video? I do. Thats all i have to add.

[abcdefz]

There were two girls. I think one was underage, but 14 sounds too young.

But, yeah -- then Bad Influence came out. Rob Lowe, James Spader and videotape.

[MC Moot]

remember when rob lowe got busted for having sex with a 14 (?) year old on video? I do. Thats all i have to add.

I remember that too,Rob,but in the long run your career bounced right back...(y)

[cookiepuss]

Rappin' with the Cos


Bill Cosby's hip new album is decent
LOS ANGELES Bill Cosby's path has taken him from pudding pops to hip hop.

The 70-year-old has recorded a hip-hop album set for release next month. "Cosby Narratives Vol. 1: State of Emergency" blends the comedian's concepts and stories with a hip-hop, pop and jazz soundtrack.

"I do not rap on any of these things," Cosby told The Associated Press on Monday. "I wouldn't know how to fix my mouth to say some of the words."

Cosby said the hip-hop music he hears is profane and degrading. His album is "the opposite of what I think is the profanity for no particular reason, the misogyny for no particular reason," he said. "It really looks at the frustration and the anger that a young man may have."

The album, assembled by Cosby's longtime musical collaborator Bill "Spaceman" Patterson, contains rhymes provided by guest rappers. The subject matter? "The value of an education. The value of respecting one's self and . . . giving [listeners] a chance to raise their self-esteem and confidence," Cosby said.

Patterson said he was surprised when Cosby first inquired about making a rap record -- until the comedian revealed he wouldn't be the one doing the rapping.

"People started speculating, is he going to rap about Jell-O Pudding Pops or what?" Patterson said. "But he's always been involved in music and he was there for the first generation of spoken word. . . . He has always understood rap's potential, but he was appalled by the foul language and the misogyny -- the way people used a medium that could be used to elevate people, to open their eyes and provoke thought."

Cosby made the album as a companion to his 2007 best-selling book, "Come on, People: On the Path From Victims to Victors."

So I guess he won't be collaborating with Snoop Dogg?

word to your family values, yo.

[cookiepuss]

American TV actor and former Scientologist says Scientology is a load of crap!


thanks guy who played the state trooper in Thelma and Louise, we know.

American TV actor and former Scientologist Jason Beghe has labelled the controversial religion “destructive” and a “rip-off” in a video interview posted on YouTube, writes Veronica Schmidt.

The 48-year-old is the first celebrity to speak out against the religion, telling how his 12 years with the church have damaged him.

“My experience personally, and what I’ve observed for myself, is that Scientology is destructive and a rip-off,” said Beghe, who has acted on Cane, CSI and Veronica Mars.

"It’s very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological and mental, emotional health and evolution. I think it stunts your evolution.”

The actor, who estimates he gave the church $1 million (£500,000) over 12 years, has also given an interview to New York publication The Village Voice, explaining the church’s relationship with Hollywood heavyweights.

Beghe claims Scientology’s fascination with celebrities is not just a PR exercise but that the late founder L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer, had made it clear he wanted celebrities recruited to the church.

If a member could recruit a celebrity, Beghe said, they were rewarded by having the contents of their “ethics file” – the record of misdeeds admitted during “auditing” or spiritual counselling – cleared.

The church, which has dedicated Scientology Celebrity Centres, counts Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Kirstie Alley among its members.

Beghe has also revealed how he became frustrated with the religion after requirements for training continually shifted and an increasing amount of money was required to continue in the church.

The interview is the latest in a series of blows for the American-based church. In January, an embarrassing video clip of Cruise discussing Scientology was leaked onto YouTube.

The clip was followed by a further video in March of Cruise celebrating his birthday with members of the church.

The church insists it brings its members “spiritual enlightenment” and it has helped the world progress towards “the eradication of its ills”, including drugs, crime, violence and intolerance.

The three-minute-long video, posted by the prolific Scientology critic Mark Bunker for XenuTV on Monday, is to be followed by a longer interview this weekend.

Beghe insists he does not have an axe to grind and has spoken out to help others who have become involved in a religion he now believes to be at best unhelpful and at worst damaging.

“I don’t have an agenda. Right now I’m trying to help,” he said.

[MC Moot]

"You don't get rich writing science fiction...If you want to get rich, you start a religion..." L Ron Hubbard

[cookiepuss]

Akon Lied To Get Street Cred

:rolleyes:
Akon's Con Job
The platinum-selling R&B artist has fabricated a past as ringleader of a "notorious" car theft ring who spent 4 1/2 years in jail.

APRIL 16--In the hip-hop world, a performer's street cred can often be gauged by the number of entries on their rap sheet, the time they have spent behind bars, or the gritty details of their illicit escapades.

By any of those metrics, the chart-topping R&B singer Akon appears to have compiled an exemplary outlaw resume, one brimming with scrapes from a hard knock life.

As recounted in scores of interviews since his first album, the platinum-selling "Trouble," debuted in 2004, Akon was incarcerated for a total of four-and-a-half years, including a long stretch for his role as the "ringleader of a notorious car theft operation." Akon's gang specialized in boosting Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Mercedeses, he owned four chop shops catering to "celebrities and drug dealers," and he frequently escaped from cops in high-speed pursuits. His criminal empire collapsed, though, after underlings--who "felt like they deserved more than they were getting"--cut deals and ratted him out to law enforcement. As a result of that betrayal, Akon spent the next three years in a Georgia prison. While inside, the 150-pound inmate "fought almost every day for two years," in the process becoming a "champion" who prevailed over both big and small inmates because, "I knew where to hit you to knock you out, so I didn't fear you."

When not brutally schooling fellow convicts, Akon was writing songs, including "Locked Up," his autobiographical account of prison desolation, from dwindling commissary accounts to friends and family that no longer visited or accepted collect calls. The song, he recalled, "was like an anthem in there" and corrections officers would often ask him to sing its chorus ("I'm locked up/They won't let me out"). After his release in 2002, Akon recorded "Locked Up," adding to the song what would become his audio trademark: the clanging sound of a cell door closing. The single later became a hit, but did little to erase the memories of his time on lockdown, which "felt like 300 years, not three."

Compared to most of hip-hop's leading figures past and present--50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Diddy, Tupac Shakur, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G.--Akon, 35, seems to have logged more time behind bars and, consequently, gained a better understanding of the average convict's plight (both in and out of custody) than any of his musical peers. The New York Times has referred to him as the "prison-obsessed R&B singer" who "wants it known that crooners can evoke prison life just as effectively as rappers." In fact, the singer not only named his company Konvict Music, but he settled on "Konvicted" for the title of his second album, which sold nearly three million copies last year.

As it turns out, however, "Kontrived" might have been a more accurate choice.

Akon's ad nauseum claims about his criminal career and resulting prison time have been, to an overwhelming extent, exaggerated, embellished, or wholly fabricated, an investigation by The Smoking Gun has revealed. Police, court, and corrections records reveal that the entertainer has created a fictionalized backstory that serves as the narrative anchor for his recorded tales of isolation, violence, woe, and regret. Akon has overdubbed his biography with the kind of grit and menace that he apparently believes music consumers desire from their hip-hop stars.

While the performer's rap sheet does include a half-dozen arrests, Akon has only been convicted of one felony, for gun possession. That 1998 New Jersey case ended with a guilty plea, for which the singer was sentenced to three years probation. Another 1998 bust, this one in suburban Atlanta, has been seized upon by Akon and transformed into the big case that purportedly sent him to prison (thanks to his snitching cohorts) for three fight-filled years. In reality, Akon was arrested for possession of a single stolen BMW and held in the DeKalb County jail for several months before prosecutors dropped all charges against him.

So there was no conviction. There was no prison term between 1999 and 2002. And he was never "facing 75 years," as the singer claimed in one videotaped interview.

Akon's invented tales appear to be part of a cynical marketing plan, but one that has met with remarkable success. Few press interviews conclude without Akon being asked about his criminal exploits and his prison days. He obliges with canned and well-rehearsed claims, false as they may be, and compares his supposed nationwide operation to those depicted in the movies "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "New Jersey Drive." And in interview after interview over the years, he always makes sure to point out the "notorious" nature of his theft ring (as if the adjective's inclusion makes him sound even more felonious). Akon repeats the phrase "notorious car theft operation" so frequently it seems like he is reading it from a sheet of talking points.

[A compilation of video clips in which Akon touts his purported criminal past may be viewed above.]

Akon's manager, Robert Carnes, declined to discuss any aspect of the criminal history of the R&B singer, who is currently touring in Africa. Carnes directed a reporter to Sharonda Smalls, Akon's publicist at Universal Motown Records. After being apprised of the nature of TSG's story, Smalls said she would seek replies to our questions, but had not called back at press time. Darrick "Devyne" Stephens, Akon's longtime collaborator and business partner, did not return several messages left at his Atlanta office.

Akon's deceptions have gone unchallenged and unexamined by the music press, which has been happy to promote him as one of the beleaguered recording industry's few bright lights. He was named "Top Artist of 2007" by Billboard and dubbed "The Last Hit-Maker" in an April 2007 Vibe cover story. His two albums combined have sold about 10 million copies worldwide, while ring tone sales have exceeded 6.5 million downloads. He has also collaborated on songs with a wide array of musical superstars, including Gwen Stefani, Eminem, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston.

With the single exception of a Washington Post reporter who wrote last March that some of the "bullet points in Akon's biography" sounded "like the stuff of creation myth," entertainment journalists have played right into the manipulation. In a February 2007 story in Creative Loafing, Atlanta's weekly newspaper, readers were assured that "Akon doesn't need to embellish, since he's already lived an unusual and turbulent life." And an August 2007 Interview magazine story was headlined, "Akon: In a hip-hop world where everyone's always straining for street cred, here's one guy who has it."

For his part, the performer appears so confident that nobody will challenge his fables that he has recently embellished them even further. In an interview for a February 2008 episode of VH1's "Rags to Riches," the R&B performer claimed that he actually was a carjacker who "used to literally snatch cars from people. And they would be traumatized for months." He claimed to be ashamed of this behavior (which he never previously mentioned) and remarked that he could not believe he once "had the heart to do that stuff." A VH1 graphic duly noted that this wanton activity "landed him three years in prison for carjacking."

This m.o., of course, might seem familiar to readers of these pages. An artist inflates his criminal history to create an image of himself as a public menace who tangles with law enforcement and pays for his transgressions with a stiff prison sentence. He cleaves to these bogus biographical details in public appearances and media interviews and carefully weaves them into the art he peddles to the public. Because without the embellishments and fabrications, without the havoc and heartache, what separates him from every other wannabe clawing for commercial success? Why chance having your work judged solely on its merits when a little artistic license can make you so much more distinctive and marketable?

Akon, as it turns out, is James Frey with catchy hooks and an American Music Award.

* * *

TSG began examining Akon's criminal record after he was arraigned last December on criminal charges stemming from an incident during a June 2007 concert at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill, N.Y.. During that show, Akon, whose given name is Aliaune Thiam, lifted a 15-year-old boy over his head and tossed the child into the crowd. As seen on a popular YouTube video, Akon dispatched a security guard to bring the young fan, Anthony Smith, on stage after a pretzel had been thrown at him from the audience (fellow concertgoers apparently fingered the teenager as the culprit). "He made a big mistake today, boy," Akon announced before flinging Smith several rows into the crowd.

With the incident on tape, the singer was charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. Following a December 3 court appearance, Akon was released without bail after a computer check turned up no outstanding warrants or, for that matter, any prior criminal history. This seemed peculiar considering the singer's frequent mentions of his prison time and assorted arrests.

A second check was performed, with investigators submitting Akon's fingerprints to the FBI for a more thorough search for warrants and priors. This time, bureau records turned up six arrests for Akon, who previously used several aliases and birthdates when being processed by law enforcement agencies in New Jersey and Georgia. In light of the discovery of the previous arrest history, prosecutors asked a town judge to set Akon's bail at a nominal $5000, a request the jurist denied.

Though he has claimed to have been frequently arrested while growing up in a middle class household in New Jersey, Akon's rap sheet (and court records) reflect no such cases. He told Vibe last year that he sold marijuana and test questions from his high school locker and that a friend named Tito got him his first gun, a .22. Which, Akon claimed, he rented out for $100 a day. As he explained to VH1 in 2005, he was a big deal back then: "I got accepted by the gangster crowd because they saw that I wasn't afraid of nobody and I would fight anybody...Before I knew it, I became the most popular kid in Jersey City as a good bad guy." Though he lived in the suburbs, Akon told Vibe he "hung out in the ghetto. The suburbs were just boring. We couldn't make any noise."

Born in Missouri, Akon reportedly spent some of his youth is Senegal, where his father, Mor Thiam, was a well-known percussionist. Akon apparently moved with his family to Georgia in the mid-90s, though he would often return to New Jersey, where he hung out with members and associates of the Fugees. At the time, the singer was signed to Elektra Records and was, according to copyright records, writing songs with Fugee Wyclef Jean and Stephens, a choreographer and "image consultant" who would later play a central role in Akon's platinum success.

It was after his deal with Elektra cratered that Akon ran into his first serious criminal trouble. In September 1998, he was named in a felony indictment charging him and codefendant Terrence Taylor with handgun possession and receiving stolen property (specifically, a 1998 BMW).

Burlington County Superior Court records indicate that Akon--who was originally charged under the name Abou Thiam--was released from the county lockup in Mount Holly after posting $3500 bond.

While free on the New Jersey case, he was arrested in mid-November 1998 in Stone Mountain, Georgia. According to a police report, a DeKalb County auto crime investigator happened to be on a stakeout when Akon had the misfortune to drive past him. It probably didn't help that, as the police report notes, Detective R.L. Brewer "observed a white BMW vehicle being driven by a B/M subject." During a prior court case, Akon listed a home address in Stone Mountain that was slightly more than a mile away from where Brewer spotted him.

In a TSG interview, Brewer recalled that he was positioned outside a shopping center and that his stakeout had nothing to do with Akon; the singer was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The performer happened to be driving a car whose license plates triggered a "stolen vehicle response" when the auto's tags were typed into a police computer. Brewer followed Akon until two uniformed backup officers arrived and pulled over the BMW 740 near Highway 78, according to a police report. He was taken into custody "without incident." A passenger, Willie Ashley, was detained on unrelated traffic charges.

[Years later, as he recounted his purported "ringleader" arrest in an interview for a DVD, Akon said that he was "going up 78 headed toward DeKalb" when he was surrounded by police cars. With their weapons drawn, officers began simultaneously barking at him to get out of his car. One cop, the singer recalled, remarked that, "You was caught in a car once before and they said it was a hot pursuit or something. But your name popped up in the computer." So, the singer added, "He locked me up." The arrest left the imaginary kingpin perplexed and wondering if he had been framed by someone who "planted something," since he knew how "clean" his work was.]

[In a November 2006 Rolling Stone interview, Akon took a similar fact-free flight of fancy, claiming that he was "driving a BMW 325, on my way to the chop shop" when he was apprehended. "That's the slowest car in the whole fleet...I'd been in high-speed pursuits before and always got away, but this time I didn't because the car was too slow. I didn't even want that car, it was a favor to someone else. And I wound up getting locked up for three years."]

While searching the BMW, Brewer discovered title and registration documents purporting to show that Akon was the rightful owner of the $70,000 vehicle. But the detective believed the paperwork was fraudulent and called in FBI Agent Peter McFarlane for a consultation. McFarlane, who has worked auto crime cases in Atlanta since 1972, examined the documents and concluded that the title papers were bogus.

Brewer obtained warrants charging Akon with possession of stolen property, forgery, and possession of an auto with an altered vehicle identification number. The singer was booked into the DeKalb County Jail, where bond was set at $20,000 (an amount Akon could not raise).

Nearly a decade after the arrest, McFarlane, who retired from the FBI in late-2002 after 31 years, could still recall some details of the case, due to one memorable fact regarding the BMW's theft in August 1998.

Three months before Akon was arrested driving the car, the vehicle had been stolen from in front of the Columbus, Georgia office of Robert Schiffman, a wealthy financier. Schiffman also was a collector of valuable guitars, one of which happened to be in the trunk of the sedan when it was taken. The car thieves, though, were unaware that the instrument, a 1931 Herman Hauser that once belonged to the classical guitar virtuoso Andres Segovia, was worth more than the BMW itself. The guitar, then valued at $100,000, was one of only two instruments that Hauser built for Segovia (the other guitar, made in 1937, is part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection).

Along with everything else in the car that could trace back to the BMW's owner, the guitar was discarded by the thieves. The instrument, still in its $1200 case, was eventually discovered in a roadside bush by a BellSouth lineman. Five years later, the Hauser guitar finally found its way back to Schiffman, who is now seeking to sell the guitar for upwards of $250,000.

McFarlane, 62, who has worked auto crime cases for Georgia's Department of Revenue since his FBI retirement, laughed out loud when told of Akon's claims about running a "notorious" auto theft ring, owning chop shops, and being brought down by turncoat underlings. "Ah, this is bullshit. This guy is so phony. He's an arrogant SOB," said McFarlane. Asked about Akon, Brewer said, "I don't think he had any role besides [wanting] to drive a high-dollar vehicle. And I say this because we didn't link him to any other cars."

Nobody was arrested for the actual theft of the BMW, and it is unclear how Akon obtained the auto. Though both McFarlane and Brewer recalled how a member of Jagged Edge, an Atlanta-based R&B group, opted to purchase stolen cars at a deep discount.

Either way, the felony case against Akon was dropped in its entirety in late-April 1999. He spent five months in jail before prosecutors decided not to make a grand jury presentment. The singer was immediately sprung from the DeKalb jail, departing at 1:27 on a Wednesday morning, according to county records. Somehow, in the intervening years, those few months in custody morphed into three years in prison, the majority of Akon's purported total of four-and-a-half years behind bars.

In June 1999, Akon pleaded guilty in New Jersey to a weapons possession count. In return, Burlington County prosecutors agreed to drop a second felony charge stemming from the singer's possession of an allegedly hot car. He was later fined $1000 and sentenced to three months probation, the supervision of which was immediately transferred to Georgia, where Akon resided. In opting for a probationary--and not custodial--sentence, Judge Donald P. Gaydos noted that Akon had "no history of prior delinquency or criminal activity or has led a law-abiding life for a substantial period of time before the commission of the present offense."

Gaydos also concluded that Akon would likely "respond affirmatively to probationary treatment." This was an accurate prediction on the judge's part, as Georgia officials requested, in late-2001, that the performer's supervision be terminated early since he had been a model probationer. That request was granted by a New Jersey judge on September 20, 2001.

Of course, this was during the exact period of time (1999-2002) that Akon claims he was imprisoned in Georgia for his supposed "Gone in 60 Seconds" handiwork. It was during that fabricated prison stretch, of course, that he supposedly wrote much of "Trouble," his first album. In that CD's liner notes, the acknowledgements end with this purposely vague salute: "Last but not least, thanks to the jailhouse in which I was confined--which made me a better, stronger and wiser man."

The album's autobiographical centerpiece, "Locked Up," is Akon's lament about being warehoused and forgotten in prison, where "They won't let me out/They won't let me out." He never actually served those three years, so these observations lose a bit of their authoritativeness. Additionally, a check of United States Copyright Office records reveals that when Akon's publishing company registered the song they listed its "Date of Creation" as 2003. So "Locked Up" was not even created during the three-year period in which Akon was not even in prison.

And as if there needs to be further evidence to rebut the singer's claims about being imprisoned from 1999-2002, Akon's own son Tyler could serve as Exhibit A.

According to a paternity action filed late last year in Fulton County, Georgia, the boy was born on July 26, 2001, which roughly puts his date of conception in late-October 2000 (again squarely in the middle of a prison term that Akon never served). As part of the amicable paternity action, the singer was ordered to pay the boy's mother, a former Alpha Delta Pi sorority girl at Eastern Kentucky University, $2795 in monthly child support.

Curiously, Superior Court filings in the paternity case--in which both sides appear to have been represented by the same attorney--list Akon's monthly gross income as a relatively paltry $15,900, or $190,800 annually (child support payments are based, in part, on this figure).

In reality, Akon likely makes 20 or 30 times that amount monthly via record sales and touring income. His Atlanta-area real estate portfolio alone is worth about $5 million. In January, he paid $1.65 million for an 8697-square-foot McMansion on 4.96 acres adjacent to the Atlanta National Golf Club. In February 2007, Akon and "Devyne" Stephens paid $2.65 million for a 13.29 acre Fulton County estate. Photos of the two sprawling properties can be seen below.

Though it had been less than a year since the property was purchased (and despite the housing market being in distress, especially in the Atlanta area), Akon assured VH1 during a recent tour of the estate that his home was "already appraised for $25 million." Fittingly, the R&B star has dubbed his home "Dream Land."

He also told VH1 of his desire to house lions and tigers on the grounds and how he "flew in an African crocodile" that will live in a glass-enclosed chamber that can be peered into through a transparent panel on the home's ground floor. Oh, and near the indoor waterfall he is going to install a retractable stripper pole.

Which will come as no surprise to anyone who has listened to his albums. While his lilting, nasal voice and hooks are distinctive and contagious, Akon's lyrics are pedestrian and filled with standard-issue hip-hop boasts and references to strippers, bitches, girls "dropping it to the floor," and sex acts performed atop furniture. Women are said to be "looking bootylicious and jingling," and a worked-up Akon notes that he might even ask a gal if he could "bust all over your anatomy."

In "Smack That," Akon's Top Ten collaboration with Eminem, the R&B star sings of a possible romantic encounter:

Maybe go to my place and just kick it like Tae Bo
And possibly bend ya over/Look back and watch me smack that
All on the floor/Smack that
Give me some more/Smack that
Til you get sore/Smack that

Leonard Cohen he is not.

* * *

Akon is not the first performer to fudge some biographical details. But few artists have gone so far out of their way to aggressively promote these fabrications and embellishments (or you could just call them lies).

In hip-hop circles, being considered "real" is a requirement for success. Akon, on the other hand, couldn't be more fake. He's the music industry's phantom menace, a guy who, four years ago, cast himself as a crime kingpin and has happily played that fictitious role ever since. Really, why tinker with success? In fact, if the title is any indication, the singer's hotly anticipated third album, "Acquitted," promises more of the same when it is released later this year. According to an MTV report, Akon has even already recorded his fourth album, which he's calling "Double Jeopardy. What's next? "No True Bill?" "Pretrial Detention?"

During a Vibe interview last year, Akon eagerly repeated his phony stories of criminal entanglements, but balked when reporter Laura Checkoway asked about his age, which he has long sought to cloak. By all indications, he was born April 16, 1973, so birthday wishes are in order (though his first Copyright Office registration carried a 1972 year of birth). The singer explained to Checkoway that, "The only thing I hide is my age," adding, "Before I lie to you, I'd rather say nothing."

It was a rare moment of self-restraint from the serial fabulist, who offered one other bit of self-examination: "I always had a way of getting over on people, whether manipulating or conning them."

[MC Moot]

Jeez that ain't right...

Lindsay Lohan's family ban...Lindsay Lohan has yet to visit her dying grandfather in hospital because her mother Dina has prevented her, according to her father Michael.
(BANG) -

Lindsay Lohan has yet to visit her dying grandfather in hospital, according to her father Michael.

The 'Mean Girls' actress was planning to visit the New York hospital where Richard Lohan, 73, is being treated for terminal colon cancer, but Michael claims the 21-year-old beauty is being prevented from making the trip by her mother Dina.

He said: "Dina is still making it hard as hell for me to see my children. Even though my father is dying, my parents still haven't seen my children. Dina told me, 'It's up to the kids if they want to see their grandparents.' But she's made no effort to put them in touch or make this happen. That is the bottom line."

Michael revealed Lindsay, her sister Ali and brother Cody have also not seen their grandmother Marilyn, Richard's wife, who was involved in a car crash over the Easter holidays.

He said: "My mother Marilyn was flown by helicopter to the hospital on Easter Sunday after hitting a telephone pole and tree. Also, my father went into heart failure again yesterday - and yet not one of the kids has seen him."

Michael, a born-again Christian, also revealed he is planning to sue Dina over her upcoming reality show 'Living Lohan', set to premiere on US TV network E! this summer.

He added to the New York Daily News newspaper: "It's the exact same show I pitched. She even used my title."

A representative for Lindsay is yet to comment.

[cookiepuss]

^ dude, I don't beleive a word Michael Lohan has to say.

1. he's in a wicked divorce with Dina and they hate eachother and will slander the shit out each other in the press
2. he's a drug addict and a jail bird
3. He releases some sort of statement to the press opening his big mouth about lindsay or her sister just about every week.
4. for a while Lindsay wanted nothing to do with her father.


I get the distinct feeling he's not a credible source of info...he's just an attention whore who wants to cash in on his daughters fame. shame, shame.

[MC Moot]

^ dude, I don't beleive a word Michael Lohan has to say.

1. he's in a wicked divorce with Dina and they hate eachother and will slander the shit out each other in the press
2. he's a drug addict and a jail bird
3. He releases some sort of statement to the press opening his big mouth about lindsay or her sister just about every week.
4. for a while Lindsay wanted nothing to do with her father.


I get the distinct feeling he's not a credible source of info...he's just an attention whore who wants to cash in on his daughters fame. shame, shame.

You're the authority...I'll roll with you...just hope she's see's grandpappy...

[MC Moot]

From one flake to another...:rolleyes:

Madonna's Cruise support

Madonna believes Tom Cruise gets a "raw deal" for believing in bizarre sci-fi cult Scientology.

Madonna believes Tom Cruise gets a "raw deal" for believing in Scientology.

The pop superstar - who is a follower of controversial religion Kabbalah, a mystical off-shoot of Judaism - insists the actor should be allowed to practice his faith without being ridiculed.

She told New York magazine: "I don't care if people worship turtles or frogs! All I care about is whether they are good people - and Tom is a good person. He gets a raw deal, just like the orphans in Malawi get a raw deal. I think a lot of marginalised people get a raw deal."

Madonna - who adopted Malawian David Banda in 2006 amid claims she had received special treatment from authorities because of her fame - also insists people are too wary of individuals who perform good deeds.

The 49-year-old singer, who was raised a Catholic, said: "I think people are just strangely suspicious of those who want to do something good. Yes, there are children in the US and UK who need to be given a home, but no ones going to die in an orphanage in America."

Scientology founder American sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that extra terrestrial beings were sent to planet Earth by intergalactic ruler Xenu, who then blew up the aliens with hydrogen bombs in a volcano.

[cookiepuss]

A Whole New Meaning to the Jimi Hendrix Experience....

Now even dead celebrities can cash in on the amature sex tape phenomenon!:rolleyes:

Alleged Jimi Hendrix sex tape to be released

16 minutes ago

Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.

The footage features Hendrix engaging in various sexual acts with two women, according to a statement released by Vivid. The company said they consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage.

Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970. Seattle-based representatives for Hendrix's estate did not want to comment about the tape.

Vivid Entertainment was also responsible for the release of celebrity sex tapes starring Kim Kardahsian and Pamela Anderson.

[paul jones]

A Whole New Meaning to the Jimi Hendrix Experience....

Now even dead celebrities can cash in on the amature sex tape phenomenon!:rolleyes:

Cynthia Plastercaster said he had a huge cock

[MC Moot]

Go Guy go!

Mrs. Ritchie No More:With Madonna conducting business as Ms. Ciccone, maybe it's time for a new Guy.

Is Madonna Dita Esther Ciccone Ritchie shortening her name? Despite a firm denial from Madonna's publicist that the singer and her husband Guy Ritchie were planning to separate, the evidence is mounting that there's trouble in Madge-idise. Madonna recently purchased the apartment above her place in New York City for a cool $7 million using her maiden name, Ciccone. That's an eyebrow-raising reversal from her days of writing letters to newspapers under the name Mrs. Ritchie.

The second strike came Thursday, when Guy skipped the TriBeCa Film Festival. Madonna was there to screen the documentary on her experiences with the orphans of Malawi, I Am Because We Are. An insider told Perez Hilton that Guy was staying in England "to create a stable home life" for their adopted son David. That's a tidy excuse, but it's unrealistic that one parent will be at home at all times. For example, next month's Cannes Film Festival finds Guy debuting his new film, RocknRolla, and Madonna attending a screening of I Am Because We Are.

Even if they want to split, and Madonna's rep says they really don't, divorce isn't really an option right now. Madonna told Ann Curry on Today that adopting David from Malawi has been "traumatic" and "invasive." A split before the adoption is approved would be too risky. Madonna will be attending a hearing in Malawi about finalizing the adoption on May 15, so any rumours of rough patches wouldn't heat up until after that.

Malawi probably doesn't care if Madonna and Guy stay together or not. If they were smart they'd be trying to pitch her on a two orphans for one deal. Anyone who doesn't think an orphan is better off eating bean curd off a silver spoon at Madonna's estate then starving in Malawi is either insane or heard about Madonna's no TV rule.

[cookiepuss]

Cusack Gets His Politics On With New Anti-War Political Satire

and he wants you to get pissed about it...

Cusack aims to offend with war satire film

By Michelle Nichols 42 minutes ago

John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire -- complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees -- that he hopes will offend.

Inspired by anger about the war and questions about the political power held by global corporations, "War, Inc" is set in Turaqistan, a fictional nation occupied by a private U.S. company called Tamerlane and run by a former American vice president.

Cusack helped write the screenplay and also stars with Sir Ben Kingsley, Marisa Tomei and Hilary Duff in the film, which premiered this week at New York's Tribeca Film Festival alongside several more serious documentaries on Iraq and other conflicts.

"I think the movie should be kind of offensive," Cusack told Reuters about the film, which will be released in New York and Los Angeles theaters on May 23. "I'm shocked at how much good reaction we're getting."

"Sometimes with a serious, somber movie, even though they're great and well intentioned, it just doesn't allow you to be outraged because you just get depressed," he said. "This allows you to actually feel like, 'Let's do something subversive."'

In the movie, Cusack plays a hit man hired by Tamerlane to assassinate a Middle Eastern oil minister who plans to lay an oil pipeline through Turaqistan, thwarting the company's plan for sole proprietorship of the country.

"(The movie) was just a reaction to the war and all the insanity behind using the 9/11 attacks to make an imperial land grab in the Middle East," he said. "We really wanted to channel our outrage a little bit into something creative."

'IT'S NOT RIGHT'

Cusack said he was also inspired by the late director Robert Altman, who made a satirical movie about U.S. medical personnel during the Korean War, based on the book "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors."

"He said when he made "MASH" he wanted to be as politically incorrect as the war was obscene," Cusack said. "I don't think we even went far enough."

Shot in Bulgaria, the low-budget movie has been marketed through Myspace.com. It was shown to a range of high-profile people such as artist Damien Hirst and comedian Sarah Silverman, whose comments have been posted online.

Singer Hilary Duff, 20, had a week to prepare for her role as a trashy central Asian pop singer and said that while many families have been devastated by what's happening in Iraq, she hopes that audiences will see the funny side of the film.

"We're trying to raise awareness with it. It is funny and it is bizarre and a little disturbing," she said. "But really at the end of the day it's looking at what (our country is) doing, and it's not right."

And with U.S. presidential elections looming, Cusack hopes his movie will spur "some kind of resistance of the spirit."

"There's hopefully an exuberance to the movie because I think being subversive should feel good," Cusack said. "It should be fun to throw a brick."

[MC Moot]

I DO love me some Cusack....(y)

http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1402

[cookiepuss]

Scar Jo engaged to Ryan Reynolds....

two hotties off the market....

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds engaged

23 minutes ago

Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend, Ryan Reynolds, are engaged.

The 23-year-old actress and the 31-year-old actor have not set a wedding date, Johansson's publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said Monday.

Johansson's recent credits include "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "The Nanny Diaries." Reynolds recently starred in "Definitely, Maybe." He was previously engaged to Alanis Morissette.

of course Ryan never actually pulled the trigger with Alanis so this might fizzle out too....

[hpdrifter]

Here's hoping!

I love me some Ryan Reynolds. My sister served him in a restaurant once and she called me and told me someone told her she was waiting on Van Wilder and who was that.

I was like, how fast can I get there and switch roles with you (we're twins).

[Yeti]

She just put out a very sad attempt at Tom Waits songs. She did an entire cd featuring his music.

[cookiepuss]

She just put out a very sad attempt at Tom Waits songs. She did an entire cd featuring his music.

oh yes. I've heard about this....but I can't bring myself to actually listen to it.:(

[Yeti]

There is a couple songs on this link. Listen and tell me what you think. I don't think it is very good but she can sing a little bit.


http://www.last.fm/music/Scarlett+Johansson

[hpdrifter]

a-z didn't completely trash it so there's probably something there.

I don't know, I'm too busy trying to study the Beatles and Mew.

[Dorothy Wood]

Her version of Summertime isn't that bad. but that's a really good song to begin with.

Otherwise, I think she sounds really flat when singing the other songs I've heard.

[cookiepuss]

L. Lohan adds "Fur Theif" to her list of crimes...

Lindsay Lohan reportedly took her crazy lady shtick one step forward by stealing a fur coat. An undergrad at Columbia told the NYP she believed Lindsay stole her $11,000 blond mink coat, a gift from her grandmother, at a coat check in an NYC nightclub last January.

Marsha Markova said she was shocked to see Lindsay wearing her coat in a February issue of OK! Magazine. The coat went missing from the 10ak nightclub in the Meatpacking District after a private party for Stavros Niarchos.

“I was actually talking on the phone to my grandmother about something else, and then I flipped through the magazine, saw the picture said, ‘I need to call you back,’ ” Markova told The Post yesterday.

“It was my coat. It was no doubt!”

The pretty co-ed said that in the ensuing days, she surfed the Internet and found several paparazzi photos of Lohan wearing the distinctive blond coat hours after the birthday party they had both attended.

Also, celebrity blogs posted pictures of the actress party-hopping that night, wearing a black coat before she arrived at 1Oak, Markova said.

Club owners vowed to get to the bottom of it, but several days passed with no call back, Markova said. That’s when her immigration lawyer, Merrill Cohen, called Lohan’s high-powered Hollywood attorney, Blair Berke, threatening litigation.

Hours later, Markova said she heard from 1Oak.

“They were very discreet, never mentioned a name or even the word ‘coat,’ ” Markova said. “They just said, ‘We’re going to bring you something.’ ”

The coat arrived at Markova’s Morningside Heights apartment two days later.

Reeking of cigarettes and booze with a slight tear in the lining, the fur coat was no worse for wear after a dry cleaning and quick patch-up.

Still, she wants answers, and Lohan to own up to swiping her coat.

“I don’t see how it could have been an accident,” Markova said.

A 1Oak rep confirmed that the club delivered Markova’s fur coat back to her in February.

“I am not the coat keeper. I’m not sure where the coat was,” said club spokeswoman Lisette Sand-Freedman.

Marsha said she would like Lindsay to ‘fess up to taking the coat, and pay $10,000 for damages. Lindsay’s rep has yet to comment, and really, I don’t expect her to do so any time soon.

whatever. she's such a little shit.

[Lyman Zerga]

the real owners of that fur were the killed animals BTW
grow your own fur next time, sure no one would steal that

[Knuckles]

the real owners of that fur were the killed animals BTW
grow your own fur next time, sure no one would steal that

I bet someone would wear a fire-crotch coat.(y)

[Lyman Zerga]

guilty. :o

[TurdBerglar]

meatpacking district


hahaha

[cookiepuss]

NON-Shocker of the day: Wino Arrested Again

Amy Winehouse arrested on suspicion of drugs possession

4 minutes ago

Amy Winehouse was arrested Wednesday in connection with a January video that allegedly shows her doing drugs at a party at her north London home.

London's Metropolitan Police said a 24-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of drugs possession. Winehouse's spokesman, Chris Goodman, confirmed his client was in police custody.

"Amy Winehouse voluntarily attended a London police station today by appointment. She was arrested in order to be interviewed and is cooperating fully with inquiries," Goodman said in a statement.

"The interview relates to a video handed to police earlier this year," he said.

Britain's The Sun tabloid in January published still images from a video that it claimed showed Winehouse inhaling fumes from a small pipe. The images were said to have been filmed during a party at her home.

Winehouse, who is famous for her hit "Rehab," has had a turbulent private life. Last month she was cautioned by police for assault after she slapped a man during a night out. That means no charges were filed, but the incident was placed on her record.

Shortly after The Sun published still photographs of the video, Winehouse entered a London rehabilitation center.

cool. I'm just wondering what took them so long to bring the heat....

[cookiepuss]

Please Don't Encourage Her....

they must not have very high standards for mothers in Long Island?:confused:


Dina Lohan gets mother of the year award from Long Island association

Dina Lohan has four children with her ex husband. Her eldest daughter Lindsay has been in rehab three times without success, has two drunk driving arrests, multiple car accidents, is facing several different lawsuits and is alleged to have stolen items from friends and acquaintances. Lindsay is all of 21 years old.

Dina Lohan’s other kids include singer Ali, 14, who says she wants to be just like Lindsay. Ali appears with her mom on an upcoming reality show on E! to air at the end of this month.

Dina has made a lot of excuses for her daughter Lindsay’s behavior, saying that a lot of it is due to the environment she’s in and that “she’s from an addictive personality genetically.”

Both Ali Lohan and Lindsay Lohan were signed with the Ford modeling agency at the age of three. Dina says in general “I was in the business, and I’m going to help them. You don’t like that? I’m living the American dream.” Maybe you can assume that applies to toddlers modeling as well.

As for how Dina was in “the business,” she claims to have been a Rockette and to have done work on Broadway, but unless she was on the stage crew none of those claims are true. She was found to have fabricated most all of her show business past.

So it’s amusing and probably a publicity ploy on the organization’s part that a Long Island mother’s association, “Mingling Moms” has declared Dina Lohan one of the top 20 mothers on Long Island. You think they would invest some money in their website before honoring Dina, but there’s no accounting for taste. You can find thousands of moms in any city on Long Island that are more qualified than Dina Lohan to win this award. It’s a stunt that doesn’t really put the “Mingling Moms” in a positive light.

Newsday points out that every celebrity mom, like Alec Balwin’s mom, Jerry Seinfeld’s mom, and Howard Stern’s mom, were honored but only Dina came in person to accept her award. The head of the group says that Lindsay’s DUIs are not Dina’s fault and that “she should be given a break.”

[Quotes from E! Online, unlinked details from Wikipedia. Photos from WENN.]


WTF? I suppose Lynn Spears and Kathy Hilton will be up for mother of the year next?:rolleyes:

[hpdrifter]

'CSI' star charged with felony drug possession

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/09/csi.arrest.ap/index.html

Wow, that's quite a cocktail of drugs you were on, buddy. Too bad, I always found him extremely attractive.

[cookiepuss]

Jack Black Doesn't Do Secrets

Jack Black breaks Brangelina twins news

18 minutes ago

Angelina Jolie is indeed expecting twins, and it was Jack Black who let the news slip with a "Brady Bunch" crack.

Long rumored to have two children by Brad Pitt on the way, Jolie confirmed the news during a side-by-side "Today" show interview with Black, her "Kung Fu Panda" co-star. The two are in Cannes, France, promoting the animated film.

The twins will be the 5th and 6th children for Jolie and Pitt. She didn't volunteer the information until Black dropped the hint, joking that the couple will "have as many as (the) 'Brady Bunch' when you have these."

"It's confirmed?" followed "Today" interviewer Natalie Morales.

"Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already," Jolie said. "Well, Jack's just confirmed it actually."

"Is that true?", Black said jokingly.

"Yeah, you did," Jolie replied.

"Sorry," Black said.

Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on "Access Hollywood," with the full interview airing Thursday on NBC's "Today."

[Yetra Flam]

she's so kid greedy

[Yeti]

The Duggars are having child #18.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24537885/?GT1=43001

[cookiepuss]

Nataile Portman is sorry she showed you her naughty bits.....

Natalie Portman regrets stripping for Wes Anderson's film Hotel Chevalier. Prior to the film, she didn't have any problem with nudity, until after finding out her photo was on porn sites.

She was also disappointed that the press paid more attention to the scene rather than the movie itself. Natalie explained:

"I'm not prudish about nudity. I think it's beautiful in films, and sex is such a big part of life. But my picture ended up on porn sites, and that's the dilemma."


Those porn sites who've ruined her outlook on doing more nude scenes have just upset a lot of people who look forward to seeing more of her in the future. Aw!

[abcdefz]

From A.V. Club (http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/r_kellys_defense_hinges_on_the):


R. Kelly's Defense Hinges On The Believablity
Of A Wayans Brothers Movie

posted by: Amelie Gillette
May 22, 2008 - 10:53am

Yesterday was the second day of testimony at the trial of R. Kelly for 14 counts of child pornography in Chicago, and the strategy
of his defense team seems to be taking shape. Basically, their defense falls into three categories:

1. The girl on the tape was a "paid prostitute." (Why it's ok to hire an underage prostitute is, apparently, not part of their defense.)

2. That's not R. Kelly on the tape, because R. Kelly has a mole on his back. (So does Sylvester. What does it mean?) and

3. That's not R. Kelly on the tape, it's special effects. Have you seen what they can do with the special effects these days? It's crazy!
Just look at the Wayans Brothers movie, Little Man.

No, really. That's essentially what his lawyer said in court yesterday when cross-examining a witness who testified that she knew the
underage girl on the tape, and that the man on the tape was definitely R. Kelly.

From MTV News (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1587852/20080521/kelly_r.jhtml):

[The witness] Jamison also got a few laughs out of the court, such as when [Kelly's lawyer] Adam asked her about the possibility of
the tape having been altered with special effects. Had she seen the Wayans brothers movie "Little Man"? "It looked real, didn't it?"
Adam asked.

"Not really," Jamison replied with some sarcasm.

Little Man is the best example of believable special effects you can come up with?

[cookiepuss]

Nick Hogan is Totes Bummed about being in Jail

Life continues to suck for Hulk Hogan’s 17 year old son, Nick Hogan. A Florida radio station obtained transcripts of calls made between Nick, aka Nick Bollea, and his mother Linda, in which Nick bemoans life behind bars at a FL jail.

Nick, currently serving eight months in jail for causing a car accident that left John Graziano in a permanent vegetative state, complained that his jail cell is, like, so small. Bummer.

Nick Bollea: “Had I known this, I would have rather gone to trial or I would rather, you know, appeal the case or something. I can’t deal with this for eight months. It’s (Bollea’s cell) like the size of my bathroom.”

Linda Bollea: “Oh!”

Nick: “No windows or nothing. Just one little top bed thing.”

Linda: “Oh my God!”

Bollea is being kept in a single cell at the Pinellas County Jail because he is one of only two minors serving time in the adult facility. On the phone, he cries often and is comforted by his mother Linda.

Nick: “All you do is sit there and think, and there’s nothing to think about.”

Linda: “We’ll get through it.”

Nick: “Yeah.”

Linda: “Prove to everyone you’ve learned your lesson and be more careful.”

Yes, it is important to “be more careful” when you’re drinking and driving while drag racing down a public street.

[cookiepuss]

Lindsay has a butch girlfriend...

After months (years?) strategically keeping their distance from one another in public, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson (http://www.totallylindsaylohan.com/files/images/LindsayLohanLesbian.png) held hands at an event. The couple (come on, they’re totally a couple) clutched each other’s paws while making their way onto Sean Comb’s yacht party in Cannes yesterday.

I wholeheartedly approve. (http://www.celebwarship.com/wp/wp-content/Uploads/lindsay-lohan1.jpg)

[DipDipDive]

Ugh. I haven't read a single post in here but can someone PLEASE close this thread? This shit's fucking stupid and gross and the fact that it's 12 pages long makes me want to kick someone. People who obsess over the lives of celebrities are fucking pathetic. And yes, that goes for all of you.

[cookiepuss]

uh.:rolleyes:

why the fuck should it offend you so?
the point is to laugh at how ridiculous these stories and celebrities are. the ridiculous obsession with celebrities is EXACTLY the reason I made the thread.

lighten the fuck up, girl. I'm sorry but if you can't get over the mere EXISTENCE of this thread, maybe it's YOU who is pathetic.

[DipDipDive]

You're annoying.

[cookiepuss]

ooooooooh. you really got me there.
This thread is clearly more stupid and gross than Padster's "so guys, have you ever done a guy up the butt"
(http://beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=86840)


get over it.


I don't have a very high opinion of you right now either.(n)

[DipDipDive]

You're still annoying. I guess it makes sense that you made this annoying thread.

[cookiepuss]

Eva Menendes Doesn't want you to think she was a druggie...

I posted something a while back about her going to rehab. She now claims it was "research" for a role. sure. ok.

Eva Mendes checked her hot ass into Utah's Cirque Lodge rehab facility last January for "personal issues." Star Magazine (via SF Gate) claims Eva was actually researching a film role. Eva plays a Spanish drug lord in the movie "Queen of the South." Her character flees Mexico for Spain when her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Errr.....what does this have to do with rehab?

An acting coach told the magazine, "It's not unusual at all for an actor or actress to go to the extreme of checking into rehab to prepare for a character. In fact, I would encourage that for my students, because you want to fully immerse yourself in the role."

Nice try, Eva. If this is true, she checked herself into the wrong joint. The bitch really should have gone undercover in an acting school.

Hopefully, she'll play Charles Manson in her next movie and check into prison for a long ass time in order to "research" the role.

[cookiepuss]

Bill Murray Has Been a Naughty Boy....


Murray's Wife Files For DIVORCE

CHARLESTON, S.C. - The wife of entertainer Bill Murray has filed for divorce after nearly 11 years of marriage, alleging he abused her and is addicted to marijuana and alcohol.

Jennifer Butler Murray filed divorce papers May 12 in Charleston County. She owns a home on Sullivans Island, S.C., where she lives with the couple's four children.

The complaint was first reported by The Post and Courier of Charleston. It also alleges frequent abandonment by the former "Saturday Night Live" star.

Bill Murray's attorney, John McDougall, wouldn't comment on the allegations, but said the entertainer "is deeply saddened by the breakup of his marriage."

"He and his wife made loving parents and they are committed to the best interests of their children," McDougall said.

Jennifer Murray's attorney, Robert Rosen, said he had no comment.

The couple signed a prenuptial agreement, which was filed as an exhibit with the divorce papers, before they married in 1997. As part of the agreement, both waived their right to alimony or support if the marriage broke up. However, Murray agreed to pay $7 million to his ex-wife within 60 days of a final divorce decree.

The complaint, which doesn't specify instances of Murray's alleged marijuana or alcohol use, alleges he would often leave without telling his wife and says he "travels overseas where he engages in public and private altercations and sexual liaisons."

It also alleges Murray physically abused his wife and last November "hit her in the face and then told her she was 'lucky he didn't kill her.'"

The documents obtained by The Post and Courier were sealed by the court last week.

Murray, the star of movies such as "Ghostbusters," "Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day," is a co-owner of the Charleston RiverDogs minor league baseball team.

The 57-year-old actor earned an Oscar nomination for his role in "Lost in Translation."

:( I still love bill, even if he wife doesn't

[abcdefz]

Those are some really sad accusations. I hope it's not true.

[MC Moot]

Thank god someone got them before the junkie sold them...


Kurt Cobain's Ashes Stolen


Courtney Love revealed that someone has stolen the ashes of her late husband, Kurt Cobain.

According to a report by RollingStone.com, Love had been storing Kurt Cobain's ashes in a pink, bear-shaped handbag in her Hollywood home, and she now believes that a former friend stole the remains.

Love declared, “I can’t believe anyone would take Kurt’s ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I’m suicidal.”

Part of Cobain's ashes were spread at a Buddhist temple in New York, and another portion was thrown into the Wishkah River in Washington. Love had kept a portion of the ashes for herself.

This is not the first time that Love has had something of her late husband's stolen. Last March, she alleged that Cobain's social security number was stolen and was used to steal a huge sum of money from his estate.

[camo]

“I can’t believe anyone would take Kurt’s ashes from me. I find it disgusting and right now I’m suicidal.”


Fuck off, just fuck right off.

[icy manipulator]

you sure the dumb slut didn't just lose them?

[camo]

or snort them

[cookiepuss]

Sucks to be Jessica Simpson.

Jessica Simpson's dad wants to be Tony Romo's agent

By MJD

Yesterday, I suggested that Tony Romo get a copy of Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage as a signing bonus for his next contract, and that was before I even knew how crazy his in-laws were. From omg! (omg!):

In its new issue, Us Weekly reports that Jessica Simpson's controlling father Joe has brought her relationship with Tony Romo to the brink and was the main source behind their split in May.

A source tells Us Joe asked Romo, 28, to drop his agent so he could take over his NFL career and $67.5 million contract.

He even offered to broker a deal to sell his engagement and wedding to a magazine should Romo and Jessica, 27, get engaged. "'If you guys have a marriage, I can do the same [sell it] that I did with Ashlee,'" a source quotes Joe as saying.

Papa Joe Simpson as your agent. That seems like a great idea. There's nothing weird at all about that guy. I think any father-in-law who's already worried about brokering deals to sell your wedding photos is someone you want making all decisions about your career.
Run, Tony. Run like you're being chased by Michael Strahan.

geeeus.:rolleyes: I hope that's not true. Joe Simpson creeps me out. seriously.

[abcdefz]

I would truly love to see Clint Eastwood kick Spike Lee's ass.

From IMDB:


Eastwood Tells Lee To 'Shut His Face'
6 June 2008 5:09 AM, PDT

Latest: Clint Eastwood has told Spike Lee to "shut his face" after the African-American filmmaker complained about the lack of black actors
in Eastwood's films.

Eastwood has rejected the Malcolm X director's complaint that he had failed to include a single black soldier in his 2006 films Flags Of Our
Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, about the 1945 battle for the Japanese island.

Rationalising [sic] his choice, the actor-turned-director explains the African-American troops who were at battle didn't take part in raising the flag.

He tells Britain's The Guardian newspaper, "The story is Flags of our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn't do that. If I
go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people go: 'This guy's lost his mind'. I mean, it's not accurate."

Referring to Lee, Eastwood adds: "A guy like him should shut his face."

Lee's comments came during a press conference at the Cannes International Film Festival last month, where he was promoting his own
war film, Miracle at St Anna, a war drama about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division, which fought against the Germans in World War II.

[cookiepuss]

Knox and Vivienne? really? that's the best you could do?

Knox and Vivienne make 8 for Jolie-Pitt family

By COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press WriterSun Jul 13, 5:59 PM ET

Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world's most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins — a boy and a girl — and all "are doing marvelously well," the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital on the French Riviera said Sunday.

The newborns — Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, born one minute apart Saturday evening — are the ultimate million-dollar babies, with experts estimating their first photos will fetch a fortune.

"In the celebrity world, it seems to be the double second coming," said Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a photo agency in London.

For now, mother, father and newborns are resting out of the public eye on the fifth floor of the Lenval hospital, behind blue mirrored windows that provide sweeping views of Nice's sun-drenched beaches, but specially treated to deflect the prying lenses of paparazzi.

Jolie's obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie's side during the delivery, looking on as the doctor performed a Caesarean section to deliver Knox, weighing in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne, who weighed 5 pounds.

"He was my assistant," Sussmann joked.

"He was very happy. ... The emotion was very strong for him," Sussmann told reporters on the hospital steps. "I felt the emotion of both the mother and the father. Angelina Jolie was speaking, was laughing with her husband. They were happy."

"The mother, the babies, the father are doing marvelously well," he said.

Sussmann said the Caesarean was moved forward from its originally planned date "for medical reasons" so the babies could be born "in the best conditions." The doctor did not elaborate.

He said Jolie, 33, is expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days and that she now needs rest. The four other Jolie-Pitt children — Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2 — have not yet seen their new sister and brother, he said.

The doctor said he believed the baby girl's middle name was chosen in honor of Jolie's mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, who died in January 2007 after a 7 1/2-year battle with cancer.

News of the births attracted a small crowd of fans hoping to snap a photo of Pitt — or any of their celebrity friends stopping by to pay a visit. None appeared, but the mayor of Nice delivered the twin's birth certificates, which he later displayed to reporters, with the family's approval, showing Pitt's scrawling WBP, for his full name William Brad Pitt.

"The father is having one of the happiest moments of his life, like any father, especially when they have the joy of having two children from such a wonderful wife as Angelina Jolie," Mayor Christian Estrosi said after the brief official visit, which spared Pitt the gauntlet of paparazzi that would accompany any trip to City Hall.

"The mother is doing fine. She is smiling a lot. She is as happy as the father," Estrosi said.

The twins' arrival has spurred a rash of speculation about the price of the first "official" snaps.

Nice Matin, the hometown daily in the Riviera city in the south of France, put the worth of the twins' photos at more than $11 million. It first broke news of the birth and reported Sunday that the couple have sold the rights for the first photo of their newly expanded family to a U.S. publication, which it did not name, and that the proceeds would go to charity.

"I've never known a set of pictures to be worth this amount of money," said Lyons, the owner of Big Pictures. He estimated that the twins' official photos will be worth between $15 million and $20 million.

The only other photos that "would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien," he said.

Veteran London-based celebrity publicist Max Clifford estimated the first photos could fetch 10 million pounds — roughly €12 million or $20 million, "which would make it the biggest baby deal ever."

"These kind of pictures sell lots of magazines," he said. "It's a 10-million-pound ($20 million) gamble as to whether the ends justify the means. But obviously it's a very calculated risk because whoever lands the photos will have a lot of experience with the popularity of mum and dad."

Paparazzi have been following the couple through southern France since the Cannes film festival in May, snapping shots of the family on an outing to Eze beach and sticking close as they set up household in Correns, 60 miles from Nice. But so far the couple has evaded the paparazzi when it counted, arriving undetected at the Lenval clinic two weeks before the birth.


Please don't give these people any money for photos of their babies. You know they'll probably just go out and buy more babies with the proceeds.:rolleyes:

[cookiepuss]

the McConaughey's are funny dudes.....



Matthew McConaughey is father to newborn son Levi, but hopefully he will not turn to his older brother for parenting advice. Rooster McConaughey (seriously) has a young son of his own named… Miller Lyte. No, I’m not effing with you, the kid’s legal name is Miller Lyte.

The 52-year-old Texas native recently spent some time on camera, participating in the upcoming reality series “Black Gold.” He also named his youngest son Miller Lyte after friends hassled him about not being able to carry around a Miller Light while raising a toddler at his age.

“I said, ‘You wait and see, I’ll be able to take Miller Light with me everywhere, even to church,” McConaughey said, laughing.

Yeah, you really showed those dudes, Rooster.

By best friend's brother wants to name his first born Scantron. So I'm thinking a guy like Rooster McConaughey would be, like, his hero or something.


fucking Miller Lyte. I can't beleive his wife let him DO that!

[jabumbo]

i can't believe he has a wife to begin with. rooster is a pretty crappy name too

[cookiepuss]

i can't believe he has a wife to begin with. rooster is a pretty crappy name too

actually he might not have a wife...it didn't say and I don't care enough to find out.

I assume "rooster" is a nick name...but then again....

[cookiepuss]

Sarah Silverman is Single!


YES!!!!!
maybe she really was fucking matt damon?

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman end romance

26 minutes ago

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday.

"Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment," Kimmel's spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine's Web site.

Silverman's publicist, Amy Zvi, confirmed the breakup in an e-mail message to the AP. Zvi didn't immediately respond when asked for further details.

The pair dated for five years, and were one of Hollywood's funniest — and seemingly solid — couples.

Earlier this year, they took the Internet by storm with a mega-popular video duel. Silverman debuted a clip of her and Matt Damon singing about their fake love affair on Kimmel's ABC late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live," and Kimmel later responded with a star-studded video declaring a romance with Damon's best friend, Ben Affleck.

Silverman, 37, has made frequent appearances on the 39-year-old Kimmel's talk show. The comedian has starred in a feature-film length version of her one-woman show, "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic," and fronted her own Comedy Central series, "The Sarah Silverman Program."

[saz]

if this is true, man...


"W" Actors Arrest Details: Tasers, Pepper Sprayed, "N" Word Reports TMZ (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/16/w-actors-arrest-details-t_n_113218.html)


Saturday in Shreveport, LA actors from Oliver Stone's Bush biopic "W" were arrested around 2 am in what has been billed a bar brawl, and Wednesday night new details about possible repeated tasering, pepper spray and use of racial slurs emerged. If the reports of cell phone video existing are true, the story won't end here.

THURSDAY MORNING UPDATE: Shreveport police confirm video and audio from patrol car cameras exists and is being reviewed. Details to come.

The altercation involved Josh Brolin (who plays President Bush), Jeffrey Wright (Colin Powell) and five others.

Late Wednesday TMZ reported the following:

Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, who were arrested this past weekend at a Shreveport, La. bar, were pepper sprayed and tased by cops. And, we're told, police went on a vulgar rant -- and portions were caught on cell phone video.

The incident occurred during a wrap party for Oliver Stone's movie "W" about the Prez. Local station KTBS reports and TMZ sources say Wright, who plays Colin Powell, was repeatedly tasered and pepper sprayed as he lay prone on his stomach in the street. We know witnesses heard the officers using extremely foul language, including the "N" word, directed at Wright.

Our sources say Brolin was observed by witnesses attempting to make peace and standing still as he was repeatedly sprayed in the eyes by cops.

Brolin is known for roles in films like "No Country For Old Men" and "In the Valley of Elah" while Wright won a Tony and Golden Globe for the same role in "Angels in America" and costarred in "Syriana" and Bond flick "Casino Royale."



Comments:

"This is a different world. This is a world Barack Obama--like Kentucky during primaries--doesn't really want to enter. My hometown is 37 miles away and after 50 some odd years since leaving I go back and find it still the same: hate wrapped in syrupy coated "loveliness." Scary scene. They may have picked on the wrong actors this time. I'd like to hope it would awaken some to own up to their racial hatred but I really doubt it."


"I live in the New Orleans area and I AM NOT SURPRISED!!!! The ignorate folks in this state still imblaze KKK in your front yard when you buy a house in "their" neighborhood....http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/interfaith_service_to_be_held.html"


"I just moved away from East Texas not far from Shreveport and the police in Louisiana are notorious. That part of the country is the most racist area I've ever been acquainted with. "N" words come out of people's mouths like it is nothing in reference to Arabs, blacks etc. they have variations for every minority. It is a disgusting place. So, I am not at all surprised by this event. You may remember that it was less than 10 years ago that a black man was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck - well that was in East Texas not far from Louisiana. These are back woods vulgar people. I was never so glad to get out of a place in my life."

[cookiepuss]

Britney don't want her babies...she'll just make new ones I guess.

:rolleyes:

Britney Agrees to Sole Custody for K-Fed

Claudia RosenbaumFri Jul 18, 3:47 AM ET

Britney Spears has agreed to hand the parenting reins over to Kevin Federline.

K-Fed's longtime attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, exclusively tells E! News the divorced duo have reached a settlement in their long-gestating custody case.

According to the agreement signed by all parties, Federline gets sole legal and physical custody of sons Sean Preston and Jayden James and Spears will have visitation rights.

"The case has been settled," Kaplan said. "The court still has to approve it. " Both parties are due in court Friday morning.

The case had been set to go to trial next month but all had been hoping to settle up beforehand.

"As of this evening there is a fully executed deal memo...All the issues that would have been addressed at trial have been settled," Kaplan told E! News. "Can't speak to the exact terms of the deal, [but the] orders in place...will stay in place."

Although this is theoretically good news for Federline, Kaplan maintains it isn't exactly what his client had in mind.

"Kevins was not [out] to get custody. Kevin's goal was to set up some kind of template so the mother of his children can coparent," Kaplan said.

"He said, 'I need to have Britney to be involved in the coparenting of the kids, but I need there to be a structure.' "

But this is the structure he got, and "Kevin is absolutely delighted," Kaplan continued.

"Nobody could have anticipated the terms of events that have occurred...This was a two-year journey that will be halted at a point that is good for these children. Custody is always modifiable. If there is a final order, it means there is nothing to try."

Spears has been enjoying monitored visits with her boys since late February after temporarily losing any on-hand-mommying privileges following a stretch of noticeably erratic behavior on her part and two brief hospital stays.

Federline's camp has credited the influence of Spears' father, Jamie, who was appointed a coconservator of his daughter's estate Feb. 1, for helping to get the 26-year-old popster back on track.

A court commissioner is scheduled to review whether to make the conservatorship permanent at the end of this month. If the arrangement were to end, what then happens to Spears' current deal?

"While I can't tell you the terms, the order does anticipate what happens if the conservatorship is ended," Kaplan told E! News. "The devil is always in the details, and this is a very detailed deal memo.

"Nobody can predict what the future will bring, but to the extent possible, I think we have really anticipated how to proceed."



personally, I think both Kevin and Brit should have to undergo manditory sterilization. I'm so glad they aren't my fucking parents.

[cookiepuss]

if I had known Duchovny was so easy, I would have slipped him my room key....

According the National Enquirer, David Duchovny entered rehab for sex addiction due to an ultimatum from his wife, Tea Leoni. The tab claimed David’s multiple affairs took a toll on his eleven year marriage, and even affected the couple’s two children, Madelaine, nine, and Kyd, six.

“He said Tea gave him an ultimatum: Get treatment or our marriage is over,” a source is quoted. “She felt it was ruining their marriage and affecting their kids.”

According to the source, Duchovny has admitted that he is compulsively driven to be unfaithful and finds it impossible to turn down the legions of women who offer themselves to him.

Leoni is said to have grown suspicious of her husband’s behaviour in recent months and after questioning him on a number of occasions, the 48-year-old finally admitted that he had been cheating on her.

Despite other media outlets putting the cheating rumors squarely on David’s shoulders, Radar reported that Tea is also having a strange relationship with Billy Bob Thornton.

Here’s the tipster’s e-mail that started it all:

“So last night my friend Paige dragged me to see Billy Bob Thornton and his band “The Boxmasters” play at Highline Ballroom because Bad Santa is her favorite movie of all time. The show turned out to be pretty fun and about midway through the second act we noticed a blond woman singing and dancing up a storm on the floor. She was really ripping it up and even seemed to know the words to all the songs. Then we saw her jump behind the control board where she started playing around with stuff back there and making hand signals in the direction of the stage. The guy running the board never tried to stop her or anything. Paige and I were sort of laughing about it until she got a closer look at the dancing woman when she returned from getting drinks at the bar. She was like, “Holy shit, that’s Tea Leoni!”

At that point we really didn’t know what the hell to make of it. After the show we went over to Pop Burger for a bite and while we were there Paige decided that she wanted to walk back over Highline to try to get a picture with Billy Bob. That’s where this really gets weird. When we got to the front of the venue we noticed that the roadies, most of them kind of strong-looking men, were loading a truck with equipment. Then we heard a female sounding voice coming from inside of the truck yelling to someone outside of the truck. Then we saw the face that belonged to the voice and whatdoyaknow, IT WAS TEA LEONI. She was loading the truck with the roadies! Last I checked she was married to David Duchovny so why the hell is she loading Billy Bob Thornton’s truck?”

Tea has yet to comment on the Billy Bob scandal, but I think it’s safe to assume she would deny anything illict going on. David, meanwhile, checked into The Meadows rehab facility in Arizona for a 35-day stint.

[MC Moot]

Maybe Josh and David can get a group therapy rate?...:D

Josh Harnett In Hotel Library Romp?

Actor Josh Hartnett has reportedly received a verbal warning from security bosses at a London hotel after he was allegedly caught on camera getting intimate with a female friend in a public library.

The Pearl Harbor star, who is preparing to take to the London stage for a theatre adaptation of Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise's movie Rainman, was allegedly spotted enjoying a frisky romp with an unidentified female at the Soho Hotel - and security guards witnessed Hartnett's every move.

They were forced to warn him not to repeat his steamy actions.

A source tells Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper, "Josh and the girl were getting pretty hot and heavy. After stumbling in quite late, they legged it (ran) to the library and immediately closed all the curtains so that no one could see in

"Unfortunately the hotel has security cameras all over the place - the library included. This means their every spit and cough was recorded, and cringing hotel workers saw all of Josh's X-rated moves.

"No one quite knew where to look and there was a very awkward silence. Josh didn't seem bothered that the library wasn't locked and anyone could just burst in. He just kind of went for it.

"After the event, someone had a quiet word in Josh's ear and he was asked to take his personal business elsewhere in future. Josh took it on the chin (acknowledged it) and didn't kick up a fuss. He's been as good as gold since."

Harnett's stint on the West End stage was due to start on Tuesday (02Sep08), but has been delayed until next week (begs08Sep08) because director Terry Johnson insists the play is not quite ready.

[cookiepuss]

Maybe Josh and David can get a group therapy rate?...:D

Josh Harnett In Hotel Library Romp?

[I]Actor Josh Hartnett has reportedly received a verbal warning from security bosses at a London hotel after he was allegedly caught on camera getting intimate with a female friend in a public library.


That is totally hot. I have ALWAYS wanted to do it in the library. at my college we had the closed stacks..you know the kind where you crank a wheel to part the shelves so you can walk down the isle? yeah..that's where I wanted to do it.

oh man, why not me Josh? why not me?

[Randetica]

i heard michael jackson has got a crush on pamela anderson

[MC Moot]

Go Guy,fly be free!

Madonna set to divorce: report
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LONDON (AFP) — Pop megastar Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie are to divorce, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, saying an announcement was imminent.

After months of media speculation about strains in the eight-year marriage, The Sun tabloid cited a "highly-placed source" as saying the split was being pushed for by 40-year-old Ritchie.

"It's very sad. They were a great couple and brilliant parents. They just couldn't live together any more," said the source, adding that they "can't bear to live with the pretence any longer".

The American singer's spokeswoman Barbara Charone told AFP: "We're not going to know anything until the US wakes up", adding that she was not even clear if there would be an announcement at that stage.

Madonna, who is in the middle of her "Sticky and Sweet" world tour, married Ritchie in December 2000 in a lavish ceremony at a Scottish castle after meeting at a dinner party given by rock star Sting.

The couple have an eight-year-old son, Rocco, and a three-year-old son adopted in Malawi, David Banda. Madonna also has a 12-year-old daughter called Lourdes by her former fitness trainer Carlos Leon.

In July, Madonna, 50, took the rare step of issuing a formal denial of reports linking her to US baseball star Alex Rodriguez, adding in a statement: "My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce."

But according to The Sun, Ritchie -- famous for gangster films including "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" -- has become frustrated, seeing her as a "dead weight around his neck" and now wants a divorce to be agreed quickly.

"Guy's said if they were going to split, it has to be now -- and their marriage will finally be over in a matter of weeks," the source told The Sun.

The newspaper said that a statement "confirming their marriage is over has been prepared and is set to be released imminently."

Madonna's mother-in-law, Ritchie's mother Lady Amber Leighton, made no comment to reporters who gathered outside her west London home, saying: "We are not talking to press and we won't be all day."

The singer was believed to be in Boston, according to the schedule of her world tour which includes dates in the United States and Canada over the next few weeks. Her next stop is Toronto on Saturday.

Top celebrity publicist Max Clifford said that marriages between two high-profile people were bound to have strains.

"It's always difficult for two people very much in the public spotlight, that have succesful careers, to also have a successful relationship," he told Sky News television.

"It's almost a conflict because of the demands of the business, the demands of the career... you can only see potential clashes along the way and possibly that's what's been happening," he added.

Madonna, born Madonna Louise Ciccone, was previously married to US actor Sean Penn, from 1985 to 1989.

In July, Madonna's estranged brother said he believed she was committed to her marriage to Ritchie.

"She's not the kind of person just to walk away," Christopher Ciccone told US television, adding that the pop legend will "do what's best for her family and her kids.

[cookiepuss]

^ non-shocker.


also not a surprise: Hugh Hefner broke up with Holly Madison (I think if cupcakes when ever i hear her name). apparently he's replaced her with hideous blonde twins and plans to bring on 7 new girlfriends. Holly, Kendra and Bridget are in talks to have thier own spin off shows. But I knew Holly would be defeated the moment she started saying she planned to talk Hef into getting married and having a baby.:rolleyes:I mean seriously. why would Hef buy the cow when he can have all the milk he wants for free. DUH.

[MC Moot]

[QUOTE=cookiepuss;1624143]^ non-shocker.[QUOTE]

I wonder who texted her first...Rodriguez or Penn?

:D

[Randetica]

Jennifer Hudson's Mother, Brother Shot, Nephew Missing



"CHICAGO — The FBI joined the search Saturday for the 7-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson, still missing a day after the bodies of Hudson's mother and brother were found in the actress' childhood home.

A suspect in the deaths remained in custody Saturday, but young Julian King had not been seen since the bodies of Darnell Donerson, 57, and Jason Hudson, 29, were found Friday afternoon.

"We need to find that kid by sundown," Ziff Sistrunk, a friend of the Hudson family, said Saturday.

Because of the possibility the boy may have been taken across state lines, police spokesman John Mirabelli said the FBI has been asked to assist in the search. FBI spokesman Ross Rice confirmed the agency was helping to look for the child, but he declined to provide details.

Neighbors, friends and relatives gathered Saturday outside the three-story white house on the city's South Side where Hudson went to school and sang in church. Some left stuffed animals and flowers, and others planned a search for Julian.

Members of Hudson's family were expected to make a statement later Saturday.

A family member entering Donerson's home Friday afternoon found her shot on the living room floor. Officers later found Hudson shot in the bedroom, police said.

At least one of the victims suffered defensive wounds, said authorities who described the shooting as domestic violence.
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The Cook County medical examiner's office said Saturday that Donerson and Jason Hudson died of gunshot wounds. Their deaths were ruled homicides.

William Balfour, a man suspected in the deaths, was arrested Friday but had not been charged, law enforcement sources told the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.

Police spokeswoman Monique Bond, who declined to comment Saturday on a suspect, said no one had been charged.

Bond said investigators were talking to "a number of people in custody," but she declined to elaborate. An Amber Alert issued statewide Friday, which remained in effect Saturday, said Balfour was a suspect in the double homicide.

Records from the Illinois Department of Corrections show Balfour, 27, is on parole and spent nearly seven years in prison for attempted murder, vehicular hijacking and possessing a stolen vehicle. Public records show one of Balfour's addresses as the home where Donerson and Jason Hudson were shot.

Balfour's mother, Michele Balfour, said that her son had been married to Hudson's sister, Julia Hudson, for several years, but that they were separated. She also said Donerson had ordered him to move out of the family's home last winter.

Family friends said King is Julia Hudson's son, but authorities would not confirm that.

Jennifer Hudson's personal publicist, Lisa Kasteler, said the family wanted privacy. She did not return messages seeking comment Saturday.

The tragedy comes as the 27-year-old Jennifer Hudson continues to reach new heights in her career. Her song "Spotlight" is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts, and her recently released, self-tiled debut album has been a top seller. She was featured in this year's blockbuster "Sex and the City" movie and is also starring in the hit film "The Secret Life of Bees."

She won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2007 for her role in "Dreamgirls." In an interview last year with Vogue, Hudson credited her mother with encouraging her to audition for "American Idol," which launched her career.

The singer, whose father died when she was a teenager, described herself as very close to her family. In a recent AP interview she said her family helped keep her grounded.

"My faith in God and my family, they're very realistic and very normal, they're not into the whole limelight kind of thing, so when I go home to Chicago that's just another place that's home," she said. "I stand in line with everybody else, or, when I go home to my mom I'm just Jennifer, (so she says), 'You get up and you take care of your own stuff.' And I love that; I don't like when people tell you everything you want to hear, I want to hear the truth, you know what I mean."

Hudson recently announced her engagement to David Otunga, best known for his stint on VH1's reality show "I Love New York."

Hudson's representatives would not disclose her whereabouts Friday. She had been scheduled to appear Monday in Los Angeles to collect an ensemble cast honor at the Hollywood Awards for "The Secret Life of Bees" with co-stars including Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning."

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most of you heard that before i guess but i thought i would post it anyway

i wouldnt even know how to survive such a day