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October 2008
Communists call Bond girl a REAL traitor
The Communist Party in St. Petersburg says Olga Kurylenko, the Ukrainian-born model who plays a Bolivian agent in the latest Bond film, “Quantum of Solace,” has betrayed her roots.
“In the name of all communists we appeal to you, prodigal daughter of poor Ukraine and deserter of Slavic world,” the party said in an open letter dated Oct. 21 and posted on their Web site Friday. The Soviet Union “gave you free education, free medical care but nobody knew you would commit an act of intellectual and moral betrayal that you would become a movie kept girl of Bond, who in his movies kills hundreds of Soviet people and citizens of other socialist countries: Cubans, Vietnamese, North Koreans, Chinese and Nicaraguans.”
Sergei Malenkovich, head of the party’s regional organization, told The Associated Press that latest Bond movie is “an insult for Russians.”
“In this movie they wanted to show that a Ukrainian girl sleeps with an American. It’s a part of information and psychological war,” he said. In fact, SPOILER ALERT!! Kurylenko does not have sex with Daniel Craig’s Bond — unlike nearly all other leading ladies in the Bond films. END SPOILER ALERT!! And Bond, doncha know, is British.
The vitriol from the St. Petersburg communists, which is an independent party not formally affiliated with the national Communist party, is the latest to be directed at a Western film.
The party took great umbrage at “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which features an evil KGB agent played by Cate Blanchett, saying the film undermined communist ideology and distorted history.
Yeah, well WE took great umbrage at “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” because it sucked.
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McCain may yet show up on SNL
NBC won’t confirm whether John McCain will be appearing on tomorrow’s Saturday Night Live — so set up the DVR, folks, or try to stay awake.
The candidate is taking Barack Obama’s prime-time infomercial and raising him a late-night guest appearance — the Arizona senator is expected to mock himself, thereby endearing himself to the American public in the last new SNL before the election.
No details on McCain’s appearance have been revealed — the network’s perpetual “no comment” is a face-saving result of Obama’s much-hyped but ultimately scrapped appearance earlier this year — but Darrell Hammond has channeled the GOP standard-bearer this year. Ben Affleck, an outspoken Obama supporter, is this week’s host.
Two weeks ago, McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, made an appearance on the show, giving it the highest rated in 14 years, averaging 14 million viewers.
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Zack and Miri banned in Salt Lake City
Utah Jazz and Megaplex Theaters owner Larry Miller (not our favorite comedian — another Larry Miller) has refused to book director Kevin Smith’s new R-rated comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. The Salt Lake City chain’s spokesman Cal Gunderson expressed concerns about the film, citing “graphic nudity and graphic sex” and that it was “too close to an NC-17.”
The company’s standards seem a little odd considering that the chain had no problems screening ultra-violent fare like “Saw V,” which features beheadings and explicit self-mutilation. The company’s decision might make sense if “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” were in fact pornographic. Instead, Kevin Smith’s surprisingly tame and sentimental movie has a few flashes of nudity, a handful of love scenes played mostly for laughs, and a whole lot of foul language. In fact, the film’s raunchiness level is comparable to that of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”, “Knocked Up” and “Sex Drive,” all of which screened at Megaplex theaters.
“Zack and Miri Make a Porno” opens everywhere (almost) today
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Madonna, A-Rod take choppers to rendezvous
From the New York Post: Madonna and Alex Rodriguez secretly jetted off in two private helicopters for a quick and cozy rendezvous in the Hamptons. Instead of booking a motel room — as if!!! — the two headed straight to Jerry Seinfeld’s waterfront mansion, where they relaxed in luxury for several hours.
“The Seinfelds have been friends with Madonna for years. They’re neighbors on the West Side, so it’s really no surprise,” said an insider. “And Jerry and [wife] Jessica go to her concerts whenever she’s in town.”
(Post) spies say the clandestine East End meeting between soon-to-be-divorced Madge and freshly single A-Rod occurred on Oct. 21. A chopper carrying the Yankee slugger was seen landing in East Hampton, where he was picked up in a white Porsche 911 matching the description of Jessica’s car.
Less than 40 minutes later, another helicopter that took off from Chelsea Piers with Madonna aboard landed at the same airstrip.
“A dark SUV and Jerry in another Porsche both pulled up and picked up Madonna and they headed back to Jerry’s place,” a witness told us. “When they arrived at the Seinfeld home, Madonna poked her head out the window and could be clearly seen.”
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Jon Hamm to appear on ‘30 Rock’
EW.com’s The Ausiello Files is squealing over some more reported stunt casting on TV’s “30 Rock”: “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm is in advanced talks to do a multi-episode arc.
Hamm would be playing a potential love interest for Tina Fey. Word is he’s Liz’s neighbor.
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Frampton’s Obama signs keep disappearing
Peter Frampton is wishing someone would show him the way to keep his Barack Obama yard signs from getting swiped.
The Grammy winner is complaining that signs showing his preference for the Democratic presidential candidate have been stolen repeatedly at his home in the upscale and predominantly Republican Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill. Frampton, 58, is so angry, he called The Cincinnati Enquirer asking to be interviewed.
The British-born singer told the paper that one reason he became a U.S. citizen was so he could vote. Now, he says his American rights to free speech and political speech are being violated and it “bugs” him. Frampton said he has installed a video camera to catch the thieves.
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Gwen Stefani posts Zuma’s first portrait
No Doubt’s official website posted a photo of singer Gwen Stefani with her baby son, along with this message: “We wanted to share with you the first photo of Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale. Gwen, Gavin, Kingston and Zuma are all doing well and enjoying being a party of four.” Gwen is married to singer and former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale.
Zuma, weighing in at 8.5 lbs, was born at at 12:46 PST on August 21, 2008. He joins 2-year-son Kingston.
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Sarah to Tina: Bristol can babysit your kid!
Tina Fey appeared on Conan Tuesday night and talked about 3-year-old daughter Alice and having Sarah Palin at SNL with her pregnant daughter Bristol — who was offered up as a babysitter.
According to Fey, when Sarah Palin (“she was nice”) guested on “Saturday Night Live,” she asked Fey where Alice had gone as the show approached. Fey told Conan:
“Gov. Palin was like, ‘Oh did Alice go home? Oh, cause Bristol woulda babysat.’ She offered Bristol Palin to babysit Alice… And it was Bristol’s birthday, too. I was like yeah, that’s exactly what 17-year-old Bristol Palin wants to do at SNL is babysit the toddler of the lady that gooks on her mom… but they’re a nice family.”
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Patrick Swayze working hard, going strong
Patrick Swayze may be suffering from pancreatic cancer, but he’s still clocking 12-hour days on the set of his new TV drama, “The Beast.” “I just love to work hard,” the 56-year-old actor tells the New York Times in his first interview since his January diagnosis.
“I do find myself, at the end of the day, riding home sort of catching myself with a smile on my face,” he added. “I’m proud of what I’m doing.”
The actor has piled on 20 pounds over the past few months by relying on “muscle-building shakes,” he said. Show staffers say he’s only missed a day and a half of work.
“I’m still fine to work. I haven’t changed — oh, I have changed, what am I saying?” Swayze admitted. “It’s a battle zone I go though. Chemo, no matter how you cut it, is hell on wheels.”
Swayze has been leaning on his wife of 33 years, Lisa Niemi, for support in fighting the disease. Experts say pancreatic cancer only has a 5 percent five-year survival rate.
“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man?” Swayze asked. “You go to work.”
The actor says he hasn’t accomplished everything he’s set out to do yet. “There is probably that little bird that flies through your insides and says, ‘I sure would like to make a mark in life,’” he said. “I’ve made a pretty decent mark so far — nothing to scoff at. But it does make you think: Wait a minute. There’s more I want to do. Lots more. Get on with it.”
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Author says Jerry Seinfeld scared her
An author who claims Jerry Seinfeld’s wife plagiarized her cookbook says she wasn’t amused by jokes the comedian made last year on late-night television. In federal court papers filed Tuesday explaining her position for a December hearing, Missy Chase Lapine said her 7-year-old daughter was upset after Seinfeld joked on David Letterman’s show that people with three names — James Earl Ray and Mark David Chapman, for instance — turned out to be assassins.
Lapine said she “never felt so frightened and vulnerable” as when her daughter came home from school “and asked, ‘Mom, what is an assassin?’”
In a lawsuit filed last year, Lapine claimed Jessica Seinfeld got ideas for her cookbook, “Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food,” from Lapine’s book “The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals.”
The Seinfelds’ attorney said in a statement Wednesday: “As a comedian, Jerry has a right under the First Amendment to tell jokes. Ms. Lapine, on the other hand, was not joking when she maliciously accused Jessica Seinfeld, who also has young children, of plagiarism, a charge that is demonstrably false.”
Earlier this year, lawyers for Jessica Seinfeld accused Lapine of falsely claiming she invented the idea of hiding fruits and vegetables in children’s meals when “countless prior works utilized this very same unprotectable idea,” including a 1971 book. They called the lawsuit “opportunistic.” In her affidavit, Lapine said she did not make accusations against Jessica Seinfeld “to gain media attention, enrich myself or harass the Seinfelds; and I was not lying in wait for an opportunity to become embroiled in a controversy with any celebrity.”
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Britney’s dad gets full control of her affairs
Britney Spears’ father, Jamie, and attorney Andrew Wallet (nice name!) were granted permanent legal control of, well, her life, by a court on Tuesday. Jamie Spears was first put in control of his daughter’s affairs Feb. 1 following her two forced hospitalizations in January.
His temporary conservatorship was set to expire Dec. 31.
But after a lengthy closed-chambers meeting Tuesday and evaluation of her mental health records, Spears’ court-appointed attorney told the court commissioner that the singer had no objections with her father remaining in control.
“The court finds the proposed permanent conservatorship is necessary and appropriate [because of the] complexities of her financial and business entities and also potential for her being susceptible to influences,” said Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz, who has been presiding over the case.
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Joaquin Phoenix done with the acting biz
Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix made a shocking announcement to “Extra,” saying, “I want to take this opportunity… to give you the exclusive … that this will be my last performance as an actor… I’m not doing films anymore.”
“Extra’s” Jerry Penacoli jumped at the chance to craft a probing follow-up question: “Are you serious?” he asked. Phoenix, who was curiously being followed by his own camera crews, reiterated, “Yeah. I’m working on my music. I’m done. I’ve been through that.”
Penacoli, still suspicious, then went after Casey Affleck, who was standing next to Phoenix, with another carefully worded query: “I take it that he’s kidding?” Affleck responded, “I don’t think he’s kidding. He’s got music and stuff.”
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Richard Dreyfuss calls Oliver Stone a fascist
Of course he was on “The View”! Where else do people say wonderful, crazy, inciting-a-riot kinds of things? Richard Dreyfuss appeared on the chat show ostensibly to publicize “W.,” in which he plays Dick Cheney, but ended up criticizing the film and director Oliver Stone instead.
When asked why he made the film, he said he did it for “money.” Dreyfuss also said, “I think it’s 6/8ths of a great film.”
Asked how it was to work with Oliver Stone, he said “imagine working for Sean Hannity… you can be a fascist, even when you’re on the left.”
He also said he isn’t sure the film “will have any historical legs.” That and more pointed criticism in the clip below, with a bonus awkward moment at the end.
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Jessica Simpson film to Russia, with love
Bet you’re wondering what ever happened to Jessica Simpson’s comedy, “Major Movie Star.” Don’t lie. You’re losing sleep over the “Private Benjamin”-like movie, so highly promoted by Simpson’s dad, Joe.
Here’s the scoop: It’s a major box office success in … Russia. Soon, the movie described by one of its participants as “maybe one of the worst films ever made” will premiere in Bulgaria. So far there’s no U.S. release date set. Nor is there one for any other country in which English is the primary language.
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Hef’s ex talks tough to new girlfriends
Hugh Hefner recently separated from his triumvirate of girlfriends, Bridget, Kendra and Holly, also known as E!’s “Girls Next Door,” and the youngest, jock Kendra, talked about his replacement twin girlfriends with candor to an E! camera at the Mansion’s Halloween party.
“There will only be original Girls Next Door,” she said. “We built this show. We worked our butts off to be here. Now these girls are coming in afterwards. We’ve made this for them, and I’d appreciate it if they’d be a little bit more thankful… I don’t feel like they’re thankful.” Holly, the former #1 girlfriend, also says she’s packing her stuff and has a place in Santa Monica with a fireman’s pole, something she’d wanted from Hef and not gotten.
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DWTS’ Hough to have appendix removed
Two-time Dancing With the Stars champ Julianne Hough is undergoing minor surgery this week to remove her appendix. Hough, 20, suffers from endometriosis, a painful condition caused by the growth of the tissue lining the uterus in other parts of the abdomen outside of the uterus.
It is found in 5 percent to 10 percent of women of reproductive age around the world.
Hough was first hospitalized at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last week after experiencing mild stomach pains.
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Michael Lohan finally shuts his big mouth
The whole “judge not lest ye be judged” thing finally took, it seems.
Michael Lohan has apologized for calling Lindsay’s girlfriend Sam Ronson “a drug” earlier this summer. “I definitely regret all the things I said about Samantha,” Michael told New York magazine.
“I’m a Christian,” he added. “I should not pass judgment on anyone.”
In September, Michael went off on Ronson, calling her a “dark, hideous and a disgusting representation of humanity.” Lindsay snapped back, calling her dad a “coward” on her MySpace celebrity blog.
Michael says he’s now learned not use the media to reach out to his daughter. “In the past, I felt that the best way to get to her was to speak out publicly. And it was the wrong choice.”
Michael says he’s in contact with Lindsay these days, and recently spent four days with his college-aged son, Michael. As for providing more details on Lindsay’s life, Michael is keeping mum.
“Family matters should be kept private,” he said. “I’ve learned that now.”
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Amy Winehouse hospitalized … again
Amy Winehouse was hospitalized Saturday for tests on her chest and lungs. Winehouse, 25 — who was hospitalized in June with a severe lung ailment — had a doctor visit her at home Thursday. Then, over the weekend, “they wanted to do some tests as a precaution,” her spokesman Chris Goodman said. “Obviously she had lung and chest problems which she had treatment for not so long ago, so they’re just making sure.”
Winehouse’s father, Mitch, has previously said that the singer’s lungs are “all gunked up” from smoking cigarettes and crack cocaine.
The troubled singer was taken to the London Clinic, where earlier this year she was treated for drug problems. “She’s fine,” Goodman said today, Oct. 27. “Should be back home today.”
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Michelle joins Barack on Saturday Night Live
By Michelle, we mean Maya Rudolph.
By Barack, we mean Fred Armisen.
By Saturday Night Live, we mean Saturday Night Live.
And by watching anything on NBC, we mean fire up the laptop, ‘coz Time Warner and LIN-whoever-they-are can’t figure this thing out.
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Amy Poehler has Saturday night baby
While you were busy getting ready to watch OSU lose to Penn State (it’s tough to be a fan), Amy Poehler was having a baby. Poehler and her husband, Will Arnett, welcomed Archie Arnett, who weighed 8 lbs., 1 oz.
During the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live, Poehler’s co-anchor Seth Meyers announced to a cheering crowd: “Amy Poehler is not here tonight because she is having a baby.” Poehler, 37, revealed in April that she and Arnett, 38, were expecting.
Besides welcoming the new member of the family, Arnett — whom we loved in “Arrested Development” and “30 Rock” — will star with Kristen Bell in the big-screen comedy “When in Rome,” and Poehler — who is leaving SNL this year — will return to NBC in the spring as the star of an as-yet-untitled primetime comedy.
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Jerry Lewis puts foot in mouth — again
Jerry Lewis made an anti-gay slur on Australian television similar to one he apologized for using on his annual telethon a year ago. Following a news conference in Sydney Friday, Lewis, 82, was asked by a Network Ten national TV reporter for his opinion on the Australian nation sport of cricket.
“Oh, cricket? It’s a f— game. What are you, nuts?” Lewis replied.
The network broadcast the comment in full on its Friday evening news bulletin along with footage of Lewis handling an imaginary cricket bat with an effeminate gesture.
Lewis apologized in September last year for using a similar anti-gay slur in Las Vegas during his annual Labor Day telethon that raises money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Thanks, Axl, for the free Dr Pepper!
Now that Chinese Democracy is really coming out in stores next month, Dr Pepper plans to make good on its offer to give a free soda to everyone in America if Axl Rose managed to get the album released before the end of 2008.
“We never thought this day would come,” said Tony Jacobs, vice president of marketing for Dr Pepper. “But now that it’s here all we can say is: The Dr Pepper’s on us.”
On Nov. 23, the day of the CD’s scheduled release, go to www.drpepper.com and register for a coupon to be mailed to you (coupons will be available online only for 24 hours, starting at 12:01 a.m. ET).
Once it arrives, in four to six weeks, redeem it for a free 20-ounce bottle of Dr Pepper at any store that carries the drink in that size. Coupons will expire on Feb. 28, 2009.
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Will Ferrell’s “Bush” returns, meets “Palin”
Thursday’s “Saturday Night Live” election special welcomed Will Ferrell back playing President Bush in the opening sketch, with Ferrell’s Bush offering an unwanted endorsement for the McCain-Palin ticket. The sketch was cowritten by Adam McKay and also starred Tina Fey as Sarah Palin meeting Bush for the first time.
As Ferrell’s Bush puts it, the election is between “the hot lady and the Tiger Woods guy” and “I’m out of here in a few months, so screw it.”
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Who’s the ugliest on “Ugly Betty”?
It’s not pretty on the set of “Ugly Betty,”
On Thursday, reports surfaced that Lindsay Lohan was such a diva while filming her guest spot, America Ferrera lobbied to have her scheduled six-episode-appearance cut to four.
But a source tells usmagazine.com that it wasn’t Lohan who was acting up.
“America couldn’t handle Lindsay stealing her thunder,” the source tells Us. Lohan’s pal says it was Ferrera who made filming unbearable for Lohan. “America was mean to Lindsay. Producers give her too much power. Lindsay didn’t do the last two episodes because America didn’t like her and got her kicked off.”
Reps for both actresses are downplaying any drama.
“America is grateful to have had her on the show and thinks everyone should tune in to see how great the episodes are,” Ferrera’s rep said.
Adds Lohan’s rep: “Lindsay was scheduled for six episodes and is appearing in four, but had a lovely time.”
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Anne Hathaway’s ex-BF gets 4.5 years
Raffaello Follieri — who pleaded guilty in September to 14 counts of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy — was sentenced in Manhattan federal court Thursday to 4.5 years in prison.
The Italian-born Follieri, 30, was arrested in June and, in papers filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, accused of lying to investors by claiming to be the CFO of the Vatican and using swindled funds for a trip to the Dominican Republic over New Year’s 2005-06 with his “then girlfriend” (Anne Hathaway) and another couple.
According to the complaint, Follieri also used the funds for his $37,000-a month-apartment rent, medical bills for himself and his “then girlfriend,” as well as for orthodontist bills for his father.
Follieri’s attorney, Flora Edwards, has said her client had good intentions when he started a business to buy property from the Catholic church but that he “became intoxicated with it all” when he began moving in A-list circles.
Follieri and Hathaway, 25, dated for four years but split in June just before his arrest. Earlier this month, as she hosted Saturday Night Live, Hathaway poked fun at the incidents, saying, “I broke up with my boyfriend, and two weeks later he was sent to prison for fraud. I mean, we’ve all been there, right, ladies?”
Follieri, who conceivably could have faced up to 265 years in prison, had agreed not to appeal a sentence less than 63 months in prison.
His plea agreement included a stipulation that he forfeit $2.44 million (representing what he obtained through illegal activity). He also agreed to forfeit 12 wristwatches and nine pieces of fine jewelry, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
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Lindsay Lohan acts ugly, cut from “Betty”
Good behavior never seems to last in Hollywood. The New York Post is reporting that Lindsay Lohan’s guest gig on “Ugly Betty” has been cut from six to four episodes after she clashed with show star America Ferrera and displayed general attitude issues. Lohan’s character went from being Betty’s high school nemesis to the present-day boss of Betty’s dad at a burger restaurant.
One production source said, “It was a mess. Lindsay would show up every day with an entourage of people. She smoked 24/7, and after she left, they had to repaint her dressing room it was such a mess.”
In addition, Lohan “would obsessively cut pictures of herself out of the tabloids like she was creating some sort of scrapbook and refused to go on set until America was there - it was a power play.”
One episode, titled “Granny Pants,” was about how Lohan, playing Betty’s high school nemesis, would “de-pants” Ferrera. But Ferrera exacts her revenge and pulls down Lohan’s pants instead. “Lindsay wasn’t wearing any underwear,” the source said.
But a Lohan pal fumed, “Bull [bleep]! Lindsay wears underwear all the time now. She was wearing a G-string. And it was America’s fault. They were rehearsing the scene and America wasn’t supposed to pull Lindsay’s pants down — but she did. Lindsay was so embarrassed, she started crying.”
As for the dressing room, Lohan’s pal said it was also used by the cast of the Fox sci-fi thriller “Fringe.” “So maybe they messed it up. And an entourage? Yeah, she had her sober companion with her, as well as her manager, assistant and (girlfriend) Samantha Ronson. Her publicist was there a couple of times. But so what?”
The pal blames Ferrera for any issues, saying, “America was mean to Lindsay. Producers give her too much power. Lindsay didn’t do the last two episodes because America didn’t like her and got her kicked off.”
Ferrera’s rep would only say, “America is grateful to have had her on the show and thinks everyone should tune in to see how great the episodes are.”
Lohan’s rep said, “Lindsay was scheduled for six episodes and is appearing in four but had a lovely time.”
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Palin talks about wedding, other stuff
In a free-flowing interview with People magazine, Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, talk about all sorts of things, from what she reads to what they eat to who does the housework. And now that their daughter has celebrated her 18th birthday, the GOP vice-presidential candidate says she’s hoping Bristol and fiance Levi Johnston — who are expecting a baby in December — will tie the knot well before the date next summer the young couple had been eyeing.
“Hopefully before that,” Sarah Palin told the magazine in an Oct. 15 interview that will hit newsstands Friday. “Bristol turns 18 in a few days [Oct. 18]. That’s what we wanted her to wait for: 18, and a decision on her own about how she’s going to go forward, her and Levi, at this point.”
Taking a break between campaign speeches in New Hampshire, Palin and her husband, Todd, both 44, spoke about Bristol, Tina Fey and sex ed. They also responded to readers’ questions about politics, life with five kids, ages 6 months to 19 years, and what’s next for the Alaska governor, win or lose.
Read the whole interview here.
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Brooke & Charlie Sheen expecting twins
“Brooke and Charlie are expecting twins, and they are so excited,” said Brooke’s mom, Moira Fiore. “Obviously, I am floating on air.” She said the couple thinks the kids are boys, but aren’t sure.
“Brooke has had all day morning sickness but is coming to the end of the first trimester so she hopefully will feel better soon,” says Fiore of her 31-year-old daughter. “It has been rough for her.” Still, “Brooke looks so beautiful,” adds her mom. “She is just glowing.”
The babies are due in April.
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Jennifer Aniston is NOT pregnant
She glows — always has — but despite rampant rumors that Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer got back together because of a baby-to-be, her rep says she is not pregnant. That could, of course, change tonight, because that’s how pregnancy happens. Careful, kids!
Blogs were abuzz after Australia’s New Weekly suggested in its cover story that the actress took John Mayer back because she is having their baby.
But Aniston’s rep told Entertainment Tonight, “Give me a break. She is NOT pregnant.”
Meanwhile, the two seem to be going strong. They held hands during dinner Oct. 14 and he stroked her hair at his 31st birthday party at Beverly Hills’ cigar bar Grand Havana Room.
Says a source of the couple (who began dating in April but split in August): “They can’t deny their major chemistry, similarities and ability to laugh at things.”
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Dr. Phil sued for fraud by former guest
The memorabilia dealer who led O.J. Simpson to a hotel room where an infamous robbery occurred filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the “Dr. Phil” show claiming his remarks in an interview were spliced to change their meaning.
Thomas Riccio, who testified at Simpson’s recent kidnapping-robbery trial, sued Philip McGraw — Dr. Phil to his friends — and Stage 29 Media for unspecified damages. The lawsuit claims defamation, fraud, emotional distress and being portrayed in a false light. Riccio said that on the show he was referred to as “the shady deal maker,” “a puppet master who would sell his soul for a coin” and “the ring leader of this crime.”
He said that during the show, McGraw falsely claimed that Riccio “set O.J. Simpson up and told people to bring guns into the room.” Riccio said his denial of those statements and his claim that he is anti-gun were edited out and replaced with a shot of him nodding his head as if in agreement with the host.
The Oct. 6 interview aired Oct. 8. Simpson was convicted of 12 charges in a Las Vegas court Oct. 3.
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‘Iron Man’ switch shocked Terrence Howard
Terrence Howard says was surprised to learn that Don Cheadle would replace him in “Iron Man 2.”
“It was the surprise of a lifetime,” the actor and musician told National Public Radio on Tuesday. “There was no explanation, (the contract) just up and vanished.”
Howard said he read news reports that money was the issue, saying the contracts he signs apparently “aren’t worth the paper that they’re printed on sometimes.”
Cheadle assumes the role of James Rhodes, a character that becomes Iron Man’s sidekick War Machine in the comics. Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his role as weapons mogul Tony Stark.
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DWTS’ Hough OK after hospitalization
Julianne Hough is feeling a whole lot better following her hospitalization for stomach pains after Tuesday’s results show. “I’m ok,” Hough, 20, writes in a new blog post dated Oct. 22. “I’m fine.”
The pro dancer also reveals that she was feeling ill all day, but managed to soldier through the broadcast and even pulled off an encore performance of her jitterbug with partner Cody Linley.
“I didn’t feel well the whole day,” she writes. “But I’m a trooper. I didn’t tell anyone. I didn’t want to be dramatic about things. I don’t know if anyone could see my face during the show, but I was trying so hard to put a smile on. I was in so much pain. Afterward, I went backstage and curled up in a ball. That’s when everyone said I needed to go to the hospital.”
Contrary to some reports, Hough says she didn’t “collapse” and, in fact, was more concerned with taking off her I Love Lucy-inspired costume before heading to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
“There was no way I was going to the hospital wearing that stuff,” she writes. “I quickly changed out of my wig and my dress. But I forgot to take off my over-drawn Lucy lipstick. By the time I realized, I was like whatever; I’m sure they see a lot worse there.”
Hough’s condition, it turns out, wasn’t serious: She had a bad stomach ache, and left the hospital after being examined and is planning on sitting out the group dance rehearsal Wednesday and taking “it easy today.”
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Former Power Ranger actor convicted
Skylar Deleon, who appeared (in a non-speaking role) on the popular television show “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” was convicted Monday of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast.
An Orange County jury found Deleon, 29, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and special circumstances for financial gain and multiple victims. Deleon’s attorney had conceded to the jury from the outset that Deleon was guilty but should not be put to death. The penalty phase of the trial will begin Wednesday, Oct. 22.
Deleon’s attorney Gary Pohlson told reporters that he plans to convince the jury to spare his client’s life by having Deleon’s relatives and doctors testify during the punishment phase about his troubled past. “He’s had a horrible, horrible life,” Pohlson said, noting that Deleon’s father abused him and later died of AIDS.
Tom and Jackie Hawks were thrown from their yacht in 2004 during a cruise to show the vessel to Deleon, whom they believed was a prospective buyer.
Deleon was also found guilty of murdering Jon Jarvi, of Anaheim, in 2003. Prosecutors had said Deleon met Jarvi in a work furlough program while serving jail time for burglary, and killed him in Mexico after Jarvi gave him $50,000.
Prosecutors said Deleon feigned interest in buying the boat and took a test cruise where he and two other men overpowered the Hawkses, forced the couple to sign over ownership of the boat, tied them to the anchor and dumped them into the Pacific Ocean.
The Hawkses’ bodies were never found.
Deleon’s then-wife Jennifer Henderson was convicted in 2006 and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Three other defendants have pleaded not guilty. Two are accused of being on the yacht when the Hawkses were thrown overboard, and the final defendant is accused of planning the killings but not of being on the boat.
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Shock! Horror! Brad Paisley “arrested”!!!!
Not really. Brad Paisley was on the receiving end of a prank — “the best I’ve ever been had,” claims the country star — devised by his current tour mate, Jewel.
After wrapping up the last concert date with her and Chuck Wicks in San Antonio, Paisley flew home to Nashville on his private plane Sunday.There, he was greeted on the tarmac by two men dressed as police officers — and a camera crew from Great American Country TV.
Cuffing Paisley, the men said they had a warrant for his arrest for his involvement in “serious crimes.”
Replied Paisley: “You’ve gotta be kidding me! I’ve never done anything wrong in my life!’”
The country star, 35, was placed in the back of an unmarked car while one “officer” explained, “We have a Miss Jewel Murray who has filed 42 charges against you in the states of Texas and Tennessee for excessive noodling.”
Realizing he was being punk’d, Paisley broke out laughing. “Noodling? On the guitar?” Paisley asked the faux force. “You know what, I am guilty.”
Paisley admired Jewel’s effort, which utilized two retired police officers. “This is absolutely as good as it gets. This is the best I’ve ever been had,” he said.
Paisley himself is no stranger to pranks, having once imprisoned tour mate Jack Ingram in a PVC pipe cage onstage. More recently, he “tarred” (with syrup) and feathered fellow headliner Wicks while the “Stealing Cinderella” singer, 29, was performing, then played a video in front of the audience of Wicks’ girlfriend, Dancing with the Stars’ Julianne Hough — announcing she was dumping him.
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Hulk Hogan’s boy sprung from slammer
After serving 166 days behind bars, Hulk Hogan’s son Nick Bollea was released from a Florida jail around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21. His sister Brooke rushed up and gave him a hug as he exited Pinellas County jail.
Nick, 18, was then taken immediately to his family’s home in Clearwater, Florida, E! News reports.
He had been serving eight months in jail after pleading no contest to reckless driving charges stemming from an August 2007 crash that left his best friend, John Graziano, in critical condition. He was released three months early due to good behavior.
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Sarah Silverman a big London flop
All standups know that heckling is part of the process, but apparently Sarah Silverman’s London show didn’t leave time for any. Afterwards? That’s another story.
According to the BBC, fans, who’d paid about £50 a ticket, slow hand clapped and shouted they wanted their money back after her 40-minute set. After the audience refused to leave, Silverman was forced to give a Q&A session as an encore after admitting she had no other material prepared.
Unimpressed fans shouted “you’re over-hyped Sarah” and “I’ve seen longer clips on YouTube”, before the star told the audience to “go home” and the left the stage.
Then, of course, the Internet got involved. Steve Bennett from comedy website Chortle complained that “minute for minute, there are sex phonelines that are cheaper than Sarah Silverman.”
BBC Radio 1 reporter Kev Geoghegan, who was also at the gig, said Silverman looked “clearly mystified” as to why she had to return to the stage after her short set. “For a gig that size of 3,600 people and a first night in London to show people what all the fuss in America is about her, she could’ve done more — she should have been able to fill for another 20 minutes.”
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Madonna’s adopted son’s bio-dad: He’s better off with me
The Daily Mail is adding to the Madonna divorce basket of trouble with a report that the real father of her adopted son, David, is disappointed about the drama. “I am still a poor farmer with nothing to offer, but maybe he would be better off back with us.”
Yohane Banda, 34, has remarried and now has a happy new family living in his thatched hut in Malawi.
His new wife Flora, her daughter Tiyamike, three, and their seven-month-old baby son Dingiswayo — David’s half-brother — live a simple life but it is filled with love, he said.
“This is a new and terrible thing to happen to him. I am too upset to think clearly. He is only three years old and he has been through so much. I have the joy of a new family and I even have a new son. But now when I think of David in danger of living outside a family life I find it unbearable, I find it hard to believe God intended this.
“This woman Madonna told me herself that David was beautiful and made her happy and she promised to take good care of him. Now I see him in a big bewildering crowd in the street with people pushing and shoving, and many cameras around, and without a mother and father to hold his hand. I’m feeling bad for him.”
The peasant farmer placed David in the Home of Hope orphanage at seven weeks old after his mother died from childbirth complications.
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Watch Wahlberg, Samberg “feud”: Nice try
Worst part is, it wasn’t funny.
In case you’re wondering why they went to the trouble, Wahlberg has a new movie coming out.
Reason enough.
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Tennis coach “won’t deny” Duchovny affair
Tennis coach Edit Pakay, 28, has spoken to the Daily Mail about her close relationship with David Duchovny, who announced his separation from Tea Leoni shortly after leaving rehab for sex addiction. Edit admitted: ‘We have a very, very close friendship. I don’t want to be the third person in the marriage but I know it can be seen that way. David and I are very close friends and we still play tennis together. He’s an excellent player. He likes physically strong, fit women.
‘He is in great shape. He is a wonderful man. He’s a very intelligent, very kind and good man.’
When asked directly if her relationship with the film and TV star had developed into a full-blown sexual affair, Edit said: “I don’t want to say anything that might hurt David. I am not going to deny it. I don’t know what our relationship means to him.”
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Video: Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live
It was OK.
Kind of like the Saturday Night Live sketches we’d grown used to: Just OK. At least there was a costume change …
Still, according to Alec Baldwin, Sarah Palin is “way hotter in person.”
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Madonna divorce gets real ugly, real fast
Just days after their divorce was confirmed, mud is being flung in the battle of Guy Ritchie and Madonna. First she slammed the “emotionally retarded” at her first post-divorce concert while introducing a song about marital estrangement. Now, accusations are flying and Guy’s dad has stepped in with harsh words for his daughter-in-law.
From the Telegraph:
Friends have told a newspaper that that the marriage first ran into serious difficulties in 2005 when Madonna fell from her horse. She suffered eight broken bones and felt that Ritchie showed “a complete lack of love and sympathy”. She is said to have demanded in a recent argument: “Did you ever actually love me?”
In his first comments about the marriage split, Ritchie’s father, John, said of the reports: “She is being beastly. She is saying, ‘Did you ever love me?’ It goes back to a time when she fell off her horse and she’s blaming him for that. She’s calling him an emotional retard. When he’s being bashed by her it’s horrid.”
There’s also a story that Madonna was ticked because Guy said she looked like a granny.
Lawyers for the singer, who was widely believed to be the dominant partner in the marriage, are putting together a dossier of incidents.
They include allegations that he told her she ‘looked like a granny’ on stage compared with her younger backing dancers. He is also alleged to have declared that she could not act, and was ‘past it’ after she turned 50.
Her lawyers say that 40-year-old Ritchie’s comments made Madonna feel worthless, unattractive, unfeminine, insecure and isolated during their eight-year marriage.
The Mail has learned that Madonna’s case will chronicle how she first fell for Ritchie because she felt he was a challenge and that he was tough enough to stand up to her.
However, she apparently soon started to become affected by her husband’s alleged put-downs which eventually started to eat away at her legendary confidence.Another report is about the tight ship Madonna ran at home and her extreme personal grooming habits:
Her irrational food fads and increasingly bizarre attempts to hold back time — via surgery, exercise and every therapy going — certainly helped to doom their marriage.
How could anyone expect Ritchie, a macho man who is fond of the pub and likes to shoot pheasant, to dine contentedly every night on quinoa grains and organic vegetable dumplings?
And how was he supposed to react when his wife took to retiring at night slathered in £500-a-pot cream and covered in a plastic body-suit to hold back the signs of ageing?
It now emerges that every aspect of life at the Ritchie residence in London was dictated by the lady of the house. Madonna, who embraced a macrobiotic diet in the early 1990s, told her chefs what was permitted: she chose the precise blend of Colombian coffee and tutted over the exact provenance of air-freighted Canadian blueberries.
Guy, then, has allegedly had to endure a life married to a 5’4” domestic tyrant whose rules apparently included no TV, no newspapers, and no welcome for his ‘London’ friends — sustained on a diet which would make a Hollywood starlet feel faint. He had to drink his tea every day with rice milk, as dairy is banned.
We could go on, but won’t. You can, by following this link to a story about Guy’s disdain for Kabbalah.
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George Hamilton: “I slept with stepmom!”
Hollywood star George Hamilton has revealed that he had a sexual relationship with his stepmother when he was 12 and she was 28. He told the gals on “The View” that the relationship “was very normal.” And no, his dad didn’t know, even when they hooked up years later and started all over again — mainly because by that time his dad was dead.
What? Does he have a new book or something? Right-o!!! “Don’t Mind If I Do: A Memoir” is the title, and he’s making the rounds, shocking Barbara and Joy et al.
Hamilton laughed off claims that he was abused, saying he was a very willing partner — even though the law in America insists consent is irrelevant in child abuse cases.
“The bottom line is it didn’t feel abnormal. From my point of view it wasn’t something so crazy. I don’t think it warped me in my life,” he said. Here’s the video - the good part starts at 2:10.
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Wahlberg continues rage against SNL
This is too weird — we’re calling foul (fowl?) … Looks like a setup for a nice fake fight, live from New York. Soon. Very soon. Tomorrow, even.
Mark Wahlberg wants to punch Andy Samberg in the nose for doing a skit about him, and said so in no uncertain terms on Jimmy Kimmel’s Thursday night show. Walhberg already voiced his displeasure at the SNL skit, in which Samberg imitates him talking to animals.
Wahlberg told Kimmel, “When I see that kid, I’m going to crack that big f—-ing nose of his. Then I’m going to tell him, ‘say hi to your mother for me’. … I’m going to go down to ‘30 Rock’.. and I’m going to slap him in the nose… I guaran-f—-ing-tee you.”
He says it with a lot more curse words though, hence the many bleeps in the full clip below, which we’re glad includes a piece of the not-funny — but not-offensive — clip Wahlberg pretends to be so mad about.
Here’s the whole original, if you’ve got the time.
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Angelina admits to breaking up Brad & Jen
Angelina Jolie reveals she and Brad Pitt fell in love on the set of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” — which Pitt filmed while still married to Jennifer Aniston. Surprised? We’re not. Then, as usual, Angelina turns it back to her children: “Not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love,” said Jolie, 33, who wants her kids to see the flick.
One sight she’s not ready for her six children to see? Racy Internet pictures of herself, or, perhaps, some shots of her with Billy Bob’s name on her arm and his blood in a vial around her neck. Makes adultery seem almost reasonable.
Jolie says she worries, “(Maddox will) look up my name and see some kind of sexy pictures, or read a story about himself that isn’t true. There’s a lot we’re going to have to explain to them about how public their family is,” Jolie adds.
There’s more, but if you’re the least bit normal, you’re sick to death of Angelina. It almost makes you crave some news about J.Lo. But not quite.
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Will Ferrell takes Bush to Broadway
Will Ferrell will make his Broadway debut in January in the new solo comedy “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush.”
Production will be helmed by Adam McKay, the writer-director of Ferrell pics “Step Brothers,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” Production begins previews Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, ahead of a Feb. 1 opening at the Cort Theater. The limited engagement will end March 15.
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Gyllenhaal mom divorcing Gyllenhaal dad
Hope we spelled that right.
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, filed for divorce from Stephen Gyllenhaal on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The couple married in 1976.
At a 2007 press conference, Jake was asked what relationship advice his parents had given him. “This marks the 30th wedding anniversary of my parents,” he responded. “A young man came up to my dad and asked him, ‘What’s it like being married to the same woman for 30 years?’ My dad answered, ‘She’s not the same woman.’” Hmmm — he probably meant well, but that’s a statement certainly open to interpretation.
Naomi was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and received the Pen West Screenplay Award and the Golden Globe Award, for her screenplay “Running On Empty.” She also wrote and produced “A Dangerous Woman.” She was involved with the development of Sesame Street and The Electric Company and has an ongoing interest in progressive politics, according to her Foxsearchlight.com biography. She is involved with the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Laboratory, has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America.
Stephen is a long-time director who has worked on such TV shows “Army Wives,” “Numb3rs” and “The Shield.” He also directed “A Dangerous Woman,” in which Jake and Maggie had roles. “Claptrap: Notes From Hollywood” is his first collection of poems to be published. Stephen is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. He was born in Cleveland. Go Browns.
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McCain to Letterman: “I screwed up”
John McCain made an apologetic appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, blaming nobody but himself for his much-ridiculed cancellation last month.
“I screwed up. What can I say?” the Republican presidential nominee told Letterman on Thursday night’s show. There was, however, a silver lining, said McCain.
“Look at all the conversation I gave you,” he told Letterman.
The late-night host had been skewering the Arizona senator since he missed a Sept. 24 appearance during the momentary suspension of his campaign due to the economic crisis.
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Peter Cook sex tape surfaces
We hadn’t heard them, but apparently rumors have been long circulating about an explicit home video showing Christie Brinkley’s ex-husband Peter Cook having sex with his young office worker Diana Bianchi. Now, it seems the New York Post’s Page Six has proof. The tape is described in relatively graphic detail here.
In July, Brinkley settled her divorce with Cook, whose affair with then-18-year-old Bianchi seen as the reason the 10-year marriage imploded. He got $2.1 million of her $60 million fortune, and she won full custody of their kids. Cook, who confessed to a $3,000-a-month online porn habit, paid $300,000 to Bianchi in a legal settlement that kept her quiet.
A follow-up rumor is that Cook settled for so little because Brinkley found the pictures on his computer. Brinkley’s lawyer Robert Cohen said: “Nothing about Peter Cook’s behavior shocks us. We don’t know anything about this tape. We never saw it and we never heard about it. Christie’s concern is for the sake of her children and she hopes this video is kept private.”
Bianchi’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said she may sue Cook over the video. “We are now going to review, and begin weighing our legal options, for Diana,” he said. Cook declined to comment, but a source close to him said: “He has no knowledge that any such material exists, but it is well known that Cook and Bianchi had a consensual affair, so anything is possible.”
Anything is possible — truer words were never spoken.
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Leary backs off “autism’s a joke” stance
OK, he got our attention, now he wants some more. Denis Leary is looking to rescue himself from a firestorm of criticism. Enough with the puns.
In response to reports that his book, “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid” (out Nov. 18) makes light of autism or treats it as if it were an excuse, Leary suggests reading the book first.
“If they have, they missed the sections I thought made my feelings about autism very clear: that I not only support the current rational approaches to the diagnoses and treatment of real autism but have witnessed it firsthand while watching very dear old friends raise a functioning autistic child. … The point of the chapter is not that autism doesn’t exist — it obviously does — and I have nothing but admiration and respect for parents dealing with the issue, including the ones I know.”
“The bulk of the chapter deals with grown men who are either self-diagnosing themselves with low-level offshoots of the disease or wishing they could as a way to explain their failed careers and troublesome progeny. Of course, this entire misunderstanding can be easily avoided simply by doing one thing — reading the book. Taking one or two sentences out of context — especially when it involves an entire chapter devoted to the subject — is unfair and ill-advised.
“Too often in this country, everything gets reduced to simple sound bites and very very often those sound bites are not truly representative of an author or artist’s point of view.”
To recap, all Leary wants is for you to buy the book. Simple, that.
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Duchovny, Tea Leoni reveal separation
David Duchovny, who recently left rehab for sex addiction, and wife Tea Leoni released a statement Wednesday, Oct. 15, saying they have been separated for some time.
“In light of continuous speculation over the lives and marriage of Tea Leoni and David Duchovny, the couple has confirmed that they have in fact been separated for several months,” the statement says. “The couple had hoped to keep this separation private for the sake of their children.”
Duchovny, 48, has been married to actress Leoni since 1997. They have two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.
The actor voluntarily entered rehab last summer “for the treatment of sex addiction,” he said in a statement issued in August. Earlier this month, Duchnovny had “successfully completed the rehab program,” his lawyer said. Duchovny was then spotted with Leoni at the Czech Street Festival in Manhattan.
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Madonna, A-Rod “definitely romantic”
On the heels of Madonna’s announcement that she and Guy Ritchie are divorcing, US Weekly reports that she and the New York Yankees slugger “are definitely romantic.”
“Guy is not involved in this equation,” an insider tells the magazine. “With or without A-Rod, Madonna and Guy haven’t been ‘together’ for over a year — they have been privately separated. Madonna, however, wanted to finish her world tour before divorcing.”
According to an A-Rod source, “A-Rod and Madonna are more involved than ever. Alex has really missed spending time with Madonna. However, he understands the position Madonna’s in.”
The source told Us six days ago that Madonna “has agreed to be discreet about her relationship with A-Rod until her tour ends and a divorce is announced.”
Madonna has been linked to Rodriguez since early July when Us Weekly broke the news that he had been making late-night visits to her Central Park West apartment in New York City. He would sneak out “as late as midnight,” the magazine reported.
Around the time, Rodriguez’s wife, Cynthia, filed for divorce because of Rodriguez’s alleged extramarital affairs. Madonna vehemently denied a fling, but Cynthia’s attorney said she had an “affair of the heart” with the ball player.
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Denis Leary says autism is “a joke”
In Denis Leary’s new book, “Why We Suck: A Feel-Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid,” he takes a shot at autism — for reasons known only to him.
“There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks … to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you — yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”
The Autism Society of America responded: “For Mr. Leary to suggest that families or doctors conspire to falsely diagnose autism is ridiculous … (His) remarks reflect the same misconceptions of autism being caused by bad or unemotional parenting that were held over 50 years ago.”
Follow the jump for more Leary rants.
On Dr. Phil: “(He says) such thick and exasperating things as, ‘Everybody has their own personal Ground Zero.’ Oh, really? Does that mean someday two large speeding planes will crash into the side of your insipid hairless head? Let’s hope so.”
On Paul McCartney and Heather Mills: “She must have given great (bleep) . . Plus, he’s a big pothead so he probably figured the fake leg would come in handy for smuggling marijuana.”
On Hillary Clinton: “If she had changed her campaign motto from ‘Blah Blah Something Change’ to ‘Vote for Me or Your Wife Won’t (bleep) You,’ she would have had the election wrapped up at sunset on Super Tuesday. As Tip O’Neill once said, ‘All politics is local.’ And for men, it doesn’t get much more local than your crotch.”
Let the firestorm begin.
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Simon Cowell makes too much money
What’s a nasty judge worth? A lot more than an incoherent, babbling judge, it seems. Earlier this year, Forbes reported that Simon Cowell makes $72 million a year, of which $45 million is for each season of American Idol.
The show’s former executive producer Nigel Lythgoe severely underestimated Cowell’s salary when he told Australia’s Courier-Mail, “I think Simon is now earning something like $36 million a year from Fox alone but they can afford to pay him that because at one point we heard (Fox) were getting something like $900,000 and $1 million per 30 seconds in advertising revenue.”
Even using that inaccurately low number, Lythgoe said Cowell’s pay is a point of contention. “(Jackson’s and Abdul’s) salary has never been advertised and Simon has been in Forbes which is why I am talking about it. But there is always jealousy in every job. Why is he getting more than the other two judges? Because it is believed that he brings more to the table. Also, he has actually handled his negotiations quite brilliantly,” Lythgoe said.
Paula is particularly upset, according to an anonymous source allegedly close to Paula Abdul, who told MSNBC that “Paula knew that Simon was getting paid more, but she never imagined it was this much more. This could really put her in a bad way. She has a lot of concerns with feeling appreciated. First, they bring in another judge (Kara DioGuardi) and now it’s ridiculously obvious that she’s getting pennies compared to Simon.”
So the only real news here is that Paula doesn’t read Forbes, and is only now realizing that her incomprehensible babble and awkward hand clapping isn’t all that valuable. At least she gets free food out of the deal; Lythgoe told the newspaper, “Whenever we go out to dinner (Simon) is certainly the first one to put his credit card down.”
No word on how Randy’s taking the whole controversy.
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Ringo to fans: Leave me alone!
Ringo Starr is all about the peace and love, peace and love, but keep your crap to yourself. The former Beatle, 68, posted a video on his Web site telling fans anything sent to him postmarked after Oct. 20 will be thrown in the garbage. Why? He’s just too busy.
“It’s going to be tossed,” he says on the video. “I’m warning you with peace and love, I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing. Anyway, peace and love, peace and love.”
Irony alert: The heretofore good-natured drummer guest-starred on a 1991 episode of “The Simpsons” in which he is shown scrupulously answering every piece of fan mail that comes his way. “They took the time to write to me, and I don’t care if it takes 20 years, I’m going to answer every one of them,” Starr said on the show.
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Tim McGraw apologizes for new album
Tim McGraw apologized for his latest greatest hits album, saying his label should have instead released a record with new music.
“I am saddened and disappointed that my label chose to put out another hits album instead of new music,” says the country singer. “I’ve only had one studio album since my last hits package. It has to be just as confusing to the fans as it is to me.”
McGraw, 41, said he has been working on a new studio album for more than a year and has debuted three new songs on his tour. But he said his label, Curb Records, decided to release a greatest hits album instead, to extend his contract term.
“I had no involvement in the creation or presentation of this record,” he says. “Sure, I love the songs and I don’t want to take anything away from all the creative people who were a part of making those records. But the whole concept is an embarrassment to me as an artist. In the spirit of an election year, I would simply say to my fans ‘I’m Tim McGraw, and I don’t approve their message.’ ”
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Jennifer Aniston, John Mayer try it again
Looks like Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer are giving their relationship another chance. The pair met up Friday in Boston to attend a Ray LaMontagne concert.
“It was a very public date,” a source says in the newest issue of Us Weekly.
Mayer was in town teaching a weeklong music class at his alma mater, the Berklee College of Music. The couple then jetted together to New York City for the remainder of the weekend.
Mayer, 31, and Aniston, 39, split in August after dating for four months.
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Marcia Brady: Sex, drugs & Michael Jackson
Maureen McCormick, forever better known as Marcia Brady, has written a book. It’s out today (Oct. 14), and, not coincidentally, stories are being planted all over the place (including here) that say the book, “Here’s the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice,” reveals intimate details about her secret life of binging on cocaine, trading sex for drugs and dating Greg (among others….)
In the book, she writes about her romances with Michael Jackson and Steve Martin. She delves into her relationship with Barry Williams, who played Greg Brady. Steve Martin? Say it ain’t so!!! (At least he didn’t go out with Cindy.)
The affair intensified while the “The Brady Bunch” filmed episodes in Hawaii. “We couldn’t hold back any longer,” she writes. “It was our first kiss, and it was long, passionate and deep. It was wonderful, too, though as we continued to kiss and press against each other so closely that we could feel each other’s body heat, a part of me — a tiny part, admittedly — said to myself, `Oh my God! I’m kissing my brother. What am I doing?’” Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!!!!
McCormick’s drug addiction and depression fueled her downward spiral as she unsuccessfully tried to reconcile her real life with the one she had portrayed on TV. In the memoir, she writes about cocaine binges and parties at the Playboy Mansion and the home of Sammy Davis Jr., an unwanted pregnancy and trading sex for drugs.
Seriously. Jan was the more interesting sister, but this is a memoir that appears to have it all.
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Katie Holmes’ dance: Hot, or embarrassing?
The cast of the ABC show “Eli Stone” can’t stop gushing about Katie Holmes’ upcoming song-and-dance number on the Oct. 21 episode, but that’s because their taste is dictated by their contract.
“She can sing and dance,” Natasha Henstridge said. “She did a fantastic job.”
Holmes — who plays a non-profit attorney with a mysterious case — belts out “Hit Me with a Hard Note” for a dream sequence involving Eli (Jonny Lee Miller).
Although “she got an amazing choreographer,” Henstridge said she didn’t need one. “She’s a very talented girl. I’ve only seen the clips like you have, but it’s pretty hot!”
You be the judge.
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Lisa Marie’s babies: Finley and Harper
Lisa Marie Presley and husband Michael Lockwood have picked out names for their newborn twin girls: Finley and Harper.
The couple’s first children together were born Oct. 7 via C-section and weighed 5 lbs., 15 oz. and 5 lbs., 2 oz. Presley, 40, also has daughter Riley, 19, a model, and Benjamin, 15, with ex-husband Danny Keough.
We’re all shook up.
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Brian Grazer’s divorce details: Pricey!!
We love us some divorce dirt, and here’s some, though the parties aren’t exactly household names: Details of Brian Grazer’s divorce from author Gigi Levangie Grazer have been made public on TMZ.com (as usual), and they are pricey.
According to papers filed by Gigi’s accountant, Grazer’s cash haul per year is $28 million, $13 mil of which came from his production company salary. The rest comes from “corporate distributions … perquisites … as well as interest and dividend income.”
Gigi is asking for nearly a million per month in child and spousal support ($988,184), including a grand per month for “furniture and appliance replacement” at their Hawaii house. She spends $7K for “fine art” every month … just for their NYC pad. But she’s only asking for $42 a month to clean the place. They have two sons together and she was his third wife.
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G-rated pix from X-rated “Paylin” flick
Here’s the place to see some really bad pictures taken by some really sneaky person on the set of “Nailin’ Paylin,” the X-rated movie made by Larry Flynt’s Hustler production company. The plot has to do with a couple of drunken Russians whose tank runs out of gas in front of “Paylin’s” house. Good times ensue.
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Kenny Chesney sings about Renee
Kenny Chesney’s new album, “Lucky Old Sun,” was written about his breakup with Renee Zellweger, whom he married in May 2005 after having met her in January of that year. The marriage was annulled after four months, with Zellweger citing fraud, and all of us wondering what the heck she meant. Chesney talked to Newsweek about the relationship, but unfortunately, not the fraud part.
Q: One of your songs is called “Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be.” Is that a theme of your album?
A: It’s the root of the record, for sure. In 2006, I was probably as emotionally and mentally exhausted as I’d ever been. And that was due to a lot of things — having the foot on the gas pedal constantly, and my breakup with Renee Zellweger. I got in a plane and went down to the Virgin Islands. I was completely by myself. I didn’t want to be around anybody. So the next thing you know, it’s me and a pen and I sat down and wrote a lot of lines of this song, “Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be.”
Q: Didn’t you worry about writing about your breakup with Renee?
A: It’s the truth. It’s my life. I’ve been in a lot of states of mind in the last three years. In that way, it’s a pretty honest record. I’ve let myself be more emotionally vulnerable in some of the lyrics. I think that was good therapy.
Q: Are you still heartbroken?
A: Not at all. I already wrote those songs. I’m on to something else.
Q: How long did it take for you to heal?
A: It was horrible. It took a while. Years. It’s been since 2005.
Q: How do you think Renee will react?
A: I have no idea. I don’t know. It’s unpredictable.
Q: Do you still talk to her?
A: No. Well, every now and then. I don’t want to say this whole record is about her.
Q: Are you dating someone else now?
A: Oh yeah. A: Oh, yeah.
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See Britney’s new video right now
The “Womanizer” video was up, then down for a bit Sunday, but here it is again. Who knows how this Interweb thing works, but Britney’s new video is back. So’s she, obviously, looking wonderful. Trashy, of course, but wonderful.
Costume changes!
Lip synching!!
Naked sauna!!!
Sweaty writhing!
Fake jobs! ACTING!!!
It’s a good video. It’s a good song.
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J.Lo, Marc Anthony renew vows in Vegas
It’s been four years since Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony got married — and almost 48 hours since J.Lo has been in the headlines — so the couple decided to renew their wedding vows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, right before papering the country with press releases about the Sunday morning event — 3:30 in the morning, but hey, that’s Vegas.
The night before, they’d gone to dinner, then the Pussycat Dolls show, then Pure Nightclub, where they started asking around for a minister. At about 3 a.m., they headed to their suite to meet the guy and do the deed.
Says the source: “It was very intimate and sweet. They both talked about how much they love each other. The word ‘forever’ was used a lot!” Word is that twins Max and Emme were down the hall in the couple’s suite, being watched over by Lopez’s parents.
And this concludes your Jennifer Lopez “news event” for the day. Or so let’s hope.
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Lisa Marie Presley has twin girls
Quick: Count all the celebrities who’ve given birth to twins in the last couple of years. We’ll wait.
Yeah! Lots of them — our brain started to hurt too. Add this one: Lisa Marie Presley, 40, gave birth Tuesday, Oct. 7, to twin girls. Their names weren’t released, but their weights were (this will soon change - we’ll know their names but ask their weight? Forget it). One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds and 2 ounces.
Presley is the daughter of Elvis Presley — who was a twin too, did you know? His identical brother was stillborn — and is married to music producer Michael Lockwood. She has a 19-year-old daughter and a 15-year-old son by a previous marriage.
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Britney has a brand new smell
Britney Spears has a new perfume, adding to the six she already “sponsors” (Curious, Fantasy, In Control, Midnight Fantasy, Believe and Curious Heart). The new one is called HIDDEN fantasy. The scent is described as being “all about expressing the many, mysterious sides of a woman,” and will be in stores January 2009, just in time to miss Christmas.
In the television ad, Spears, 26, will appear through trees in a forest and ask, “What do you have to hide?”
Her original, Curious, earned $100 million in sales in the five weeks after its 2004 release.
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Which faces sell copies? Angie, Jen & Heath
Here’s another list from Forbes, which declared Dayton near-dead a while back. Should we believe them now?
After analyzing single-copy newsstand sales of the six big celebrity weeklies — People, InTouch, Star, Life&Style, US Weekly and OK! — over a yearlong period ending June 30 (eliminating non-celeb and “collage” covers as well as one-off cover subjects and special issues), they counted how many issues the celebrity’s cover sold as compared with the magazine’s average newsstand sales. They also looked at the number of full covers a celebrity individually graced as well as his or her appeal (provided by an L.A. marketing firm).
For the list, follow the jump.
10. Owen Wilson: Like Heath Ledger, Wilson covers — focused on his reported suicide attempt — benefited from their tragic news angle. Similarly working in his favor: fan adoration. The comedic actor placed third in likability.
9. Heidi Montag: The Hills vixen may be lacking fans — the only cover subject less likable than Montag is Britney Spears — but she can push magazines. Her four solo covers landed her at No. 6 in the cover sales category.
8. Shiloh Jolie Pitt: Though Shiloh has her kiddie rival Suri Cruise beat when it comes to likability, Brangelina’s biological offspring was outranked in both her number of covers and cover sales.
7. Suri Cruise: The adorable tot may not have much to say, but she’s a master at selling magazines. At just 2-and-a-half years old, Cruise has snagged adoring fans and interested readers. In fact, she outperforms even her parents, A-listers Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, on the newsstand.
6. Jessica Simpson: While she’s hardly the fan favorite Jennifer Aniston is — in fact, the pop-star-turned-country-crooner ranks 14th in the likability category — Simpson ranked fourth in cover sales, thanks to the her tumultuous relationship with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
5. Nicole Richie: The pint-sized party-girl-turned-protective-mom has proved her prowess at the newsstand. Richie lands third in the cover sales category, behind Jamie Lynn Spears and Angelina Jolie. But much like the younger Spears sister, her low likability score drags her down.
4. Jamie Lynn Spears: Though she was hardly a tabloid staple before announcing her pregnancy, a then 16-year-old Spears captivated the nation with her news. Her five covers landed her first in the cover sales category. Unfortunately, the Nickelodeon star lagged in the likability category, where she placed an unimpressive 16th.
3. Heath Ledger: It was Ledger’s mysterious and all-too-early death that made him front-cover news — something he hadn’t been prior to his passing. And while male cover subjects traditionally sell fewer copies than female ones, due to their lack of relatability for the heavily female reader base (other cover subjects Brad Pitt and Matthew McConaughey didn’t make the cut), the idea of a talent like Ledger dying so young left readers grasping for answers — and buying magazines in search of them.
2. Jennifer Aniston: Aniston has once again proved highly appealing, this time landing second on the list (she topped it last year). In fact, with the exception of Heath Ledger, Aniston is the most-liked cover model of the year. And thanks to her ever-tumultuous love life, the former Friends star had eight covers all to herself during the year period.
1. Angelina Jolie: Be it her humanitarian efforts or her ever-expanding brood, Jolie has little trouble garnering interest — and, for that matter, landing covers. In fact, she graced 29 in the past year, ranking second behind Britney Spears in the cover category. She also places second in cover sales, this time behind another Spears: Britney’s teenage sister, new mother Jamie Lynn.
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Angie says Brad talked her into pregnancies
In the wake of W’s photo spread of private Brangelina photos — taken by Pitt and coming out this week (see the cover here) — you’d think we’d seen and heard enough about the star couple. But now. Angelina Jolie has decided to “reveal” that she only wanted to adopt children, but Brad changed her mind. The “revelations” are in the same W issue that features Angie breastfeeding on the cover. When will someone realize enough is enough?????
“I think one of the life changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do,” Jolie, 33, said.
But when she saw Pitt, 44, with adopted children Maddox and Zahara, “I knew that he would never see them as different, and that gave me a certain peace,” Jolie says. “I suppose I just looked at him and loved him and just felt open to (getting pregnant),” she says. “I suddenly wanted to. It’s one of those things you can’t explain.”
Now, after having three children with Pitt, including 3-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne and 2-year-old Shiloh, “I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world,” says Jolie. “It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn’t otherwise be here.”
In the intimate W magazine pictures taken by Pitt just weeks after the twins’ birth, Jolie bares her body — quite comfortably, she says.
“I’m with a man who’s evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful, because of the journey it has taken and what it has created,” she says. “He genuinely sees it that way. So I genuinely feel even sexier.”
Jolie says she has “a lot of respect” for Pitt, who helps her “to be better and fight hard for the things that I love.”
“I do think that I’m in a good partnership now,” she says. “I think it just needed to be with the right man.”
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Breastfeeding Angelina pictures published
We’re all sick of Angelina-earth-mother-goddess-of-beauty-and-light, but prepare to get a bit sicker.
Brad Pitt’s long-awaited photos of Angelina Jolie for W magazine, shot in August, are finally coming out — with their blessing, not to worry. Today the cover, featuring Jolie breastfeeding one of the new twins Knox and Vivienne, was released. The whole thing hits newsstands next week and was shot at the house the couple and their six kids have leased in France.
At least she’s of age, unlike Jamie Lynn Spears.
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Christie Brinkley loses latest court battle
It seems to be going around, this telling your ex to shut the heck up about the marriage that was.
But Christie Brinkley lost the latest round, being denied her request for a temporary restraining order that would have stopped her ex-husband Peter Cook from seeing their children over the weekend. Brinkley’s motion was filed Wednesday; Cook’s revealing interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters is set to air Friday, Oct. 10.
On Thursday, Brinkley’s lawyer issued the following statement: “The court order mandates that since Peter Cook has the children this weekend, his parenting has to be away from his home and he can’t expose them to the 20/20 broadcast. Christie Brinkley’s sole concern is to protect her children.”
A source close to Cook explains that Brinkley fought for the temporary restraining order “because the kids are seen in footage during the 20/20 interview.” The Cook source added, “I find it silly that someone who not only allows her children to be in the media but encourages it would have a complaint like this.”
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NBC plans Thursday night SNL specials
NBC will air three Thursday night specials “for fans who can’t get enough signature ‘Saturday Night Live’ humor in this current political landscape.”
For the next three Thursdays (starting tonight!), tune in for live half-hour shows at 9:30 p.m. They will be in a “Weekend Update” format, with surprise commentators.
Here’s the NBC hype: “The live nature of the show will provide an energy and humor that is destined to be watercooler talk the next morning!”
Unplug your cable, Time Warner subscribers, hook up your antenna and get in on the action. No, wait! We’ve made it even easier — click here to get your NBC fix.
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Charlize Theron: $20M for wrong watch?
Charlize Theron will have to pay — big time — for wearing the wrong watch, a Manhattan judge has ruled.
Watchmaker Raymond Weil has already won summary judgment in a federal civil complaint that Theron broke their deal by failing to exclusively wear the pricey timekeeper in public.
Theron and her production company, Denver & Delilah Films Inc., were listed as defendants. The “Monster” star begged out of penalties, but the judge denied her. “It is obvious that Theron cannot be dismissed … she was not an unwary agent,” the judge wrote, noting that Theron’s initials appeared 10 times on the 10-page contract the actress broke.
Damages will be awarded at a jury trial. The watchmaker is seeking $20 million.
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Brolin has harsh words for Shreveport cops
Josh Brolin opened up about his arrest after a barroom brawl in Louisiana during a wrap party for his new movie, “W.,” at Shreveport’s Stray Cat in July. Brolin wound up maced, co-star Jeffery Wright was tasered, and five fellow cast and crew members were thrown in jail. Though he was charged with interfering with an arrest, Brolin described a very different scene than the one painted by early reports from the Shreveport police.
“None of us were drunk; we had just finished shooting three or four hours before,” Brolin told Hollywood Elsewhere columnist Jeffrey Wells. He says the conflict started between Wright, who plays Colin Powell in “W.”, and the establishment’s bartender.
“I don’t know the specifics between Jeffrey [Wright] and the bartender, but he was asked to leave, and I know that was why the cops came, to say OK, it’s time to escort you out. Not because [Jeffrey] was yelling or screaming. He was just saying, ‘Look, I’m here with my friends, I’m celebrating the end of our movie,’ and then they escorted him out, [and] we wanted to know why, and they didn’t want to tell us. They immediately resorted to violence. Which is what the police are there to try and stop and prevent. That didn’t happen. They were the violent ones.”
Witnesses on the scene reportedly heard arresting officers shouting racial slurs. Brolin also confirmed the existence of the long-rumored cell-phone video of the episode. He said, “It was us going….you can see it on the tape…us going ‘whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA.’ There was no fight-back at all.”
So why is Brolin going public with this now, three month after the incident and a month before the trial? Simple. He was waiting for the authorities in Louisiana to drop charges and make amends, to no avail. “My lawyers are befuddled right now. They do not understand and they have never experienced anything like this. The dealings with the Shreveport legal system … I said you know what, it’s too long now, I’m done. I’m done being nice. What’s the worst, they’re gonna put me in jail a couple of months because I spoke out about [their] abuse?”
“I have never ever, ever, ever, ever seen an escalation of paranoia and abuse like that … ever. And I know a lot of cops. Everybody knows I have a checkered past and I’ve been in situations that are kind of tough. I’ve never ever been treated like that by cops. Ever.”
Brolin’s court date in Shreveport is sometime in November or December, while “W.” hits theaters on October 17.
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Nikki Blonsky “in constant pain” after brawl
Nikki Blonsky says she lives “every day in pain” since the July 30 fight involving the family of Bianca Golden, a former contestant on America’s Next Top Model.
Speaking for the first time about the brawl, the Hairspray actress, 19, told People that she and her father Carl are “completely destroyed” by the incident.
The fight erupted at the Providenciales International Airport, where the Blonsky family was waiting to fly home from a Caribbean vacation in the Turks and Caicos. Blonsky says that the Golden family, including Bianca, her mother Elaine and her brother George, grew angry when some passengers were saving seats in the departure area.
Things took a nasty turn, she says, when she asked Bianca not to point her finger in her face. “That’s when she stood up, pulled her arm all the way back and said, ‘F—- you, you white b——.’ And she closed her fist and punched me,” says Blonsky. Golden, whose mother, Elaine, had to be airlifted to a hospital for her injuries, gave a very different account, telling Tyra Banks that Nikki kicked her mother in the groin and that Carl punched her mom in the face. “Absolute lies,” says Nikki.
Nikki, Carl and Bianca all face assault charges related to the fight.
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Courteney Cox: “I HATED Botox!!”
Did he/she or didn’t he/she? Perfect the fine art of forehead watching and you’ll find yourself a winner of the Botox guessing game — plus, it’s a fun way to pass the time during stupid sitcoms and boring debates. Katie Couric, we’re onto you, and Courteney Cox, nice of you to come clean!
“Botox? I think it’s fantastic and also horrible,” she tells November’s Marie Claire. “I mean, they’ve come up with this stuff that can make you not look angry. But you have to use it sparingly.
“I went to this doctor once,” Cox, 44, continues, “and he was like, ‘Oh, let me do it just here and here and here.’ And I was miserable. I mean, I’m an actor, I’ve got to be able to move my face. When people start messing with their foreheads and can’t lift their eyebrows, that’s weird. It’s not that I haven’t tried Botox — but I hated it.”
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Jamie Lynn Spears: Baby #2 on board?
So says the National Enquirer, which is right almost as often as it’s wrong, so who knows. The tabloid also says Jamie Lynn’s pals are after her to abort. Maddie Briann was born June 19 — yup, that’s about four months ago.
“Jamie Lynn is about eight weeks pregnant, and she and her mom Lynne are hysterical,” revealed a close source. “Neither of them knows what to do, but for now they’re trying to keep the news from getting out.”
Too late. Here’s some intrusive stuff, so if you’re up for it, keep reading: The unplanned pregnancy came as a shock to Jamie Lynn, who’d been breast-feeding her infant daughter Maddie Briann. “Jamie Lynn believed she couldn’t get pregnant while she was breast-feeding,” said the close source. “She’d expected to have her period by early September.” A home pregnancy test came back positive and Jamie Lynn cried her eyes out, said the source.
Meanwhile, those same insiders say the word “abortion” is being bandied about with some force: “(Friends) reminded Jamie Lynn how much trouble she had adjusting to motherhood with Maddie, and pointed out that having a second baby now would only be a recipe for disaster,” said the close source.
Here’s the kicker: To find out who the baby daddy is, you’ll have to bite the bullet and buy the latest issue of National Enquirer. Say it’s for a sick aunt.
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Stars turn out against animal cruelty
It’s not on OUR ballot — Ohio’s still deciding between the Big Two — but California and its movie stars turned out over the weekend in support of the state’s Proposition 2 at a “Making History Under the Stars” gala hosted by Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi. Prop 2 is the Californian Prevention of Farm Cruelty Act which aims to help stop animal cruelty, improve health and safety, support family farmers, and protect air and water. All good stuff.
The star-studded fete was held in Bel Air, bringing out such passionate advocates as Heather Graham, James Cromwell, Amy Smart, Jared Leto and a bevy of others all with the same call of concern. Here’s the whole story, found on a sight called Ecorazzi, which specializes in green gossip. Now we’ve heard it all.
Photos from Prop 2 gala and more
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Ex-Power Ranger actor on trial for murder
Skylar Deleon, 29, who appeared on the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” television show in the 1990s, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and murder for financial gain. According to IMDB, Deleon was “Roger” in one Power Ranger episode, but still … once a Ranger, always a Ranger? Here’s the entire story.
Jennifer Henderson, 25, is accused of helping Deleon, then her husband, and several accomplices kill Tom and Jackie Hawks for their yacht. Henderson was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder on Nov. 17, 2006. Tom and Jackie Hawks were allegedly bound to the anchor of their yacht and tossed overboard four years ago.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Deleon, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Three other men — Alonso Machain, Myron Gardner and John Fitzgerald Kennedy — have also been charged with murder and murder for financial gain but have yet to stand trial. They also pleaded not guilty.
The jury will also consider a separate murder charge filed against Deleon in the killing of a man he met in a work furlough program in 2003 while serving time for burglary. Prosecutors suspect Deleon took $50,000 from the man then slit his throat and dumped his body in Mexico. Deleon also pleaded not guilty to that charge. The two cases will be tried jointly to prevent some unspecified witnesses from appearing in court twice, said Susan Kang Schroeder, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office.
In a third case to be tried separately, Deleon is charged with soliciting the killings of his father and cousin after growing concerned that they had information about his alleged role in the crimes. His cousin is expected to testify at the current trial.
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Misty May-Treanor surgery is successful
One day after having to bow out of competing on the seventh season of Dancing With the Stars, Misty May-Treanor had surgery Tuesday morning to repair a torn Achilles tendon.
Her rep says surgery was “successful” and that “she is currently at home recovering. Her husband, Matt [Treanor] is with her.”
The 31-year-old beach volleyball star, who won her second Olympic gold medal in Beijing in August, injured herself while rehearsing the jive with partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy last Friday.
Doctors estimate it will take approximately nine months of recovery and rehabilitation before May-Treanor can return to the volleyball court.
“I would come back to the ballroom if they asked me back,” May-Treanor said on Monday’s DWTS broadcast.
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Nick Nolte escapes fire through window
Nick Nolte suffered from “minor smoke inhalation,” after fighting a fire with a garden hose at his Malibu home Tuesday. Nolte, 67, kicked into gear when an electrical malfunction started the blaze in his home office. The fire department responded at 11:34 a.m.; by 11:59 a.m., the fire was out.
An LA County Fire Department spokesman said Nolte’s home suffered about $1.5 million in structural damage, and $1.5 million of his personal possessions were destroyed. The fire spread from Nolte’s offce to the living room and kitchen area. A statement from the county Sheriff’s Department said Nolte broke a window to escape the home.
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Sarah Palin may make SNL appearance
Watch out, Tina Fey — you’re fair game. And when Sarah Palin’s taking the shots, it could get bloody.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that it’s looking more and more likely that Palin will appear on ”Saturday Night Live” to have some fun with Tina Fey.
Fey’s impression is getting laughs from both sides of the aisle, leaving the McCain camp in a tizzy about just how to respond. Some staffers are content with Palin joking about the SNL routines on the campaign trail; others, including the governor herself, think a return punch on the NBC airwaves (or, for Time Warner customers, on NBC.com the day after) is what’s needed.
Some sort of Palin tweak of Fey’s American Express commercials, perhaps? This coming weekend’s SNL will be a rerun; the next original show will be Oct. 18.
In the meantime, check out Fey’s Palin routine here and here, then help McCain’s advisors make up their mind. Your vote counts! [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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Kimmel, Silverman dating again
Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman are back together, but “they’re taking it slow,” says a source. “They’re on the road back to being together again.”
The comedians, who ended their five-year relationship in July, have recently been spotted on dates on both coasts.
On Sept. 28, Kimmel, 40, and Silverman, 37, enjoyed a laughter-filled dinner together at L.A.’s Pattaya Thai Restaurant, says a source, and left holding hands. Less than a week later, they attended pal Howard Stern’s Oct. 3 wedding at New York City’s Le Cirque restaurant, where Kimmel was spotted wrapping his arms around Silverman’s waist and grabbing her butt in plain view of photographers. Sassy.
Silverman thanked her ex from the stage after winning an Emmy last month for her salty music video “I’m F——— Matt Damon,” which first appeared on Kimmel’s late-night talk show before becoming an internet sensation.
“Thanks to the person for whom this whole video was made: Jimmy Kimmel, who broke my heart - ohh, who’ll always have a place in my heart,” she said.
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