Tis the season, and in the run-up to Christmas, Deceiver’s own Holly Won’t will be exposing the stingy Grinches in Hollywood’s midst.
Which pop superstar made pledges for music education that he never kept?
Who was the sports legend who slammed league officials for not supporting their own, then broke his own promise to help?
Can you name the runway diva who totally shafted her staff members while showering her audience with expensive gifts?
Keep an eye on Deceiver.com over the next two weeks — we’ll show you who the real-life Scrooges are.
Gasoline prices are on the rise, and Americans are increasingly worried about their nation’s dependence on oil from the Middle East. Yet the word “energy” doesn’t appear anywhere on Rudy Giuliani’s “12 Commitments to the American People” web page. Guess why?
Back in July, the New York Sun gushed:
Ending America’s dependence on energy from abroad “would be a major factor in our being able to defuse dramatically the reach and the power of Islamic terrorism,” the former mayor said.
To supplant oil imports, Mr. Giuliani called for increased use of ethanol, so-called clean coal technology, nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, and wind-generated power.
Hydro … solar … wind … Sounds good to me!
Uh oh.
This just in, from Bloomberg news:
A lobbying blitz by some of the U.S.’s biggest utility companies is likely to strangle the most potent provision in energy legislation that’s making its way through Congress.
Southern Co., American Electric Power Co. and other producers hired top Washington lobbyists, including Rudy Giuliani’s firm, to help defeat a measure that would force them to boost electricity generated by wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy to 15 percent of the U.S. total by 2020. That’s up from less than 2 percent today …
Giuliani’s campaign says the former New York mayor supports alternative fuels. “He is an advocate for developing renewable energy as a way of achieving energy independence,” spokeswoman Maria Comella says. She didn’t comment on the lobbying effort.
Sorry about the headline, but it’s kind of okay because WGA scab Ellen DeGeneres is trying to get past IggyGate by teaming up with the owner of Meow Mix to renovate animal shelters across the nation. You try reading about that and coming up with a better headline. (Seriously, if you could do that, I’d really appreciate it. Rough weekend…)
Maybe Ellen should just leave the animal kingdom alone for a while and concentrate on helping the humans in her life. Like, you know, her writers? She had a nervous breakdown on the air over some dumb dog, and now her writing staff is eating Alpo.
There’s something fishy about that, and this is no time for her to clam up about it. She’s so shellfish. You get where I’m going with this, right?
Hey, you know that whole waterboarding deal? Where the CIA interrogates a terrorist or somebody like that by simulating drowning them, without actually drowning them? And nobody can agree on whether it’s torture or not, or exactly how evil it makes the Bush administration?
According to the Washington Post, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was briefed on the technique 5 years ago and raised no objections. In fact, of the 30 or so briefings the CIA has given on it to Senators and Congressmen on both sides of the aisle, only one lawmaker did object. Why didn’t the rest? Because:
“In fairness, the environment was different then because we were closer to Sept. 11 and people were still in a panic,” said one U.S. official present during the early briefings. “But there was no objecting, no hand-wringing. The attitude was, ‘We don’t care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.’”
So it’s not really hypocrisy… it’s just that back then they wanted to protect America. But now, apparently, America doesn’t need protecting. Which seems weird, considering how the whole world is supposed to hate us. Details, details. The point is, the whole waterboarding debate has nothing to do with seizing on a hot-button issue to try to score political points. Whew.
Just a quick follow-up on last week’s item about Katherine Heigl praising Knocked Up as her best working experience ever, and then a few months later slamming it for being sexist. She then said she was taken out of context and it really was great, but she still stands behind what she said. However that’s supposed to work.
Now director/writer Judd Apatow has responded, telling E! Online:
“I think the characters are sexist at times. But it’s really about immature people who are afraid of being in a relationship and how they evolve out of that and learn how to be parents and how to grow up. So, if people say it’s sexist, yeah, that’s what I was going for in the first part of the movie. But then (the characters) change.”
Apatow also said he understood how remarks can sometimes be taken out of context, however, E! Online said that while Apatow seemed calm and relaxed in making the statements, he said, “No” and made an unpleasant face when asked if he had spoken to Heigl since her interview came out.
Uh-oh! An unpleasant face! That’s sexist, right? (See, because he’s a man and she’s a woman.) Well, it sounds like we won’t be seeing Heigl in Knocked Up 2: Expectant Boogaloo anytime soon.
Remember Dessarae Bradford, who unsuccessfully sued Colin Farrell for sexual harassment and confronted him during a TV interview with Jay Leno? (See the full background here.) Now she’s been arrested for prostitution. According to her account, on MySpace, an undercover cop motioned her over to his car, which led to this:
“Being the social animal that I am, I went over, figuring he was just some guy looking for where the party spots are. Or maybe he wanted to see if he could get my number.”
Bradford says she’s suing the LAPD for $20 million — for ageism, civil-rights violations, emotional distress, entrapment, libel, slander, sexism, racial profiling, “and much more.”
What else is there? I’m not up to snuff with my frivolous charges.
In any event, Bradford is definitely a hooker. Get this: In a 2005 lawsuit against Farrell (which was immediately dismissed), she tried to sue him for $4,750 for missing a date for sex, claiming it was a breach of contract.
Which makes her a hooker.
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