Mischa Barton was pulled over last night for driving all over the road, and now she’s sitting in jail for drunk driving, possession of narcotics, and driving with a suspended license.
This can’t be all that surprising given the pesky pot-smoking rumors that routinely pop up about the 21-year-old starlet, but the late great Marissa Cooper told Elle UK last summer that she’s not like the other bad girls of Beverly Hills:
In the article, Mischa talks about her rise to fame and what it means to be grouped with the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, saying, “It is a persona. It’s not me. I think, ‘Who the hell is that girl?’ I’m so low-key and chilled. But the media has created a fake ‘Young Hollywood’ where everyone hangs out together and everybody knows each other. It couldn’t be further from the truth. I feel so, so different from those girls.”
“Chilled” sounds close to the truth, actually. But the tabloid readership of America faces a looming problem: It seems that all of Young Hollywood is going to be behind bars within a few months. B-list celebrities are already rising to the challenge. My 2008 predictions for the drunk tank: Tara Reid, Hayden Panettiere, Hilary Duff.
Say what you want about Page Six, but they’re close readers of celeb quotes. You’ve heard about the controversy over Will Smith’s remarks about Hitler, right? Here’s what he told Scotland’s Daily Record:
“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was good. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.”
Now, some people have been trying to twist this into “Will Smith likes Hitler” or “The Fresh Prince thinks Hitler was a good person.” No, he’s just saying that nobody sees himself as the villain of his own story, not even Hitler. That doesn’t mean Hitler was right, or that he was a good person; just that he thought he was. This is not exactly the most original or controversial stance in the history of the world, unless of course it’s expressed by a top box office draw.
But the really interesting thing, the part that Page Six picks up on, is Smith’s use of the word “reprogramming.” That’s what Scientology is all about. Scientologists have to go through repeated reprogramming sessions (they call it “auditing,” but here on Earth it’s known as brainwashing) until they achieve a state of “clear.” You know, like Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Those guys are “clear.” They’re also incredibly wealthy and famous, but that’s probably just a coincidence.
So, the fact that Will Smith is one of the biggest movie stars in the world and is being recruited befriended by Cruise has nothing to do with Smith throwing around Scientology lingo like it ain’t no thang. Just because they’ve got him to the point where he thinks the Holocaust could have been avoided if Hitler had been a Scientologist, that doesn’t mean they’ve got their hooks in him. Right?
All of which is my long-winded way of asking, once again: Has anybody checked on Will Smith’s grandma lately?
Nothing says “feminism” like teasing the single Spice Girl. The four paired-off performers picked on Geri Hallwell for not having a boyfriend during a taping of Strictly Come Dancing, which is a British version of Dancing With the Stars, as best I can tell. It went something like this:
Mel B yelled: “Are there any good-looking single blokes for Geri? We have to get her a boyfriend.”
Emma Bunton added: “He has to have a job.” Mel C asked: “Do we care about gender this week, Geri?”
Then Posh screeched: “Beggars can’t be choosers, Geri.”
Yes, Posh, we all know you’re married to the hottest man in the Northern Hemisphere. But since when did “Girl Power” depend on having a boy?
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