Archive for February, 2008

29
Feb

Katherine Heigl Wants to Quit

By Holly Won't 0 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars and Television Actors

katherine_heigl3.jpgKatherine Heigl has gotten awfully big for her scrubs.

Despite lengthy negotiations last year during which she argued that her character was integral to Grey’s Anatomy and therefore she deserved a fat raise, she is now trying to get out of her contract to focus on her movie career:

“Katherine has even suggested to ‘Grey’s’ producers that they kill her character Dr. Izzie Stevens in dramatic fashion so her exit could bring in huge ratings,” a pal of the 29-year-old Emmy winner told The Enquirer.

This revelation comes on the heels of her box office success in chick flick 27 Dresses, not to mention some snotty comments she made not that long ago about Grey’s Anatomy and Knocked Up.

She also presented at the Oscars last weekend and clearly was a big ball of nerves; she explained that she “just felt very out of my league” around all those major movie stars — a sentiment I tend to agree with.

29
Feb

Go Boycott Yourself

By Simon Scowl 0 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: U.S. Right-Wing Politicos

Here’s American Spectator managing editor J.P. Freire talking to Neil Cavuto about the McCain/Eisman “scandal”:

As Big Head DC points out, Freire doesn’t have much room to talk about the New York Times being unreliable and boycott-worthy for printing a story about an alleged sex scandal based on anonymous sources. After all, back in ‘93 the Spectator ran David Brock’s Troopergate story — remember that one? — which was also based on anonymous sources. Not to mention keeping alive the rumor that Bill Clinton was the illegitimate father of a child with an African-American woman, which has never been proven.

Not that it makes the NYT right for doing the same thing, but if we’re going to boycott one, we should boycott the other.

29
Feb

Oprah’s Sole Series

By Holly Won't 4 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Fashionistas and Television Actors

oprah_looking_rich.jpg(Last shoe post of the week, I promise.)

On yesterday’s show, Oprah discussed “freegans,” or otherwise normal people who dig through dumpsters in search of food and other goods. Ick.

The interviewee, an executive named Madeleine Nelson, earns a six-figure salary but hasn’t purchased clothes for three years and spends less than $20 a week on the few groceries that she can’t find in the trash.

Oprah seemed to encourage the alternative lifestyle during her chat with Madeleine and special correspondent Lisa Ling:

Madeleine: Consumerism is really driven by corporations who make lots and lots of money –

Oprah: By getting us to buy things.

Madeleine: By getting us to buy things.

Lisa: Oprah, the freegans believe, in a way, we are slaves to buying and consumerism –

Oprah: But we are. We are, are we not?

Yes, damn the man and their enslavement of us through pretty, pretty things! Oprah really drove the point home by wearing a seemingly brand-new pair of Christian Louboutin pumps — identified by their telltale red soles — during the interview.

Maybe they were one of the 21 pairs that Jessica Seinfeld sent her as a thank-you for promoting her book.

29
Feb

Quick Perez Hilton Followup

By Simon Scowl 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls

Click here if you don’t know the story from yesterday. Queerty.com has copies of the IM conversations between Perez and the younger, less blimplike blogger he tricked into sending him… oh, let’s be mature about this and call them totally gay slappy-slappy wingwang videos. (WARNING: Link contains full frontal nudity and full frontal sadness.)

It feels creepy to pry into the guy’s personal business, but then… this kind of stuff is why he’s on VH1, right? Sow, reap, etc.

28
Feb

Brad Pitt’s Eye Wanders Again

By Holly Won't 13 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists and Movie Stars

brad_pitt_nola.jpgA friend of mine in Smithville, Tex., spotted Brad Pitt at Wal-Mart the other day, taking a break from shooting his latest movie, The Tree of Life.

After I got over my seething jealousy, I remembered — didn’t Brad Pitt just vow to put his movie career on hold while he’s involved in an effort to rebuild homes in New Orleans?

Indeed he did. When the Today show’s Ann Curry interviewed him just before Christmas, she asked if this recovery effort were more important to him than being a movie star. He said:

“Right now, this is the focus, and we’re going to see this thing through.”

It made me a little gooey inside for a minute — humanitarianism is sexy. But like his marriage to Jennifer Aniston, his focus on the project didn’t last long.

IMDb reports that he’s attached to six upcoming movies in addition to The Tree of Life, while his charity’s website — MakeItRightNOLA.org — says so far they’ve raised enough to build only 79 houses, despite a massive media blitz in December.

You might be thinking “at least he tried,” but I ask you — which does New Orleans need more, his fulfillment of a promise to help the needy or a Being John Malkovich-esque vanity project?

28
Feb

The Black Crowes Bare Their Talons

By Holly Won't 5 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and Musicians

maxim208.jpgThe Black Crowes are livid over a negative review of their new album in Maxim magazine.

The band says advance copies of War Paint — which comes out next week — were not sent to the press, so there was no way Maxim could have listened to it before writing that the release “hasn’t left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth.” The magazine gave the album two and a half stars.

The Crowes lashed out in a message on their website:

“Maxim’s actions seem to completely lack journalistic integrity and intentionally mislead their readership. When confronted with the fact that they never heard the album they are claiming to ‘review’ in their music section — with a star rating, no less — they attempt to explain that it was an ‘educated guess.’”

Maxim has since sorta kinda vaguely apologized in the way you’d expect from a magazine that named Lindsay Lohan the hottest woman in the world. Of all people. Talk about a lack of self-respect.

28
Feb

Stars, Stripes, and Idiots

By The Oversneer 0 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Politicos, U.S. Left-wing Politicos and U.S. Right-Wing Politicos

Google already has about 378,000 links to web pages about U.S. Senator Barack Obama’s decision to not wear a U.S. flag pin on his lapel while he campaigns for the Presidency. (For comparison, imagine if every French politician except Nicolas Sarkozy made a habot of wearing “Marianne” t-shirts.) So when U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston started making media appearances to talk about the non-pin-wearing Obama’s supposed lack of patriotism, it was hardly news.

Except that Kingston didn’t wear a flag pin during the interviews.

It’s good to see that American politics is laser-focused on things that matter.

H/T: Jossip

28
Feb

Talk About a Beat Reporter

By Simon Scowl 17 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls

Finding celebrity hypocrites can be tougher than you think. Like just this morning, I was reading that Hulk Hogan might have been stepping out on his wife before their revolting, society-eroding marriage finally fell apart. The Hulkster, humpin’ around? Now, that sure wouldn’t fit his “Say yer prayers and take yer vitamins, Hulkamaniacs!” image.

But the problem was, this “news” was coming from Perez Hilton. Should I give that dumpster-sized dunce even more unearned attention than he already gets? What to do? These are the ethical dilemmas we bloggers face on a daily, nay, hourly basis.

And then, like manna from Heaven fell this story from Page Six:

Mario Lavandeira — better known as online gossip “Perez Hilton” — encouraged a handsome young blogger to send sex tapes of himself while he was making promises of promotion for the blogger’s own fledgling Web site.

Jonathan Jaxson — a former publicist and founder of gossip site JJ’s Dirt — told Page Six he sent Lavandeira sexually explicit videos of himself with the hope of Lavandeira’s help, which never materialized.

So much for quid pro ‘mo! You’ll have to read the whole thing for Lavandeira’s repeated, increasingly desperate-sounding demands for the videos, and for the svelte younger blogger’s broken-hearted lamentations when his dreams of romance and web stardom were thwarted. Or don’t, if you want to hold onto your soul (and your breakfast).

Damn… While that gourd-shaped gossip is moralizing over Hulk Hogan’s marriage, he’s tricking guys who are even more pathetic than he is into making JO videos for his enjoyment. And then leaving them high and dry! Well, moist. I don’t think even Paris Hilton would do something like that. No wonder this tubby tattler eats his own weight in Hostess products every three days.

Okay, okay, you’re right. Every two days.

27
Feb

Pam Anderson Is Good at Not Knowing What to Do About Her Life

By Simon Scowl 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Fashionistas, PETA, Television Actors and The Washed Up

First she filed for divorce from professional parasite Rick Salomon. Then she said never mind, everything’s great. Then she filed for divorce again. Now she wants an annulment, which would mean that the marriage never actually happened. While she’s at it, here are a few other bad decisions she should have annulled:

  • Stacked
  • Stripperella
  • V.I.P.
  • Barb Wire
  • Every atom of ink and collagen and silicone and Hep C in her body
  • You know what? How about just a big do-over going all the way back to 1990?

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m more than willing to pretend none of it ever happened. Well, maybe we could keep The Tape…

27
Feb

V for Very Inconsistent

By Holly Won't 11 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Fashionistas and Movie Stars

natalie_portman2.jpgOh readers, how we adore you.

The eagle-eyed Genevieve tipped us off to this part of that recent interview with Natalie Portman when she talked about her vegan shoes:

[S]he has the reputation for being the most elegant of young actresses, and, yes, she has a jade cashmere sweater, skinny blue jeans, a check coat that ties smartly at her tiny waist. But she’s also wearing big, green, deeply inelegant wellies, because she has found the cheaper a shoe is, the more likely it is to be vegan. Hence her launch of a shoe line for Te Casan, with all profits going to the Nature Conservancy.

Cashmere is the wool that comes from cashmere goats and is known for its luxurious feel and high cost — but it’s a decidedly nonvegan source of clothing fibers. You’d think a Harvard grad would know this.

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