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28
Feb

Brad Pitt’s Eye Wanders Again

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

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

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

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.




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