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18
Mar

Quick Will Smith/Scientology Followup

Radar Magazine has put the April cover story on Co$ we told you about online. It turns out that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are only mentioned in one sentence (which was enough to elicit a strong denial from Smith). The rest of the story is about Scientology’s current battle with the group calling itself Anonymous, which has been responsible for various pranks and protests against the cult, as well as this instant Youtube classic:

The story also details how the “church” has bought up most of downtown Clearwater, FL and turned it into L. Ronopolis, and how, even before the ongoing Tom Cruise freakapalooza, some of Scientology’s inner circle were beginning to turn their backs on it. And no wonder. It’s kind of tough to convince people to pay thousands of dollars to learn stuff they can get from one episode of South Park. There’ll always be suckers out there, but the more people who know about this cult’s thug tactics and insane rhetoric, the better.

18
Mar

Would-Be Beatle Exterminator: Judgment Day

heather_mills_judgment_day.jpgThe legal judgment in the Heather Mills-Paul McCartney divorce settlement has been made public, much to the gold-digging former model’s dismay (and look how well she handled it).

But it’s not hard see why the judge saw through her “I’m giving it all away” claims — her tax returns show few charitable contributions.

Among her demands:

  • Properties: Seven, including one in Beverly Hills and $16-million to $25-million for a modest little place in London
  • Housekeepers: To pay the salaries of seven (one per house), $1.3-million per year
  • Vacations: Nearly $1-million per year, including $370,000 for private jets and helicopter flights
  • Clothes: $250,000 per year
  • Equestrian activities: $78,000 per year (although she no longer rides)
  • Wine: $78,000 per year (but she doesn’t drink)
  • Driver: $86,000 per year

About $250,000 a year for clothes? Honestly I can’t bash that, as I can’t say if I had Paul McCartney’s money at my disposal that I wouldn’t do the same. But it’s the equestrian stuff that gets me. If you have only one leg, don’t you fall off the horse somewhere between a trot and a canter?

18
Mar

Amy Winehouse is Rubber, Keith Richards is Glue

keith-richards-drug-free.jpgAmy Winehouse clearly needs some “life counseling.” The alcoholic, perpetually drugged-out singer’s life has been a series of stupid human tricks in recent months, including a go at lighting a vodka shot and snorting it through a straw.

Guess who’s stepping up to the plate to guide the troubled chanteuse through the minefield of narcotics?

Keith “I only get ill when I give up drugs” Richards.

Last week the Strolling Bones guitarist with London’s Mail on Sunday about Wino:

“Mind you, that girl isn’t going to be around long unless she sorts herself out pretty quick. Amy’s got to get smart.”

Richards, 64, said he did not expect her to listen.

He said: “I’m not a preacher. But I’ve been there and you have to pass it on.”

The former heroin addict admitted he still “smokes weed all the damn time” and said he was once so high on drugs he let a firework burn his finger to the bone.

keef.jpgIs there a single more hypocritical drug-abuse adviser on the planet? (Other than Pete Doherty, of course.) This is a guy who admitted last year that he once snorted the ashes of his late father “after grinding him up with a little bit of blow.”

On the other hand, maybe the reason “Keef” survived this long was his daily regimen of wild cherry valium and heroin speedballs, washed down with everclear. Could be.

18
Mar

Was Superbad Super Worse Than Superman Returns?

parker_posey.jpgIndie queen Parker Posey is trying to start some shiz with director Judd Apatow, who probably can’t hear her from inside a money vault that would make Scrooge McDuck proud.

Unimpressed by his directorial hits Knocked Up and Superbad, she says:

“There’s so much frat boy humor out there now. This whole Judd Apatow craze — I don’t like it. It excludes girls, and it doesn’t do anything particularly great for our culture. Getting wasted, throwing up, ignoring your girlfriend, who gets that? I consider myself funny, and I don’t (get it).”

What I don’t get then is why she took a role in Superman Returns — was that truly a cultural touchstone for our time? Or for that matter, why she appeared on Boston Legal, alongside characters are as sexist as they come.

And hello, Josie and the Pussycats? Its name alone beats McLovin’s.

18
Mar

Drive-By Hypocrisy

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Who doesn’t love a quickie in the morning?

This sign greets visitors to Crestwood, Ill., home of nothing. So Mayor Stranczek… Is that Anglo or Saxon?




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