Lindsay is reportedly concerned about how well her sister Ali will fare in Hollywood now that she’s getting her own reality show, but it looks like 14-year-old Ali is following her older sibling’s footsteps into the surgeon’s office already.
As recently as two summers ago, Lindsay Lohan said she didn’t believe in plastic surgery for younguns:
“Yes, it’s sad that anybody would (have cosmetic surgery) at my age. It’s just disgusting.”
I happen to agree. The following are both sad and disgusting:
They say if you can’t lead by example, become a warning for others. Done.
Harrison Ford, whose fourth Indiana Jones movie is coming out next month, had his hairy chest waxed to make a statement about the environment.
According to Access Hollywood:
In an effort to showcase the pain involved in deforestation, Harrison willingly subject himself to the painful process of stripping his chest of all its follicles.
Having worked with [Conservation International] for 15 years, it was Harrison’s hope that his trip to the salon might just shock people into thinking “green.”
Ouch.
The other thing that he could do to combat the timber industry is not adding all kinds of wooden decks and other tree-harvested installations to mansions in the Hollywood Hills. Or building log homes. Actually, it seems that all of his four or five houses are enormous and wooden.
Just saying, people in log houses should not throw stones.
Yesterday in U.S. federal court, film actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for misdemeanor charges of failing to file his income tax papers for a bunch of years. He has paid back around $5 million in back taxes and made lots of self-flagellating apologies. But he’s going to Club Fed for three years anyway, even though he was acquitted of actual “tax fraud” charges.
Hit the rewind button, back to 1990. Remember country singer Willie Nelson’s tax troubles? His tax-evasion bill came to a whopping $30 million, and the Internal Revenue Service settled the case for just $16.7 million. Willie never sent to jail. Instead, he released a double album called The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories?
The IRS seized his assets too, but Willie’s friends purchased most of it and gave the stuff back to him — either free of charge or for a nominal fee. He managed to pay back the government in just three years, the same amount of time Snipes will be sitting in jail doing nothing of any value to anyone.
Here’s the moral of the story: Wouldn’t it be smarter if the U.S. government were to apply the same standard to Wesley Snipes? Let him stay the hell out of jail so he could make a few movies and pay off his tax bill.
I guess submitting a character reference from dope-smoking hippie Woodie Harrelson wasn’t good enough for this judge. Ironically, you have to actually be a dope-smoking hippie (or Cindy Sheehan) to get any sympathy from hypocritical Uncle Sam when you decide not to pay your taxes.
Not that the IRS is the sharpest knife in the drawer. True story: The agency once sent a nasty letter to my apartment demanding to know where I lived.
Any minute know, I’m sure federal agents are going to come busting down my door, so if I never write another word on this blog, just …
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