Whether it’s blowing off fans who waited two hours to meet him or lamenting his lack of privacy to the New York Times, Matthew McConaughey always seemed like the type of star who wasn’t so much into the whole Hollywood grind.
Except when he realized he could command a cool million for photos of his baby with model Camila Alves. Now he’s kind of a diva.
He’s hired Todd Shemarya, the broker who handled photo deals for Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera, to pimp out those baby shots to the tabloids.
Oh how we miss the old days…
What alarms him now, Mr. McConaughey said, is the inevitable lack of privacy. He is looking for guidance from the actors like Mr. Newman who seem to be able to handle fame.
“Everyone loves a bit of mystery,” he said. “It’s like going after a woman. There’s got to be a bit of a chase, there’s got to be some mystery. That makes it special, doesn’t it?”
It doesn’t get much more mysterious or Newman-esque than nabbing the cover of People in exchange for the exclusive rights to your family life.
Sen. Arlen Specter is demanding an investigation into illegal spying operations that infringed upon the rights of Americans.
No, sillies, I’m not talking about the Protect America Act — the controversial bill (which the Republican Specter voted for) that gave unprecedented leeway to government officials to listen in on your phone calls and read your email. Yeah, Specter was all over that like a fat kid with cake.
He’s talking something much more important than personal privacy.
Instead, the Pennsylvania senator is demanding an inquiry into the New England Patriots’ secret videotaping of opposing NFL coaches’ signals on the sidelines — an affair sports writers have dubbed “Spygate.”
We are not making this up. Specter said such behavior, a violation of NFL rules, is damaging to the sport.
I don’t deny that Bill Belichick has turned the Pats into the Yankees of football, but let’s go for a little consistency here, buddy.
This week Ron Paul — Remember him? Ross Perot without the charm? — cast the sole No vote on a House resolution expressing condolences to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Sure, it’s a meaningless gesture that does nothing for those people, and it’s a waste of Congress’s time. No doubt, the Paulnuts (or Ronulans, or whichever name his supporters like the least) see it as just more evidence of his uncompromising, no-nonsense nature. But as Radar Online points out, Paul has voted Yes on even more meaningless House resolutions in the past:
Sorry, Myanmar. Next time, try you might want to try winning a championship before you do something frivolous like getting wiped out by a natural disaster.
(Thanks to reader Tim Hagan for the tip. And welcome in advance to all “Ron Paul” Googlers! Straitjackets are on the left, bite restraints on the right.)
No-talent ho bag alert: Heidi Montag is rumored to be planning a fake pregnancy for the fourth season of The Hills.
This smells like a Spencer Pratt idea, doesn’t it?
According to Vera at I’m Not Obsessed:
They aren’t going to explicitly come out and say they are pregnant. Instead, Heidi is going to wear loose clothing and possibly some padding to give the illusion that she is several months along. When asked, the couple will not confirm or deny keeping the story live for weeks on end.
Heidi seems to be taking a page from the Ashlee Simpson playbook. But I guess this will be as good an excuse as any for getting bigger implants.
This one writes itself.
The Australian 2007 Penthouse Pet of the Year, a “model” (wink, wink) named Kobe Kaige, posed this week for PETA in its dreary, tiresome anti-fur campaign.
Here she is in the trailer for an as-yet-unnamed feature film, all decked out in leather. Yes, the real stuff. From dead cows.
The mind boggles.
This offering will probably have all the cinematic value of Pam Anderson’s Barb Wire. In other words, stay home. Close your eyes. I’m sure there’s a naked lady in there somewhere.
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