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16
Jun

Jenna Jameson’s PETA “Pleather” phase is definitely over

By The Oversneer 44 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Movie Stars and PETA

jenna-emmy-party-wenn.jpgLet’s review:

Which brings us to this past weekend. On Friday night at the Area nightclub in Los Angeles, Jenna showed up at a pre-Emmy-nominations party wearing (drumroll please… )

… well … you’d better have a look for yourself.

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Those shoes are YSL. Woven leather. From dead cows. Women I trust who buy such things tell me they’re worth the $760. Personally, I’d opt for the riding lawn mower.

And I’m not commenting on the belt or the braided headband thingy. I’m assuming they’re leather, but I’m not about to look through the sale bins at Loehmann’s to confirm who makes ‘em.

Hat tip to CelebSlam for the photos, and to Deceiver addict Katherine for the tip!

16
Jun

Give Heidi and Spencer Their Privacy, You Guys

By Holly Won't 11 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls and Television Stars

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Heidi Montag doesn’t know why y’all keep following her around with cameras and stuff.

Surely it can’t be because she and Spencer pay the paparazzi to stage photographs and then split the profits, as revealed in the latest issue of In Touch Weekly.

And their wedding? Just a private, intimate affair. With U2 as the headlining act:

[T]heir dream is a small wedding on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island in the Virgin Islands, with catering by Wolfgang Puck’s Cut restaurant, watches by Jason of Beverly Hills for all their guests and a performance by U2.

I hope they line up some vodka brand or whatever to underwrite this spectacle, because even though they’ve netted $3-mil since 2006, you know Bono and the boys don’t play for free.

16
Jun

Miley Cyrus Still 15, Still Has a Digital Camera

By Holly Won't 28 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Musicians, Teen Idols, Television Stars and The Naughty Bits

miley_with_22yearold.jpgSo Miley Ray Cyrus has gotten herself a whole lot of negative publicity this year, eh? Scandal after scandal after scandal.

I’ve become so desensitized to the whole thing that this barely registered.

On her MySpace page, she recently posted some photos of her lying in bed with her 22-year-old backup dancer named Marshall. No word from Billy Ray about why she’s allowed to be alone in her room with someone old enough to hold a college degree (and who, let’s face it, probably doesn’t have one).

I’ll allow that it’s unclear anything untoward happened, but she’s 15, so that automatically makes it bad news. And it’s also, what, the third guy she’s been caught canoodling with this year? She says she does it all for Jesus, but even Jesus is now like “enough already, you’re not helping.”

16
Jun

Cate Blanchett Slams Stars Who Go Under the Knife

By Holly Won't 9 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and Movie Stars

cate_blanchett.jpgShape shifter and Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett has criticized her peers who indulge in a little recreational nipping and tucking:

“For me, I think what will be sexy in 50 years time will be wrinkles. Look at a man or a woman in their 50s and all I see when they have brushed their years away with surgery is self-obsession and fear. That’s not particularly attractive.”

Just don’t mention her wrinkles-are-in philosophy to the skincare company that pays her monster bucks to shill their anti-aging products.

Japanese beauty company SK-II (which is owned by Procter & Gamble) hired her last fall to be the American face of their luxury line, whose products cost up to $300 and are available at Saks Fifth Avenue.

She has said she even gives some of the brand’s age-defying potions to co-stars, including Brad Pitt:

“I’m evangelical about it,” Blanchett says.

I’m all for loving the skin you’re in but maybe she should refrain from criticizing others while making mad bank off of their insecurities, hmm?

16
Jun

Note to Honda’s “Zero-Emissions” Team: You’re Doing It Wrong

By The Oversneer 9 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and Environmentalists

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Honda held a big shindig today in Japan to announce the rollout of its new FCX Clarity automobile, which will run on Hydrogen and electricity, and emit nothing but water vapor.

Hooray for Earth!

Among the first customers are actress Jamie Lee Curtis and filmmaker husband Christopher Guest, actress Laura Harris, film producer Ron Yerxa, as well as businessmen Jon Spallino and Jim Salomon.

“It’s so smooth,” said Harris, who played villainness Marie Warner on the hit TV show “24″ and was flown over by Honda for the ceremony. “It’s like a future machine, but it’s not” … Spallino, who currently drives Honda’s older FCX and was also flown in for the ceremony, said he will use the Clarity to drive to and from work and for destinations within the Los Angeles area.

Again I say: Hooray for … Whaaaaa?

They wouldn’t really fly celebrities 10,900 miles (round-trip) in fuel-belching jet airplanes so that they can brag about saving a few hundred carbon credits over the life of one of these glorified golf carts, would they?

Bonus points: Remember the last time hydrogen was going to be the next big global revolution in travel? I’m just saying …

16
Jun

Google Gurus Go Green? Guess Again

By Simon Scowl 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Businesses and Environmentalists

A few months back we told you about Google co-founder Larry Page jetting off to Richard Branson’s private Carribean island to attend a conference of mega-rich guys getting hammered and ogling hot chicks in bikinis trying to figure out how to stop Global Warming. Seems like Step 1 would be: Don’t jet off to private islands.

But the Google guys must be doing something right, because no less of a Green authority than Forbes Magazine declared them to be among “The World’s Greenest Billionaires.” Check this compost out:

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page turned their Mountain View, Calif., headquarters into one of the world’s most eco-friendly.

The 500,000-square-foot facility is heated by 9,212 solar panels; all the furniture in one building is made from recycled material, including old blue jeans as wall insulation. Employees can dine (for free) at Cafe 150, which uses ingredients only from farms within 150 miles of the kitchen. Brin and Page both drive hybrid Toyota Priuses and have made personal investments in Tesla, an electric car maker. And Brin reportedly has a solar-paneled rucksack to power his phone and MP3 player.

Which is very handy when you want to listen to some tunes after spewing tons and tons of carbon into the air to get to Branson’s island! Plenty of sun down there.

Well, now the sincerity of Page’s fellow search-engine sultan is under scrutiny as well. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the carbon-conscious coder wants to play Buck Rogers:

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, whose brainchild helps millions of people navigate cyberspace every day, plans to blast off into actual space within a few years.

Space Adventures Ltd., a Virginia company that has already sent five super-wealthy folks on joyrides to the international space station, said Wednesday that Brin has invested $5 million as a down payment on a space flight aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket headed to the station.

One problem. As the Heritage Foundation’s Nick Loris notes, Brin’s little rocketship ride will be the carbon equivalent of driving an Escalade for over 50 years. That’s a whole lotta planet-killin’! Is the whim of a billionaire really worth wrecking the planet for our children and grandchildren? Apparently Sergey Brin thinks so.

Say, I wonder if it would help if they insulated the rocket with old blue jeans…

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