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13
Apr

Mumbai Child Actors Still More Slumdog Than Millionaire

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So right after the Oscars, I questioned the fairness of paying peanuts to the youngest child actors in Slumdog Millionaire, as their performances were partly responsible for the film’s international success. And a lot of you made the fair point that it’s not up to producer Christian Coulson or director Danny Boyle to solve the world’s poverty problems.

But I think everyone can agree that it’s totally sucky how Coulson and Boyle promised those kids one-bedroom apartments in Mumbai and then never delivered:

Public promises of new homes, money and education have failed to materialise. No one from the production company has been to visit, nor have they bothered to phone.

Rubina and Azhar, who played the youngest Latika and Salim, are still living in the slums – a year after filming their critically acclaimed roles, they are resigned to the likelihood that they always will. If the children are disappointed, their parents are furious.

“We have been abandoned by Danny Boyle and his associates,” said Rafiq Qureshi, the father of Rubina. “He promised us a lot when the film won at the Oscars but since then no one has come to visit us.

“We’ve been given no money and no house. There is no trust fund that I’ve been told about. The monthly allowance promised to Rubina and Azhar stopped before they even went to the Oscars.

“I feel betrayed and hurt. All these promises came to nothing.”

Come the eff on. That damn movie has grossed $326,895,516 as of today, and the DVD just came out so don’t even tell me those jerks can’t afford to make good on their promises. Two one-bedroom apartments with running water isn’t exactly the moon and stars, people.

10
Apr

Christina Applegate, Cancer Activist, Snapped Smoking

Christina ApplegateThere are some celebraties (typo but I’m keeping it) you just want to shake. Britney Spears. Lindsay Lohan. Paris Hilton. Christina Applegate? Not normally but today she’s made the list.

Breast cancer survivor Christina Applegate was snapped puffing on a cigarette as she strolled down a Los Angeles street.

The 36-year-old “Married. . .With Children” star proclaimed herself cancer-free just last summer after undergoing a double mastectomy.

She even had the courage to show off her reconstructed figure during a scene from her hit comedy “Samantha Who?” just weeks after the operation.

Applegate’s mother also beat breast cancer and the star said her mom’s fight inspired her to beat the disease.

It’s disappointing and not to mention counterproductive given the brave front she put up last summer with all her talk of “If this had been caught a year from now, or when I was 40, I probably wouldn’t be able to live through this” and “Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it’s all part of the healing.”

She also participated in the Stand Up 2 Cancer awareness/telethon thing that somehow attracted a whole bunch of other celebrity smokers like Hilary Duff and Jennifer Aniston. Why they don’t vet their spokespeople, I haven’t yet figured out.

09
Apr

Lindsay Lohan Really Needs to Find Herself a Publicist

lindsay_lohan_usweeklycoverAs you may remember from two weeks ago, Lindsay Lohan is fine and we all need to stop spreading lies about her and Samantha Ronson and the alleged drinking and drug use and so forth.

A lot can change in two weeks. As she told Us Weekly about her breakup with Sam:

“It’s absolute hell,” Lohan told Us on Monday in a far-ranging interview over several lengthy phone calls and emails where she was agitated, crying and baffled by the turn of events. …

Lohan says she’s “so alone” without Ronson.

“Everyone’s turned on me,” says the actress. She tells the magazine that the night of the Chateau showdown, Nicole Richie walked by her and said “Uck,” and Drea De Matteo said, “Come at me, b—h.”

Sources tell the magazine Ronson had repeatedly tried to break up with Lohan over the past month, but each time, “Lindsay threatens to kill herself — she cares about her but wants out.”

Lohan laughs upon hearing that, saying she’s okay.

“I’m just really hurt!” she says. “The whole situation is sick.”

RadarOnline also has reports of her “chugging” vodka and smoking a joint on Monday night.

This might be the fastest turnaround in Lindsay Lohan history. This girl doesn’t just fall off the wagon — she leaps.

02
Apr

Gwyneth Paltrow Kills Some More Animals

Straight out of the Phony Four, we’ve got GOOP Girl Gwyneth Paltrow giving PETA the finger again.* Or, well, the toe. According to Just Jared:

Gwyneth Paltrow and designer Valentino Garavani attend the premiere of his latest documentary, Valentino: The Last Emperor, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theatre on Wednesday (April 1) in Los Angeles.

The 36-year-old actress wore a fashion-forward pair of suede Christian Louboutin “Ariella Talon” ankle boots with multi-strapped leather buckles.

They ain’t kidding about “multi.” Just look at these things. Is she auditioning for the next Hellraiser movie?

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Suede! Leather! All she needs to do to complete the ensemble is drape a dead calf over her shoulders. Maybe a couple of bacon strips for earrings. Mmmmm, delicious pig flesh.

(Hat tip to Angryarmywife)

*If you’ve forgotten their little tiff, go here, here, and here.

01
Apr

Deceiver Madness: THE PHONY FOUR

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Can you believe that it’s come down to this?

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30
Mar

DECEIVER MADNESS: The Artificial Eight

deceivermadnesslogo091Eight celebrities. Four matchups. And only one blog where you can see the carnage first-hand.

If you want a replay of this weekend’s amazing NCAA action, you’ve come to the wrong place. (ESPN is that-a-way…). But if you need your bracket fix between now and next Saturday, well… we’re suddenly the only show in town, now aren’t we?

(Mwah-ha-HA-ha-ha-ha-ha….!)

As always, you pick the winners. And this is the big-time. These Regional Final skirmishes will send half the contestants packing, and the other half to the “Phony Four.”

You know you’ve been waiting for this moment — you and about 20,000 of your closest friends. So now it’s time to step up, fire a long jumper, and elevate your game.

Or you could just dispense with the hoops metaphors, and vote for the famous phonies who turned out to be the biggest hypocrites in their entire brackets.

Yeah, that’s it. Do that instead of the weak-ass basketball stuff. Go ahead.

Continue reading ‘DECEIVER MADNESS: The Artificial Eight’

27
Mar

Sleazy Michael Lohan Wishes He Was Cool Like Jamie Spears

michael_lohan_in_cuffsMichael Lohan’s official job seems to be to make me stabby.

The worst possible father figure I can imagine must have decided fellow pop star papa Jamie Spears has a pretty good gig as conservator of Britney’s fortune, for which he is paid $192,000 a year.

So like all good dads, Michael Lohan wants to get Lindsay declared incompetent so he can spend her money:

Now Michael is hoping to follow Britney’s dad’s example and take control of his daughter’s affairs.

He adds, “Finally Britney’s father did take control and she got her life back together.

“But Britney didn’t have Samantha Ronson in her life. Lindsay is my daughter and I love her but I’m not there to be a friend, I’m here to be a parent.

“If Lindsay doesn’t like that or is angered by what I have to say, quite frankly I don’t care because.”

Only Michael Lohan is no Jamie Spears. I think his final line is telling. He ends on “because” because he doesn’t have any standing given all the bullshiz he’s put his family soon. Just sayin’.

Moreover, I don’t know if Michael is up on his pop culture history, but Britney had actual, legendary leeches of her own. Namely Sam Lutfi and cousin Alli Sims — both of whom were worse than the long-suffering Samantha Ronson, who at least seems genuine to me.

26
Mar

Scarlett Johansson’s Curves Just Got Less Dangerous

scarjo_weightlossDefamer has some interesting before-and-after shots of Scarlett Johansson, who seems to have pulled a Jennifer Love Hewitt and lost substantial weight after complaining about Hollywood’s diet obsession.

Here’s ScarJo in 2006:

“I try to stay fit and eat healthily, but I’m not anxious to starve myself and become unnaturally thin. I don’t find that look attractive on women and I don’t want to become part of that trend. It’s unhealthy and it puts too much pressure on women in general who are being fed this image of the ideal, which it is not.

“I think America has become obsessed with dieting rather than focusing on eating well, exercising and living a healthy life. I also think that being ultra-thin is not sexy at all. Women shouldn’t be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images that the media promote. I don’t need to be skinny to be sexy.”

And then on Tuesday, according to a source tattling on her to Page Six:

“She was talking to Thandie Newton about the rigid diet she’s on,” our spy said of the star of the upcoming “Iron Man 2.” Joseph Fiennes, Eva Herzigova and Marc Newson were all there and ogling Johansson, who “was really working it,” according to our snitch.

These photos don’t lie. In the new photo (on the left), she’s not in scary skinny territory yet, but girlfriend has definitely dropped a dress size or two — her jawline is sharper and her arms look more lean. And someone’s let the air out of her chest. But I’m sure that didn’t pass most of you by.

Still, isn’t there ANYBODY in Hollywood who is secure enough not to give in to the pressure? I really thought Kate Winslet might be the one, but I was wrong there too.

25
Mar

Lindsay Lohan a Good Person, Says Lindsay Lohan

The flame-tressed flameout took time out of her busy day of… doing whatever it is she does now, and sat down to talk to E!:

“They need to stop saying we’re fighting,” she said of the media’s fixation on the ups and downs—though mainly downs—of her love life with [non-lesbian lover Samantha] Ronson.

“People telling lies about me to her and all this garbage. I’m really a good person and I have a good heart and just want to work. The only reason I go to clubs is to hear Samantha spin or be normal.”

Lohan urges people not to believe everything they read.

“I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs and I don’t lie,” she said. “I love to act and write and be creative, and I want to help people by playing characters that can send a positive message out to whomever may need it.”

On behalf of all of us here at Deceiver, I take back every single bad thing we’ve ever said about Lindsay Lohan. Why didn’t she just say she’s actually an awesome person? If I’d known she was a totally honest teetotaller, I wouldn’t have brought up all those times she’s been obviously inebriated in public, or her habit of making $#!+ up. Sorry, Lindsay!

She is to be commended for her not-at-all-unrealistic goals:

“I’d like to have my own charity, do work overseas, be in Oscar-nominated films, write movies, produce movies/shows/videos, design clothes, make music, write books, etc.”

Well, maybe she can get somebody to write the books for her. She might not “be adequite.” But the Oscar thing, that sounds doable. And maybe she can call her charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Airheads. Oh wait, that one’s taken.

25
Mar

Help Me Understand Gwyneth Paltrow’s Mommy Guilt

gwyneth_ironmanGwyneth Paltrow knows she needs to bring her A-game to topple Tom Cruise, and I have to applaud her latest effort here. She must really want to win this.

On the British morning news, the mother of two tried to relate to the little people by complaining about mommy guilt:

Chatting on GMTV this morning, the actress admitted moving to America to film Iron Man 2 will be tough.

Gwyneth said: “That’s hard, and I feel – I’m feeling mother guilt because my daughter’s looking forward to going, but my son always says, ‘I don’t want to leave my London house’ - and I feel pretty guilty about that.

“I just try to say, ‘Well, but we’re going to swim and it’ll be sunny.’ I try to point out the positives.”

Asked whether fame and parenthood works well together, Gwyneth said: “I barely ever do films – I’m with them almost all the time.

“But in a way it makes the transition harder. I feel like if I worked all the time, then they would be used to it.

“But when I’m always there, and I’m always doing school runs and I’m always around – and then I just disappear for 14 hours a day to film – it’s hard.”

A high class problem to have. The alternative, I suppose, to uprooting her young children against their will would be to give up acting like she said she would. Standing in stark comparison with many mothers who have no choice but to get a job, it’s not like she needs the money (unless, it’s possible, she does — that would go a long way in explaining GOOP). And she can’t say she’s sacrificing for her art: She’s making Iron Man 2. I enjoyed Iron Man 1 as much as any comic book geek, but an arthouse indie it ain’t.

Honestly? I don’t think she wants to work as much as she wants to have something to complain about.




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