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07
Nov

I Expected More From Kate Winslet

By Holly Won't 26 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Movie Stars and Writers

Huge fan of Kate Winslet here. Seen every one of her movies — even sat through The Holiday because she’s so sparkly and wonderful. I love that she takes on risky roles and has been outspoken about the unfair pressure that actresses are under to be ultra thin.

Even Halle Berry is on board, recently praising Kate’s total body liberation:

“Kate Winslet is always naked, sitting on a toilet, running buck-naked. She’s free. I want to be the kind of actress who can really be comfortable with my body like that.”

I mean, when Halle Freaking Berry says you look great naked, that’s the compliment to end all compliments. You never again have to question whether your butt is too big.

And that’s why it’s so disappointing that now she’s all “Photoshopping? What photoshopping?” when it comes to her oddly perfected photo spread in Vanity Fair.

Yeah right, told a retouching expert to the Daily Mail.

Professional airbrush artist Chris Bickmore believes it has been doctored wholesale. Here he outlines the areas that he thinks have been upgraded.

The face: ‘There is no real detail in her face. Any detail or wrinkles have been removed. There are no eye bags, contours and smile lines.

‘The whites of her eyes have been cleaned up and are now a really clean, crisp white. I’d say her lips have possibly been made slightly fuller as well.’

The skin: ‘Her skin has generally been retouched all over so she has no lines or blemishes at all. Her skin is completely perfect.’

The hands and feet: ‘There are no wrinkles or lines or veins on her hands and feet and this just is not natural.’

The figure: ‘Her back and lower body have been pinched in to make her look thinner and to give her some curves.

‘Her bottom has been rounded off so it looks nice and pert. I would be very surprised if her bottom was like that naturally. Her thigh appears to have been made slimmer so it appears more toned.

‘And in the shot of her sitting down on the front cover, it’s possible her legs were made slightly thinner so they also appear more toned.’

Come on, Kate. Don’t fail us now.

07
Nov

Melissa Etheridge Has Good News for Opponents of Obama’s Tax Plan

By Simon Scowl 68 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Musicians and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

You can just ignore it if the government doesn’t give you what you want!

But first, a bit of background from two short months ago:

Melissa Etheridge has urged her fans to support Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama — after changing the lyrics to one of her songs at a recent concert in honor of the politician.

The singer — who performed at last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) — pledged her political preference at a Los Angeles concert on Friday. Etheridge, wearing an Obama pin on her guitar strap, prompted the audience to erupt in applause when she adapted the lyrics of her hit song What Happens Tomorrow to highlight the Illinois senator.

She sang: “I believe a black man can work hard and succeed. And we could be content to believe that he can be in charge of the free. And be the president.”

And here she is at the DNC:

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Yay, Melissa! You did it! Now everything’s gonna be great.

So how are you celebrating?

You Can Forget My Taxes

by Melissa Etheridge

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books…

I’m sure she’s being facetious. I hope so, for her sake. But it’s still funny how quickly “Hope and change” turns into “Hope you weren’t expecting any of my change” when things don’t go your way. First the celebrities we depend on for life advice tell us to just suck it up and pay our taxes, and then they say “Never mind” when the voters don’t agree with every single thing they demand. Democracy only counts when you win.

It’s gonna be a fun 4 years.

And hey, just throwing this out there: Maybe celebrities shouldn’t blog? For their own sake? They’ve already got the money and the power and the fame. Maybe they should leave the thinking to us.

P.S. Are we allowed to question her patriotism? Maybe they’ll defrost Biden for comment.

06
Nov

Who Would Take Relationship Advice From Tila Tequila?

By Holly Won't 38 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls and Television Stars

You can always count on Tila Tequila to fill a hole on an otherwise slow news day.

The pint-size vixen is writing a book named Hooking Up With Tila Tequila about how women can snag a totally sexy dude with minimal effort.

Now ignoring the fact that the only person less qualified than her to give relationship advice is Pam Anderson, I wonder how this fits in with her whole plan to retire from the MTV lifestyle:

“I wanna do meaningful stuff. After a while you reach your goals and then what? You just prance around like Paris Hilton all day long and feel like you have to find the next scandal to stay big. This lifestyle is fun and I worked hard for it, but I think in the long run, it’s a lot. I just wanna be in love for the rest of my life and move to an island and have kids.”

it kind of goes with her image as a vapid party girl. An image, of course, she says is totally untrue and all the media’s fault. Curse the blasted media! It’s so presumptuous to assume such things of a nice Viet girl from Houston. Tequila, after all, is a family name.

05
Nov

PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Doesn’t Think You Should Publicly Endorse Anything

By Holly Won't 23 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Musicians, PETA and Politicos

Carrie Underwood is really not enough of a celebrity to warrant this much cyberspace, but this was too rich to pass up.

She said yesterday that she declined to endorse anyone for president because it’s crass to try to convince people about how they should act or feel about political and social issues. From an interview in TV Guide:

“There is someone I do support, but I don’t support publicly. I lose all respect for celebrities when they back a candidate.”

“It’s saying that the American public isn’t smart enough to make their own decisions,” she explains. “I would never want anybody to vote for anything or anybody just because I told them to. Music is where you go to get away from all the BS. Whether it’s from politics or just the world around you, music should be an escape.”

Now I’m willing to bet that most of you agree with her opinion that celebrities should STFU, but it’s a hee-larious belief coming from someone who embraced being elected PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian in 2005 and again in 2007. Carrie also took it upon herself to teach fellow American Idol alum Kellie Pickler the tenets of vegetarianism (as if it’s a complicated process) and there was some business with backing out of performing at a rodeo.

Just saying, proselytizing for PETA is really no better than stumping for a candidate à la everyone else in Hollywood.

04
Nov

Carrie Underwood Sort Of Apologizes to Jessica Simpson

By Holly Won't 23 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Musicians and Sports Figures

Carrie Underwood showed her catty side this summer when she tortured Jessica Simpson with a statement about how she and Tony Romo still chat covertly. (Jessica denied the claim, saying “I looked at his call log,” apparently not knowing that you never ever admit that.)

Well now Carrie says she’s deeply sorry and she’s not that girl. In the December issue of Elle magazine:

“It was something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or stir up anything, because I’m just not about drama…at all.”

Funny then that in the same interview, she talks about how personal drama is essential to a Hollywood career:

“All celebrities have to be involved in drama — or they’re not celebrities! There must be something wrong with ‘em! … I knew what I was signing up for, and I’m not complaining at all. I’ve learned how to deal with it, and my life is great, I’m a happy person. What are you going to do? Give it all up? No!”

Kind of sounds she knows exactly how to get some magazine covers between albums, doesn’t it?

04
Nov

Who’s Gonna Build Your Skyscrapers?

By Simon Scowl 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists and Musicians

Almost a year ago, we told you about how the famously eco-conscious Bono and U2 were building a 32-story apartment building in Dublin called the U2 Tower. Which was funny because the tower was to be built right at the mouth of Dublin Bay, where, if Bono actually believes the things that come out of his mouth, rising sea levels might make it a bit of a mess.

Well, the good news for Bono is that he no longer has to think of an excuse for hating the planet:

Plans to build Ireland’s tallest building, a $250 million Dublin skyscraper that would include a recording studio for the band U2, have been put on hold, The Associated Press reported. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority said Friday that it was still committed to the U2 Tower by the River Liffey but that for now it had suspended negotiations with possible developers because of the grim economic environment. The building, designed by the British architect Norman Foster, is to include luxury apartments and, at the top, a suspended pod that will house the recording studio.

I always thought Bono could suspend himself in midair anyway.

03
Nov

Somebody Please Rescue Suri Cruise

By Holly Won't 29 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars and Scientology

Whether it’s a $1-million security system at his L.A. home or a $10-million bomb shelter in Colorado to shield from alien attacks, money is no object for Tom Cruise to protect his family.

Or at least he wants it to look that way. I find it incredibly unconscionable that he and Katie Holmes insist on courting the paparazzi when it’s clear that two-year-old Suri is in emotional distress at the constant barrage of media attention.

Exhibit A: The photo at right was taken as they left their apartment building in NYC’s East Village last week. That building has a back door, btw, if they wanted to leave without attracting a scrum of photographers. But clearly that’s not a priority.

Is anyone else disturbed by how Katie is grinning and Tom seems totally nonperturbed while Suri is crying and covering her ears in fright?

For the little girl who has everything — from custom-made Christian Louboutins to her own gymnasium — what she seems to really need is some normalcy. Sad that she’s never going to get it from her freakshow family.

31
Oct

Gwyneth Paltrow Shares Dieting Secrets

By Holly Won't 31 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars and Writers

Ugh, I think I speak for most people when I say I have an overpowering dislike for Gwyneth Paltrow’s self-righteous yammering. She’s a fine actress — or she was at one point — but whenever I see some story about her opening her trap about how you, too, can emulate her perfect life if only you’d just try harder, I get grouchier than Rosie O’Donnell with PMS.

So she just sent out an email to readers of GOOP.com, a website of her tips for a healthier and happier life (which, by the by, she hasn’t updated since it launched more than a month ago).

HuffPo has the full missive — I’m not going to repost it here because you probably have other things to do today — but two of the tips are daily 12-hour fasts and avoiding “white foods,” such as anything made with flour, sugar, or milk.

Extreme, right? So extreme that even Gwyneth herself doesn’t adhere to it:

Gwyneth Paltrow makes being svelte look easy, but the actress tells Oprah Winfrey that she finds it nearly impossible to stick to a diet.

“I just cannot diet,” Paltrow, 35, says on The Oprah Winfrey show airing Wednesday. “I think maybe it’s the idea that you can’t have something … I just can’t do it.”

But we should, right? Way to set the bar impossibly high, Gwyn.

30
Oct

Hayden Says: “Let Them Eat Sushi”

By Simon Scowl 33 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Television Stars and U.S. Left-wing Politicos

You know how Obama told that plumber dude he wanted to “spread the wealth around”? And then everybody went after the plumber dude for some reason, but then they were like, “Hey, wait a minute, back up. Senator Obama, could you explain that whole ’spread the wealth around’ thing, please?” And then Obama explained it, but he said only rich people are going to get taxed, so don’t worry about it? But now the definition of “rich” keeps getting less and less, um, rich?

Well, if you like Obama but you don’t like higher taxes, Deceiver fave Hayden Panettiere has a simple solution: Deal with it!

“I don’t know if anyone would complain about under-taxing to be completely honest,” Panettiere told CNSNews.com. “Personally, I’d rather have higher taxes and help other people who need those tax breaks more.”

Ain’t she a saint, folks? She’s like Mother Teresa, but without all the gross wrinkles and stuff. And smarter:

Panettiere, 19, thinks many young people have gotten involved with this year’s presidential election because of the celebrities who chose to publicly endorse a presidential candidate.

“One of the major reasons why, especially young people, have come out and done so much to play a part in this election — and who are really getting out there and voting this time around — is because of the celebrity endorsements, because of how popular this election has become, and how much in the news, and how much it’s taken over, you know, our society,” said Panettiere, who plays “Claire Bennett” on the hit NBC Show, “Heroes.”

Yeah, you remember which other election some genius-level celebrity said that very same thing about? Every single one. And they were wrong every single time.

But let’s say she’s right. Let’s say you vote how she wants you to vote. What if it means paying more taxes? Well, duh. Just have your accounting team take care of it. That’s what you hired them for, right? And while they’re dealing with that boring stuff: shopping! Problem solved, Hayden-style.

Martha Stewart said something equally brilliant about Obama’s tax plan, but she’s old and irrelevant and can’t heal from gunshot wounds and radiation burns like Hayden can, so I don’t care. Save any dolphins lately, Martha? Mm-hmm, didn’t think so.

30
Oct

Alec Baldwin Wants A Kinder, Gentler Nation

By The Oversneer 21 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Movie Stars, U.S. Left-wing Politicos, U.S. Right-Wing Politicos and Uncategorized

In Hollywood as in Washington, spite and malice are more than just a card game. And Alec Baldwin has had enough. (*Giggle*)

Here’s the great peacemaker of 30 Rock last night on Letterman talking about the upcoming election:

“If John McBush and Bible Spice win, we have to find a way to come together as a country, because we can’t let it be the way it’s been the last 8 years where there’s been this acrimony and this bitterness. We have to find a way somehow to do that.”

Acrimony and bitterness? It’s a good thing calling people infantile names doesn’t count. Imagine the media crap-storm that would arise if Alec’s brother Stephen (an ardent right-winger) had called a certain presidential candidate “Commie OMuslim.”

Okay … “Bible Spice” was clever. I’ll give him that.

But Alec Baldwin is the last guy who should be lecturing America about avoiding acrimony and bitterness. Just ask his daughter.

The big Democrat donor says he may run for office himself someday. So Baldwin’s recent rant that “This Congress is a disgrace, Democrat and Republican” seems like ill-timed acrimony and bitterness to me. Politicians tend to feign amnesia about how they voted on things and which promises they broke, but this is the sort of stuff they remember.

(Hat Tip: Celebitchy)

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