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28
Jun

Mini-Me Sues TMZ Over Sex DVD

By Holly Won't 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Businesses, Entertainment, Legal Messes, Movie Stars, The Naughty Bits and Writers

ranae_shrider_verne_troyer.jpgVerne Troyer, the little guy who’s best known for his work with Mike Myers in the Austin Powers franchise and now the steaming pile known as The Love Guru, has sued gossipmonger TMZ.com for posting a sex tape starring the actor.

In the lawsuit (view PDF here), Troyer says he sent multiple cease-and-desist orders to the website both before and after they shared the video, which features the dwarf performer with his ex-girlfriend Ranae Shrider. The tape was allegedly stolen sometime in the past year.

The suit also names One Night in Paris porn peddler Kevin Blatt as a defendant for trying to broker a deal for the video’s sale through an online porn distributor. Blatt reportedly has received offers as high as $100,000 for the footage.

Troyer is seeking ONE MEEELLION DOLLARS in damages.*

And sorry, sickos: TMZ pulled the post after the lawsuit hit. You’ll just have to wait for someone else to leak it to satisfy your pervy intentions.

*Sorry, couldn’t resist. Multiply that by twenty.

26
Jun

Karolina Kurkova Criticized as Too Curvy in Brazil

By Holly Won't 35 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Fashionistas and Writers

karolina_kurkova.jpgVictoria’s Secret model Karolina Kurkova was bashed in the Brazilian press as too fat after walking the runway in the Cia Maritima show during Sao Paolo Fashion Week:

An article in a Brazilian paper about the leggy 5′11″ Kurkova described how “shocked” the audience was when she appeared looking uncharacteristically chubby with “cellulite on her butt.”

Btw, the photo at right was taken on Tuesday in Brazil. Yeah, what a fattie, right?

The thing that gets me is that the same Brazilian press was up in arms after Ana Carolina Reston, a local model, died of anorexia in 2006. Standing at 5′7″, she was 88 pounds at her death. It was pretty much 24-hour news coverage at the time:

“Take care for your children because their loss is irreparable,” Reston’s mother, Miriam, told the O Globo newspaper. “Nothing can make the pain go away. No money in the world is worth the life of your child.”

…

“I noticed something was wrong when she returned from Japan,” Miriam told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper. “She was too thin when she returned and when I told her to eat something, she would say: ‘Mom please don’t fight with me; there is nothing wrong with me, I’m fine.’”

It’s entirely possible that the some members of the Cia Maritima audience were as horrified as the newspaper claims, but is broadcasting that opinion news? I would say this sort of criticism of someone as gorgeous as she is qualifies as a mixed media message.

19
Jun

“Hos” Heckler, Hill, Hoped for Ha-Ha’s from Hitler Humor

By Simon Scowl 18 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Sports Figures, The Washed Up and Writers

We all remember the terrible events of April 4, 2007. That was the tragic day when radio personality Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as — DEEPLY, DEEPLY OFFENSIVE CONTENT AHEAD — “nappy-headed hos.” This meanspirited remark sent shockwaves across the country and threatened to tear this great nation apart.

Fortunately, some were brave enough to mount the highest available horse and call for Imus to be fired. Among those stalwart few was ESPN.com’s Page 2 columnist Jemele Hill, who said on April 10, 2007:

If it were up to me, security would have escorted the longtime radio jock out of his CBS Radio cocoon with belongings in tow days ago. But for now, I’ll have to settle for a two-week suspension that doesn’t begin until next week. That’ll show him.

Days have passed since Imus, executive producer Bernard McGuirk and sports announcer Sid Rosenberg took turns taking cheap shots at the Rutgers women’s basketball team, but I’m still boiling because too many people continue to defend Imus behind lame free-speech arguments — remember, speech is free, but consequences are not — and the idea that black women just don’t know a good joke when they hear one.

Hill got her wish the very next day, when Imus was dropped from MSNBC, and the day after that, when he was fired from CBS Radio. A triumph for freedom! The freedom from being offended by anything, anywhere, at any time.

So, what has Hill, a true American hero, been up to since then? Oh, just insulting millions of people. According to the Boston Herald:

ESPN.com columnist Jemele Hill was suspended yesterday after sparking outrage by comparing rooting for the Boston Celtics to Adolf Hitler and nuclear war…

Yesterday, Hill amplified on her earlier apology for writing, “Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.”

“In expressing my passion for the NBA and my hometown of Detroit I showed very poor judgment in the words I used.”

Apparently heroism affects the memory, because Hill should have remembered that all of Imus’s apologies, even those he made in the presence of Rev. Al Sharpton himself, were completely futile. That’s the new rule, the rule Hill helped create: If you’re in the public eye and you say something that offends somebody, no apology will ever be sufficient.

As a very wise person once said: Speech is free, but consequences are not.

18
Jun

Lynne Spears’s Parenting Book Coming Out Soon

By Holly Won't 7 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Musicians and Writers

lynne_spears.gifThe long-awaited parenting book written by Britney and Jamie Lynn’s mom has changed a lot since it stalled following her youngest daughter catching a case of pregnancy.

Lynne Spears’s surefire bestseller Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World is set for release in September.

Also known as “just after she’s become a grandmother for the third time to a child who will surely need years upon years of therapy just to reach 18.” Hopefully without getting knocked up or divorced first.

13
Jun

Perez Hilton: Drama Major, Major Drama

By Holly Won't 12 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Entertainment and Writers

perez_hilton_with_posh.jpgThe Los Angeles Times did a profile of Perez Hilton in today’s edition and I thought I would share some fun facts about nobody’s favorite blogger. Including:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in drama from New York University.

Along the path: Started his blog, then called PageSixSixSix, in 2004 with a post about Howard Stern. Within months, tabloid TV show “The Insider” dubbed it “Hollywood’s most-hated website.” This led to a huge boost in Web traffic.

Name change: After getting sued by the New York Post, which publishes gossip section Page Six, Hilton changed the blog’s name to PerezHilton.com. The name reflects his Cuban roots and “the wacky world of celebrities.” And what does pal Paris Hilton think? “She loves it.”

Most surreal moment: When Madonna made him a video in which she seductively asked, “Who do you love more: me or [Hilton's dog] Teddy?” Naturally, Hilton posted the clip — and his response — on his blog.

And it may come across as sour grapes, but I call this pure garbage:

“I think what I do is noble. I think my job title is entertainer. I shine the light on celebrities behaving badly, and I also shine the light on those that get it right. And those that get it right, I applaud.”

I would argue his brand of gossip is called favoritism and Hollywood politics, and if you want the real story, Deceiver.com is where it’s at, yo.

02
Jun

JT LeRoy vs. JT LeRoy

By Simon Scowl 6 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: The Washed Up and Writers

If you’re the type of person who reads books (BOR-ing!), you might remember a little lady by the name of Laura Albert. No? How about JT LeRoy? That one rings a bell, doesn’t it? LeRoy was a former teenage transvestite male prostitute who became a literary sensation by writing about, well, being a former teenage transvestite male prostitute. Except it was all a bunch of horse-leavin’s. Albert (born 1965) concocted the stories under the LeRoy name and hired a young woman named Savannah Knoop to play LeRoy during public appearances. Blonde wig + sunglasses = verisimilitude! Everybody fell for it, until New York Magazine did some digging and revealed that the whole thing was a hoax.

Then it gets weird.

Knoop has now written a book about her experiences called Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy. And guess who’s not happy?

“I am not in any way connected with this book and it disgusts me. Just because you play a writer doesn’t mean you are a writer,” Albert, 42, told Page Six. “I think Savannah is being motivated by money and attention. Now that she’s had to go back to being a civilian, this is her way of getting back to it. It’s sad and it’s sleazy. She’s really stepping on my feelings.”

Yep, the woman who became a success by making up a bunch of stories and saying they were real is now angry at the girl she hired to play the kid who it supposedly happened to, because that girl just wrote a book about how it all really happened. Oh yeah, and Knoop is the sleazy attention whore. Got all that?

Unless… Say, could this be part of the hoax too?

28
May

White House Podium Follies

By The Oversneer 10 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: U.S. Right-Wing Politicos and Writers

mcclellan.jpgI’m not a big fan of ABC correspondent Jake Tapper. I knew the guy in college, back when he was a mindless blowhard, drawing a very liberal daily comic strip in between making midnight bongs out of soda cans. But I have to admit he scored a major zing! with today’s research work on former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose tell-all book is sending the network newscasters into paroxysms of  anti-Bush cackling.

Apparently, McClellan voted against anti-Administration tell-all authors before he became one:

On the book critical of the Bush White House written in cooperation with former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, “The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill,” McClellan said on January 12, 2004:

McCLELLAN: “It appears to be more about trying to justify personal views and opinions than it does about looking at the results that we are achieving on behalf of the American people.”

McClellan also took issue with the book by former Bush White House counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke, “Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror,” on March 22, 2004:

McCLELLAN: Well, why, all of a sudden, if he had all these grave concerns, did he not raise these sooner? This is one-and-a-half years after he left the administration. And now, all of a sudden, he’s raising these grave concerns that he claims he had. …

Q: Scott, the whole point of his book is he says that he did raise these concerns and he was not listened to by his superiors.

McCLELLAN: Yes, and that’s just flat-out wrong. …When someone uses such charged rhetoric that is just not matched by the facts, it’s important that we set the record straight. And that’s what we’re doing. If you look back at his past comments and his past actions, they contradict his current rhetoric. I talked to you all a little bit about that earlier today. Go back and look at exactly what he has said in the past and compare that with what he is saying today.

Yep. That’s the idea.

28
Apr

Arianna Huffington: “I’m Not Setting Myself Up as Some Kind of Paragon”

By Simon Scowl 3 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Environmentalists, Socialites, U.S. Left-wing Politicos and Writers

 

Apparently this is going to be the new tack for Global Warmingers who don’t live like Global Warming actually exists: “I realize I’m a hypocrite! How can you criticize me for being a hypocrite if I’ve already admitted it?” You got us there, Arianna, I guess we can’t. But we don’t have to take you seriously either. “Save the planet, dahlink!” Every time I hear her voice, I expect Eddie Albert to pop up with a pitchfork.

(Hat tip: Hot Air)

28
Apr

Miley Cyrus Photo Scandal, Take Eleventy

By Holly Won't 33 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Bad Boys & Girls, Musicians, Television Stars, The Naughty Bits, The Religious and Writers

miley_cyrus_vf.jpgMiley “I Do Everything For Jesus” Cyrus has admitted that it was indeed her (and not a lookalike) in those bra-baring photos we talked about last week.

And for all you pervs out in the interwebs, there are evidently more to come in the June issue of Vanity Fair.

Photos of the Disney star wearing just red lipstick and a bed sheet — shot by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz — have popped up online. For which Miley is already apologizing (again):

“I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” Miley said in a statement. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.”

Disney seems to be afraid that their little girl is going the Britney path a little too soon, but Vanity Fair stands by the shoot:

“Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines,” Disney spokeswoman Patti McTeague asserts to the Times.

Not surprisingly, Vanity Fair has a different take on how the photo shoot went down, with a rep insisting, “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”

This is pretty much why it’s never a good idea to try to make money off your morals: Someone always notices when you slip up.

28
Apr

Perez Hilton Steps in Goldendoodie

By Holly Won't 20 Comments Digg! Digg this
Categories: Activists, Entertainment and Writers

Perez Hilton has decided to follow Oprah’s lead — not on some faddish diet, but in speaking out against puppy mills.

Um, except he bought his dog Teddy from a breeder in October.

perez_goldendoodle.jpgIn his own words:

How’d we stumble upon a Goldendoodle?

We typed in “small” “cute” and “smart” into Google and they popped up!

Teddy will grow up to be about 20 lbs and even more adorable than he already is.

We got him at Southern Cal Kennels, Grade A mini Goldendoodle breeders.

We are just so in love.

Our little Teddy bear!

Just so we’re straight… Perez can drop $1,200 on a designer pup — and the kennel will even ship your dog to you! — but he wants you guys to be sure not to do that. “Do it for the doggies.” Got it?

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