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It was a boring week by almost all accounts. Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton were all over the place and easily mocked, but that's typical. Otherwise not a lot was manufactured by the gossip industry happened.
The critics have weighed in on Lindsay Lohan's new film, "Just My Luck," and the verdict is that it royally sucks. It only has a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In comparison Paris Hilton's horror film, "House of Wax," is rated a whopping 24%.
Some choice quotes from Rotten Tomatoes:
"Every single scene is an abominable assemblage of mind-boggling stupidity, completely unmotivated behavior, and unfunny slapstick." -- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"A romantic comedy neither romantic nor particularly funny."-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"A romantic comedy even more idiotic than its embarrassing (and somewhat creepy) poster would indicate."
-- Connie Ogle, MIAMI HERALD
"It's difficult to say whether [Lohan's character] is more grating when she's cursed and whiny or when she's blessed and oblivious." -- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Sorry, Lindsay, your movie sucks. People also apparently hate you. Lindsay topped a Star magazine poll of the most hateable celebrities, beating Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline by a healthy margin.
Here she is with "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis, who just celebrated his birthday with a celebrity-attended bash at Six Flags in LA on Thursday. [via] She's also shown shopping in Beverly Hills on May 10th [via]
Video of Tom dancing on Ellen and not showing Suri's picture:
- Kate Winslet and her kids (Just Jared)
- Jennifer Garner-Affleck and Violet (PopSugar)
- MIchelle Rodriguez to start her own clothing line (IDLYITW)
- Lindsay Lohan is the most hated star in Hollywood (WWTDD)
- Adriana Lima is Bastardly's sexiest woman of 2006. People must like women who play impossible to get. (The Bastardly)
- Sienna Miller is a country bumpkin (Hollywood Rag)
- Uma Thurman's boobs are longer than her legs (yeeeah)
- Lindsay Lohan's picture on the "Just my Luck" poster is actually a paparrazi shot (Wizbang Pop) [via]
- Suffering baby seals are not enough to keep Paul McCartney and Heather Mills together (Glitterati)
- Brooke Shields is so happy (I'm not obsessed)
- Teri Hatcher wears pink sweatpants (DListed)
- Kevin Federline has a new Maserti. It pays to have motile sperm. (Gossipin)
- Clothing designs from Madonna's upcoming Confessions tour. (Faded Youth)
- Radio DJ Star of "Star and Buc Wild" not only got canned for threatening a rival DJ's daughter, he also got arrested! (Concrete Loop)
- Russell Simmons says he never got with America's Top Model winner Naima Mora. Page Six lies. (Crunk and Disorderly)
- 2006 is the year of the fake authors (Blog NYC)
- Happiness runs in the Cox-Arquette family (CityRag)
About two weeks ago we mentioned that Charlize Theron was wearing an engagement ring while at a Lakers game with her boyfriend, Stuart Townsend. As far as we know, no one else really noticed and it didn't get any press.
Now A Socialite's Life has a rumor that Theron and Townsend are getting married this weekend in Savannah, GA:
Apparently she has an affection for Savannah after filming the Legend of Bagger Vance here several years ago. We've heard she may be getting married at a private residence with a reception at the Mansion (which used to be the Fox and Weeks Funeral Home, it's very cool!) I will let you know what else I hear on Friday.
If this is true, congratulations to Theron and Townsend! They've had a rough go of it, but Charlize played coy and landed her man.
Posted to Charlize Theron | Engagements | Stuart Townsend | Weddings
We have company coming and have take the rest of the day off. We only wish we were going to a spa. Maybe next weekend if my husband gets the hint.
There's not a lot going on today:
Here are some more great sites to meet your gossip fix:
- Bastardly
- Best Week Ever Blog
- Blog NYC
- D-Listed
- Egotastic
- Faded Youth
- Glitterati
- Gossipin
- Hollywood Rag
- Hollywood Tuna
- I Don't Like You
- Just Jared
- Popsugar
- Socialite's Life
- Yeeeah
Thanks and have a great weekend.
Posted to Links | Site Announcements
Star Trek fans are pretty pissed by the rumor that Ben Affleck, whose career hasn't quite recovered from Gigli yet, may be in the running to play Captain Kirk in an upcoming Star Trek film directed by MI3's JJ Abrams. The editorial we read about it said that it's not such a bad idea.
Pay close attention to the caveat from "Southie": "This isn't gospel, this isn't even confirmed....it's merely speculation on our behalf, but some pretty SOLID speculation from some solid sources."
And then he drops the bombshell:
...some others had heard that Ben has also been talking to Paramount about possibly playing a lead role in a new Star Trek film from J.J Abrams. Apparently Abrams is coming down to visit the set in a few weeks, to visit Michelle Monaghan, whom he directed in Mission : Impossible 3, so that might add some more fuel to the fire. If it comes off, he's apparently playing the hero. Don't know if that's Captain Kirk or some other nameless male protagonist...but that's the gist of it. So possible that Affleck's going to go onto doing a new Jack Ryan, and possibly a "Trek", after he finishes with this film.
It appears that most Star Trek fans are freaking out with the sentiment being summed up nicely by one commenter who wrote simply, "GOD HELP US ALL IF THIS COMES TO BE!"
I'm going to take the opposing point of view on this one, if Affleck is indeed going to play Captain Kirk. I think it's a good choice. Listen, William Shatner ain't De Niro, he's a...let's be kind...middle of the road actor who tends to overdo it on occasion. Affleck is a middle of the road actor who tends to overdo it on occasion. Seems like if they wanted to stay true to the franchise, trading in Shatner's toupee for Affleck's hair plugs would be a natural selection.
Affleck needs to get some kind of film role that isn't complete crap if he's going to get his career back on track. Two years ago he said he didn't want to make any more action films, which is probably why he hasn't made any decent films since. "Jersey Girl" was lukewarm glurge and "Surviving Christmas" was impossible to sit through. He doesn't have the chops for serious drama, except when he's typecast like in "Changing Lanes," and he's decent in comedy. He really shines in action movies, though, and he should embrace it and take the cash. He seems to enjoy spending it.
Affleck is shown above in a recent picture walking his daughter in a stroller, five month-old Violet. [via]
Posted to Babies | Ben Affleck | Movies
Nicole Richie is an obvious perfectionist about her body. She starves herself thin, and has admitted wanting to change her nose:
This may be her way of letting the press know that she's about to undergo plastic surgery. Richie was photographed outside a plastic surgeon's office on May 9th.
She needs to see a therapist and work out her issues. From what I learned from the handful of college-level psychology courses I attended while nursing a hangover, Richie suffers from body dysmorphic disorder:
Meanwhile Richie has said that she's not friends with Paris Hilton anymore because she's just too good for her:
Sounds like a junior-high level assessment of friendship.
Nicole looks like she has gained a little bit of essential weight. In these pictures of her shilling for Sprint at the E3 convention on Wednesday she looks slightly more healthy. Maybe her confession to Vanity Fair about being too thin helped her to eat a little bit.
Rosario Dawson, who is featured in Alexander, Rent, and Sin City, goes out with uber-hottie Jason Lewis, who played Samantha's boyfriend on Sex and the City. In the last two events she was photographed at, The Costume Institute Gala on 5/1, and The Roberto Cavalli Vodka Release Party yesterday, she wore a loose gown and looked like she was sporting a little baby bump. There's even a picture of her at the Costume Institute Gala putting her hand over her stomach.
Dawson, 27, and Lewis, 34, were first linked together in the summer of 2004. She dated Colin Farrell earlier that year, and J.Lo's ex, dancer Chris Judd, in 2002.
Dawson will appear in Clerks II, and will reprise her role in Sin City 2 opposite Angelina Jolie.
If our overactive imagination is correct - congratulations to Dawson and Lewis. Their child is going to be gorgeous.
Here's our flimsy evidence:
Paris Hilton made an appearance at video game expo E3 in Los Angeles yesterday to promote her new tween-aimed cellphone game, "Paris Hilton's Jewel Jam."
She arrived a half hour late and called her game "Diamondquest" by mistake:
After Hilton arrived, men in business suits jockeyed for space with reporters and computer geeks as she sat at a table posing for photographers while signing autographs.
Her game, which can be played on a cell phone, will be available this summer. Video game maker Gameloft will produce a series of video games with Hilton.
While she was impeccably coiffed, she may have thought the geeks wouldn't notice that she paired red shoes with a green dress.
A promo display for the game, shown inset, reveals more than intended with a video display peeking out of Paris' crotch.
Paris' latest boyfriend, newly recruited NFL player Matt Leinart, was seen emerging from her house Wednesday morning carrying his clothes from the night before. New love must have Paris so confused that's she's unable to match her clothes or remember important details.
Oprah held her "Legends Ball" last night to honor the achievements of African-American women. Celebrities pictured include Oprah Winfrey, Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, Tyra Banks, Mariah Carey, Spike Lee, Diddy, Smokey Robinson, Pam Grier, Dionne Warwick, Gayle King, Cicely Tyson, Deborah Roberts, Antonio LA Reid , and Nate Berkus.
A two hour special featuring highlights from the 2005 Legends Ball will air on ABC this Monday:
In addition to the honorees, among those in attendance at the weekend's events were Halle Berry, Sidney Poitier, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise, Barbra Streisand, Sen. Barack Obama, Maria Shriver and Quincy Jones.
In the pictures of the event, Janet Jackson looks fit and happy, and Mariah Carey looks pretty good even though she's wearing a stripper cut-out dress. 70s siren Pam Grier looks pretty bad, but I looked her up and she suffered from cancer in 1988 and was given 18 months to live. She was gorgeous in Jackie Brown in 1997. Hopefully she's on the road to recovery and will get a makeover soon.
- Jonathan Rhys Meyer is rational (IDLYITW)
- Teri Hatcher wants you to buy Burnt Toast (The Bastardly)
- Jake Gyllenhaal Helps The Needy (Hollywood Rag)
- Evil has a face, and it is Bill O'Reilly (CityRag)
- Scientology gives you Super Powers (A Socialite's Life)
- Tom Cruise to show pictures of Suri on Ellen tomorrow (DListed)
- Britney Spears nude is more scary than sexy (Egotastic)
- Lindsay Lohan was hungover on GMA and then forgot to change her clothes the next day (PopSugar)
- Jennifer Aniston finds a solution to her infertility - she has Oprah's baby! (PopBytes)
- DJ on most popular hip-hop morning radio show in NYC, Star of "Star and Buc Wild," threatens pedophilia on rival DJs daughter while on the air - gets promptly canned (Blog NYC)
- Kayne West gets Ellen Degeneres to throw the diamond sign (Crunk and Disorderly)
- Is J.Lo pregnant? We don't think so, but whatever. (Faded Youth)
- RIP Soraya (Perez Hilton)
- Cocaine gives Lindsay Lohan superhuman strength (The Superficial)
- Rachel Bilson has beaglophobia (Smart)
- Michelle Rodriguez Says Jail Was Cool (yeeeah)
Cacee Cobb, Jessica Simpson's closest friend and personal assistant for over two years, has moved on to other things. She celebrated her last day on the job May 7th:
A woman impersonating Cacee was arrested last summer after scoring nearly $12,000 in free stuff by capitalizing on Cacee's association with Jessica Simpson:
Jessica seems to have replaced Cacee as a best friend with hairstylist Ken Paves. They're photographed everywhere together.
Here's a nearly ten-minute clip from Newlyweds featuring Cacee after she moved in briefly with Nick and Jessica. The best part is Jessica saying that male ballerinas are called "Ballerino," the "masculine form" of the word.
People are saying that Cacee has hooked up with Nick Lachey, since she spent nearly a half hour talking to him at a club last week. They know each other well, and it doesn't seem like it means much.
Here is Jessica outside a NYC recording studio yesterday. [via] and [via]
Pete Doherty may have been right when he declared that he's the new John Lennon. A little over a month ago he was quoted as saying:
“Honestly, I am the most important rock star now.
“And you will hear lots of great songs from me in the near future.”
The drug-addled Jaguar-loving Babyshambles lead singer was voted second in an NME poll of the greatest rock stars of all time. He was only bested by late Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain:
Speaking about Doherty's place on the list a NME spokesman said: "Surely he's just a worn-out drug addict who needs help if he's ever going to make decent music again?"
"Yes, there was a time when Pete Doherty lived his life with an unrivalled romantic zest, when he represented a truly anti-establishment voice. But is he really still your hero? Now that his second home seems to be the courtroom?"
Morrissey came third in the poll and Liam Gallagher fourth.
Getting a lot of press, however exceptionally negative, seems to have worked in Doherty's favor.
Pete's not doing that well despite the high regard of the music-loving public. He recently sold his cell phone to a stranger for some quick cash, presumably for drugs. He neglected to clear the memory on the phone, and there were SMS messages from his on-again off-again girlfriend, Supermodel Kate Moss, on it. Moss reportedly urged him to give up heroin and join her for a summer vacation.
Here he is in concert in Amsterdam on May 2nd.
In a charity auction for The Prince's Trust, a single yoga lesson with Gwyneth Paltrow went for £30,000, nearly $56,000 USD:
The Hollywood actress, 33, was stunned when told the amount.
The mum of Apple, two, and Moses, born last month, donated her time for a charity auction in aid of The Prince's Trust 30th anniversary.
Gwyneth... said: "Someone's spent a great deal of money on it so I'm going to have to really come up with an excellent plan." But she added: "Unfortunately I can't do it in the nude or anything to make it really exceptional but I will try and come up with a good plan for a yoga lesson."
We don't like Gwyneth much because she seems quite snotty, but reader Millie points out that she is super-nice to a friend of hers. Angelika also bashed us for bitching about Gwyneth's night out so soon after her second child was born.
Regardless it's nice that she's donating her time to a worthy cause. Gwyneth's one hour of time is worth much more than $56,000. She made $3.6 million for a three-minute cameo in the film Infamous, or $1.2 million per minute.
Posted to Fitness | Good Causes | Gwyneth Paltrow
Ashlee Simpson was all giggles when questioned directly whether she had plastic surgery on her nose. She simply said she "doesn't talk about it," which translates to "Yes, I did have plastic surgery people, leave me alone already":
But when asked whether the rumor was true, the 21-year-old singer didn't confirm or deny it, but just giggled more.
"Maybe — who knows!"
It's ridiculous to say "who knows?" when she clearly would know.
Cityrag points out that Ashlee said she loved her nose about a year ago, claiming it gave her character:
Now that Ashlee's single character-lending trait has been homogenized like the rest of her, we can safely assume that she's entirely manufactured.
Here she is at the airport in Atlanta. [via]
Thanks to CityRag for the header image.
"Poseidon," a remake of the 1976 thriller "The Poseidon Adventure," premiered last night in LA. It features Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barret, Richard Dreyfuss, and Emmy Rossum.
It's getting bad reviews, and from the looks of the trailer, below, it's a bit too scary for our tastes.
Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas has a cameo in the film. She does not look pregnant in these pictures, but she does look plastic. She's wearing black so it's hard to see if she has a tummy buldge, though.
Here are Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Mia Maestro, Salma Hayek, Fergie, Jacinda Barrett, Jerry Lewis, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodriguez, Emmy Rossum and Pamela Sue Martin at the premiere and after party.
Tom Cruise may be a crazy cult spokesperson, but he didn't lie to start a war that's squandering all our nation's resources, and resulting in soldier and civilian deaths by the thousands.
US Weekly compares Tom's approval rating with the pResident's, and notes that Tom's is slightly higher:
According to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll over the weekend when Mission: Impossible III opened to $47.7 million, about $12 million less than expected, the public has lost its loving feeling for Tom Cruise. When 1,013 adults were asked their opinion of Cruise, 35% were favorable and 51% unfavorable.From Wednesday’s edition of USA Today:
President Bush’s approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections.The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush’s standing down by 3 percentage points in a single week.
It just goes to show you that acting crazy and hating psychiatric drugs is less damning that ruining the middle east and getting a lot of people killed. Now if only much-deserved impeachment hearings were started, we might get rid of world's worst pResident of all time.
It seems like low box office numbers could help tone down Cruise's career. Mission Impossible 3 isn't doing as well as expected. It's not exactly tanking, though.
It would certainly be a welcome change if both Bush and Cruise would ride/fly off into the sunset.
Posted to Arrogant | Movies | Politics | Tom Cruise | pResident Bush
Nick Lachey's new album "What's Left of Me" is a clear and heartbreaking exploration of his very public breakup from fellow singer Jessica Simpson. Critics are saying the music is decent pop, if a bit melodramatic and depressing:
If so, then Nick Lachey's new solo album, "What's Left of Me," could prove cathartic; If not, it might leave you a bit depressed...
The disc - a somber, soulful, angsty collection of 12 ballads - is a slickly produced, raw-nerved confessional of his heartbreak and an open letter to Simpson.
In "Shades of Blue," one of the album's best tracks, Lachey pines for a lost love, foolishly awaiting her return. He asks, "Why did you have to leave? Why did you have to set me free? Why did you have to go?" But he takes an angrier tone in "I Do it For You," expressing his wish to see her "bleed and see how it feels..."
Realizing that he must move on ("I don't want to waste another day stuck in the shadow of my mistakes"), the title track has Lachey telling a potential lover to make him "whole once again."
His brooding songs, sung in a clear tenor, span different stages of grief, sometimes within the same track - there's resentment, regret and acceptance in "I Can't Hate You Anymore" - until he reaches his "Resolution," pledging his commitment to let go. Finally.
Set to a pop soundtrack, his pain becomes palpable, raw, universal. His pain becomes ours.
Here's the video for "What's Left of Me." It's pretty good.
The NY Daily News is reporting that Nick decided not to respond to former miss Kentucky Lizzie Arnold, who he was supposedly dating in January. She was said to have sent him several voice and text messages in a vain attempt to get in touch with him before the Kentucky Derby. He was busy with Petra Nemcova the next day, so why would he bother with a past hookup?
Stars attending the CDs release party at Mood in Las Vegas last night include Sophia Bush, Drew Lachey, Wilmer Valderrama, Ryan McPartlin, Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Ryan McPartlin, Sophie Monk, Stacey Keibler, Lance Bass, Traci Swain, Casey Swain and Bonnie Somerville.
The American Family Institute honored the famous Arquette family yesterday. Family attending included Courtney Cox-Arquette, David Arquette, Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, and Alexis Arquette. Friends at the even included Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, Roseanne Barr, Paul Reubens, Laura Dern, Florence Henderson, and Mickey Rooney.
The AFI Associates Platinum Circle Award is awarded each year to recognize a family's creative contributions to the entertainment community.
Past honorees include the Penns, the Fondas and the Reynolds/Fisher family.
Alexis Arquette is a transvestite with the full support of her family. It is rumored that Courtney Cox was against a planned reality show featuring her cross-dressing brother-in-law's planned gender reassignment surgery. She refused to appear in the series, and Alexis has decided not to film the show:
Cox's brother in law, Alexis Arquette, had signed a deal to have his gender reassignment operation filmed a US documentary entitled Alexis Are-Cut.
But reports suggest that Alexis changed his mind, and was unwilling to allow the cameras into the operation or to document the recovery process.
Alexis' eldest sister, Rosanna, 46, said: "It's private. We all support him and wouldn't want him to be involved in any sort of circus act surrounding his decision."
It sounds like Rosanna didn't want the show to go forward, either.
Here are pictures from the event yesterday.
Posted to David Arquette | Jennifer Aniston | Matthew Perry | Photos
A lot of people like Gwen Stefani, and it's nice that she's pregnant and married. I can't stand her, although I do publish pictures of her and haven't said anything about it yet. She hired a bunch of American-born Asian women to follow her around and act like they enjoy behaving like Japanese kept women. Their contract even stipulated that they couldn't talk. Gwen may want to capitalize on the harijaku culture, but what she did is like having minstrels accompany her because she thinks African culture is cool.
Her new line of baby shoes is ridiculous. The designs are aimed at urban minorties who are more style-conscious in general, and statistically have less money. A pair of baby shoes from Gwen's line costs $50 a pair. Babies don't really need shoes until they can walk, but the sizes only come in sizes 0-3. My kid was a siize 5 by the time he could walk.
So Gwen's new line of baby shoes, which she has called "so cute," are expensive accessories meant for babies who don't even need them.
There are people from all walks of life who want to buy expensive shit for their children. My cousin, for instance, has money and spends it on baby items that are obsolete within a couple of months. These shoes are aimed at style-conscious urban mothers who often can't afford it. Is it Gwen Stefani's fault that people buy crap they can't afford and don't need? No, but she's catering to it. These shoes are undoubtedly manufactured overseas in sweatshop-like conditions, and could surely have a lower price. (If you have evidence that this is not true, please send a link, because I looked around.) Is Gwen the only designer guilty of this? Of course not. If the damn shoes are so expensive, though, they could at least be made in the US.
Back to our regularly scheduled escapism. Here are the shoes and Gwen herself, who just had an second over the top baby shower attended by other celebrities like Christina Aguilera.
Gwen is due to have her first baby with fellow rocker Gavin Rossdale in June.
Baby shower pictures via Just Jared, and thanks to nxdstar7 on the JJB Board for pointing these shoes out.
- Is Brad Pitt going to pull out of Oceans 13? (Glitterati)
- CaCee and Jessica break up (PopSugar)
- Boycott Colorado University (City Rag)
- Nicole Richie may get a nose job. She's not a perfectionist about her body or anything. (Hollywood Rag)
- Hot celebrity dads are DILFs (The Chic Mommy)
- Jessica Alba is wearing too much in the TV Movie Awards promo photos (The Bastardly)
- Charlie Sheen paid hookers to act like lesbian cheerleaders (yeeeah
- Jude Law and Sienna Miller are dumb enough to get back together. Over and Over. (A Socialite's Life)
- Denise Richards begs her homely sister to take her side in the divorce (PopBytes)
- Britney Spears wears the must-have white trash woman's accessory: clip-on bangs (DListed)
Celebrities were in attendance at the XBox 360 E3 party in Hollywood yesterday. The folks at Endgadget were also there, and reported about the new peripherals for the XBox, including an add-on HD DVD drive, to be released this Christmas season. They snapped some covert pictures of the new drive, and are not sure how good it will be
Steel yourself for a shock, but the HD DVD drive was actually looking like it was just going to be a regular 5.25-inch HD DVD drive slapped in a 360-styled external enclosure. Now that you've collected yourself after that bit of hysteria, we can tell you the (non-functional) drive itself had only a power plug (which looked to be of the variety that runs to the wall, no adapter required), a mini USB host port for connecting to the 360, two full USB ports for the device to otherwise act as a USB hub, and a spot for your 360 WiFi adapter to latch on the back since it could possibly be displaced by the use of the rear USB port to get this thing running on the console.
Will you be able to buy their drive at a huge loss? If MS releases with a $200 or less MSRP to make the core pack compete with Sony's lowest-end PlayStation 3, you could. But will you be able to plug it into a computer and have a functioning HD DVD drive (either via USB or by tearing it down)? Will Microsoft introduce an integrated HD DVD drive into future "premium" 360 consoles? There are just way too many questions to be answered with this one people, but what we do know is that in one form or another this thing exists, and we can't wait to get our hands on the real deal.
Here are Paris Hilton, Michael Vartan, rageaholic Bijou Philips, Danny Masterson, Matthew Perry, Caroline D'Amore and Taryn Manning sampling the goods. Of all the games available, Taryn Manning chose to play PacMan. Matthew Perry also seemed confused by the Jenny Holzer-type screensaver text art.
In an appearance on today's "Oprah," Vince Vaughn sort of acknowledged his relationship with co-star Jennifer Aniston when questioned directly, but he gave the old "Jen's my friend" response earlier in the interview:
Even though they're hounded by the press and there's a lot of controversy over Pitt leaving Aniston for Angelina Jolie, you think Vaughn could come up with a better way to handle it than to act like he's just buddies with his live-in girlfriend. He told David Letterman about a week ago that "I'm not saying we are or aren't a couple. I think she's great, but I just don't discuss whether we are."
That's weird and most celebrities at least acknowledge their significant other without getting into too much detail. It's strange that Vaughn is referring to Aniston like a friend's sister or someone he just happens to know, and it doesn't make their relationship seem too secure.
When Oprah asked Vince if he considered having children with Aniston, he didn't jump back into his "just friends" mantra and seemed to acknowledge that he's with her. He said there's no way he's having kids with her, though:
Has Vince discussed having kids with Jennifer? "No, I have not talked about having kids with Jennifer," he says. "I think [having children] takes a lot of focus, takes a lot of attention. I think it would be nice at some point to have a different priority in something else as you've sort of done stuff and challenged yourself, I think that time would come. But not any time in the near future for me, I don't think."
It doesn't sound like VInce wants to stay in his relationship. Any guy his age who wants kids but doesn't want them with their girlfriend - just doesn't want to be with their girlfriend.
Aniston is said to have asked Vince to give up a role that would have required him to film abroad for three months, suggesting that she's just as clingy and whiny as everyone thinks she is.
Aniston is also said to be devastated by the artsy pictures of Brad and Angelina on the beach in Namibia that came out a couple weeks ago. She was nearly in tears and said that Brad never looked that happy with her. It's just a matter of time before Vince wises up, too.
Here is Vince on Oprah. Thanks to marthaz on the JJB board for pointing these out.
Update: Video segment of Vince on Oprah:
People are saying that Nicole Kidman hasn't seen her kids in ages while crazy Tom Cruise is jetting all over the world, but still manages to go to Conner and Isabella's sports matches.
Star thinks it has to do with Tom's controlling nature, but it sounds to us like Nicole Kidman just doesn't care:
Proud papa Tom Cruise, 43, and stepmom-to-be Katie Holmes, 27, are regularly spotted making out in the stands at Connor's baseball games and Isabella's soccer matches, the kids' formerly ubiquitous mom seems conspicuously MIA. Although she has clearly spent some time with the children since then — and even introduced them to her groom-to-be, Keith, 38, over a casual, gigglefilled dinner at the Hotel Bel-Air in L.A. on Dec. 20 — it seems that Nicole just isn't as present in her kids' lives as she was before.'
A source claims, "Nicole probably isn't seeing as much of the kids as she'd like to, but her hands are tied."
"She's juggling traveling from movie sets to Nashville and Australia to be with her family. If she wants to see the kids, she has to come to L.A. and deal with Tom."
Also, Kidman's spokesperson told Star the actress avoids being photographed with her children for "privacy reasons".
But reports suggest that it may be Tom Cruise that is preventing his ex-wife from spending time with them.
A source says, "It's not like Tom's actively keeping her out of their children's lives, but it's in his nature to control things."
"He micromanages their schedule — sports, home-schooling, Scientology studies."
The source continues, "I think she knew when she and Tom divorced that she'd lose a certain amount of control over her kids' lives."
"But she deserves to play a bigger role. Maybe the best she can hope for is now that they're getting older, they'll start to make their own decisions."
Obviously the source is a friend of Nicole's and is making excuses for her absence from their lives. We aren't a fan of Tom, but couldn't Nicole make more of an effort to see her children?
It came out in January that a former nanny of Nicole and Tom said that Nicole was never around at all.
Tom may be a crazy cult spokesperson, but at least he's there for his kids.
Here are Tom and Katie in Aberdeen, WA for a sort-of premiere for MI3.
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Halle Berry had to film sex scenes for her upcoming movie with Bruce Willis while he was away, so she just rolled around on the bed and acted like someone was there with her:
A source onset says, "Halle wasn't phased performing solo. Although she, in effect, keeps her hands to herself, she is very convincing indeed in the love scenes."
Bruce Willis has said some flattering things about Halle, and is probably trying to make up for the fact that he had to skip out on their on-screen lovemaking:
"You have to take a pin and poke it through a card and look at her through that."
"You could damage your retina."
Sure Bruce. Maybe you were so nervous around her that you couldn't show up. At least he's talking about Halle, though, and not about politics. He was probably off trying to find Osama while Halle was shooting her solo sex scene.
Here she is yesterday at the "Celebration of Diversity."
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Lindsay Lohan attended the "Just my Luck" premiere in NY last night. She arrived with her mother and sister, and spun a giant "Just my Luck" Price is Right-type wheel on the red carpet. Lohan was recently profiled in a flattering article in the NY Times. It pondered Lohan's party-girl image in a detatched, intellectual way, concluding that her talent is great enough to overshadow the fact that she sleeps around and does a lot of drugs:
There is probably a generational difference; Ms. Lohan's contemporaries may not care what she does off screen and may actually be envious. But being tabloid fodder isn't a template for a long career, and perhaps she is grasping that reality. She has certainly chosen her next projects well, including the high profile "Georgia Rule," a dark comedy directed by Garry Marshall, in which she plays a woman sent by her mother (Felicity Huffman) to stay with her grandmother (Ms. Fonda).
And it was recently reported — accurately it turns out — that she has been in talks to visit Africa, Hollywood's cause du jour, as part of the Bono-inspired "One Campaign." O.K., it's a move lifted straight from the Angelina playbook, and it won't happen anytime soon because she's booked up with work. But it's helpful news to have floating out there. Even if it never happens, at least she's moving up to a better class of rumor.
That Africa trip is just a vague idea now, and who knows if it will happen. Lohan could barely handle herself on Good Morning America and Total Request Live. How is she going to commit to a humanitarian mission?
Meanwhile Lohan is said to be pissed that she had to deal with ex-friend Vanessa Minnillo on Total Request Live. Lohan's publicist was said to have thrown a fit before she went on, demanding that another VJ serve as host. There was no one else available and Lohan was stuck with her. You can tell that the two don't get along if you watch the show. Minnillo makes references to being tired and Lohan seems annoyed with her.
Here she is at the premiere and after party last night.
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In the "please let this be true" department is a story that Britney is so unhappy in her marriage to Kevin Federline that she wants a divorce.
From Life and Style via The Scoop comes news that she threw out his booze and wants to surpise him with divorce papers:
So serious, according to one report, that she’s met with her family and lawyer — but not hubby Kevin Federline — and the topic of divorce came up.
“Brit’s been very unhappy, and I think she needs to find some peace,” a source told Life & Style Weekly. “Once the Spears family gets its game plan together, the idea is to spring a divorce on Kev without warning.”
Spears’ rep denies that there are problems with the marriage, but an insider told the mag that Spears was so angry with her partying hubby that she threw out all his liquor.
“She’s not going to let him make her feel like a guest in her own home anymore,” the insider said. “The new rules include no smoking or drinking, since secondhand smoke is bad for the kids.””
That rocks! Britney seems to have found her strength again with recent public appearances for her perfume line and on Letterman, and it looks like she's not going to take any more crap from Kevin.
She would be much better off raising two kids on her own than having to put up with him. Britney was said to be furious when Sean Preston fell off the couch while K-Fed was supposed to be watching him, and that may have helped her realize how useless her husband is.
Meanwhile Kevin is quoted as saying that he wants out of the relationship, too:
Britney recently refused to fund any more expensive trips to Vegas for K-Fed and his friends, showing that she's finally ready to put her foot down.
It looks like the end for these two, and we can't wait! Go Britney.
Here she is outside of the Late Show studio yesterday.
Nick Lachey was flirting with supermodel tsunami-survivor Petra Nemcova at the Kentucky Derby. He may not be over Jessica yet, but he seems to be enjoying the possibilities of moving on:
Supermodel Petra Nemcova and the hottie singer were spotting getting super cozy over the weekend at the Barnstable Brown Bash at the Kentucky Derby.
The duo arrived solo on the red carpet. Sources told "Extra" it was Petra who approached Nick at the party and was very hands on.
That's pretty vague, but maybe they were hanging out and flirting. Nick is a great guy while Petra seems really kind, so they would make a very good couple. It's way too early to tell though.
Nick continues to be kind in his public quotes about Jessica, and doesn't dismiss a reconciliation. It sounds like he is moving on, though.
Meanwhile, according to In Touch Nick Lachey has been keeping busy with a mysterious blonde while in Vegas last week.
Nick is quoted as saying "his girlie" is his work.
Here's Nick on Total Request Live and Petra at 3rd Annual "Event to Prevent" Gala yesterday put on by the Candies Foundation. She is also shown on 5/4 at the grand opening of "The Collection" at Chevy Chase.
Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief now that Jessica Simpson has been spotted out again with her trademark blonde hair. The bad Tyra-Banks-esque hair Jessica was sporting at the ALMA awards was indeed a wig from her new collection, as she mentioned.
Guess her sister's new flat nose wasn't enough of a motivation to make a permanent change to her lovely blonde hair.
There's a rumor that Jessica is going to star in a movie based on the Superbowl halftime "lingerie bowl", but it sounds like b.s.:
An unnamed major studio in LA is said to be bidding on the movie edition of the “Bowl” which would (we assume like its TV namesake) feature women clad in underwear playing football.
According to the emailed “exclusive TIP” (which is not so exclusive since at least two or three other news sources have reported the news), the movie will include “cameos from prominent comedic actors and former and current NFL stars.”
The movie, it is said, will have an “Alien vs. Predator face-off type encounter."
We can only envision what that will look like – sign me up for that movie junket NOW!
Disclaimer: We don’t know whether the information reported above is true or not having come from an undisclosed “studio” and person who asked to remain anonymous.
Jessica also owns a $1.5 million condo in Vegas with Nick, and word is that they haven't figured out who will get it in the divorce.
Here she is out at a Mexican restaurant in LA on May 5th and in NY on May 9th.
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Britney Spears make a surprise visit to the David Letterman show last night. She joked a little with Dave, confirmed her pregnancy and read the Top Ten.
Referring to earlier banter with Paul Shaffer about Britney's possible pregnancy, Letterman said to Britney "Are we on to something here?"
"Don't worry Dave, it's not yours."
Britney looked happy and seemed excited to be there, but she kept kicking her legs, which made her come off as nervous. She was also chewing gum! You're not supposed to chew gum during a television appearance!
After Britney read the Top Ten "Suprises of the Bird Flu Movie," skipping the word "Tamiflu" because it was too hard, Dave said "So, we've established that you are in fact pregnant?"
"Yes."
Here's the best video currently on YouTube. Once a better one is up, we'll post it.
CBS also has a video online through the Late Show website but it's in Real Player format, which won't install for us here, and you may need to disable pop-up blockers and use IE. It's way too much work and those idiots need to update their website. Real Player went out in 1999, why are they still in business anyway?
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Mark Wahlberg, aka Marky Mark, almost was on one of the 9/11 flights that were hijacked on that tragic day. He had a flight booked, but changed his mind and flew out of Toronto instead. Wikipedia says that he rebooked the flight just a day before - on September 10th. He said the decision still haunts him:
It's a good thing that he changed his mind about his travel plans. Chances are he and his friends would have died too.
Mark has two children with his girlfriend, model Rhea Durham. They have a daughter, Ella Rae, born on September 2, 2003, and a son, Michael, born on March 21, 2006.
The header picture is recent. Sure he's gained some weight, but he's a dad now and he can lose it again. Picture [via]
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A new chick lit book whilch the author claims is based on celebrity in general, not Jennifer Lopez specifically, is so close to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's story that it's not fooling anyone. The author, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, has the arrogant J.Lo character cheat on Ben Affleck with Marc Anthony in a bid to boost her career:
She is engaged to "the boyishly handsome and patently non-Hispanic actor and screenwriter Jack Ingroff." Formerly Sanchez dated "a mealy-mouthed" rapper named D-Kitty, until the night "some dudes in his crew" shot another rapper.
"The public seems to have forgotten all about how the gun was found stashed beneath her very own seat in the Escalade limo, or about how she'd worn a bandanna around her head like a gang member..."
Sanchez "in her own estimation, is the sexiest, cleanest woman alive." She's lifted her style of pairing innocence with lust, pretending to be "surprised by her own sexy gyrations," from Britney Spears. Botox and belly lipo are her friends.
Sensitive Ingroff hopes that "some of Jill's cruelty will rub off on him." Sanchez has never learned the name of anyone who works for her. Her clothing line is the product of a team of designers who get no credit. In the recording studio, she's vicious to the very producers who are digitally manufacturing her voice.
In fact, the only time Sanchez delivers an Oscar-worthy performance is when she's pretending to be a professional singer "getting ready to lay down some kick-ass tracks." As if.
Imperious, demanding and dismissive, Sanchez uses humiliation as a motivational tool on her staff. In meetings, no one is allowed to speak directly to her unless she first gives permission.
The lead character periodically puts her hands on her stomach during photocalls to drum up press speculation about her pregnancy status, and tries to train her husband to be more media-savvy and manipulative.
The author, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez admits that "There are some anecdotes in there based on experiences that I or people I knew had with Jennifer Lopez." No kidding. She also claims that members of J.Lo's staff approached her and told her that the book was dead-on.
That sounds really juicy and it's sure to be a best seller!
Here's her royal highness herself at Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People party yesterday.
Everyone was speculating that Star Jones wasn't long for The View after straight-talking Rosie O'Donnell was handpicked by Barbara Walters to replace Meredith Vieira. It turns out that people were right, because Page Six is reporting that an insider has confirmed that Star will be exiting the show.
ABC will announce this week that the big-boned talking head is out at "The View," a source close to the inner workings of the late-morning gabfest tells Page Six. What network brass won't say is that she's being unceremoniously ousted at the direct behest of the show's grand dame Barbara Walters and the incoming Rosie O'Donnell.
"It was always Rosie's condition of joining the show, and Barbara agreed to those conditions from the outset," our source said. The network and Jones are now concocting a face-saving scenario in which Jones will be touted as moving on to pursue important new projects.
How Jones' star has fallen - just a few weeks ago, she had hoped to succeed Meredith Vieira as the moderator of the crew.
But Walters wasn't going to let that happen because "she hates her. Really can't stand her," a source told us last week. O'Donnell was recruited quickly after Vieira announced she was jumping to "Today."
Oprah's best friend, Gayle King, is said to be considered for Star's soon to be vacant post. We can't wait to see what crappy non-job Star gets next. She'll probably be out of work for a while until she breaks down and becomes the spokesperson for a diet or fitness-related product. She's already shilling payless shoes, and has no scruples about what she'll endorse to get free shit or cash.
Here she is with her husband at the The Playboy Club party on 5/5 hosted by the 2006 Playboy Playmate of The Year. At least she doesn't have to worry about him checking out the bunnies.
David Blaine surprised no one by not being able to break the world's record for holding one's breath underwater after spending a week beating the crap out of his body by living in a water globe in Lincoln Center for people to gawk at.
He started spurting bubbles nearly two minutes short of the record, and divers came to his pitiful rescue:
With Blaine's face contorted in pain and bubbles rising to the surface, divers went in to release him from the chains and pull him out. Blaine held his breath for 7:08.
"I am humbled so much by the support of everyone from New York City and from all over the world," Blaine said. "This was a very difficult week, but you all made it fly by with your strong support and your energy. Thank you so much, everybody. ... I love you all."
After a 100-minute television preamble that showed his training techniques — including holding his breath in a tank of sharks — Blaine had sucked in his last breath before going under. Kirk Krack, his trainer and a diving expert, offered encouragement as Blaine remained nearly still for the first five minutes of his dive.
Then, methodically, he removed two of his handcuffs and was trying to remove chains that held him before the divers came in to save him.
Blaine has suffered liver damage, loss of sensation in his body, and rashes all over as a result of his deal with the devil. The long term effects of gambling with his health for publicity have yet to be determined.
I saw the highlights of the stunt on German TV, and it really made me uncomfortable. Just thinking about it while Blaine was underwater made me uncomfortable.
Blaine couldn't have expected to break the world record for holding one's breath, but he had to show how far he was willing to go. It was too far indeed.
Lindsay Lohan appeared on MTV's Total Request Live yesterday, capping off a day of more hard work giving interviews and showing up for stuff.
Here's a blurry video of her appearance:
She seems out of it and defensive, and she really needs to rest. On the Today Show yesterday she said she works harder than her friends' parents, and is the hardest working person she knows. Matt Lauer questioned her about substance abuse, and of course she denied she had a problem, talking rapidly and sniffing all the while.
Here is Lohan on TRL and a couple of candids of her out in NY with a new boyfriend(?) [via]
Pink is the New Blog has another recent picture of her with a different guy in what looks like an ad.
Update: the guy is 20 year-old James Burke, a model/musician who has also dated Kate Moss.
Britney Spears attended an Elizabeth Arden event in NY yesterday to celebrate the success of her three perfumes put out by the company.
A giant cake in shape of her fragrance bottle for Fantasy commemorated the occasion, and young dancers from Broadway Dance Center, where Britney had studied in New York before becoming a top-selling recording artist, helped her celebrate. Dancers competed in a dance-off judged by Britney. Twelve-year-old Marina Micalizzi was the winner.
In the pictures at the event, Britney looks polished and happy. She seems to enjoy the dance contest and gets a kick out of the young dancers. In the pictures published by Wireimage, it's hard to tell if she looks pregnant. There are candids of her leaving the event, though, that show a definite bump.
I've gradually changed my mind about this - Britney really is pregnant!
Britney Spears is selling a special Mother's Day bear through 1-800-Flowers. $5 of the proceeds of each sale will benefit the Britney Spears Foundation.
She has a new song available online.
You can download "Luv the Hurt Away" featuring Full Force from BreatheHeavy.com.
Update: Some images removed on request.
- Beyonce and Jay-Z at the beach (Crunk and Disorderly)
- Ashlee Simpson: New nose, same bad talent (Hollywood Tuna)
- Press: What's your "most wonderful moment" as president? Bush: Catching a largemouth bass. (BlogNYC)
- 2006 NCLR ALMA Awards on ABC to have Hottest Dance Sequence in the History of Television (The Bastardly)
- Chad Michael Murray Banned From Prom! (DListed)
- Lindsay Lohan sniffles through Today Show interview, with video (A redesigned Socialite's Life)
- Nicole Kidman was shocked when Tom Cruise asked for a divorce (Glitterati)
- Pamela Anderson nipple watch (Hollywood Rag)
- Meg Ryan has had some bad work done (IDYITW)
- Our favorite reader Millie does not think that Naomi Watts is pregnant, and notes that she's not wearing an engagement ring in the latest pics. We still think she looks pregnant. (Schreibatts)
Our photo host, PhotoBucket, is slow in serving up images today - at least on our end. Hopefully this is temporary thing. Thanks for your patience!
Update: It turns out we were referencing our images wrong, and had to search and replace the links in just about every post. That's why the site was slow for a while. It's fixed now though, thanks!
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Perhaps Jennifer Lopez has stayed with Marc Anthony for so long because she looks so damn good standing next to him. Hell anyone would look good standing next to this man. If she's having trouble getting pregnant, it's probably due to Marc, since he's so obviously deficient of key nutrients. Maybe he has an intestinal disorder which would explain his foul mood and undernurished appearance.
Lest Angelika accuse us of poor research, Lopez and Anthony attended yesterday's NCLA ALMA awards, which honor "outstanding Latino artistic achievement in television, film, and music and the enhancement of the Latino image in the entertainment industry." The ALMA awards were hosted by Eva Longoria and will be aired Monday night June 5th at 9:30 EST on ABC. They must be right after David Blaine's dumb special.
Anthony was honored for excellence in music:
Our friends at yeeeah point out that Lopez has grey hair, but I'm younger than her and have that problem a few days a month, too, so I shouldn't mock. I also have much less access to professional stylists, so she's fair game: dye your roots, Jen.
Here are J.Lo and Marc Anthony looking serene and scary.
There's a blind item in todays NY Post that sounds like it's about Lindsay Lohan and Bret Rattner:
Lohan does like it rough. She did 20 push-ups on the floor to show off for the reporters at a recent press conference for Just my Luck. She also said that she doesn't date as much as the tabloids make it seem:
Here's Lohan in what may be a new photoshoot. If you've seen it before, let me know. [via]
Britney Spears is said to be fed up with her husband Kevin Federline's spending, and has told him she won't pay for any more expensive trips to Vegas for him and his friends:
This isn't the first time Britney has been concerned with Kevin's spending. She supposedly cut up his credit cards and had his Ferrari towed back in December, but quickly reneged.
This comes right after news that Britney hired a security guard babysitter for Kevin, further suggesting their relationship is on the rocks.
Here she is outside of a Taco Bell in LA and in a new magazine spread for Glamour UK. [via] It could be the wind blowing her top out, but she looks pretty pregnant.
The NY Daily News notes that Tom was as tall as Katie in heels at the MI3 fan screening in LA last week, suggesting the pint-sized star, who is 5'7" to Katie's 5'9", was wearing lifts:
But on the red carpet at the L.A. premiere of "M:i:III" the other night, Tom and Katie were … well … exactly the same height!
And Katie was wearing what appeared to be white patent leather Roger Viviers that come with a 3 1/4-inch heel — which would have raised her height to over 6 feet.
So how is it that Tom could stand with her eye to eye, when he should have been staring at her chin?
Cruise's spokesman, Paul Bloch, insisted that nothing was out of the ordinary: "He had normal shoes on."
But the most plausible answer appears to be lifts — which, when built inside the heel of a standard dress shoe, can easily add inches.
You can't blame the guy for trying to look a little taller.
Tom and Katie have sent a baby gift basket to Brooke Shields in response to Shields' personal note congratulating them on the birth of Suri. Now that the Tom and Brooke have newborns born on the same day in the same hospital, it's time to bury the prozac hatchet.
Here he is with Katie out in LA. She looks tired and her nursing bra is peeking out the top of her shirt. Tom is rushing her somewhere that's likely Scientology-related and he ignores the photographer, while Katie attempts to smile. [via]
Tracks from Paris Hilton's upcoming album have been leaked online. They're pretty insipid and not that catchy. Personally I don't hate them because they don't stick in your head and are easily ignored. The lyrics and music are quite terrible though. Hopefully they'll be significantly altered before they're released to the public.
Update: All files have been moved to a server with unlimited downloads. Sorry if you were denied access earlier.
Paris said in her interview with Out magazine that she wants a "gay boyfriend":
The star told Out magazine in America: "Gay guys are more fun and they dress better and they're usually hotter.
"All the hot guys are gay."
Here she is outside of Bridge restaurant on May 6th [via]
Jessica Simpson showed up at the ALMA awards yesterday with an orange dress, orange skin, and a new orange hairstyle. If Ken Paves is responsible, she should break up with him next. She seems to be suffering from Jennifer Love Hewitt spring fever and we hope she'll go back to her trademark blonde hair soon. What color is her new hairdo anyway? (Thanks to Oh No They Didn't for pointing her new hair out.)
Jessica is said to be pissed off at her less talented sister, Ashlee, for copying her look and getting a nose job that makes her more closely resemble Jessica. Maybe she's trying to go for a more unique appearance. No one would want to copy this hairstyle, that's for sure.
We were all excited about the "secret" dinner meeting and supposed hotel trysts between Jessica and her estranged husband, Nick Lachey. That may all be a rumor, just like most of the news we report. Jessica's representative denies that there was a secret dinner, but admits that the former newlyweds still talk on the phone.
Jessica is also said to have cut all ties with Lachey, calling him "toxic" after his tell-all interview in Rolling Stone. In Jessica's book, that probably means she's not going to call him for a couple of days.
Update: Jessica was wearing a wig that's part of her upcoming line of hairpieces. Now that's a good excuse:
"It's a wig!" she told Kevin on the red carpet. "I put eyeshadow on the blonde to hide it."
In fact, the wig is part of Jessica's new hairpiece line coming out soon, as reported by "The Insider"'s own MARC MALKIN on March 21.
That 70s show is ending its eight-year run with a finale to air May 18th. Aston Kutcher became famous during his run on the show. Topher Grace also made the transition to the big screen, while Wilmer Valderrama became known for screwing starlets:
"I went to Wilmer's high school graduation," Rupp says. "He called and said, "Mrs. Debra Jo, will you come to my graduation?' "
Two of the young actors weren't working in their first language. Kunis was born in the Ukraine, moving to the United States at 7. Valderrama was born in Miami but moved to Venezuela at 3.
All seemed to capture a world that seemed low-key and goofy...
Mostly, these teens horsed around in the Forman basement. Upstairs, Red and Kitty ranged from lust to arguments.
"Kitty was the final word," Rupp says. "She was a feisty little thing."
Meanwhile, the kids drifted through life. Eric moved in and out of his relationship with Donna (Prepon), the girl next door.
Capturing its old-young audience, "That '70s Show" did fairly well in the ratings. In recent years, only a few shows ("Seinfeld," "Friends" and "Everybody Loves Raymond") have drawn better Nielsen ratings in afternoon reruns.
Some of the actors have gone on to bigger things. Grace and Kutcher have moved on to film.
"Ashton, from the beginning, was a go-getter," Rupp says.
Now they've reconvened for a finale. Even on TV, the 1970s must come to a close.
The wrap party for the series was held on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Topher Grace was noticeably absent from the party but Ashton Kutcher showed up with his old lady, Demi Moore, and her daughter Rumer. Other cast and friends shown include Don Stark, Kurtwood Smith, Laura Prepon, Mila Kunis, Debra Jo Rupp, Wilmer Valderrama, Josh Meyers, Chris Masterson and Melissa Joan Hart.
I don't wish David Blaine any ill will, and I really hope he gets out of the bubble alive and without permanent brain damage from oxygen deprivation. He's a total fool, though, to bring his body to its breaking point and then expect to top it off by holding his breath longer than people who are in top form and have trained for years - while he's breaking out of a bunch of chains!
Blaine's skin is predictably peeling off from his week-long underwater stunt, and now he's experiencing excruciating pain throughout his body. Doctors says his muscles are breaking down and that he "might never be the same again" and could develop a seizure disorder:
"I think the time has started to really take its toll on my body. It has started to become horrific in many, many ways.
"Every muscle doesn't just ache, it feels like a sharp shooting pain, like a knife being stabbed."
Blaine's skin, which has shrivlled and pruned due to the water, hurts as well, and he is very concerned for his muscles - which have begun to atrophy.
"I don't think it's permanent, but I've never felt this kind of pain in a stunt before..."
Blaine's management has refused to discuss how much he will make from his latest act, but it is certain to be in the millions, with advertising revenues alone reportedly set to top $9 million.
Doctors have already raised concerns over Blaine's health, with Dr Murat Gunel of Yale University, who is monitoring and advising the illusionist, saying on May 2 that he "might never be the same again".
He said a lack of adequate oxygen in Blaine's brain during the breath-holding challenge, especially after seven days under water, carried a risk of irreversible brain injury
"Even if he is fine immediately after, there is a risk for developing seizures in the long run.
"We all advised him against this stunt."
The bottom line is that David Blaine is making a ton of cash in a deal with the devil that could leave him with permanent health problems.
There are plenty of real people who live with chronic pain and disability. David Blaine thinks it's ok to gamble with his health for fame and fortune. He's about to find out that it's not worth it.
"Frankly, right now the angle of the finale is uncertain," a source tells the New York Daily News. "They're still wrestling with how the finale will end."
"We're just not sure if he'll be able to handle it," said Kirk Krack, a free-diving expert who has been training Blaine. "If we pulled him out of the water, he likely would experience a blackout."
According to the News, blood tests have shown Blaine's body has adapted to the weightless environment by constricting his blood vessels, Krack said.
His blood plasma levels are only at 75% of normal, which means that he'll probably have to be removed from the water gradually, after the stunt is completed.
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A party was held Saturday at the Palms Casino to celebrate the opening of their new "Fantasy Tower" :
Several of the rooms in the new tower are themed. There's a suite with two bowling lanes and a giant sized suite with a basketball court.
Living the fantasy will bring you back down to reality. A night in one of the suites can run $5,000 to $50,000.
Avril Lavigne has attributed her new glamorous image to maturity rather than a makeover, saying it's a natural progression:
"When I first broke on the scene, I was a little kid straight out of high school and into skate-boarding and all that.
"Now I'm older. I'll keep wearing the rock look but a little more feminine, a little more of that rock glam thing going on".
Avril Lavigne wore black, making it hard to judge the size of her baby bump. Also attending were Avril's fiance Deryck Whibley, Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Kevin Connolly, Michelle Trachtenberg, Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven, Caroline D'Amore, Krista Allen, Seth Green, Travis Barker, Alison Waite and Benji Madden.
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