Oh Johnny Depp, why do you have to have foot in mouth disease all the time lately? I used to love you so. (See this post.) Anyway my former lover Johnny gave an interview to The Guardian explaining that on one hand he didn’t really give a toss whether Rum Diary did well at the box office, and on the other that he thinks it will do better in Europe, because “it’s an intelligent film. And a lot of times, outside the big cities in the States, they don’t want that.” So you can accuse me of misquoting him in that title, but that’s pretty much how he was quoted in the Guardian. He also complained about not being able to smoke in America, but said he wasn’t going to accept residency in France because he’d have to pay taxes there. The highest tax rate in France is 40% while the highest tax rate in America is 35%. (Roughly.) Johnny should have moved to Switzerland. Here’s more of what he said, and he came off badly here – again.

“In Los Angeles, the hoity toities, the beautiful people, will sit on Sunset Strip and have their meal at these kind of fancy restaurants where no one can smoke – but you can inhale car fumes all you like.” He shakes his head. “I mean, that to me says it all….”

Early US box office returns suggest The Rum Diary may not break even – but he says he couldn’t care less about the money. “No, God no, no. It’s always a crap shoot, and really if you have that in your head while you’re making a movie the process would become something very different. No, I couldn’t give a rat’s arse really, not really.”

The publicity blitz in the past week might make cynics suggest otherwise. But the film is Depp’s homage to Thompson, who died in 2005, and also the first release by Depp’s own production company, which would account for his uncharacteristically energetic media campaign. “I believe that this film, regardless of what it makes in, you know, Wichita, Kansas, this week – which is probably about $13 – it doesn’t make any difference. I believe that this film will have a shelf life. I think it will stick around and people will watch it and enjoy it.” Does he suspect it will go down better in Europe than the US?

“Most definitely. It’s something that will be more appreciated over here, I think. Cos it’s – well, I think it’s an intelligent film.” He leaves a meaningful pause. “And a lot of times, outside the big cities in the States, they don’t want that.”

Depp’s well-documented love affair with all things European has always had a hint of hero worship about it too. I ask if there’s anything he doesn’t like about Europe, and he thinks hard for a while. “No. Not that I can think of, no. It’s a very old and beautiful culture, people know how to live. You know, here you have Sunday roast or the pub lunch, that kind of thing. It’s comforting. We don’t have that in our culture in the States. Sunday is football day, so it’s chicken wings and pizza…”

So when I ask if he could ever imagine living [in The US] again, his reply comes as quite a surprise.

“Well, I kind of do. I’m between wherever I end up on location, and then the States.”

What? Hang on a minute; why did he leave France? He makes a sour noise, part grunt, part hurrumph. “Cos France wanted a piece of me. They wanted me to become a permanent resident. Permanent residency status – which changes everything. They just want,” and he mimes peeling off notes in his palm. “Dough. Money.”

If Depp spends more than 183 days in France, he explains indignantly, he’d have to start paying income tax. “I’m certainly not ready to give up my American citizenship. You don’t have to give up your American citizenship,” he adds sarcastically, but then he’d have to pay tax in both countries, “so you essentially work for free.”

[From The Guardian]

It’s not true that you can be taxed twice, by a foreign country and the US, if you are a US citizen. You do get credit for taxes paid to a foreign country. I’ve lived abroad for six years and I sort-of know what I’m talking about. (No matter where you live outside the US or for how long, if you’re a US citizen you have to file taxes in the US.) I double-checked and if you’re in Johnny’s league, it can get incredibly expensive and complicated though. So I guess I don’t blame him for not wanting to become a French resident. I do blame him for bitching about his taxes, for claiming he would be working for “free” if he paid more taxes, for acting like the existence of car exhaust somehow excuses smoke fumes or makes people who are adverse to smoke fumes hypocrites, and for saying that anywhere outside the big cities in the US we don’t want “intelligent films” and are somehow uncultured compared to Europe. He really bugs me lately, and he’s been talking a lot of smack. Does he think we don’t read these interviews he does with the British press or does he just not care?

Here’s Johnny addressing the Oxford Union at Oxford. He looks like a Johnny Depp impersonator. You know one of the last celebrities who spoke in front of that illustrious organization? Katie Price. Credit: Fame

James Franco jumped the shark big time when he flopped at the Oscars earlier this year. The material was crap but James didn’t seem to try at all, nor did he ever take responsibility for failing to entertain us. Instead it was everyone else’s fault: his co-host Anne Hathway was a “Tasmanian devil,” he “played those lines as well as well as [he] could,” and then got indignant that people dared question his performance. Well it’s more of the same from Franco in his latest Playboy interview. The material was bad, he was trying to play the straight man to Hathaway, and he warned producers that it wasn’t going to go over well. I understand that take on it, I mean I basically said the same thing when I first reviewed the Oscars, but the fact that Franco still refuses to take even a small amount of responsibility for his performance really bugs me. He’s all about pointing fingers and playing the victim while Hathaway has been nothing but gracious about it. He could have come up with a way not to sound so above-it-all by now, but he hasn’t since he’s incapable of seeing it any other way.

On his crap showing as Oscar co-host
“It’s hard to talk about because it’s like assigning blame — not a fun thing to do. For three or four weeks we shot the promos and the little film that played in the opening,” he says. “In the last week, when we really started focusing on the script for the live show and did a run-through, I said to the producer, ‘I don’t know why you hired me, because you haven’t given me anything. I just don’t think this stuff’s going to be good.’”

“I just didn’t want to fight anymore, even when they said, ‘You’ll come out as Marilyn Monroe. It’ll be funny.’ Me in drag is not funny,” Franco continues. “Me in drag as Cher trying to sing like her is a thing. That didn’t happen, so then I just didn’t want to argue anymore. I was going with their program; I wanted to do the material they gave me, not be one of the many cooks doing the writing. There were a lot of cooks who shouldn’t have been cooking but were allowed to. There were some cooks my manager tried to bring in, like Judd Apatow, who wrote some very funny stuff that wasn’t used.”

Still, he gave it his best, with his low-energy performance actually functioning as an intended foil to Hathaway’s highly spirited effort. And when it was all over, the initial feedback was positive.

“After the show everybody was so happy, and Bruce Cohen, the show’s producer, hugged me and said, ‘Steve Spielberg just told me it was the best Oscars ever!’” he reveals. “As far as having low energy or seeming as though I wasn’t into it or was too cool for it, I thought, Okay Anne is going the enthusiastic route. I’ve been trained as an actor to respond to circumstances, to the people I’m working with, and not force anything. So I thought I would be the straight man and she could be the other, and that’s how I was trying to do those lines. I felt kind of trapped in that material. I felt, This is not my boat. I’m just a passenger, but I’m going down and there’s no way out.”

On the “Gay Rapist” Blind Item that people try to pin on him
One blog thread that he can’t abide, though, is the one falsely connecting him with the infamous Gay Rapist blind item that appeared in the New York Post in 2008.

While Franco quickly debunked speculation that he was the anonymous perpetrator — the alleged victim himself insisted that he didn’t know him — it didn’t stop blogs from running the story — and worse.

“Then Gawker picked that up and did this ‘Gay Rapist’ story that was so f*cking offensive because I have friends who have been raped,” he remembers. “They did a very classy online reader’s poll asking which actor who had a big movie out that summer had beaten up and raped his boyfriend and then paid him off so it wouldn’t go to court… My lawyer called them and said that it was completely untrue and to take it down. They said, ‘Well, we’re just reporting what the New York Post told us. If James wants to make a comment on our blog, we’re happy to report it.’ It was a choice. Either let this thing build and become bigger and bigger, or just let it go and let them be the petty scumbags that they are.”

[From Playboy via The Huffington Post]

I feel for Franco over the gay rapist rumor. Everyone did assume it was him and he got tagged with that label online for quite a while. (And I don’t blame Gawker for just stating what so many people were already talking about. Here’s more on that, along with a potential other solution to the BI that is possibly fan fiction.) It’s just that when Franco gets so indignant over everything, when he acts like such a douche and goes on attack mode whenever people criticize him, it’s easy to believe the worst of him. That doesn’t make it fair, though.

Doesn’t Franco look like hell here? He can be so sexy when he’s cleaned up and had a good night’s sleep too.

Franco is shown at an Amfar gala on 6/14/11. Credit: WENN.com

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Christina Aguilera and her yarn hair were on The Today Show this morning to promote her reality competition show The Voice. She really looks like a washed up drag queen now and she should put some work into toning down her look. XTina doesn’t listen to advisors, and I’m sure she thinks she looks hot with shiny red lipstick, heavy liquid eyeliner and comically fake eyelashes. To Matt Lauer, XTina repeated her same old line about how people are judging her due to her inability to do her job or remain sober enough to remember her address or the lyrics to the National Anthem. She worked this into a discussion about the contestants and how they need to beware of the press now that they’re semi-famous, as if it’s all the press’ fault for noticing that Aguilera has been a drunken mess. When Matt asked Christina if anyone had tried to stage an intervention after her public mishaps, she blamed that on “ex disgruntled employees” and said that anyone who was her true friend wouldn’t dare question her when she’s falling down drunk. At least that’s what I got out of it, and it’s consistent with what the tabloids have been reporting about how she fired everyone who told her she needed help.

On what she would tell the contestants about fame
I just hope to be a positive influence in all of that. I think it comes from a great place, because this was a year of many highs and lows… going through a divorce in the public eye where many things are going to be magnified and speculated about and judged and these people need to know that… ‘Hey if you want a career in doing this you have to roll with the punches…”

On if “the people who loved her tried to intervene” after her public mishaps
I think there were some definite ex disgruntled employees along the way that, you know, whenever things happen like this to you, some people just want to kick you when your down. You know, for me, I’ve been in this business a very long time… You’re going to have your high moments and your low moments.

Right now I feel that I’ve found my true friends and the people who really are there for me and have stuck by me…

When you’re going through a hard time you don’t need people judging and ridiculing you. The people that are around you are going to be the ones to support you and love you through whatever you’re going through.

Lauer calls her on her BS: “You did have those people, you had friends, because there were people who were not attacking you, who were genuinely concerned about you.”

[Laughs and sticks her hand out] Well, only I know that. On a deeper level of whose intentions were what and after you’ve been in this business for quite some time you’re able to weed out – Ok is this person on a power trip, feeding frenzy of ‘this is what’s good for you’? Some people like the drama of creating it around you to make themselves look better, like ‘I saved her,’ when really you just have to be a friend and support.

She’s so snotty, self absorbed and condescending and I’m sure those people who are “ex employees” became so when they tried to call her on her bullsh*t.

Meanwhile XTina is still drinking up a storm, because she doesn’t have a problem, get it? In Touch had details of one of her recent benders with her boyfriend, Matt Rutler, and how she screwed up a charity gig.

Christina Aguilera shocked onlookers by snubbing Mary J. Blige at the music legend’s Belvedere-sponsored FFAWN benefit concert on May 1. “After warbling through one son, Christina left the stage without even acknowledging Mary or the charity,” an eyewitness tells In Touch…

Christina and boyfriend Matthew Rutler, 25, arrived at the after-party at the Gansevoort Park Avenue hotel drunk – and three hours late! “She’d had bottles of champagne and vodka delivered to her room, where she and Matthew stayed for hours drinking,” and inside source tells In Touch.

The following night [when she wasn't invited to the Met Gala] she spent the evening drowning her sorrows in a NYC pub. “She and Matt split a bottle of champagne, a bottle of red wine, and several beers,” an onlooker at The Spotted Pig tells In Touch.

[From In Touch, print edition, May 23, 2011]

So Christina’s true friends party with her, they don’t tell her she needs to quit drinking once she starts screwing up important gigs. This is a woman who is heavily in denial.

Christina is shown on 5/16/11 in New York. Camel toe! Credit: HRC/WENN and Fame

We get it Goop, we’re all eating too much and spending too much time watching you try to sing and pose on the TeeVee now that your movie career has gone to sh*t. You work harder than us, your kids are better clothed and more talented than ours, and you’re skinnier and richer than we are. You hold the keys to our happiness and only you can tell us how to live, eat and shop so that we’ll taste a small fraction of the happiness and success that is your everyday life. Oh Goopy, tell us how to BE you so that we may bask in your hungry sweaty glow.

“The reason that I can be 38 and have two kids and wear a bikini is because I work my [expletive] ass off. It’s not an accident. It’s not luck, it’s not fairy dust, it’s not good genes. It’s killing myself for an hour and a half five days a week, but what I get out of it is relative to what I put into it. That’s what I try to do in all areas of my life.”

[Via PopSugar]

Thank you so much, Ms. Paltrow. Thank you! You must also know how to have a happy marriage, since your husband actually showed up at something you were promoting. Oh and you’re so hip and cool and you’re down with the black people. We admire that too. Show us the way, Goopy, the way to sanctimony and know-it-all, the way to sell, sell sell when you’ve got nothing left but your lifestyle to hawk.

Kaiser e-mailed me this and I must add it. “I’m surprised Gwyneth didn’t say something about her ‘very best dear friend, Gangster Rappers.’”

We don’t have access to a lot of the recent photos of Gwynnie, but you can see them on Popsugar and Lainey Gossip here and here. Her Botoxy face is lighting up the place.

“Mother Superior” Gisele Bundchen’s sanctimony is well known. She’s said that breastfeeding should be a worldwide law, she’s bragged about giving birth at home without medication and she’s said that women who gain weight while they’re pregnant treat their bodies like “garbage disposals.” Like supermodel Miranda Kerr before her, Bundchen has an organic skincare line and has made some ignorant comments about it. Gisele recently drew the ire of dermatologists, doctors and melanoma sufferers by calling sunscreen poison. She claimed she never wears it and only goes out in the sun before 8:00 am. There are plenty of candid bikini photos of this woman that suggest otherwise.

Don’t hate her because she’s beautiful. Rather, people attack Gisele Bundchen, 30, for the controversial things she says.

The supermodel’s latest gaffe: claiming she doesn’t use sun tan lotions because all of the chemicals they contain.

“I cannot put this poison on my skin,” Bundchen — who has appeared in ad campaigns for Nivea Sun products — said at the launch of her own organic skin care range, according to the UK’s Daily Mail. “I do not use anything synthetic.”

Instead, the leggy beauty says she protects herself from sun damage by only exposing herself to rays before 8 A.M.

However, cancer experts have been quick to question Bundchen’s expertise on the matter.

“Sunscreen prevents damage to the skin and is of fundamental importance for the prevention of cancer,” said Dolival Loao, head of dermatology at Brazil’s National Cancer Institute. “This is not any poison, when a public person makes a statement like this, it creates confusion.”

[From US Weekly]

I don’t know why I’m bothering, but I’ll concede that some commercial sunscreen contains ingredients that can be considered harmful and even toxic. However, when pitted against the very real dangers of sun exposure, the risk from synthetic ingredients in sunscreen is minor. Plus there are very safe, organic, effective sunscreens with all natural ingredients for people who are concerned about chemicals in the products they put on their skin. (Here’s a list of safe and effective sunscreens from the Environmental Working Group. Their Skin Deep cosmetic safety website has more on the importance of sunscreen.)

Here’s are photos of Gisele at the beach this October, obviously after 8:00 am, with her son Benjamin, who is naked apart from a baseball cap. I guess we can assume she didn’t put any sunscreen on her baby, who she claims has been potty trained since he was six months old. This woman who lets her baby go out at the beach naked without sunscreen thinks it should be a crime to feed babies formula. Dumb and self righteous don’t even begin to describe her.

Update: Gisele has tried to clarify her statement. She calls this a “misunderstanding” and says “I do use sunblock but also I try my best not to be exposed to the sun when it is too strong… I definitely know the importance of using sunscreen and I try to look for more natural options.”

Photo credit: BauerGriffin

It looks like Lea Michele’s bad reputation is catching up to her. We’ve heard that Glee’s ranking diva is a real piece of work in person, with stories that she acts like she’s better than the rest of the cast and is snotty even on the red carpet. In case you think we might be confusing her with her character on “Glee,” Lea has made comments that show just how full of herself she is. She recently told Marie Claire that her teachers in school “were threatened by the fact that [she] had worked before” and didn’t bother to teach her anything. Maybe they just couldn’t deal with her attitude.

Now Leah has crossed a young girl who is sure to score an Oscar nomination for her performance in box office hit True Grit. Hailee Steinfeld, 14, told the press that Lea snubbed her on the Fox lot and left her close to tears. Hailey tried to get an autograph from Leah, but Leah couldn’t be bothered. It sounds like Leah just totally ignored her. I love how Hailey told this story in a matter-of-fact way without any commentary about what a bitch Leah was. Hailey even complimented Leah’s talent. The circumstances speak for themselves.

s Hailee Steinfeld celebrates her sudden Hollywood success, the young “True Grit” star admits she had a less-than-successful run-in with an acting peer – “Glee’s” Lea Michele.

“When I was auditioning for ‘True Grit,’ I was on the Paramount lot,” the 14-year-old said in a recent interview with J-14 magazine. “I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable. ‘Glee’ also films on the lot and I love the show.

“I saw Lea Michele just walking to her trailer and I was like, ‘That’s the girl from ‘Glee.’ I’ve got to go ask for her autograph!’ So I walked up to her and asked for her autograph, but she walked by and a guy came and said, “Sorry, now’s not a good time!” Hailee continued.

Though the embarrassing snub left the SAG Award nominee deflated, Hailee still counts herself a “Gleek.”

“I had to walk all the way back to the car wearing what I was wearing. I was practically crying on the way home. I was so sad!” she told the mag. “But she’s beautiful and she has an amazing voice.”

In addition to her obvious acting chops – the ingenue held her own in the Coen Brothers’ western opposite veteran Oscar winners Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon – Hailee enjoys spending her free time helping those in need.

“My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization — national charity work,” Hailee told the mag. “Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It’s an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.”

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Hailee is earning rave reviews from critics all over town for her portrayal of Mattie Ross in “True Grit” opposite Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges. The young actress has been nominated for a Critic’s Choice Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Award, as well as a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance By A Female Actress in a Supporting Role.

The Thousand Oaks, California native beat out 15,000 other girls to land the role of Mattie.

[From Access Hollywood, link has automatic music]

She sounds like such a nice kid. I can’t wait to see True Grit, but it’s not out here in Germany until February 10. I understand that dubbing takes time, but why can’t movies come out in their original language (English primarily) at the same time around the world? There are surely complicated distribution and promotion issues but we end up getting decent films about two months after everyone else, at which point I’ve read all the spoilers. Usually I can wait for films, but this one has me chomping at the bit.

True Grit was top at the box office this weekend, making it the first western since the 1990s to top the $100 million mark.

In related news about Lea Michele, she’s fronting a campaign for PETA to outlaw horse drawn carriages in New York city. It maybe wasn’t the best idea for her to pose right next to a horse like this. I’ll say something nice – the horse emphasizes her huge eyes, and I’m sure PETA wanted us to see horses as people too. Mission accomplished.

Photo Credit: WENN.com. True Grit photos via AllMoviePhoto

Erin Barry, the woman who allegedly had an affair with Tony Parker, one of many, has issued a self righteous statement on her blog denying the rumors. Erin is in the process of divorcing Tony’s former teammate, Brent Barry. Rumor had it that Eva Longoria discovered that her husband was a lying cheat when she found hundreds of text messages on his phone to and from Erin. Some of those messages are said to have included nude pictures of each of them, taken separately. Tony of course denied that he had anything going on with Erin despite all the evidence. Given what a pro-Eva slant most of the stories about the divorce have taken, many people assume that Eva leaked the news of Tony and Erin’s affair to the press after she found all the texts.

Erin claims that she didn’t have an affair, that she’s got more things to worry about than cheating with Tony, and did she mention that she’s an amazing mother, that she volunteers with abused kids, and that she’s going to law school? No, well she is and she’s so much better than all of this she can’t be bothered to respond, only she is responding. You know, Tony really does have a bossy, holier-than thou type.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Greetings all,

It has been brought to my attention that people who do not know me think that I have had an affair with Tony Parker. I have received hundreds of emails and phone calls from supportive friends who do know me and know that what is being insinuated about me is a complete lie. I am so busy with my children and law school studies that to take even a few moments out of my day to address this ludicrous issue is an annoyance. I only take the time to explain myself because apparently my silence, as a result of my indifference, has been construed as an admission of guilt. These are my words and this is the last you will hear from me on this subject because I have more important things to do.

I DID NOT HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH TONY PARKER, nor did I “pursue” Tony Parker. Unfortunately, because our divorces are occurring at the same time, great speculation has been cast on our friendship. My friendship with Tony Parker had nothing to do with the end of my marriage (which is painful enough without this added drama), and to assume that we had an affair is naïve, ridiculous, and completely misguided.

Every day I dedicate myself to being a good person and the best Mom that I can possibly be for my two beautiful children. I pride myself on being a Mom first, an advocate for abused children second, and a law student third. Those are the things that are of the utmost importance to me. I have spent my adult life fighting for children who have been victimized so forgive me for not caring when someone tells me that my name is being dragged through the mud.

Salacious rumors are not what keep me awake at night. What keeps me awake is wondering how the 5-year-old who was taken away from her abusive family is sleeping during her first night in a children’s shelter. I worry about friends fighting overseas and whether or not they will return home to their families. I worry about the health of my children, my family, and my friends. I worry about soccer uniforms, carpool, immunizations, baseball practice, paying the bills on time, grocery shopping, the kid’s homework, and so many other things that may seem menial to some people; but to me are everything. Right now I worry about my law school finals… being a first year law student is much scarier than dealing with gossip!

Happy Thanksgiving. My family and I want thank our troops and their families for their sacrifices that enable us to enjoy our freedoms this holiday season.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. While you are here I would encourage you to get involved with (or donate to) the children’s organizations that fight child abuse and neglect in San Antonio or your part of the world.

God bless you and your family,

Erin Marie Barry

[Erin Barry's blog via TMZ]

Give me a break lady. Just because you do charity work, are going to school and are a mother doesn’t make you “above” the rumors that you cheated. Newsflash: some people consider sending hundreds of sexy text messages an affair! Whether you screwed the guy or not, you cheated on your husband by carrying on behind his back. (Assuming this happened as we heard it did, and never did this woman deny being in contact with Tony.) When I hear about these ‘emotional affairs’ it makes me think ‘why bother’? If you’re going to cheat on your spouse, you may as well get laid.

A lot of people suspected that Lindsay Lohan’s tweet in which she took responsibility for her failed drug tests (despite denying it hours earlier) was surely written by someone else. It was too well worded and didn’t sound at all like something Lindsay would say. In Lindsay’s world, nothing is ever her fault and if she thinks she can get away with it she’ll claim that someone else did it, not her. US Weekly has the insider story on how that tweet came about, and it involves multiple edits and suggestions from friends as she sat around drinking Jack and Cokes. Alcohol is among the substances that she’s not allowed to use and is randomly tested for, which makes her tweet all the more ironic. Remember that she wrote:

Regrettably, I did in fact fail my most recent drug test and if I am asked, I am prepared to appear before judge Fox next week as a result.

Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn’t go away over night. I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps forward every day. I am testing every single day and doing what I must do to prevent any mishaps in the future.

This was certainly a setback for me but I am taking responsibility for my actions and I’m prepared to face the consequences.

I am so thankful for the support of my fans, loved ones and immediate family, who understand that i am trying hard, but also that I am a work in progress, just as anyone else. I am keeping my faith, and I am hopeful….Thank you all!!!

It all sounds so mature and unlike her, and it was. Here’s US’ story on how that came about:

Her new management team – Lou Taylor and Larry Rudolph, the same duo who helped Britney Spears clean up – stepped in, telling her to write a statement.

That didn’t mean Lohan had to take admission seriously. As she composed her draft at [LA restaurant] Magnolia, her pal gave suggestions on what words to use. “They kept reading it over; they were clearly architecting it to make it more personal,” says the onlooker. “Her friend would say, ‘No, use “setback,” don’t say “mistake.” They’ll say you make mistakes all the time!” Continued the friend: “It’s better to say you’re responsible. Denying it will just get everyone mad per usual.” Lohan’s response: “She giggled!” says the source, then motioned for her assistant to order another Jack and Coke.

After they sent the final missive to Rudolph for approval, Lohan’s pal rubbed her shoulders supportively. “But Lindsay wasn’t emotional,” says the witness. “She shrugged and said, ‘This is how it is in this industry – you fail, you get up.” The four-time rehab attendee even joked about drinking that night, telling her friends, “What are you gonna do? I’m ill” – making air quotes with her fingers.

Lohan’s not the only one brushing off her addiction. Mom Dina told guests at her September 17 birthday dinner at Matteo’s restaurant in Roslyn Heights, NY, her daughter would get off scot-free. Recounts an insider, “She said, ‘Who cares if it’s true? Our new team is like a machine. They’ll squash this.’”

[From US Magazine, print edition, October 4, 2010]

At least her management told her to write something and didn’t just write it for her, but her friends ended up doing that. What will it take for Lindsay and her mom to get a ticket out of denial town? Lindsay has already been in jail, and she could get at least 30 days with no chance of early release for this latest series of failed tests. She is such an unlikable arrogant person and I hope they put her away for a few months. She’s not going to change even after jail, though, and will get out and continue to blame other people and circumstances for her personal failings. In her mind, she’s still relevant and she can still behave however she wants. We’ll see what kind of consequences she faces at her hearing on Friday.

Words cannot express what a self important hurtful douche Nick Hogan is – so I’ll let his actions speak for themselves. The guy put his friend, who was the passenger in hiscar, in a permanent vegetative state when he caused a near fatal accident while drag racing drunk on a public street. Nick and his family later all but blamed his friend, then 22 year-old former Marine and Iraq war veteran John Graziano, by pointing out that Graziano wasn’t wearing his seat belt and later stating that the accident was God’s will to make him a better person.

Nick spent five months out of an eight month sentence in jail for his part in in the accident, but by most of his family’s accounts it wasn’t as horrific an experience as it should have been as he was housed in a juvenile unit. He got out and went back to racing cars and being an asshole again while the Graziano family struggled to care for their permanently disabled son.

Now Nick wants us to know that he’s doing better after all that he went through. Are you f’ing kidding me?

“After everything I’ve been through, I am finally getting my life together,” he told RadarOnline.com, in an exclusive interview.

“I am able to move forward and start over.”

Nick — real name Nick Bollea — was released from jail after serving 166 days for the car crash that left his best friend John Graziano in a vegetative state for life.

After training to become a pro wrestler and follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick has now settled on a career in music, as a DJ.

He said, “I didn’t know what to do with myself, I did a couple of movies and then one day I ended up in front of a set of turn tables and I loved it.

“I was in Florida at the time hanging with DJ IRIE and he asked me to come and play the new DJ Hero video game that had just come out.

“I loved it so much that my sister bought me a real turn table and I didn’t look back. I just fell in love with it.”

He is currently touring the United States with his performance partner, DJ PM; the pair has upcoming shows in New York, Pennsylvania, San Jose, Stockton, Modesto and Chicago.

“I am on tour across the US now with DJ PM and it is amazing,” he told RadarOnline.com.

“We have really good chemistry, we pick up on each other’s energy and that makes things a lot easier when we spin,” DJ PM said.

Hogan said his divorced parents, Hulk and Linda, were supportive his new career path and his new-found desire to turn over a new leaf.

“They are thrilled I can earn a living and take care of myself outside corporate America,” Nick said.

“That said, my father has his own worries: he just came out of the hospital because he has had some very serious back problems.

“He has endured six back surgeries and he still has a lot of pain and the pain killers don’t help a great deal.”

[From Radar Online]

Nick may have “been able to move forward and start over” but his friend will require 24 hour care for the rest of his life while this douche walked away unscathed. I’m sorry that Hulk has back problems, but that’s pretty much the result of his career choice. It’s not like he’s had any understanding words for the Graziano family after what his son did. I don’t wish pain on anyone but sometimes you don’t feel a lot of sympathy for certain people.

Nick is shown on 8/1/10 with his dad, Hulk, at the roast of David Hasselhof on Comedy Central. The blonde woman with them is Hulk’s girlfriend, NOT his daughter, Brooke. They’re also shown with a woman named Bre Tiesi, who is a “model” and lists her occupation on Twitter as “Building an empire with my boyfriend, Nick hogan.” Credit: WENN.com

Oh, brother. The wild beast known only as “The Naomi” has attacked once again. This time, her victim is not some poor little assistant who “stole” $200 jeans and needed to be smacked in the head with a bedazzled phone. Nor was the victim a paparazzo who was obviously in desperate need of having his eyes clawed with Naomi’s Talons of Doom. Nor was the victim a Heathrow cop who happened to be standing around, waiting to be spit at while Naomi was trying to have a massive hissy fit. This time the victim was a limo driver who incurred The Naomi’s wrath by… driving her around New York. That seems to be it. He was just driving when The Naomi began punching and slapping the back of his head. JESUS.

Ill-tempered temptress Naomi Campbell allegedly attacked a hired chauffeur today who was driving her around the city, then fled the car once he called 911, police sources said.

The model was being driven by the unidentified driver at about 3 p.m. when she flew into a rage and hit him near the corner of East 58th Street and Second Avenue.

Police did not say what prompted Campbell to get mad and punch the driver. The attack caused the limo driver to call 911 to report the alleged assault. The 39-year-old Campbell, who was sitting in the back seat, then fled the car, police said.

Cops later interviewed the 27-year-old driver at the 17th Precinct station house, along with Campbell’s assistant, who had hired him for the day. The driver reported having “bumps and bruises” as a result of the attack, a police official said.

The former British-born supermodel has had some anger management issues in the past.

In February 2000, Campbell pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating an assistant two years earlier.

In another famous case involving Campell, she was charged in March 2006 with throwing a cell phone at her maid Ana Scolavino in Manhattan.

Cantankerous catwalker eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for hitting Scolavino and was sentenced to serve two days of anger management classes and five days of community service cleaning up Sanitation offices.

In June 2008, Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service after she pleaded guilty to being abusive towards a British Airways crew at London’s Heathrow Airport.

[From The New York Post]

Oh, yes. The Naomi bolted. The police had to “canvass the area”. I swear to God, I heard the Law & Order “DUN-DUH” chang in my head while reading this. You know Jack McCoy is going to handle this case personally. As of Tuesday evening, The Naomi’s spokesperson told Us Weekly: “There shouldn’t be a rush to judgment. Naomi will co-operate voluntarily, and there is more to the story than meets the eye.” Uh… more than meets the eye? You do know that you’re client beats people in the face and claws at their EYES don’t you?

UPDATE: As of 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, The Naomi is still on the loose on the streets of New York. Her limo driver, a 27-year-old dude named Miodrag Mejdina has not pressed charges, but police have still filed a harassment report. Radar has comments from the NYPD police commissoner: “We’re looking to talk to her. We anticipate that will happen,” Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told the NY Daily News. “He said Ms. Campbell had struck him in the back of the head or neck while he was driving, causing him to hit his head on the steering wheel.”

Naomi with her married lover Russian millionaire Vlad Doronin in London for the ELLE Style Awards on February 22, 2010. Credit: WENN.