The Mel Gibson story may be fading from the headlines, but the memory of the uber-rich religious director’s anti-semitic outburst won’t leave our collective consciousness for years. He’s going to be the punchline, the scapegoat, and box office poison for a while. (And C-List actors will keep bringing him up to either support or scorn, whatever suits their publicity needs.)

Cagle.com has lots of clever political cartoons about the Mel Gibson incident. Mel’s career in film and his multiple over-the-top apologies provide plenty of fodder to make fun of him.

Each of the following artists granted permission to post their work here.

Peter Lewis, Australia
Lewisart.biz

Adam Zyglis Buffalo, NY
The Buffalo News
www.adamzyglis.com

Grumpy Old Indian Man Stokholm, Sweden
goyim.wordpress.com

Michael de Adder, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Daily News
www.deadder.net

R.J. Matson, NY
The New York Observer and Roll Call
rjmatson.com

Mike Lester, Rome, GA
Rome News-Tribune
www.mikedujour.com

Doug Marlette, FL
Tulsa World
dougmarlette.com

Angelina Jolie posed for a series of portraits chronicalling her pregnancy. She had the artist, Don Bachardy, flown into Namibia and had him sworn to secrecy about the project:

Artist Dan Bachardy is a 72 year-old gay man, and has had his work shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Smithsonian art museum.

His portraits are stylized views of the subjects and can be revealing but aren’t realistic enough to embarass. Bachardy uses heavy strokes, shading and light to make peop look slightly cartoonish. Angelina’s pictures are sure to be tasteful and probably don’t give away much more of her naked body than we’ve already seen.

Meanwhile Angelina has brought Shiloh to visit her ailing mother, French actress Marcheline Bertrand, in LA. Bertrand has been under care for cancer, and was not well enough to fly to Namibia to see her grandchild after the birth. (thanks xiaoecho!)

A paparrazo was arrested outside of four year old Maddox’s daycare yesterday. The guy was hiding in the bushes trying to get pictures of the tot when a member of Jolie-Pitt’s agressive security force nabbed him. He was then arrested and released on $1,000 bail.

Here are some random older Angelina Jolie photoshoots for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to babyface at Hollywood’s Best.

Worth 1000 has a lot of great Photoshop contests, and I feel like I’ve been living under a rock for not checking them out sooner. Their celebrity image contests are particularly interesting, although recent categories “Celebrities as cyborgs” and “Removing the airbrushing from celebrities” have some rather disturbing entries.

My favorite recent celebrity Photoshop-off is the tame, crowd-pleasing “Celebrity Time Travel“:

Here are some of the best pictures. Kudos to these talented Photoshop artists.
Header image is Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes By LesKellert.

Drew Barrymore By LucidPixels

The Future? (Nicole Kidman) By APRILMAE

Mandy Moore Classic By Puckenstein

Mel Gibson By xWaRgAsMx

Brad and Ange By Deborahb

Scarlett Johansson By chamara

Jack Black??? By JoelleM

Scarlett Johansen [sic] By MadWasabi

Johnny Cairo (Depp) By DoctorTweek

40’s Xtina By ziazan

Charlize (Theron) By whitebread1440

Colonial Vince Vaughn By Orinoco

KatieHolmes Garbo By MA1947

Jessica Alba By h2oscienceguy081

Kirsten’s (Dunst) Overseas Ventures By shaihalud

Christina Aguiera has bought one of “art terrorist” Banksy’s works, a piece of pop art depicting Queen Victoria in garters sitting on a woman’s face. The artwork cost nearly $44,000, and Aguilera is said to be thrilled with her purchase:

Banksy has pulled daring and dangerous stunts to get his art noticed. In March, 2005, Banksy snuck his art onto the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Brooklyn Museum all in one day. Banksy painted scenes on the Palestinian side of Israel’s security wall last August that created the illusion of a tropical paradise and mountain views on the other side. He was threatened by Israeli security forces soon afterwards, and was lucky to escape.

Banksy never allows himself to be photographed, presumably so he can continue his art pranks.

Here is Aguilera in NY recently.

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