Tom Cruise, a wan-faced Katie Holmes, and their daughter, Suri, and son, Connor, out in Telluride on the Fourth of July. They later picked up the Beckhams from a private jet at the airport.
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey switch bathing suits for a stroll swarmed by paparazzi on the beach in Malibu on the Fourth of July. Their friend Cheryl Burke of Dancing with the Stars was a guest at their beachside home.
Heidi Klum out with her children getting ice cream in the West Village on Saturday. She has daughter Leni, 4, and sons Henry, who turns 3 in September, and Johan, 19 months. That could be her father, Günter, and it looks like she also three nannies and/or babysitters with her.
Ryan Gosling looking fit in LA on 7/5/08. (Splash News claims to have an exclusive of Gosling out holding hands with a “mystery woman” in NY on Friday. In case you see those photos elsewhere, I’m pretty sure that’s not him.)
At a protest rally in Washington DC, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey spoke yesterday on behalf of “Green Our Vaccines” a group that has called into question the vaccination program for infants and toddlers recommended by the government. The two celebrities articulated the group’s position, that childhood vaccines are likely a contributing factor to a rise in childhood autism and possibly other diseases as well.
McCarthy, whose own son has been diagnosed with autism, has been especially outspoken on the subject. According to CBS News, the actress and “Green our Vaccines” are most concerned with the schedule of childhood vaccines and preservatives added to the vaccines. Green our Vaccines attributes a rise in childhood autism to an increase in the number of vaccines, coupled with chemicals used in the vaccines that may cause severe neurological problems to a small minority.
Critics of the group, including the Center for Disease Control, point to a lack of evidence that links vaccinations directly to Autism. CDC also points out the thousands of lives saved from vaccinations against smallpox, polio, measles, and whooping cough. Other critics point out that more awareness of autism and new ways to identify autism has led to more reported cases of the disease, which has led to an appearance that more children are developing the disease. Finally critics point to recent studies that failed to prove any causal connection between Autism and childhood vaccinations.
However, the Allegheny Times reports that since the 1980’s the number of vaccinations required for children has tripled. The times quotes one critic of the CDC’s mandatory vaccination schedule:
In the early 1980s, children were receiving only 10 vaccinations. At that time, the rate of autism diagnoses was one in 10,000. Now, children receive 36 vaccines, and the number of autistic children, according to federal agencies, is one in 150.
Both sides agree that vaccinations are necessary to prevent many childhood diseases. But despite the CDC’s claim that vaccinations are safe, it will take more than studies funded by the pharmaceutical companies to convince the skeptics like Green Our Vaccines.
Jim Carrey is really working the sex appeal. He’s currently shooting I Love you Phillip Morris, a gay prison escape comedy, of all things. Yes I know, it’s a genre that’s been done to death. Carrey is walking around in some absolutely ridiculous clothes on the movie’s set. I’m praying to God that it takes place in the seventies/eighties. Otherwise there is just no excusing that wardrobe team.
These are the first pictures of a very camp-looking Carrey in character for his role in prison break comedy I Love You Phillip Morris. Dressed in a tight black T-shirt, white jeans, a huge gold lion’s head buckle on his belt, and a liberal helping of fake tan, comedy star Carrey is almost unrecognizable. Carrey is seen here during filming getting to grips with actor Rodrigo Santoro, with his hand on his co-stars behind.
In the film, which is based on a true story, he plays a con artist who is sent to prison where he falls in love with his cellmate Phillip Morris. His cellmate is played by British actor Ewan McGregor in the forthcoming movie from the makers of the film Bad Santa. McGregor’s character is freed from jail, while Carrey’s character Steven Russell is sentenced to a total of 144 years behind bars after he tries to escape four times.
Last week actors McGregor and Jim Carrey reportedly visited a gay bar together in preparation for their roles. The actors were spotted attending ‘Martini Tuesday’ at Miami’s Halo bar. A source said: “Jim and Ewan looked like they were having a great time. They were laughing and joking and looked as though they were really trying to get into character.”
I’m embarrassed to admit that I still enjoy an occasional Jim Carrey comedy. They’re very hit-or-miss anymore, but any movie with tight pants deserves to be seen, in my humble opinion.
Here are some pictures from the set. Try to keep your panties on, everyone. Images thanks to Splash.
Jenny McCarthy was on Larry King Live last night and she was very clear that she thinks her nearly six year old son, Evan, would not have suffered from autism if it wasn’t for vaccinations. She said that autism is a global epidemic, and that she and the autism community are not anti-vaccination, but that they’re anti-toxin and anti-schedule. She’s says “we’re not treating autism, we’re treating vaccine injury.”
Larry asked Jenny about the schedule and she said that back in 1987 there were 10 shots scheduled for children and today it’s 36, which is “too many too soon.” She says we need an alternate schedule, and that the mercury has not been removed from vaccines and that the shots also include aluminum, ether, and antifreeze.
MCCARTHY: I personally haven’t heard of that many people falling off the map that we needed to implement 26 new shots in this time. And isn’t it ironic, in 1983 there was 10 shots and now there’s 36 and the rise of autism happened at the same time?
And parent after parent after parent says I vaccinated my baby, they got a fever and then they stopped speaking and then became autistic.
KING: Is your link scientific or statistical?
MCCARTHY: Well, I believe that parents’ anecdotal information is science-based information. And when the entire world is screaming the same thing — doctor, I came home. He had a fever. He stopped speaking and then he became autistic. I can’t — I can see if it was just one parent saying this. But when so many — and I speak to thousands of moms every weekend and they’re all standing up and saying the same thing. It’s time to start listening to that. That is science-based information. Parents’ anecdotal is science-based information…
KING: Jenny, will you agree that some cases have nothing to do with vaccines, which makes it more puzzling?
MCCARTHY: Absolutely. You know, environmental toxins play a role. Viruses play a role. Those are all triggers. But vaccines play the largest role right now and something needs to be done. You know, testing these kids for immune issues, you know, that would help so much, changing the schedule. You know, I don’t understand — as a precautionary measure, why don’t they do this?
If everyone is screaming this and they’re so worried about parents going into offices right now telling the pediatrician j everyone is going I’m too scared to vaccinate my child. This is the new parents’ number one fear — I am afraid to vaccinate.
I am not trying to start this global non-vaccinating world. I’m trying to implement change.
Jenny says that her son Evan hasn’t “recovered,” but that he no longer qualifies as autistic for special services. She compared it to being hit by a bus. You can get better but you’re never quite the same. She called him a “a wonderful example of hope and possibility for parents out there.”
They had journalist David Kirby, the author of “Evidence of Harm” on. He discussed the case of Hannah Polling, in which the “vaccine court,” a special court created by the US government to shield the pharmaceutical companies from large lawsuits, ruled that vaccines did contribute to Polling’s autism. In that case Kirby notes that Polling had an underlying mitochondrial disorder that was exacerbated by the vaccines. Kirby says, like McCarthy, he’s not anti-vaccination but thinks that the schedule should be individualized to each child. He said you could for example specifically test for the genetic defect that causes a mitochondrial dysfunction and make sure that those children, who are genetically more susceptible to autism, be given less vaccinations at once.
At the end of the show there was a panel of doctors trying to sum up the issue. Earlier they discussed the importance of vaccination and how childhood illnesses have been eradicated. The discussion got heated and McCarthy plainly said “that’s bullshit” when one doctor said vaccines have been a boon to families. She said “my son died in front of me,” and talked about how her son died for two minutes and went into cardiac arrest. She asked “are we considered acceptable losses?”
Clip of McCarthy saying “that’s bullshit!”
I clipped the rest of the show and the links are below if you would like to watch it. This is an important issue that touches so many families and I can’t imagine the heartbreak of having a child with autism. Good for Jenny for having the courage to speak out about this. There are no clear-cut answers and there needs to be more study into this, but it seems as if the pharmaceutical companies have been shielded from scrutiny due to the reasonable fear that people will stop vaccinating.
Larry read out a statement from Jim Carrey at the end of the show that “Vaccines are more a profit engine than a means of prevention. And that’s why there are so many vaccines.”
Jenny and Jim Carrey will lead a march on Washington on June 4th, and you can learn about it on GenerationRescue.org
MCCARTHY: Jim and I are going to lead a march and rally in Washington, D.C. And I’m announcing it right here on June 4th. You can go on GenerationRescue.org for more information. We will be there and we’re asking every parent that can make it there in Washington on that day, every grandma, mom, dad, to be there with us marching, rallying. You have a voice that day.
KING: Are you raising money?
MCCARTHY: Oh, no. This is a day — you know, I’ve been talking to parents across the country, thousands of them. And they’re so dying to have a voice one day. So we’re bringing the media. We’re bringing the attention, and now I’m asking every parent that’s watching this right now, come there that day and you will be heard.
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 1
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 2
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 3
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 4
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 5
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 6
Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 7
The stars were out this weekend for the premiere of the new animated children’s film Horton Hears a Who, based on the 1954 Dr. Seuss book of the same name. Abortion protesters crashed the premiere at Westwood Village Theater on Saturday, with the justification that the film and book’s motto “a person is a person, no matter how small” can also be used as a statement against abortion. Dr. Seuss was personally against the abortion activists appropriating his phrase for their cause, and he threatened to sue over it before he died in 1991. In 2001, his widow did sue an abortion group for using her husband’s writing without his permission.
Judging from these photos, the protestors were contained and kept away from the little guests at the film, and the premiere went on as scheduled.
Carrey stars as the voice of the elephant Horton, who discovers a planet in a small speck of dust and works to protect its tiny inhabitants. It also stars Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, and Will Arnett.
Here’s the trailer:
Horton Hears a Who is out in US theaters on March 14, and is refreshingly out in the rest of Europe around the same time. It is getting good reviews, and since it’s a kids’ film it’s sure to be a hit.
Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures, which also include Jenny McCarthy and her son, Evan, who will be 6 in May, Brooke Shields, her husband Chris Henchy and their daughters Rowan, who will be 4 in May, and Grier, 23 months. Also shown are Carol Burnett and what look like her surly grandchildren, Jamie Pressly and her fiance, DJ Eric Calvo, Joely Fisher and her daughter True, 25 months, Ray Liotta and his daughter Karsen, 9, and friend, Jesse McCartney and his brother Timothy McCartney, The American Idol Finalists, Steve Carell, Will Artnett, and Jim Carrey’s 20 year-old daughter, Jane, showing off her Canada tattoo.
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey have always seemed like they have a cool relationship. The pair have never made a big deal out of their coupledom – neither courting nor hiding from the paparazzi. In fact a lot of people didn’t even realize they were dating until they’d been together a good six months. They have both joked that they see no need to get married – but when two people makes as many jokes as the famous comedians, it’s hard to tell when they really mean it. But Jenny has stated flat-out that she and Jim won’t ever be getting married, as neither of them see the point anymore. And they won’t be adding any more kids to their brood either.
She’s committed to funnyman Jim Carrey, but Jenny McCarthy tells In Touch that they won’t be walking down the aisle. “We’re living together, we don’t want any more children and we’re very happy — all that’s going to be is a piece of paper, really,” Jenny says of marriage. The 35-year-old divorced actress notes that marriage doesn’t mean love will last forever. “What is it a guarantee of? I’ll be yours forever? I’ll be faithful? Bull!” The mother of Evan Asher, 5, also adds that she doesn’t need to marry to have additional children — because she doesn’t want more: “This womb is closed.” But she does admit that Jim, 46 — who’s been divorced twice — makes her happy. “He is the light of my life and we’re more in love now than we have been in our entire relationship.” Jenny spoke to In Touch on the set of a webisode for inthemotherhood.com. Jim has a 20-year-old daughter, Jane, with his ex-wife, Melissa Womer.
I couldn’t tell from Jenny’s phrasing if she meant that marriage is no guarantee of faithfulness, or of HER faithfulness. A lot of famous couples that say they won’t get married claim it’s because they don’t need a piece of paper or a church to tell them they’re together forever. Jenny seems to be saying the opposite: there’s no point in getting married because even that doesn’t guarantee people won’t part. Which is true, it’s just funny because it’s the opposite reason so many other people give. Jim and Jenny make a lot of sense together, and seem like a pretty great match compared to a lot of other famous couples. I’d guess their shot of being together for the long haul is still pretty good, regardless of any marriage certificate.
Here’s Jim and Jenny at the Geffen Museum of Contemporary Arts on July 23rd. Images thanks to Splash.
While I love any list, particularly a top ten, Film Threat’s list of Hollywood’s Coldest People is one of my absolute favourites.
FILM THREAT’S FRIGID 50: THE COLDEST PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD 2007
1. George W. Bush
2. Angelina Jolie
3. Jim Carrey
4. Comedies Not Associated with Judd Apatow
5. Owen Wilson
6. Nicole Kidman
7. Hilary Swank
8. Eli Roth/Torture Porn
9. Jennifer Lopez
10. Jon Heder
While I might have to question George W. Bush’s inclusion on the list, it’s apparently because of his ‘appearances’ in movies like Transformers or TV shows like South Park. Number two Angelina Jolie currently has the number one film in the American box office Beowulf, so it seems particularly bad timing to have her on the most frigid list. Although, have you seen her legs lately? Not hot.
You can check out the full list of 51 on Filmthreat, and the reasons for inclusion, but I have to add that number eleven was Star Wars. I am completely on the anti-Jedi bandwagon. Sci-fi lovers, just because the films were great in the 70’s doesn’t make their prequels good – in fact, it’s like remaking The Dukes of Hazzard or Invasion of the Body Snatchers – perhaps a good idea in theory, but not in practice. Now, commence my stoning to death as I have violated the sacred nature of The Force.
Nicole Kidman may rank high on the coldest people list, but I think she’s hot after she spoke out about the Australian government’s attitude to domestic violence.
“I know why people call violence against women a pandemic.
“It is perhaps the most widespread human rights abuse violation.”
The star called for a greater level of support for victims.
“I urge the Government to do more in relation to victim support services,” she said.
“There needs to be a dramatic increase in counselling services for victims of sexual assault and victims need to be supported better by police and the courts.
“And secondly, there needs to be a huge increase in short and long term accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic violence.
“At the moment, I believe, one in two women who approach a refuge are turned away.”
Now, this might not seem like a big deal, but in Australia celebrities don’t get behind political parties like they do in the United States, and an election is only days away. Voting is compulsory there, probably because Australians care so little about politics if it wasn’t no one would vote at all, and if you didn’t make it law for everyone over 18 to vote you’d have to ambush people on the street and force them into polling booths.
Note by Celebitchy: I wanted to find fictionalized portrayals of George W. Bush, and while Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensive list it wasn’t that easy to dig up clips and photos. I did find one though, a clip from Family Guy of George W Bush showing up for Vietnam.
Family Guy George Bush Misses Vietnam
Family Guy shows us how George W Bush missed Vietnman.
And here’s a link to a full length clip from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VII that first aired in October, 1996 featuring Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. I looked hard for Clinton’s appearance on the “Max Power” episode of the Simpsons where he tells Marge he’ll be in the shed out back just in case, and the one where Lisa tells him he gave a lousy lesson and he says “Well, I’m a pretty lousy president” but this was all I could find. Presidents are always fair game for parody, although I doubt Clinton would have made this coldest list ten years ago. I am striving for neutrality here if it isn’t obvious.
Boy, Jim Carrey is really getting a lot of good stuff done lately. First he spoke out about the atrocities in Myanmar at the United Nations, and now he’s helping longtime girlfriend Jenny McCarthy raise money for autism. Actually he’s been doing it quietly for several years. McCarthy has a five-year-old son who was diagnosed with autism, and since then has become a vocal advocate for research. The two attended a fundraising event at a private home in Los Angeles, where Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive officer of the UCLA Hospital System, called McCarthy his hero for all the work she’s done related to autism, and called Carrey an “autism healer.” Those are some pretty powerful descriptions.
“You can ogle Jenny McCarthy – just don’t Google her, says her protective boyfriend, Jim Carrey. The funnyman, 45, effectively played it for laughs at a recent fundraiser, held at a private home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for a UCLA program specializing in early autism intervention. McCarthy, 34, is a highly vocal advocate working with her 5-year-old son, Evan, in his struggle with autism. In his formal remarks at the fundraiser, Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive officer of the UCLA Hospital System, referred to the actress as ‘my hero’ and cited her efforts to raise awareness of the condition.
“So impressed was Feinberg with McCarthy’s efforts, he said, that his son used her as a subject for a school paper on heroes. In researching his essay, the youngster was instructed by his father ‘to Google’ McCarthy, whose resumé includes being a Playboy Playmate. This got a laugh from the audience and a rise out of Carrey – who leapt to his feet, shot an Ace Ventura glower around the room and then fixed his eyes on Feinberg. ‘What’s your son doing Googling my girlfriend?’ Carrey demanded to know. In a more serious moment, Carrey – whom McCarthy has described as a remarkably helping hand with her son – was called an “autism healer” by Feinberg. Carrey is also one of the sponsors of the treatment center.”
That’s amazing that Carrey sponsors the treatment center. Jenny McCarthy has done a lot of autism work, but she’s also got a slightly kooky side. Jenny believes her son is an “Indigo Child” and has special abilities because of it. It’s kind of complex, here’s a link to a post Celebitchy wrote about it a few months ago. Jenny mentioned Later, McCarthy spoke at the podium about Carrey’s daughter, Jane, 20. “For so long I have had psychics say they see me with a daughter,” she said. “I now know what they are talking about.” Okay well that’s sweet, if a little bizarre. I wouldn’t know what to say if my stepmom said something like that to me. “Thanks, you’re crazy?” Something like that. Either way, it’s nice to see what a sweet, well-adjusted, loving couple – and family – they’ve become.
So I’ll admit that writing the “Good Celebrity” articles aren’t quite as fun – or as easy – as writing the “Paris Hilton fell off a wall without panties because she was so drunk” articles. But I think it’s good to temper the raunch and debauchery of some celebrities by making sure to pay attention to the ones that do something good. Jim Carrey is one of those actors that always seemed really nice, but I don’t think he’s ever publicly made a political or social statement, to my knowledge. I also had a hopeless crush on him when I was 13 and saw “The Mask” (I have weird taste) so I like to cover him every now and then, for old time’s sake. I mentioned the other day in the Sylvester Stallone article that there’s a lot of chaos going on in Myanmar right now – and it seems that a lot of celebrities are starting to talk about it. That’s great, because whatever brings attention to a cause, no matter where it comes from, is a small step forward.
“Actor Jim Carrey urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to ban all international arms shipments to Myanmar to pressure the country to end its brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters and its detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. ‘This is a government that uses its weapons not in self defense, but against its own citizens,’ the actor/comedian told a news conference across the street from the United Nations.
“‘The time has come for the United Nations Security Council to start acting less like a group of corporations and more like united nations,’ he said, urging China and Russia — Security Council members that have been resistant to sanctions — as well as India to back the ban. Carrey’s speech was a precursor to a day of marches and protests planned by the U.S. Campaign for Burma. He also made an appeal to Than Shwe, head of the latest junta in 45 unbroken years of military rule of the former Burma: ‘There is nothing to defend if you have lost the faith of your people. It is already over.’”
I don’t know if Jim Carrey wrote that himself, but if he did I’m really impressed. When I’ve seen him interviewed, he’s struck me as pretty smart, even though he never graduated from high school. I applaud him for taking a stand and using his fame for something good.
Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Aung San Suu Kyi. Header image of Jim Carrey and girlfriend Jenny McCarthy at the “Number 23” premiere in February. Images thanks to PR Photos.
Jim Carrey has pushed that girl hair thing for too long. Why do men do that? The best compliment he could receive is, “Hey, you’re not totally ugly with that ponytail.” No guy ever looks better for it, in my expert opinion. In actual news (not that ugly hair doesn’t count as actual news) this past weekend Harry Potter producer David Heyman told MTV News that he and Jim Carrey are working on a script for a movie titled “Yes Man.” It’s about a depressed man who says no to everything. He decides to change his outlook and say yes to absolutely everything, and hilarious hi jinks ensue. I assume the part about the hi jinks because Heyman says it’s a comedy, and otherwise it sounds thoughtful, and like something we might actually learn from.
After the perceived failure of Carrey’s thriller “The Number 23,” “Yes Man” — based on a book by Danny Wallace — will return him to the high-concept comedy realm that served him well in “Liar, Liar” and “Bruce Almighty.” The flick will mix the dilemmas he faced in those films with a more realistic concept along the lines of the Peter Sellers classic “Being There,” with Carrey’s character using his self-imposed limitations to uncover the strange roads life takes him down.
“It’s about a man who finds himself very depressed, and is always saying no. When friends ask him out, he always says no,” Heyman said of the script. “[The film will explore] what happens when he decides to say yes to every thing that comes his way.”
When asked what the tone of the flick would be, Heyman insisted it would be old-school Carrey. “It’s really funny,” he grinned. “It’s one of the funniest scripts I’ve read.”
No one does dumb comedy better than Jim Carrey, but this movie sounds like it might actually have a little substance. Carrey has spoken previously about his struggles with depression and bipolar disorder, so it’ll be interesting to see if some of his own experiences come out in this movie. Jim and Jenny McCarthy seem to still be going strong. For a while they had twin haircuts, and I thought that was symbolic that they were equal partners in their relationship. Now Jim’s hair is much longer than Jenny’s, so I’m going to assume that means that Jim is now the girl in the relationship. The two have been pretty low key about their relationship, and seem like a really good match. Don’t worry; I’m still going to monitor their hair for signs of trouble.
“You can ogle Jenny McCarthy – just don’t Google her, says her protective boyfriend, Jim Carrey. The funnyman, 45, effectively played it for laughs at a recent fundraiser, held at a private home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for a UCLA program specializing in early autism intervention. McCarthy, 34, is a highly vocal advocate working with her 5-year-old son, Evan, in his struggle with autism. In his formal remarks at the fundraiser, Dr. David Feinberg, chief executive officer of the UCLA Hospital System, referred to the actress as ‘my hero’ and cited her efforts to raise awareness of the condition.
