In November 2009, the National Enquirer famously broke the story that Tiger Woods had been banging Rachel Uchitel since June of that year. In the immediate aftermath, Tiger got into a huge Thanksgiving weekend fight with his then-wife, Elin Nordigren. There was a car accident, and there were golf clubs and a shattered car windshield, but nobody knows what really happened except for Tiger and Elin. Or maybe someone else knows too? Like Tiger’s long-time caddie, Steve Williams, who recently received his walking papers and is now, according to The Enquirer, threatening to write his very own tell-all book about that fight and many other Tiger-associated things. Not that Williams was actually present during the altercation, mind you; but apparently he and Tiger were pretty tight friends, so the assumption is that Tiger may have been dumb enough to tell his buddy what went down. Also, there is the bizarre alleged detail that Kevin Costner once gave Tiger some invaluable tips on how to pick up chicks:

Tiger Woods’ newly fired caddie plans to write a blockbuster tell-all that threatens to rip the lid off untold secrets in the adultery and drug scandals that rocked the fallen gold superstar, sources say.

Steve Williams, who carried Tiger’s golf bag for 12 years, has been sounding out writers to help him pen a book about their once-close relationship, according to insiders.

“Tiger is terrified about what the book will reveal,” a source told The ENQUIRER. “He said, ‘Steve was too close to me. He knows too much.’

“Tiger is trying to figure out a way to stop the book because he’s convinced it will wreck what’s left of his reputation.”

Williams, a native of New Zealand, toted Tiger’s bag for 72 wins and 13 major titles. The two were so close that they were in each other’s weddings.

But insiders say their friendship began to fray after The ENQUIRER exposed Tiger’s cheating with party girl Rachel Uchitel. That led to the infamous 2009 Thanksgiving night fight with his now ex-wife Elin that ended with Tiger wrecking his SUV outside their Florida home.

While Elin claimed she smashed the back window of Tiger’s vehicle with a golf club to free him, Williams knows the true story, said the source.

“Steve says Elin was in a jealous rage and she nearly killed Tiger with that golf club,” the source revealed.

Williams blames Tiger’s obsessive skirt-chasing on actor Kevin Costner, who once bragged about being able to pick up a woman in two minutes, said the source.

“According to Steve, Costner demonstrated his technique to Tiger,” the source divulged. “Steve said, ‘That’s where it all started.’”

In the past, Williams has publicly insisted he knew nothing about Tiger’s serial cheating.

“But I think he was lying to protect Tiger,” said another source. “Now he could reveal that he knew about Tiger’s compulsive cheating for years.”

The first source added that Williams will also spill the beans on Tiger’s association with Dr. Tony Galea, a Canadian physician who has pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling human growth hormone and other unapproved drugs int the U.S. to treat athletes.

[From Enquirer, print edition, August 15, 2011]

Honestly, I don’t know what to think about the Kevin Costner tidbit, for Tiger seems to do well enough on his own as a womanizer who conducted his affairs pretty openly. If it’s true that Costner encouraged Tiger to cheat on his wife, well, that’s pretty low because Costner has been married since 2004 to Christine Baumgartner, with whom he has three young children. Regardless of Costner’s involvement with Tiger, however, I think it’s pretty clear that Tiger needed no cheering on in order to drop his drawers with women who were not his wife. Still, it’s interesting, and I wonder if Costner (or his wife) will have anything to say about this story in the near future.

As far as the prospective tell-all book by Williams goes, however, I doubt that anything else could possibly tarnish Tiger’s reputation more than what we already know. I mean, short of hearing Tiger did something incredibly illegal besides the basic prostitute stuff that we’ve already heard. The man still has sponsors and was just welcomed back to the latest PGA tour with much applause (disgusting, right?) even though the audience was openly wondering why he fired his caddie. So perhaps people really will pay attention to what Williams has to say in his book.

Also, when did Tiger start dressing like a lounge lizard?

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Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner really heated up the screen as a veteran minor leaguer and his oversexed lover in the 1988 baseball classic Bull Durham. Tim Robbins also starred as a doofball pitcher that was sleeping with Sarandon and getting unwanted coaching from Costner’s character. Bull Durham went on to become a box office hit and a classic. Sports Illustrated even ranked it the number one Greatest Sports Movie of all time. The NY Post reports that there may be a sequel in the works twenty years later and that Kevin Costner had a meeting with the director to talk about it. Real-life couple Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, who met on the set of the film and have two sons together, are also said to be interested:

THE long-awaited sequel to “Bull Durham” is finally getting off the ground. A spy tells us Kevin Costner recently met with director Ron Shelton at Trader Vic’s in LA to discuss reprising the role of carousing catcher Crash Davis from the 1988 baseball flick. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are also expected to return as pitcher Nuke LaLoosh and baseball groupie Annie Savoy, who are now married and owners of a Major League team that Costner manages. Kristen Kerr, recently seen on “Dexter,” is being eyed as one of Crash’s love interests, our insider said.

[From The NY Post]

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand a sequel with the original characters could be funny and well-made, but there’s also the potential to ruin an amazing film with a crappy follow-up. There’s money to be made with it, though, and a new Bull Durham is likely to attract the older people who saw it in the first place along with baseball lovers from the younger generation. You can see how they would be interested in making a sequel, but in these uncertain financial times there’s a lot less investment capital in Hollywood and we’ll have to wait and see if this ever gets to first base.

[Some details from Wikipedia]

Before Kevin Costner was a big movie star he was a struggling musician, playing the guitar and singing in a band called Roving Boy.  Now that Kevin Costner isn’t a big movie star anymore, he’s gone back to the band, now called Kevin Costner and Modern West, and will be releasing a country-rock CD on November 11.

The actor, who told PEOPLE that his unlikely turn as a lead singer elicited double-takes when the band played a NASCAR event in July, has been playing music with some of his band mates for nearly 20 years.

An early incarnation of the band (once called Roving Boy) stalled when Costner’s movie career took off, but in the past few years he’s devoted more time to music. “I remember looking out into the crowd, thinking, ‘This just feels right,’ ” Costner, 53, said in a statement about an early performance with Modern West.

[From People.com]

Costner has had more time to devote to music because he’s “scaling back his movie career to about one film a year” according to Reuters.  I was thinking I hadn’t seen anything from Kevin in a long time but there was Swing Vote earlier this year, which blinked in and out of theatres so fast it may as well have been a year without a Costner film.

Costner co-wrote a number of songs on the album, called “Untold Truths”, and the first single, “Long Hot Night“ will be sent out to country radio this week with a few other tracks from the CD.  Kenny Chesney can breathe easy, there is no threat of Kev and the guys stopping his CMA Entertainer of the Year win streak.  Something in me always pulls for better than average actors, and Costner has had some moments, to be better than average musicians, too, since the reversal seems to happen alot more often.  But while I wouldn’t consider Costner’s effort quite as bad as Scarlett Johansson’s attempt, I would still call it the Waterworld of country music.

Costner and his band will be touring in late 2008 and early 2009, before The New Daughter, Costner’s next film, comes out in March. 

Kevin Costner is shown performing at the at the BMW Charity Pro-Am golf event in Greenville, South Carolina on 4/29/06. Credit: PRPhotos

In January a guy started a blog at blogspot called “If I Blog It They Will Come” with the express purpose of getting a picture of Kevin Costner reading his blog. He said once Costner sent in a picture, he would move on to other celebrities.

He was quite flattering to Mr. Costner, calling himself a “genuine fan,” declaring that his efforts were sincere, and penning countless open letters to Costner referencing his work, making conversation, and begging for a picture. The blogger was relentless, writing 20 posts a month until May and then kind of slowing down over the summer to about two a week. He said he was on a mission and wouldn’t give up.

Finally in September his dream came true and he got two pictures of Costner reading the blog!

His first post from January 24, 2007:

The primary aim of this blog is to get Kevin Costner to visit a blog about Kevin Costner and send a picture of himself looking at said blog.

Once we’ve achieved this with Mr. Costner we shall move onto other celebrities. Perhaps, we’ll go down the list of his Field of Dreams co-stars, perhaps we’ll just seek out random celebrities. In any case…the game is afoot.

Before signing off on this maiden posting voyage, I shall first say that this blog is not in the interest of defaming any public figure. It’s mere goal is to acquire photographic evidence that the public figure in question has seen this blog.

So with that in mind…Mr. Costner…a word, please. Mr. Kevin Costner, you are a fine actor-director who has warmed our hearts and expanded our minds through your fine work in the cinema. You have educated us on the plight of the American Indian, captured the emotional fervor we all feel over America’s Pastime and while Al Gore was busy inventing that Internet thing, it was you who provided us with a frightening picture of what the world might be like after it is destroyed by global warming.

Kevin Costner, we honor you by making you the inaugural subject of this here blog. We merely ask that you honor us with a photo of your blog patronage…a simple request that we hope you deem necessary to grant.

Thank you for your time Mr. Costner…we have enjoyed you in many films and eagerly await your next motion picture. We are certain it will be phenomenal.

And in the latest entry, they’re positively effusive to have received some e-mails and pictures from Costner:

Dear Mr. Costner,

Where to begin? We started this site with a faint glimmer of hope that our postings would somehow get your attention. Out of all of the Hollywood stars, you always came across to us as one of the more genuine, down-t0-earth good guys. However, we were under no illusion that our efforts would impress you enough to actually warrant a response to our good-natured badgering, but respond you have. We here at “If I Blog It They Will Come” were quite taken aback by the generosity you have displayed in sending us these photos. We know you’re a busy man and we’re flattered that you would take the time from your hectic schedule to do such a nice thing for a couple of your loyal fans. You’ve metaphorically led us to our dry land, dug up “the dom”, and built our Field of Dreams. Is this Heaven? No, this is Kevin Costner doing us a solid.

Your sending of these photos constitutes (sadly for us) the end of your obligation to “If I Blog It They Will Come”. However, it occurs to us that we promised to send you an “If I Blog It They Will Come” T-Shirt in an earlier post. We’re more than happy to fulfill our end of the bargain. Take a look at our online store and whatever you want, it’s yours.

I started a now-defunct fan site in 1996, and I’m pretty sure the actual celebrity (who is a younger guy, I’m not namin’ names) e-mailed me and commented on the bulletin board about a year later. It was kind of thrilling, but I didn’t know where to go with it, like I felt guilty that he was even reading the silly crap I was posting about him. I know a lot of celebrities read the gossip we write (and that’s a collective we meaning all the other gossip bloggers) and I don’t want to think about it too much or I might start fawning over them like Perez does to Paris.

This guy should move on to other celebrities soon and just have a blog trying to get specific celebrities to respond, that’s an excellent idea. Maybe if he picks younger celebrities that are more Internet savvy he’ll get pictures after a couple of weeks now that his blog is successful.

Thanks to Fark for the heads up about this story.

When I think of PeeWee Herman, I have to concentrate to remember the skinny pale guy in a bowtie with the weird laugh. That’s because the first image that comes to mind is his disheveled mugshot.

Kevin Costner is lucky there is no photographic evidence of the fact that he jerked off while having a massage, because we might still think of the hot suave Costner from Bull Durham. When pictures like this of him come out, though, it’s easy to imagine him doing the deed. (Although if you try and substitute old creepy Costner with young baseball player Costner it’s kind of hot.)

The story is that Costner is said to have jerked off in front of a horrified female masseuse while honeymooning at a Scottish resort in 2004. Everyone speculated it was Costner a while ago, but the actor’s involvement was confirmed, at least according to his accuser, when the court lifted privacy restrictions on the case last week.

One of Costner’s exes has come to his defense, stupidly claiming that the hotel worker must have been rejected by Costner and is going through all this trouble to get back at him:

Clearly this woman remembers the younger, hotter Costner of yore. Maybe that guy wouldn’t have dared to get off in front of a bewildered masseuse, but creepy Costner didn’t care.

Here is Costner performing with his new “garage band” at the BMW Charity Pro-Am golf event in Greenville, South Carolina on April 29th. Costner was the “headliner” celebrity golfing at the event. Other stars involved included hockey great “Wayne Gretzky and Brett Hull, quarterback John Elway, actresses Catherine Bell and Janet Jones-Gretzky, and actors “Cheech” Marin and John O’Hurley.”

We ignored this blind item when it came out a few days ago as we had no idea who the A-List actor accused of jerking off in front of a masseuse could be. Now that Kevin Costner is denying the allegations, we have our answer:

A friend of Costners says the charge is a set up meant to force the hotel to settle the lawsuit for a large sum. We think it’s probably true and that Costner is frustrated in his marriage. While the charges are damning, he must be flattered that the woman considers him an A-List actor.

Kevin Costner, 51, married his second wife Christine Baumgarter, 32, in September 2004 after four years of dating. Costner has three teenage children from his last marriage and a ten year-old son from a previous relationship.