I was looking through YouTube for videos to show my three year-old son and I found some goodies from Sesame Street that brought back a lot of memories for me. My son loved them too, especially the pinball machine counting cartoon, below.

There’s something so great about finding clips of shows you used to watch as a kid and haven’t seen in 20 years. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside to see them again.

A few months ago we covered celebrities and musician appearances on Sesame Street in a fun post that included videos of guests Robert DeNiro, Julie Andrews, Johnny Cash, and Stevie Wonder. Here are some of the cartoons and skits that will be familiar to 30-somethings like me who watched this excellent PBS kids staple.

Pinball counting cartoon

The Alligator King

Fat Cat Sat Hat

The Ladybug Picnic

Orange sings Carmen

And this is the Muppets, not Sesame Street, but I love this one, it’s the little fuzzy creatures doing “Witch Doctor”

Colin Farrell has revealed that his four-year-old son James suffers from a rare form of cerebral palsy called Angelman Syndrome. According to Wikipedia, Angelman Syndrome is “characterized by intellectual and developmental delay, speech impediment, sleep disturbance, unstable jerky gait, seizures, hand flapping movements, frequent laughter/smiling and usually a happy demeanor.” Farrell says that he is “incredibly blessed to have him in my life” and that he often only remembers something is wrong with James when he sees his son playing with other children.

“He said that his son had shown ‘amazing courage’ in the first four years of his life and that he is an ‘incredibly happy boy’ despite his condition. Ironically Colin – who has joint custody of James with his mother Kim Bordenave – proudly led the Irish team to Croke Park for the Special Olympics before his son was born. Colin – who has starred in such movies as Miami Vice and Phone Booth – said that James has ‘enriched’ his life ‘incredibly.’ And he said that he is dedicated to helping his son reach his own ‘individual potential’ and to be ‘as happy as he can be.’

“‘With my son the only time I’m reminded that there is something different about him – that he has some deviation of what is perceived to be normal – is when I see him with other four-year-olds. Then I go “oh yeah” and it comes back to me. But from day one I felt that he’s the way he’s meant to be.’ The actor spoke with pride about the barriers his son has overcome in the first four years of his life – and paid tribute to his ex-girlfriend Kim for being proactive in getting James the early intervention he needs. ‘He took his first steps about six weeks ago and it was four years in the making. All the work is his, he worked his arse off for four years.’

“‘And when he took the first steps it was incredibly emotional, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.’ He’s broken that barrier and its all about building on that now. Although Colin has been juggling a career in Hollywood since he first burst onto the scene in 2003, he is dedicated to spending as much time as possible with his son. Little James has already met with his extended family in Dublin and even Colin’s new girlfriend, Irish student Muireann McDonnell. ‘I have never thought of my son as being someone with a disability. It goes back to special needs and what is a disability and what isn’t.’”

[Form the Ireland Independent]

I have to say, I’ve never really thought of Colin Farrell as this super deep guy, but he’s done a lot of things recently that make me have a lot of respect for him. It sounds like he has an amazing attitude towards his son. He’s not trying to make James something he isn’t, and loves him as he is and just wants him to be as happy as he can be. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking it must be to have a child with cerebral palsy, but it sounds like Colin doesn’t really see it as a heartbreak, and is just glad to have such a great kid. This on top of the helping homeless people makes me have a crush on him all over again.

Picture note by Jaybird: Header image of Colin and James. Thanks to ONYD for the images.

Anne Heche was on “The View” on Wednesday, and talked about how hard it is to be a long-distance mom. Heche films “Men in Trees” in Vancouver. A little while after starting the show, she left her husband to be with her new costar, who left his wife. The two got a lot of flack about it, though I’m guessing that’s not just because it’s slightly untoward, but because Heche is certifiable. So when she does much of anything besides go to the grocery store, people are going to think she’s doing it because she’s crazy. Which she totally is, but that might not the motivating factor in her every decision. But I’m probably giving her too much credit.

“The man with whom Anne Heche shares a log cabin in real life – her Men in Trees costar James Tupper – is ‘adorable,’ but he has nothing on the guy who flies into her arms: 5-year-old son Homer. ‘Homer flies a lot … twice a month to see me,’ Heche said on Wednesday’s episode of The View. Homer’s father, Hollywood cameraman (and Heche’s ex-husband) Coley Laffoon, shares custody with the actress. Twice a month, Heche also flies from Vancouver, Canada, to L.A. to be with her son.

“Meanwhile, Heche explains, she gives him a lot of love over the phone. ‘It’s hard,’ she admits. ‘You’ve got to open up your heart as if he’s right in front of you.’ Laffoon and Heche wed in 2001, and the marriage ended in February 2007, with the blame falling on her then-budding relationship with on-camera love interest Tupper (known as ‘McTreemy’ on the Men in Trees set), who split from his wife late last year. ‘I’m so happy,’ Heche said on The View before quickly clarifying her remark to say, ‘I don’t think anybody says, “Yay, divorce. That was a lot of fun.’

“View host Barbara Walters, who has interviewed Heche on several occasions in the past, admitted to her guest about the union with Laffoon, ‘I didn’t think that marriage was going to last.’ When Heche asked to know the reason, Walters replied, ‘I don’t think you always think with your head.’”

[From People]

Best. Quote. Ever. Barbara Walters, master of directness.

That’s a pretty crappy way for a 5-year-old to have to spend half their weekends every month. I don’t want to sound all judgy, but I think it’ d be more fair (though certainly less convenient) for Heche to fly to him every month. I really hate it when people get divorced and uproot their kids’ schedules for the parents’ convenience. If you split up and live far away from your kid, move closer or fly to them, whether you’re the mom or the dad. Between the airport, security, waiting, and the flight, (all roundtrip) Homer probably spends 12 hours of his weekend just devoted to getting to Anne. And it’s not like once he gets there, he spends time with this fantastic mom that’s taking him to the pumpkin patch or something. We’re talking about a woman who says she has another personality (Remember Celestia?) who’s an alien who tells her what to do. And I don’t think she’s ever recanted that. So Homer flies up there, probably gets abducted by aliens, and then as soon as he’s back he has to fly home to L.A. That just can’t be good for a kid.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Anne during the crazy Celestia years. Header image at the Tony Awards on 06/10/2007. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis has been spending over $28,000 a month of fertility treatments in an attempt to get pregnant. Alexis is 42, and says she was so busy with her life and her career that she never stopped to think about how much time is passing. Celebrities get pregnant all the time at what seems like any old age, and we don’t really hear as much about the people that can’t have babies. Alexis says she’ll do whatever it takes to have a child, and has gone as far as giving herself her shots on the street if necessary.

“Even though her eggs are ‘dry and crusty,’ Alexis Stewart is determined to get pregnant – so determined, she spends $28,000 a month on fertility treatments. Stewart, 42, started the difficult process last year, and opened up to People in July about how lucky she is to be able to afford the high-tech procedures and special treatments. On Tuesday, she talks to Oprah Winfrey about the emotionally and financially draining process.

“Having a baby wasn’t always a priority for Stewart, and now that she’s ready to be a mom, she tells Winfrey it’s almost too late. ‘[We] get distracted because now we have jobs, and now we have other things to do. Medicine seems miraculous – you can do anything you want,’ she says. ‘Movie stars have babies late. It seems all possible, but you don’t hear the stories of the people who can’t have a baby.’”

[From People]

As a feminist, I kind of have a problem with the whole notion that women better get to the baby having or we’ll dry up. But biology doesn’t really agree with my feminist principles, and it is what it is. Alexis was married to one of the lawyers that unsuccessfully defended her mother from 1997 – 2004, and has been using a sperm donor to get pregnant.

“Over the summer, Stewart told People she’ll do whatever it takes to make Martha Stewart, her mom, a grandmother. ‘Twice, I’ve given myself shots on the street. I’m much more interested in taking my medication than in what anyone might think about me,’ she said. Stewart has since had three failed egg implantations. ‘Last month, I had no eggs that were viable, so I’m sort of back to square one at the moment,’ she tells Winfrey, adding that she tries not to get too emotional about it.

“‘When I have to think about my other options, then I will do that,’ she says. ‘But at the moment, I can only think about this option.’ Stewart also says financial and emotional backing from her mom helps. ‘She’s very supportive. She tells me it will happen all the time,’ she says. ‘Because she wants grandchildren?’ Winfrey asks. Stewart’s response: ‘Desperately.’”

[From People]

I don’t know, but I would guess Martha’s footing a good portion of the bill herself. But maybe that’s because Oprah kept billing the show “This woman is spending $28,000 a month to make Martha Stewart a grandmother,” which made it sound like it was all about Martha. I’m not really a huge Martha fan – she seems pretty cold to me – but I’m guessing any baby that’s lucky enough to be born into that family will be pretty well taken care of for the rest of their lives. And have access to Martha’s scrapbooking wing in her house. I’d try to be her grandkid just for that.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Martha Stewart and Alexis are shown on 4/28/06 at the Daytime Emmy Awards. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Uncle Jesse seems to be missing the Olsen twins – not that I can blame him, they were freaking adorable when they were babies… and weighed more than they do now. But he’s told OK Magazine that he’s ready to have kids, and is fully embracing the idea of adoption. As much as it’s fun to make a “biological clock” joke about a guy (because biological clock jokes never get old, right?) I think it’s awesome that a single man is publicly proclaiming his desire to have and/or adopt kids.

“John Stamos played uncle Jesse on the ’80s sitcom ”Full House.” Now he wants to be a father. ‘If I don’t have kids soon, I am going to adopt,’ the 44-year-old actor tells OK! magazine in its latest issue, on newsstands Friday. ‘Even if I do have kids, I think I will (adopt). I always thought to myself that I would be a better father later on in life.’

“Stamos and Rebecca Romijn divorced in 2005, nearly a year after they announced they were separating after five years of marriage. Romijn, 34, married Jerry O’Connell in July. ‘Right after I got divorced or separated, I was like, ‘I’ve got to find somebody,’ Stamos says. ‘Then I went through a phase where I hated dating. Now I’m kind of embracing it.’

“Stamos, who co-stars on the NBC medical drama ‘ER,’ says he doesn’t find dating hard now. ‘I think I’m probably easier to date,’ he says. ‘I’m certainly not as wild as I used to be.’ Of his marriage to Romijn, Stamos says: ‘It burned really bright, and I kind of knew it was going to burn out at some point. But it was a great ride and I don’t regret one minute of it.’

[From the Associated Press]

Not as wild as he used to be? Isn’t this the guy who played backup for the Beach Boys at random intervals during the ‘80s? Yeah I’ve head all that sand can get lodged in some really weird places, I guess that could lead to some unconventionally wild times. There was that one incident where he was kind of out of it in an interview, which he ended up blaming on sleeping pills. So I’m glad his wild and crazy days are behind him. Seriously, if there’s a person in Hollywood who you can tease for not being all that crazy, that’s a really good thing.

I’m all for the notion of having kids and adopting them. A little of the Brangelina lifestyle, if you will. And he made a good second father on television, so I’m pretty sure that means he’s going to be damn good at it in real life too.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s John Stamos performing with the Beach Boys at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on July 10th. Header image at Entertainment Weekley’s Pre-Emmy Party on September 15th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Britney Spears came crawling back to her mom, Lynne Spears. Well, she somehow got her mom to come to her, and then hopefully Britney crawled. We really have no idea as to what actually went down between Britney and her mother, but the most accepted theories seem to be that Lynne was instrumental in forcing Britney into rehab last year after her public baldness-inducing breakdown. Britney never thought she needed to go to rehab, and seemed to cut ties with Lynne shortly thereafter. At one point she hand-delivered a letter instructing Lynne to stay away from her kids, making sure to specify that Lynne might on medication which would impair her. Yeah that’s the pot calling the kettle black, and the kettle retorting, “Shut up you crazy hag!” Or some such thing. Well after Brit’s life has really gone to crap in the last few weeks, she finally summoned Lynne to her home, and I guess Lynne was pretty happy to go.

“Come to mama: Days after losing custody of her two kids, Britney Spears found some solace by reuniting with estranged mom Lynne Spears.

“‘Brit really needed her mom,’ a source tells PEOPLE. ‘So Lynne flew out and they met.’ Sources say Lynne and Britney’s younger sister Jamie Lynn flew from Kentwood, La., to Los Angeles Friday evening. On arrival at LAX, the two were mobbed by photographers. Jamie Lynn, wearing eyeglasses, kept her head low, later covered by the hood of her sweatshirt. Despite the attention, the women made a quiet exit from the terminal, declining to comment or to acknowledge the group.

“Around 3 a.m., Lynne paid a visit to her daughter’s Beverly Hills home before driving the two of them to Spears’s new Malibu pad. The mother-daughter pair had a falling out back in June, when Spears handed her mother a reportedly upsetting letter. According to TMZ, the letter asked that Lynne stay away from Spears’s sons if she is taking any medications that might cause her to be impaired.

“Spears told reporters at the time, ‘I’m praying for her right now. [I hope] she gets all the help she needs.’ Says a source, for now, ‘Everything’s great.’”

[From People]

I have that old Peaches and Herb song, “Reunited and it Feels so Good” stuck in my head right now, with an image of Lynne and Britney holding each other and swaying to the music… while a little bit drunk. I’m really surprised it took Britney this long to ask for her mom’s help and support. I mean things have just gotten worse and worse for her, and then you think she’s at rock bottom and she finds a way to dig herself down into a brand new hole. But if nothing else the girl is freakishly stubborn, and if someone tells her what to do (her mom… or a judge) she’ll flip them the bird and then get shitfaced and dance on some bars with her underwear over her head. And frankly we can’t complain, because at least that means Britney Spears had her underwear on at some point.

Hopefully calling her mom means that Brit has finally reached rock bottom and realizes just how messed up her life is. That’s probably a really scary and overwhelming feeling, but she’s got to understand that before she can correct her problems and get her life back together. Lynne Spears seems to be one of the few Hollywood moms that really has her act together and has given up a lot for her children’s careers, without expecting to be brought along to a lot of Hollywood parties as their own personal coke whores (ahem, Dina Lohan). Let’s hope this is an indication of some type of turning point, and Brit will take a few baby steps towards becoming a decent parent.

Note by Celebitchy: Britney missed a scheduled visit with her children this weekend, but it wasn’t exactly her fault. After first suggesting that the boys meet her at one of the many hotels she frequents, she agreed to return home to prepare for their visit. When K-Fed arrived at the gate, no one answered the intercom. He called Britney on her cell phone to tell her he was leaving, and she begged him to stay. It turns out the intercom was broken and she never heard the call.

And the latest news in the nonstop Britney saga is that she rejected an intervention attempt by her family yesterday. Her mom, sister, and K-Fed all arrived at her Malibu mansion on Sunday to try and convince her to get help.

Her weekend was quite eventful too. It seems that on Friday night she drove around aimlessly with her ex hook-up, producer JR Rotem, and one of his friends. She kicked the pair out before she went home early on Saturday, but then ran back down to the gate, screaming that her house had been broken into. She punctured one of her tires in her frenzy about the supposed break in, and a photographer changed it for her. The cops came and left, and then her family arrived to try and talk some sense into her:

Early Friday evening, Brit, producer JR Rotem and hanger-on Sam Lusty spent hours driving around Los Angeles and Beverly Hills being followed by a caravan of paparazzi, until utlimately ending up at the posh Peninsula Hotel, where Brit had holed herself up for a few days earlier this week, following the decision by Court Commissioner Scott Gordon to give full temporary custody of her two young boys to K-Fed.

Around 2am PT, the three louseketeers exited the Peninsula and drove, screaming at each other the whole way, to Britney’s gated community, The Summit, on Mulholland Drive, at which point Brit inexplicably gave her two traveling companions the boot at the gatehouse.

But the night was nowhere near being finished. A few minutes later, Brit comes roaring down the hill to The Summit’s entrance, where she begins to rant incoherently that her home had been broken into. Her driving was so erratic that she pulled up on a curb, damaging her tire so badly that it required repair — which a friendly photog was more than willing to do for Brit.

Eventually, officers of the law arrived and went up to the house with Brit, JR and Sam, before returning approximately 45 minutes later. No word on whether her house was truly broken into, though all signs point to “no.”

So, in the early morning hours, Brit and her pals packed back into her newly re-tired car and headed up the coast to her Malibu home — where her mom and little sis had just arrived.

[From OK! Magazine]

Then around 7p.m. on Saturday Britney stormed out of her house, seeming to reject her family’s help. She continued her random tour of hotels and restaurants, stopping briefly at the Viceroy Hotel and The Ivy. She was followed by at least 36 cars full of paparazzi.

Britney is still hanging out with her sister, even if the paparazzi think she’s rejecting her family’s help by continuing to drive around. She was seen out yesterday getting coffee and going for sushi with 16 year-old Jamie Lynn Spears. At one point she got lost and photographers told her the way home. Thanks to WENN for these photos.

Most girls go through that “I want a pony” stage at some point in their lives, and a lot of them get stuck there. I think kids have an animal begging hierarchy that goes something like this: goldfish, hamster/assorted small furry creatures, turtle, rabbit, cat, dog, pony. So you have to get pretty far along in the system to be begging for a pony, but most families have a cat or a dog, so it’s not a big leap. I never got beyond the goldfish, and eventually had to settle for a crap-ass hedgehog (my mom bribed an allergist to tell me I was allergic to fur), so begging for a pony never entered my mind. But I remember all those girls in school that would spend hours drawing ponies, focusing on their long manes and the intricacies of their legs. That job was a little quicker when drawing the hedgehog. Anyway, it seems Bruce Springsteen’s daughter is no exception in the pony loving, and with a dad like Bruce, you can get yourself a mighty fine equine. Just how fine? Well the cost of a luxurious house fine.

“Rock musician Bruce Springsteen and his wife are being sued by an Olympic equestrian for allegedly backing out of a contract to buy a horse worth $850,000 for their daughter. The Olympian, Todd Minikus, filed the breach of contract suit Thursday in West Palm Beach County, Fla. It claims Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa, reneged on a deal. The Springsteens were to purchase the horse from Minikus by paying him $650,000 and give him a horse they already own that was worth $200,000, according to the lawsuit.

“According to the lawsuit, the Springsteens - who live in Monmouth County and own Stone Hill Farm _ put a $25,000 deposit on the horse, named Pavarotti, in July. However, they later had second-thoughts about whether the animal was right for their teenage daughter, Jessica, the second of their three children. The suit describes the Springsteens’ daughter as ‘a budding young rider,’ and says she rode Pavarotti twice in a “schooling ring” in Lake Placid, N.Y. The Springsteens also had their vet examine the horse before signing the contract, the suit says.

“The sale was to be completed by Aug. 24, according to the suit, with the Springsteens paying Minikus the $625,000 balance before receiving Pavarotti and turning over a horse named Scarlett as part of the trade. Minikus is seeking damages, and compensation for the continued daily upkeep of Pavarotti. He claims the horse has diminished in value since the Pan Am Games, in part because the famous couple backed out of a deal to buy the animal.”

[From Newsday]

Oh man, to even have half of that money to spend on a house would make 99% of Americans pretty darn happy. But to have it to spend on a horse? I don’t know if they’re stupid for not just buying the damn thing (it’s probably like $38 would be to me and you) or really smart for not spending $850,000 on a horse. But like I said, I was never so advanced in my bargaining skills as to have a pet that didn’t lead to spiky pain. I wonder what would make a parent consider buying their teenager an $850,000 anything? I mean we’d be all over a celebrity for spending that much on their kid’s car (though I’m sure it’s happened). Yet somehow a horse is just so much quainter, that I don’t feel I should mock it. So here’s to you, Bruce Springsteen, for having the cojones to almost buy what I can only assume is a diamond-encrusted flying horse.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Bruce and Patti after performing on “The Late Show” on September 4th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Where do you start with Britney? She’s moving to different hotels every night, with paparazzi trailing after her like flies on shit. She lost custody of her children, but she doesn’t seem to be as concerned about that as she is about putting her crazy on full display.

She has been granted supervised visitation rights with her children, but in order to even maintain those visits she has to comply with judge’s orders to go to counseling every week, meet with a parenting coach, and submit to drug tests. She completely ignored everything she was supposed to do just to maintain custody, which is why it was stripped from her, so the next step for Britney is to be estranged from her young boys due to her own willful negligence. She certainly seems to be headed there.

He [the judge] also ruled that her visitation rights will be terminated “if any conduct or action by (Britney) endangers the minor children.” The monitor has the power to terminate her visitation rights.

Gordon said Britney “is ordered to undergo testing for the use of controlled substances and alcohol,” something he required in a previous order. As we first reported, Spears did not submit to drug tests as required by the Court. Gordon now says “… refusal to submit to a test … shall be deemed by the Court as a failed test.”

She’s also required to undergo “individual counseling” at least once a week as required by Gordon last month and must also meet with a parenting coach so they can “observe [her] interaction with the minor children and her parenting skills.”

[From TMZ.com]

On October 26th she’s scheduled for another custody hearing and must show up to court. At that point if she hasn’t attended at least three individual counseling sessions and three joint counseling sessions with K-Fed she could lose visits with her sons.

Meanwhile the video for Britney’s new single is out, and features a blonde-wigged throwback-looking Britney watching a dark-wigged stripper version of her current self. It’s not bad by most accounts, and a lot of that is due to flattering lighting and expert editing. Her career is slowing crawling back, and her single “Gimme More” is currently at the top of the digital download charts. It couldn’t come at worse time for her, though. The more she courts press the more she seems like she’s headed for an even worse, even more public meltdown.

Britney’s record label, Jive, has come out with a supportive statement about her upcoming album and her well-publicized personal issues. They say “she faces challenges that most of us can’t really imagine” and that she’s a human being and that “it’s not our place to comment on her personal issues, but we do care about her and support her.”

Yesterday she was photographed looking visibly distressed in her car outside a supermarket while holding her dog. Did she hear that PETA wants her give up custody of her pooches too or was she upset that she still has to quit drugs if she wants to see her kids?

She is addicted and needs to clean up and start showing up, but all she can do is follow her every whim and flit around. She’s about to dig herself an even deeper hole, and I’m at the point where I don’t want to watch her do it. If she doesn’t go to rehab again or accept some form of help she’s going to lose her boys entirely. While she probably is grateful to be free of the smidgen of responsibility she had before, it must be distressing to her to realize that by holding on so tightly to her immaturity she’s risking even seeing her boys again.

Let’s see: sober up and show up for counseling and be able to see your kids or continue to drink and get high every day, do whatever you want and be completely alone in the world without the thing that means the most to you? What a tough decision.

In today’s obvious statements… Mark Wahlberg says he doesn’t want to work forever. Really, because most of us hope to die at 98 having put in approximately 75 years of getting up at six in the morning, sitting on our asses looking at TPS reports, then coming home to a Lean Cuisine before we fall back in bed and start it all over again. Wait, I don’t do any of those things… and neither do you Mark Wahlberg, so stop bitching! Okay he’s not bitching, my unethical self is just spinning it that way. He actually just wants to spend more time with his girlfriend and kids. Awwww! Marky Mark, you so sweet!

“Mark Wahlberg’s priorities are changing. The actor has had so much fun and success in Hollywood, they made a hit TV show about him, but the father of two, has decided to take it down a notch. ‘I’ve been really focused on me for quite sometime now,’ admitted Wahlberg, 36, who said girlfriend Rhea Durham, daughter Ella, 4, and son, Michael, 18 months, ‘are definitely the priority’ now.

“‘I figure I got a few more years to work really hard and then, you know, if I can make a movie every year and a half or something then that would be nice,’ he told reporters at the press day for his latest film, We Own the Night. ‘I don’t want to work forever.’ The realization came to Wahlberg – whose life HBO’s ‘Entourage’ is based on and which he also executive produces – on the heels of the highly successful movie ‘The Departed,’ which brought the actor his first Oscar nomination. ‘It was at a really tough time,’ Wahlberg said of starting work on We Own the Night. ‘I was about to have my second child. I had left shortly after my first child was born to work and that was a very difficult experience.’”

[From People]

Aw, that’s so sweet, why can’t all guys be like that? To consider having to spend time away from your girlfriend and new kids traumatic is indicative of really good character, in my opinion. Marky Mark (I’m always going to have to call him that) seems like a good guy, who’s made a lot of his life. Plus he’s managed to have a legitimate acting career, despite all those years he spent dropping his trousers for Calvin Klein. Not that I’m opposed to that, mind you. I think it’s funny when celebrities talk about how hard they work and how they need to take a break. I’m not saying their work isn’t challenging – I’ve never done it so I’m in no position to cast judgments. But I don’t think it’s equivalent to being a fisherman in the Bering Sea.

Picture Note by Jaybird: Here’s Mark at the Annual Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf Tournament on April 29th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Every few weeks some new detail comes out in the Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards divorce that seems to swing my opinion toward the other party. While I thought that Richards was cruel and heartless for trying to deny Sheen overnight visits with his daughters Sam, 2, and Lola, 3, the e-mails he sent her that she brought up in her custody battle make him seem a lot less innocent in the matter.

While even if all this is true he doesn’t seem to pose a threat to his daughters, he still comes off as a jerk with a short temper and a mean streak. That’s what Richards surely wanted to convey to the world when she made his nasty e-mails to her public.

Sheen is said to have called Richards a “jobless pig” and to have told her to “go cry to [her] bald mother.” Richard’s mother is undergoing treatment for cancer so that’s particularly cruel:

GO cry to your bald mom, you [bleeping] loser,” Charlie Sheen wrote to Denise Richards in an e-mail the actress included in documents filed last week in L.A. Superior Court in the couple’s custody battle.

“You are a pig. A sad, jobless pig who is sad and talentless and sad and jobless and evil and a bad mom, so go [bleep] yourself sad jobless pig,” reads another.

“You are an evil piece of [bleep]. I can’t wait to tell the world what a piece of [bleep] you are. You don’t get a [bleeping] dime till this is resolved,” says a third e-mail.

Richards says in her court filing that she was particularly hurt by the one about her mother, who is undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer.

Pictures of Sheen’s “erect penis” that Richards says he used for his profile on sex sites are also included, which Richards claims he e-mailed to “approximately 30 women.”

“I’d love to give it to you any time,” Sheen wrote to one woman under the screen name “mrjonze55.”

Richards says Sheen even visited gay pornography sites - “which I found even more disturbing because I felt that the boys looked underage,” the documents state.

Richards accuses Sheen of punching the headboard of their bed once in a rage, and telling her that by no longer breast-feeding, she was causing their daughter, Sam, to “become retarded.”

[NY Post]

A lot of women bring up their husband’s interest in porn in divorce cases. Guys like porn, it’s just how they’re wired. As long as it doesn’t interfere with your relationship and they’re not spending an inordinate amount of time on it or letting the kids see it, I don’t see the harm.

Still, if Sheen was e-mailing pictures of his dick around unsolicited that’s another thing. I doubt all these women consented to receiving the pictures, but if he was already separated or divorced from Richards and asked the other parties if they were open to receiving the pictures, that’s his business. I never got the appeal of pictures of naked guys with erections, but as long as he’s not doing it around his daughters or forcing it on unsuspecting women, who are we to judge his kinks?

The NY Post reminds us that Sheen apologized before these e-mails were leaked, saying “I have been responsible for some of the worst dialogue [sic] and venom-spewing behavior in the past few weeks that I can possibly recall, ever.”

He still seems like someone who honestly wants to see his daughters and doesn’t pose a threat to them. Richards is saying he’s into underage-”looking” porn, but if you look up porn online it’s hard to avoid the younger-looking women. (Which just seems sad and borderline criminal even if they’re over 18.)

It’s hard to imagine people being this nasty to each other when there are children involved, and I hope they can keep their mouths shut and try to get along for the sake of their daughters. Although they may be young now, the stuff Richards is making public will be available for their kids to look up as soon as they can type.

Here are pictures from the 2 and a Half Men 100th anniversary party yesterday. Charlie Sheen is shown with his fiance, Brooke Wolofsky.Thanks to PRPhotos.