In a creepy display of exploitation, an unknown Craig’s List user recently posted an ad accepting bids to own a copy of rocker Chris Cornell’s wedding video, including footage of maid of honor Brittany Murphy. The late actress was a friend of Cornell’s now-wife, Vicky. When Cornell caught wind of this, he quickly contacted Craig’s List and threatened to sue unless the ad was removed. Cornell also demanded that the popular web site turn over the identity of the user selling the footage, claiming it had been stolen.

Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and his wife, Vicky, are furious after discovering their wedding video was being offered on Craigslist as macabre “lost” footage of dead starlet Brittany Murphy, who was a maid of honor at their 2004 ceremony. Cornell claimed the video was stolen and he threatened to sue the popular site, which has removed the video from sale. A source said, “The video features behind-the-scenes wedding moments, many of Brittany Murphy.” He asked Craigslist to hand over details of the seller, arguing that it’s a federal crime because it’s considered stolen copyright. Cornell’s rep couldn’t be reached, and a Craigslist rep didn’t get back to us. Meanwhile, Cornell announced on New Year’s Eve via Twitter that he’s reuniting with Soundgarden: “The 12-year break is over & school is back in session . . . Knights of the Soundtable ride again!”

[From NY Post]

This is only the first in what I predict will be a flurry of opportunists looking to capitalize on another celebrity death. It’s sad, because not only was this creep looking to cash in on Brittany Murphy, but footage from a personal event – Cornell’s wedding ceremony – was stolen. I wonder if Craig’s List will turn out to be cooperative in this case?

And finally – it’s about time Cornell reunited with his former bandmates. Soundgarden was one of the greatest acts of the ’90s. After embarrassing himself with an un-listenable pop album produced by Timbaland, let’s hope Cornell still has the musical chops he once had.

Chris Cornell is shown on 3/8/09 with his wife and what could be his daughter and son, Toni (daughter), 5, and Christopher, 4. Credit: WENN.com

That was the sound of a million crack pipes being sparked in celebration. According to OK! Magazine, Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil (aka Blake Incarcerated or Blake Paroled) have reunited, and are now “married” according to their Facebook statuses. Amy and Blake formally divorced earlier this year after lots and lots of chaos, drugs, alcohol, and very few baths. Over the past few weeks, there were some rumors here and there that Amy and Blake had reconnected… and now it looks like they’re really back together. For real. Some will say their love is based on mutual addiction. Some will say it’s true love. I say that Blake just wanted to see Amy’s new boobs.

AMY Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil have sparked speculation they have remarried.

Less than two months after their divorce was finalised, the couple – who are both recovering from drug addictions – have changed their Facebook profiles to read “married”.

Minutes after updating his relationship status, Blake posted a message on the social networking website reading: “Can’t argue with true love. What’s the point?”

The post prompted dozens of the couple’s friends to write messages of congratulations on the social networking site.

The reunion is likely to infuriate the singer’s father Mitch, who blames Blake for his daughter’s problems with drugs and alcohol.

A family friend said: “Amy’s family, especially Mitch, will be furious. They have been so happy with her progress and are terrified that if she gets back together with Blake she will fall back into drugs again.”

Blake, 27, divorced Amy, 25, in July on the grounds of her infidelity.

Since then, they have been communicating via the internet, using Facebook to reminisce about their relationship and profess their love for each other.

In one rambling post, Blake – who nicknamed Amy ‘Lioness’ – wrote: “Love you too innit and vairvair proud of youse, know dis lioness civilishous. X (sic).”

Amy also posed as her cat to send secret online messages to Blake and weeks after their divorce, Mitch caught the couple – who married in2007 – in bed together.

[From OK! Magazine UK]

I always love that part of the divorce proceedings – that Blake divorced Amy because she cheated on him. How weird is it that infidelity is what ended their marriage? Not the drugs, not the liquor, not the whole “living in a crack den and not bathing” thing. It was that Amy slept with some other people. So. Sketchy.

Amy and Blake are shown in 2007. Credit: WENN.com

“The Cosby Show” debuted 25 years ago on NBC. To mark the anniversary and subtly promote their DVD release, many of the cast members reunited on “The Today Show” this morning for an interview with Matt Lauer. They showed some great clips, though I’m guessing almost everyone is familiar with them already since the show’s still on about five hours a day in reruns. Bill Cosby had some rather odd moments throughout the chat – he’s aged into a sometimes unusual fellow, to say the least.

Can you believe it’s been 25 years since The Cosby Show first aired?

To mark the anniversary, the cast reunited on The Today Tuesday to relive their favorite moments.

“Our stuff is funny. There’s love there. It’s all genuine,” Bill Cosby explains of the endurance of the show, which premiered Sept. 20, 1984.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played Theo Huxtable, says the show is still popular after all these years because of Bill Cosby’s “vision. He wanted the show to be timeless. If I wanted to put slang in, he’d say, ‘No, let’s make up slang so 20 years later, it’s still relevant.’”

Keshia Knight-Pulliam, who starred as 4-year-old Rudy, says she thinks of the Huxtables as more of “an American family” than an “African-American family…that was what was so groundbreaking and still so relevant today. The family issues weren’t about race.”

Mom Phylicia Rashad continues: “We were always an African-American family…that’s an American family. We were not a novelty. This American family has existed for decades and decades and centuries…we were just new to television.”

Knight-Pulliam also opens up about learning her lines when she was just four years old. “I couldn’t read and I had to learn lines. I memorized them [with my parents],” she says.

[From Us Weekly]

The part about their show being funny was a great interaction. Matt Lauer notes that when other casts watch their clips on “Today” they seem to feel awkwardly, but the cast of “The Cosby Show” still laughs and enjoys them. Cosby replies, “Yes, because our stuff is funny.”

Some of his stranger moments occurred when he started talking about their great editor who knew to stay on the kids when they delivered a funny line, and then without any segue started talking about how everybody knows “the mother with the eyes” (meaning Rashad). And he goes off on that for a long time, until Matt Lauer finally says, “Did I even ask a question?” Everyone laughs, but for some reason Cosby doesn’t and then calls Lauer “Charles Dickens.” Naturally.

It’s hard not to notice that everyone still refers to him as “Mr. Cosby” or “Dr. Cosby” – something I’d noticed in other interviews over the years. Lauer asks if it has to do with respect, and Cosby replies “No, it has to do with checks!”

One of the most interesting questions comes off a skit from “The Daily Show,” in which one of the correspondents says that Barack Obama is basically just Cliff Huxtable. The reasons being that “They’re both married to hot lawyers, both work out of offices on the west side of their houses, and both have unrealistically cute daughters.” Lauer uses this as a jumping off point, asking, “Did this show, in some ways, pave the way for a President Obama?”

Malcolm Jamal-Warner answered it in a way I thought was really great. He said, “It changed the ways white America AND black America looked at the black middle class.” And noted that “24” had a black president, thus there were other shows that may have contributed along the way. Overall it was a fun interview to watch, even with some of Cosby’s unusual and slightly awkward antics.

Ever since the broken up comedian couple were spotted looking very much back together at the wedding of Howard Stern earlier this month, it’s been kind of an unkept secret that Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman are back together. Though neither of them have confirmed it, all signs are pointing to a reconciliation. The latest sign: Silverman is booked as a guest on Thursday night’s taping of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show.

Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel are back together – on TV anyway.

Silverman will appear as a guest on Kimmel’s late night show Thursday.

The couple split in July after five years of dating, but all signs have been pointing to a reunion.

Earlier this month, they attended the wedding of pals Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky together. A few days later, Silverman said they were “talking about” reconciling on Stern’s Sirius radio show.

In September, they were spotted holding hands at a Thai karaoke bar in Hollywood. A rep told Usmagazine.com then: “They remain close friends.”

Silverman thanked Kimmel after winning an Emmy for satirical music video for “I’m F—ing Matt Damon.”

“Thanks to the person for whom this whole video was made: Jimmy Kimmel, who broke my heart – ohh, who’ll always have a place in my heart,” Silverman said.

[From Us Weekly]

So – are they or aren’t they? Maybe Sarah and Jimmy will give up some answers- but something tells me this pair enjoys messing with the media and will continue to keep their status a mystery. I hope it works out for them. Sources said that Sarah took the breakup pretty hard. And honestly, I can’t see either of them with anyone else. They kind of belong together.

Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel are shown at the GLAAD awards on 4/26/08, credit: Fame Pictures

If there’s any silver lining in the devastating plane crash that killed four people and injured DJ AM and Travis Barker, it’s this story. Singer/actress Mandy Moore, who dated DJ AM earlier this year, rushed to her ex’s side in Atlanta after hearing the news that he’d suffered second and third-degree burns in the accident. Now, it appears that the couple are back on again. It seems that the crash was a wake-up call for both of them to realize how much they mean to each other.

Reunited!

Mandy Moore and Adam “DJ A.M.” Goldstein dated for only two months in 2007, but it looks like that was long enough to form a bond.

“It’s back on,” a DJ A.M. source says in the newest issue of Us Weekly , on stands now. “Since the accident, it’s blossomed into something again.”

(Moore, 24, rushed to DJ A.M.’s side after the September 19 plane crash that left him with burns on his arm and scalp, injured Travis Barker, 32, and killed four others.)

Continues the insider, “Mandy said, ‘I like this guy a lot and I want to see where it can go again. Life is too short to not be with someone you really care about.’”

The pair haven’t been shy about PDA, either.

A witness who saw the two at the October 18 Friendly House event in Beverly Hills says, “He was holding her hand, and they were rubbing each other’s backs.”

So after romances with other members of Young Hollywood — DJ A.M., 35, was once engaged to Nicole Richie, 27, while Moore dated Zach Braff, 33, and Andy Roddick, 26 — could the couple make it work this time?

Says a second DJ A.M. source, “When you go through what Adam went through, you need people you love and people who love you. He will never stop loving her.”

[From Us Weekly]

Everyone was speculating that it would be Travis Barker and ex-wife Shanna Moakler who’d be rekindling their romance, but it looks like Mandy and AM are the real couple. It was clear with Mandy’s response to AM’s tragedy that she still cares for him deeply. Sometimes the worst things bring out the best in people. I hope these two can put the accident behind him and build something new together. Who knows- maybe they’ll even get married.
Header photo of Mandy Moore and DJ AM taken in April 2008. Photo credit: Bauergriffinonline. Additional photos of Mandy and AM together in gallery from Bauergriffin. Photos of Mandy Moore at the Peter Alexander boutique opening on Oct. 22. Photo Credit: WENN. Photos of DJ AM at the re-opening of the Palladium in Hollywood on Oct. 15. Photo Credit: WENN.

Once upon a time, long ago in the 1980′s, there was a family of American oil wealth, greed, power and dysfunction that polarized the TV-watching nation when the wealthiest and greediest of them was shot in a season cliff-hanger. 30-years later, the hold Dallas and the Ewing family had on nighttime soap fanatics is strong enough to pull money out of them in these very un-Dallas times.

On Nov. 8, J.R., Bobby, Sue Ellen and other Ewing kin will mark the anniversary with a reunion and barbecue at Southfork Ranch. Viewed panoramically in the show’s introduction, the ranch is in the Dallas suburb of Parker, about 25 miles north of the flashy downtown skyscrapers also featured in the opening scenes.

Fans from Japan, Australia, Europe and across the United States have plunked down anywhere from $100 to $1,000 for the tickets. The more one pays, the greater one gains access to cast members including Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy.

“This thing is going to be a lot of fun,” said the 77-year-old Hagman, seated in the formal living room of the Southfork mansion, a trademark cowboy hat on his head. “It’s the first one we’ve ever done with fans. They’re coming from everywhere.”

Along with the barbecue, there will be country music, dancing, fireworks and a laser light show.

“This is a chance to live like and be a Ewing for a day,” said Jason Hardison, the event’s executive producer. “We’re going to celebrate the excess and success of the 1980s, at least the oil boom, and the money that surrounded Dallas.”

[From Associated Press via Google News]

My dad didn’t allow me to watch Dallas. To be fair, it wasn’t all Dallas‘ fault, he didn’t let us watch more than a half hour of TV a day, but even I remember the summer of “Who shot J.R.?” When the answer came out the next season I had no idea who the shooter character was, but I knew it was the talk of the airwaves.

It’s sort of an ironic time to be celebrating the “excess and success of the 1980s, at least the oil boom, and the money that surrounded Dallas”. There are some people who just take their TV very seriously, though, and want to feel like a part of something so fabuloulsy decadent. In the price of the tickets, the more you spend, the closer you’re allowed to get to actually feeling like a part of Dallas and the Ewings.

My dad would not approve.

Dallas actors Steve Kanaly, Charlene Tilton, Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, and Patrick Duffy are shown on 7/9/07 at an auction for the show in Paris. Credit: ANG/Fame Pictures

Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel are absolutely intent on keeping the rest of us guessing about the state of their relationship. Last week it seemed that the pair were back together after they were caught outside a restaurant holding hands. Yes it’s okay to make those second grader kissy sounds and smash your index fingers together like they’re making out right now. Because that’s about how old I feel when I make a big deal out of two people holding hands. But let’s be honest – how many of us hold hands with people we’re just friends with?

The pair attended Howard Stern’s wedding together this past weekend but are still working the “we’re just good friends” line – but People swears they’re back together.

Sarah Silverman is reluctant to state whether she and ex Jimmy Kimmel are back on. “We talk every day. It’s fine, it’s great,” she tells Tuesday’s New York Times. “I’m doing his show at the end of the month. We’re very Demi and Bruce.” Over the weekend, they attended Howard Stern’s wedding together, had brunch at NYC’s Spitzer’s Corner and hit a Saturday Night Live afterparty.

Despite the string of dates, she declined to give Barbara Walters a relationship update on Tuesday’s The View. “In total respect to you and your legendness,” Silverman said, “I do not feel beholden or compelled to define my personal relationship …”

“Oh, come off it,” Joy Behar interrupted.

Replied Silverman: “It’s not like a big drama thing, we’re just not defining it. We’re just being right now. Is that okaaaay?”

[From Us Magazine]

But People – who generally has pretty good inside sources – has it on good authority that Silverman and Kimmel are indeed back together. Of course just about anyone with eyes could have told them that.

Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman are back together. “They’re taking it slow,” says a source. “They’re on the road back to being together again.”

[At Howard Stern's wedding] Kimmel was spotted wrapping his arms around Silverman’s waist and playfully grabbing her backside in plain view of photographers.

[From People]

I don’t really understand why they won’t just say they’re back together again, since it’s not exactly like they’re going to great lengths to hide it. All I can guess is that maybe they don’t want a lot of pressure right now and want to see if things are better and more likely to work out this time. When a couple reunites it seems like the press has them “about to walk down the aisle” immediately. So that could explain some of the reluctance. Until then we’ll just over analyze their every interaction.

Pictures are older images from when Silverman and Kimmel were “officially” together in 2005. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin .

Band reunions are fun. You get to take a bunch of people who used to be popular and are now utterly forgotten, used to have money and are now generally broke, and used to be hot and are now generally sagging – put them on stage together, and see what the hell happens. There are a few exceptions of course.

The Spice Girls were still famous when they got back for their reunion tour. The New Kids on the Block were considerably hotter when they reunited. There was a little talk about the Backstreet Boys reunion, which I assumed hadn’t actually happened because I never heard about it again. Turns out they’re broke, sagging, and still not famous – because their CD did come out, but that was about it.

Considering the success of the Spice Girls and New Kids on the Block reunions (and I use the term “success” loosely, depending on your own definition), a few of the guys from ‘Nsync think it’d be a good idea to get their group back together. Not surprisingly, it’s mostly the guy you’ve heard the least about since they broke up – the one who used to have the spider hair.

First the Backstreet Boys came back with a new album, then New Kids on the Block thrilled devoted fans with their return. Now ‘Nsync’s Chris Kirkpatrick is the one singing the reunion tune.

“Someday, there’ll be an ’Nsync reunion, but I don’t think the time is right now,” Chris, 36, who’s currently appearing on CMT’s Gone Country 2, tells OK!.

Even if the band’s return isn’t definite yet, Kirkpatrick seems hopeful that the guys can get together again somewhere along the road.

“We get along like brothers,” he says. “We all love each other — we all care about each other. I’m sure we’ll come back.”

We can just hear the new single now: “Hello Hello Hello.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Reading articles from OK always makes me think of that overly positive/hyper/clueless teacher you had in elementary school who would say all sorts of cheesy things completely oblivious to the fact that all the kids were laughing at her. That last line especially.

Justin Timberlake has been surprisingly quiet on the whole affair. Wonder why. Why in the world wouldn’t he want to be associated with a cheesy pop band now that he’s got a legitimate career? The other guys have all pretty much faded into the D-list/oblivion. It’s a sliding scale. But I’m pretty sure Chris Kirkpatrick is a few steps away from actually falling off the face of the planet. I’m guessing Justin Timberlake doesn’t even return his phone calls. He’s just like, “Chris who?” and then rolls around naked in a pile of money while singing “I Want You Back.”

Growing up in the early 80s, Cheech and Chong were one of those forbidden acts that my parents didn’t want me to know about. But when they were away or in bed, I would sneak to the den and listen to my dad’s Cheech and Chong albums and laugh my middle-school ass off. So when I read that Cheech Marin and Tommy chong were getting back together and touring, naturally I was gleeful.

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are seizing the moment.

Thirty years after firing up the stoner comedy genre with their first feature, “Up in Smoke,” the duo are reuniting for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years.

If the B.O. success of the “Harold and Kumar” pics and the anticipation for Judd Apatow’s pot-fueled romp “Pineapple Express” are any indication, pop culture would welcome a fresh dose of Cheech and Chong. And given the strong biz that top comedy tours are harvesting these days, the B.O. potential for such a legendary team is no pipe dream.

Plans for the Live Nation-promoted comedy tour, dubbed “Hey, What’s That Smell?,” will be unveiled Wednesday at a news conference at West Hollywood’s Troubadour, where Cheech and Chong’s druggie buddy act first gained traction in the early 1970s. From 1972-85, the pair released nine comedy albums and eight features, all of which were helmed by Chong.

Since they parted ways in the 1980s, Marin has carved out a niche as a character thesp and become a prominent Latino arts advocate. Chong’s career has been choppier, hitting a low ebb in 2003 when he was arrested and subsequently served a nine-month prison stint after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute drug paraphernalia through his Nice Dreams-branded water-pipe business.

[From Variety]

I always thought that Chong’s bust was a farce. There are head shops all over the country selling bongs – for tobacco use only, wink, wink- but because Chong is such a high profile advocate of marijuana use, he was used to make an example. I am glad the guys are back together because they really are funny – drugs or no drugs. Maybe if the tour goes well, they’ll make another movie!

Cheech Marin is shown on 6/21/08 at the Wall E premiere. Tommy Chong and his wife are shown on 4/7/08 at the Bra Boys premiere. He is also shown alone on 6/28/07. Credit: WENN

After months of speculation, the reunited early-90′s boy band New Kids on the Block performed live this morning on the Today show. Throngs of screaming 25-35 year-old women braved the rain to catch a glimpse of the “Kids” and a chance to relive their adolescence. However, the jury’s still out on whether the performance was a success.

Flashback!

New Kids on the Block performed together for the first time in 15 years on Today this morning.

The boy band sang and danced their way through a medley of old and new hits — including “You Got It (the Right Stuff),” “Hangin’ Tough” and “Step by Step.” (Watch below)

Despite the rainy weather, over 3,000 fans cheered on the band — one of the show’s largest turnouts for its outdoor concert series. Some fans had even camped out overnight.

“I’m going to spend the night just to be ready so early!” joked Joey McIntyre to Usmagazine.com on Thursday.

[From Us Weekly]

I saw the performance live this morning, and to be perfectly honest, I thought they sucked. I have never been a fan, but I always gave the group props for performing live back in the day (when many other acts were lip-syncing), and for having some pretty difficult choreography to do on top of that. But today, these guys are really showing their age in both their vocal abilities and their dance moves. They looked out of shape, and their voices are not what they used to be. Joey’s famous falsetto doesn’t have that same range- which is understandable, given that he was about 13 when the group first hit it big. It will be interesting to see if these guys have the stamina and remaining fan base to actually take this on tour. My advice to Blockheads: stick with your CD’s and life sized posters, otherwise you might be disappointed.

The New Kids on The Block are shown performing this morning, thanks to WENN.