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Jul 17
'06
The years have not been kind to Shannen Doherty


It must be very stressful to be an out of work celebrity who has to resort to hosting second rate reality shows on little-known cable networks. I saw these photos of Shannen Doherty promoting her new show on Oxygen in which she helps couples split up or something, and thought, “OMG, how old is she?” Doherty is 35, but looks 45. She’s just aged terribly. Of course she looks good in the airbrushed promo photos for the series.

Doherty held a press conference to announce her new show, and got all upset when asked about her reputation:

The actress, who began her career at age 9 and became as infamous as she was famous when she starred on “90210″ for her diva and bad-girl ways, became emotional when she was asked if her goal of helping people had anything to do with cleaning up her image.

“I’m not going to lie to you; it hurts a lot to read the stuff I read about myself, and it hurts me and it hurts my mom a lot,” said Doherty, who choked back tears as she looked at her mother, who was nearby. Doherty acknowledged she had only herself to blame for much of what had been written about her, but she later asked reporters to give her another chance.

“I hate to use the word ‘unfair’ because, again, I have to stand up and say it wasn’t just the press,” she said. “I played a huge part, a huge part, and everybody has a job. And if I’m creating some of the drama, then you guys have a job to report it.

“But where I start to say ‘OK, now we’re getting out of hand’ is when nobody lets it die,” she said. “Nobody says, ‘You know what? She was young. Give her a break.’ Give me a chance to mess up again. Stop writing about stuff that happened 10 years ago. Stop bringing up every bad thing in my life. And give me another chance to mess up. If I mess up again, then write about it. But just let me breathe and let my parents breathe. Let them pick up the paper and it says one nice thing about me.”

You got it, Shannen. We are moving on to the fact that you said you have been on only one date in the last 18 months and have reached a time in your life when you can declare: “I don’t need a man to make me happy.”

Looking fit in a strapless black top and white slacks and refreshingly her age (read: no Botox), Doherty ‘fessed up about something else regarding her show. She is not selling herself as an authority on relationships.

“I think an expert doesn’t mess up nearly as many times as I have,” she said. “I think that I’m good with getting over relationships. I’m good with dealing with the guilt, the tears and the mourning and the grief because God knows I’ve done it enough.”

That’s too bad that Doherty hasn’t dated in so long and maybe this show will help her hook up with a new guy. She doesn’t look “refreshingly her age,” though. She looks 7-10 years older. Am I right or am I just accustomed to the Botoxed plastic look?

Pictures [via]

Posted in Breakups, Emotional, Photos, Shannon Doherty

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Jul 17
'06
Snakes on a Motherf%$*ing Plane is good, raucous fun!


A guy got to see “Snakes on a Plane,” the film that we’ve all been hyping due to its literal title and the fact that Samuel L. Jackson kicks ass. (It also doesn’t hurt that filmmakers listened to the blogs, encouraged us, and are said to have incorporated our wishes into the film. This is unlike most marketers who e-mail me all obvious asking for coverage, or network executives who try to block “proprietary” content from the web where they’re getting the best free advertising ever.)

The reviewer may have been influenced by his coveted status as the first guy who gets to comment on the film, but he seems totally believable to me and he has a good reputation on “Ain’t it Cool News,” which is a well-known movie review and industry news site.

He says that “Snakes on a Plane” is so good that it’s reminiscent of Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” It’s trashy fun that’s pulled off with style!

After having to sit through this year’s overproduced, bloated, pretentious studio product that desperately tries to disguise its B movie roots… finally here’s a movie that hunkers down to give the audience a shameless good time.

Of course “Snakes On A Plane” is ridiculous, but it’s also nonstop fun.

These filmmakers aren’t embarrassed to deliver everything exactly as promised. The only thing that will probably go unnoticed after the huge opening weekend grosses, as well as consternation from cinematic elitists, is that “Snakes On A Plane” is a much better movie than it has any right to be with such a crazy premise and ridiculous title.

“Snakes On A Plane” functions as both a competent thriller as well as a full-blown horror movie.

In some ways, the film shares a certain kinship with another movie set on a plane that I enjoyed: “Executive Decision,” which stretched credibility with great ingenuity in order to entertain.

Of course, that movie didn’t feature the unnerving slither quotient that gives this film its now legendary distinction.

Believe it or not, “Snakes On A Plane” shares an unexpected kinship with Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” a film that was also derided as absurd upon initial release, wherein natural everyday anxieties, such as flying, are sent off the charts by an unforeseen element being thrown into the mix.

It’s bad enough to be on a rough flight, but imagine the floor around you filled with as many snakes as Indiana Jones was forced to contend with.

Believe it or not, “Snakes On A Plane” actually doesn’t insult the audience. The director and screenwriters work hard to keep ratcheting up the suspense, both on the ground and in the air, and approach some of it with actual sophistication.

There’s actually some logic that comes into play throughout… and no one will be checking their watches during this movie. Like the venomous creatures that attack the passengers and crew… this movie is lean and mean.

Samuel L. Jackson is believable in a role which could otherwise seem over-the-top or beneath him. He says that line we’ve all been clamouring for, that was added after blogger behest.

It’s Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane! They didn’t change the title of the film, and it’s closer to “The Birds” than “Anaconda.” I can’t wait to see it.

Some of the online community is sick of “Snakes on a Plane” already and says that it’s “so last month” and is bound to suck. It may have been a victim of its overpopularity and is experiencing a lull in buzz now that it’s been covered so thoroughly. It comes out August 18, 2006, and we’ll have to see how it does at the box office and if other reviewers agree that it really kicks ass.

Posted in Movies, Samuel L Jackson

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Jul 17
'06
Naomi Campbell goes apeshit on her lover’s yacht


I wouldn’t mind having a $1,000 purse or some frivolous jeans, but I usually don’t envy the very rich or famous - except when it comes to travelling. They don’t have to go through the incredible bullshit that the rest of us endure just to get from point A to B.

After flying from NY to London with a three hour delay, then waiting 45 minutes in line to get my flight changed since I missed my connection, then flying another two hours and being made to wait standing outside a locked baggage claim office for ten minutes while the receptionists looked at me without a nod of acknowledgment, I almost started freaking out. Did I mention that I was alone with a two year-old toddler and had been travelling for 13 hours? I understood air rage at that moment.

When my husband told me that Naomi Campbell trashed her lover’s yacht, I thought “Well maybe she had a hard day.” Her days never approach the level of difficulty an average person faces, and she was on a chi-chi yacht with space and air, not some cramped commercial airline with overperfumed stewardesses.

While the rest of us get pissy and bitchy, Naomi Campbell takes dramatic, violent action.

Bitch caused $55,000 worth of damage after she got in a tiff with the chef over the plain mozarella and dried ham appetizer that he served. It seems she doesn’t understand simple Italian fare, and she coped by busting up the place:

The supermodel wrecked £30,000 of furniture and fittings — because she did not like his starters or the wine.

Fiery Naomi, 36, clashed with the chef aboard £1.5million yacht Nasma on Italy’s Tuscan riviera.

Naomi asked him to create a memorable, romantic meal for her and new lover Badr Jafar, a Dubai-born prince.

But his simple tomato, mozzarella and dried ham starter with a local white wine failed to impress.

Reports say Naomi — already fired up after a row with a photographer — told him where to shove it, and he hit back in “colourful Tuscan dialect”.

Staff on the 100ft yacht ducked as she lashed out at antiques, light fittings, china plates and glasses.

A man in Viareggio harbour said: “All hell seemed to break loose. All you could hear was shouting and screaming in English. There was the sound of plates being broken.

“Some of the crew later said the kitchen was a complete mess and the curtains and cushions had all been ripped apart.”

The chef, called Andrea, works at Viareggio restaurant il Porto.

A colleague said last night: “He wouldn’t have taken insults from Naomi.”

She needs to get medicated and go into therapy. I think she also should get dropped from all her current ad campaigns, because she’s not going to change unless it hits her where it hurts. Hopefully one of the libel suits against her will also stick - hard.

Here she is looking like the victim for once. (Why do magazines do this to women? I usually don’t complain about objectification, but this is ridiculous. It’s Naomi, though, so that’s ok.) These are from Style magazine and are low resolution.

Posted in Abusive, Arrogant, Fights, Naomi Campbell

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Jul 17
'06
Mr. T to host self-help daytime talk show: “I Pity the Fool.”


Mr. T is going to host a new talk show in which he capitalizes on his catchphrase and persona from “The A Team.” He’s not going to let people wallow in their mysery or phobias, and will help them snap out of it in harsh but understanding style. He says his show will not tolerate whiners:

He aspires to give Dr. Phil a run for his money, and on that subject observed: “My show ain’t no Dr. Phil where people sit around crying [at this point, Mr. T affected a whiny voice], ‘What’s wrong with me, Dr. Phil? What’s wrong with me, Dr. Phil?’ You are a fool. That’s what’s wrong with you.”

Similarly, when asked how he would counsel Tony Kornheiser, the Washington Post sportswriter who is afraid of flying but has taken a travel-intensive job in the Monday Night Football broadcast booth, Mr. T said: “Straighten up and stop being a coward. Don’t be no fool. Get on that plane and fly, fool, fly.”

Perhaps the best question of Mr. T’s appearance this week before the Television Critics Association, a question admirable both for its cheek and succinctness, was: “Mr. T, why do you pity the fool?”

“That is a good question. That is a good question and a legitimate question,” Mr. T replied. “And I’m the man to answer it. You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool. You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better.”

That’s awesome and it’s too bad I live in Europe and will have to wait to watch it until it hits the Internet. With Mr. T hosting a talk show, the clips are sure to hit YouTube fast.

“I Pity the Fool” premieres on TVLand on October 11.

In related news, Mr. T has ditched his trademark pile ‘o chains out of respect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. He also says that celebrities shouldn’t just pose with victims, they should do their best to help out:

“As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again because I spent a lot of time with the less fortunate,” he said.

Mr T also had some strong words to give to other celebrities after the disaster, “I saw some, I call it ’sorry celebrities’. They’ll go down there and hook up with the people to take a photo-op.”

“I said, ‘How disgusting.’ If you’re not going to go down there with a cheque and a hammer and a nail to help the people, don’t go down there”.

This is a British source, so while I believe that Mr. T might have ditched his gold chains, I’m not quite so sure that he criticized celebrity volunteers so openly. He’s trash-talking, but it seems out of character.

Mr. T has two different myspaces, but I doubt either is real.

Posted in Mr. T, Television

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Jul 17
'06
Man celebrates 100th birthday at Hooters Posted in In Brief

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Jul 17
'06
Katie Holmes denies second pregnancy


A “neighbor” of Katie Holmes was quoted speculating that she’s pregnant again, but we highly doubt it. It would be difficult to get visibly pregnant so soon after the supposed birth of her last child.

Media and fans have been kept on their toes ever since the former ‘Dawson’s Creek’ actress gave birth to Suri in April, as she has rarely been seen in public since then. Experts suspect the star has been hiding away because she is with child once again, and her neighbor seems to agree.

Katie’s neighbor revealed to US Weekly, “I heard from a lot of people that Katie is pregnant.”

But while the soon-to-be-married star was visiting Cruise’s Holiday home on Monday in Telluride, Colorado, she wasted no time slamming the rumors.

Holmes insisted to US Weekly, “I am not pregnant again.”

Meanwhile, Katie enjoyed a portion of her stay in Colorado with one of her girlfriends, where they drank coffee and ‘window shopped’.

But of course the new mom was without her baby girl once again, which has proven discouraging to her fans.

Holmes then told a horde of onlookers, “Suri’s doing great! She’s back at the house.”

About a month ago, some random person claimed to have seen a baby-like bundle from afar that might have been Suri. Now that Tom and Katie are in Telluride, Colorado, a store clerk says that they’ve actually seen Suri and she’s “funny looking.” If Suri were out in public, why aren’t there paparrazi photos of it? Isn’t Telluride a haven for the rich and famous? There must be photographers there.

A few eyewitness claim they even had a glimpse of mysterious Suri, as Katie Holmes engaged in an invigorating trek in the woods.

A waitress gushed, “She exists! I saw her thick black hair.”

The magazine quotes locals as saying Suri has “small hands” and is “funny-looking.”

A large percentage of people have camera phones and I know I carry a digital camera around with me all the time. Why aren’t there any pictures of Suri if “eyewitnesses” actually saw her. The first picture of Violet Affleck was a blurry cameraphone photo that everyone posted right away. This is bullshit - no one saw that baby. Read TMZ’s conspiracy timeline - it’s rather convincing.

There’s a tell-all book about Tom Cruise coming out by Princess Diana’s biographer, Andrew Morton. He’s done a lot of research, but there’s no word as to when it will be published. You know it will contain a bunch of shocking revelations about the pint-sized cult spokesperson.

Meanwhile Tom and Katie also had a bag of groceries and a bunch of cherry soda delivered by private jet from Hollywood to Telluride. Their consumables travel better than I do.

Here is Tom Cruise presenting Steven Spielberg with the Golden Hugo award at the Chicago Film Festival this Saturday. [via] They supposedly had a falling out after Cruise talked too much Scientology crap during promotion for “War of the Worlds,” and it’s clearly important to Tom that he put those rumors to rest. He doesn’t seem to care that people think his baby is fake, though.

Posted in Babies, Katie Holmes, Scandals, Tom Cruise, TomKat

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Jul 17
'06
Lindsay Lohan’s ProActiv Commercial

I can’t believe Lindsay accepted an endorsement gig as a ProActiv spokesperson. Diddy and Jessica Simpson did it, but it seemed like a rumor when I first heard about it.

A few years ago I actually used ProActiv. It’s a bit drying, but I have to admit that it worked on my skin, which only occasionally broke out beforehand but was really clear when I was using it. OMG - please send me some cash ProActiv, because I just plugged your stupid skincare system.

Thanks to Faded Youth for finding this video.

Posted in Endorsements, Lindsay Lohan, Video

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Jul 18
'06
Al Reynolds, Star Jones’ husband, visits a divorce lawyer


It turns out that gig with HGTV may not work out for Star Jones, because they deny having any plans to hire her, and so do Fox News and CNN, two other networks she claimed to be in talks with. Now that Star is talk show poison, her husband, Al Reynolds, seems to have decided there’s no reason to continue his sham marriage. He was spotted at the NY office of a high profile divorce attorney:

Last week Al Reynolds visited the offices of the divorce law firm Blank Rome LLP in New York’s Chrysler building. MediaTakeOut.com spoke exclusively with a building employee who first noticed Star’s soon-to-be-ex. According to the witness, “Al walked up to the security desk and signed in to visit [one of the Blank Rome's divorce lawyers] Stanford Lotwin.”

Mr. Lotwin is one of the most prominent divorce attorney’s in New York. He worked on the high-profile divorces of Howard Stern, Donald Trump, Geraldo Rivera and Diana Ross.

After remaining upstairs for nearly two hours, Al tried to quietly sneak out of the building. But before he could leave, the witness tells MediaTakeOut.com, “I walked up to him and said ‘Al, is that you’, and Al ran out of the building - almost knocking over a pregnant woman.”

For Star Jones, this news couldn’t come at a worse time. Ever since she was fired from the popular morning show The View, the daytime diva has been having trouble finding a new job. According to one insider, Star’s publicists have been telling everyone that would listen that she has a job offer from HGTV and that she’s interviewing with FOX News and CNN. But all three networks have vehemently denied having any plans that include the former lawyer. In fact, one representative for FOX News told MediaTakeOut.com that the network “has no interest in working with Star.”

Once big gay Al divorces her, Star could channel her anger and become a homophobic conservative. That might help her land a gig on FOX. She could spread her unique brand of vile across the airways. Hatred is a smidgeon more believable coming from a minority. That’s how Michelle Malkin got famous.

When doing my three minutes worth of research for this post, I came across the website for Star Jones and Al Reynold’s wedding, dated Fall, 2004. They commit a couple cardinal sins of web design with a stupid Flash entry page and making people enter their e-mail address to access content (I entered “biggayal@hotmail.com” This worked fine).

Regardless it’s clear they protest too much. I couldn’t read through all the glurge about their relationship because it kind of made me sick to my stomach. Here are some choice quotes made hysterical by this latest news:

We take marriage very seriously. We believe that marriage should be a blessed state of commitment, fidelity and love through God. Because of our love of Christ and our commitment to follow his teachings, we know that our marriage will have a sturdy foundation built upon the Word of God.

We know that our love will be sustained through faith in the promises of Christ and the prayers and support of friends and family.

God may be powerful and all, but He can’t make a gay person straight, no matter how much they hype their wedding with a formerly obese talk show host.

Posted in Breakups, Divorces, Star Jones

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Jul 18
'06
Brad Pitt loves being a dad, burpin’ babies, with video


Brad Pitt says that having children is his biggest accomplishment, and that it keeps him from focusing on his hair and hot body. Speaking to Anne Curry of the Today Show, he said:

“I’m so tired of thinking about myself. I’m kinda sick of myself.

I can’t do justice to it anymore than any other parent can. You feel that you want to be there and you don’t want to miss out on anything. And it’s a true joy. And you want to be there for them if they need anything. It’s a true joy.”

“[Having children is the] best thing I ever did. You know, you can write a book, you can make a movie, you can draw, paint a painting, but having kids is really the most extraordinary thing I’ve ever taken on. And, man, if I can get a burp out of that [baby], that little thing, I’ll feel such a sense of accomplishment.:”

He is sponsoring a $100,000 contest to design a 12-unit apartment building in the most eco-friendly way possible, and hopes to bring awareness to the need to rebuild New Orleans while preserving the environment.

Here’s a video of the Today segment:

Brad Pitt always seemed rather bland to me, but it’s good to see him bringing awareness to important causes, and I definitely agree that being a parent is amazing. The Jolie-Pitts seem to have struck the best balance between being in the spotlight without having people get sick of them. If only they would hire a less aggresive security force.

Here are pictures of the interview courtesy of Just Jared. There are also photos from his press conference on Friday in New Orleans from CelebGuru.

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Posted in Brad Pitt, Good Causes, Video

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Jul 18
'06
Batwoman to come out as a lesbian

Batwoman is set to come out as a proud gay superhero in tomorrow’s issue of DC Comics’ series 52, issue 11.
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