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You know those people in…say…political positions that shouldn’t be left alone to speak in public? Well, it appears that Arnold is one of those people. In an interview with the British branch of GQ mag the California governor that the only drug he ever was high on was “pumping iron.” When asked about his documented use of marijuana in a 1977 film called “Pumping Iron,” he retorted with:

“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf,” Schwarzenegger told GQ. “My drug was pumping iron, trust me. “What would you rather have? A politician taking stuff and not saying, but making the best decisions and improving things? Or a politician who names all the drugs he or she has taken but makes lousy decisions for the country?” Schwarzenegger was quoted as saying. A politician’s job is to do what’s best for the people and to improve the country, the economy, the environment. Why should I care if a politician takes sleeping pills every night so long as he can do his job?”

[Associated Press]

Reps for Arnold are already on damage control. Aaron McLear, Schwarzenegger’s press secretary, defends his retort by using the old stand-by… “it’s important to keep that quote in the context of the environment where it was said.” He also assures the public that Arnold does in fact realize marijuana is a drug.

“Of course the governor understands marijuana is a drug. It’s like when he goes on Leno or the Daily Show, if you took something like that out of context, it might seem shocking but it was in a silly entertainment context.”

The December issue of the mag is packed with political garble and practiced answers. Perhaps I am being too hard on him. He also listed Tony Blair (former British Prime Minister) and Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader) as some of the greatest leaders in history. Those are better answers than Jessica Simpson would give if you asked her what a hypotenuse is.

Picture note by Jaybird: Header of Arnold at a Florida Summit on Global Climate Change on July 13th. Image thanks to PR Photos.

I loved her in “My Cousin Vinnie.” Marisa Tomei is one of my favorite underrated celebs. When you have an Oscar at home next to your bed stand you can pretty much do as you please. In effort of not letting the man get her down, she once stole a band aid.

“She tells the New York Daily News, “I have stolen recently… Band-Aids! There were five Band-Aids in the pack, and I got a sticker shock at the price, so I just grabbed one, which was all I needed.”

[New York Daily News Via Starpulse]

She defended her actions as preparation for her latest role as a thief in “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” Marisa bravely took on the movie in which she has a topless scene. Her co-stars include Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke. The plot involves two brothers who decide to rob their parents’ jewelry store. They come to the conclusion that they get the loot and their parents will get insurance money and everyone wins. She has already asked her family toskip seeing the film due to her sex scenes in her role as the wife of Hoffman’s character and mistress of Hawke’s.

“I’m grown up now, so I guess it’ll really hit home. I spoke to mom about it the other day and I said, ‘I don’t know if you really want to come to this or if you want to see it.’ I’d rather you didn’t. ‘She said, ‘We heard already, we know about it’. ‘Having the Sidney factor balances it out. I felt even more comfortable than I did just acting fully clothed. I seem to tap into these kinds of women, the ones you call ’slut’.”

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Marissa at the Project ALS Tomorrow is Tonight 10th Anniversary fundraiser on October 16th. Image thanks to PR Photos.

Six months pregnant Nicole Richie has denied yesterday’s report from The NY Post that she was seen smoking outside of two different restaurants in NY. She says through a rep that not only did she not smoke, she also was nowhere near NY recently and has been out of the country:

Richie’s rep tells Extra that accounts of Richie smoking are “irresponsible and untrue.” And while columnist Cindy Adams claims Richie lit up outside New York restaurants DaSilvano and Nobu (with fiance and father-to-be Joel Madden, even), Richie and Madden are reportedly abroad and nowhere near New York.

[From USWeekly]

Richie has said that she wants a natural birth and told Diane Sawyer that she doesn’t allow people to smoke around her and has given up anything that could possibly harm the baby, including caffeine and sushi. While there is only hearsay to back up reports of a pregnant Nicole behaving irresponsibly, there’s another pseudo celebrity in Britain who can’t deny pictures of her smoking after going on a drinking bender three months into her pregnancy. Former Atomic Kitten member and “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” winner Kerry Katona, who recently announced that she is due with her fourth child in May, was photographed smoking after she reportedly downed four martinis and a shot of vodka:

Kerry, twice Celebrity Mum of the Year, downed FOUR MARTINIS and a slug of VODKA in a pub with pals—despite being 12 weeks into an already troubled fourth pregnancy.

Then she popped to a restaurant over the road for a Chinese meal—and puffed greedily on a ciggie outside in the cold. One surprised drinker said: “Everyone knows Kerry’s pregnant so it was a bit of a shock to see her drinking and smoking.

“But she just said, ‘What the hell, a couple can’t hurt’.

“She went to the bar and ordered pints for the others and Martini for herself. It was the same round when the others were buying—and she also had a shot of vodka. She knocked it back in one, winced and then wiped her hand across her mouth and put the glass down.”

Her behaviour is even more shocking after her pregnancy with Heidi was beset by a string of miscarriage scares before the litle girl was born in February.

And the 27-year-old ex-Atomic Kitten star was also rushed into hospital last month—on the day she announced she was pregnant again. At first Kerry—who is married to ex-cabbie Mark Croft, 37, and also has daughters, Molly, six, and Lilly-Sue, four, by her first husband, former Westlife star Brian McFadden—was told she’d lost the baby.

But when she returned later the same day still feeling unwell, doctors discovered its heartbeat.

[From News Of The World via Gossip Rocks]

News of The World isn’t the most reliable source, and while Katona was photographed smoking, they may have embellished the part about how much booze she downed. There was a lot of controversy over a statement that Rachel Weisz made last year about how European doctors said that it was ok to drink while you’re pregnant - except not in the first three months while the fetus was most vulnerable. I had my only pregnancy in America, and my doctors told me not to drink at all. Once a midwife said I could have a glass of wine if I was in labor and I looked at her like she had two heads. Some obstetricians will tell you that an occasional glass is fine, especially in Europe, but it doesn’t seem worth the risk to your baby to me.

There was a recent study that found that moderate drinking posed no ascertainable risk to the baby after three months, and British associations are rethinking a ban on alcohol during pregnancy. When there’s no benefit to the baby from drinking though, why would you risk your baby’s health?

So Kerry Katona is supposedly downing shots and martinis when she’s barely three months’ pregnant, and she’s justifying smoking by making the ridiculous statement that stress from not smoking is worse for the baby! Commentors on ONTD on the post about Nicole Richie smoking brought up this photo that appeared in The Roanoke Times about a woman worrying about stress to her fetus from nearby construction noise - while she was smoking a cigarette. Snopes.com verifies that this is an actual newspaper clipping that was not doctored.

Scarlett Johansson recently gave Ryan Reynolds the ultimate gift - one of her wisdom teeth covered in gold. She had her teeth taken out right before Ryan’s birthday, and JayBird speculates that she must have been pretty high on dental surgery drugs when she came up with the idea to save one and give it to him.

Scarlett met Ryan’s family on a recent trip to Canada, and now there’s news that the genetically blessed couple is going to take their low-profile relationship to the next level by cohabitating. Scarlett is remodeling the new home she just bought in LA and since Ryan has been adding his input to the process, In Touch has a source that says they’re “ready to move in together.”

Scarlett, 22, bought a house in the Los Feliz area of LA and is having it remodeled so it’s just the way she wants it. According to a friend, Ryan, 31, is overseeing the project, giving out orders and adding his personal touches to the decor “He likes her a lot and they are ready to move in together,” says an insider. The couple, who has been together for six months, are “totally smitten and love spending every minute together,” the insider adds

[From In Touch, print edition, November 5, 2007]

I bet all they know is that Ryan went to Scarlett’s home at one ppint, but it could be true. In Touch adds the detail that “‘Ryan was seen going to Scarlett’s new house in Los Feliz on October 10 to supervise construction,’ says a witness” *cough* paparazzo that didn’t get a clear picture *cough* Since Ryan went to Scarlett’s house and it’s getting remodeled that must mean they’re moving in together, right?

Scarlett Johansson is shown on the set of Midnight in Barcelona on 7/9/07. Ryan Reynolds is shown at the Smoking Aces premiere on 1/18/07, thanks to PR Photos.

New dad and NFL star Tom Brady and his girlfriend, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, may be on the outs. The two were seen having a public spat in NY over lunch, with Gisele walking out, looking pissed.

The pair were dining at Extra Virgin in New York City when things turned sour on October 8. “She was clearly more upset than he was,” says an eyewitness. “She got up from the table and stormed out, leaving him sitting there.”

[From In Touch, print edition, November 5, 2007]

Along with that argument, there’s more evidence that Bundchen is upset with Brady. She is said to be livid over the fact that he sent flowers to his ex girlfriend and the mother of his baby, Bridget Moynahan. Bundchen is even said to have called Brady a “wuss” over the incident and to have postponed their planned wedding:

The couple’s relationship has been strained since the New England Patriots quarterback began having a “sudden attack of conscience” about breaking up with former girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, who gave birth to his son, John, in August, say sources.

Gisele berated Tom for his concern about Bridget, calling him a “wuss!”

“First, Tom told Gisele that he was upset about Bridget doing an interview about having their child because she didn’t tell him about it. Then, Gisele discovered that Tom sent Bridget flowers congratulating her on the article! a close source told The Enquirer…

Since the indicent, Gisele, 27, has been furious with 30-year-old Tom.

The two have put their plans for a winter wedding in Rome on hold, says the source.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 5, 2007]

The article goes on to talk about the same “screaming match” that In Touch reported, citing Gawker as the source.

The Enquirer mentioned that Tom sent Bridget flowers after the OK! article, and it may have been as a thank you to her. Bridget didn’t do an interview with OK! and just agreed to pose for pictures. Maybe Tom was grateful for that, and sent her the flowers because he was relieved she didn’t dish any dirt on him.

Gisele Bundchen is not know for being a super nice person, and maybe some of the luster has gone out of her relationship with Tom. Now that the dust is settling, he might be realizing that he had a pretty good thing with the mother of his child and that he gave it up for another gorgeous woman with a less gracious personality.

Header picture is an older one of Tom and Gisele together.

Update: We were wrong about Gisele’s personality, according to one anonymous tipster. She said that if we wanted to pick on someone we should chose Madonna, because she is definitely full of shit, but Gisele is super nice:

Just wanted to know where you get your info…I read an article where you stated Giselle is not known to be a nice person. i have worked with her, numerous times, and everyone LOVES her. She is super nice, down to earth, doesn’t act like a model and talks to everybody.

The bitchiest person, is Madonna…even though she trumphets [sic] BS PR about how wonderful she is.

Sorry Gisele! We’re just jealous that you’re so gorgeous and that your boyfriend is awesome. We are striving not to talk smack about people who don’t deserve it, and it seems like you definitely don’t. You also dated Leonardo DiCaprio, which makes us extra catty.

Newly sober Lindsay Lohan has backed out of a commitment to host a party on New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. Reports that she would be the guest of honor at LAX nightclub were true, but she scrapped plans to be there, probably as a result of the bad publicity it was generating. Her rep tells US Weekly that “Lindsay will no longer be hosting New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas.”

Lindsay and her people might not have been the deciding force behind the issue, though. This week’s Star Magazine reports that Lindsay is under strict new contractual orders from the producers of the tango-themed film she’s working on Dare to Love Me that give guidelines meant to ensure that she doesn’t drink or do drugs. Along with stipulating that she must be under constant supervision from a sober companion and that she can’t drive, she is living in a “safe house” in LA and being treated with a controversial anti-addict drug regimen that some doctors consider dangerous and unproven:

Star can exclusively report that [Lindsay's] participation [in a controversial anti-addiction treatment] is just one of several no-nonsense clauses that she had to agree to in the contract for her new film Dare to Love Me. An insider tells Star these clauses include:

Submitting to regular drug and alcohol testing;

Being assigned a new bodyguard and 24-hour sober companion;

Having her movements restricted and monitored, and having visitors agree to a possible search;

Being forbidden to drive a car!…

The insider tells Star that Lindsay’s contract calls for her to be stashed in the same LA “safe house” she occupied for 10 days before checking in Cirque Lodge. She will be under the care of Matthew Torrington, MD, medical director of the PROMETA Center, an outpatient clinic in Santa Monica specializing in treating alcohol, cocaine and metamphetamine addictions.

The PROMETA system is at the center of a major controversy within the medical community. Under the program - which costs $15,000 for the one-month treatment and includes nutritional supplements as well as “psychosocial or other recovery-oriented therapy” - Lindsay would receive a specific series of intravenous and oral doses in a combination from among three drugs. They are flumazenil, a medical used to treat overdoses of benzodiazepine drugs like Xanax and Valium; hydroxyzine, used to control nausea; and gabapentin, an anti-seizure medication. These drugs have been approved by the FDA individually but not in combination - and not for treating drug addiction!

[From Star Magazine print edition, November 5, 2007]

There is only anecdotal evidence that this treatment works for addicts, and Star quotes several doctors as saying it’s dangerous and likening it to “snake oil” treatments.

It sounds questionable to me, and there are drugs that are approved for addicts like antabuse and naltrexone that might be a better choice for Lindsay. Since I have no medical background I am not qualified to make a judgment about it though.

What bothers me is that she’s been given so many chances and is still getting high-paid roles, even with these rules that constitute baby sitting. She should have pissed away any chance she had at a career by now, and I hope that this movie tanks. Maybe I should be giving her credit for staying sober for this long, but when there are so many struggling young actresses who are more deserving and less full of shit than Lindsay, why should she be given yet another break?

Lohan is shown out shopping on 10/29/07, thanks to Splash News.

Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, and Jeremy Piven were among the Hollywood luminaries with anger management issues at American Gangster industry screening in Hollywood last night. Denzel Washington stars in American Gangster as Frank Lucas, a hugely successful drug lord in early 70s Harlem. Crowe plays a detective out to catch Lucas, and the film draws moral parallels between the two characters, with neither shown as morally superior or more deserving.

Comingsoon.net has an interview with Crowe and Washington about the upcoming film and their respective roles:

ComingSoon.net: Can you talk about the delicate balance between good versus evil we see between your two characters?
Washington: (laughs for a long time) Now, who was the good guy and who was the evil guy? That’s the delicate balance.

CS: One could say that the cord runs parallel to both.
Washington: Right, and there you have it. (laughter) The cord runs parallel to both. Jump in there, Russell. (laughs)
Crowe: Well, I think that’s one of the fascinating things about the two characters and about the story itself. That none of that’s clear. There’s not a clear singular morality, and when you get the opportunity to play that sort of thing, which is nothing more than reality and the sort of humanity as it exists, it’s just a bit of fun. You know, Richie’s an honest guy and all that sort of thing, but as his wife calls him out in the court: you’re only honest in one area — you try and buy yourself favorites for all the sh*t that you do. I just think that’s an honest appraisal of who he was at that time, but it also leaks into that area of discussing why people go bad in the first place, or what the process of Frank Lucas was to become a drug dealer. If Frank Lucas had been befriended by somebody else and educated in a different area, he might get in a situation where a university’s named after him. He’s a very smart guy and he uses things that he’s learned to the best of his ability to change his life and change the life of his family at that time. But it just happened to be that Bumpy Johnson was his teacher. We were joking yesterday about doing his sort of course work on the street, PhD in criminality under Bumpy Johnson.
Washington: Yeah. (laughter)

[From ComingSoon.net]

Here’s the trailer. The film looks like it kicks ass, and I’m in the states now and think that I’ll see it this weekend:

The real Frank Lucas, on whom Denzel Washington’s character is based, is now out of prison after two separate stints, the most recent ending in 1991. He is 77 and is confined to a wheelchair. A documentary will air about Lucas on BET on October 31st.

American Gangster is getting largely positive reviews, and is out in US theaters on Friday.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these premiere pictures, which also include Oliver Martinez. The lights there must have been bright, because everyone looks like they’re squinting. There are also stills from the film, thanks to allmoviephoto.

Like Angelina Jolie’s year off (that might not have started yet or might have been postponed until she gets less offers for roles) sources say Cate Blanchett is about to step away from Hollywood for a while. The dignified actress and mother of two, who lives in Australia with her husband of ten years, playwright Andrew Upton, is said to be taking a year off to spend time with her family.

As soon as filming wraps up on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cate Blanchett is packing her bags and leaving Hollywood for at least a year. The Australian-born actress is heading Down Under to “get back to her roots and recharge her batteries,” a pal tells Star. Adds Geoffrey Rush, who costarred with [Cate]… in Elizabeth: The Golden Age: “She adores her two children, and she misses them terribly when she’s traveling around the world making movies.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, November 5, 2007]

Cate Blanchett might have a more pressing reason to take time off. The normally super-thin actress looks like she’s pregnant with her third child, and has been wearing suspiciously fuller outfits lately. I would say we’ll either hear an announcement from Cate or her news will be more evident soon, much like JLo and Christina Aguilera’s pregnancies being obvious, but unannounced. Cate was a guest on BBC show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross last week and looked like she definitely was pregnant. She wore a loose dress, but a bump was visible from some angles.

Cate Blanchett is shown at the premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age in London on 10/23/07, thanks to WENN.

The Irish actor doesn’t exactly ooze confidence when it comes to being an actor. He seems to have a constant sneer on his face that conveys arrogance, but it doesn’t apply to any real talent according to Jonathan. In fact the lure of Hollywood isn’t the money, but the fame and power that goes with being a successful actor that makes him feel manly and assured.

“You know why I stay out of the limelight? I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I’m crap at what I do. “I think they will figure out I’m crap. Doesn’t everybody have that feeling?”

[PR-Inside]

In Details magazine he goes on to admit that he got to where he is at based on his looks. He believes that one must have the mug for acting and not just the talent.

“Let’s not kid ourselves—this business is about being good-looking. Look, Brad Pitt is an incredible actor, but do you think he’d be a famous movie star if he didn’t look like that? Come on! Some mornings, some days, you just don’t have that physical confidence. That’s a horrible feeling. A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.”

In the same interview Rhys Meyers describes himself as terribly insecure. He admits to constantly seeking approval on days he doesn’t feel like his normal pretty self. Despite his humble background he seems to lack the humble views on power. He further stated that he would trade places with Leonardo DiCaprio for his power and status in the filming industry… not his for his acting skills.

Currently he portrays Henry VIII in “The Tudors.” The role gives him a boost of the masculinity that he craves. He appreciates the “alpha male, real, muscular, testosterone, up-on-a-wire action hero” demand the role gives him.

Note by Celebitchy: Details also notes that Rhys Meyers screams out on the street “PUSSY! I want pussy!” but supposedly he was “doing his impersonation of a man trying to have a conversation in a crowded nightclub.” Mmmm hmmm. Thanks to Men.style.com for these photos.