Has Quentin Taratino unintentionally caused a major rift between Hollywood's No. 1 power couple? Brad Pitt is a self confessed stoner. In fact it's rumoured that both he and ex wife Jennifer Aniston enjoyed getting mellow together. However when he met Angelina Jolie things had to change. In fact Jolie laid down the law about Pitt's recreational habits. By laid downthe law I mean she delivered an ultimatum: "Get clean or get out". Brad promised her that now he'd become a father his stoner days were over. It seems though that his cover has been blown.
Tarantino, who directed Pitt in Inglourious Basterds, revealed during a radio interview that Pitt hadn't given up old habits. During an interview with Howard Stern, Tarantino revealed that he and Pitt smoked hash together in France while the director was trying to talk Pitt into doing Basterds. Coincidentally this was the same time that Jolie was dropping the twins Knox and Vivienne.
Now if you know anything about Jolie it's that she doesn't like being defied. So naturally once she received proof positive that Brad had disobeyed her she went ballistic. She did more than fly into a rage. She also reaffirmed the ultimatum. She told him that she didn't want drugs anywhere around the kids. She even drew the line even closer. Now she's outlawed booze. So if the rumours are true I guess the next question is how much more is Pitt gonna take? Ultimatums and power plays are not a good basis for a continuing relationship.
Remember when those jewels went missing during a Lindsay Lohan fashion shoot? Well lightning has struck twice. Lohan had been loaned some pricey gems - to the tune to $2 million - by Beverly Hills jewelry store XIV Karats. Everything was fine and dandy for a moth or so, until Karats asked for the gems back. That's when Lindsay made the awkward revelation that she isn't have them. They'd been stolen from her safe during a burglary! Naturally XIV Karats is not happy. Still I blame them as much as anyone. They knew that Lindsay has bad luck when it comes to hanging on to jewels. Or they would have if they'd been regular readers of Wondertrash! Whether this is a coincidence, or Lindsay has picked up a side line, the girl is becoming a bad insurance risk.
In other news here's a clip of DJ AM talking about his relapse fears.
By now everyone has heard that sad news that celebrity DJ Adam Goldstein, who worked professionally under the name DJ AM, is dead. Goldstein was discovered in his 2 mill Soho apartment on 210 Lafayette St, after a friend phoned 911. The friend had stopped by and got no response, so called for the EMT. The emergency response team had to break down the door, and found Goldstein dead. The time was approximately 5:23 PM. A drug pipe and 2 empty pill bottles were found near the body.
Goldstein is best know for a series of high profile relationships with young celebrities like Nicole Richie and Mandy Moore (and most recently Hayley Wood). Along with Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker he survived a serious plane crash in South Carolina last year that left him with serious burns. 4 other including the pilot were killed in the crash.
So far the death is being classified as an OD. Goldstein has had addiction issues in the past, including crack, Ecstasy, and others. However Goldstein has claimed to have been drug free for the past 11 years. His last tweet on his twitter account may also indicate that there were some issues with depression - "New york, New York. Big city of dreams but everything in new york ain't always what it seems." It has been reported that he was struggling with post traumatic stress disorder and 'survivor's guilt' following the plane crash. Goldstein was 36 at the time of his death.
Now as everyone who follows celeb gossip has heard, former OC actress Mischa Barton flipped out a little while back and got carted off to the nuthouse. She was committed under a 5150 hold order and was the reluctant recipient of Cedar's-Sinai's hospitality for about a week. So far Mischa has been tight lipped about what exactly happened. Now she's finally opening up and explaining what exactly lead to her freak out and subsequent hospitalization.
It seems it all started with some dental work that Mischa had done. She had finally gotten around to having a wisdom tooth taken care of when things took a turn for the worse. As Mischa explains to Time Out:
"Here's what happened: Before the show started, I was traveling abroad for contract stuff and I went through a terrible surgery -- a wisdom tooth surgery, all four removed. It was a nightmare," the actress explained. "I've never had surgery before -- it all went wrong and I had to have a second surgery and it almost delayed shooting because it was a nightmare to me, because I couldn't deal with the thought of not getting there on time. So with the travel, and surgery and prep for the show -- it was hell."
"I went through a tough spot where everything compounded on me, and it was like a perfect storm, like everything was happening to me at once. The show, travel and then this fairly routine surgery that went wrong," she told the mag. "It's still just healing. But I had to get through it without proper painkillers because I couldn't take those during work. So it's been a nightmare." When asked how she ended up in a psychiatric hospital, Mischa said it had a lot to do with stress. "I was down in the dumps about everything there for a while," she said. "Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom about things and have to get the most stressed-out just to feel better again. I got completely stressed-out and couldn't handle everything, and now I feel really in control."
For the record Mischa denies that she had a nervous breakdown:
"I don't know. I don't know. I had a friend who had a quasi-nervous breakdown, but I'm not sure it's the same thing," she said. "I'm not sure I'm capable of a full-on nervous breakdown, but it was pretty bad. It didn't last that long. It was more about the pain. I have a newfound respect for people who have chronic pain. I started getting migraines." Although pain played a role, Mischa said the doctors did not teach her how to handle pain. "The doctor told me I was lucky I didn't lose feeling in my lips and face, which would have been horrifying and couldn't act properly."
Mischa has also indicated that her mom is the one who called the cops and had her committed. Now those two have had their differences in the past. A year or so ago Mischa was overheard giving her mother a terrible dressing down on a public street, while the actress was either getting into or out of a cab. The gist of it was that Mischa called her mother's mental capacity in to question, loudly! Mischa feels that things also got blown way out of proportion by happening in LA. Says Misch: "if all this happened in New York, no one would care." So remember, next time you feel a freak out coming on, make sure that you're in NYC, 'cause they let you be yourself there! It's still the city that doesn't give a damn, and that's just the way they like it!
Now Mischa shouldn't be shy about owning up to a break down. It's kind of an occupational hazard among drugged out unstable women - otherwise known as actresses. If sanity is a relative thing then Mischa is a paragon of sanity by the standards of her profession. For example here's a few brief words from Anne Heche on her wild & crazy days:
Dementia & the 4rth Dimension
If you'll recall Anne got spaced out on meth shortly after her Ellen DeGeneres bust up. She thought that she was an ET called Celestia sent to Earth to teach peace and love. When the authorities finally caught up with her she was wandering around naked waiting for the mother ship to beam her up (maintaining a civilized society requires that peace, love, and nudity be strictly controlled!). Apparently the transporter beam couldn't teleport her with her clothes on (Probably some kind of dimensional interference caused by Earth fabrics. Either that or her ET's have advanced beyond the primitive custom of clothing). Celestia also wrote reams of stuff that was supposedly dictated by the voices in her head. Now no one should have to ask why the court decided that Coley Laffoon was the better choice to raise young Homer.
Speaking of crazy antics and advanced aliens from outer space coming to save us from ourselves, there's a whole new slew of Scientology allegations coming out in the St Petersburg Times. It's about what you'd expect but still startling: beatings, isolation, and an atmosphere of fear & intimidation. I believe that Tom Cruise's name gets mentioned.
The SPT has done some extensive work on Scientology, here's their index.
You might even say that KK was 'put on ice' from her lucrative $500 000 a year Iceland ice cream endorsement. Her corporate sponsors felt that she crossed the line when her 'hobby' got picked up on tape and then broadcast by NewsoftheWorld. It never rains but it pours, or in this case snows.
The latest development in this story is that Katona's 1st husband Brian McFadden is consulting with lawyers. He feel's that the children are no longer safe there. He may have a point. Whether or not doing drugs makes her unfit, being stupid enough to get videoed doing it in your own home definitely indicates some kind of serious negligence! I still like her better than that skanky ho' Jordan.
Kerry Katona: A user, a boozer, and a loser!
That young woman better get her nose clean and I mean literally 'cause she's on the fast track to Flatpoint High, home of the concrete donkey!
We haven't heard from Jordan in awhile, which is odd because she's been hyper vocal lately. During a recent trip to Spain (on a budget airline) she broke the sound barriers with a series of sonic booms about - what else - her sex life.
So what set Katie off, apart from mixing airline booze and anti depressants? Well Katie has taken exception to some of the media reports about her. Now there have been a lot of reports: that she was a bitch to Peter Andre, that she cheated with her horse trainer & her horse, that she's a negligent mother and a lazy drunken slut etc. However Katie took umbrage to some specific rumours, in particular that the new guy in her life is into kink.
Stories started circulating around that cage fighter Alex Reid (that experience is gonna come in handy!) enjoys BSDM. In fact the stories even go so far as to say he practices his fetish life style on Katie. Pictures made the rounds of the Brit tabs featuring a leather 'gimp' mask (a full face muzzle for the uninitiated)that he allegedly uses on Jordan during sex. No one could blame him for wanting to cover up that face!
snaky on a plane
Alex probably wishes he had it with him during the flight because that's when Jordan took advantage of a captive audience to make a scene. Attempting to set the record straight she started hollering that "My man would never do that!" & "Do we look like those kind of people?" (stupid question!).
As for Alex, he looked completely humiliated. Her kids, who were also witnesses to this unseemly display, couldn't have been much impressed either (though they must be used to it by now). Jordan tried to make nice towards the end of the trip by coiling herself around Alex (like a python around it's prey?), but the poor man looked like he wanted to crawl out of his skin. She might have a point - do think it would even be possible for anyone to shut her up, even with the use of special bondage paraphernalia? It would take a ball gag the size of a 14 pound bowling ball to shut that mouth!
In other news Miranda Kerr has gone blond! It's a nice change and this way people will stop confusing her with Adriana Lima!
So what's new in the world of Anne Heche? Well she & ex husband Coley Laffoon are still at it tooth & nail. Anne also sounds like she might still be in touch with Celestia and other old friends. Just watch the following interview in which David Letterman shifts around uncomfortably in his seat while Heche just manages to avoid foaming at the mouth!
David Letterman - your by word for 'crazy guests'!
11 PM is rapidly becoming the witching hour as Late Night brings out the moonlight madness in their guests!
Now that whole thing seemed pretty tense. Dave had that cornered "get me the hell out of here" look in his eyes. It's the same sort of look you might have when you're alone in an elevator with a guy in a tin foil hat and he suddenly decides to strike a combination. "We can talk now cause the elevators are the only place free from satellite surveillance". As for Anne, she was in a high state of mania and looked like she might freak out at any second. Hopefully they had a stage hand armed with a tranquilizer gun on stand by, just in case. I will give her one thing, she does a hell of an interview!
PS Anne used to have a problem with meth amphetamine, back in the days when she thought she was Celestia/Jesus and that the mother ship could beam her up, but not while she was wearing her clothing (perhaps she got teleportation confused with invisibility - when you're methed out it can be hard to keep your superpowers straight). She also supposedly kept a journal of the madness - reams of automatic writing dictated by the voices in her head. Not surprisingly Coley Laffoon is the primary caregiver to the couple's child. Anne is 5 cans short of a 6 pack, and a can away from a conservatorship!
An update in the Fiore case. the model's white Mercedes has been found.
Meanwhile it's been a world wind few weeks in the life of former Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona. She got in some shit recently when pictures of her snorting cocaine surfaced. As a result she lost a commercial endorsement . Well things have gone from bad to worse. Katona was bailed out of jail earlier this morning. She was arrested on charges of assaulting her business manager/accountant David McHugh. It seems that Katona is all out of money, and McHugh is the prime suspect!
The whole ugly business went down around 4 PM yesterday. Katona was at her accountant's office at Hawthorne Business Park in Warrington for a peep at he books. Seems she suspected her husband Mark Croft of playing fast and loose with her money. That opinion was to quickly change. Katona was overheard shrieking "You're the fucking reason I've got no money, not Mark. You've fucking ruined my life!" After that she began throwing office equipment around. Then she punched McHugh. That's when the cops got involved.
The police charged Ms Katona with assault. She has been bailed out until Oct 12, pending further investigation. That will give her some time to deal with her increasingly serious drug issues. It's seems that her cocaine problems are much worse than some video footage making it's way onto youtube. It has now been revealed that she has a hole in her septum from coke abuse, and that her nose is dissolving. That might also be why her money is dissolving. She's rumored to go through $500 worth of the white stuff a day! If we have learned nothing else from Courtney Love it's that it's easy to lose track of your money when you're stoned out of your head all the time, no matter how much of it you have! Like they say "Cocaine, it's a hell of a drug". Looks like another celebrity is headed into the revolving door rehab!
So what's Gerrard Butler doing besides not dating Jennifer Aniston? Well he did not beat the crap out of a dog, according to him. The dog's elderly owners have a different story. According to Fred and Maria Varecka they were taking their greyhound Mayfly out for a walk when Mayfly crossed paths with Lolita. Lolita is Gerrard's pet pug.
Now Lolita and mayfly started doing what dogs do, whkch is sniff each other in odd places. According to the Varecka's no sooner did mayfly's nose touch Lolita's than Butler flew into a wild rage. He started to shout & holler, insisting that the dog should be put down. Then he went Michael Vick and slammed the dog's head into a fence!
Now Gerrard, or should I say his attorney Alan Siegel (who's doing all the talking at the moment) doesn't see it that way. According to Butler by way of Siegel the Vareckas are negligent owners of an out of control dog. Here's the official version: "They don't have it trained. They don't know what they're doing with their dog. People are so mean," Gerard's manager said, adding that his client spent four hours at an NYC animal hospital waiting for Lolita to be treated and released. "They're just trying to milk this."
We're all cynical enough to believe that this could be an attempt to cash in. We still like Gerry enough to want to give him the benefit of the doubt. However this isn't the first time Gerry's got himself in legal trouble over anger management issues. He just recently had to go to court on a charge of assaulting a paparazzi. Now this. He might get off on this too - by way of an out of court settlement. However a pattern is emerging. So at least we'll be less surprised by the next report of a Butler tantrum.
What's the point of cruelty if you victim is too stoned to notice?
What's new with Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie? more of the same: power struggle and ultimatums. Word is that former smack user Angie is now laying down the law to Pitt. She's ordered him to get clean or else. Since staying stoned out of his mind is the only way that he can continue to live with her, I predict that he'll eventually choose the 'or else'. That gal sounds like a real joy to live with, don't she?
Well something like this was bound to happen once Jennifer Aniston moved on. You know she's serious about Gerrard Butler (the pair have been photographed holding hands) because she's keeping the whole thing under wraps, instead of milking it for PR like usual! I just hope Jen has the good sense to stick with Gerry, and not run back to the guy who's made her life so miserable over the past few years.
The kettle calling the pot smack?
PS Wondertrash would like to note the passing of Dominick Dunne at 83. He's the guy who helped make celebrity journalism respectable. Some of his recent work, like covering the Phil Spector trial for Vanity Fair, were the only readable parts of the mag (apart from the reams of glossy ads for high end consumer products which seem to take up about 2/3's of VF). Now that story had to have hit home for him since his own daughter was an actress who had been murdered. Adding to the awkwardness was the fact that Spector had been a friend of his. Rest in peace Dom.
Finally here's a little something that is pure diversion. The late great Bruce Lee wasn't only a consummate martial artist, he excellent at other forms of sport as well. Here in the following video Bruce shows that he's no slouch at ping pong. Of course being Bruce Lee he does it with his only special twist: he uses nun chucks in stead of a ping pong paddle.
So what does the future hold for Megan Fox? Well most people would've would've bet money on about 3 more Transformer sequels. That is up until she had a sort of vocal falling out with director Michael Bay. She kind of pointed out, during a TV interview, that Transformers wasn't exactly A Man for All Seasons. That was right after she told the host and audience that she wasn't gonna sit there an blow smoke up there ass.
Pussycat doll
Though Fox's criticism didn't involve the way the film was directed, Bay took exception. Mean Mike gave a press statement of his own, in which he called Megan a silly and ungrateful 23 year old who maybe didn't have what it takes to be a household name. Apart from Jennifer's Body & Jonah Hex, that left her employment future looking hazy.
Well all those Megan Fox fans will be happy to know that the lady has landed on her feet. Megan has found a new job in the fomr of a new mentor. Chris Nolan, of the Batman series, has decide that Megan has got what it takes to be the new Catwoman (the role that was supposed to go to Angelina Jolie). So he's hired her ass to play Selena Kyle in his new Batman installment. So what's Megan got to bring to the role besides the obvious? Well Nolan is promosing the Fox's cat woman will have a darker edge. This is certainly good news for Megan, since it takes the edge off of her career. For awhile there it looked like her next job might be as Zev in a LEXX revival! Now it looks like the forecast calls for lots'o'leather!
By the way if you like really good comic art and have $20 to spare then you might want to check out JamieTyndall.com. For the price of 3 or 4 comics you can own your own print, perhaps something like this!
As you can see, the gal's got talent!
PS. Here's the answer to yesterday's "are you a serial murderer" psych quiz. The question involves a woman who meets the love of her life while attending a cousin's funeral. After the funeral she has no idea how to contact him. She asks everyone and they don't know. So she kills her sister. Why? Because she assumes that since she met him at a family funeral, she might meet him again at another family funeral!
So far disgraced cardiologist Conrad Murray seems to be the most likely suspect, though no charges have been yet laid. Now no one is accusing Murray of premeditated killing Jackson with malice and criminal intent. He's just suspected of having shot Jackson full of a potentially lethal drug and not being to concerned about the consequences. That's called homicide of the negligent variety.
Now murder can be a funny thing - if it involves Dawn French for instance. It can also be funny in the sense of strange. There's some ambiguity about what qualifies as murder. For one thing it requires intent and forth thought. Faithful Law & Order viewers will also know that it's not that cut and dried. Some of the law school exercises Stone &McCoy were fond of quoting highlight this. An example is a person goes into a room, see's some one in a bed apparently asleep, then pulls a gun and shoots them. What they don't know is that the person is already dead. The had a fatal heart attack a few hours ago. Is it murder? Well like Stone & McCoy point out "intent follows the bullet".
So a criminal act is defined as much by intent as by effect. There's more. A murder can be committed without intent. For instance it's a point of law in many jurisdiction that if a death occurs during the commission of a felony then the charge is murder, whether the dearth was deliberate or accidental! You shoot a security guard while doing a robbery and he dies, & even though your intent was robbery not murder you can get charged with homicide! So you can see that Dr Conrad Murray wandered into some tricky legal territory by catering to the rich & famous.
Murder goes mainstream?
Deborah Morgan: I wish I'd run into the Bay Harbor Butcher. I'd shoot the cocksucker!
Dexter: Are you serious?
Deborah: Of course! If Dad taught us antying it's the sanctity of human life!
Presto Manifesto
Deborah Morgan respects the sanctity of human life, which she observes by killing people! Just like her brother! It must be something that runs in the family! At least brother and sister have learned to do the wrong things the right way!
Now the cold blooded killer is the most inhuman of beasts. Yet as Dexter has shown we all harbor those shameful impulses and dark passengers. So what distinguishes a normal pissed off person from a potential killer? Fortunately there is a simply test to determine whether you might one day go Dexter or not. Just read the following and note your response:
A woman attends the funeral of her cousin. While there she meats the love of her life. However she doesn't get his contact info. She asks everyone about him, but no one can provide her with any useful information. She has no idea how she will ever meet this man again. So she murders her sister!
Now why did the woman murder her sister? Think about it carefully because I'm told that only serial murders & other sociopaths get it right! I'll post the answer tomorrow. getting the right answer means that you've failed, so here's hoping that you test negative!
Now here's a little hint by way of a reference to the old Adam West Batman series, in which Catwoman demonstrates her insight into, and even frightening empathy with, the criminal mind:
Catwoman: Batman, I could help you. No one understands the criminal mind better than me. We could be partners!
Batman: But what about Robin?
Catwoman: Oh we'll just kill him.
Such was Catwoman's brief flirtation with reform. though she had the facts straight the poor woman seems to have completely missed the point! As for you - did you fail your serial murderer test, or is some body gonna have to keep an eye on your?
Dexter trivia: Right, wrong, & ambidexterity!
TV series Dexter (played to perfection by actor Michael C Hall) about the well adjusted and highly effective killer next door has become something of a cult hero. Now many people ask why the name Dexter was chosen for the lead character. Here's my theory: The term 'dexter' is from heraldry and refer to 'my right, your left' when combatants face each other. It refers to relativity.
Dexter repeatedly asks himself if he is a good person doing bad things or a bad person doing good things. That's because the deeply psychological series is an exploration in moral ambiguity (similar themes are explored in A Clockwork Orange and the works of Flannery O Conner). Dexter recognizes this in himself. Yet as the series progresses he comes to see these same qualities in others; as he learns to fit in by faking it - just like everyone else.
The Boomer's Bible & the Book of Harry
In fact Dexter's socialization at the hands of Harry takes the usual patern. Hardboiled Harry recognizes the same impulses in Dex as in the rest of humanity (that's why we have laws and cops). Harry knows that Dex can never be taught to repress his impulses (and who can?). So Dex has to be taught how to properly focus and channel them.
learning to care: suffering builds character!
As Dex becomes more aware he becomes discovers Harry's own hypocrisy, and the inconsistencies in the code. So he smachs the tablets of the law in an attempt to define himself, and overcome his existential crisis by becoming an idea transcended into life. Meanwhile habittual interactions with the people in his life, like his girlfriend & her kids, seem to be gradually teaching him to care & connect. The Biblical connotations are hard to miss. Can Dexter ever become 'fully human'? Well I'm afraid that there's only one way that can happen, and no one really enjoys the process. Whether to the cross or to the crown the path goes through Gethsemane! It can only end one way!
Interestingly Dexter appears to have no sense of humor. So an interest in comedy might speed him on his way. Laughter is the music of the soul if Pablo Naruda is to be believed. Besides, I think that Dex can be tricked into going along with it, if he's lead to believe that humor will help him to come off as more normal, and hence help him to fake it better.
Some philosophers believe that no one is born with a soul. You have to earn one through prayer, suffering, & thought. ~ the Simpsons
Schadenfreude: Heidi makes a laughing stock of herself again!
So far the official word on this is "embarrassing". No matter what Heidi's performance was it's important to keep this in perspective through the correct assignment of blame. The credit for any entertainment value belongs to TV, the embarrassments is Heidi's! No matter how ridiculous and embarrassing Hiedi may be however, there can be no doubt that she truly belongs in the TV medium. It's the realm of the transmundane!
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander: An Aquarian Conspiracy!
Transmundane & trivial: it is worth noting that Matt Greoning shares his birthday - Feb 15th - with Italian astronomer Galileo Galilee. Both men also share a tendency for mischievous sooth saying. In fact I can't help thinking that there must've been a little Bart Simpson in ole GG. "There I was at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa - it was like that when I got there - merrily dropping rocks onto unsuspecting passerbys - hehehe, suckers - when it occurred to me 'if I can undermine their faith in gravity I could really rock there world'. That's when the Pope sent me to my room for 15 years. Lousy il Papa!" Now that had to be stopped lest Galileo had started trying to convince people that they might start falling up!
The Vatican wasn't pleased with GG's antics but you have to see it from their point of view. They might have felt that Galileo's use of a sling shot invalidated the experiment (even though the use of sling shots is clearly condoned by the Bible!).
What can stop a man who can laugh from speaking the truth? ~ Latin proverb
February 15 funny guys & gals:
1954 – Matt Groening, American cartoonist 1955 – Janice Dickinson, American Ex-Supermodel 1964 – Chris Farley, American actor and comedian 1970 – Craig Gass, American impressionist and comedian 1971 – Renée O'Connor, American actress, director, & warrior princess love object 1974 – Gina Lynn, American porn actress 1975 – Brendon Small, American comedian and animator
If you like hot girls, minty fresh breath, and are a single makle 18 - 35 who watches a lot of TV, then you like Kate Kelton. She's the Tic Tac Chick. You've probably seen at least one of her 8 highly charged TV ads at least once. You won't being seeing any news ones since Tic Tac hasn't picked Kate back up.
Kate got the gig by fluke back when she was a Ryerson student and part time assistant art director with a Toronto ad firm. They were shooting the Tic Tac spots and the model didn't show. Kate wound up subbing for her on the spur of the moment. It worked out. Tic Tac liked what they saw so much that they asked to see more.
Whether or not Tic Tac can do without Kate, Kate seems to be managing without them. The former Toronto resident has relocated to LA, where she's making some waves in the art scene. She's been doing an enormous amount of painting, some gallery showing, and occasionally some TV & commercial work. Unlike all those young women who go out to LA with stars in their eyes Kelton seems much more consumed with her painting. The acting stuff seems like a way to help make ends meet, and to keep Kate in acrylic and oil paints. Here's an example of what she spends those days locked in her room doing!
Not that Ms. Kelton lives the life of a hermit or anything. While she's been splashing paint around she's also been making some friends. In fact you might recognize some of or even all of them!
Now I know the news that Kate is no longer the Offical Tic Tac Chick has gotta be a bummer for her males fans out there. So just to cushion the blow, here are some of the most recent photo's of Kate. As you can see she looks hotter than ever.
Oh yeah, one final thing - Ms Kate doesn't just make art, she inspires it. Now this art is of the fan boy photoshop variety but it's still usually pretty thoroughly enjoyed. This one for instance has been making the rounds of the Internet for at least 2 years. It cause a mild freak out over @ Fark.com when it showed up on their radar! Now set your faces to stunned as your set your eyes on something campy but stunning!
He who hurries cannot walk with dignity. -Chinese proverb.
Live fast and die young
It was the story that came out of nowhere and rocked North America. Now it seems to be over as quickly as it began! Ryan Jenkins has been found dead in his motel room. He hung himself by the neck from a closet rack. It's the latest, and perhaps final development in a story that was full of more high speed twists and turns then a cop show car chase.
looking for the on ramp to the fast lane!
Jenkins was a self styled investment broker from Canada who sought overnight success in the US. When his plans fell through he wound up trying a quick fix by signing on for the now canceled reality TV show Megan Wants a Millionaire. Jenkins struck out with Megan too, and got booted from the show. He hooked up with his ex wife and victim Jasmine Fiore while playing poker in a Vegas strip club.
fast girl jumps the gun
Fiore was a 'fitness instructor' and a former nude model. She had gone to California for the same reasons as everyone else - to get rich quick. What she wound up with was a failed businessman a reality TV reject. We can't be sure what they saw in each other: did it seem like a good idea at the time? Were they out of other options? Or was it just a case of misery loves company? Either way they wound up married.
too fast to last
So far the pattern of bad judgment and impulsive risk taking was consistent. So you didn't need a crystal ball to guess that this marriage was gonna be an uphill struggle. So much so in fact that they pair called it quits much quicker than anyone expected - 5 months in and got it annulled. That was the first significant attack of reason and good sense either of them had shown in their lives up to this point - not that either seemed like the type to stop & think. So it couldn't last.
the quick and the dead
According to Fiore's mother Jenkins came crawling back and begged Fiore to give him another chance. Relying on whatever faulty instincts had mislead her in the past, Fiore considered the offer and took Jenkins up on it. That was to prove the undoing for both of then! Shortly after the reconciliation Jenkins phoned the cops to report his wife missing. After a brief search they turned her body up in a suitcase that had been left inside a trash dumpster. Serial numbers on the breasts implants confirmed the ID of the victim, and now police wanted to talk with the next of kin about the dearly departed. Apparently Jenkins' 911 call didn't buy him any creditability.
story starts spreading at the speed of sound!
That brings us up to the point at which the rest of the world got involved. There's nothing like dead naked Playboy bunnies in trash dumpsters and phony reality TV millionaires with blood on their hands to get people's attention. So the media pounced on this story fast with a vengeance. The authorities kind of got enthusiastic about it too. So Ryan figured that he would leave town for awhile. Now he wasn't under arrest, but he was a person of interest, so the LAPD didn't appreciate the impromptu road trip. That lead to some all points bulletins for Mr Jenkins on both sides of the boarder!
gone in 60 seconds and still picking up speed!
The media red alert didn't do much to slow Jenkins down. In a few days he managed to get from LA to the Canadian border (I'd have headed for Mexico: it's closer, it's counter intuitive, and the border crossings aren't designed to keep people from illegally crossing into Mexico!). Some where in Northern Washington he managed to get access to a boat and slip the world's longest undefended border unobserved! He'd beaten the America Law Enforcement Agencies - the first thing resembling success in his life for a while!
haste & waste
This only made the story bigger. People were seeing Jenkins everywhere. One guy got detained at Pearson International because some one thought it was Jenkins. That poor schmuck got held for a couple of hours, then released. He couldn't possibly have been Jenkins. For one thing Jenkins wasn't anywhere near Ontario. he was still in his native BC. For another thing Jenkins was probably already dead by that time.
life is a highway; Jenkins takes a short cut
It seems that Jenkins had checked into a small town BS hotel called the Thunderbird Inn. He arrived Thursday evening. That would've been almost immediately after slipping the border! he showed up in a Chrysler PT Cruiser, and was checked by a woman who payed in cash. She stayed 20 minutes and left. Manager Kevin Walker thought nothing more about the mystery guest until Sunday Morning. This was past checkout so Walker decided to see what was up. He entered the room to found Jenkins dead in the closet. He had hung himself with his own belt (assuming that the mystery woman in the PT Cruiser didn't string him up). So in the end he had run so fast that he caught himself up.
if you can't be good, be fast?
So the story of the two failed player seems to have ended. It wrapped up about as quick as a movie of the week, but it's ended with a lot of unanswered questions too. Then again this is the age of reality TV. So Colombo with a neatly organized explanation that answers everything would be out of place. This seems more like it will get kicked over to CSI for the too be continued treatment (though slow motion replay might be more in order). By the time forensics comes up with 3 or 4 most likely explanations, our limited attention spans may have become occupied with some other tabloid type story. Why there's probably a celebrity sex tape being cooked up right now! Our attention spans are far too narrow to wait around for answers. Perhaps that's just as well. Cause another thing that distinguishes Fiore and Jenkins is that they actually made it to the "till death do us part" part. They manged to go the distance, though in highly time compressed manner. If life is a long walk on a short pier, then the best you can do is take your time! "Slow and steady" is highly under rated!
Comic-con has come a long way. Not so long ago it used to be the exclusive domain of nerds. A convention floor was pretty much wall to wall geeks with plastic Vulcan ears and dental retainers. Then things started to change.
It was the inclusion of young women that seemed to raise Comic-cons' profile. Now in addition to young men who had never dated there were attractive chicks decked out in their comic based fetish gear! hotties dressed up as Wonder Woman and Batgirl seemed to push the proceedings a little closer to the main stream.
Something was to happen to Comic-con that was to have more impact than some assorted coeds dressed as Xena and She-ra however. Hollywood was starting to run out of ideas. No one can be quit sure how Tinseltown stumbled across the comics as a source of script material. Maybe it was the realization that comic based movies would have a built in audience. maybe it was that fact hat both Superman and Batman had become franchises (Nic Cage's Ghost Rider has proved that any comic based movie, no matter what the title or how sloppy the execution, is a potential blockbuster!). The result was that a whole slew of comic based movies went into development, and the studios descended on the comic conventions as a venue to promote the films.
These days A list actors and actresses routinely make the rounds of what was once the realm of nerdom. The recently married Milla Jovovich (she hooked up with long time boyfriend and baby daddy to Ever Gabbo, Paul Resident Evil Anderson yesterday in a twilight ceremony! Though Anderson is one of the biggest geeks around he finally bagged the coolest chick on the planet. How's that for revenge of the nerds?). Soon others would follow.
Now a days world's sexiest nerd Megan Fox is a Comic con mainstay (she claims that she originally wanted to be a comic book illustrator). Comic con is doing so well that the regulars, the ones who were into to comics before comic books were cool, are beginning to wonder whether Comic con might have sold out and become to commercial, and consequently soulless. The may have a point. I can't help feeling a little nostalgic for the days when I was the only chick in a room full of over bites, asthma inhalers, and chronic acne ( being a drift in a herd of nerds was creepy enough to make my skin crawl and my hair stand on end; but that was offset by the feeling of inclusion into something that out siders just didn't get. Besides, Dad was pleased that I was spending time in situations that couldn't possibly result in teen pregnancy!). So in the spirit of nostalgia let's take a look back at what comic conventions used to be, when they still had their purity and innocence. Just watch the following entertaining little clip!
Has Quentin Taratino unintentionally caused a major rift between Hollywood's No. 1 power couple? Brad Pitt is a self confessed stoner. In fact it's rumoured that both he and ex wife Jennifer Aniston enjoyed getting mellow together. However when he met Angelina Jolie things had to change. In fact Jolie laid down the law about Pitt's recreational habits. By laid downthe law I mean she delivered an ultimatum: "Get clean or get out". Brad promised her that now he'd become a father his stoner days were over. It seems though that his cover has been blown.
