Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx New York, the son of a failed actor turned tailor. His father moved frequently and that led to Schwartz's first foray into acting. He said later in interviews that since he was always the new kid, he was always getting beaten up. He worked out and angle where he'd be the crazy kid on the block, so the other kids wouldn't mess with him - and then went on to work out some "crazy" routines.
It also caused young Bernie Schwartz to escape into the unreal world of the movies; not only for psychological security, but for real physical safety. Back then, for about a dime, you could spend 10 or 12 hours in the movies hanging out in the front row. So that's what Bernie did. It was some where that the roving packs of neighborhood kids wouldn't track him down and beat him up.
Movies would later become Schwartz's escape from poverty. He arrived in LA as a ‘morally unacceptable, uneducated, ill-mannered upstart’. Casting agents liked what they saw enough to overlook the rough edges, and pretty soon he was working regularly in bit roles. He also got a name change. The studios felt his name was too ethnic, so it got anglicized to Antony Curtis. Antony came from the title of his favourite novel Antony Adverse, and Curtis from the name of a favorite uncle.
Curtis went on to become the studio's most popular stars. He stared in such notable films as Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marylin Monroe, The Defiant Ones with Sydney Poitier, and Spartacus with Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, and about half the star power in Hollywood at the time. He also garnered more weekly fan mail than any of the competing talent. He was married to Janet Leigh, another studio darling of the day, in what was supposed to be a dream match PR ploy. Curtis was to marry 6 times in all. Among his children is actress Jamie Lee Curits.
As Curtis got older movie roles dried up. That lead to a prolonged battle with depression, booze, and cocaine. It was in one of his frequent bouts of recovery that he took up painting as therapy. He got so good that he began selling his paintings professionally. He even got some critical praise for his work.
Later life was difficult for Curtis. Years of heavy smoking gave him his famous rough voice. It also eventually caused lung disease. Curtis struggled with that for years. It was to leave him in a wheel chair. It also contributed to the heart attack which killed him only recently.
Curtis leaves many to mourn: wife Jill, family, friends, colleagues, and fans throughout the world. His wife made a public statement following the announcement of his death.
'His heart survived things that Tony would always say would kill an ordinary man,' she said.
'This time, his heart was ready to go and ready to be at peace.'
His daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, said in a statement: 'My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages.
"Joe was a brilliant chef, and our thoughts go out to his family, friends and staff"
Now everyone who's watched high intensity TV chef Gordon Ramsey knows he brings the heat into the kitchen. Some people are now saying that the loud mouthed celebrity chef is too hot too handle. The somebody is his fellow Hot Potato TV judge Eric Ripert. Ripert lashed out at Ramsey via social networking site Twitter following the death by suicide of their colleague Joseph Cerniglia.
"Your business is about to f--king swim down the Hudson"
Cerniglia has his problems. His restaurant was 80 000 in debt. To make matters even worse he'd recently gotten busted for cocaine. The bust took place in his restaurant. Now that leads to a whole other bag of trouble. In addition to jail time, he could've wound up losing the business, depending on whether or not prosecutors felt like making a federal case out of it. So Cerniglia decided to beat them to the punch by jumping the gun. He jumped off of a bridge into the Hudson River.
Though Cerniglia had plenty of personal problems not everyone is willing to let Ramsay off of the hook. Ramsay's co judge on his latest reality TV chef show, Eric Ripert, took to Twitter to give Gordo a blast. Said Ripert via the social networking site:
"Nothing personal against Gordon Ramsay but he is a poor inspiration for professional chefs in his shows," Ripert tweeted. "I have my bad days to but always try to improve. TV or not - its no excuse! Ultimately I believe in the goodness of Gordon but he is very wrong."
Ramsay can be hard to take. On one episode he made reference to Cerniglia's personal troubles by telling him that his business was about to swim down the Hudson. Nor is this the 1st Ramsay chef to cash in their chips. In 2007 a Hell's Kitchen chef, Rachel Brown, shot herself in her Dallas home. There's another Ramsay connection - the chef's brother is a long term heroin addict. For the uninitiated, heroin is a major pain receiver. So some are speculating that Ramsay is a hard man to deal with. At the very least he's probably not the guy to call if you're standing on the George Washington Bridge thinking about jumping and looking for some one to hand you a life line.
Success stories & shit news
This kind of casual, cool realism has given the new British films easy ascendancy. Room at the Top features the new cool realism. Not only is it not a success story, it is as much an announcement of the end of the Cinderella package as Marilyn Monroe was the end of the star system. Room at the Top is the story of how the higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his backside. The moral is that success is not only wicked but also the formula for misery. It is very hard for a hot medium like film to accept the cool message of TV. But the Peter Sellers movies I'm All Right, Jack and Only Two Can Play are perfectly in tune with the new temper created by the cool TV image. Such is also the meaning of the ambiguous success of Lolita. As a novel, its acceptance announced the antiheroic approach to romance. The film industry had long beaten out a royal road to romance in keeping with the crescendo of the success story. Lolita announced that the royal road was only a cowtrack, after all, and as for success, it shouldn't happen to a dog.
Happy Equinox Mother Earth! - PETA now officially as irrelevant as The Celebrity Roast!
There has been another occurrence of PETA. The controversial organization, which seems more interested in PR stunts and fund raising than offering genuine assistance to animals or the environment, showed that it was still relevant despite Lady Gaga's meaty pro gay statements. BTW Lady Gaga also recently wore a meat dress, though some of the more timid members of Gaga's entourage are now insisting that the dress was tofu - of the mock chicken variety. Gaga has stuck to her guns on this, insisting that she hasn't tasted like chicken, mock or otherwise, in years.
it's a jungle out here!
Anyway the usual array of Hollywood activists and agitators were out en masse and in force to rally round the cause by showing their commitment to making the world a better place. Pamela Anderson was there, of course. Anderson looks in dire need of artificial preservatives, or something to off set he effects of 20 years of drinking, drugging, partying, taking rides from strangers, and general Jerri Blanking around. She also spouted a bunch of platitudes which were a mish mash of other platitudes she has aired in public from time to time "Cruelty is bad, unless it's show business related", "Eating animals is bad, stick to eating people cause people are animals too", and "Kid Rock had a really small dick!" While she may not have been sincere, or even coherent, she did sound as enthusiastic as a cheerleader midway through a pep rally - which is as much as you can expect from any pro celeb. Why do I get the impression that if some scientist found out how to turn baby seal blubber into facial filler no seal pup would be safe from her?
cruel to be kind? Take that, Dexter!
Dave Navarro was there and gave his 2 cents worth. "People who wear fur should be skinned and eaten!" That's the trouble with the Hollywood folk, they'll grab at any excuse for cannibalism, and shitty shitty scat play! Giving Dave the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he assumes that cannibalism would be some kind of fur deterrent, like the death penalty is for murder, which he's no doubt against, the death penalty I mean. He already sounds pretty pro murder, as long as it's in a worthwhile, ecologically conscious, and politically correct cause. Just like Alec Balwin when he appeared on Latenight and asked the American Public to rise up and slaughter the pro impeachment factions of the House & Senate back in the Bull Clinton era. Then again maybe Dave just got confused about the concept of a dude ranch! Navarro's strictly a free range celebrity!
more or less
Speaking of sound and fury Baldwin was there to voice his support for the cause. Baldwin doesn't look like he missed too many meals, and I'm sure he hasn't been bulking up on tofu. Incidentally Alec was the one recorded calling his daughter Ireland an ignorant little pig during a now infamous telephone message. So basically his PETA support puts that in perspective. He wasn't insulting his daughter, but expressing his love buy comparing her to one of Mother Nature's blessed little creatures. In fact during that call it sounded like he loved her so much that she was becoming an endangered species. Anyway Alec got off the hook for that when it became clear that his wife Kim Bassigner, leaked the tape to get at him - there by proving that she loved her daughter even more, or less, than he does!
celebs have a beef with fur
where's the beef?
I love how most of these characters look too doped up and jaded to even muster the wide eyed sincerity of some one to whom the idea had just occurred. "Well animals you know, that's bad. We've gotta do something about that, the situation I mean, not the animals. It's gotta be stopped." In other words this was an opportunity to be seen and heard while gaining cred in connection with a worthwhile cause. "Celebrities like to look like they care about stuff," as Sting said on an episode of the Simpsons (on an interesting aside and Internet acquaintance of mine told me about how Sting had lectured at their high school on the rain forest. Sting seemed sincere to the point that my friend was genuinely moved. About a week later friend goes to a Police concert. Friend gets back stage, meets Sting again and asks "Hows the rain forest doing?" Sting replies "How the fuck should I know?"). They delivered the message with the thoughtfulness and clarity of a Sarah Palin, too (no wonder Palin is the first 'celebrity politician' and hated by celebrities harboring political ambitions. We hate most in others what in them is most like ourselves. So a politician harboring celebrity aspirations is just too much to take!). Fortunately no mischievous types were there, to ask them whether or not they were concerned that their pro PETA stance might be interpreted as anti gay in light of Lady Gaga's recent commentary. Then again there wasn't much chance of that, since no one really relevant goes to PETA anymore, not even PINK!
"Save the Image" & Hollywood Humane Society, otherwise known as the retirement fund for aging pop cultural icons
Now I'm not criticizing celebs for being phony, superficial, narcissistic, and insincere in there political support - no wait that's exactly what I'm doing. That kind of involvement cheapens even a worthwhile cause, to say nothing of bull shit organizations like PETA (PETA reputedly euthanizes a greater percentage of animals turned over to it's care than the curiously named Humane Society. It's something like 98%. In fact PETA workers have stood trial incidents involving the disposal of bags of euthanized dogs & cats in garbage dumpsters. PETA's response was something to the effect of "We're not about saving individual dogs and cats but about raising awareness of the issue". Then they went on to announce the release of George Clooney flavoured tofu. They didn't actually release the tofu. It seemed more like an excuse for a news conference. Perhaps there just wasn't enough demand for Clooney flavoured food.). So it raises the question "Couldn't their energy be better directed towards worthy goals?", like keeping gays off of the streets by getting them into the military.
Kirstie Alley is a big star but not as big as she used to be. Perhaps motivated by dire National Enquirer predictions that she had 4 years to live, the former Fat Actress recently unveiled her new and improved figure - minus 50 pounds!
So that ought'a show the NE! The best part is that she did it without plastic surgery & make up!
sometimes when we touch- if anyone wants me I'll be taking some time alone to work on my sex tape
Speaking of something to prove, here's the latest Twitter pic from Demi Moore & Ashton Kutcher! The couple have made full use of Twitter ever since they realized you don't need a career or an image to be a celebrity - only a medium. That's very McLuhanesque! Now they're referencing John & Yoko in their latest posting, done straight from bed!
Now wasn't that something. If they think that should put the cheating rumours to rest then some one ought'a told 'em that trying too hard ain't very convincing!
doin' it wrong on the right side of town
Meanwhile prescription pills are once again wrecking havoc in the celebrity community. This time the victim is Last Comic Standing judge Greg Giraldo. Now he's not dead, but he is in critical condition after over dosing on pills this weekend. He was found unresponsive in his hotel room following a wild party! Here's the low down on that.
take 2 of these and call me in the morning, if you're still around
So while Hollywood has made Lindsay Lohan the substance abuse poster girl the ones no one suspected are still dropping like flies. They're not cashing out on Lohan's party favours either, but stuff immediately available from the usual disreputable Dr. Murray Conrad type physicians! Considering the shit La Lohan has gotten over her high living life style many more cautious celebs are opting for legal alternatives. That way when the do gooders and interventionists start sniffing around they can smile sweetly and tell them to take it up with the doctor in question. "At least he has a degree - what do you have besides memberships in numerous 12 step programs?" That usually shuts 'em up, reluctantly.
my homeopath told me to give up red meat & goof balls!
The down side is that celebs are more likely to buy the farm using ill gotten legal meds then the safer illegal drugs. Still you can't blame them for playing the angles after Lohan got made a public spectacle example of. Many professional celebrities would like to preserve their careers and stay out of jail. However it does make you think that the real problem some substance abusing celebrities have is the good intentions of those trying to help them, rather than the substances they resort to for some relief from the madness. Amatuer therapy is becoming an even greater plague to American society than amateur sleuthing. Note to any potential bulls in the china shop out there - leave it to the pros, no matter how greater you need to meddle or interfere, 'cause even of the pros don't know any better than you, at least they have better malpractice insurance!
Poor Les Nessman had to spend several weeks in the hospital, again, after getting that earful. Les was always nervous and impressionable, so that information might've been a bit more than he could handle. Even though the effects of conspiracy theories on the low minded are pretty well known (most forms of paranoid schizophrenia for instance, and of course that father & son tin foil hat act Mel & Hutton Gibson!), they still remain a popular form of entertainment for the hardier among us. In most major radio markets you can settle in with Coast to Coast AM any night of the week - like a bed time story for juvenile delinquents. The strange thing is that conspiracy theories have gained a kind of street cred over the past 10 years. So much so that it might be worthwhile to take a look at one popular sci fi series to see if their might be more to it than we realize!
'Heavy Metal' anagrams to 'Have tamely', but don't let that fool you!
rat tail stagnates
Richard Dean Anderson shares more in common with former President George W Bush than chance resemblance (or is it chance?).. Anderson is also rotten with Illuminati connections. His most public Illuminati association is through the sci fi cult TV series Stargate.
the truth is out there - so beam me up!
Stargate is the TV series that references Illuminati beliefs that their distant ancestors were reptilian ET's who came to Earth in ancient Egypt; both to possess the bodies of young, healthy, attractive Earthlings, and to rule humanity like livestock. Their transmission device was the stargate that allowed them instantaneous transportation from one part of the universe to another by using constellations to navigate. So now we not only have reptilian references, but the whole astro theology angle.
who's your daddy? UFO Elvis!
Up shot is that a whole generation of young sci fi fans have been unwittingly indoctrinated into Illuminati believes without their knowledge (that's were the unwitting part comes in - it's easier to indoctrinate someone without their knowledge is they are unwitting) faster than you can say "Heavy Metal" backwards.
Shroud of Turin contains embedded image of NYC subway routes!
However don't take my word for it. Here's Toronto's most controversial radio show host Gary Bell to give you the low down on what's really going on right under your nose with his latest broadcast on The View From Space! No stargate's were used in the Spaceman's broadcast!
Heavenly mat
It might be easy to dismiss this as more tin foil hattery except that the War In Heaven theme does keep reoccurring again and again in popular fiction. George Lucas only good idea - which he milked for about 8 sequel/prequels was based on this. In fact it could have been ripped right out of Scientology's OT3 Wall Of Fire teachings, with Darth Vader as Xenu. The shear number of space cults out there, from The Order of the Solar Temple to the Raelians to Heaven's Gate, not to mention Scientology it's self should show that these ideas are taken seriously by some segments of the population. So these ideas have been slowly building up some pop cultural cred.
the truth s out there and the enemy has gotten into your head!
Here's another example of how some vague ideas can gain a foot hold and hang on for centuries!
Nostradamus predicts that history will repeat itself - hints that there's more going on than we realize!
where's the beef? 6 degrees of Baconation!
It's a little known fact that Nostradamus never actually existed but was in fact Francis Bacon. After discovering some amazing life extending technology during his dabbles with alchemy he later went onto become Sir John Dee - Elizabeth I's personal court sorcery. He also went on to encode secret Rosicrucian messages into the King James Bible for James I. The King James Bible is more rotten with Illuminati references than Shakespeare - who was also Francis Bacon! Incidentally Francis Bacon was also Roger Bacon, and may even be actor Kevin Bacon. You had to know there was more to that 6 degrees of Bacon than a parlor game!
set your decoder rings to stunned
So remember if you want to gain fame as a prophet be outrageous, but be vague! Or you can stick to the routine and predictable. For instance I predict that Lindsay Lohan will get caught drinking and or drugging while in rehab - which will lead to another hearing and more suspended sentences! Also Jennifer Aniston will not find love again in 2011! Also Angelina Jolie may or may not adopt more children in a pathetic attempt to hang onto a fading Brad Pitt. She may also star as a hit woman, spy, or serial killer in yet another big budget Hollywood film that will have disappointing box office returns, perhaps debuting just behind Milla Jovovich's Resident Evil 6 Kung Fu Zombie: Return of the Living Dead Again! Like Al Capp said in Lil Abner "Foretellin the future ain't much of a talent" (Brooke Shields was right - cartoons do have the power to make us laugh & to make us think!). In fact the real talent is in avoid the obvious - & that's where the Follywood Dream Factory comes in! Oh yeah, and the world will end shortly after the warranty runs out! That way we have to pay full retail value for a new one!
before Harry Potter there was Caleb Temple!Hermione was a hot to trot school teacher!
they only switched to cable when back engineered ET technology began screwing up television transmission!
BTW the whole Stargate thing has been greatly exaggerated for the purposes of popular entertainment. As every serious conspiracy theorist knows there is only one stargate - or "Kalachakra" (Literally 'time wheel' or 'space wheel') as the initiated call it - on the planet and is currently located inside the Vatican (there is rumored to be one other that was smuggled out of Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion and is currently on loan to the American government in exchange for political support. That one is allegedly being stored in Area 51)! Now how did you think that the Pope managed to hang onto such political influence long after religion has been discredited! Herb Tarlek was right about one thing - the issues are a smoke screen. It's always really be a battle of style rather than of substance.
Circles are round - coincidence or does pi have something to do with it?
PS Did you know that if you divide the longitude by the latitude (or is it vice verse) of Roswell, New Mexico you get a number suspiciously close to Pi? In answer to the obvious question, yes I am an Illuminati disinformation agent. I only say that because no one would ever expect a disinformation agent to admit that, & we're trained in mind games!
Lard Lad & Tubby Lady Killer Still Among the Living
Brandon Davis is not dead. The story got started through a report on Fox news about an anonymous 26 year old who got killed in a gas station explosion. Blogs like Perezhilton were quick to go with this starting a Google trends overload on Brandon Davis dead searches. However the anonymous gas station victim was not Davis, but some poor unfortunate. AS far as anyone knows, the man known as Greasybear, and who christened Lindsay LohanFirecrotch, is still very much alive.
who's who
A little background for those unfamiliar with Davis - he's the heir to a billion dollar oil fortune who isn't bad looking when his glandular problems aren't acting up. He's also dated every young hottie in Hollywood from Mischa Barton to Lindsay Lohan - including Paris Hilton. He also got into some kind of bust up with Pink outside a LA nightclub over parking space. That got tweeted upon and Pink picked up some easy kudos for kicking Brandon in the buts or something. So if we've learned nothing else from Mr Davis it's that you can make yourself more popular by picking on some one that no one likes! Getting killed in a gas station explosion might have seemed like the ideal end to his colorful career as a celebrity, however that sort of thing only happens in pulp fiction.
don't go off half cocked
This is the latest in a long line of Dead on the Internet hoaxes that have taken in some very big names in media/blogging circles. If you're too quick on the draw and not thorough enough in your fact checking you can get taken - no matter who you are. However there have been enough of these Internet pranks by now that any one would be cautious when they see the world dead beside the name of some fairly famous person. Remember that credibility doesn't mean you're right. Don't believe it until it's wondertrash!
Now here's that FOX report that lead to the Brandon Davis Dead rumours that took in the likes of Perezhilton (now no longer the Internet's top gossip blog), TMZ, & Radaronline!
That's the trouble with FOX, even when they have their facts straight people still form the wrong conclusions. Now is that FOX's fault??
My Chemical Romance - bleary eyed melodrama continues
BTW for those still keeping track Lindsay Lohan is out on bail. She was taken directly to jail, in handcuffs on Friday. This was for some sort of violation involving alcohol, cocaine, & Twitter. Twitter seems more like an error in judgement - however you can easily see how it could be classed as a violation when taken too far, as it usually is and especially when in the hands of celebrities. Now the official word was that Lohan wasn't gonna be getting out this time because this wasn't a sentencing, but a hold over for a parole violation. She'd have to punch in her 30 days until a new court date could be set.
red eyed theater
However Lohan's lawyer did some nifty and nimble legal work and filed a write of Habius Corpus. Now that means Lohan's right to due process had some how been violated. So with all the violations going on in both directions saner head thought that it would be better to get Lohan off their hands, like a hot potato. So they issued bail, that was promptly paid. As of now Lohan is cooling her heals in some rehab facility or another, awaiting her next high profile chemical indiscretion!
Now here's a little music video dedication for Brandon, Lindsay, and all those other poor wretched celebrities from A List down to triple Z, who haven't yet made the transition from tabloid fodder to pop culture legend by way of the usual route.
So what's it like to be a famous actor, and a cast member of one of televisions most beloved sit coms? What MASH was for baby boomers Friends was for Gen X'ers - though without the political protest, idealism, of pretense of concern with anything out side or beyond one's own limited existence and confined social circle (Still it was a very good show, MASH I mean). Now if Matt LeBlanc wasn't the Alan Alda of the show - that honor goes unquestionably to Jennifer Ansiton, he was certainly the Wayne Rogers, or perhaps even MacLean Stevenson (BTW that makes Courtney Cox the Hotlips, Daivd Schwimmer is Frank Burns, and Matthew Perry - wait a minute maybe Perry is Alda and Aniston is more of a Mike Farrell...). The point is that he was no Gary Burghoff - that's Lisa Kudrow's role! Yet that's exactly what the entertainment media is making him out to be. Naturally LeBlanc is pissed!
How pissed? Well Matt was over in Merry Ole England recently to give an interview to the UK Mirror (the Mirror is one of those fishwrappers frequently involved in multi million dollar libel cases, when they're not paying a small fortune to some prostitute to tell them how long David Beckham's dick is - so they kind of serve as an inspiration for online gossip bloggers!) . Matt however wasn't so merry. While sitting down for the interview LeBlanc accidentally knocked over a glass of water. The reporter naturally assumed that LeBlanc was referencing his lovably thick Friends character and blurted "You all right, Joey? How YOU do-in?" The paper should've sent some one along who was experienced enough to know that you don't say things like that to a former somebody. I guess they just didn't think Joey was worth the consideration.
Joey LeBlanc thought that it was worth consideration. He considered it enough at the time to blow his stack over it. By blow his stack I mean that he said "I'm not Joey. Don't you dare call me Joey. The papers say I'm finished, so don't call me f**king Joey. I want to leave that all behind. I'm moving on." Just in case the reporter didn't catch that Joey went on "I'm not Joey. For the last time. I'm not f**king Joey. It's Matt. Matt LeBlanc. Joey's in the past. I'm trying to do something new."
Now that's not what Joey usually says. Joey usually tries to make the best of it by telling people what they want to hear. Things like "If people really believe me as that character, I have done my job. I don't look on it as a negative thing. I take it as a compliment.", which got brought up In a recent interview.
Now if that's eating shit and calling it sugar, then it's only because the man is a consummate professional. Kind of the way Lynda Carter was - during her drinking period - whenever some owner from one of the thousands of online Wonder Woman fans sites would call her up for some comments to add to his latest podcast. If Lynda was 3 sheets to the wind at the time she might be heard getting impatient, and even showing some low key sarcasm -"Oh yeah, good ole Wonder Woman. We gotta keep ole Wonder Woman kicking - woo hooo!"
Also you have to consider the strain that Joey is under recently. His last show was the short lived Friends spin off Joey which didn't make 13 episodes. His new project is a freak show called Matt LeBlanc where Joey plays a character called Matt LeBlanc that isn't the real Matt LeBlanc, but based on public perceptions about who LeBlanc is. So there's probably way too much Joey in there. Also it might mess with Joey's sense of reality - that's tenuous in actors at the best of times. More over actors, unlike regular folk, don't find the best in themselves during adversity.
So perhaps Joey thought he was in character like Joaquin Phoenix on Letterman a year back; and again a couple of nights ago. Or even like William Shatner on Saturday Night Live when he told the nerds to "get a life". Now if they'd listened to that there'd never have been a comic con 2010! Everyone knew Capt. Kirk didn't mean it - if people got a life than no one would watch TV and movies!
It was the same kind of sly self parody (on Joey's part) that has made William Shatner once again a household name to a generation of people to young to remember Star Trek as anything but a reference for the Next Generation Movies and Deep Space: Voyager - "7 of 9, summon the Bjork!" JOey has been around long enough to know that no matter how hopeless associated with a role you have become there is an eventual chance to get past it by owning it through self referential culturally relevant parody. Just like Betty White! Unless you're Gary Coleman. So pipe down Joey, you'll be just fine in 15 to 25 years!
THINGS HAVE TAKEN A BAD TURN FOR Mel Gibson ever since he got arrested for drunk driving, made some anti Semitic, anti freemasonry, conspiracy type comments, left his wife of almost 30 years, hooked up with a plastic Russian whore, then made a lot of threatening comments about her on tape recorded telephone calls that some how got posted to gossip sites like TMZ and Radaronline. That's the nature of life; it has it's ups and downs. The good news for Mel, & his many fans is that he's gone from a down turn to an upswing. Ironically that's due to those many many tapes Oksana Grigorieva made.
Seems that Ms. Grigorieva and Mel had some kind of understanding. It went something like "I won't release these tapes and ruin your image, and consequently your career; if you pay me an awful lot of money." At least that's what Oxie said in some e mails she sent Mel's way. Since that's a felony - blackmail - & since Oxie was silly enough to spell that out, the authorities are taking a closer look at the whole sad sorry mess.
Now Gibson claimed this all along. He said that Grigorieva demanded $10 mill to keep the tapes under wraps. Naturally no one believed him because he was a rabid racist psycho. However since the incriminating e mails have surfaced, the The Los Angeles County District Attorney is taking a closer look at the extortion angle. In fact according to ROL, they're considering whether they have enough to charge Oxie! According to an unnamed source in law enforcement - by way of the National Enquirer: "These are the text messages that Mel's camp turned over the Sheriff's detectives as potential evidence of the extortion claim."
So how much trouble is Oxie in? See for yourself by linking to Radaronline, where they've posted exerts of the e mails. That's kind of ironic 'cause Oxie made pretty good use of ROL while she was trying to nail the lid on Mel's coffin shut. Now they're busy helping Oxie on her way to a jail cell. One thing about professional gossips is that we're equal opportunity nuisances operating without discrimination. Oxie might have figured that out when the paparazzi she set loose on Mel started following her around and asking her embarrassing question like "Did Mel threaten to kill you today?" and "Did you blow Mel?". So suffice it to say that the publicity game is a double edged sword. If you play with fire, you might get burnt!
BTW & speaking of the publicity game, step one of Mel's rehabilitation seems to be a guest starring role on hit TV series Mad Men. Mad Men maker Matt Weiner is a big fan of Gibson's and is in talks with Mel's people regarding a series of appearances for the controversial actor. In fact he may even have an ongoing or reoccurring role in the series. Now appearing on MM would be a shrewd move for Gibson. It might even be a better format to reintroduce him to the public than the usual vehicle Dancing For Redemption, I mean Dancing With the Stars! Though don't underestimate DWTS. If they can make Heather Mills and Bristol Palin likeable, the show is still a force to be reckoned with!
BTW remember to keep checking wondertrash. It may not be the most reliable gossip source, but it is consistent!
PS: A little more back story on Mel & Oxie - when the tapes were released some of them featured Mel making disparaging remarks about Oxie's mothering skills by way of her son, Alexander, by Timothy Dalton. Mel referred to the lad as a mess. Tabloids were quick to push Mad Max vs 007 stories. Dalton did come out of the wood work, but when asked about Mel responded "Absolutely no comment".
In fact he seemed much more concerned with getting the boy away from Oxie than in taking on Gibson. Oxie balked cause she said it would make her look like a bad mother in any upcoming custody hearings with Gibson. Since this was said to Dalton that leaves only a limited number of ways that the statement could've gotten out. After dealing with Slutsana for over 14 years I guess 007 figured that he couldn't take her on directly. That would make Oxie a more dangerous whorebag than any of the sexy Russian spies James Bond had to deal with in the whole campy movie series. That is with the possible exception of the woman who had the extendable knife blade in her shoe.
Lady Gaga is friendly to gay issues; to gay people not so much!
Looks like the gay community continues to get stuck with all those outmoded hand me down institutions that the straight community no longer wants any part of - like marriage and military service. What's more Lady Gaga is leading the charge! If this trend continues soon the gay community will be the only ones going to church, voting, and paying income tax!
remember when military service was something sensible people tried to weasel out of?
Sarah Palin isn't the only person out there politically motivating the masses. Lady Gaga recently provided some food for thought with some meaty analogies on gay service in the military. For one thing Gaga says That gays have the same right to die on the battle field as anoy other poor son of a bitch. In fact they have more right to get themselves killed than a homophobe. Now I'm not sure whether this means Gaga is pro gay or pro war. We can't even be sure that she's pro meat since the prime rib isn't faring any better than the gays in her world view. If equality is the prime rib of America, then common sense must be the meat & potatoes.
suspiciously like taking an Aspirin to get a headache
I suppose that having the same right to get your guts blown out as anyone else is an important symbolic victory. Just like having the right to get crucified in the divorce court if things don't work out (and they usually don't). The problem with symbolic victories is that on a personal level they don't get you anywhere. Think about it for a minute. Gaga's statement is that if your gay, go get killed; but if you're anti gay then go home to safety. So apart from getting the gay folk killed, it keeps the anti gays safe and resentful. Now I'm not sure which side Gaga is on, or whether her tongue might be in her cheek; but I do know that if I were on trial I wouldn't want her defending me. I might wind up drawn and quartered!
is she for it or against it?For it in theory, in practice watch out!
This is the problem with politics in general and 'symbolism' in particular. Symbolism is a form of madness because it encourages you not to see what is by seeing what isn't. We saw this when gay marriage started to become legal. This was a great step forward, but what was the next step? After gay marriage comes bitter, expensive gay divorce. Now most sensible types have spent years trying to avoid marriage and it's complications. However some people seem to insist on it. Fools rush in.
So the best way to support the gay community is by being pro war (So is being anti war now anti gay? The principles are colliding so fast that soon hip with it types won't know what side of the issues they're supposed to jump on). So send them off into the combat zones. By that line of reasoning it might be even more supportive to line them up against a wall and shoot them, but we have to keep progress within reasonable limits. Rome was burned in a day.
This is gonna hurt you more than it hurts me
To be clear my problem isn't with homosexuality. If anyone feels the need to be gay then go be gay. You shouldn't need anyone's permission or validation to be yourself. Besides, many of us aren't even interested in our own sex lives, let alone anyone else's. My problem is with politics (of every orientation) because of the confusion it creates. Politics short circuits a sensible concern with personal interests for the sake of the 'principle'. Like abortion. Every thinking person knew they had to be 'pro choice'. What about when abortion is used to target female fetuses, as it is in most developing parts of the world? A real step forward for women. What about if in the no too distant future abortion is used to target gay fetuses? Most people who are politically supportive of the gay agenda still might not want one in their family (that was supposedly Ted Kennedy's personal view). Then they might never get their chance at symbolic victory!
Col Klinger why have you forsaken us?
Now Lady Gaga probably knows better. She's probably using a political short cut to success by 'bandstanding' or hitching a ride on a popular agenda. "One hand washes the other". By boosting the cause she can expect the cause to boost her. However if some one's idea of supporting you results in you getting killed, harmed, imperiled, or generally being worse off; then you've got to ask what good it's actually doing you. We've gone from trying to get the troops out of the Middle East to trying to get more gays in there. Meanwhile everyone who wants an out has it under the Gaga Principle - "I was gonna make a pass at my superior officer, but now I'll just tell him that he's of the devil!" So where does that kind of symbolic victory get you in the long run? Just be glad that Gaga ain't supporting you!
BTW Speaking of outrageous be sure to keep your peepers peeled for Russell Brand's latest magnum opus - My Other Little Booky Wook. Buy it or he'll beat the shit out of ya!
Like they say everyone has a story. Here @ wondertrash we just borrow everyone else's.
LeAnn Rimes has been stigmatized ever since she cheated on her own husband with another woman's husband. Now LR has come forward to address that issue. She's not apologizing mind you, but she can explain.
According to LeAnn both she and her then husband were quite young at the time. The calendar backs them up on this. However she then goes on to imply that though they both grew, they grew apart. This kind of leaves it to be inferred that hubs didn't quite catch up with Rimes own growth spurt. So she pulled an Amy Grant.
BTW LeAnn also goes onto say that growing up as America's Sweetheart placed some unfair expectations on her - like decency. Rimes makes it sound as if she were suffocating in some Mary Tyler Moore type straitjacket that was stifling her inner Sue Ann Nivens/Happy Homewrecker.
Here's the Happy Homewrecker in her own words from CNN. BTW her own words don't include the one people want to hear - "sorry".
Strong words from the panelists; lukewarm from LeAnn. I like the chick who claims that there's a special place in hell for chicks who steal other chicks men. If that's true then LeAnn chestnuts must be roasting already! Also if that's true LeAnn will have plenty of celebrity company in the dark hot place, like Angelina Jolie, and most notably Julia Roberts. For some reason these ladies have gotten a pass, or at least a get out of jail free card, on their cheating ways. Poor Jennifer Aniston has never ever been the same since Jolie stomped the wheels off of her little red wagon. Jolie might have gotten a pass on that cause crazy & dangerous is part of her image, ie girl most likely to kill and eat you after mating (she's even starting to physically resemble a praying mantis).
As for Roberts, she's retained her America's Sweetheart crown until recently. She only lost it then because of an outpouring of sympathy & support for Sandy Bullock. When people heard what Jesse James had been doing behind her back, and with other women, they felt that Sandy needed a promotion from Miss Congeniality to full grade Sweetheart level. As they say on Strangers With Candy, pity is worth more than all the whiskey in a drunkard's dreams, plus no one can ever take it away from you!
However Roberts loss of sweetheart status was more do to a relative change in Bullock's, and not any kind of anti Roberts sentiment. This is odd given Roberts own relationship with her husband Danny Moder. Apparently there was some kind of marriage bust up involved in that. What's worse Roberts has tormented Moder's family with her constant bullying and demands. At one point she had the entire clan enrolled in therapy so that they could learn to be more sensitive to her needs. Why be a more reasonable person yourself when you can get the other person to give in to you by convincing them that it's the reasonable thing to do? Worse still Moder's mother had a fatal heart attack at about the time Julia horned in on the scene. Moder's sister is convinced that the heart attack was Julia Roberts related, and still won't talk to her famous sister in law.
Now LeAnn hasn't caused any deaths - that we know of - yet she continues to dangle on the hook. Looks like people are determined to give her a hard time over this. Maybe she deserves a hard time - I dunno. However worse people are getting off easier.
Is this a story of Good vs Evil? G vs E, that's what it is!
So how the hell did Christine O Donnell manage to get elected. Some say, naive types mostly, that it's the power of the grass roots Teaparty movement. Others suspect that there might be a darker force involved. What force and how dark? Well Christine herself hints at this back when she was one of Bill Maher's regulars on his old Politically Incorrect series. Christine appeared in 22 episodes, and during one she fesses up to having gone over to the dark side. Here's Missy Chrissy herself:
O’DONNELL: I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. [...]
One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.
deals with the dark - batteries not inculed
In other words Little Miss Teabagger has "gone Faustian" as we say in the business. "Gone Faustian" means that she may have made a deal with the devil. Now that's not too surprising. The entertainment industry is full of that sort of thing. Politics has been rapidly catching up ever since the Reagan Era. The way it usually works is that some one wants something - like a movie role or a political office - so badly that they're willing to do anything to get it (morlocks - soul brokering demons - are drawn to people with strong desires). The next thing they know Darth Vader is at the front door with a parchment/contract and asking them to sign in blood. If they do, then presto chango suddenly they go from nowhere to the fast lane in under 60 seconds. How do you think Bill O Reilly went from the host of A Current Affair to the most influential news anchor in America? It worked out just like Rupert Morlock told him it would. Unfortunately Ole Rups forgot to mention that peer respect wasn't included in the deal.
American Gothic - evil is relative, but loyalty counts!
Of course it'll cost ya. In addition to your immortal soul you might be required to do certain favours for the dark side from time to time. Like support a war, get an abortionist killed by stirring up trouble on the evening news, or even participate in an upcoming reality TV series! Deals with darkness are a very dirty business. Then, when your contract runs out, you die and become a morlock ("morlocks are the mortal danger"). Or you can renounce your deal. Since that means going back to obscurity, few do. Except for all those tragic child stars and celebrity also rans. Needless to say it's easier to stay out than to get out.
As for Missy Chrissy, she ain't the only Teabagger who's into evil shit. Just take a look at what some of these fiends are into on the sly, behind their well intentioned supporters backs and under their very noses!
Beastiality, women with horses, and all under the guise of traditional home spun Americana! The minions of darkness are surely a fiendish lot. The was probably more to it than "construction business antics" (who knew construction was so colorful?). My guess is that this was one of they weird paganisitical rites! Some strange practice that unleashes the very dark forces that make stuff happen - like getting teabaggers elected, or foisting the Palins on the public!
Suffice it to say that some very bad shit is going down now. So keep your guard up. Further more you should inform yourself about what you can do to stay prepared! The Forces Of Evil, or FOE for our purposes, are formidable but like Superman they do have their weaknesses. Just take a glimpse a the following entertaining video from 1999 to see what's going on and what you can do about it.
So the good news is that this tide of evil can be stemmed. Faustians can be saved, if you can get them to renounce. Just stay clear on the basics: don't interfere with the natural order of things, remember that this has nothing to do with Viet Nam, and whatever you do don't choke on your nuts!
For more on what's really going on check out the latest transmission from Gary the Spaceman Bell & The View From Space.
"What in the fuck is wrong with Lindsay Lohan?" That's what the celebrity gossip world is asking after the young actress flunked yet another court mandated drug test. Since last night's wondertrash post, the exact substance of concern has been made known and it is none other than cocaine. Lindsay herself admitted this via Twitter. She made a brief 140 character statement owning up to her latest misdeed. In addition to admitting that she was on coke, she also owned up to having a problem. Now that's not saying much; and admitting the obvious may merely be an attempt to preserve some credibility after all other options have been exhausted.
A little Michael Lohan goes a long way
That brings us back to the question of Lindsay's problem. Her father Michael, as usual, has an opinion. He claims that if he'd been in her life after her release from jail/rehab, none of this ever would have happened. That raises another good question; 'where the hell was he?' not only post release, but in the half dozen or so years previous. The short answer to that is in and out of jail on various charges from fraud to assault. On second thought less of Michael Lohan might be better than more.
go to your room!
There's also the opinion that since the courts have been notoriously easy on Lindsay, she's got no motivation to straighten out. These DUI related charges have been getting recycled through the legal system for years now - ever since Lindsay first started going off the rails circa 2007. Back then she smashed up several luxury sedans and pricey cars - 3 in a matter of months - before finally getting nailed. That got dismissed pending her completion of some court ordered self help work. Lindsay either did the minimum required, or skipped completely, so that she was required to appear before court again and again, for more stern talking to's. No matter how many times she was told to go and think about what she'd done, she never got around to changing her ways.
a bad case of celebrity personality disorder?
Finally there's the expert opinion, from celebrity observer Will Lee. In discussion with ABC News he hits on something that wondertrash regulars will have known all along. Let's call it the obvious. According to Mr. Lee, Lindsay problem is that she's an actress, and they're a fucked up breed. Worse for Lohan she's been an actress since childhood (which is better at least than being born one like poor Drew Barrymore). That's a serious condition, similar to Cameron Douglas style pre adolescent drug addiction. In other words she became conditioned to a life of play acting and make believe.
blame Hollywood
Added to the general lose of touch with reality is the Follywood milieu which not only supports but encourages a high degree of immaturity. As Mr Lee calls it " A perpetual summer camp without adult supervision". Follywood denizens are encouraged to live the dreams and take it to the limit, as far as their hearts desire. So the town ain't in the business of telling people "no". Here's Mr Lee to describe the situation in his own words:
next role - Jerri Blank!
Mr. Lee seems to be a very articulate and insightful gentleman (he must be a wondertrash reader!). He covers the essential points too: errant father, enabling mother, lax legal system, Follywood lifestyle. So the simple answer is that there's no simple answer to Ms Lohan's woes. Or at least no one answer. It is safe to say that we will be hearing more from her, at least on Twitter if not in a professional capacity!
Starbucks once again safe for the beautiful people!
Speaking of outrages against justice, remember that chick who got doused with acid outside a Vancouver Washington Starbucks? To refresh your memory she was the one who said that a black woman did it. That incident provoked an outpouring of sympathy, and no shortage of racists comments on youtube. It turns out that the whole thing was a hoax. No the woman's face really was damaged with acid, however there was no black woman involved. It turns out that she did it to herself! What could have been her motivation? Here now are some of the usual professional commentators to speculate on the motive to her madness.
"A black person did it!" White folks always fall for that line. BTW regarding the many spelling, grammatical, and syntactical errors on this blog - black computer hackers. A whole gang of them! It's a pack of Steve Urkels abusing their computer skills to mess up my blog and undermine my credibility!
Now that's not what Joey usually says. Joey usually tries to make the best of it by telling people what they want to hear. Things like "I
