Anthony Minghella's rep has announced that the writer/director died from a brain hemorrhage after undergoing a "routine operation" on his neck. So sad. • Mariah Carey comes across as shockingly down to earth in an interview with Allure. She says she knows people think she's a "ditzy moron" and, of her tumultuous love life, Mariah explains, "Not to quote Swingers, but 'we all have stories.' I got a freakin' miniseries in me." • Heather Mills has hired celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred to be her "advocate" in the United States. [TMZ, Us, DListed]
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11:45 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Jessica
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what the fuck does heather mills need an advocate? And in the US? We don't give three shits about such a wench. Go away. STay in england. WE DONT WANT YOU HERE.
Brain hemorrhages scare me. ALl of a sudden poof! You're gone. Ugh. He has a kid in his 20's no? I can't imagine what he must be going through. so sad.
Too bad about Minghella, he was a pretty formidable musicologist in some respects.
@ineffable.me: My thoughts exactly! STFU Heather Mills!
I'm actually shocked Allred hasn't already offered herself pro bono to Wronged Ex Miller (tm) prior to the case actually concluding.
Bless your heart, Heather, you don't need an advocate. Get a financial advisor, an exorcist, and a gay and fucking chill.
I hate Mariah Carey. And I hate her new song. But I hate even more that Derek Jeter proposed to her :(
Of all the lines from Swingers, that one sure doesn't stand out.
Man, I was supposed to have neck surgery a year ago, and the example above was one of the reasons I did not.
Advil is your friend. We'll miss Minghella and his talent.
I am disppointed that Gloria Allred is taking her case.
I am going to miss Minghella's sparkling and heartfelt dialogue.
@ineffable.me:
I thought the same thing. Why does she need an advocate in the US?
Why would she spend money on that after all the complaining she's just done about the amount of money she got?
@NotAPrettyGirl: LALALALALA! I can't hear you. I exist in a place where Jeter only has eyes for me.
Poor AM. That was my worst fear when my dad had neck surgery a few years ago. Yikes! Must go call dad now and tell him I love him. . .
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: Wanna fight for him? ;)
Oooh, judgement in the divorce case gone public today...Heather Mills is full of shit.
This is so sad. I met Minghella this summer in Botswana where he was filming 1st Ladies Detective Series. He was so energetic and passionate about the project. Aargh, just sad...
Heather, the U.S. just doesn't care. Same goes for you Mariah.
@NotAPrettyGirl: Nah. I'll just take Shelley Duncan (I love ginormous guys with huge forearms) with a side of Melky Cabrera's dimples and that dirty little Robinson Cano smile. And the Titan thighs of Alex Rodriguez. And you can have all of Jeter. Oh, yeaaaaaaahhhhh.... A big Yankee/Skittlehattington sexathon.
@LadyE:
Mighella was doing the #1 Ladies Detective? Oh, I'm even sadder now. I'll miss him and will surely see this film when it comes out.
@LoveNoelG: Yeah. It was like she was trying really hard to be cool and knowledgable and just comes across as totally lame. So not money Mariah baby!
That is quite possibly the best combination of man parts imaginable. And you can have Arod's thighs if I can have his ass!! :)
Heather, the die is cast, you are despised on all continents, except maybe Antarticia....the polar ice is melting, the penguins need an advocate...please take a slow boat south.
Seeing Mariah on SNL this weekend was sad. What happened to the girl with the crazy-huge voice and mind-boggling range? Now she just flashes her panties under a way-too-short sequined mini while whisper-talking to a beat as dancers move hilariously behind her.
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: Again, I messed up the comment thing. Last comment was for you. Sorry :(
@myrtlebeachbum: Actually, I think she'll need several bodyguards.
@KidPresentable: throwing water? for reals? what is she? a six year old?
I loved "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and the "English Patient." He as a wonderful filmmaker.
Heather Mills... no words to describe her. Well, lots of words, but none of them are civil.
@ineffable.me: Agreed - her experience on Dancing with the Stars should have convinced her that Americans aren't particularly enamoured with her.
Y'know, the one positive thing I can say about Heather Mills is that she hasn't pimped out her daughter to the tabloids. I can't actually remember the last time I saw a picture of Beatrice, or even heard anything about her for that matter.
@funnyface: I watched on fast forward on my TiFaux. Funniest thing on the entire show (except for Weekend Update, of course).
@BrutallyHonestBabes: Yep, but as a television series for the BBC. There was talk that he might then expand it to the big screen depending on how the tv series was received. The tv series stars Jill Scot and Nikita Rose (sp?- from Dreamgirls). Two of the kids of the judge I worked for over the summer interned on set in Botswana and Minghella was a huge fan of the judge (in addition to being on the High Court, she's the only native Botswana to be published outside of Botswana! Amazing woman- I highly recommend "Juggling Truths", one of her books) so that is how I met him. Everybody thought so highly of him and he really had this amazing appreciation for Botswana which was so cool to see.
@summerwheatley: Kudos to the Judge for saying it like it is:
"In the light of the husband's generosity towards her, as I have set out, I find the wife's behaviour distinctly distasteful. In any event, as Mr Mostyn rightly submitted, it damages her overall credibility....I accept that since April 2006 the wife has had a bad press. She is entitled to feel that she has been ridiculed even vilified. To some extent she is her own worst enemy."
@NotAPrettyGirl: Okay, I'll settle for a different ass, I suppose. Maybe Johnny Damon's. I love him so. (Not just because he's from Kansas either.)
People.com says that Minghella was having a growth removed. My mother lost a cousin to the same operation, the neck can be so delicate. They thought it would be easy and quick. The shock of his death actually caused the death to his twin.
@funnyface: I kept waiting for her to bust loose -- there were several spots in both songs where she could have. I think her upper register is gone, thanks to her meltdown a few years ago. You have to baby the instrument.
@ineffable.me: yeah, his kid was the lead in Art School Confidential (little indie movie from about 2 years ago from the dudes who did Ghost World). i think he goes to Columbia right now?
@LadyE:
I will be watching out for that! That series of books is one of the few in which I think a man has written women well and believably. And thanks for the book recommendation!
Wow. I had a cerebral hemorrhage last summer. No reason. Just "pop" and my head filled with blood. I'm okay now, but I know I was lucky.
@KidPresentable: Are you saying the judge thinks her case doesn't have a leg to stand on?
@Lady Skittlehattington, Worsties Guild President: Deal. Johnny Damon is a keeper. If only this was a real possibility and not just my afternoon cubicle fantasy :(
@myrtlebeachbum: @NefariousNewt: Newt's right. Bjork wants to unicorn rape her and then kill her slowly, possible by the light of the sister fire.
@Macloserboy: Wow, that must've been a scary experience, to put it lightly. I'm glad you're ok.
It will be a small consolation to now watch NotLinda fall into obscurity -- amid, perhaps, a few, crazy blips. Macca can get back to biznass!
p.s. Pauly, srsly, stop with the hair dye. You were the salt'n'pepper hotness in the Press video. xoxo ThePlasticMac
@NotAPrettyGirl: I'd never get any work done.
@ThePlasticMac: Nah, she'll shortly be featured on late night tv marketing about how you too can convince medicare to pay for your prosthetic leg ala the Scooter Store. Eventually it will go primetime, and then she will start advocating for government coverage of elective amputation for fetishists...
And then, she will die in some sort of staged papparazi chase so that she can attempt to be mourned ala Princess Di. Only, she'll secretly be living in a van, down by the river, in Brazil.
@Macloserboy: That must have been terrifying. Glad that you're alright.
I think the term "advocate" is Brit for "lawyer". I don't think anyone in their right mind would advocate her existence in the sense we use the word.
Oh gosh. I hope Max is ok.
@Xavoc: Great -- wow I can't stop thinking about Millsey and her prosthetic leg on a rascal-like scooter going haywire on late night tele! I'd like to drink my coffee, not snort it, thanks ;) Oh, and kudos for the Farley reference. Gotta love that.
"It's a dichotomy, I understand," she tells Allure magazine. "I understand that people think I'm a ditzy moron."
Does anyone else have a hard time believing that Mariah Carey would use the word "dichotomy?"
@spectatertot: yeah i remember that movie! poor thing :(
@Ms. Pants: she was probably telling a story about a friend and didnt remember which friend it was and said something like "dick or tommy", and the interviewer thought she said dichotomy.
@Ms. Pants: I prefer the more politically correct term of "Batshit Crazy"
@Macloserboy: Wow, are you lucky. I burst a blood vessel in my eye last week. I actually heard the pop, and my eye looked like hell. That was enough of a freak-out for me.