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- Nelson Mandela personally called Amy Winehouse and asked her to sing at his birthday party on June 27! The former president of South Africa phoned her! Bono, Elton John and Annie Lennox are expected to perform as well. This UK paper says,"Let's hope [Amy] bee-hives herself!" Yuk, yuk. [Mirror]
- Meanwhile: Does Blake Incarcerated have a secret mistress? Is he plotting with the "mystery blonde" to run away with her — and a chunk of Amy's £10 million fortune? [The Sun]
- Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are due in court today for a progress review. A completely uninformed opinion? She's doing better. [People]
- Owen Wilson allegedly picked up some chick (not Kate Hudson) and invited her back to is boat and propositioned her to join him in a threesome with Vince Vaughn. There was a time that a Butterscotch Stallion/Money Baby sandwich would have been soooo hot, and that time was 2001. [Perez Hilton]
- Britney's back at work on How I Met Your Mother. She looks cute dressed to match Neil Patrick Harris! [TMZ]
- Tom Cruise's new web site is a finely crafted masterpiece of PR spin. [LA Times]
- Prince! Is working on a book! Featuring poetry and photographs and elegantly sealed in a purple slipcase, of course. [Reuters]
- Dina Lohan is being honored as a "Top Mom" by a Long Island-based charity, Mingling Moms Organization. Ali Lohan says: "My mom is great, she has always been there for us. She helps us follow our dreams. I love her to death." And by "to death" she means, "Sometimes I want to strangle her." [Page Six]
- Pete Doherty is out of jail! He served 29 days of a 14-week sentence and now he's back on the streets. You've been warned. [People]
- John Mayer on the pix of him with Jen Aniston in Miami: "Listen, this is not a scandal, this is not an issue, this is not a problem, this needs no spin control. This is me living my life and a guy with a really powerful lens and I don't fault him, I don't fault anybody, I don't fault you, I don't fault this or that. There are much worse problems in the world. Everything's cool!" Hahaha, stoner. [ET]
- But! John Mayer was seen out with Maroon 5 horndog Adam Levine and John "The Player" was "all over some blond girl," according to a source. Maybe he and Jennifer Aniston haven't had "the talk" yet? [Page Six]
- Maxim's Hot 100 list is a sister act: Ashlee Simpson is No. 18, Jessica Simpson is No. 53. But while Ashley Olsen is No. 47, Mary-Kate is not on the list at all... Which might be a compliment. [Page Six]
- Hollywood Hills neighbors of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are pissed that paparazzi cars are parking in their hood. [Page Six]
- Barbara Walters is traveling by private jet to 25 US cities to promote her memoir — and she's taking hair and makeup people from The View with her. But! She's paying for it all herself. [Rush & Molloy]
- Jay-Z at a show at NYC's Madison Square Garden: "This concert isn't endorsed by Obama, but it's time for a change." [Rush & Molloy]
- Jeremy Piven was seen having a "knock-down, all-out screaming match" with a brunette at a party. Ari Gold, is that you? [Rush & Molloy]
- The jury may deliver a verdict in the Uma Thurman stalking case today; we'll keep you posted. [TMZ]
- The bench warrant issued for Foxy Brown yesterday was due to a misunderstanding. Foxy is still free! [TMZ]
- Angela Kinsey, who plays Angela on The Office, gave birth to a baby girl, Isabel Ruby, on Saturday afternoon. [People]
- Mischa Barton is pissed at a photographer who snapped pictures of her sunbathing topless. She says: "He's a ridiculous human being. I've never abhorred anyone more. I was so angry, I went up to him and said how disappointed I was with his behavior. He apologized but he was very insincere." It should be noted that this photographer is the same one Nicole Kidman won a restraining order against after she testified that he tried to run her off the road. [Mirror]
- Peaches Geldof, 19 (daughter of Sir Bob) is implicated in a cocaine ring, ruh-roh. [Mirror]
- Nip/Tuck star Joely Richardson kind of wants an African baby. "I'd love to adopt," she says. "I was almost in tears on a hospital visit because there were two or three babies to each cot, but I told myself that crying wouldn't help." [Mirror]
- Yoko Ono is suing the producers of a movie hat challenges the concept of Darwinian evolution, saying they used the song Imagine without her permission and led the blogosphere to accuse her of "selling out." [USA Today]
- "I don't think of myself as an [feminist] icon, but I think of myself as interested and can get ruffled at gender inequality. I still get touchy when people say that guys are interested in sex and girls are interested in love. It's bullshit." —Liz Phair. [Rolling Stone]
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Is Maxim now blind? Look, not that either of them are good catches, but the testosterone in me would much rather mack the hot blonde than the funny-looking red head,
Gee, Liz Phair, if only that was the only issue feminists had to deal with...
And I am shocked that Ashlee is higher up on that list than Jessica. I guess I really don't understand men.
I'm no fan of Barbara Walters, but the part of her bio excerpted in Vanity Fair was pretty interesting. I may have to check it out from the library. No way am I going to PAY for it.
We don't think of you as a feminist icon either Liz.
please let his Purple Highness's book be done in time for my birthday!
and Liz Phair, why you afraid to say these 5 words: "Yes, I am a feminist!"?
Jay-Z also added, "This concert isn't endorsed by McCain, but it will still be the bomb."
Bullshit. I agree. Some of us are only interested in money.
How does one get a blonde mistress while incarcerated? I should have gone to jail- it would have helped my social life.
Any chance that Prince book will be out by June? I only have a month and I have no clue what to get my boyfriend for his birthday, and I know he'd LOVE that.
Naming your kid Peaches pretty much predetermines that she'll have a coke habbit, doesn't it?
And finally, Liz Phair. Good to see you're of the "I'm not a feminist, but..." school. My disappointment in you grows ever deeper.
You know the Mingling Moms Organization is just a bunch of housewives who like to throw cocktail parties. Of course Dina is their top mom!
I still get 'touchy' when I remember that guys are making $1 to every $0.75 that I make. It's bullshit.
So, Maxim's resorting to the old "put a bunch of names in a hat" way of choosing the Top 100.
Dian Lohan's School of Following Your Dreams doesn't sound right. Dina Lohan's School of Bartending and Hair Extensions?
He tries to hurt Kidman and his punishment is getting stuck photographing B-listers now.
"Dina Lohan is being honored as a "Top Mom"" Oh Ashton and your crazy Punk'd stunts.
@hortense: I don't know if this will constitute a lame post but, AAAAAhahahahahahaha that funny!
Dina Lohan, "Top Mom"? What the fuck is wrong with that picture?
Jeremy Piven is clearly an asshat.
I would still have a threesome with Owen and Vince and I wouldn't give a shit what year it was!
I thought Jay-Z retir- oh, that's right, nevermind.
Angela totally stole one of my hypothetical baby names! Happy thoughts to her and the little one.
@Meg: Exactly. I'm really just looking for that special someone who will keep my dog when I go on vacation. Petsitters are damn expensive.
Mingling Moms Organization is probably a nice way of saying "social climbers without anything substantial to do with their lives." Sums Dina Lohan up rather well.
Vince Vaughn / Owen Wilson sandwich: Exactly what I needed to lose my appetite this morning. Thanks for helping me watch my calorie intake, Jez.
Eww.
@hortense: Damn you, hortense, and your COTD-worthy, but not COTD-eligible nuggets of goodness.
Dina Lohan being labeled "Top Mom" is like Ilan Hall being labeled "Top Chef."
Ramona was first runner-up in the Top Mom contest. Avery, however, chose not to attend.
First that horrendous Matrix "Why can't I breathe" business, and now the "I'm not a feminist...but" business. Liz, why? why?
that pict of NPH and Britney is adorable. She is looking really good. And so is he.
As a rule, I never read the rest of a sentence that starts with, "I don't think of myself as an feminist."
Last time I checked, just because a dude spent a sexy weekend in Miami with a woman didn't mean he was engaged to her. (Why are people gossiping about John Mayer maybe having flirted with another woman - gasp - a week after he hung out with Aniston?)
Gossip mags are weird - they expect every celebrity hook-up to be all-or-nothing. If it doesn't turn out that way, they assume somebody got a broken heart.
@loves_NoelFielding: Especially when the same men (doing the same job as me) ask me to make coffee and FedEx shit for them...because they don't know how. Yeah...
And you know Jessica is PISSED!
@zivah: Also it is Aniston. The gossip rags are salivating at the chance to claim her heartbroken again. Aniston needs a heart transplant hers is so prone to distruction.
i kinda want to fire up the bong w/ john mayer. i wouldn't date him, but i'd do the random, spacey conversation that comes with being righteously stoned. (pssst! don't do drugs!)
Wow Barbara, way to save the planet for your shameless self-promotion.
"But 53 is worth more than 18, right? So that means I'm better, doesn't it?"- Jessica Simpson
@sjct: Well, to be fair, she said "I don't think of myself as a [feminist] icon..." and those brackets are editorial, so really what she said was, "I don't think of myself as an icon."
This is a correct thing to say; it is not for Liz Phair to decide whether or not she's an icon for anything; it's for other people to think of her as an icon.
@thegreenman: I guess we still get 'ruffled' by gender inequality. Good thing we're not feminists or we'd be really fucking angry...
oh wait...
Gee, Liz Phair, if you were looking to be lukewarm about the whole thing, you succeeded. You're "interested" in feminism but want to distance yourself from it. And you "can" get ruffled at gender inequality? Oh, good for you. (Me? I am ruffled.)
@zivah: To be fair, it's probably a lot easier to deal with the guy you went on vacation with still dating other chicks if you don't have to read about it every time you try to buy milk or tampons. I wouldn't be heartbroken, I'd be pissed.
@braak: but then she went on to say such silly things. She's interested? She "can" get "ruffled"?
@BlondeGrlz: But not if you weren't looking for a relationship, either, and you had an understanding with your gentlemen vacation partner. My annoyance is that the press seems to pretend that such a situation is impossible.
@zivah: yeah, I was willing to go with the not wanting to call herself an icon at first until I got to the "interested" and "ruffled" part. Spine please!
@AthertonMerriweather: Ha! Yeah. I just imagine her saying that totally unprovoked. Like, walking up to the reporter and just saying it. I think I'm going to do that from now on, perhaps when introducing myself.
'Hi, I'm La Comtesse. I don't see myself as an R&B diva...'
'I don't see myself as the world's greatest lover...'
'I don't see myself as the world's most generous philanthropist...'
It's so nice to see Britney looking so normal (even if it is for a tv show)! Let's hope she keeps it up!
Mischa needs to stop with that fake paparazzi-hating mess. She's desperate for work and she knows she needs to stay in the public eye. We are not dumb Mischa.
@braak: ah, braketing.
(I just finished a 15 page thesis, and I never want to see bracketed or block quotes ever again)
@zivah: Well, those are pretty silly. And excellent reasons for the rest of us to not consider her a feminist icon, either.
Still, I think a lot of people just think they need to draw a distinction between a passive feminist (I generally believe in establishing equality between men and women, and am bothered by it when it comes up, but I've got a lot of other things to do) and a feminist-activist.
Ah Liz, my disappointment knows no end.
Does anyone else think that if someone made a biopic about John Mayer (I'm not saying that someone SHOULD do this) that Emile Hirsch should play him?
Seriously, can we declare a moratorium on "OMG JEN IS SO HEARTBROKEN"? I know it sells, but like, if every woman on the planet is UTTERLY BEREFT and IRREDEEMABLY TRAGIC without Brad Pitt, then there are about three billion women who need their own freakin' tabloid coverage.
He's cute, and I'm sure he's a good dad, but damn, 'bloids, he isn't a little slice of heaven that brings eternal salvation. Jen's a really successful actress and a grownup. Also, they broke up in like 1876. No moar tragedy plz.
@hortense: @Kittenish: I think it's cute that you assume she can read and, even if she could, that Joe would let her.
@zivah: I understand, I'm just saying (for me anyways) it would be hard enough to have the whole world know you're dating somone. Actually seeing he's still dating other people is different than having an understanding, you know? It's like knowing you gained a couple pounds as compared to trying on your high school jeans and not getting them past your ankles. Proof is not always helpful.
Whoa, check out the blind items in that article on Peaches Geldof. Two of them sound like Lily Allen, but only one of them can be...
Speaking of Mr. Cruise, am I the only person who noticed Gossip Girl flat out called him gay and Katie Holmes a beard last night?
African babies are to 2008 what the LV Murakami bag were to 2003.
Want to know how to weed out douchebags? Start a sentence with, "I'm a feminist, and...". Those that run or argue, fuck 'em.
Step two in weeding out douchebags? Run from anyone who starts the opposite sentence.
Shut up, Liz Phair. And Sarah Michelle Gellar. And Hilary Duff. And...that's all I've got off the top of my head.
Am I the only one still confused as to how John Mayer manages to pull so many girls- and good looking ones at that? To me he is just a tool who got famous singing mediocre soft-rock with weird hair?
I like reading happy things about Brit. Or at least better things. Seriously.