Sage Stallone, who played Rocky’s son opposite real-life father Sylvester Stallone in 1990’s Rocky 5, has passed away at 36. He was found in his Los Angeles apartment when his concerned housekeeper called the authorities, who say that that there was “no personal contact” with Stallone in the days before his death. There were no signs of forced entry, nor a suicide note, and no foul play is suspected at this time, but investigators discovered prescription drugs in his apartment and accidental overdose is the most likely possibility at this time.
The first of Sylvester Stallone’s two sons with first wife Sasha Czack, he was a burgeoning filmmaker and the co-founder of Grindhouse Releasing, a company dedicated to preserving and promoting the B-movies and exploitation films of the 1970s and ’80s. [TMZ]
- Among the stars who have Tweeted their condolences to the Stallone family: Eliza Dushku, Denise Richards, Kevin Connolly, Whoopi Goldberg, Lisa Marie Presley and Shanna Moakler. [Contact Music]
- On a lighter note, Drew Barrymore is not not pregnant. [TMZ]
- Sean Penn has completed his 36 hours of anger management classes and has now officially kicked
a puppyhis anger management problem so DO NOT FUCKING LOOK AT HIM THAT WAY. [TMZ] - Post-heart attack Michael Clark Duncan will not be walking down the green mile of life today. Yayz! [TMZ]
- The Beebz is getting sued for $9.2 million by a disgruntled mom who claims his music is too damn loud. [USA Today]
- Elizabeth Banks calls her son Felix a “little baby gypsy.” [People]
- A concerned Chris Brown told Rihanna to cut down on the self-destructive partying because he doesn’t want her to “end up like Amy Winehouse.” Which sounds like a veiled threat to me. [Monsters and Critics]
- Adam Levine hates Chris Brown, by the way. [Gather Celebs]
- Little person Nicholas Read, who played an Ewok in Star Wars and a goblin in Harry Potter, is sent to the clink for compulsively flashing women but the judge is lenient because Read would be “a very vulnerable person” in prison. [Daily Mail]
- Former Kardashian nanny claims that Kris Jenner groomed the girls for fame early in her new tell-all. Her next book will be a tell-all about how the earth is round. [Daily Mail
- Kanye West has a special cell phone for Kim Kardashian even though he does not like being “tied down to technology” (contradicted by the fact that the man is basically a human Twitter.) [Us Magazine)
- Nia Long tells a cute story about something Jay-Z asked her when they ran into each other at a party: “How does it feel to be every boy from the hood’s fantasy girlfriend for 20 years?” [The Grio
- Bar Rafaeli can’t put down Fifty Shades of Grey. [Page Six]
- Today in Katie Holmes reconaissance, an ex talks about her: “She had a really funny, quick-witted sense of humor. Almost like a Woody Allen, quick-line sense of humor” and “”One of the things she said about her mother and father was that they wanted her to be a woman. She was not a girl, she was a woman.” You heard it here, guys. Katie Holmes: not a girl, not a crone, not a cronehag, not vegetable, animal or mineral, but Dorothy Parker. [Us Magazine]
- “Angela Lansbury enjoying a plate of fried seafood yesterday morning at Grand Central’s Oyster Bar” and then pimping away into the horizon. #fuckyeahmissuspotts [Page Six]
- Lindsay Lohan is www.lookingrough.com/baldspot/~cryforhelp.html. [NYDN]
- Also www.rememberthatporscheshecrashed.biz/she_said_brakes_failed/theydidn’t/unsurprising.gif. [TMZ]
- Here are beautiful photos of Solange Knowles in Texas. Put me in your pocket, Solange Knowles. [Bossip]