Jezebel: brad renfro

Amy Winehouse: Fashion & Cosmetics Mogul?

Dodai — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST

Amy Winehouse is in talks to do fashion and cosmetics lines? Amy-branded eyeliner and hairspray? What kind of fuckery is this? [The Sun]
Jennifer Lopez' nursery is filled with $279 cashmere cardigans, two sleigh cribs costing $1,390 each and a $1250 snakeskin diaper bag. You know, understated. [People]
Of her newborn twins, J. Lo says, "I can't take my eyes off of them." Awww, especially since they look so cute in cashmere! [MSNBC]
As previously reported, Joe Francis' Girls Gone Wild magazine hits stands April 15. Guess who will have a photo shoot inside? Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian. Klassy! [Page Six]
George Clooney is super into his girlfriend, lalalala I can't hear you. [People]

Britney Spears saw her sons again on Monday; they came to her house for a three-hour visit. [People]
Three American Idol finalists have "links" to Britney Spears. [USA Today]
The New York lawyer who claims he represents Britney claims Brit has "never been and is not now on comfortable terms with her live-in father conservator." [TMZ]
When Ivana Trump marries her fiancé, Rossano Rubicondi, he'll be known as Rossano Trump. Unless that's a joke. [Page Six]
Blind item! "Which gossipeuse is about to get the ax? She probably should have told her bosses she was shooting a reality show before just going out and doing it on the sly." [Page Six]
Blind item! "Which recently single actor, who may or may not be mentioned on this page, was celebrating Oscar night by grabbing any woman who walked by and enjoying a big old joint in the corner of the party?" (You may have to go to page one of the column to get this, but then it will be obvs!) [Gatecrasher]
Orlando Bloom and Rumer Willis arrived at Prince's party together? Hmm. [Page Six]
Apparently nothing can stop Olivier Martinez from flirting with the ladies, even a car crashing into his friend's Bentley. [Page Six]
Brittany Murphy is behaving like a "diva" on the set of her new film: She requires a diagonally cut peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the crusts cut off every hour. Mmm, good idea. [Page Six]
Sean Penn and Petra Nemcova: Definitely on. [Rush & Molloy]
According to his divorce papers, David Hasselhoff has an African Room in his house. And there's crap he wants in there, like an ivory tusk, an elephant foot and two elephant stools. A judge has granted him permission to go and pick it up. [TMZ]
Madonna showed up for jury duty in Beverly Hills yesterday, but was dismissed. She'd be so good in a 12 Angry Men-type scenario. [TMZ]
Jennifer Love Hewitt is still talking about those shots of her in a bikini. "When those pictures were taken... I had just been asked to marry," she says, referring to her fiancé, Scottish actor Ross McCall. "So he loves me just the way I am. If I do work out more it will be for my health. It won't be because I am worried about how I look." [People]
Kate Hudson says "I work out all the time." [People]
But, Kate says, those boobs on the Fool's Gold poster? "They are totally not my boobs. My boobs aren't that big." [The Sun]
A publicist from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences says there was no intention to slight or ignore Brad Renfro in their montage of dead people. "In any given year, we are not able to include everyone who has passed away, and because we very much want to include people who worked in all aspects of filmmaking, not just actors and actresses, this means that sometimes well-known individuals are not included," Leslie Unger claims. [E!]
Paris Hilton and Benji Madden are totes in love and shopped together at Fred Segal yesterday. [ONTD]
Calista Flockhart to paramour Harrison Ford at Elton John's Oscar party: Slow down, don't drink so much. Harrison to Calista: "It's a special night. I may even swing from a chandelier." No one tells Han Solo to slow down. No one! [The Sun]
Sarah Jessica Parker will say ciao! to New York for a while: She's set to play an Italian flight attendant on stage in a London West End comedy hit called Boeing Boeing in April. [Daily Express]
Whoopi Goldberg was choked up on The View when her cohosts discussed how she was not included in an Oscar-host montage. "Undoubtedly I pissed somebody off yet again," she said. [Yahoo News]
Cate Blanchett will head an arts panel at a summit in Australia, joining "100 of the country's best minds" in a brain-storming session on the subject "Towards a Creative Australia" in April — the same month her third child is due. [Reuters]
Jerry Seinfeld's lawyers are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Missy Chase Lapine, the author of The Sneaky Chef, who made slander and defamation claims after Seinfeld suggested she was a crackpot and compared her to the killers of John Lennon and Martin Luther King Jr. "for comic effect." [Yahoo News]
Mariah Carey's new video features that dude who plays Kenneth on 30 Rock! Watch a snippet! [The.Life Files]

Scarlett Johansson Will Hold A Grudge

Dodai — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST

A reporter from Us magazine tried to interview Scarlett Johansson after her appearance on the Today show, but Scarlett was all, "You have got to be kidding me after that [plastic surgery] cover you did." Oh, snap! [Gatecrasher]
Christina Aguilera on son Max: "When he's breast-feeding, I just sit there and stare at him. I'm in awe of this little miracle." [Page Six]
If you're getting married in Vegas today, you might have Pauly Shore, Mario Lopez or "Chocolate Rain" singer Tay Zonday as a witness to your nuptials. Lucky! [Page Six]
Britney's "manager" Sam Lutfi is trying to get California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to help her with her "civil rights" issues, like why she can't keep a lawyer. Wait, what? [Gatecrasher]
Britney's boyfriend Adnan Ghalib: Questioned by cops! He may or may not have punched a photographer snapping him at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Don't you love it when the tables turn? [TMZ]
Apparently Britney is getting along great with her mom, it's her dad she's not happy with. She doesn't want him in her personal — or financial — affairs. Do you get the feeling that if she's so annoyed at him, he might be talking some sense? [E!]

Amy Winehouse wants to give incarcerated hubby Blake one of her most prized possessions: One of her Grammys. But she'll have to wait 'til he gets sprung. [MSNBC]
Katie Holmes ordered six organic baby blankets and now everyone thinks she's knocked up. But apparently the order was "for a friend." [MSNBC]
Blind item! "Which rival young actresses on the same hit show are forced to pose together at PR events, even though they hate each other? One resents the other for having knocked her off her 'star of the show' pedestal." [Gatecrasher]
In a Valentine shout-out, Keith Urban dedicated a song to his pregnant wife, Nicole Kidman, during his concert at Madison Square Garden last night. Awwww. (Related: Who goes to a Keith Urban show?) [People]
Oscar De La Hoya will be in court tomorrow over those photos of him in drag; he claims the former stripper doctored them, so she's suing him. Think mean folks are sending him lingerie and fishnets today? [Page Six]
50 Cent's baby mama asked for $50,000 a month in child support? Then the court ruled she should get $6,700?? That's a lot of cents. [Page Six]
Billy Ray Cyrus has apologized for the fact that he and Miley are not wearing seat belts in the back seat of a car in Miley's 3D movie. "Seatbelt safety is extremely important," he says. Related: Zzzzzz. [People]
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mary-Louise Parker, who play husband and wife on Weeds, are engaged! [People]
OJ Simpson's girlfriend has been hospitalized with a "severe head injury." No one knows how she got it, but a witness says she had been "intoxicated and always falling down." More to come, for sure. [ET]
A judge has ruled that Mel Gibson can serve the rest of his probation without appearing in court again. "You're on your own," the judge said. [Reuters]
The 911 call regarding Brad Renfro has been released; his girlfriend is on the line saying, "His nose is bleeding... We can't tell if he's breathing." [People]
Dakota Fanning is pulling out of a film that calls for her to shave her head. Diva! [MSNBC]
Farrah Fawcett's son, Redmond O'Neal, was busted for DUI ad drug possession in Malibu. This is not the first time, and he's been in rehab "a dozen times." Redmond is 23. [TMZ]
Henry Winkler testified at the John Ritter wrongful-death trial yesterday, describing how Ritter was in good shape the morning of the day he died but sweating and asking for water in the afternoon and "that was the last time I saw him." [LA Times]
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed regret over Steven Spielberg's decision to quit his Beijing Olympics role because of China's policies in Sudan. But, says Liu Jianchao, the games will be "a success." [Reuters]
So yeah, Kanye West's new video, co-directed by Kanyeezy and Spike Jonze, features KW tied up in the trunk of a car, then beaten with a shovel by a model who's totally stacked. The subtext is about fame, or the economy, or something. Can't stop staring at her rack. [Concrete Loop]
LaToya Jackson's face: Fucked. Up. [Perez Hilton]
The writers' strike is over! But wait, the Screen Actors Guild might start talks for a new labor contract? Oy. [Reuters]
Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon says he'd like to celebrate Valentine's Day "in a helicopter over the city having sex." [Rush & Molloy]

Loose Lips

Jessica — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:50:00 EST

The Los Angeles coroner's office just announced that Brad Renfro died of a heroin overdose. He had battled drug addiction in the past. Sad all around. • Lindsay Lohan allegedly wants the wants the title role in Tim Burton's forthcoming Alice In Wonderland. Do you think she's weird enough to handle the role? • TMZ is reporting that the US government will grant Amy Winehouse the Visa she needs to attend the Grammys, despite an initial denial. Let's see if Amy actually reaches American shores! [Us, Dlisted, TMZ]

"It's really sad that we've lost not only...

Slut Machine — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:40:00 EST

"It's really sad that we've lost not only a great actor, but one who liked our hair." That's from a blog post written by girls who didn't really know Brad Renfro, but hung out with him at a party the night he died. [Serhorn]

A Glimpse Into Brad Renfro's Life Via MySpace

Slut Machine — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:00:00 EST

We still don't really know exactly how Brad Renfro died, but we didn't really know how he lived either. Apparently he had a kid, and he stars in Bret Easton Ellis' The Informers with Winona Ryder, which is set to come out later this year. None of that is listed on his MySpace profile though. But the profile still gives some insight as to what his personality was like off-camera. (He's kinda funny. Under "Who I want to meet" he lists "your mom.") This video, also from MySpace, shows Brad hanging out with some girls, drinking, joking around, and watching football. It's eerily reminiscent of the Larry Clark movie Bully he starred in. He looks really different from the last time we saw him in something and it's really hard to believe he was only 25.

Did you watch it? It's kind of a reason to stay off drugs, right? At least for vanity's sake. I mean, he doesn't look so bad there, it's just really different from what he looked like a few years before. But he seems like he would've been fun to hang out with, you know, despite — or perhaps because of? — the supposed drug abuse. Check out this picture from his MySpace profle:

The caption he wrote beneath it: "My Dick." Ha!

And here's another video [scroll down], that's actually kind of weird. He's at a self-serve car wash, hosing down a car while his arm is in a sling, all the while Christina Aguilera's cover of "Car Wash" is playing.

And while this doesn't exactly tell us who Brad was as a person, it does kinda serve to humanize him.

Loose Lips

Jessica — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:45:00 EST

More sadness to the Brad Renfro story: TMZ has confirmed that the troubled actor has a son. The name of the child will not be released; he currently lives with his mother in Japan. • Roseanne is on the political warpath. The Hillary enthusiast and former sitcom diva had this to say about Oprah's support of Obama on her blog, "Maybe if Hilary (sic) was discussing her fat thighs Oprah would have had her on." • Somehow in the Denise Richards/Charlie Sheen divorce debacle, sleazeball Sheen actually appears to be the good parent. He refused to allow Richards to let their children, Sam, 3, and Lola, 2, star with her on a reality show. Denise is taking Charlie to court so that she can legally whore their babies out. [ TMZ, Perez, DListed]

Loose Lips

Jessica — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:50:00 EST

Poor Posh! Perez is reporting that the skinniest Spice tossed her cookies on stage in London. We're hoping this rumor is false because, ew, and also — poor Victoria. • Two days before his death, Brad Renfro got a tattoo that said "Fuck All" across his back. More sadness. [Perez, Us]

The Enids & Rebeccas Of The World Will Miss You Most Of All, Brad Renfro

Slut Machine — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:00:00 EST

If I had a "type," Brad Renfro would have been it. Especially looking at his mugshot. He's so hot in it. And in Larry Clark's Bully, too, in which he's pretty much shirtless the whole time. I can't say I was shocked when I learned he was found dead this week at age 25 — he's had a pretty public battle with drug addiction, and a whole slew of run-ins with the law (the best one being when he tried to steal a yacht in 2000, but was too wasted to remember to untie it from the dock, so he couldn't sail away). Anyway, it's nice that the media in general have recognized that he was way more talented and troubled beyond the stereotypical child-star syndrome. And Jezebel received so many emails from readers regarding his death — I had no idea that so many people cared so much about him. Sadly, he probably didn't either. Anyway, above is a clip from Ghost World, in which he plays the quintessential crush/whipping boy to his girl friends. R.I.P., man.

Loose Lips

Jessica — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:45:00 EST

Susan Sarandon, Brad Renfro's one-time costar in the Client, had this to say about young star's untimely death: "I had the pleasure of working with Brad when he was eleven...It was obvious to everyone that he was the sweetest, most incredibly gifted young actor to come along for some time. My heart goes out to the family for their tragic loss." Sadness all around. • Posh n' Becks keep it (vaguely) real — David was spotted shopping at the Gap with his kids! Posh, however, would probably never step foot in such a low rent establishment. • P. Diddy is allegedly looking for an assistant. Aspiring sycophants should contact NewYork@WorkForPDiddy.com. [A Socialite's Life, Just Jared, Molly Good]

Matthew McConaughey To Be A Majorly Cool Dad

dodai — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST

Matthew McConaughey's girlfriend, model Camilla Alves, is pregnant. These are the eloquent words the actor and surfer dude wrote: "My girlfriend Camila and I made a baby together. Its 3 months growin in her womb and all looks healthy and lively so far. We are stoked and wowed by this miracle of creation." There's more, but you get the point. Also: The kid's gonna be gorgeous. [Us Magazine]
RIP Brad Renfro, star of flicks like The Client and Apt Pupil. The 25-year-old was found dead in his home yesterday. [TMZ, NY Times]
Britney Spears was completely naked in a Betsey Johnson store over the weekend, says an employee at the boutique. "Then she disappeared in the dressing room with Adnan for 45 minutes. They were making weird noises. It was disgusting." Uh, maybe he was helping her try on clothes? [Page Six]

Paris Hilton's ex, Stavros Niarchos, is pursuing Victoria's Secret model Izabel Goulart. I dunno why we need to know this. [Page Six]
Melissa Rivers: Grabby at a gift suite. So annoying how celebs get so much free stuff. Wait, is she a celeb? [Page Six]
Sean Penn, who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle in the past, drafted a letter calling the publication an "increasingly lamebrain paper." The Chronicle printed his letter, hee hee! [Editor & Publisher]
Uh oh, Amy Winehouse is having visa issues. She may not be able to go to the Grammys! Then again, the Grammys could be canceled because of the writers' strike. [Gatecrasher]
Dr. Phil is looking for celebs to appear on his 1,000th episode; after the Britney debacle, stars are not so interested. Could the doc use some therapy? [Gatecrasher]
And Britney's suicide note, which was mentioned in last week's midweek madness, is about her loneliness, how unfair life is and how she can't trust anyone, sigh. [The Sun]
Blind item! "Which doe-eyed young TV star is attracting attention for his indiscreet way with cocaine? 'He will do it absolutely anywhere,' says a source. 'Don't tell anybody!'" [Gatecrasher]
Was Gwyneth Paltrow in the hospital because of a troubled pregnancy? [Rush & Molloy]
Theives broke into Sadie Frost's London home — while she was there. The burglars took a cash and laptop. And this isn't the first time her house has been robbed: It happened in 2006 as well. Someone call security! [Daily Mail]
Says someone who works for Zoey 101, Jamie Lynn Spears' show: "Everyone on the set is shocked by Jamie Lynn's pregnancy. "They don't know who did it... It could be anyone on the show!" [Rush & Molloy]
David Spade: Maybe knocked up a Playboy Playmate. What is with that guy getting hot chicks? [TMZ]
Linsday Lohan tried to avoid the paparazzi by wearing a brunette wig on her way to traffic school. Didn't work. [TMZ]
John Mayer is defending Jessica Simpson on his blog, asking people who claim she jinxed Dallas Cowboys star Tony Romo to back off. "That girl loves Texas more than you know," he wrote. "It's one of her most defining traits as a person. So please don't try and take that away from her." It's a decent thing for an ex to do; making it hard to hate on this guy, ugh. [People]
Eva Longoria is also defending Jessica Simpson. She relates, because her husband is a sports star, you see? Groan. [LA Times]
OMG Zac Efron hospitalized! Teen hearts aflutter! The 20-year-old High School Musical star had his appendix taken out yesterday and will be fine. He should be shirtless on the cover of a magazine again real soon. [People]
Gwen Stefani moving to London? A source says she'll stay there fro a while so her hubby can launch his solo career. [Mirror]
Avril Lavigne had been accused of plagiarism regarding her hit "Girlfriend" but as been exonerated, phew. Apparently the lyrics and theme (Hey, you, I don't like your girlfriend) are like, common or something? [People]
The FCC was asked if ABC or Diane Keaton would face consequences for her F-Bomb on Good Morning America. Chairman Kevin Martin: "I don't know." [Reuters]
Childhood photos of Katie Holmes reveal that Suri looks just like her, shocker. In any case, no one doubts who Suri's mother is — just her father, right? [Daily Mail]
Robert Blake is appealing his wrongful death verdict in which he was ordered to pay the survivors of Bonny Lee Bakeley $30 million. Blake and his lawyer are saying that the jurors were "incompetent," and "guilty of misconduct." Please just let it end! [AP]