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  • Courtney Love "went nuts" when a guest at a party opened an unlocked bathroom and saw her on the toilet with her skirt around her ankles.

Apparently she launched herself at the dude, and though people tried to calm her down, a security guy told the man: "It's best you get away as fast as possible." [Page Six]

  • Backstage at the Emmys, Paramedics were called for Kristin Chenoweth, who complained of a migraine headache and then said she couldn't open her eyes. [Access Hollywood]
  • More backstage Emmys drama: A fight between Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Karina Smirnoff got "kind of loud." Apparently they were "screaming at each other"after he said she took too long in hair and makeup. [E!]
  • Mad Men and 30 Rock were big winners at the Emmys last night. [NY Daily News]
  • Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs won the weekend box office; Jennifer Aniston's Love Happens came in fourth — one of her worst openings in years — and Jennifer's Body placed fifth. [Ny Daily News]
  • "Mr. T's Chance of Meatballs character fits him to a T." [USA Today]
  • Kate Gosselin taped her Mom Logic TV show pilot over the weekend, and even though guests Mel B and Christie Brinkley were nixed, a source says the taping "went extremely well" and "Kate did great." [Radar]
  • Congrats! Zooey Deschanel married Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard Saturday night near Seattle. [People]
  • Did you know that Susan Sarandon has been a member of a Ping-Pong society for years? [NY Magazine]
  • From a profile on Madonna: "Scented Christian Dior candles fill the air in a space so dimly lit, it seems both slightly theatrical and quasi-religious. A huge telephone with multiple extensions bears labels such as M study, M dressing room, M bathroom, Laundry, Music Room, Kitchen, Mews." And: "A lot of people are just really confused by me… They don't know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you're fearing something that it's bringing up in you." [Times Of London]
  • Paula Abdul almost refused to co-present with Kathy Griffin at the VH1 Divas concert because of all the insulting jokes Kathy had made. [Gatecrasher]
  • Amy Winehouse was leaving a nightclub recently when a passerby shouted "Oi Amy, where's your crack pipe?" [The Sun]
  • Heidi Klum and Seal can't decide on a name for the baby girl they are expecting. Seal says: "It has been the topic of debate for the last month. We can't quite figure it out. I'm a firm believer that she will pop out and will tell us what she wants to be called." [Mirror]
  • Charlize Theron's nude scene in The Burning Plain — in which she smokes a cigarette while standing at a window in full view of passersby in Portland, OR — was shot at 6 a.m. to avoid paparazzi. [Page Six]
  • Oprah had a block party in Chicago and paid more than $54,000 for city services. [Ny Post]
  • Joy Behar would love to get Sarah Palin on her new show on HLN and talk to her about the "real America." "It's insulting to men like my father, who fought in World War II, whom she doesn't think are real Americans because we don't agree with her." Joy also says: "Look, it's not that I'm contentious; I'm uncompromising. I'm friendly, but I can't let things go unchallenged. And I intend to give my opinions quite profusely. I might even have to interrupt myself." [New York Magazine]
  • New couple? Kid Cudi and Amanda Bynes??? [Gatecrasher]
  • They're saying Mischa Barton's a mess in the morning and needs someone to "fix" her coffee, but who isn't and who doesn't? [Page Six]
  • So what is up with that Taylor Momsen record contract that allows her singing on Gossip Girl and the "Runaways Project"? She's not in the Runaways movie! Was she was supposed to get Dakota Fanning's part? Or does she have a secret cameo? [TMZ]
  • Beth Ditto has banned her girlfriend from touring with her: "[It's] not because I don't think she can handle it, but because that's my life. Say what you want about me. Say it to my face, say it behind my back, write it on the fucking bathroom mirror, I don't care. But do not talk about the people I love. I will lose my mind." [NME]
  • An ambulance was called to David Hasselhoff's house yesterday; apparently his 17-year-old daughter, who was home with him, called her mother, saying that David was extremely drunk. A friend of Pamela's called 911. [TMZ, TMZ]
  • January Jones, aka Mad Men's Betty Draper, has purchased a lovely home in the Los Feliz neighborhood of L.A., and you can see the pix at the link. [The Real Estalker]
  • The Guinness World Records board has refused to let the White Stripes into their record book for playing a one-note concert, due to insufficient interest. Twelve hundred people showed up to a gig in Canada where Jack White played an E. [Mirror]
  • Stephen Moyer on his engagement to Anna Paquin: "It was very intimate and quite surprising for her, I think, and we were by ourselves at dinner in Hawaii and...I surprised her. But it was something that surprised me probably more than it surprised her." He also says: "She is very funny and very frank and very direct and beautiful… She doesn't take any of my nonsense." [E!]
  • David Arquette and Ben Harper have a clothing line called Propr, and Arquette says: ""We love the idea of chivalry and going in an old-school barber… There's a quality that's in the finer details, like they really thought it out a step further." More from "A Night Out" with the duo at the link. [NY Times]
  • Ryan O'Neal visited Farrah Fawcett's grave after their son, Redmond, was ordered to leave jail and go to rehab for a year. [Daily Mail, USA Today]
  • Nicole's sister Antonia Kidman is engaged to Singapore-based banker Craig Marran. [News.com.au]
  • Terry Gilliam got Johnny Depp to tango for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus even though Johnny allegedly said "Men don't dance." [Mirror]
  • Oy: Sacha Baron Cohen will play an Israeli tour guide on The Simpsons. [UPI]
  • From a piece on John Malkovich's new film, Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa: "[Malkovich's character] Lurie appears the virtual embodiment of white male arrogance, an English professor who views himself through the prism of Romantic poetry and who pursues an exploitive, obsessive affair with a much younger, mixed-race student. You can't say that he rapes her, but the issue of consent between an inexperienced young woman and a practiced seducer — one with direct power over her academic future — is complicated, to say the least." [Salon]
  • Will Diddy switch record labels? [Page Six]
  • Scott Weiland had a seizure on a plane while en route from Los Angeles to Florida, causing the plane to land in Dallas-Fort Worth; he is "doing great" now. [E!]
  • Larry King hates frivolous lawsuits. [TMZ]
  • John Travolta may be a witness at the trial for two people accused of trying to extort $25 million from him after his son died in the Bahamas. [AP]
  • John Travolta says if he is called to testify, he will do so. [ET]
  • Sources say John Travolta's testimony will be dramatic and emotional. [TMZ]
  • Ozzy Osbourne's new memoir describes appearing on the MTV show The Osbournes as "terrifying" and like being "strapped to a rocket and being blasted through the stratosphere at warp factor ten." [Mirror]
  • Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing on stage during a show in Spain; he reportedly had food poisoning. [UPI]
  • James Blunt is accusing internet service providers of "handling stolen goods" by allowing file sharing and illegal downloads. [Telegraph]
  • Anoushka Shankar, Ravi Shankar's daughter, had been the victim of a blackmail plot; an arrest has been made. [Independent]
  • District 9 is not welcome in Nigeria. [NY Post]
  • "Frustrated cops probing Jordan's claim to have been raped by a celebrity said yesterday they could do no more unless she co-operates." [The Sun]
  • "You're not going to be successful. You're not going to be millionaires (with the exception of MAYBE Kris and Adam). No one will care about you. Those fans who've been asking for your autograph all tour long - 98 percent of them don't give a flying poo about you once next season of Idol starts. In other words, your days of being a star are over. But that's all right - so are mine… The music business, for the most part, will treat you like an outsider… You are just a game show contestant who still needs to prove why you should be here. Move to a music city. L.A., New York or Nashville Leave home and live WAY below your means." — Chris Sligh, former American Idol contestant, to other Idol singers, on his blog. [NY Post]
  • "I was never in the high, high fashion industry. I was never one of those superskinny, supertall waif girls who goes from show to show. When you do more commercial things, your weight is allowed to fluctuate a bit. Not every inch counts. It's hard for the girls. How old are they? Fifteen, 16? Some girls are naturally thin and can eat whatever they want. When I was 15, 16, there was not one ounce of fat on me, but some other girls have to work hard to stay like that. But the rules are not made by the models. To be part of this, they have to be the size the designer wants them to be. I'm not that skinny, and I never was, but I can pretty much eat whatever I want." — Heidi Klum. [Page Six Magazine]
  • "My dream was always to work in a candy store. It was because of my obsession with candy; I don't have it any more, now that my teeth are all rotten. I did go to a university for a year, as shocking as that might sound to people, and there was a candy shop that I used to go to all the time, an old-fashioned one where all the candy was in these big glass jars. I used to go in there and look at all the candy and think, ‘God, it would be really cool to work in here; I could have candy whenever I wanted.' So I did want the keys to the candy store, but I had different keys." —Madonna. [Times of London]
  • "At first, I didn't know whether I'd be healthy enough to film a full season of an action-packed drama series. But soon I realized there was nothing I wanted to do more. We got in touch with the network to let them know about my diagnosis and I sent this message: 'Don't count me out. I can do this.' All I could think was: 'If I'm going out, I'd rather go out on a high note, doing quality work I believe in.'" — From Patrick Swayze's memoir, on doing The Beast with a cancer diagnosis. [Daily Mail]
  • "We need to be the example of respect, of tolerance, and just how to be civil, can we do that? Even though I didn't win the crown that night I know that the Lord has so much of a bigger crown in heaven for me. I never asked to be thrown into politics… but you know what, I'm proud of the stance that I took and I'm glad that God upheld me for such a time as this." — Carrie Prejean. [NY Daily News]
  • "Forget about playing Tony Blair. When I told her I was definitely playing vampire Aro in Twilight, she cried. She was so overwhelmed and annoyed that I muscled in on something that was hers. She's already told me she'll be my date for the premiere." — Michael Sheen's 10-year-old daughter, Lily is excited about his career for once. [Page Six]
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<![CDATA[Yoko Defends Britney, Lindsay Is Kicked Out Of Hotel]]>

  • "I think that the world was not fair to her, and they're just using her and not dignifying her. I think she's a survivor and she's doing very well."- Yoko Ono on Britney Spears. [USWeekly]
  • Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been kicked out of the Bowery Hotel after a fight with Samantha Ronson, wherein Lohan threw a room service tray at a door she thought belonged to Ronson, but actually belonged to another guest. Whoops! [TheSun]
  • One source is reporting that Lohan was escorted from the premises by police. Oh, Linds. [Hollyscoop]
  • Apparently Avril Lavigne was spotted partying on Brandon Davis' yacht in the French Riviera long before her split from husband Deryck Whibley: "She was seen downing shots, drinking booze from the bottle and play-fighting men on the beach," says a source, "She wasn't acting like a married woman at all." [PageSix]
  • "I was not ‘the slut' in high school. I was not an outcast but I didn't have a ton of friends. I got picked on, and I ate lunch in the bathroom because I was afraid of being picked on in the cafeteria. I was a loner, and I think that's OK. I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques."- Megan Fox [ShowbizSpy]
  • "You're a good Irish lad who is going to be a great father."- Bono to Colin Farrell [PageSix]
  • Angelina Jolie is reportedly "wasting away" due to sadness over her relationship with Brad Pitt. [ShowbizSpy]
  • After skipping the line to gain entrance to a club, Justin Timberlake told fans he was "way too drunk" to pose for photos. [PageSix]
  • John Travolta will fly to the Bahamas next week to be a witness for the prosecution in the extortion trial surrounding the death of his son, Jett. [TMZ]
  • Amy Winehouse is "in constant pain" after a series of dental procedures she underwent to fix her teeth and gums. [TheSun]
  • A crew member at a Killers/Psychedelic Furs concert rushed the stage while the Killers were playing to announce that "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time and The Psychedelic Furs had one of the best songs of all time." It was all a big joke, of course. [TheSun]
  • Scott Weiland had a seizure while on a flight from Los Angeles to Miami; he was taken to the hospital "for precautionary measures." [TMZ]
  • "My first shot at Hollywood didn't work out and I had to go back to my parents' place in Virginia. I worked as a supply teacher in the day and a bartender at night. I was a loser who felt the need to justify myself to the kids I was teaching. I was always saying stuff like: 'Don't get used to me being around, kids, because I'm going back to Hollywood to direct a movie soon.'"-Danny McBride [Guardian]
  • Drew Carey showed his generosity by buying every patron in a restaurant lunch on Thursday. [TMZ]
  • Tilda Swinton "is a direct descendant of legendary Scottish king Robert the Bruce." [MSN]
  • "You know, honestly, I'm trying not to make it into a bigger deal than it already is. It's kind of become more of a bigger deal than I thought it would be. I would just like to move on a little bit. ...I didn't know what to think but I think we should talk about something else. It's nothing I feel like we should talk about."-Taylor Swift on the public's ongoing fascination with Kanye West's interruption at the VMA awards. [DailyExpress]
  • Leonard Cohen has left the hospital and is recovering after collapsing on stage during a performance in Spain. [Yahoo]
  • Kristen Stewart's ex-boyfriend, Michael Angarano is reportedly waiting for Stewart to dump Robert Pattinson: "Michael's convinced Kristen's going to tire of Rob," says a source, "He's still crazy about her, so he's positioning himself to be there when the Rob romance crumbles." Meanwhile, 18 billion screaming Twilight fans just volunteered to "comfort Rob" when the romance crumbles, as long as he changes his name to Edward Cullen, legally. [ShowbizSpy]
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<![CDATA[LaToya Jackson Believes Michael Was Murdered]]>

  • LaToya Jackson believes that her brother, Michael, was murdered by his "shadowy entourage," who took advantage of him and got him addicted to several prescription drugs. "It will all come out," she says, "You will be shocked." [USWeekly]
  • "Not just one person was involved," Jackson says, "rather it was a conspiracy of people. He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that. People fought to be close to him, people who weren't always on his side." [USWeekly]
  • Debbie Rowe will attend a custody hearing regarding Michael Jackson's children on July 20. [People]
  • "Their grandmother Katherine and I should raise them. Yes there's no one else who can do what we can do for them. We should keep them all together and make them happy. Feed them like they are supposed to be fed."- Joe Jackson [Time]
  • A source says Michael Jackson made it quite clear that he did not want his father to have access to his children. "With Michael dying, I know the last thing he wanted was for Joe to play any part in the raising of his children. He told me, ‘I don't want Joseph near my kids. I don't want him doing to them what he did to me.' He said, ‘My kids are the most important thing in my life. Everything I do, I do for them.'"[ShowbizSpy]
  • Meanwhile, the Daily Mail is reporting that Debbie Rowe and Katherine Jackson are working together to keep the children away from Joe. [DailyMail]
  • Jeremy Piven was seen "looking Hayden Panettiere up and down in between sips of vodka and soda," at the Entourage premiere last Thursday. [PageSix]
  • As we mentioned yesterday, Jon Gosselin was seen holding hands with his 22-year-old girlfriend, Hailey Glassman, in St. Tropez. [USWeekly]
  • Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, who met on the set of Step Up were married yesterday. [USWeekly]
  • Leonard Cohen is asking fellow musicians to stop covering his song, "Hallelujah," because he's afraid that people will tire of it. "I was reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it, and the reviewer said, 'Can we please have a moratorium on Hallelujah in movies and television shows?' and I kind of feel the same way. I think it's a good song, but too many people sing it." [DailyExpress]
  • Want to date Megan Fox? Better get a tattoo: ""I have 8 tattoos," Fox says, "My boyfriends are all required to have one."[ShowbizSpy]
  • "I'd had a boyfriend in college and I was talking about going to New York some day and he said, 'Why are you talking about New York? You're not going to New York. We're going to be married and start having kids.' When he said that, I panicked. I just thought, is this what it's going to be like? I couldn't imagine being in a marriage where someone wouldn't want to change me and where someone would appreciate who I was, because that's not an easy combination to pull off. I didn't want any of that for myself, so I really didn't want to get married at all."- Sandra Bullock [DailyMail]
  • Jennifer Aniston was reportedly upset that Bradley Cooper denied that the two were dating: "Jennifer was devastated when Bradley told reporters in Paris that she was ‘just a friend' and denied they had any romantic involvement," says a source, "It makes her look desperate - which is the one thing she dreads coming across more than anything else." [ShowbizSpy]
  • 75-year-old Partridge Family star Shirley Jones did some test shots for Playboy, showing her "cleavage and legs in an 18th-century French-boudoir setting," but Hugh Hefner turned them down because "he expected much more nudity."[PageSix]
  • Bruno topped the Friday box office with 14.2 million dollars in ticket sales. [EW]
  • GLAAD has released a statement claiming that Bruno does more harm than good when it comes to the gay community. According to GLAAD president Jarred Barrios, "'the movie was a well-intentioned series of sketches — some hit the mark and some hit the gay community pretty hard and reinforce some damaging, hurtful stereotypes.''[NYTimes]
  • "In our house, no one was allowed to refer to devilled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled."- Katy Perry [DailyMail]
  • Lady GaGa psyched up a crowd at a recent outdoor concert by yelling, "I know it's crowded, and you're hot and you smell. But you know what you gotta do? Put your hands up and dance, motherf****r!" [TheSun]
  • "Normally, in the middle of the year, when there's not a "Harry Potter" film being released, if I walk outside with no makeup on ... I'm fine. I take the tube, I wait for buses. I live a normal life. I'm very uncompromising about that. There are people who are advising me, "It's not safe, you shouldn't be doing this."... But I really struggle with the idea that I'm having my freedom taken away. I just can't handle that. I'd much rather deal with a couple of people coming up to me and stopping me than just not going out anymore. I'd go insane - you just end up with a barrier between you and the real world. You're not experiencing things firsthand. ...You're bubble-wrapped."- Emma Watson [ONTD]
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<![CDATA[Fashion Rocks: The 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame]]> Last night in New York, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its latest members — and Madonna officially became a legend, bitches! But some of our other all-time favorite musicians were there last night, as both honorees and performers: Iggy Pop, Patti LaBelle, Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp, Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Ben Harper — seriously, this is like half of my iTunes, no joke. Hollywooders — Tom Hanks, Chevy Chase, Michael J. Fox, Ed Burns — were also there, and on the whole, everyone rocked the red carpet. Except for Madonna. (Oy.) The full Good, Bad, and Ugly of the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Awards, after the jump.





The Good:
rockchristyturlingtonedburns.jpgEd Burns and Christy Turlington aren't so rock 'n' roll, but gosh and golly they look lovely.
rockjerrybutler.jpgJerry Butler: One class act.
rockmichaeljfox.jpgDear Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan: You make me heart happy.
rockchevychase.jpgDoes Chevy Chase's wristband mean he's old enough to drink?
rockdamienrice.jpgI know I should hate Damien Rice's poseur maroon suit. But I sorta love it.
rockleonardcohen.jpgLeonard Cohen: He's your man.
rockbenharper.jpgBen Harper can steal my kisses!
rocktomhanks.jpgNom nom Tom Hanks in glasses.
rockjohnmellencamp.jpgJohn Mellencamp: Way to rebel and ditch the tie.
rocksethmeyers.jpgSeth Meyers stays classy.
rockrichardbelzer.jpgWhile Richard Belzer busts a move.
rockprincessfiryal.jpgPrincess of Firyal of Jordan looks like a Tory Burch ad.


The Bad:
rockpattilabelle.jpgHas Miss Patti been vacationing at Del Boca Vista?
rockiggypop.jpgGod bless Iggy Pop for still rocking the shirtless chest and leather pants. That doesn't mean I have to like the look of it, though.
rockjoanjett.jpgJoan Jett: See above.


The Ugly:
rockloureed.jpgEven a love affair with Laurie Anderson doesn't compensate for Lou Reed's douchey attitude and leather suit.
rockmadonna.jpgMadonna, Madonna, Madonna: What the fuck are you wearing? The sorta see-through dress, the bow tie, the boots. Ugh.

[Images via FilmMagic.]

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