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- A very interesting interview with Jennifer Lopez reveals that she does not breast-feed, had a nervous breakdown after the birth of her kids and she's sort of into Scientology. And she sounds like a control freak. Then there's this quote: "At the tenth day after giving birth all that chemical stuff did peak—that hormone thing—and I did cry a lot that day because I was having so much trouble moving. I couldn’t get up fast enough to feed the babies…Marc was helping out a lot and I was crying and crying and going, 'Oh, Papi...they’re going to know everybody more than me…They're going to love everybody more than me!'" [The Daily Beast]
- Holly Madison and Hugh Hefner: Splitsville. [TMZ]
- How much would you pay to hit Michael Lohan in the face? Get your chance at a charity boxing match in Long Island. [Yahoo News]
- Yay! Tina Fey has signed a $5 million book deal for a work of nonfiction humor. [Reuters]
- Sarah Palin. On Saturday Night Live. Maybe. [MSNBC]
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- Minnie Driver squeezed out a 9 lb. 12 oz. baby boy on Friday in L.A. Her new son's name is Henry Story Driver. In an interview a few months ago, Minnie said she wanted to give birth naturally. "I'm totally the crunchy, Mother Earth-type, and I'm not looking for any type of intervention," she said. "So I'm afraid." Nine pounds? Sounds like that fear was warranted. [Us Magazine]
- Is Uma Thurman knocked up? Apparently she bought a bunch of dresses two sizes larger than she usually does. [Rush & Molloy]
- Jennifer Lopez will serve as a guest judge on the season finale of Project Runway. Yay? Last season it was Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham, it's tough to live up to that. [Us Magazine]
- BREAKING: Posh may have cut off all of her hair OMG. [NY Mag]
- Did Jennifer Aniston run into Brad Pitt at the Toronto Film Festival? Despite attempts by both of their camps to keep them far apart? And did they have dinner together? [Daily Mail]
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Women Scorned
Ever since
Sex and the City turned out to be a money making juggernaut, Warner Brothers has decided to
aggressively market The Women. "This is an about-face from the studio's earlier decision to leave plans intact for about-to-shutter Picturehouse to debut the chick flick in limited release and with a small P&A," says Nikki Finke, who has been
following the fate of the Meg Ryan-helmed film for some time now (also starring: Annette Bening, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett Smith). If you'll recall, last year Warner Brothers' Jeff Robinov
famously declared, "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead." Well apparently he's doing at least one movie with a woman in the lead, and while that's heartening, movies still have a long way to go. Looking at the just-released
shortlist for Emmy nominations, however, shows that there are myriad plum roles for leading ladies on the small screen. Which leads me to wonder: why is there such an enormous disconnect between females on TV and the ones on the silver screen?
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The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
The tagline for the new Will Smith/Charlize Theron-starrer
Hancock is, "He's not your average superhero." Isn't he, like, really surly or something? And that's his thing? Being surly? Well, anyway, the fashions on parade at the premiere of the film at Grauman's Chinese Theatre last night
were, in fact largely uninspired and occasionally fug, despite the high-wattage stars (Charlize Theron, Amanda Peet, Minnie Driver, Queen Latifah and uh, Larry Birkhead) who made an appearance. All of them, minus Anna Nicole's babydaddy, after the jump.
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- Talk about fighting some unholy war: Amy Winehouse has emphysema. Her father Mitch says: "With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 per cent lung capacity." Shiz. [Daily Mail, via TMZ]
- Amy's emphysema is in the early stages. [People]
- But docs say if she goes back to smoking drugs, she won't just lose her voice: She'll die. [Yahoo News]
- Amy is "desperate" to perform at Nelson Mandela's birthday party this Friday, so there might be medics and an ambulance on standby. [Mirror]
- Comedian George Carlin has died at the age of 71. [AP]
- Will Angelina Jolie give birth on the 4th of July? Or will it be July 14, Bastille Day? USA vs. France! [LA Times]
- Someone fired a weapon awfully close to the set of Johnny Depp's move in Chicago. Johnny was not harmed, repeat: Johnny was not harmed. [TMZ]
- Johnny Depp's been supplying the crew of his new flick with booze. [Mirror]
- Courtney Love is "shockingly pale and thin." No, seriously. It's alarming. [The Sun]
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