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    Image of IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    What stupid thing can I do so that someone will offer me $500,000 dollars to do porn? Seriously, I could use the cash. I'd love to get rewarded for my idiotic behavior.
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    Image of ihateyourescalade ihateyourescalade
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    The blind item is driving me mad with curiosity. NO IDEA. Anyone?
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    Image of midwesternmom midwesternmom
    06/13/09

    @ihateyourescalade: I was thinking Brittney Murphy, because she has dropped out of sight and married recently after a string of bad engagements.
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    06/13/09

    @midwesternmom: Hmmm...clevah...
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Does anyone have a guess for the blind item? Because I do not have *a* *clue,* but I'm highly curious.
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    Image of SusieDerkins SusieDerkins
    06/13/09

    @JennaW: One gossip site I read claims this one is Brittany Murphy. She's married to a random dude who has a rap sheet and had drug problems in the past, and she's been fired from a couple of movies in a row. That could explain the "I can't believe she got another movie" line.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    06/13/09

    @thegogglesdonothing @SusieDerkins: Awww, sad! I like her. I'm texting Cher and Di to go intervent with her again.
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    Image of BatCat! BatCat!
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Mmkay, Nia Vardalos is fat? I'll admit she hasn't really been on my radar, but I did see MBFGW and I never once thought she was fat. Not a twig, maybe, but "fat"??
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    06/13/09

    @BatCat!: We are not talking about real-world standards here. She is quoting movie producers. Her point is that Hollywood operates on a very different definition of female body standards.
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    Image of BatCat! BatCat!
    06/13/09

    @kelsium: Yes, but coming out now and self-labeling as "fat" despite the whole reclaiming the term/empowerment bent she's given it also seems iffy to me. She's doing as much to shift the paradigm as the Hollywood producers when she starts applying the "fat" word to perfectly normal healthy-weighted women such as herself.
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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    06/13/09

    @BatCat!: Only if you hold the view that "fat" is a negative term. The whole idea of fat-positivism and reclaiming the term is that it is not a negative label. There is nothing here that is meant to make other women say "oh god, if she's fat I'm a WHALE!" Vardalos is saying that she is, indeed, fat by Hollywood standards and that she accepts that and does not see it as a negative. There is nothing objectionable about that.

    This conversation has played out before here:

    [jezebel.com]

    when the statement was much more inflammatory.
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    06/13/09

    @BatCat!: And, if you read the statement, Vardalos does not ever say that she is fat. She just says that it isn't a bad word, and that when we're talking about weight we shouldn't automatically equate "fat" and "unnattractive". They are not synonymous.
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    Image of BatCat! BatCat!
    06/13/09

    @kelsium: You're right, she never actually calls herself fat, but she seems to be implying that it would be perfectly okay if the producers had called her that. And yes, I'm totally down with the whole fat-positivism movement--I read & love BFD--but my point was that objectively, she didn't carry enough weight to have the label applied to her. Say we did the same thing with the term "short." And the producers didn't think she was tall or amazonian enough for their liking and decided to say things like she was "unappealing" or "undertall" in reference to her height. And she comes out later and says, "Just call me short! There's nothing wrong with that!" When she's actually 5'8" or whatever (I have no idea how tall she actually is, so forgive me). That was my only point.
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    06/13/09

    @BatCat!: If she were working in an industry like modelling, where 5'8 is short, that would be a perfectly valid statement.
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    Image of Devonna Devonna
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Nia Vardalos' quote makes me want to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding.


    And I wish that picture showed the rest of Reese Witherspoon's outfit. If it's a dress, I want it. If it's a shirt, I could never pull it off.

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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a little sentimental for me, I didn't love it. However, I DID love that while the protagonist goes through the conventional defrumping, it has nothing to do with the guy and everything to do with the fact that she wants to totally change her life, and when the couple talks about her before and after it turns out he noticed her all along.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    06/13/09

    @kelsium: That aspect of the film is a pretty realistic view of someone who did not value herself and that showed by how she looked before; when she did begin to value herself and take control of her life, she did things for herself that also made her look better, and you're right -- it was all about herself for herself and not the guy which made it awesome.
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Elisabeth Rohm's fiance "doesn't want the visuals in his head"...OF HER NAKED? Oh yeah, that's going to be a great marriage.
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    Image of whats_in_a_name whats_in_a_name
    06/13/09

    @BeckySharper: I don't watch very many movies so I don't really pay enough attention to the trailers/magazine articles about upcoming movies to know much about her movie or the nude scenes there in, but when I read that quote I get a "don't want to see her naked with a guy other than myself" kind of vibe.
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    Image of BAngieB BAngieB
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Said Elisabeth Rohm's fiance: "I'm not seeing her movie because of the nude scenes. I am not doing this."


    Said Usher's momma: "I told you not to marry that skank. I am gloating now. I am doing this."

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    Image of TurtleWexlerKickedMe TurtleWexlerKickedMe
    06/13/09

    @BAngieB: said Tameka to Usher: YOU WILL NOT FACILITATE THIS DIVORCE.
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    Image of DangerMouse DangerMouse
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Daniel clearly didn't watch the ANTM reruns on Oxygen; he would've known what he was in for.
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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    I actually agree with Daniel Baldwin there. World imploding in 5.... 4......
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    Image of Lolita Hazed Lolita Hazed
    06/13/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: Two years ago, he was filming The Sopranos at The Gansevoort and we would see him pretty much every morning. He talked to my sister apropos of nothing and was later heard telling random families kah-razy stories about the Baldwin brothers!


    In our house, he is eternally Daniel Dorkface.

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    Image of victoriasauce victoriasauce
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    I'm so sick of hearing that Kate is "difficult" or "controlling" like it's a reason for Jon to cheat. At least she's WITH THE KIDS.
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    06/13/09

    @victoriasauce: I don't see what good that's going to do if she doesn't give them water!

    Nah, I'm just fucking with ya. I agree.
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    Image of Antrack Antrack
    06/13/09

    @victoriasauce: For real. Sorry you made a mistake by marrying the wrong woman and having 8 kids. Unfortch, you kinda need to live with that mistake for about 12 more years because of the whole 8 kids thing. He's being completely selfish and needs to grow up, but then that's always been my impression of him.


    Did anyone else watch that "Raising Sextuplets"? I didn't mean to, but it was on at like 11:30 last night and I just fell in. It's almost the same situation where the wife is doing everything, and the husband is complaining constantly about how tired he is and how hard it is to have sextuplets. Like Kate, that wife was kind of a harpy (she sent her 30 lb overweight husband to the obesity doctor to be put on a 2-shake-a-day-plus-a-meal-diet), but I'm kinda thinking I would be a harpy if I had sextuplets. You can't control any of the 6 toddlers, clearly, but you can control your husband!


    Apparently I just had to get that out there.

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    Image of Understater Understater
    06/13/09

    @victoriasauce: Well, apparently she cheated on him, too. None of us will know the real/whole story, but she does come across as a deeply unlikeable person.
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    06/13/09

    @Antrack: I'm reminded of that girl from that 16 and Pregnant episode that was posted here on Jez the other day. That poor girl had only one baby and a very lazy boyfriend and was so stressed - multiply her frustration x8, and suddenly, she goes from being a girl who pleads with her boyfriend for very valid reasons to a nag like Kate.
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    Image of shananigans aka angerball shananigans aka angerball
    06/13/09

    @victoriasauce: Actually Jon gave up his job to be a stay at home dad. I'm not excusing cheating but I think a lot of this is being trumped up (no one knows if he actually cheated) and she's always tried to make sure that she comes out looking good so I'm sure she's probably staying with the kids right now because it garners sympathy.


    I also read (on Jez I believe) that TLC has this all planned for a huge reconciliation (read: big ratings) at the end of the season.

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    Image of MichelleMyBelle MichelleMyBelle
    06/13/09

    @victoriasauce: It's only in the last few weeks that Kate has "always been with the kids." Jon has been the one staying home ever since they were babies when Kate was still working as a nurse. Then as the Gosselins became more famous, Kate started traveling to promote her books and the show and would be gone for days/weeks at a time. It's only now that the cheating allegations came out and that it's known she would travel alot that Kate is staying home with the kids/making sure she's being seen with the kids. She wants to come off looking like the victim and better parent.


    That being said, I was watching an episode the other day from a past season and I forgot how in love they used to seem even with Kate criticizing Jon for every little thing. It seems like she's 10x worse than she was then.

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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    06/13/09

    @mhernan06:


    It's reality TV.


    This manufactured drama is raising the ratings and selling the books. Look for a touching reconciliation at the end of the season.

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    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Oh no, Joe, you are definitely not bitter at all. No, really, not at all.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    I have kind of a soft spot for Reese. In a world where a lot of trim, fit, conventionally attractive, blue-eyed blonde actresses attract a great deal of attention for being sort of vapid and giddy, Reese is a trim, fit, conventionally attractive blue-eyed blonde actress who comes across as being very self-possessed and assertive.


    I'll take "slightly prickly" over "OH LOL DUH WHAT LOL" any day.

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    Image of kelsium kelsium
    06/13/09

    @tscheese: I love her, too. I'm convinced that she's got a little Tracy Flick in her, and I can't hate on that.
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    Image of Mrs. Stephen Fry Mrs. Stephen Fry
    06/13/09

    @tscheese: I quite like her, too.
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    06/13/09

    @kelsium: She is just adorable. Like a little bunny rabbit. I just wanna squeeze her, not too tight though, whenever I see her.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    06/13/09

    @tscheese: I like her too. She seems comfortable with being serious. I find that an attractive quality in people.
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    Image of BlondeGoddess BlondeGoddess
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    It's amazing these little pieces of fabric that Mariah insists are dresses take up so much suitcase space.
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    Image of mama_t mama_t
    06/13/09

    @BlondeGoddess:


    *One suitcase for shoes

    *One for napkin sized dresses

    *One for butterfly clips

    *Nineteen of tiny purse appropriate pets.

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    Image of LadyFabulous LadyFabulous
    06/13/09

    @mama_t: You forgot the suitcase that houses all of her Hello Kitty-related materials.
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    Image of Understater Understater
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reese's Perfume, Usher's Divorce, And Hustler's Offer To Carrie Prejean
    Witherspoon's scent: Lilac, sandalwood, and a whisper of self-righteousness.
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    Image of ragincajun67 ragincajun67
    06/13/09

    @Understater: with a control-freak base note.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    06/13/09

    @Understater: I'm not gonna lie--I would totally wear that.
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    Image of HarrietB. HarrietB.
    06/13/09

    @tscheese: I'm pretty sure that's the only "celebrity" perfume that I would wear.
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    Image of Understater Understater
    06/13/09

    @ragincajun67: Also, does beard have a smell?
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    Image of victoriasauce victoriasauce
    06/13/09

    @HarrietB.: I may or may not have a bottle of "Curious" by Britney Spears.
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