"If she doesn't want to be photographed she should change her profession and become a butcher."
Bullshit. Did it ever occur to this fuck that maybe Nicole Kidman LIKES acting and LIKES being in movies in the same sense that he LIKES stalking and invading the privacy of celebrities?
Yes, I understand that if a celebrity is going out in a public place it's likely that they are going to be photographed. But what gave this dog the right to bug her house? I'm fairly certain that's illegal and borderline stalking.
Just because you're lucky enough to make it in Hollywood doesn't mean that you should expect that you're going to have your home violated or your child stalked.
I have mixed feelings on Jude/Sienna, and not just because I have an irrational crush on the Talented Mr. Law. See, my dad is a serial cheater. Cheated on my mom with my now-stepmom, then cheated on the stepmom. But my stepmother did lay down the law and I know that he has reformed, if only because he felt comfortable sharing his failings with me. And a huge part of me is grateful that he is still with her, because she's helping him navigate his illness.
But he hurt people, including his children, by what he did to our mom and stepmom. So I believe there can be forgiveness, if not forgetting. Here's hoping the crazy kids can have a semi-happy ending on par with what happened to my family. It CAN happen.
Well, *I* feel fully satisfied that Chris Brown has changed and regrets his actions. It is SO CLEAR from everything he has said and done since he committed the merciless beating.
I expect the next story will be that Chris Brown has burned down a Wal*Mart all the while crying and demanding to know why Wal*Mart was making him do this!
@JennaW: While wearing that stupid bowtie. Because a bowtie really transforms your apology from "I'm sorry I did that" to "I'm sorry people are mad at me"
I'm waiting for Chris Brown to borrow a page from Carrie Prejean's "How to be a Victim" and start calling everything a violation of his 1st Amendment rights.
@HarpMadness: The super long, autobiographical litanies with shitty spelling and punctuation written in white on a black background in super tiny font? Those got me through my stint as managing editor at my uni paper.
The only thing you've accomplished by dropping Tiger Woods is to remind everyone that you used to be Arthur Andersen, LLC. You know, the accounting firm that helped Enron cheat on their financial statements?
@la.donna.pietra: Actually, they used to be Andersen Consulting -- different branches within the same company. They had changed their name to Accenture (because it's more melifluous?) and broke off from Andersen before Enron went kablooey.
@la.donna.pietra: Accenture is not Arthur Andersen. It was the shoot off of Arthur Andersen that became Andersen Consulting but then lost the rights to use that name in 1999/2000 because the companies had separated - years and years before Enron and Arthur Andersen (both the accounting portion and the consulting portion) imploded.
@coffee milk: I actually applied there. Half of the business majors at my tiny liberal arts college got jobs at Andersen Consulting.
Arthur Andersen, on the other hand, was decimated. It no longer exists under any name, though I know many of the accountants working there did end up going to the same firm. Can't remember the name offhand.
@Ratinski: My college (and then post-college) roommate worked at Andersen Consulting. They sent her an oversized tin of flavored popcorn when she got the job, and the rest of the roommates felt jealous. But it turns out a giant vat of candy corn can't quite make up for the slow deadening of one's creative faculties.
Tiger Woods seemed like a good Andersen spokesman: bland and capable. But Tiger as Sex Panther is more exciting than their brand aspires to be.
@yet i: My first boss did his requisite 1-year big-accounting-firm stint with AA (which is why I was under the impression that they were one and the same as Accenture), and he agreed with you entirely. The sick-leave policy was the sticking point for him: if you didn't have a doctor's note, you obviously weren't sick, and if you did have a doctor's note, you were well enough to go to the doctor, so you must have been well enough to come into work. Either way, it was impossible to take sick leave.
@PandaGrrl: They need a PR team something awful, then, because the association still seems very firm in many people's minds (including my former boss, who used to work at Arthur Andersen).
Perhaps they'd consider hiring Elin Nordegren as a spokeperson: "Innocent of all wrongdoing!"
We're gonna need a Wambulance at the corner of No-One-Feels-Bad-For-You and You-Stupid-Self-Righteous-Prick. As soon as you can please, this is an emergency there's a man out here choking on his own words.
"These are Machiavellian games that are being played and they are just not right. If she doesn't want to be photographed she should change her profession and become a butcher"
...what? It's a Machiavellian game to not want to be hounded by paparazzi when you're grocery shopping just because you wanted to act and not work in a deli? WTF are you talking about?
@Triphena: He's probably referring to his perception that celebrities have more clout with the court than anyone else, and that she can just "ruin peoples' lives and careers" by getting restraining orders any time she wants. He seems to think that paparazzi have a god-given right to invade the privacy of people who are famous, because it's their job and supposedly wrecking peoples' lives falls under life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. On the other hand, he thinks that those who pursue acting and music have no right to pursue happiness in their OWN lives if it means having privacy like normal human beings, because they exist for the pleasure and economy of other people.
@SaturdaysChild: Whoa. I didn't catch that part. How did that go down in court? "Your honor, she is playing complex psychological games with me to prevent me from listening to her having sex. It's just not right!"
$500 for worn Stella boots? $400 for worn Marc Jacobs boots? Gee, Lindsay is really desperate for some cash (and bad spelling apparently runs in the family).
Living in Sydney seems to be working out well for Cate Blanchett, paparazzi wise. Now that she's back in NY, she's photographed daily again. Maybe Nicole should talk to her.
@BlondeGoddess: but Cate isn't the same kind of paparazzi bait - do you know the names of her kids? Her husband? I don't know anything about her personal life.
I once saw Hugh Jackman at the swimming pool with his kids in Sydney, and it was no big deal. But I can't help but feel that if I saw Nicole Kidman, it would be different.
@kittiquin: Dashiell, Roman, Iggy, and she's married to Andrew Upton. But this may say more about my Cate-love than how much they are in the gossip rags.
@BlondeGoddess: I try to avoid the gossip, and I still, somehow, know everything about Nicole's womb, husband, and offspring. To say nothing of her ex-husband.
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Bullshit. Did it ever occur to this fuck that maybe Nicole Kidman LIKES acting and LIKES being in movies in the same sense that he LIKES stalking and invading the privacy of celebrities?
Yes, I understand that if a celebrity is going out in a public place it's likely that they are going to be photographed. But what gave this dog the right to bug her house? I'm fairly certain that's illegal and borderline stalking.
Just because you're lucky enough to make it in Hollywood doesn't mean that you should expect that you're going to have your home violated or your child stalked.
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But he hurt people, including his children, by what he did to our mom and stepmom. So I believe there can be forgiveness, if not forgetting. Here's hoping the crazy kids can have a semi-happy ending on par with what happened to my family. It CAN happen.
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I expect the next story will be that Chris Brown has burned down a Wal*Mart all the while crying and demanding to know why Wal*Mart was making him do this!
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The only thing you've accomplished by dropping Tiger Woods is to remind everyone that you used to be Arthur Andersen, LLC. You know, the accounting firm that helped Enron cheat on their financial statements?
Sincerely,
la.donna.pietra
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I hate that I know this.
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Arthur Andersen, on the other hand, was decimated. It no longer exists under any name, though I know many of the accountants working there did end up going to the same firm. Can't remember the name offhand.
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Tiger Woods seemed like a good Andersen spokesman: bland and capable. But Tiger as Sex Panther is more exciting than their brand aspires to be.
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I used to work for them, a few years back. i always wondered why tiger was the spokesperson.
also : if you can, don't work for them. The worst year of my life, in terms of employment, basically.
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Perhaps they'd consider hiring Elin Nordegren as a spokeperson: "Innocent of all wrongdoing!"
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Be thankful that your mediocre singing self even has a record contract.
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We're gonna need a Wambulance at the corner of No-One-Feels-Bad-For-You and You-Stupid-Self-Righteous-Prick. As soon as you can please, this is an emergency there's a man out here choking on his own words.
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...what? It's a Machiavellian game to not want to be hounded by paparazzi when you're grocery shopping just because you wanted to act and not work in a deli? WTF are you talking about?
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People don't have to carry your CD. Welcome to Capitalism!
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I once saw Hugh Jackman at the swimming pool with his kids in Sydney, and it was no big deal. But I can't help but feel that if I saw Nicole Kidman, it would be different.
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Ah - let's go with Alec.
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