In the age of designer drugs and Twitter and cell phone pictures of celebrities grinding with each other to music composed almost entirely of beeps, there’s something classy about an old-school Hollywood scandal. Even Lindsay Lohan’s sordid exploits can’t match those of Elizabeth Taylor, whom Lohan depicts in the campy-looking piece of trash Liz & Dick. In a new tell-all biography, Elizabeth Taylor: There is Nothing Like a Dame, two writers with the best job ever investigated the late Taylor’s love life for years.
Among her lovers were Peter Lawford, Errol Flynn, Tony Curtis, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra. She also had a three-way with John F. Kennedy and the actor Robert Stack—(this guy—in JFK’s pool, and fucked Ronald Reagan as a teenager. Allegedly, she told a friend: “Reagan was treating me like a grown woman, and that thrilled me. We sat on his sofa and I could tell he wanted to get it on but he seemed reluctant to make the first move. I became the aggressor. After a heavy make-out session on the sofa, we went into the bedroom.”
Waaaaait though, I want to hear more about the threesome. [Express]
From Jenny McCarthy’s new book Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic, presented without comment because it needs none (except to establish that McCarthy used to have a Vicodin addiction):
Holding up drugs in front of a group of Playmates was like holding up an arm to a cannibal tribe.We jumped on the box fighting to get as many little white capsules as possible. Instead of saving some for later, we all pounded at least five at once. It was incredibly intense. So much so that we all began to express love for one another by making out with each other. I can only imagine the shock [one random man] was in seeing that he was the only man on the beach with fourteen really fucked up Playmates who just happened to also be making out with each other.
Meanwhile, in Reykjavik, Iceland, Lady Gaga was bequeathed with the LennonOno Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono for her Born This Way Foundation and the more-recent Body Revolution 2013, which consists of a puzzle-shaped trophy and $50,000. Ono on Gaga: “Lady Gaga is in a position of #1 as a singer/songwriter. And when you are #1, you don’t want to risk yourself. And she did.” I’m all for this, but urgh, in the immortal words of Chris Rock, take off that silly-ass hat. [MTV, Little Monsters]
IMPORTANT NEWS: Thanks to a genealogy website, we have now learned that Avril Lavigne, Ryan Gosling and Justin Bieber are all very distantly related, the descendants of some of the earliest Quebec settlers around 400 year ago. Oh, and Beebz shares a tiny bit of the same divablood as Celine Dion. Canada! [E! Online]
Also, after his cell phone was stolen in Tacoma, Washington, there were rumors of a NUDE PHOTOGRAPH of Beebz, but the Internet does not yet know if it’s actually him, and it was found on a blog 10 months ago, so it’s probably not. (But if it is: uncircumcised!) [The Frisky]
ALSO, the poor young man recently got “swatted,” a prank whose former victims include Miley Cyrus and Ashton Kutcher. Rough week, kiddo. [TMZ]
Here’s Scarlett Johansson giving the Psycho shower scene her all as the doomed Janet Leigh character in the upcoming film Hitchcock, also starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette and Jessica Biel. [Ace Showbiz]
Yup, Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon are officially engaged. [Bossip]
- Ben and Jen do the awkward occasional ex email thing. Humans! [People]
- Lance Bass approves of Jessica Biel for Justin Timberlake because she is good at Having A Beer and Watching The Game. [Us Weekly]
- Debbie Reynolds was rushed to the hospital after a bad reaction to medication. She’s now recovering at home. [NYDN]
- Jon Hamm, penis hidden this time, played chess with some kids. [Page Six]
- Nick and Vanessa Lachey named their new son after the street her gynecologist’s office was on: Camden Drive. [People]
- Here’s the newly blonde Natalie Portman standing around on the set of Terrence Malick’s new movie. [NYDN]
- Jennifer Aniston is doing a shampoo line, which is only surprising ‘cuz it didn’t happen sooner. [Daily Mail]
- Rick Springfield, guy who sang “Jessie’s Girl,” gave an impromptu subway performance. [TMZ]
- Harry Belafonte’s half-brother is taking legal action against the “many libels” printed about him in Belafonte’s book. [Page Six]
- Neve Campbell’s gonna be on Grey’s Anatomy as Patrick Dempsey’s sister. [Express]
- Morrissey hates the shit out of the Royal Family. “”I hate the royals. I think they’re absolutely horrible people. I think they’re arrogant, horrible dictators. The world does not need them.” [Daily Star]
- This would be
Nomi MaloneElizabeth Berkeley’s son Sky. [Us Weekly] - “You can’t kidnap a grown man!” laughs Taylor Swift re: rumors that she flew Conor Kennedy out on a jet against his will. [E! Online]
- One Direction made a Pepsi ad. [Sugarscape]
- Jennifer Love Hewitt breaks wrist while boxing, blogger makes obvious The Client List handjob joke. [Uproxx]
- “[My] dress is actually made of jewelry,” Blake Lively told the paparazzi quite seriously, and then her Ryan Reynolds diamond blinded everyone. [Us Weekly]
- Kim Kardashian might be pissed that Reggie Bush got his girlfriend pregnant. [Bossip]
- There is now a distinct possibility that Uma Thurman will have sex with Shia LaBeouf onscreen. Thanks, Lars von Trier. [NME]
- Guys, in their partying days Rod Stewart called Elton John “Sharon” and Elton called Rod “Phyllis.” [Reuters]
- Sarah Michelle Gellar, you’re such a role model. That is all. [Us Weekly]