Thursday, June 7, 2007
Note To Mel Gibson – Traditionally People At AA Meetings Prefer If You Don’t Arrive Liquored Up
11:59PM Jess McGuire | Bad news for Mel Gibson, it would seem. The National Enquirer has reported that the troubled actor/director/producer/
Eyebrows shot up when Mel Gibson walked into an AA meeting near his Malibu home, stumbled over a row of seats and crash-landed atop them. “He was falling, tripping and clearly off balance,” said a source. “It was an embarrassing moment.” Later that evening, Mel stumbled into a petite woman, knocking her off balance. “And he didn’t even apologize!†said the source. “He looked so out of it.”
Now it seems unfair to jump to conclusions that he was shickered, folks. The man gets a little clumsy at an AA meeting and we crucify him?
Yeah, you’re right. He was probably quite pissed.
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Billy Corgan Makes Fun Of Hasselhoff At A Smashing Pumpkins Gig
11:53PM Jess McGuire | Smashing Pumpkin’s frontman and celebrity sook of yesteryear Billy Corgan made fun of David Hasselhoff during a recent secret gig by the band in Germany.
American rockers Smashing Pumpkins shocked fans last night by performing a secret gig in Germany, and using it to mock the country’s love of David Hasselhoff. The recently reformed band – showing off a new line-up – performed an acoustic set for 200 fans in Berlin.
After wowing the intimate crowd with all of their classic hits, frontman Billy Corgan embarked on a question and answer session, during which he poked fun at the former Baywatch star – who has enjoyed a phenomenally successful pop career in Germany.
When asked why he chose the German word Zeitgeist for the band’s new album, Corgan replied, “Because the word Hasselhoff was taken.”
He added, “We don’t like to play our old material, we get Hasselhoff to play the songs off Siamese Dream (their 1993 second album).”
Cutting edge humour there, sir! Sterling work. It’ll always be 2005 in the comic mind of Billy Corgan. Just wait until the band launch into a massive world tour, and Billy begins tickling ribs with his thoughts on Chuck Norris!
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Marilyn Manson Wants His Beloved Taxidermied Baboons Back
11:53PM Jess McGuire | Celebrity break ups are hard, aren’t they? More so than the break ups of non-famous people, because celebrities are better than us so their pain counts for so much more. So we were sad to discover today that Marilyn Manson is worried about the divvying up of he and Dita Von Teese’s collection of dead things.
He says: “I have four taxidermied baboons, two monkeys, a white peacock, a turtle and a wild boar. I went through a dramatic lifestyle change with my home after the break-up. I left it. When you get separated, you lose so much. I don’t what she’ll say when I ask for them back.”
We’ll hazard a guess and suppose she’d say something along the lines of “Are you still fucking that nineteen year old?”
Evan Rachel Wood, what are you thinking? More » Kylie And Dannii Minogue Perform A Duet!
11:51PM Jess McGuire | Check out this amazing clip of Kylie and Dannii belting out “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves” back in the heady days of Young Talent Time and marvel at their gravity defying perms. Despite its age, the footage is nothing short of wondrous.
(applauds loudly)
More » We Are Now A Bit Obsessed By Frances O’Connor The Armless Wonder
11:51PM Jess McGuire | We read a reference to Australian actress Frances O’Connor earlier today and began to wonder… what on earth has happened to her? One minute, along with Cate Blanchett, she was the thespian wonder from Down Under in the States, and went from starring in Aussie flicks like Thank God He Met Lizzieto appearing alongside Brendan Fraser in Bedazzled and Jude Law in AI: Artificial Intelligence.
But what is she doing now? We forgot she existed until this afternoon, and quickly turned to Google which showed that she’s laid pretty low since giving birth to her first child in 2005.
Google also turned up the Wikipedia page of another performer named Frances O’Conner. We think we prefer this one.
Frances Belle O’Connor (September 8, 1914 – January 30, 1982) was born in Granite Falls, Minnesota. She was born entirely without arms, and made her living by appearing in various circus sideshows as the armless wonder or the living Venus de Milo. She would perform various tricks, such as eating, drinking and smoking a cigarette, all using her feet in place of the missing hands.
She also appeared in the controversial 1932 film, Freaks, directed by Tod Browning, in which a number of real people with physical abnormalities played themselves or other characters.
O’Connor never married, although it was said that she was never short of admirers. She died in relative obscurity in Long Beach, California in 1982.
Add another to the list! We might start making a list of relative unknowns who have proved themselves to be far more intriguing than their celebrity namesakes.
More » Zali Steggall Is Back On The Market
11:06PM Jess McGuire | Elite skier Zali Steggall – remember her? – has opened up to the Daily Telegraph about her recent split from husband David Cameron. It seems David was playing away from home, but despite her disappointment at her marriage’s implosion, Steggall says the pair are staying on good terms for the sake of their two children.
All well and good (or in actual fact, not so well and good), but the only reason we point out the article is because we quite enjoy Zali’s morally superior tone in the following bit.
“Both our parents have just celebrated 40-year wedding anniversaries, so infidelity and divorce weren’t things I was planning to deal with,” Steggall said.
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Breaking: Paris Hilton’s Cavities Properly Probed
1:41PM Defamer Hollywood | Apparently, there was some confusion earlier today concerning whether or not special-needs-cellblock socialite Paris Hilton was able to bypass a “humiliating” intake body cavity search upon her arrival at Century, the hottest celebrity-incarceration destination in Lynwood. While a NY Post report claimed that Hilton’s potentially weapons-concealing nether-regions went unsearched, local detention facility watchdog organization TMZ can now exclusively confirm that the heiress’s privileged cavities were not afforded any special treatment; fortunately, despite the thorough probing, the miniature recording devices TMZ implanted deep within Hilton during a recent Hyde blackout were not discovered, allowing the site to continue compiling its suspiciously detailed prison diary features without interruption. Paris DID Have to Spread ‘Em! [TMZ] PARIS BAWLS IN JAIL [NY Post] More »
New Yorker Finally Stops Running From Borat Long Enough To File Lawsuit Against Fox
1:23PM Defamer Hollywood | For those of you who prefer to live in the recent past, peering wistfully over your shoulders at the halcyon days when a neon-bethonged Kazakh reporter delighted audiences with his naïve take on sister-pimping and fist-shaped dildo usage, we bring to you news of yet more Borat-related litigiousness. No, not even the movie’s Fleeing, Freaked-Out New York City Guy was able to find the humour in his brief but memorable cameo, as his somewhat late-to-the-party lawsuit outlines. Reports The Smoking Gun: Jeffrey Lemerond, 31, claims in a U.S. District Court complaint that the film depicts him “fleeing in apparent terror” from Borat, the phony Kazakh reporter portrayed by Cohen…Lemerond notes that he was screaming “go away” at Cohen, who was seeking a hug from the rattled stranger. More »
Cuba Gooding Jr. Puts Gunshot Victim Before His Own Chicken And Waffle Eating Needs
11:52AM Defamer Hollywood | On Memorial Day, Oscar-winner and Horatio Sanz’s onetime gay-cruising partner Cuba Gooding Jr. had pulled up to Roscoe’s House of Chicken n Waffles on Gower to pick up some deep-fried dinner for the family. What followed, reports Gatecrasher, was an astounding act of celebrity selflessness, as a quick-thinking Cuba leaped to the aid of a young gunshot victim: The 39-year-old Oscar winner was waiting in his car outside a Hollywood restaurant “when he heard four gunshots”, says a source. “Cuba was picking up dinner for his family on the night of Memorial Day,” says the spy. “He saw a young kid holding his head and walked toward him. The kid was bleeding from his neck and collapsed.” More »
