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Posted by Jess McGuire at 7:23 PM on July 4, 2007
There's not much we can say regarding what you're about to see other than PLEASE GIVE US ONE FOR THESE FOR OUR BIRTHDAY KTHXBYE.
Thanks Lee!
Posted by Jess McGuire at 3:34 PM on July 4, 2007
Pass us a spliff and give us an inspirational slogan to yell, because we're all a-flustered about the young man who crashed John Howard's morning tea.
A Speedo-clad protester, a man wanting more ethnic diversity in government advertising, and a handful of Your Rights At Work campaigners have done their best to disrupt Prime Minister John Howard's low-key tour of a key marginal seat.
But Mr Howard has brushed off any security concerns after a man dressed only in swimming briefs, a bathing cap and goggles and yelling about climate change came within touching distance of the prime minister.
The man, with the words "Climate Change Ski Team" emblazoned on his bare chest in pen, repeatedly told Mr Howard that there was "no snow" as security staff quickly bundled him into a nearby toilet at the Bega RSL during a community morning tea in the NSW south coast town.
Down with climate change! Down with Speedos!
(We don't know why we're being so shamelessly sexist. We apologise. It may have something to do with nicotine withdrawals.)
Posted by Jess McGuire at 3:30 PM on July 4, 2007
Now that the rapidly approaching middle age GIRL POWER GURUS WE LOVE TO BITS aka Spice Girls have announced they're reuniting for a VERY EXCITING WORLD TOUR (we're sorry, we must shout such things), the press is absolutely chockers with Spice-related tales.
Here's a charming little anecdote for ye!
Geri Halliwell repaired her friendship with Victoria Beckham by begging for forgiveness, according to a report today.
The singer approached Posh in 2004 to apologise for the way that she had quit the Spice Girls six years earlier. Victoria, who had felt "betrayed" by Geri's decision, was finally won over by her former friend - and sources claim that this paved the way for the group's forthcoming reunion tour.
An insider told The Sun: "Geri began getting in contact with Victoria again in 2004. She knew how hurt Victoria was but she also knew how to push the right buttons. Geri broke down in front of Victoria, apologised for leaving the band in the way she did and begged for her forgiveness.
"She also told Victoria how awful her life was at the time. She was lonely, confused, didn't have a man and didn't even have a place to call home. Victoria started to feel sorry for Geri."
DON'T FORGET THE TIME YOU ATE CAKE OUT OF GEORGE MICHAEL'S BIN, GERI! IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO NOT TALK ABOUT THAT INCIDENT IN GREAT DETAIL WHEN DISCUSSING THE LOW MOMENTS IN YOUR LIFE!
We will go and breathe into a paper bag now.
Posted by Jess McGuire at 3:26 PM on July 4, 2007
Congratulations to Nicole Richie and The One From Good Charlotte Who Isn't With Sophie Monk aka Joel Madden on news that the pair are about to become parents for the first time.
Nicole Richie is officially pregnant with her Good Charlotte boyfriend of six months Joel Madden. TMZ says: "(We've) confirmed through several sources that she is, in fact, with child. In Touch magazine is also reporting that the couple will wed this summer."
In other news, poor Hillary Duff. :(
In other news part two, poor The Public as this news will probably inspire another Hillary Duff album. :( :( :( :(
Posted by Jess McGuire at 3:12 PM on July 4, 2007
News Ltd reports that 2000 patients currently fear they could be at risk of Hepatitis C due to some dicey practices at a Sydney medical clinic.
Almost 2000 people who visited a Sydney medical clinic could be at risk of hepatitis C infection because of inadequate controls at the practice, NSW Health Minister Reba Meagher said.
At least three patients probably contracted hepatitis C because of inadequate infection control at Dr Daniel Hameiri's Double Bay clinic, an investigation has found.
Health Minister Reba Meagher said New South Wales Health had now notified almost 2000 patients who attended the clinic and who could be at risk of the blood-borne virus.
They are being advised to be tested for hepatitis C as well as hepatitis B and HIV.
The investigation found the spread of the highly infectious virus, detected in three patients in March, had probably occurred as a result of "inadequate infection control practices" at the clinic.
Even more terrifying for those awaiting results? The rumour that Peter Helliar will inflict his stand up upon them in an effort to win back some hearts after his disastrous Hep C/Pamela Anderson comedy debacle on Sunday night earned him the ire of Hepatitis Australia.
Posted by Jess McGuire at 2:57 PM on July 4, 2007
Just in case you missed former Full House star John Stamos repeatedly slurring to morning television queen Kerri-Anne that he loves Australia and would like to retire here, he's mentioned his desire to move Down Under once ER choose not to renew his contract yet again, this time in an interview where he explains he is no Hoff! He is the Stammonator - Teetotaller and Terrible Self-Medicator!
"I did not drink either morning. I do not have an alcohol problem. I am not David Hasselhoff. This is not a pattern."
The Hoff, who was videotaped shirtless and rambling in a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this year, has previously said he is a recovering alcoholic.
But not Stamos, whose tired and emotional outburst, he claims was down to the improper use of sleeping aid Ambien and jumping time zones in his hectic travel itinerary. "By the time I got to Australia my body was so out of whack," he said.
But it was not until four days after he landed that the one-time Full House heartthrob slurred his way through an interview with television writer Stephen Downie before following up the outburst on Kerri-Anne Kennerley's morning show the next day.
"I took a sleeping pill at 5 in the morning.Now I know that Ambien is an eight-hour sleeping pill so if you take it, you better get eight hours sleep. Do not take it at five in the morning," Stamos said.
"I really do feel bad. I hope Australia will give me a chance to redeem myself." Despite hitting the headlines daily while he was Australia for all the wrong reasons, Stamos said he still loves Australia and wants to retire here.
Yes, yes - we know. To a magical bar on the beach where girls drink for free and there's shrimp and blah blah blah (staggers out of room).
While American actors still cling to the silly idea that most endorsements somehow diminish their personal brands, they've proven time and time again that once they travel overseas, they'll deep-throat virtually any product if the price is right. The Defamer Special Correspondent On Things Eva Longoria Will Put In Her Mouth For Money just sent us these two images from the streets of Madrid and Granada, respectively, depicting the Desperate Housewives star enjoying a chilly treat known as Magnum, an item which we'll assume carries no connection to the extra-large line of Trojan prophylactics enjoyed by girthier men back here in the States.
Bonus video! After the jump, an artfully shot Italian spot for Magnum featuring their talented American pitchwoman:
Hollywood has always provided a fertile feeding ground for scam artists like David William Port, a Kansas City resident who bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars from gullible investors convinced they could grow their nest eggs by hitching them to the enduring bankability of Pamela Anderson prancing down the Malibu shore in a physics-defying one-piece bathing suit. From the Reuters reports:
A Kansas City man bilked investors out of $360,000 by claiming he had syndication rights to U.S. television lifeguard drama "Baywatch" and help from star David Hasselhoff, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Even on this slowest of pre-holiday news days, we still can barely be bothered to pass along Nicole Richie updates, but we felt it was important that you know that the longtime Paris Hilton mascot and Simple Life star's reproductive system seems to be in working order, even with the stress of a possible jail term looming over her. The father is presumed to be one of the guys from The Good Charlottes, though we absolutely refuse to read far enough into TMZ's report to figure out exactly which one.
On last night's edition of Larry King Live, CNN's in-house confessor to the disgraced Hollywood stars played host to the latest stop of embattled former TV surgeon Isaiah Washington's Breaking the Silence: I'm Mad As Hell And Not Going to Take It Anymore Tour, on which the controversially non-renewed Grey's Anatomy actor, freed of an apparent ABC/Disney gag order by his dismissal from the show, is taking to the media again and again to inform the public about the myriad conspiratorial forces (racism, gay puppetmasters, etc etc) that led to his being cast out of horny-doctor Eden.
Positing that just-released Michael Bay blowing-shit-up-tacular Transformers might have the most impressive special effects work ever, Popular Mechanics profiles the brave Industrial Light & Magic technicians charged with the near-impossible task of translating the notes that the notoriously demanding director shouted at them through his omnipresent megaphone into workable computer models involving tens of thousands of virtual moving parts. Revealed one engineer on the pressures of toiling underneath such a hands-on taskmaster:
· In the latest development in the increasingly hard-to-follow story of Valkyrie's Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer's attempts to obtain shooting permits for German government sites in Berlin, the production has been denied permission to film in the historic Benderblock building, where the revered Nazi-hunter to be portrayed by the actor was executed. But not because Cruise is a Scientologist! Government officials understandably just want to preserve the dignity of their memorial, realising that everything Hollywood touches is instantly desecrated. Variety
Prince's Roosevelt Hotel residency is well underway, though a number of fans willing to cough up the hefty ticket prices ($US312.10 gets you standing-room access to the miniature funk prodigy, ten times that amount gets you all that plus a chair and some rubbery chicken) have emerged underwhelmed. The booking's billing, meanwhile, as "possibly the last time" the singer would perform in L.A. might not have been a mere seat-filling ploy, as Page Six is reporting that the Super Bowl shadow-puppet provocateur is using his earnings to relocate overseas:
In an effort to convince sponsors that they're not throwing away millions of TV advertising dollars on commercials that demographically desirable viewers can render harmless with a press of a DVR button, desperately innovative fourth-place network NBC has contracted a research firm to wire up some guinea pigs helpful volunteers to prove that their promotional messages can still penetrate the human brain even through the muted blur of the fast-forward function. Reports the NY Times:
Media executives have long discussed the potential of using physical reactions and brain scanning to track their messages, and advances in medical research in the past few years have made this more practical. NBC is working with Innerscope Research, a small company in Boston that uses wearable sensors to translate physical responses into what the company calls "emotional engagement."
· You know what's totally hot right now? Quietly filing for divorce on the Third of July.
· Danny Boyle: Not an Eli Roth fan.
· We recommend that you hold off on your Parass Hilton buttplug purchase until the Jailbird Edition offers the Assquake option. You'll thank us later.
· Is it bad that we're happy the mayor bagged a hot Telemundo chick?
· Phil Spector's lawyer has his priorities in order
You hardly need this dangerously low Tomatometer to tell you that Licence to Wed might not live up to the considerable comedic promise of most Robin Williams vehicles, but in the interest of piling on, we present this round-up of headlines exploring virtually every possible negative permutation of badness, legal documents, and the sacrament of marriage:
· Many vows were broken to make this 'comedy' [SFGate.com]
· Say `I Don't' to `Licence to Wed' [WaPo.com]
· In 'Licence to Wed,' they all should have vowed to disengage [Newsday]
Today's informed consumers of Hollywood product are so barraged with information meant to influence their ticket-buying decisions that they hardly have time to read entire reviews, much less reviews of films sure to disappoint. And so in the interest of assisting holiday weekend moviegoers wisely spend their entertainment dollars, we turn to CNN.com's always-efficient Story Highlights box, which with a mere three bullet points has tidily eliminated one unpromising option from the crowded multiplex marketplace. A quibble, however: Assigning blame to the film's four credited writers unfairly ignores the hard work of studio executives who contributed to the projects failure by giving thoughtful notes like, "Can Robin Williams be a little less priest-y? But not totally unpriesty. This is Meet the Priest, after all. Reverend! Meet the Reverend. We don't want the Catholics picketing."
