The Hollywood 5 & 1! 06.20.09: Twitter Drama Edition
Posted by Steve Gustafson on 06.20.2009
Arte Lang gets banned, Christopher Mintz-Plasse gets slapped, and Paris Hilton gets pissed! Also, we have a sex tape sighting...Who is it this time? And find out which actor most folks would like to share a tent with at a rock concert! You can't make this stuff up!
Welcome back to another groundbreaking edition of the Hollywood 5 & 1! I'm your host, Steve Gustafson, and I linger at the check out counter reading every gossip tabloid, hunch over my computer scanning every celebrity related web site, and twitter my vast underground network in Hollywood to find the slightly offbeat news you might have missed during the week. Or just ignored.
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BEFORE WE BEGIN...
Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there! Oh, and let me say congratulations to Chris and Kris on their wedding this weekend! Best to both of you and I hear you have a great DJ!
Mike Gorman is away on assignment for a bit, so I'll be doing his Babes, Bombs, and Blockbusters report the next couple of Tuesdays. Make sure you check it out!
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK "I have one little trick, one has a little mark (on her neck). Other than that, I don't know."
Hugh Hefner is already having trouble with his new girlfriends, twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon, he can't tell them apart. Hefner hooked up with the 20 year olds after long-term lovers Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson all flew the nest from his Playboy Mansion last year.
Does it really matter if he can't tell them apart?
How about another quote from a 411mania favorite?
"When you first start working in movies, you think, 'What's going on? Why are they spoiling me? I'm so pampered, I don't need this big trailer or these plasma TVs and all the things they are giving me.' Then, quickly you get used to it and then you get spoiled and think you deserve all these things and then you expect them. I don't know how it happens but this industry has a way of changing people very fast. You start thinking things are difficult when, really, you are blessed with a very exciting, fun life."
Jack Black and the struggle to remain grounded throughout his Hollywood career.
CELEBRITY TWITTER REPORT
Check me out on Twitter here! How is Twitter changing the social world of celebs? Top bosses at New York club Avenue have threatened to ban Lindsay Lohan if a 'tweet' about Justin Timberlake proves to be hers. Lohan claims her Twitter.com account was hacked into by a fellow partier at the club on Monday night, and that she had nothing to do with a remark about fellow clubber Timberlake's behavior. The tweet read, "So dark - where's jb cheater?" suggesting Timberlake was cheating on girlfriend Jessica Biel. It came with a photo of the pop star appearing to be close to another woman. But Lohan insists she never sent the message to her Twitter.com followers. She writes on the micro-blogging site, "I would not discuss my personal life, let alone someone else's, on the Internet!" And she's taking aim at the heads behind Twitter.com: "Clearly! Twitter needs to fix their s**t. I didn't write 'jb cheater!' What does that even mean? It's annoying. Stop trying to get onto my Twitter page whoever you are! It's become extremely creepy!!! Just trying to clear the air! And I'm tired of changing my password every other day!" The controversy has prompted bosses at the celebrity-friendly club to issue a stern warning to all celebrity Twitter.com users: "Celebrities that twitter about other celebrities will no longer be welcome at Avenue."
This is kind of different. Nia Vardalos is offering fans a glimpse of real Hollywood magic by posing for before and after make-up shots on her Twitter blog. The actress has posted photos of herself with and without make-up in an effort to show fans exactly what she looks like before the experts make her red-carpet ready. She says, "Check out my before pics on my Twitter.@NiaVardalos blog. I am showing what happens before Team Miracle comes over in the Hazmat suits and works on me for a few hours. Anyone can look like they make me look. That's why most malls offer a Glamor Shots booth."
Tweet of the Week ""All our dreams can become realized if we have the courage to pursue them in spite of our fears" Walt Disney So true!!Begin Now, BeginToday!"
Tony Robbins (tonyrobbins). Pretty much one of the coolest guys walking the planet.
I HAVE A QUESTION...
My question to you: What is going on with Courtney Love here?
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Really?
FIVE THINGS THAT JUST MISSED THE LIST STARTS...NOW...
From Courtney Love to this. Is Arte Lange the new Andy Dick? Just out-of-control! Lange has been banned from live sports programming at HBO following an offensive, expletive-laden rant on a new show. The Howard Stern Show radio regular upset HBO bosses with an appearance on sportscaster Joe Buck's new show Joe Buck Live on Monday night by making homophobic remarks and swearing through a rant about his dislike of the Dallas Cowboys. At one point, he took aim at Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, who is dating Jessica Simpson, stating, "It's like a white-trash gift from God that the f**king Cowboys have a quarterback whose last name rhymes with homo." In banning Lange, HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg told the New York Post, "We don't have any interest in his world." In typical fashion, Lange told Greenburg to "Go f**k yourself; I don't care how important you are in the business." I don't think I really have to add anything here, do I?
When I get married, I'm sending an invite to Samuel L. Jackson, just to see what kind of present I get! Ryan Reynolds is still buzzing about an unexpected wedding gift from Jackson...a beehive full of the stinging insects. The actor married Scarlett Johansson (Sorry guys, it's true.) in a remote location just outside of his native Vancouver, Canada last September, and asked celebrity guests to forgo showering them with wedding gifts. So Reynolds was shocked when a box of bees was left in his backyard. He says, "Someone came to my door and said, 'I have a gift for you in my trunk from Samuel L. Jackson.' He comes back from the trunk and it's humming an insane degree. And he tells me, 'Mr. Jackson would like you to have this beehive.' So he hands me a couple of beekeeping outfits and a lifetime subscription to the Beekeepers Journal. And the next thing I know, I'm making honey." But Reynolds has warmed up to his new pets, since realizing Jackson has provided an excellent way to scare away unwanted visitors. He adds, "It's actually a great security system. Some people are afraid of security systems, some people afraid of guard dogs, but I don't know anyone who's not afraid of swarms of bees." After reading about this I forgave Jackson for The Spirit.
The fury of a woman! Director Kevin Smith got on the wrong side of his Catch and Release co-star Jennifer Garner after he ridiculed her husband Ben Affleck when he visited the set. Smith, who is a longtime pal of Affleck's after directing him in Mallrats, eagerly mocked his friend when the actor came to watch his wife's scenes on the 2006 movie. But Garner obviously didn't understand the nature of their playful relationship, and threatened to beat up Smith if he continued to belittle her partner. He told the New York Daily News, "Jennifer does not share the same sense of humor as me; she did not like my jokes. I was picking on Ben Affleck and making fun of him because I've known him for a really long time and Jennifer goes, ‘You know, if you keep saying stuff about him, I'm going to kick your a**. And she could, I've seen Alias. She has a real girly sense of humor and didn't understand that I was kidding." But Smith failed to comprehend how his humor offended Garner, because her husband's jokes are far more distasteful. He explained, "I remember talking to Ben and being like, ‘I know your lady is not finding me amusing. Ben, I've known you for years, and you are far sicker than I am!' His jokes are way dirtier than mine. He's made jokes to me, and I've been like, ‘Ben, you need to go to church.'"
Christopher Mintz-Plasse felt the awkwardness during a recent appearance on TV, after the interviewer slapped him for suggesting her daughter was sexually active. The actor was appearing on New York's Fox 5 network to promote his new comedy Year One, which co-stars Jack Black. Reporter Rosanna Scotto quizzed the young actor over rumors his mom watches all his scenes, even when he's pretending to have sex on camera. She mocked, "I know she sat in, which I feel is a little strange being a mom too, she sat in on that sex scene in Superbad." To which the actor jokingly replied, "That's not normal? Moms don't sit in on their kids having sex? Come on, you've seen your daughter having sex!" An insulted Scotto quickly retaliated to the joke, by slapping the actor on the leg, before shouting, "No, my daughter has not!" A shocked Mintz-Plasse looked aghast as crewmembers behind the scenes nervously laughed, before Scotto carried on with the interview. I wanted to post the clip but somehow I couldn't put my hands on it. Curses!
BEEF! David Cross has lifted the lid on his longstanding feud with Jim Belushi, blaming the actor's refusal to sign an autograph for a sick child back in 1995 for sparking their tense relations. The pair shared the screen 14 years ago in Destiny Turns on the Radio, but Cross was offended when his efforts to gain a signature from Belushi to grant one devotee's wish were ignored by the arrogant star. Cross has disliked Belushi ever since, taking aim at the actor at every opportunity, and he insists he is still holding out for an apology. He told the New York Daily News, "This woman's kid is sick, how about doing the right thing and giving him an autograph? That guy was a full-on, 100 per cent d**chebag. It was a real incident. If anything, I'd hope if I saw him now he'd apologize." Who would win in that fight?
RANDOM LIST OF THE WEEK
Harrison Ford has been named the Highest Earning Actor in Hollywood; after he took home a massive $64.95 million in the last 12 months. The actor returned to his role in last year's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which went on to gross more than $750 million worldwide and earned Ford a nice paycheck. The figures, from Forbes magazine, show Ford brought home the staggering sum between June 2008 and 2009.
1. Harrison Ford: $64.95 Million
2. Adam Sandler: $54.9 Million
3. Will Smith: $45 Million
4. Eddie Murphy: $39.9 Million
5. Nicolas Cage: $39.9 Million
Johnny Depp is the Star Most People Would Love to Share a Tent With at a Rock Festival, according to a new poll. Sheesh! Who comes up with these lists? Depp landed 40 per cent of the vote. Hugh Jackman also made the top three. Paris Hilton was named the worst celebrity to share a tent with, scooping 48 per cent of the vote in the survey of 500 people by camping company Tangerine Fields. Guess that answers my question.
President Barack Obama has beaten out Brad Pitt and David Beckham to top a new poll to find the World's Most Stylish Man. The list was compiled by top shirt makers Thomas Pink. The company asked 3,000 men visiting their stores around Europe and America for their style guru opinions, and the majority opted for Obama.
The top 10 style icons on the list are:
1. Barack Obama
2. Brad Pitt
3. David Beckham
4. Daniel Craig
5. Al Pacino
6. George Clooney
7. Bill Nighy
8. Andy Warhol
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Will Smith
11. Steve Gustafson
Brad Pitt has topped a new pre-U.S. Father's Day poll to find the Celebrity Dad Most Women Would Like to See in Their Underwear. This is getting ridiculous. Pitt beat Matthew McConaughey by five per cent to claim the top spot in the Jockey International, Inc survey. Hugh Jackman, who is the current Sexiest Man Alive according to People magazine, was six per cent behind in the poll. Will Smith and U.S. leader Barack Obama both made the top five.
STEVE SALUTE!
I'm giving this to The London Sun for jumping the gun and publishing the first review of Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno, which is not due to be released until July 10th. Critic Gordon Smart wrote, "To say Brüno makes uncomfortable viewing is an understatement of Battle of Britain proportions. When I wasn't giggling like a 14-year-old, I was cowering behind my hands." The film opens with Brüno being fired from his Austrian TV fashion show after bringing a catwalk show to a halt with an all-in-one outfit made of Velcro straps. "The scene is utterly brilliant," Smart commented. When he's fired, his pygmy boyfriend dumps him...And here lies a warning, the pygmy sex scene is one of the most horrific incidents ever committed to celluloid. ... Teenage boys should under no circumstances watch this with their parents." In other words...I can't wait.
No names, but several 411mania writers have requested this picture as a poster.
Alright, let's get down to business. What's the Hollywood 5 & 1? It's real simple; I go through 5 things out of Hollywood this past week that made me scratch my head and 1 item that's not so bad. Got it? Good. Let's go!
The 5
Paris Gets Around
Paris Hilton has warned fans not to buy tickets for a forthcoming Dubai club night, after the bar's bosses falsely claimed she would be making a personal appearance at the bash. Do you get that, dear reader? Don't buy tickets! The heiress touched down in United Arab Emirates earlier this week to begin shooting her new TV show Paris Hilton's My New BFF: Dubai, and had lined up a string of publicity stunts at the city's bars. But Hilton was left furious after spotting ads promoting her planned visit to Bed club, because she hadn't agreed to turn up to the establishment. She writes on her blog, "Some club in Dubai named Bed is falsely advertising everywhere here that I am doing a club appearance at their club tonight. I just want everyone to know that this is not true. I have no idea about this and it is wrong of them to lie to everyone and pretend I am going there. I will be doing appearances during my stay here, but they are booked through my agents. So don't believe these people, I am not going to this club and never approved this appearance. It just really annoys me that a club will use my name without my permission and without paying my rate and then trick a bunch of people into going to their club. It's not right and I am sick of people getting away with it." You know, it really burns my goat when people take advantage of Paris this way...ok, ok, I'm kidding. I just wonder what the manager at Bed was going to do? A Paris look-a-like? I'm blondes are all over the place in DUBAI! Or were they going to get on the mic and say she didn't show and have the crowd boo? Either way...WIN!
Paris Hilton has dismissed reports she moved on from her recent break-up with Doug Reinhardt by romancing Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, insisting they are "just good friends". Oh really? Hilton recently ended her six-month romance with Reinhardt, announcing the news through her publicist. But just a day after the split, the hotel heiress was spotted getting close to Manchester United player Ronaldo in a Los Angeles nightclub, prompting rumors of a new relationship. But Hilton insists she is not dating Ronaldo, and remains coy over whether romance will bloom in the future. She says, "Cristiano and I are good friends. Very good friends. He's a nice guy, and an incredible athlete. We're getting to know each other and I have to leave it at that." **WINK** But Internet gossips are once again speculating about the nature of the pair's relationship after Hilton announced she has booked a holiday to Spain to see the Portuguese star when he starts his tenure with soccer club Real Madrid later this year. She says, "I am totally going to Madrid to see him. I love spending time in Europe. They get me there." They get you...and can keep you!
I can't find the words...
Sexy Hollywood
Speaking of Paris Hilton. Looks like she IS a role model. Leighton Meester is at the centre of a sex tape scandal after stills from a red-hot home movie allegedly featuring the Gossip Girl actress appeared online. TMZ.com reports a film of the actress romping with her boyfriend is being offered around various media outlets, including celebhotline.com. And the rumors gathered weight when still images allegedly taken from the sex tape, showing a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the actress, were posted on a website on Friday. According to TMZ.com, the short movie was shot several years ago and shows Meester in "mostly innocuous" nude scenes with her then-boyfriend. A spokesman for celebhotline.com tells TMZ, "We've seen the tape and we're hoping to close the deal." Keeping it saucy...Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is showing off in a series of sexy new shots. Kerr, who is reportedly engaged to marry Bloom, will bare almost all in the coveted Pirelli calendar's 2010 issue and fans who can't wait that long will be able to see her naked and chained to a tree on the cover of the upcoming Green issue of Rolling Stone Australia. Unofficially, outtakes from the Pirelli shoot have started popping up all over the Internet, surprising the model and her agency bosses, who had no idea a behind-the-scenes shoot was scheduled to accompany the calendar session. One topless shot of Kerr and her fellow calendar models fronts the upcoming issue of Italy's Vanity Fair. To close out with MORE Paris Hilton; she has opened the doors to her Hollywood home to reveal naked photos of herself, her extensive collection of dolls, and the gym she turned into a massive shoe closet. Wonderful. The socialite moved into her new place 18 months ago and set about turning the "boring" and "stuffy" family home into a dream house. And she agreed to act as tour guide when she invited Access Hollywood cameras into the private space before she jetted off to film her new reality show in Dubai. Hilton showed off the Marilyn Monroe portraits that hang over her four-poster bed and shocked with candid poster-sized photos of the heiress naked, hugging a toy cat and sitting in a Hummer (vehicle) with her pet Chihuahua Tinkerbell poking out between her legs. She chuckled, "That's me in a Hummer with Tinkerbell, in the buff." Thanks Paris. <---Sarcasm.
From Sexy to Messy
Rebecca Gayheart is embroiled in a drugs and nude photo scandal, after a tabloid published pictures of the actress naked and holding what appears to be crack cocaine paraphernalia. Whoa! In the pictures, Gayheart and an unidentified, seemingly intoxicated, woman are shown in a bathtub. The star is clutching a lighter and a glass pipe. The National Enquirer report suggests the pictures were taken in February 2003, 18 months before Gayheart married Grey's Anatomy actor Eric Dane. A source told the magazine Gayheart took the photos as a gift for her then-boyfriend. That's...ah...some gift. The eyewitness is quoted as saying, "It happened on the Los Angeles party scene. Rebecca agreed to do a nude photo session for a boyfriend who wanted to have pictures of her as a turn-on. He told me they were partying and smoking crack together." The insider alleges Gayheart kicked drugs after a spell in rehab. It's not the first time she has found herself in the spotlight for the wrong reasons; in 2001 she pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter after a car crash that killed a nine-year-old boy, while she was allegedly using her cell phone.
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Gayheart's anatomy lands her in the 5 & 1 for all the wrong reasons.
Here's...Lohan!
Friends of Lindsay Lohan fear the actress is heading for meltdown after she was spotted acting "oddly and erratically" at New York nightclubs over the weekend. I thought that's how she usually is. Seriously. The actress hit the Big Apple with her younger brother Michael on Friday night, but spent much of the evening on her phone and demanding bodyguards stop people taking pictures of her, according to the New York Post's gossip column PageSix. A source told the publication, "She spent most of the time on her phone." That's good to know. Thanks source! Lohan spent a second consecutive night out in New York on Saturday, where clubgoers at The Box claim the star was behaving "extremely oddly and erratically". The insider adds, "She came in at 4:30 AM and went to a VIP room where she immediately climbed a stripper pole. A little later, she walked up to a tall, handsome guy and asked him a question. When he said he didn't know the answer, she lost it and started yelling and cursing and flying around the room. She was not acting normally." Are you sure? That really sounds like her? The star's bizarre antics continued the following day as she took to the Internet to complain of restlessness, and publish a topless picture of herself. In the photo, uploaded on social networking site Twitter.com, the 22 year old is seen posing provocatively with just her long hair covering her breasts. Lohan posted the candid shot with the caption: "Old Photos. I'm That bored" and revealed the picture was taken during a recent shoot for fashion brand Fornarina. I've seen the photo. It's not that impressive. Trust me. And what was with her manager standing in the background of the picture? Creepy.
Advice from Jada
Note: If you invite the Smith's over to your house...KEEP AN EYE ON THEM AT ALL TIMES! Jada Pinkett Smith has hinted she and husband Will Smith sneak off for sex at friends' parties in a new magazine interview. The actress opens up about her sex life in the new issue of Redbook, and admits she keeps things fresh by dragging her husband off for spontaneous romps when he least expects it. I wonder if he ever refuses and says, "Ah, hell nah!" And the actress insists her risqué tips could be used by anyone looking to "switch up" things in the bedroom. She says, "Be sneaky...your girlfriend's house at a party. The bathroom. A bedroom." And Pinkett Smith admits she's often got sex on the brain, because she likes to surprise her man: "Pull over on the side of the road...Think of places outside that are comfortable to have sex." I'm sure ALL their friends read that interview and thought to themselves, "C'MON!"
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Preach it!
Actress Nia Vardalos has fired off at Hollywood executives who green light film romances featuring "fat" Russell Crowe and Seth Rogen and then poke fun at her for finding love with hunks on the big screen. Vardalos is tired of Tinseltown's double standards when it comes to pairing up stars for movie love stories, because older women can't get away with dating hunks, while ageing actors regularly romance hotties. She's got a point. And she's had enough of the questions about her own onscreen match-ups with the likes of John Corbett and Alexis Georgoulis. She told CNN, "On the publicity tour of My Big Fat Greek Wedding I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett. I thought I was attractive when I shot My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. In other words, they labeled me with words like, overweight, unattractive, unappealing. Hey, just say fat. I love the word fat. I used it in the title. It's actually not a naughty word. I have sat through many a movie like Sideways, where nobody blinks an eye when Paul Giamatti gets together with gorgeous Virginia Madsen, and Knocked Up. I mean the visual of Seth Rogen on top of Katherine Heigl made me put the popcorn down and reach for my purse...because I knew the film was about to stop and Ashton Kutcher would now jump out and go, 'Aha, you've been punked.' I waited, but no Ashton. Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal. Let's face it, Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it. Alec Baldwin just orders his suits a size bigger and we continue to swoon. Meanwhile, I get hit with this awkward question about my weight loss daily and I have answered it in press interviews, at the grocery store, at the newspaper stand. Why? Because I see their (people) anxious, open faces needing the secret, the new pill, the cure, anything: 'Just please share the secret'. So I hesitantly answer and I am always met with the same response: the glaze-eye, slack-jawed face. They don't want to hear the truth; I had a blood sugar problem, so my doctor ordered me to lose weight. It was really hard but I did it through diet and exercise, and it took a year." She pretty much nailed that one. Too bad this will be swept under the rug.
Before I say GOODBYE!
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When not writing for www.411mania.com, Steve Gustafson usually wins arguments by repeatedly saying, "You're so phony."
Posted By: paco smith (Guest) on June 20, 2009 at 02:13 AM
I wish that Jackson had sent a bunch of snakes or perhaps arrived as Mace Windu.
Posted By: The Great Capt. Smooth (Guest) on June 20, 2009 at 02:26 PM
@Paco, I know he gained some wait for Body of Lies, but he looks pretty good for Robin Hood. Maybe she knows something we don't!
@The Great Captain, I know! What a random gift to receive! Bees!
Posted By: stevethegoose (Registered) on June 22, 2009 at 02:27 PM
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