Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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Cele|bitchy


Christina Aguilera & her husband Jordan Bratman have split too

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:34 AM PDT

Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman acted like a pair of newlyweds as they stopped by a potential school for their son Max in Los Angeles, CA on December 21, 2009. Fame Pictures, Inc

Like celebrity deaths, celebrity splits seem to come in threes. First it was Ben Harper and Laura Dern, then Courteney Cox and David Arquette, and now it's Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman. According to Us Weekly, Christina and Jordan have been separated for "a few months" and are living apart as we speak. This could be the reason Christina has been looking like ten kinds of hell lately - she's been dealing with marriage sh-t. Or it could be that she needs to break up with her stylist and makeup artist too.

Singer Christina Aguilera is going solo. Though the pop star, 29, told UsMagaizne.com less than a year ago that she felt "very blessed" in her union with music executive Jordan Bratman, 33, a source close to Aguilera tells Us the couple "have been separated for a few months."

And though Aguilera and Bratman — who met in 2002 (he was a producer on one of her albums) and wed in 2005 — have not yet decided whether to divorce, the source reveals, "they are now living apart, and they will see how that goes."

What went wrong?

"They were very much in love," explains the insider. "But over the last six months, it ­became clear they were more like friends than husband and wife."The source adds that Aguilera even "­proposed their August trip to Italy to ­rekindle their relationship, but it didn't help."

The duo remain united in their commitment, however, to son Max, 2.

"He is their main concern," says the pal. Aguilera has even been bringing the tot to the studio while she wraps up the soundtrack for her November 24 musical, Burlesque.

"Christina is doing her best to be a great mom," says the insider. "She has a lot to ­juggle, but she's learning how to make it work and balance it all."

[From Us Weekly]

Honestly, I find this breakup to be the saddest and least expected of the trilogy. Cox and Arquette I was expecting. Dern and Harper I didn't care about. But Christina and Jordan really did seem close, and like they were solid. I thought Christina had found a low-key guy who would support her no matter what happened. And they have that baby too! Oh, well. Another bites the dust.

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 09:  (NA & UK TABLOIDS OUT) Recording artist Christina Aguilera poses with husband Jordan Bratman at LACMA's Opening Celebration of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum on February 9, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Jeff Vespa/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - MAY 12:  Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman attend the Christian Dior Cruise 2009 Collection at Gustavino's in New York City.  (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Singer Christina Aguilera and her husband, music producer Jordan Bratman, attend Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals basketball series in Los Angeles, California, June 17, 2010. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASKETBALL ENTERTAINMENT)

LAS VEGAS - APRIL 08:  Music excecutive Jordan Bratman (right) and singer Christina Aguilera at the MAXIM Magazine 100th Issue Celebration at the Wynn Resort on April 8, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

What do Jessica Simpson and Tom Cruise have in common?

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 08:16 AM PDT

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They both wear their high heels with their skinny jeans. And both Jessica Simpson and Tom Cruise need to stop doing that sh-t. They look like they're trying way too hard. Tom needs to stop pairing his lifts/heels with skinny jeans because the tapered leg draws attention to the fact that he's wearing three-to-four inch heels. Jessica needs to stop because this style is crazy unflattering, especially since she's being photographed at the airport, where everyone can see what she looks like in skinny jeans and NO heels - bad. Anyway, these are photos of Jessica and her boyfriend at LAX yesterday. Yes, they're still together, despite rumors to the contrary. As LaineyGossip says, "He's not going anywhere. Why work, or study, or try when Jessica Simpson is offering to provide?"

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Beyond the unfortunate pairing of skinny jeans and Louboutins (right? I can see the red sole), what else do Tom and Jessica have in common? They both let their partners shop on their dime. They both like beefy football players? That's all I've got.

I honestly don't know how Jessica even gets into these jeans. And I don't know why she would want to. Only girls like Sienna Miller can pull off this look, and even then, just barely.

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Photos courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

George Clooney talks about Sudan, bipartisan support for Sudan

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 07:49 AM PDT

Photo by: KGC11/starmaxinc.com  2010  8/29/10 George Clooney at the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. (Los Angeles, CA)  Photo via Newscom

Last week, the Today Show's Ann Curry began tweeting photos of her trip to Sudan with George Clooney. She and George and a group of people were traveling either with or in tandem with a group from the UN Security Council - they were checking in with the Southern province of Sudan, which will soon have a vote on their independence. It's a situation where everything could very easily go wrong, and there could be mass casualties. Clooney is trying to bring awareness to the situation, and this morning Ann had her formal interview with Cloons. He was shilling his new site, Sudan Action Now, amongst other things.

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He’s handsome and has a heart – what can’t this guy do?

With Sudan again spiraling toward civil war, George Clooney is calling for aggressive diplomacy to avoid another potential genocide in the Darfur region.

“I think it can be stopped,” the Oscar-winning actor and director said Tuesday on NBC’s Today show. “We stopped [the previous Darfur conflict] in 2005 with diplomacy. We didn’t stop it with soldiers. So, yes, if we get involved now, we have a shot.”

Clooney, 49, who traveled in Sudan recently, says there’s an overwhelming consensus that Darfur is primed to explode – you don’t have to take his word for it.

“It doesn’t matter what I believe, because obviously I’m an actor,” he says. “The Secretary of State said it’s a ticking time bomb. The CIA said this is the next genocide if we’re not careful – it is the biggest risk. The president has said as much.”

He adds: “Everyone acknowledges that this is what is going to take place if someone doesn’t moderate and mediate. … I’m just trying to say it as loud as possible.”

Clooney has set up a Web site, SudanActionNow.org, to continue his call for intervention.

[From People]

God, just what this area needs - another refugee crisis and more political instability. I'm glad Clooney is using his star power to bring attention to it. I just wonder if people's reaction to this would be completely different if it was Angelina Jolie.

Actor George Clooney poses backstage with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, August 29, 2010.  REUTERS/Danny Moloshok  (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) (EMMYS/BACKSTAGE)

NEW YORK - JANUARY 12: Actor George Clooney attends the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 12, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

David Schwimmer “secretly” married Zoe Buckman months ago

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 07:25 AM PDT

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I put "secretly" in quotes because at this point, most of what David Schwimmer does is "secret". Meaning that few people really care. David's post-Friends life hasn't been uneventful in any way - he's actually had some minor success as a director, and he seems to relish a low-key lifestyle. BUT - the physical change in David has been odd. All of a sudden the once groomed and normal-seeming Schwimmer took a more avant-garde, goth poseur turn. I think it was the influence of his girlfriend-now-wife Zoe Buckman. Zoe and David have been together since 2007, when Zoe was 21 and David was 40. I give him credit for staying with the same girl for years, and for marrying her quietly and discreetly. But there some vague weirdness to it too.

The perennially lonely guy of Friends is single no more. David Schwimmer has been secretly married to his British girlfriend Zoe Buckman for four months, the actor’s rep confirms to PEOPLE.

The two tied the knot in a small private ceremony in early June after having reportedly met in London in 2007, at the time Schwimmer was directing the romantic movie comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run, starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton.

A part-time photographer, Buckman, now 25, was waitressing at the Cuckoo Club in London’s West End when she served Schwimmer, now 43. She then reportedly left her home in north London and moved to Los Angeles to be with him.

In March, the two announced their engagement. News of the nuptials was first reported by EW.com. This is the first marriage for both.

Word of Schwimmer’s wedding first surfaced on the same day that Courteney Cox, who played his sister Monica (he played Ross) on NBC’s Friends, announced that she and her husband of 11 years, actor David Arquette, were separating.

[From People]

I tend to think Zoe is too young for him, and I tend to think David should know better. But maybe the fact that they've been together for years already, and that no one really cared that they were married, maybe that will help them be a more "normal" couple.

David has directed a second film, by the way. It's called Trust, and he managed to talk CLIVE OWEN into starring in it. It's all about Clive's character's daughter who goes online and meets a predator and sh-t happens. Clive + Schwimmer = ? Magic? Don't know. Here's the trailer:

It just seems like an extended Law & Order: SVU episode, right?

Anyway, congrats to David and Zoe.

TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 10: Photographer Zoe Buckman and director David Schwimmer attend the 'Trust' Premiere held at Roy Thomson Hall during the 35th Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)

June 21, 2010 - New York, New York, U.S. - DAVID SCHWIMMER and fiance ZOE BUCKMAN arriving at the opening night performance of ''The Merchant of Venice'' at Central Park's Delacorte Theater in New York City on 06-21-2010.  2010..K65224HMc. © Red Carpet Pictures

Header: David and Zoe in 2008, credit: WENN.

Britney Spears taunts us with shots of her busted weave/extensions

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 07:02 AM PDT

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Britney Spears hadn't made a public outing since last week's mid-jaunt costume change, when she slipped out of a comfortable-looking pair of jeans in the middle of a shopping trip, and wore a nightie for the rest of the public outing. Well, yesterday Britney pulled the same kind of thing - a costume change mid-stream. Is she trying to tell us something? That she's not ready for her conservatorship to end? Or is she feeling the first twinges of independence, and this is a preview of things to come? Anyway, this costume change seems to be a change from a shorts-and-tank combo to a flowy dress that managed to cover her cooter, shockingly. Well done Brit? Eh. She still looks like hell.

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A distraught looking Britney Spears attempted to hide her face from the shutterbugs on October 11, 2010 while out on a shopping spree in the Beverly Hills area of California with her trusted bodyguards by her side. As no surprise Brit was out shopping for todays outfit and accessories which she found at Envie. Spears didn’t seem to be in a good mood as she ventured over to the local Starbucks for a drink with smeared make up, could she have been in tears for some reason or just another day in the life of Britney? The pop princess then made her way over to De Beers jewelry store where she showed off her extensions after pulling her hair up into a ponytail while inside but let it down as she made her exit. The pop princess has been hard at work on a new album and its rumored to be the next big thing.

[From Fame Pictures]

Ah, yes. She flashed her extensions too. Prepare yourself. It was not pretty. It never is.

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At least it looks somewhat clean? For f-cks sake, Brit. JUST SHAVE IT OFF. Again. It's like someone told her busted weave = sanity. Either that, or she just thinks her tragic hair gets her attention.

Also, why is she all marked up? Ugh. I hate to say this, but Brit is not ready to be unprotected again.

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Photos courtesy of Fame.

Sister Wives: Meri admits she wants to leave, Kody wants more kids no matter what

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:41 AM PDT

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Kody pushes for more babies despite the wive’s wishes
After watching the second and third episodes of Sister Wives, I’m struck by how likable, genuine and open the wives are, and how husband Kody is starting to seem like an egomaniac. It’s like the wives are trying to make sure that the children have normalcy and consistency while Kody’s aim is to have as many kids as possible. For instance Christine, Kody’s then-pregnant third wife, said on the last episode that she thought she was done having kids after she had five and a very difficult miscarriage last year. She explained that she’s 37 and said “I hemorrhaged and I passed out [during the miscarriage] and it was really horrible…” In a video on TLC’s website, Christine said that she didn’t want more kids after five as she was worried that it would burden her older kids to care for new ones. Her daughter Aspen, 14, convinced her to try again. However, in that same video Kody admits that he bribed Aspen to convince her mom to have more kids by offering the girl $100 if she was successful! Then when Aspen tried to ask for the hundred bucks he wouldn’t pay up.

On the show, Kody again emphasized that he wanted Christine to have even more kids after her sixth, saying “I love the fact that Truely [their soon-to-be born daughter] is a girl, because there is a chance that Christine might try again… for a boy.” The guy was about to welcome his 14th biological child into the world, he had three stepchildren joining his family and a fourth, 30 year-old wife who can presumably have more of his biological kids and all he could think about was pressuring the third wife to have more.

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Meri admits that she’s only staying for her daughter’s sake
Kody’s first wife Meri broke down in tears during the couch interview portion of the show and explained that she isn’t sure she wants to stay in the family. Meri, 40, has one 14 year-old daughter, Mariah, and has admitted that she tried to get pregnant again but that it didn’t work for her. When she talked about the new wife Robyn, 30, she started crying and explained how difficult it is to see Kody fall in love with her, and how she thinks about leaving.

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You just wonder when he’s going to give you the attention he’s giving her. She is the new thing, the new excitement and we’ve been married for 20 years, and so you just think ‘gosh, that’s been a long time.’ And I do think, I don’t want to do this [welcome a fourth wife], I’m comfortable with Janelle and Christine, you know they get me. I don’t know that I even want to stay, sometimes. The only thing that even wants me to stay is my commitment level and my daughter. This is her family and I wouldn’t ever do that to her.”

Meri might not have the means to strike out on her own, either, and she may fear reprisal from the church and/or Kody. We just heard from Kody’s former sister-in-law that she was cut off from her children when she dared to leave the man that Kody’s sister was married to.

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Robyn gets teary talking about Kody’s kids and her new life
The last episode focused on moving Kody’s soon-to-be fourth wife, Robyn, into a home closer to the family so he would no longer have to make the five hour trip to see her.

Robyn seems excited about joining the family and fitting in, and she sort-of admitted that she needs help caring for her three children after being a divorced single mom for three years. She said “The cool thing about this [polygamy] is you got people all over mothering your kids.” She has three children: Dayton, 9, Aurora, 7, and Brianna, 5. Her oldest, son Dayton, has Asperger’s syndrome. Robyn’s first marriage was not polygamist, but she grew up in a polygamist family. Robyn thinks it’s a great lifestyle that will only benefit her and her children. She’s also very focused on the fact that they’re going public with their family and thinks it’s a positive thing.

I grew up where I had to hide who I was. This television show will be a big shock to all of my high school class and anyone that knew me… There were times when I couldn’t claim my dad as my dad… and he couldn’t claim us.”

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On creating a normal life for the kids
Robyn and all the moms have emphasized how their focus is on the children and making sure they’re happy and well adjusted. Robyn said “These kids are just normal kids, they’re just doing their thing, that we’re normal and that we’re just a family. I’m hoping that this will be something that frees the kids from not [sic] living in secrecy and not having to say ‘hey that’s not my dad,’ but ‘hey, this is who I am’

In one scene, Robyn shed happy tears over how much she loved Janelle’s daughter Madison, 14. Janelle is Kody’s second wife, works out of the home and has an analytical personality. She explains things in very logical, matter-of-fact terms and is the only wife that I’ve yet to see cry on the show. Her daughter Madison is similarly very independent and explained on the show that she didn’t want to be a polygamist. Madison said “It’s [my parents'] choice if they want to live polygamy, but my choice [is] I don’t want to. I love my family and I wouldn’t want it any other way, but for me, I just want one [husband].”

Robyn responded to Madison by explaining that its every child’s choice. “She does not want to live this lifestyle, which is fine. Every child is going to have their choice and we’re going to support them and love them through all of it.” Does that include any of their kids being gay? It’s highly doubtful.

Here are Kody and Robyn getting papped at the mall buying jewelry in Salt Lake City, Utah on 10/9/10. Doesn’t he looked thrilled? Christine is also shown out with her baby on 10/11/10. Credit: Fame Pictures.

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Vintage Scandal Tuesday: Errol Flynn’s many jailbait adventures

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:32 AM PDT

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I'm really sorry I forgot about Vintage Scandal Monday. To make it up to you, I'm giving you a particularly juicy Vintage Scandal Tuesday about infamous rogue Errol Flynn. I always thought it was one of the best casting decisions ever to use Jude Law as Flynn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. Jude perfectly captured the devilish rogue quality Flynn had - the beautiful man-boy who could get away with anything with one well-placed, delicious smile. Only Flynn was even dirtier, crazier and sketchier than Jude could ever dream of. Case in point: Errol Flynn loved him some jailbait. Like, teenage girls were his absolute favorite, even when he was in in his late forties. Flynn was even charged with statutory rape twice - and while his court case was making headlines, he picked up ANOTHER teenage girl and married her. Errol was quite open about his exploits, writing his autobiography My Wicked, Wicked Ways, which ended up being published posthumously after he died at the age of 50. I found some great excerpts from it:

"I particularly detest books that begin something like, “Ah, there was joy and happiness in the quaint Tasmanian home of Professor Flynn when the first bellowings of lusty little Errol were heard…” So if you are interested, let’s get down to the meat of the matter."

So begins My Wicked, Wicked Ways, the jaw-dropping 1959 autobiography by Errol Flynn. Posthumous autobiography, it turned out: Flynn died at age 50 on a bedroom floor in Canada before his finished book could be published.

At the time, Flynn was in the midst of something like a comeback, having been recalled to Hollywood to play a succession of dissipated drunks and lechers — roles Flynn admits he was suited for by type. Before that he had been in exile in Europe after a series of legal hassles, bad business deals, feuds with studio heads, and a change in public tastes.

And before THAT he was Hollywood’s handsomest star and its biggest scoundrel, the fun-loving natural who did his own stunts, the swashbuckler who thrilled audiences in Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood, and the womanizer whose lust for young women led to a 1943 statutory rape trial that Flynn survived only by the skin of his teeth and the dimple of his chin.

… And yes, the women. Half the book is about women, and Flynn (thrice married) is blunt on the topic: “I have never married. I have been tied up with women in one legal situation after another called marriage, but they somehow break up.”

The great villain of Flynn’s book is his hot-blooded first wife, Lili, whom Flynn accuses repeatedly of draining him dry with lawsuits and alimony payments. Also, of cracking him over the head with a full Champagne bottle while they were still “happily” married, after which a reeling Flynn slugs her in the mouth before passing out. Jolly times!

Flynn also admits (more or less) to the charge of statutory rape with two different teenage girls, arguing that 1) he didn’t know they were under 18, 2) they were star-chasers, and 3) he didn’t know it was a crime anyway. (”Rape to me meant picking up a chair and hitting some young lady over the head with it and having your wicked way. I hadn’t done any of these things.”)

Maybe not, but rape was still the charge in the infamous 1943 trial that nearly put Flynn in jail for 20 years. The trial goes on for weeks, heavily covered by the newspapers, and in the middle of it, hilariously, Flynn begins eyeing a teenage redhead who sells cigarettes in the courthouse lobby. He then invites her up to his house on the sly while the trial is still going on. Flynn doesn’t seem to think that’s too out of the ordinary. “I carefully checked her age. She was eighteen, safe ground. Her name, it turned out, was Nora Eddington. What I didn’t know was that her father was Captain Jack Eddington of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office.”

No matter! Flynn is acquitted, and Nora later becomes his second wife. (That marriage doesn’t work out so well, either.)

After the trial, Flynn posted a “neatly printed notice” on the door of his house: "LADIES: Kindly be prepared to produce your birth certificate and driver’s license and any other identification marks."

After which one of his pals scrawled, “Preferably on your thigh.”

The trial was a scare but turned out not so badly, according to Flynn: “I expected to be an object of ridicule, but the opposite surprisingly happened. My box-office appeal went up, and with one or two box-office successes I was completely restored in the Hollywood community.” The episode also sparked the bawdy phrase “In like Flynn,” as the old scalawag himself notes with a certain pride.

Errol Flynn is a swell storyteller, and his flashes of frank talk give you the urge to believe everything he says. It’s probably not wise. For instance, Flynn conveniently forgets to mention that while writing the book he was traveling the world with a 16-year-old girl he had started chasing when she was 15. Flynn was married at the time, of course, but in this book that hardly counts for anything.

Fisher was with Errol Flynn when he died in Vancouver while giving his sore back a break on the floor of the home of a friend of a friend. She later married but remained Flynn’s ’til the end, a fact which even her husband admitted: “Ronald Fisher said his wife never stopped loving Flynn and told him once that ‘if [Flynn] was still around, I’d be with him.’”

Flynn’s death certificate listed “myocardial infarction, coronary thrombosis, coronary atherosclerosis, liver degeneration, liver sclerosis and diverticulosis of the colon as the causes of death.” A triumphant total breakdown! Flynn would have had it no other way.

Late in My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn sums up: “In brief, I like people. I like to enjoy the thrill of living every day, every hour of the day, for we are here only this once, and let’s feel the wind while we may.”

[From WHO2 & the biography of Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways]

The statutory rape stuff - while completely insane and evidence of his general sketchiness and skeeviness… well, it's not really Roman Polanski territory, is it? He didn't drug these women as they were begging him to stop. He just loved jailbait, and jailbait loved him right back. It's more akin to those little tween girls throwing themselves at Robert Pattinson. If The Sparkler was anything like Errol Flynn, he would have seduced many of those girls (and their mothers), and while technically statutory rape, there would be no violence or anything like that. It's a legal age of consent thing, not a "forcing himself on someone saying no" thing.

I wanted to do this story because my first exposure to this (crazy) side of Errol Flynn was a few paragraphs in a larger Vanity Fair article about yachts, published several years ago. I dug up the 2005 issue, and here's a partial transcript:

Yachtsman speak of porn boats, yachts with all-female crews, and yachts with stripper poles… but the template for misbehavior at sea is docked in Monte Carlo's Port of Fontvieille, the low-slung, two-masted schooner called Zaca, the infamous yacht of the late actor Errol Flynn, who, the six-member crew insists, still haunts the boat on which he slowly went insane, despite an actual exorcism by the Anglican Archdeacon of Monaco in 1978.

"We can feel him here; things happen that just can't explain," says the captain. Flynn bought Zaca after his 1948 trial for statutory rape, writing in his autobiography, "Instead of killing myself, I bought a new boat." Perhaps Zaca (Samoan for "peace") was cursed from the start; at its 1930 christening, the champagne bottle failed to break on its bow, always a bad omen. On one of Flynn's first voyages, Zaca sank. On another, the crew mutinied. On what was supposed to be a "make-up" cruise, Orson Welles split from his wife Rita Hayworth.

After two wives left Flynn, he fell into a delirium of booze and drugs on the boat - a descent that included orgies, drug smuggling, a trip to Mexico to help a friend who was a Nazi evade arrest, and a second rape charge, by a woman of barely legal age.

At 50, Flynn was "drinking vodka for breakfast and keeping a condom full of cocaine in his swim trunks," according to Zaca's scrapbooks. "I've squandered seven million dollars. I'm going to have to sell Zaca," Flynn lamented in an interview just before flying to Vancouver with his 17-year-old girlfriend to sell the boat. The sale never took place, because Flynn had a heart attack, or committed suicide, just before signing the papers.

[From Vanity Fair, print edition, 2005]

Eat your heart out, Lindsay Lohan. Even Robert Downey Jr.'s past shenanigans seem silly compared to this nonsense, right? A condom filled with cocaine? Sure. A second rape charge? Why not? Being so crazy that your luxury yacht crew mutinies? Of course. God, I love Old Hollywood.

1938:  Studio portrait of Australian-born actor Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959) wearing a suit jacket and holding a cigarette.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

circa 1957:  Australian-born actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959) poses with his daughters, Rory (L) and Deirdre, on his arms as they attend  a formal event.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Mary-Louise Parker walks the ‘RED’ red carpet with her hot boyfriend

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:29 AM PDT

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Mary Louise Parker has been dating musician Charlie Mars for more than a year now, after she "stole" him from his girlfriend (although the "girlfriend" sounded more like a casual relationship that had run it's course, and the girl sounded a bit psycho). This is pretty much the only relationship Mary Louise has had since all of the weirdness happened between her and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, what with his knocking up Hilary Burton while he was probably still technically "dating" MLP. So… in the end, I'm rooting for MLP. So it brings me great joy to see her on a red carpet with Charlie Mars. This is their first official red carpet outing as a couple. They were at a special screening for RED, that film about older, retired/burnt-out CIA people who go on one last mission or something. It stars Bruce Willis, MLP, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich, amongst others. It has such a great cast that I'm really hoping it's a wonderful movie and a big hit.

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And here's Bruce Willis with his wife Emma and his daughter Rumer. Emma looks over it, doesn’t she?

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Malkovich! God, I've had a crush on him for two decades. LOVE.

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A little Karl Urban:

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And my boyfriend Ron Livingston.

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Photos courtesy of WENN.

Ashton compares tweeting next to Demi to sending roses to someone’s job

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:07 AM PDT

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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are in Israel. Initial stories had the couple, both Kabbalah devotees, traveling to the holy city to work on their marriage following allegations that Ashton cheated on Demi. That seemed to be supported by a vague tweet Ashton made that they’re “Sharing Love & Light while in IsraeI. Asking 4 the energy 2 forge bonds with our similarities & find compromise in our differences.” It turns out that Ashton was booked to speak at a tech conference there.

At the conference, Ashton admitted that he sometimes sits right across from Demi while they both tweet and compared it sending flowers to a woman at work, saying “sometimes people like to be adored in public.” Doesn’t that sound awkward, like he’s faulting her for it? Maybe that’s just the way I interpreted it. He also admitted something strange about how he takes negative feedback and said it makes him a better person. It’s hard to tell if he’s using his Kabbalah wisdom to deal with criticism or if he’s saying there’s something to the rumors.

“A lot of times my wife and I sit across from each other and tweet, it’s a little bizarre,” Kutcher told a technology meeting in Tel Aviv held by Israel’s largest telecoms group, Bezeq.

“It’s the same reason why you send roses to a woman at work. Sometimes people like to be adored in public…”

Kutcher, who said he encounters harsh criticism on his Twitter feed, compared the real-time social web to “shining a light in a really dark room.”

“Until you shine a light really bright you may not see the garbage in your life,” he said. “Sometimes, when there is criticism it’s shining a light on you and you need to use that to eliminate the garbage in your life.”

[From Reuters via People]

Does that “garbage” he needed to eliminate involve famewhores named Brittney? I’m getting a very guilty vibe from him. How much longer do you think he and Demi are going to last? I honestly think they’ll hang in there for a couple more years. Ashton probably cheated, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he wants out. If Demi is willing to put up with it, they could hold on for some time.

Sept. 23, 2010 - New York, New York, U.S. - Clinton Global Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting.The Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, NYC 09-23-2010.Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher Launch ''Real Men'' Campaign to Help End Child Sex Slavery.ASHTON KUTCHER AND DEMI MOORE.K65981SMO. © Red Carpet Pictures

Sept. 23, 2010 - New York, New York, U.S. - Clinton Global Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting.The Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, NYC 09-23-2010.Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher Launch ''Real Men'' Campaign to Help End Child Sex Slavery.ASHTON KUTCHER AND DEMI MOORE.K65981SMO. © Red Carpet Pictures

Sept. 23, 2010 - New York, New York, U.S. - Clinton Global Initiative 2010 Annual Meeting.The Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, NYC 09-23-2010.Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher Launch ''Real Men'' Campaign to Help End Child Sex Slavery.ASHTON KUTCHER AND DEMI MOORE.K65981SMO. © Red Carpet Pictures

How much plastic surgery has Rumer Willis had over the years?

Posted: 12 Oct 2010 06:06 AM PDT

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I'm not writing this to hate on Rumer Willis, I'm really not. Do I think she's pretty? Not really. Do I think she's a talented actress? Not really. But I accept that she probably is a nice person, and that she has more to offer the world than her acting skillz or her modeling potential. That being said, she keeps putting herself out there, and she's an adult.

CB and I were discussing The Problem With Rumer yesterday, and we were debating whether Rumer had gotten something done to her face, plastic-surgery-wise. At first, I thought it was just a simple nose job and some gradual weight loss over the years that thinned out her face and revealed her cheekbones. But as I'm looking through Rumer's photos through the years, I'm wondering if CB's claim that Rumer has gotten much more done is perhaps true. There seems to be a more "sculpted" quality to Rumer's face the past few years. It seems like she's trying to take some measures to counteract her natural oblong-shaped head and make it seem longer and more chiseled. Add to this my personal belief that Demi Moore, Rumer’s mother, has one of the best plastic surgeons on call at a moment’s notice, and my suspicions grow by the day. What's the verdict?

Here’s Rumer in 2010:

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And Rumer in 2006:

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Photos courtesy of WENN and Fame.

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